skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this guy were 'properly' managed he would never be allowed to overhaul this project like he did. Not many managers will be impressed by a "I will build a full compiler that is going to be better than what the CTO built in the next two weeks immediately after which is the deadline" speech, as the author also admits.

If the company was properly managed they also wouldn't have been in a situation where there's only two weeks left and a critical component is in a not well understood state.

In practice though these kinds of things constantly happen in even well managed companies. If the author weren't around they'd probably just have shipped a slow Javascript interpreter that couldn't do prototypes very well.

Just curious, what kind of programming technique renders the idea of this article obsolete?
Let's just say first hand experience with 3rd party bulbs has convinced me that there are non-trivial problems there.
NL is interesting that way, we have a privacy watchdog that actually has teeth and that will go after the big guys first. Starting 1/1/2016 there is mandatory reporting requirement in case of any data leaks involving private information of customers for instance. The CBP is doing its job just fine, if only the rest of the government would be that up-to-date with its policies.
>Why do you feel entitled to use all the sites? They are not there to serve you out of goodwill. They are making a profit.

Most sites are doing it out of goodwill. There was a time when commercial organisations weren't allowed on the Internet at all. They're the interlopers here, they can play by the existing rules: if you put it on the Web, you expect your content to be accessed by a variety of people who will format it in their own ways.
In the city of Nuremburg, Germany in the year 2006 Siemens started to introduce automated trains. Until this day, they have to be operated under supervision. So how exactly do all these tech companies want to get the fact out of the way, that there is an actual AI needed before they can dive into autonomous cars driving the streets? The wet dream of big biz for sure, if only it could meet up with reality. Sorry for not thinking big enough, im just confused how those companies, that not even manage to get their own available products to be working flawless want to step into a market where things will cost lives.
This is the "First class people hire first class people, second class people hire third class people" paradigm.
The Jacob's Ladder of Coding
Show HN: Twenty Four – iOS NBA app with game graphs and Twitter feeds
I recently visited my GP and I had a high cholesterol reading. He suggested me to reduce sugars and white flours, get a reading in a month, and depending on that he'll decide whether to prescribe statins.

It surprised me that he didn't mention reducing saturated fats or meat consumption. It made me wonder whether refined carbohydrates play a role in high cholesterol. I think I'll have to take a look at the research.
Well I don't think any problem like this is made better by leaving it until tomorrow. The Saudi's have to join the 21st century at some point and the sooner the better.
I'm not in business of curing religious fever. I'm talking about self-defense for the case that help never arrives and religious fanatics start to make their words reality. In this case I and parts of my society should be ready to strike fast and relentless.

Right now I do not see any projects of Islam moderation in place. But I do see Saudi Arabia "putting out this fire with gasoline". My only plan is "plan B".
5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs the Mobile App
Congratulations to the Qubes project - not sure if they had any input/contact with Purism, but it's a coup either way.
This is not true, at least not for AdSense.

I've found that display advertising, particularly on desktop, outperforms YouTube ads at about 2.5 to 1.
Unlikely, the same commit added it all, I can only assume the offline version behaves similarly (I haven't tested).

The compiling seems very inconsistent and fragile:

* it won't convert at all if a function literal is returned or assigned to a variable (but it will if the function literal is passed to an other function or for IIFE)

* it will generate an incorrect conversion in case the `this` is deref'd for a method call or (directly or indirectly) passed to an other function: these are OK (will not convert)

(function () { this; })();
(function () { this.foo; })();
(function () { this.bar + 1; })();

but these are not ok (will convert to incorrect code):

(function () { this.foo(); })();
(function () { foo(this); })();
(function () { foo(this.bar); })();
There's lots of 'randomness' from the historical nature of our roads that I suspect it would be hard for a self driving car to deal with. Mostly I suspect they'd end up being overcautious where real drivers need to be a bit more aggressive to actually progress.

That's definitely the case in London for example (possibly one of the most stressful places to drive), where you could easily be stuck at a junction for an extremely long time unless you inch out and kind of force the other drivers to give way.

Other issues that I thought about the other day whilst driving around Leicester is poor road markings. The Leicestershire region in particular have let their markings go to pot (I've noticed this in other places in the UK too) to the point where even I as a human driver struggle to know where the lanes are. What would a self driving car do in that situation?

Then there are the 1 car wide country lanes that are national speed limit but actually have two-way traffic. I wouldn't want a self-driving car thinking it's OK to go 60 mph down one of those roads even though that's the allowed speed limit. And could it safely mount the verge or plan to be in one of the few sidings that allow it to pass other cars?

I reeeally hope the self-driving cars can be taught to deal with the complexities of the UK road system, I desperately want this to work. Although I like driving, it's mostly tedious in the UK now due to congestion and the big-brother speed camera network. The government expects us to act like robots when we drive, so actually getting a robot to drive would be perfect.
> Why not just send the whole thing to the Circuit Courts whether or not there are patent issues?

Apparently, because previously different Circuit Courts interpreted the Patent Act differently, leading to forum shopping as problematic as what happens in ED Texas today. Except back then there was no recourse -- at least today you can take your appeals to a more consistent court.

> I know the theory but has practice actually born out the supposed benefits of the CAFC as the single Court of Appeals for patent cases?

This study partially tackles that question from multiple angles and the conclusion is mostly favorable to the existence of a CAFC:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2231312
The sloshes are redundant after a pipe symbol.
i.e.

ls $dir \
| grep something

is the same as

ls $dir |
grep something
I'm not sure I understand the topic correctly, are you referring to carelessness in Elasticsearch or on your own behalf?
Hi HN! Check out this fun little iOS app we built for following the NBA.

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"""Van Gogh didn’t have to shill for Audible.com to pissed-off fans of his art."""

Pretty sure many artist of that day had to paint wives/daughters of rich folks that they'd rather not have painted to get by. And most artists that sell for millions today were pretty poor unless they had a random rich person and were their "pet artist".

I'll sound pretty heartless but the post sounds entitled. There is no grantee of riches just because you're "famous". Actually turning that fame into money is a skill and not something that happens automatically. If you think it's unfair and you deserve more because you have so many fans...charge them directly and not through indirect means like adds, branding or product placement and see how many stick around.

"""The most Allison and I have made combined on one deal is $6,000, and 30 percent of that went to our multichannel network"""

And despite that they started a company to make it a full time gig?

I also don't buy the implied sentiment that telling the truth about being more or less busto despite all the followers is seen as whining. Sure by some but you don't want those as followers. Transparency is usually valued very much in communities.
I quite like

set -u
set -e

with

trap 'echo $0 internal error at $LINENO' ERR
Depends on the BATNA; failed negotiations can quite easily be negative-sum if it results in not hiring someone and both parties having to spend effort continuing the search.
Vegetarian and “Healthy” Diets Could Be More Harmful to the Environment
>Unrelated to the 'Friends of Hue' program, the changes we made in 1.11 to our implementation of scenes exposed a compatibility issue with a limited number of 3rd party lights which stop them properly responding to scenes created in the Philips Hue app.
>Philips will not fix this issue as it relates to the implementation of standard ZigBee scenes functionality in the light and would expect this software to be changed in the light as part of 'Friends of Hue' certification process. This is an example of precisely the reason we have taken these steps.

TL;DR: Only "Friends of Hue" lights are guaranteed to be compatible.
The sadness comes because of the downside of being famous. The upside of most famous celebrities is that they make vastly more money than everyone else. Thus for many people who want to be famous they can offset the downsides of getting fame with the upsides. On the Internet, celebrity does not make enough to offset the costs - leading to sadness and bitterness and jealously. I'd also categorise these type of Internet celebs as working long hours on their work, as opposed to the viral stars who probably go off and get a publicist and cash in on non-internet stuff.

I would recommend that if one wants to be famous and vastly rich not to do it via the Internet. The good old "you are working for them" is even more true here.
massive Oil Reserve now and store as much as possible

It's called "the ground".

Seriously, the virtues of having a policy of "fracking, but not yet" are really under-discussed. Oil is not a crop that will rot in the field if left unpicked.
Cyber strike and robot weapons: Can the UK dominate the Fifth Domain of war?
If "they" means "for profit entity" those two statements are exactly the same in my ears.
> My understanding is that a doctor's first job is to be risk averse. That's why they shy away from bleeding edge research and knowledge, and choose instead to rely on proven ways

I think it is more a matter of relying on what other doctors are doing and as well what they think their patients will tolerate.

I asked my cardiologist and primary care doctor before going on a well formulated low carb diet. they were both in favor of it but noted that they don't recommend these types of approaches, not because they don't work, but because people don't tend to stick with it.

In 3 months I lost 30 lbs (got a way to go still). My primary said that I have not indication now of prediabetes while I did prior to my diet.

For me I decided to take control of what I can in my health. Keep in mind your MMV.
> The actual job of a computer scientist is writing proofs in Coq

I was with you, but then this analogy went too far.
On the graph, Digital Ocean is listed twice.
get their own available products to be working flawless

Self-driving cars don't have to be flawless. They just have to be better than human drivers. This is probably feasible within the next 20 years or so.
For "twenty years", read "once upon a time". I feel that a bit of vagueness in dates is appropriate for a story like this. I have no contemporary written documentation, so it's based on my fallible memory, and I don't want to give a false impression of accuracy.
Good marketing and moral are completely orthogonal.
Actually, a RockChip based Chromebook like C201 is completely free except for the 3D acceleration. Not even CPU microcodes. And it's dirty cheap.

I wonder why Purism didn't simply commission such a machine with the right 3D chip instead of going with a non-free and expensive option.

I would also love similar initiatives in the mobile space, but I reckon it is more challenging. Neo900 and Pyra are kind of cool though. And I'm hoping Jolla open sources Sailfish OS later this month or early new year.
Another relevant entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
I'm interested. Tell me more!
Can someone explain why people put so much weight into written Privacy Policies?

This isn't a comment about privacy itself—which I am totally "on board" with—and the documents obviously have some importance or use, but to read just so much into the minutiae of them, collecting them centrally or even refuse to trial a service because they simply copy-pasted from another service that had some awkward wording seems a little bizarre to me.

This, however, might be just might be my British mindset (ie. no written consititution!) versus a US one..
> the majority just want that "Agree to Terms" dialog to get out of their face

"Dumb fucks" -Zuckerberg

( http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims... )
History of YouTube audio quality
This is true at every interface though. Better to have the same people working on the backend for the backend for the frontend. Better to have the same people work on the database as the thing that queries it.

Ultimately you should separate teams by the functionality they're supporting, not by which part of the stack they're notionally in. One interesting approach is to pair-program at each step - designer and frontendey dev do the page, frontendy dev and backendy dev do the front half of the backend, backendy dev and DBAey dev do the data access layer.
Yellow and grey are the colours on the JS logo, I'm assuming that's why both Babel and xto6 use it.
> Running a dozen VMs or more, as many Qubes users do, can be resource-intensive, so plenty of RAM and a fast processor are essential.

I hoped it would support 32GB RAM in 13" laptop, but maximum is 16GB RAM. Only option seems to be Portege R30 Skylake version (not yet announced), which has two DDR slots.
I guess so, like giving a doctor free branded pen, or inviting him to free branded "conference" which is basically luxury vacation.

One seems more like marketing, other more like bribery.
If those websites have a focus try affiliate marketing to their niche. Adsense is like throwing spaghetti at the wall - some few will stick but most will fall off.
Do you own one of the 'Darkfield Technology' ones?

That's specifically why I bought this one and it works flawlessly on every glass surface I've tried.
It includes several open firefox tabs and running an IDE and a compiler.

Anyway Cortex A9 is barely enough for web surfing if you visit some more demanding pages.
Their own
Parsing JavaScript efficiently is not the problem. Much more difficult is writing the garbage collector. Especially a concurrent one.
Yeah, but I'd expected something bigger. People everywhere getting their money back, for example.
What are you saying - that fashion began in 1995?
I see SoundCloud brand appearing more and more frequently in my blog/news feeds.

Are they in the "search for the developers" /quick grow phase?
I don't think they have money trouble at all, they are just saying "being famous sucks if there's no big money to offset the downsides". They want more money so that they don't have to work a normal job, take the subway, do their own shopping.

They want the rich and famous lifestyle. Being poor and famous and working hard at it is a drag.
[ISS] Launch of Soyuz TMA-19M with British Astronaut Tim Peake
>Let's say that it makes it clear which way the person is leaning.

Unless they're searching those phrases for a myriad of other reasons that have nothing to do with that person being a racist. In which case, your argument kind of falls apart.

>"Are all white people racists?" You can feel that one, can't you?

I'm not sure if that comment is more presumptuous than it is condescending, or vice versa.
> I wonder why Purism didn't simply commission such a machine with the right 3D chip instead of going with a non-free and expensive option.

Because they can sell the "expensive" option (which, for the OEM itself, isn't even too expensive) at a much higher premium.

> I would also love similar initiatives in the mobile space, but I reckon it is more challenging.

In the mobile space it would be an even bigger exercise in futility: There is no, and will never be, a baseband chip with a free firmware. The FCC made that pretty clear back in the OpenMoko days – use our NSA-approved proprietary blob or you'll never sell in the developed world.
For papers in 'general interest' or biological journals, the mathematical details necessary to understand what was actually done usually go in Supplementary Materials, rather than the paper itself:

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2015/12/09/350.6266...
Better: proof that hate against Muslims doesn't increase in comparison with the raise of ISIS:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ISIS%2C%20i%20hate%2...
Change-background-color-windows-photo-viewer
Which feed were you watching? BBC2 had Chris Hadfield and Brian Cox, who probably count as their mainstream science programming big guns.
Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Joomla CMS Versions 1.5.0 Through 3.4.5
How Poverty Changes Kids’ Brains
> I was really surprised to discover that CouchDB apparently doesn't support access controls, though --- if a client has access to the database endpoint, it can see everything.

Not sure what you mean; CouchDB has strong access controls, although they are at what in SQL terms we'd call the table level, rather than the row level. But it's not really any different than, eg, MySQL? Or MongoDB, if you want to compare NoSQL to NoSQL.

If you have data in a table that a client shouldn't see, don't give that client access to that table.
Interesting. Both the CEO and the President are former Travelocity execs.

The total of all rounds of VC funding for Gilt was $280M.
Zuck isn't all that original here. Gates actually outright said it, back in 2003.

About 3 million computers get sold every year in China,
but people don't pay for the software. Someday they
will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we
want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted,
and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect
sometime in the next decade.

http://archive.is/20130102062335/http://news.com.com/2100-10...
>You use them, but deny their profit.

It's not the consumer's job to make companies profitable. If their business model relies on people viewing ads when they don't have to, that's their problem.
The demo is from 1990. According to wikipedia the Amiga games you linked were released in 1990 and 1989. How did you play them years earlier?
Get more out of user stories with Example Mapping
In my books its a minus that you can not rewrite history. What happens if you accidentially add code where you dont own the copyright? Or an API Secret?

Having Tickets, the Wiki and technotes in the same place is an interesting idea, but doesnt seem terribly valuable to me. It seems to violate the unix philosophy, as in it does more than is needed. I rather have a lightweight versioning control system, another lightweight ticketing system etc., than one system which does it all.
Could you link to one (or more) of these websites?
He wrote "how much they cost to make". They're different things.
statins-for-cholesterol is a hugely profitable business pushed hard for decades by BigPharma, going back to a single faulty "study" in the 1950s, after Eisenhower's heart attack.

My opinion is that statins-for-cholesterol, obsession with cholesterol is as big of a medical scam, a BigPharma misdirection-for-profit, as BigFood's "low-fat" and "whole grain", and gluten scams.

Cholesterol is essential, so much so 90% is produced by the liver without any dietary consumption.

Cholesterol + lipids + calcium sticking to arteries is a reaction to an injury, mostly from systemic, low-grade inflammation. High blood pressure also injures arteries, also causing cholesterol plaque.

Some people with high cholesterol have no CVD, while some people with low cholesterol die from CVD. Maybe cholesterol isn't the problem?

Aspirin's help with CVD was initially thought to be due it blood-thinning effect, getting blood through narrowed arteries, but then its anti-inflammatory effect was more reasonable. btw, statins are also anti-inflammatory (aspirin and similar are cheaper).

Systemic inflammation reduced by aspirin (or statins), less injury to arteries, less plaque.

Systemic, low-grade inflammation also reduces insulin sensitivity, so the body produces more insulin, which is a really nasty hormone. result? adult-onset Type II diabetes.

So "I think" watching inflammatory bio-markers is more important than watching cholesterol, as one could take away from the New Yorker article.

An alkalizing, anti-inflammatory diet is key, complemented by both moderate resistance work and moderate cardio exercise, which also reduce inflammation.

"life-style" of diet and exercise is your best "Heal Thyself" strategy, not BigPharma.

btw, chronic, systemic, low-grade inflammation causes chronic high-levels of cortisone (derived from cholesterol) to reduce the inflammation, and wreaks havoc on the immune system, which of course causes inflammation as a response to injury or foreign matter.
Spare a thought for Helen Sharman, actually the first British-born astronaut who ascended to Mir in May 1991 in the 'pre-Twitter' era.

Even wore a Union Flag arm-patch...

http://www.americaspace.com/?p=35932
> The values for field price in products mapping and the values for field price in promotions mapping (in the same index) will essentially be added to the same list at Lucene Segment level. And it will not fail or throw an exception.

Probably a stupid question but why can't ElasticSearch translate both mappings into something like, "products_price", and "promotions_price" before adding to the 'list'?
I wonder how far away a self-driving car can detect another car - there is usually a bit of a judgment call about deciding whether to stop at a passing place or to go on.

Interestingly, simply stopping in the road is probably not a great default action on a single track road as you'll block everything!
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I'm sceptical that this is Saudi's plan. Is the investment really worth it? fracking is highly automated and the cost is going down. Fracking is strategic for many governments, so subsidy is very likely.

I don't remember exact numbers, but cost of drilling in Saudi Arabia is 2$, cost in Syberia is 30$.
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Making your first mobile payment with Payleven and Xamarin
>"In fact, as far as I'm aware, there's no precedent for a country that issues their debts in their own currency having a currency "collapse"."

Have you had a look at Zimbabwe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar#Hyperinflati...
Khosla's Head Remains in Sand (Pun Intended)
How does that "Bayes filter" helps fighting spam? I'm interested.