skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those who are interested in anonymous, secure voting should check out the Dissent project (write up here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dissent-a-new-type-of-secur... )
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Same for me, with a few small caveats.
And, I would add: next to a human that might have had a few too many drinks just before getting into the car.
I believe to get this production ready will take some years.

From what I understand in the projects FAQ page they want to implement the concept of a Unikernel and this is what the Rump Kernel at http://rumpkernel.org/ is intending too. May I am wrong because I am not to deep into it.

If it is a research project then they should go on... It looks like it is because it is beeing developed at a university in Oslo, Norway. http://www.hioa.no/eng/
I am not talking about market share, I am more referring to sentiment in the community towards React. Just based on my observations, front-end developers love React and many more seemingly warming up to it. Considering React is still a new library, give it some time, but it does not take a trend to see that it is gaining popularity while Angular 1.x has peaked in my opinion and 2.0 will take a lot of convincing to get people to use it.

I personally use React and Node.js for a lot of the stuff I work on these days (both professionally and freelance projects). I know a lot of developers who use React, so while a Google search (not exactly scientific either in my opinion) yields low use of React, just based on the circle that I frequent, there are a lot of people using React and in 2016 we will see more people using it. The last two freelance projects I worked on (for pretty large companies) were built using React, word is travelling fast.

A lot of people are using Angular 1.x, but I know for a fact that not all of them will migrate over to 2.0 when the time comes. The learning curve might be smaller, but Angular 2 still falls into the trap of being over engineered in certain parts (like template syntax).
No. oldbar integration is the issue, disabling it gives me the ghastly very large address that do work.
Still no GTK3 support on Linux in default Mozilla build

This will come in 45.

And ffmpeg is disabled as well :(

AFAIK, ffmpeg is enabled in 43.
I agree. I think "MVC" has been abused to the point of where it means "the insides of this don't look like a PHP app from 2007, where it's function soup."
No, 5.3% unemployment number is cooked. Even the BLS stats say 10.3% & that's probably gamed too.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/04/-the-real-unemployment-rate.h... …
I looked at the source. Doesn't seem to support class initialization properly. It models lambdas as just arrow functions, which won't work if you try to pass them as Objects to other Java functions (where is Object.getClass()/hashCode()/equals() ?) It doesn't handle runtime checks of Java interfaces at all, for example:

interface Foo {}
class FooImpl implements Foo {}

Object o = new FooImpl();
if (o instanceof Foo) -> compile error

The inability to even handle Java interfaces should be a clue right off the bat that this won't compile any non-trivial Java code base.
I had comcast xfinity tv and internet for 14 years. Month after month I had reliability problems. I replaced the cable modems. I replaced splitters frequently. The techs came to my house and said something was wrong but they had no idea how to fix it. So I went to Verizon FIOS with TV, Digital Voice (Phone), Internet for 6+ months. No problems and 2x the speed of Internet downloads. So no mister CEO it is not that I don't want to pay for the service. I want what I pay for.
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Well there are probably other issues but for a "portal" I think navigation and SEO are foundational.
You could probably do this on native code with something like HP's Dynamo combined with the original symbols.
Companies seem to prefer buying back stock rather than spending on CapEx lately, but that's ending: http://imgur.com/SnbPXDC
Which is about like you or me demanding an extra roll of toilet paper in the restroom.
http://www.shadowstats.com/
Got any links? I'd love to check out the tools you're talking about.
How's your experience coding in Java on emacs?
Executive jets only make sense for short-notice travel.

Hell, even NBA teams have cut down, and all or almost all of them now fly chartered airline (mostly Delta).

Same 'red carpet' experience though not all the luxury and trappings, and this is for a group of people typically making between the group $100-200M a year.
Understand the definitions of "unemployed" here (U1-U6): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#United_States_Bur...

Look up the time-series here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#/media/File:US_Un...

It's a little silly to say that one of these measures is "cooked" while using as evidence an alternative metric that was measured and published by the same agency with the explicit understanding that the two metrics measured different things.
As a (junior) mechanical engineer, I'd like to work in a BigCo that invests in big R&D. Basically, I'd like to work in the 70s (or so).
Not to mention the plummetting labor force participation rate, in the US at least (some other countries do better): http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-has-labor-p...
Yeah, right. In the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby, and being free of HIV is just the first stage of infection, decrying the ridiculous political bun-fight is itself a political stance.

I try not to swear in these things, but fuck me. What a ridiculous statement. What a total piece of mental masturbation.

Pointing out insanity is not insanity.
Consensual in casual sense. Not legal sense. Legally they can't consent (under age of 16) but there are a bunch of caveats and "as long as both are under 18" or "age difference is no greater than 2 years" etc. That muddy the water.

The case is centered around a boyfriend and girlfriend of similar age sending each other nudes. "Sane" people see no issue with children (teens, whichever your preferred term for minors is) exploring their sexuality so long as neither is feeling pressured to do so (read: consent. In the casual sense, not the legal one.)

The very fact that it is legal for them to fuck each other but not legal to share nude photos is the "sanity" approach to the law. Why should A be legal but B be illegal? This is where "intent of the law" is brought into play.
> BTW: the "unemployment" figures fail to take into account people who are no longer looking for work and even worse, the masses of underemployed, people who can barely make ends meet.

This is strictly true -- the one measure called "unemployment" does not capture these.

However, the official unemployment figure is one of six "alternative measures of labor underutilization" published by BLS [0], which while they have different numbers tend to follow the same overall trend, and those measures do track things like discouraged workers, underemployment (at least, in some forms), etc.

[0] see, e.g., http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
<soapbox>I really dislike the term 'transpile'. It's just a compiler. There's nothing really different in theory or implementation of a "source"->"source" vs a "source"->"binary" compiler. If I were to write a CPU in HDL that natively executed JavaScript, would this change from a 'transpiler' to a 'compiler'. The distinction made is simply what the end user is going to do with the result.</soapbox>
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The total labor force participation rate is total number of people who worked last month over total number of civilians over 16 years old. It is at historic lows but somehow "unemployment" is 5%

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
GUIs are more discoverable than command lines. Text files are easier to save in version control. So it's common to have a system where the GUI hooks new users, but they eventually have enough configuration in it that the GUI is no longer a reasonable way to control it all, and they need a way to extract the information in a reasonable format. Hence the reason several Jenkins plugins have evolved to do that.
I got to be #2 in product hunt featured list few weeks ago. a random dude saw my post here at HN about launching a beta and published it there.
no inside connections, no promotions, and unfortunately - no preparations.
we got ~5000 visits in a day and didn't really used the spike for anything special. we lost most of the momentum the next few days and when we were ready to better UI/Flow it was too late.
That's right. A designer who uses `user-scalable: no` is consciously taking that interaction away from you. And in general the result is sub-par, web apps which limit the viewport feel cheap and tacky.

It's a useful feature — mainly for apps which render say, an "About" page using a web view but want to make it look like a regular app page.
> AFAIK, ffmpeg is enabled in 43.

So it should play mp3 and H.264? When I try to play this in stock Mozilla build (43) it uses Flash (which means it doesn't detect native mp3 support):

https://danielamosboots.bandcamp.com/track/er-uh-ummm

UPDATE: H.264 / mp4 is working though which is better than 42.

> [GTK3] This will come in 45.

Thanks. I guess it's good that it's somewhat delayed - Breeze-gtk can get in better shape by that time and fix colors integration for KDE Plasma 5.
That reminds me, I also have one of these simple rest wrappers around the MaxMind database that I should open source... mine runs on AppEngine so it is infinitely scalable and super easy to deploy... ;-)
There is actually an active unikernel project called IncludeOS (http://www.includeos.org/), which could be a good place to start.
The biggest issue with new things is unknown unknowns.
If you look at the submission history for signalvnoise.com you'll see that this article was submitted many times and most of them were marked as duplicates by users (including me, probably, at least I remember noticing how often it was submitted), often with a link to the highly-voted post.
You encourage wage growth by increasing employee productivity.

The more customer value a worker creates, the more an employer can pay them. Trying to increase wages without increasing the value created leads to unstable employment conditions and eventually unemployment if the situation is not profitable for the business on a risk-adjusted basis.

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages." - Henry Ford
Not surprising, considering her policy on banning telecommuting : http://www.pcworld.com/article/2038639/why-yahoos-telecommut...
The issue is and continues to be the LFPR which has been forecast to decline due to demographics, the problem is its been declining much faster than forecast. Which is because those within the peak working age population are not participating at the historical average, while those who are supposed to be retired continue to work to make ends meet.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/o...
I would rather make TS to JVM & CLR Bytecode, to have a unified ecosystem from the opposite side.
There are certain legal doctrines (and treaties) regarding standing. I don't know about the situation between Germany/the EU vis-a-vis the US, but, as an example, the EU rules specify that in almost all cases consumers get to sue / can only be sued at their place of residence (unless they consent to a different venue).

This is to ensure a somewhat level playing field, since the consumer is usually the weaker party. I would argue that, even though it's not a consumer vs. company lawsuit the situation is comparable and it's fair to empower her with the choice of venue. I also don't see it as an unreasonable burden to consider the legal situation in Germany when you're publishing information about a German citizen, in German. This isn't some Pakistani court imposing sharia law on HBO because people could possibly watch it in Karachi if they have the right VPN.

The alternative interpretation of some of these comments is that basically no law should apply to the internet. Even though I have some sympathy for the techno-anarcho mindset (fuck that stupid cookie regulation!), I would argue that if anything that happens online has any power, that power requires checks that go beyond 'might is right'. And even acknowledging all their faults, I haven't come across a better method than a democratically legitimated court of law.

(Having said all that: she lost, the system is working).
I understand "because games" (which are already a horrible abuse of what was initially intended as a way to display hyper-text), but far too often I wander onto some news site or blog that thinks it knows what size text I find most comfortable to read. Honestly, if you're trying to present text in the best way possible, make it easy for readers to choose both font size and column width. This lets readers adjust to suit their visual acuity and reading distance. A lot of sites seem to be designed to prevent both.
I have a advanced degree and am not a super-brain. I'm just a 62 year old that wants to program something fun when I grow up.
Outer space gets dark too you not sure which orbit will get you 100 sun time solar synced orbits still get 50% night time. Maybe some geosync high polar orbit but then you have issues with transmition.
Space solar makes very little sense you only get twice the solar power at 50% efficiency rate at best.
It wasn't the GWT team that made this decision, it was the browser vendors. They killed the NPAPI. For good reason too, it was a major source of insecurity. PPAPI (NaCL) could not replace what was lost, because modeling JVM -> JSVM -> JVM calls requires synchronous re-entrant execution.

BTW, you don't have to debug in Chrome. If you attach IntelliJ to the JSVM, you can debug right inside your IDE, stepping over breakpoints in Java, etc. SDBG for Eclipse does the same things. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJEa5lcJaQ)
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> If I remember correctly they don't count people who have been unemployed long-term.

Yes, they do. The thing the headline unemployment figure doesn't count are those "marginally attached to the labor force", who are no longer looking for work -- but those are counted in other measures that BLS collects besides the headline measure, including the subset of marginally attached known as "discouraged workers" bumps the rate from 5.0% to 5.4%, counting all marginally attached workers gets it up to 6.1%. (Nov. 15 data, with seasonal adjustment.)

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Fitness tracking and notifications are the two "killer apps" for my Apple Watch. It's exciting that Pebble has now added fitness to its existing notifications capability, especially now that they are working with Stanford.

I'd never used a FitBit or similar fitness tracker before getting my Apple Watch, but I had been a huge Garmin GPS watch fan for running and biking in the days before my iPhone had enough battery life to last for a run with GPS enabled.

At first I thought I was mostly going to use the Apple Watch in conjunction with planned activities like running a few miles - I certainly use it for that, in conjunction with Runkeeper - but now I also use the passive activity tracking to keep track of how I'm doing throughout the day.

I won't say that it's strictly because of the watch, but I'm now about as fit as I've ever been, and I think the easy glance over to see where I'm at is really helping with that.
I've submitted this article not because of the specific content (although it will be of interest to many) but because of the article text and data that are modified based on the reader location.

For example, in the subhead, I see "These maps look nothing alike. Their big differences are forcing health experts to rethink what they know about health costs in Springfield, Mass and across the country."
Mayer was given garbage.
She realized this very quickly.
The aim then shifted to maximal extraction of money from the corpse.
This is best accomplished with a a lot of smiles and earnest window dressing.
You're exactly right—it's a privileged position, and a delicate one. Without the trust and the interest of the community, HN wouldn't be worth much, so those are the two things we care about most.
The Significant Objects Project
I think she rightfully lost, but I can see a few arguments here. Firstly, the book in question was her dissertation which might require a birth date as a matter of form. Secondly, there's a qualitative difference between a (possibly out-of-print) book and a website. In a way it's a rehash of the whole 'right to be forgotten' debate.
I like the distinction in the sense that transpilers generally don't do optimization. GWT, Dart2JS, and Closure Compiler aren't transpilers in this sense. They are full blown optimizing compilers.

Putting GWT or Closure in the same category as JSweet, TypeScript, or CoffeeScript obfuscates what these tools do.
3 out of the 4 you mention have all seen the Federal government silently take over, the US Mortgage Industry, and Student Loans are now majority run by the Feds and healthcare is on the same road, waiting for those savings any day now
> "Nonetheless, after a perfunctory investigation lasting two days that consisted of brief interviews with Lombardi’s girlfriend, Hilary Maslon, and Lombardi’s parents, the Williamsburg police declared the death a suicide. The studio door, securely locked from the inside, showed no signs of forced entry except for the transom the police had opened themselves. Lombardi’s body was not marked by struggle, and the hasty autopsy determined that his injuries were consonant with having hanged himself."

While it's easy to cry "conspiracy theory, everybody was in on it!" I generally believe the majority of these types of deaths, if they are actually shady, do not involve local law enforcement as co-conspirators whatsoever, regardless of the people who want to believe.

It seems that the upsides for actually following rabbit holes in these types of circumstances are little to none for local law enforcement. If you're a local law enforcement agency with little resources, what's a better outcome for the image of your agency? Take Occam's razor, even under suspicious circumstances, send the body to the morgue, and call it done, or send one of your detectives into the labyrinth?

Sending the detective into the labyrinth has two risks, both of which are bad. You'll either end up blowing a bunch of time on a conspiracy where one does not exist, or, in the case that there is, you will probably just end up sending a detective into a world of classified disaster and end up collateral damage of a much more powerful, much more insidious organization. Either way, probing further means you'll lose face. Most will choose the path of least resistance.
An idea is to use rotating cylinders as balloons which generate lift (Magnus effect). It helps a little.
Obviously, you are using U-6 instead of the headline rate, and using non-current numbers; U-6 is now 9.9% (with seasonal adjustment, 9.6% by the raw numbers.)

But while debating about which measure is "real" unemployment is fun, I guess, U-6 follows the same trend as the headline U-3 measure, so while the number is different, the relation to different points in the past is basically the same whichever measure you look at.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Wasn't that one of the items in that CIA sabotage manual posted a few weeks ago?
This. MJD has a great bit on blanket statements about "NP-complete means hard":

http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/samples/notes.html#sl-24

Basically, you can often either settle for slightly suboptimal solutions, or ignore a few pathological worst cases. That said, I suspect that P != NP, and thought this was a good article.
And since not I nor anybody that I know has ever heard of or used Product Hunt - why do I care?
Contempt Culture
Works out of the box.

Most dev things work exactly the same as on linux.

You can use photoshop
Mixing javascript into HTML is even worse. Think about it. That's angular.
I've never understood why MVC is so popular. Any other form of application development, you just look at what your application needs to do and design for that. You might use a pattern, you might not, it depends. But for some reason in web development this is THE ONE TRUE WAY, despite the fact that it's a pretty awkward pattern for a lot of problems.

The thing that makes it more baffling is that HTTP and HTML are so simple on their own. Almost all these abstractions being built on top of them are vastly harder to understand then the things they attempt to abstract away in the first place.
Perhaps you're only referring to the headline unemployment figure that typically is reported on? The exclusion of people who are no longer looking for work is intentional: they are no longer part of the workforce, for a variety of reasons (there is no need to include someone who lives in the wilderness on passive income or savings as "unemployed"). But the BLS also provides a detailed breakdown of unemployment[1], including 6 alternate unemployment measures[2]. These alternate measures not only include "discouraged workers"[3][4] but you can also find numbers for people who are "marginally connected to the workforce" and people who have to work more than one full or part-time job[5].

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm

[2] http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab15.htm

[3] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discouraged_worker

[5] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm

edit: wow - a lot of people posted essentially the same thing.
Nice!

This is an aspect of UI that seemingly goes overlooked in many analytics/ad platforms I've used. It is amazing how painful it can be to select your date range when that is one of the most commonly performed tasks for reporting.

Have you given thought to the other common approach of dragging to select a date range? Most of the issues I've seen with those implementations tend to be around the fact that the visible range of dates to drag/select does not scroll when you move your mouse off to the side or something similar. So if the max date you want is not displayed, the ability to scroll to select breaks.

Not sure when they yanked it, but an older version of Google Analytics[1] had the ability to drag a slider on a linear timeline that had a transparent chart of event volume during that time. I LOVED it because you could easily refine your selection to a date range where there was a spike in activity for example.

That was a much more specific and tailored implementation, and I understand this is meant to be more general, but just a thought to consider.

[1] https://techwyse.com/blog/images/GoogleAnalyticsWeeklyQuickT...
venture hacks is a good resource [1]. Check the employees section for some of the stuff you are talking about.

http://venturehacks.com/archives