skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really agree on this. They should focus on a browser that respects privacy and email that respects privacy

I'd love to see it happen, but who would the money come from?
Verizon at one point had grand plans of expanding FiOS through all of LA and eventually down through OC/San Diego (which was good news for me as a San Diego person), but about 5 years back they stopped expansion of covered areas.

They essentially killed FiOS off, but kept servicing customers in areas they already built out in.

So if you're in LA and you have FiOS, lucky you, but those who don't have it never will because they aren't building out at all anymore.
Wow I wasn't aware the situation was that dire.
We asked about visa sponsorship. We did not ask about salary. The general pattern with visa sponsorship was that small companies don't want do it, out of concern about the success rate (only 30% of H1B applications last year won the lottery). Some large companies will sponsor visas, but they set a higher bar (they have to be really excited to take on the extra work). The exception is larger companies with teams outside of the US (several YC companies have offices in Canada) to take advantage of different immigration restrictions.
I imagine that would be quite difficult. As far as I'm aware, we currently do not know if your brain is doing the same thing as mine when we hear songs in our respective heads. So first you have the problem of extracting the information. But then you have the potentially bigger problem of translating the information!

We can be fairly sure that when you hear music in your head, nothing is actually vibrating in your head to produce the sound. My guess is that you have a bank of "instrument memories" and "note memories," and you can imagine new music by smashing a note memory into an instrument memory. (Similarly, try to imagine President Obama saying "My fellow Americans: even electronic brain pancake crystal elderly." It's surprisingly easy to combine your memories of his voice with your bank of known words.) But what guarantee is there that my instrument memories are the same as yours, or that they are stored in the same way? The mapping is not clear.
He means nothing of the sort. This comment is entirely about the fact that easy VC money and a virtuous (or vicious?) old boy network of founders & funders has made it way too easy to create companies that shouldn't exist but never fail because they've never had to be run like a "real" business.

He's merely noting this in the context of the public markets forcing professional business discipline, which imho is a perfectly reasonable thing for an investor to expect.
Very cool! Wish more companies approached it like this.
It happens. Engineer goes to upgrade the cert and copies it to a file share they didn't realize wasn't locked down. There's no evidence anyone malicious got the file but it's pretty standard protocol to just assume it's tainted and get a new cert.
I understood the documentary to say that Sesame Street noticed that their audience was getting younger. In response to this age shift they introduced Elmo; a character that resonated to this new growing demographic.
Shovel more crap like Pocket and Hello into their flagship product and pray that something sticks?

Agreed, it seems like they're rapidly running out of options. It's getting a little concerning.
The appliance is so that you don't need to send terabytes of data over a 10 Gbit/sec connection for example to their datacenter.

The limitation is actually the pipe that connects you to Amazon, not an inherent limitation within S3 or other services within Amazon on connection speed. If you have a good enough connection, or peering with Amazon things go amazingly fast.

When I worked at an ISP, we slammed about 20 Gbit/sec into S3 without issues, but even then data we were backing up -- about 300 TB of data a day -- at that rate took 1.4 days to upload to the cloud, so we ended up backing it up in-house instead. (we needed to store the data for 7 days, after that it went bye bye).
I think it is purely cultural. However, I do not believe that political leanings have much to do with it. Take Texas for example.

Houston is the energy capital of the world -- and it is quite conservative in comparison to California.

Though we don't see it discussed here on HN that often, but Texas is home to a lot of innovation, both in Energy, Petroleum, and Medical.
Out-of order posts are one of the reasons I hate Facebook. Ugh.

I'm glad I do all my interaction with Twitter via Tweetbot, so I never have to see things like this or "Moments".
I find UHK unique among ergonomic keyboards as it combines the few vital things that I find that I need of a keyboard:

1. Compact layout (so I can take it with me between my two offices and home).

2. Split (ergonomic) keyboard.

3. A touchpad (via a mini extension module).

An integrated touchpad is vital to me as I get serious pain for the slightest use of mouse.

I have so far had to resort to the Logitech K400. It has point 1 and 3 above, compact design and a touchpad but of course lacks the ergonomic split design. UHK finally adds the third vital component.

Just gotta save up some $$$ :P
Thanks for that. I'll update with a warning.
What specifically don't you like about templates? Curious
Those were the publicly announced goals. You must be really naive if you think those were the actual goals.
All good points.

"it's all about packaging. That's Mozilla's strength."

On this we start to deviate. I think its all about platform. And you only get mainstream users on your platform if its awesome in the "mainly used" ways.

Its like the difference between a doctorate of psychology vs medicine. With one you can help people who really want to be helped, the other, you can give someone a flu shot and they are treated.
Republicans killed funding for public TV

When, exactly, was this?
Why we built Known
I wonder if cartel's approach to tackle ISIS would be more efficient than government's efforts.

Lack of bureaucracy could do magic.
To be fair, Jolla is having some financial turmoil just at the same time. There were some (possibly temporary) lay-offs, and deliveries of the new tablet are delayed.
...but to far less in the biological sciences than some computer scientists care to admit. If I have to hear one more talk about how e.g. "natural selection is a highly efficient algorithm", I'm going to shoot myself.
This is pretty sensitive, any chance of you taking anonymous questions and posting them, or should ppl just make a throw-away?
I came here to say this. Algorithms are so horribly bad at predicting what I even like, how could they ever get 'what I want to hear right now' anywhere close?

I could easily make such an algorithm that would work well for myself. Tag songs with a mood, have different modes that switch what kind of mix I want. Add in the ability to, in the player, designate certain songs to not play in the currently playing mix, and I think I could iterate my way towards never having to skip a song again. It's on my list of things to build 'one day'.

But that's a far cry from being able to generalize over what people that aren't me would be like. It's a hobby of mine to ask random people how they consume music. We'd essentially need the power of a full-on programming language to make object frameworks with customizable predicate logic for each individual person that they would have to learn and implement, to improve upon the skip button. The domain is that hairy.

Mind reading is not for the faint of heart.
+1 for the ergonomic + compact layout.
Could they have cause and effect backwards? Perhaps the shift toward insipidness simply alienated older viewers at that time?
Personally, this makes for funny timing. As a first-time Xbox (One) owner (who never owned any PlayStation), I was telling a friend with a PS4 how damn buggy everything seemed to be, from setup to games themselves. She said she doesn’t have those problems on PS4. “Maybe you should’ve gotten a PlayStation!”

“Yes, but isn’t Sony always getting hacked? Maybe the ideal thing would be a PlayStation that uses Microsoft’s web services!”

sigh
It's actually really really unsafe for him. The moment people find out that he's a billionaire (Satoshi's BTC are worth a 9-digit figure), he might be a victim of an attack.
I can't give company names, but we've not seen much of a pattern. It really seems to have to do with the backgrounds of the founders, and who the early successful hires were. This sets an engineering culture going forward.
My point is things like this are why people "outside the scene looking in" see it as nothing but millionaires losing a bet, money laundering, or some form of joke rich people pull just because they can. "Look how rich I am. I can spend $35m on an unpainted canvas." [0]

I have respect for two things: Things that require such skill that other humans are not able to trivially reproduce it and things that are so damn simple that it is amazing it took us 10s/100s years to figure it out.

I feel there are two schools of thought. Those who "get" modern/contemporary art and those who don't.

Those who do say: "Yeah, you could have done this. But did you?"

Those who don't say: "I don't think I'd get paid $10 million for a 20ft canvas covered in my own feces and I don't think any reasonable person would. So they don't."

Looking back, I should have used a less criminal/more light-hearted example to try or made a better attempt at illustrating where I stand on these things.

[0] At least I hope this hasn't happened and there was at least some paint on them. [1]

[1] But a redditor did hang up 3 blank canvases on their wall out of laziness and others saw "art" in it. So there's that at least. http://i.imgur.com/oTKPb.png
Their metrics may not account for knowledge of the 'feature'.

Yes, users will use a positive service more often. But if that service is positve at the expense of hiding things, then some will not be happy.
I don't have a stormfront link with this search, but it is probably a tailored result for your profile.
App.net and Facebook are both waving hello for different reasons.
I guess Uber isn't good in every city and location. Maybe a good idea would be to research about the cheapest way you go back home after having a great night before you get drunk.
In this case, yes, and it would also reduce load on the servers quite a bit. But in a volumetric attack, your pipe is full already. Any filtering you apply after that can only weed out bad traffic; you can't fit any more good traffic in there.
Tries https://fiber.google.com/cities/houston on a lark

500 Internal Server Error
The server has either erred or is incapable of performing the requested operation.

I feel like Olya Povlotsky - "Dog bite me, Seth. I think finally I will die. The dog die, Seth. I was poison to that dog."

Sigh.
Certificate was disallowed from December 1st.
Yes, but I was never involved so I don't have to rationalize anything :)
The conversation need to start from the other end. Them approaching you personally to be hired.

This does not mean being spammed by AMZN or GOOG or other recruiters.
This means being approached by hiring manager or higher.
The military solves this by having "Basic Allowance for Housing" and COLA multipliers be VERY specific to "duty station". Those absolutely do change if you move, and are separate from "salary", so it's not perceived as the same thing as reducing salary on move.
There factors for cities to consider besides competitive composition of existing providers. For instance, in Atlanta google fiber crews are destroying the streets, breaking utilities, and leaving really poor asphalt patches behind (especially noticeable in bike lanes). I hope, but doubt, that when they are finished, google will resurface all the roads they impacted.

I have no idea, but the underground conditions/road closure implications in SF could be even more challenging.
Oh. Right. Hmm.
2 Magic Words When Offering Advice
You should have a twitter account. They've been doing sponsored/injected tweets for many years.
I appreciate the "While You Were Out" section at the top of my Twitter feed, but I'd still prefer the main timeline to be strictly chronological.
"As Wright told the Bitcoin Investor’s conference, he’s applying that second machine towards the mysterious task of 'modeling Bitcoin's scalability'[.]"

If he is Nakamoto, I wonder if he's using this computing power to test strategies for divesting of the "nine-figure fortune" of coins which is assumed to be controlled by Nakamoto.
I think that for Persona in particular, "commercial adoption" would probably have meant "random startups deploying Persona as their customers' identity provider." The idea being that a government/nonprofit/enterprise can be convinced to adopt any old ridiculous thing if you say the right things about it, but "the market" (i.e. a critical mass of SMBs) will only adopt your product if it's giving them a higher ROI than the alternative.
US broadband interconnects with the rest of the network are pretty terrible.

Reference: those name-and-shame articles a while back from a network company (Level 3, from memory?) that produced hard numbers on how little $ US cable/DSL internet companies were willing to put into improving their capacity at the peer link.

[Edit] Yup, Level 3. I thought they were interesting because hard numbers at this level seem difficult to come by. Here are the articles from 2014:

http://blog.level3.com/open-internet/chicken-game-played-chi...

http://blog.level3.com/open-internet/observations-internet-m...
You go to a concert and rather than listening to a live band, it just plays the same song in everybody's head really, really loud so that you can't hear anyone talk.
From memory it was a touch more than 90—and while I never ceased to be amazed by what we achieved with the resources we had, everyone else was expanding while Opera didn't, despite clearly having the money to do so.

When it comes to lacking desktop market share, it's undeniable that has an effect on site compatibility—people kept on supporting IE6 till a few years ago, after all, despite all its flaws. If Opera had more marketshare, it could've afforded to not keep up (though then we'd have articles about how Opera is the new IE!). I think, however, site compatibility was less about marketshare in later years and more about ancient incompatibilities (percentages rounding down, keyboard events, range events, selection, document loading/unloading) that were increasingly important in an increasingly dynamic web. People were deliberately deciding not to support Opera at that point because it involved more than a trivial amount of work because of bugs like those and the lack of marketshare.
Not just that - outing satoshi could cause him and any close family significant danger, given that there is a strong chance he is in possession of the secret keys of addresses containing 1M bitcoins. https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...
Datacentre confirmed a DDoS attack, which took a little while to mitigate. We're looking good now, but we're continuing to monitor.
"It is very hard to put yourself in position of very young child and issue judgement on what toddlers would like"

But what they like, going in, is often worst for them.

If you put both ice cream and a spinach salad in front of a child, which will he pursue by choice?

Being challenged is often initially uncomfortable. But that's part of the point - to learn the long-term value of delayed gratification.
California Firm Hyperloop to Test Engine in Southern Nevada
I bought one of the Fx0 phones last month.

Sad to hear this news. I wanted to move away from Android and iOS, and saw FFOS as the only viable option.

They should've mass produced whatever the developer phone was, the Flame I think? Sell it to consumers as a flagship, supported by Mozilla devs, and community devs...
My parents had a 'restricted viewing' policy in the sense that a) we only had OTA TV, not cable or satellite; b) there were other things I was supposed to be doing almost all the time and c) we were too poor to go to the movies or rent movies.

I will freely admit that I don't get a lot of references to shows people watched growing up. But honestly, this is such a tiny thing I really doubt it's worth mentioning. If it comes up, you smile, nod, and move on.

I would certainly say I'm better for it - I spent time outdoors actually learning and doing things or reading instead. And sure, I read a lot of relative trash, but even the trash of the day contained references to real things that warranted looking up or learning. And I also ended up reading a lot of literature and nonfiction.
This looks more like a trail of deliberately planted evidence to make us think he's Satoshi.

The email/tweet/transcript quotes almost suggest sort of multiple personality disorder where he believes he's Satoshi.
The look and feel of awstats hasn't changed since I last used it back in 2004...
Quite. As my dear colleague said this morning, "hubris" is the word of the day. Still, I'm not sorry we posted it.
Sonic.net will likely beat Google in building out gigabit in SF. This megathread has been following their progress in the Sunset (and soon the Richmond) since 2013:

https://forums.sonic.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1085

According to the CEO, though some of the issues have been related to permitting/bureaucracy, they have also had some contractor-related setbacks as well.
Introducing the Boeing 737 MAX
Only if your site is HTTPS
It is simple (for developers?), but not easily extendable. Simplicity is not an excuse for no plugin support nor not writing good documentations. And more powerful tools need better documentations. If you think other SSGs are not well documented, just call for help and improvement. Why do you reinvent the wheel without good documentations in mind?
Although it won't help when using other people's libraries/code, when you're building your own code then you'll probably enjoy Python 3.5's type hints on function parameters. They negate the need for doing hacky things like specifying types in docstrings.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#module-typing
Can anyone elaborate on how this affects non-windows products? If I go to https://developer.xboxlive.com I see a valid certificate, so my non-windows system trusts them. Have they revoked the old certificate?

They only mention the certificate trust list, which I believe is a hardcoded list of certificates that Windows trusts. I understand that they should remove it from there but don't they also have to revoke the certificate for non-windows systems that use the standard verification methods?
Twelve hundred employees???

And they couldn't find one or two of them to port Thunderbird to Qt.
The article is nice but the service is too complex. When I saw those 10 (non-trivial) steps to set it up...
Do you mind sharing a few of those lucrative / non-annoying monetization models? I'm curious. And thanks for the insights into opera!
Change for the sake of change. It's a core selling point for me as the chronological order is very important, especially for some of my lists. But I'm not the average user. I get the fact that they're trying to monetize this thing, but there should be a better way. Even "normals" hate the Facebook algo so why make the same mistake?
I don't want to take the time to have to look for a function that should be a default.
The whole bus thing was not remotely Google's fault.

In fact the buses weren't even really the problem. The protests were largely about rent increases caused by tech workers. The buses were just a symbol of the difference between tech workers and everyone else (and broad inequality).

Plus I struggle to side with the protesters when they do stuff like this[0]:

> Last week, a group of activists stalked a Google engineer at his East Bay house, urging the masses to “Fight evil. Join the revolution.” [..] The group that stalked Anthony Levandowski, an engineer at Google X, the company’s clandestine research laboratory, calls itself the Counterforce, after a Thomas Pynchon novel. About a dozen members, all dressed in black, gathered outside the Berkeley house where Mr. Levandowski lives with his partner and two young children.

> They unfurled a banner and handed out fliers detailing the engineer’s work on Google’s driverless car technology, Street View and Google Maps. The flier read: “Anthony Levandowski is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation. He is also your neighbor.”

That's pretty messed up. The dude was a random employee, with a family...

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/technology/tech-rides-are-...
So, we ask at the beginning to talk about a programming project that you've done it in past, but not about where you've worked. We don't ask for a work history until the end (by which point the notes and scoring that go into the final decision are over). We ask at the end so that we have the data to write posts like this.
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer Nanodegree
Reality check: ~30% of active AS worldwide don't drop spoofed packets originating from their networks.

http://spoofer.cmand.org/summary.php
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Mongodb 3.2 is out
The author tries to paint Mongo as an embarrassingly short-sighted, pseudo-enterprise company that can't share its toys with others.

Mongo could refuse this by demonstrating collaboration efforts and solutions with a solution marketplace similar Atlasssian and VMware. On the partner side, cross-selling, cross promotions and collaborative sales/product strategies can reduce conflict and wasted/duplicated/unaligned effort that can lead to sour partner experiences.
Blog doesn't provide a source, makes a sweeping assumption, and ends on a ridiculous premise. This is a "shit-post" if I've ever seen one.
> little risk capital available at the bottom

Compared to where? The days where you get funding based on an idea is over. I don't think the funding situation is particularly bad "per capita" [0]. There are other problems with Stockholm of course, but that's another story.

[0] http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/11/11/how-entrepreneur...
I never liked Big Bird. What a twat.
Wild Kratts (and their earlier show, Zaboomafoo?) are on Netflix, too. Prepare for kids dj-ing to their favorite episodes.
They raised $25m, it was presumably valued at much more. That's a very large cash-out either way, but I think my point stands.
Why Accenture is saying goodbye to annual performance reviews
A lack of ethics and concern for innocents can also be more efficient when it comes to assassination
German court addresses GPLv3 section 8 termination provisions
Firefox outclass Fennec fox
I'm on a Swift project for an App in the neighbourhood of millions of DAUs. Swift is ready.
Online Lender Says It Gave Money to San Bernardino Shooter
Virginia man helps Boko Haram's victims
It is up in the double digits in India.
Feature Toggles at Tout
It's 10 to 13% in European countries like France, GB, Italy and Germany.