skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have worked at companies that don't expect candidates to code during interviews, and I have worked at companies that do. I was personally acquainted with programmers who couldn't write working code at the former, and I have never heard of a programmer who couldn't write working code at the latter. I'm sure this perfect correlation anecdote fails to generalize to all workplaces, but I would not accept a job at a company that hires by bs-session again.
"The PGP key associated with Nakamoto’s email address and references to an upcoming “cryptocurrency paper” and “triple entry accounting” were added sometime after 2013"

Why is this not at the beginning of the article? That's pretty strong evidence that this is a hoax.
I really like the simplicity and efficiency of Guaranteed Income. Social welfare is one of the 'costs of doing business' in a modern civilization. Cut the crap and just give everyone basic resources without reservations.

The way I see it if someone really does not want to work, they'll go to great lengths to cheat the system and the government will spend a great deal combating these people. Just giving the bum money will be cheaper for everyone.

More importantly a basic income will free up people who will take jobs just because they have to. This will actually open up jobs for people who want to work hard to rise above the basic level.
It will give people freedom to explore things that would not be feasible otherwise. This will generate more art, more music, new science and philosophies.

Perhaps my thoughts are too idealistic but I think its more reasonable than trying to police welfare or telling everyone to just be more bootstrappy.
Fellow Chicagoan here,

Google is going to have to grease quite a few palms to make this happen, if it ever does.

Politicians here have perpetuated the AT&T and Comcast duopoly for quite awhile, and I have no doubt that they are well compensated to do so.

For a new player to come into town who will raise quality of service and lower prices in a way that will force Comcast and AT&T to do the same in order to compete (resulting in lower profits and a lower payola budget) is not going to endear Google to anybody with an established interest in the status quo.
I find it eerily odd that that pencil making article was posted on HN a couple of weeks ago.
Great article - those Chrome plugins with their (to the normal users) vague permissions are borderline evil. I nearly snorted coffee onto my keyboard when reading some of their potential counter responses; made my morning.
This is a perfect example of a changing market driving out incumbents that have been unable to adapt. The internet is probably better off without them.
I really prefer Groovy's approach - default get/set behaviour is provided at compile time, but you can override in code with explicit getter/setter methods. Really seems to be the best of both worlds.
Rahul, congrats on the release!
Android Privacy Guard is insecure
Of course, because your local competitors pay out less. Everyone in a cheaper place gives a smaller salary. Even inside the US, Texas pays less than Silicon Valley. If you move to Texas, and your company says "we will pay you less because of your location" you can't really argue against that logic. Because if you tried to find a job in Texas, you'd get paid the same amount your old company is offering you.
I got that. I am just questioning whether you and the executive management at Mozilla had the same goals.
after delicious went down, I moved over to google bookmarks. it works sort of, but I have trouble searching for my older links. Do you support importing an xml file from google bookmarks?

I tried pocket for saving links, but it reformatted articles with code in a way I could not use.
Microsoft issues its own certificates, so if they add it to their own OCSP revocation list it will fail an OCSP check from any device. That said, many browsers don't do OCSP checks or will just accept a certificate if the OCSP server cannot be reached, although this was presumably an EV certificate where that attitude is less common. I'm also guessing this made it into Chrome's CRLSet (this kind of high profile EV revocation is exactly what it was designed for), so if you use Chrome you're pretty likely to be okay.

edit: Actually I just checked the Chrome CRLSet, it doesn't appear to have revocations for any certificates from "Microsoft IT SSL SHA2" :(. You can turn on OCSP verification in most browsers, which should do it.
It might actually emanate out of One Wilshire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wilshire
I see people arguing that there's nothing bad in this report. The shady, underhanded and dishonest context is so clear, I'm shocked to see so many such objections.

The basic problem here is that two top academics are clearly selling the use of their credentials for clear commercial gain of a private company and using sophisticated means to hide the fact of such sale.

That part is bad enough, even worse is the eager sales pitch and readiness to suggest financial shenanigans to hide the source of the funding that these professors are engaging in. It's very clear that these are not first-timers or unwilling participants. This is their normal MO for writing and speaking on the topic.
Sadly, Seattle bureaucracy has ruined google fiber here: http://crosscut.com/2014/12/google-fiber-never-come-seattle-...
Could you explain your point? Given it's success, I can't see why PHP wasn't the right tool for Facebook.
What makes him different from say, Bill Gate?
In the case of Jordan it does.

Part of the reason for Jordan's success is that he's the GOAT - and an umbrella for other players. His "Jordan" line doesn't just include his signature shoes, but players like CP3, Blake Griffin, Carmelo Anthony and Russel Westbrook.

Way easier to pull in other players after you're retired than it is while you're still in the game. That's why you're seeing Jordan take up 58% of the basketball shoe market.
Note that Guix also supports lightweight development environments in containers, via user name spaces: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-g... .

This is in addition to whole-system containers: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-g... .
5 Global Cities of the Future
ESP32 pinout diagram
It makes you wonder about whether one day there will be a law against looking like Tom Hanks, or any celebrity. It would end up making crimes difficult to solve when the suspect is identified as Tom Hanks!
It's hard to say what he believes, but there seems to be evidence of what is normally considered misconduct, specifically, in using a sham peer review process and misrepresenting the funding sources. I don't think he has to say "no" to the funding, but representing it as "peer reviewed research" that "received no financial compensation" would seem intentionally deceptive. This press release seems to have more detail:

https://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/12/08/exposed-academi...
Personally, I want to know who this guy is because he did something really rare: putting together some bits of common, old math—just bits that nobody thought to put together before—into a system with entirely novel (some would say "emergent") high-level semantics. He's an "inventor" in the most crucial sense.

And really, he's created one of the few things in Computer Science that I wouldn't argue with being patented. A blockchain is a configuration of algorithms into a novel abstract "machine", with many possible implementations, which isn't domain-specific, and that nobody had thought of—or, really, was likely to ever think of—without him.

Really, I'm just hoping that he's still actively working on other ideas; I would love to follow his research.
A great article, but why is this on Kotaku? I thought they were a video game/geek culture publication. It seems to have far more depth and thought put into it than most of their tripe as well.
What sort of company do you work for? Is it a government contractor? I've known many highly paid people in that line of work that are not fit for startups.
Twitter is ridiculous in that way. Absolutely ridiculous. I'm constantly baffled just how badly the site is layed out and how they keep making it worse. I still never understand who replied to who, where multi-part tweets start and end, why some text is larger than other, where I have to click to get a perma-link, how those blue lines/separators group tweets and how in the world I enlarge embedded content. When I'm way down a page and click on an image and close it, I'm thrown back to the top of the page.

Apparently, there was a real need to reduce blogging to one-sentence text messages. Alright, they got that market for now. But their interface is straight from hell and they'll pay for that, eventually. You already see people moving away (Instagram, etc). They might be where myspace was before facebook.
EV certificates can't be issued for wildcard domains, so probably not EV :)
Microloans Don’t Solve Poverty
Correct. I HAVE a PIN for purchasing, but the card is set to prefer signature so I end up having to sign unless I'm purchasing somewhere without signature capability (eg, an automated kiosk). And yeah, US resident, US card.
Have you written up this experience anywhere? I'd love to read that.
> He solved hard algorithm problems like they were nothing

That's mostly practice. When I did webdev I was really shitty at algorithms because there were no algorithms in my daily work. When I did some Baduk AI programming I started being much better at algorithms since I was implementing some custom algorithms myself.

If you are interviewing someone for a web dev position, it's kind of ridiculous to screen people by their ability of merging sorted arrays or whatnot.
The other variable to consider is those that decide they'll reach their destination faster by cutting one car in front of you when you are keeping some distance. I see this happen a lot in traffic and sometimes results in nearly having an accident.
Could you elaborate more on what you mean by "old school tech"?

To add some counter-anecdata to yours, I find there's plenty of Rails/jQuery/Go/Rust/Cloud people here in Sweden/Stockholm and that there's quite many using cloud services and what not. I find it a bit hard to digest that any of those languages or techniques are perceived as "new" here. Perhaps by some, but then that would apply at any place around the globe to some extent.
>quick to jump unquestioningly on this

I and many people I know have been saying this since Elmo first became popular. It isn't a new hipster opinion its always been true, for some people.
Thanks for going deep into this, let me add though that it's not about an ideal world or bullying, HTTPS should be the default.
Lets Encrypt managed that for us already, pretty soon it will be the default.
It's the signature that's the slow part. The swipe takes, what, 1/4 second vs perhaps 2 seconds for the dip?
The Iran Pepsi Deal
Spotify's Discover Weekly has been really good -- for n = 7.
I think the same way.

Even at $200, getting home safe without talking to the police for any reason is a good outcome.

All I'm saying is Uber needs to be used with caution.
> Happer ran a sham peer-review process through the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a prominent U.K.-based climate skepticist think thank.

I really don't think submitting papers to similarly minded groups in the name of "peer review" is an uncommon occurrence on any side of the climate change debate -- or any other debate for that matter.
The current certificate that I can see on (star).xboxlive.com is valid between December 1st 2014 and December 1st 2016.

Is it common to issue a certificate for a year, but make it active for the previous year as well?
Speaking of dark fiber in Chicago, I suspect the city owns a lot of it. Their surveillance network includes several hundred miles of fiber.
We live in a times when Apple open-sourced Swift and even IBM are keen to use it now. Even for Apple the Swift language is not a revenue generator.

Only large corporations are willing to pay for compilers, etc but they want oodles of training, support, consulting, etc. And ... you have to be a Big Corp to be worthy of their business.

Perhaps, I'm tainted by conventional wisdom, but none of the languages referenced by @notsrademons has made its creators rich. Sure, they have good jobs and some get paid to speak at conferences and for consulting.

BUT ... you might be the one to break the mold. If your only motivation is to make money, then don't bother. If you truly believe in your "change the world" concept and you are prepared to hustle to see your vision succeed then Just Do It ! GOOD LUCK !
I strive to maintain a constant speed, so the gap in front naturally gets larger as traffic ahead speeds up. Back in the day, when I was typically in a hurry and driving insanely, I liked large gaps because I could slalom through them at high relative speed. I don't do that anymore. I hate it when bikers blow through at 100 kmph relative speed. But at least they're small.

Edit: I also hate it when bicyclists blow through city traffic at 10-20 kmph relative speed. For some reason, I'm more afraid of accidentally hurting them.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846.
Wired think they know who started Bitcoin
the truth can't be literally unbelievable by definition.

My least favorite aspect of these stories has to be all the people who like to list out the price of internet connectivity as if it lives in a vacuum. It's not really a meaningful datapoint on its own for a number of reasons, and the conversation it engenders is almost never worth reading.
I think you're conflating two different things. The first quote is impolite but affirming, while the second one is polite but extremely negative, maybe even hateful.

It's true that a simple keyword filter won't work very well if your goal is to detect the hate rather than the cursing.

But there are also mature techniques for doing sentiment analysis. The canonical example is for automated analysis of movie reviews. Those techniques would be much more likely to pick up on the positivity in "bad-ass" and "awesome!" and the negativitiy in "pile of", "isn't worth", "wipe", and "backside".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
For the record, I much rather that old JB browser than Chrome. It's still around if you want to install it but "inverted rendering" doesn't work on newer android versions.
There is also the question - Where does he source his research. Do his stats come from random internet sources, publications, for example...
>"But Sesame Street is not for you!!! Who cares if your adult-self doesn't like Elmo?"

Lots of people weren't adults 20 years ago when Elmo was hitting his stride as the most prominent member of Sesame Street, though.
As someone who tries to do this whenever possible, it can be largely for naught if cars in the bordering lanes see the gap you've allowed in front and move into it. :/
Uhm, no [0]. It all depends where you work though. The web industry is more of a separate phenomenon than in the bay area.

[0] https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/346637405668925440
[0] https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3AGo+loc...
[0] http://www.meetup.com/sthlmrb/
[0] etc.
Stockholm suffers from extreme housing shortage. I live here now but in a student flat I got after 3 years of queue time, and moving in a couple of month. Not worth it and I think this will limit the number of startups in the future.

Someone said something about old-school tech and it is true, I rarely meet anyone who is on the edge on new technology. I find myself always explaining what something is, but regardless of tech there are some talented people here.

There is also some serious tax problems, long over 50% in tax. People think they only pay around 23% in tax since the government splits up the tax in two parts, one for the company (around 32%) and one for the employee but money that would have been yours. Then you have tax on items and for example gas tax. Everything is very subtle and perhaps why they get away with it.
I couldn't disagree more. Restricting your review to "like-minded" people is not science at all. It would be like a person advocating for Intelligent Design by only getting peer-reviewed by other evolution deniers. If the claims can't stand on their own and you have to go looking for "like-minded" people than it's pretty weak sauce.
> which would imply that he changed his views because of the money

No, it doesn't imply that at all.

to buy somebody off:

"to bribe someone to ignore what one is doing wrong."

"To bribe someone in order to ensure cooperation"

The implications carried are that the payments were a bribe and that the actions taken as a result were improper.
Well, they recently had a bit of a scandal when it came out that some large game studios are blacklisting them over repeated leaks of internal information. So maybe they need to broaden a bit now they no longer have access to as much gaming stuff.
I suspect that they need to worry about xboxes using default time settings.
You'll find that it's a bit different here. There's loads of Erlang here - not unusual, considering it was invented here. Loads of C, C++ - not unusual, considering Ericsson and its ecosystem.
Real question : Is it really "amazing", "hyper-realistic" ?

I have some kind of prosopagnosia, I recognise people in video but I absolutely don't recognise modelled faces, its just looks like lo-poly models on Nintendo 64 for me.
> Leftist politicians have blocked this at several points

That's at best misleading and at worst flat-out false; a pure NIT has rarely reached the point of even a serious proposal, both left and right groups have proposed kinda-sorta-NITs, some of which have passed, some of which haven't, and the failures have been sometimes resulted from opposition from the right, sometimes to opposition from the left, and sometimes from opposition that is neither purely left or right (and sometimes to extraneous political reasons not directly and specifically tied to the NIT-related proposal itself.)

It's worth noting that very close to the same time Friedman started promoting the idea, so did scholars from the liberal Brookings Institute.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/NegativeIncomeTax.html
>My guess is that every Firefox developer still runs a 2007 Asus eeebook with a 7" screen.

I can assure you that they do not, because Firefox requires heavy tweaking to run comfortably in 1 gigabyte of RAM.

Seamonkey is real nice though.
Zynga has been driven by metrics too, their strategy being to exploit human psychology in order to get people addicted and to pay money for in-game purchases. There's a whole science behind it. Basically those games feed the people's compulsion for completing tasks in return for some reward, with an ever present illusion that the game might get fun after you gain some experience or virtual coin. And the interesting part is that fun is antithetical to the company's purpose, because if the game is too much fun, then people aren't inclined to pay. And in 2010 Zynga was on a roll, predicting doom for the gaming industry as we knew it, yet look at where they are now.

In other words, that mythical algorithm for Facebook's feed that you're describing is probably not about making people happy or serving their interests. I used to like Facebook, but my stream is getting worse and worse as I see more and more pictures of babies of strangers in my news feed, related to what my "friends" "liked", not to mention being exposed to opinions so stupid that I lose faith in mankind. There's no way of stopping this stream of things from strangers that I don't want. And their analysis of my preferences seems to be completely useless, as I keep getting news items on subjects I'm actively deleting from my stream, but who knows, maybe this algorithm is trying hard to elicit an emotional response from me.

By Facebook's metrics I'm more active than ever. Heck, if HN had metrics it would count me as a satisfied member judging by the intense activity I'm having. Count the words in this comment, this is what true engagement looks like. Yet I'm more dissatisfied than ever. And in particular for Facebook, just as with its symbiotic partner Zynga, I'm predicting a future in which people will realize that Facebook is not making them happy. I know I have, my account being currently deactivated, in what I call a trial separation, pending deletion.

Also, in case you're going to say that I'm not the target demographic, well that's what people said about Google+, the nymwars and forcing YouTube users to join, with Google+ being exactly what you get when you bring in Facebook's crap without having a network effect.
But they have. And to agree with both you and the parent post, watching with my child the other day, I noticed an adult actor that looked familiar. I looked it up, and he had originally been one of the child actors when I was watching as a kid.

Granted he wasn't anywhere near as frequent as the puppet characters, but still amazing.
The Most Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns in 2015 (Infographic)
this is for 'business class' service, which is often in office buildings. metro fiber and ethernet is really, really, really expensive in these buildings because of other monopoly factors - the cable companies wish they could compete here, but they sometimes can't.

for example, symmetrical 10mbps metro ethernet is close to $2k/month here in LA. yes, for real.

commercial service has higher SLA's (which really doesn't mean a damn thing, it's just tradition) and is more expensive.

it's highly dependent on your office building's location. cable companies and fiber operators do not canvas entire commercial districts like they do residential areas.
Its not really about attracting users though, its about getting phones in stores that users are buying. The market of users that shop for a device, looking for specs and features, is a tiny fraction of the market of phone users, the vast majority of which are regularly ripped off by carriers to buy underpowered overpriced iphones or Android handsets.

If you don't get on Sprint / AT&T / Verizon / Tmobile store shelves you are DOA before you even think about appealing to users switching.

But something like Plasma Mobile does not need to care too much about that. If it has the technicals right, and can run Android apps, it can be an enthusiast platform nobody else adopts because Google has strong armed manufacturer control to keep that kind of competition off store shelves if they wanted to. Its also incredibly expensive to buy market share like that, something none of these participants have the money to do.