skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For-profit companies are driven away from being their "own unique thing" by an urge to capture the audience of their competitors by, basically, being their thing as well. Facebook wants to be Facebook+Twitter, and Twitter wants to be Facebook+Twitter. It's kind of silly.

You know, I used to think (contrary to some) that Facebook and Twitter and the like weren't going to go away—they had achieved such network-effect saturation that people are now completely locked in, in a way they weren't with previous networks. I also thought that, despite "kids these days" preferring services like Instagram or Snapchat at a young age (and HN soothsaying doom for the incumbents as a result), the next generation would all end up "growing up into" Facebook et al when they hit the right age-range to care about keeping in contact with family in college &c.

However, I didn't stop to consider that all these networks are effectively trying to modify their features until they all are basically the same thing—and thus, in est, commodities. Any social network you look at nowadays has:

• a pseudo-timeline of prioritized microblog feeds, with inline image/video posts and comment chains;

• the option to "follow" people (where "friending" people is just mutual "following");

• "liking" posts and copying posts onto your own microblog for your friends+followers to see;

• conversations conducted "in public" by posting back and forth on your own feeds, expecting people to follow both you and the people you talk to to get the whole conversation;

And so forth. It's all the same.

At this point, we need a Trillian/Pidgin for social networks—I actually don't care whether a post comes from Facebook or Twitter or Tumblr or Vine or Instagram or wherever; they're all just gloss on a collection-of-feeds API with a few verbs (like, share, post).

I'm honestly surprised no RSS-reader app has jumped on the "social networks are just RSS-reader-like services with more verbs" idea; it'd be perfect for an app like Reeder that already plugs into a ton of private APIs like Feedly/NewsBlur/etc.
We have a simple signup and onboarding flow - connect your github or bitbucket repos and kick off a build. Once the build succeeds install the agent on your server and deploy.

The getting started guide needs to be updated.
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I did some work with SAML last year. Worst period of time ever, makes WSS look nice and clean.
> 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).

Seems like the perfect usecase for S3; inbound transfer is free, and you're only paying for a rolling 7 day window of storage with lifecycle rules :/
>I’ve been told by insiders at Twitter that “nothing is sacred” when it comes to making Twitter “easier to use” and ready to onboard the next few hundred million users that Twitter needs to be a powerhouse in media.

I sincerely hope they never, ever make that "few hundred million users" they want to do. Let them sink. I have absolutely no respect for the product people at Twitter, which is the same respect they are showing for us the power users.

Every update to their app has me shaking, wondering how they will annoy me. The reason I liked Twitter was its goddamn simplicity, Jesus. I remember the good old days, scrolling over my tweets on twicca. Why did they have to ruin it all?
I haven't checked my GA in months since it became clear that Google won't bother doing anything to fix the referer spam problem that makes the stats useless if you don't have a high-volume site. It's not like these abusers are hard to track down but I'll be damned if I'm going to manually add filters to get rid of them every time they come in from a new domain.
My guess is that he's referring to startups, not monstrous companies like Google.

I think the reason you whiteboard for google interviews because you will necessarily be a cog in a wheel, and the focus of the cog is to code.

At smaller companies / startups, you will potentially be expected to design, architect, gather requirements, code, etc.
I've got the 20/200 package as well and I can consistently max the connection on both speedtests as well as actual downloading. No beefs with TW's service here.
Maybe he has a boilerplate that he reuses.

:%s/Snoopy/Elmo/g

:%s/Peanuts/Sesame Street/g

:%s/Woodstock/Mr. Noodle/g

etc
No it would help because instead of giving up on tracing the attacks since the source address was spoofed, you would know who was spamming packets and get them black holed.
The point is, Maria and Gordon __have__ been with the show for decades, and now their characters have kids. Similarly, some of the kids in earlier years still are involved as older kids. It's one thing I have really liked about the show, as it lets them show nuanced relationships (both in terms of jobs and family).
Even if it's a linear relationship, it can only exist within the demonstrated range. You should know that not everything is linear when you go outside of the range you have studied.

So unless proven this linear relationship is valid across all the spectrum (which is obviously is not), then you should take whatever is written with a big grain of salt and thing twice about it before making over simplistic assumptions.
I've also dreamed about such a thing, which would open new worlds for performance and composition. I think the technology isn't even remotely close to allowing this, though. The closest I can think of is research that has been done where MRI imaging and analysis were used to reconstruct images being watched by a subject. Results were very rough, though:

http://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/

And you have to consider that nonexistent music playing in your head has a special "unfinished" quality that might make it impossible to just translate into sound. My take is that when you process sound, it goes through multiple layers or depths of analysis, and imagined music takes place at an already deep level of analysis - could be very problematic for this project.
Yeah I don't buy that either. Was there an ROI case made about the iPhone? I don't think so. There's no similar ROI case anyone could make for Firefox, either.
I am in Austin city limits but outside the city center and we are nowhere close to getting Google fiber. I wouldn't get too excited by this, yet, especially if you're not in a densely populated part of town.
It doesn't really change anything in Chicago. While it might be nice to get some individual corrupt official(s) where they belong, Chicago as a whole shows no evidence that it's becoming less corrupt.
Bit of a nitpick, really, but you want a basis, not necessarily just a set of eigenvectors.
Offhand, this seems like a job for a laser cutter more than a milling machine. (But hey, if that's what you've got...) Depending on the cutter, largely its minimum kerf size, a single-pass may produce an entirely acceptable result.

An alternative to direct hole cutting would be to use the laser to ablate an etching mask medium then etch the actual holes into the cut surface, which might produce a better end result. Anyone given this approach a try for high-detail work?
Or Mongo may need to refine collaboration with partners to sell more deployed customer solutions... that's the only takeaway from this I see.
What is wrong with data challenges
Can you explain your theory better? The coin's Satoshi owns haven't moved since they were mined long ago.
I think the home feed is quite similar to the old discover feed and I have been using it here and there.
tl;dr: "By saying make sure instead of don’t, he was telling me that he had faith in my ability to make decisions."
Some of the stuff on Warp is computer-assisted - in fact it has been for a long time. But we're really only talking about semi-random loop cut-ups and effects sequencing.

Ableton has a small suite of algo-comp packs. And there are things like WaveDNA's Liquid Music.

I'm not aware of anyone making complete commercial tracks using ES - at least, not with a high profile career. (I suspect Bjork does a bit of this, but I'm not sure how much. Holly Herndon certainly does, but isn't very mainstream.)

Strange fact: people have been attempting algo-comp for decades, and it remains incredibly obscure and ignored, even though there have been literally hundreds of languages, toolkits, and frameworks. That's partly because most of it isn't very musical - at best it sounds like a random mash-up of music slices with no overall sense of form or mood, and at worst it sounds like musical nonsense.

It could also be because successful systems become so complicated they're only really useful to one composer. No one else has the time or the patience to learn them.

But more, musicians seem to have a block about the idea - e.g. WaveDNA have literally had a lot of hate for LiquidMusic.

Even though many genres are very formulaic, abstracting those formulas in a useable way turns out to be very hard, especially if you're aiming for a definite mood instead of a random musical squiggle. Most people who make music would rather do it by hand than have a computer do it for them.
It's a monopoly without lockin, though. It's entirely possible for customers to just stop being customers, which seems like the likely result of abusive behavior.
Scuzzy. THIRSTY.
Microsoft Yammer released an intro video; I still don't know what it is
What's the certificate info? Most likely, you got a valid cert. MS can give a bit extra security for mistakes like this in their own products because they have the keys to the castle, but everyone else will have to use the normal infrastructure, most likely OCSP. But from the sound of things, you're already using the new cert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Certificate_Status_Prot...
Sesame Street was created for two-year-olds, not bitter Internet pundits.

Well, then it's high time we bitter Internet pundits did get programming created for us, isn't it? Max Headroom only lasted a season.
Home Alone – Holiday classic? Or IT security nightmare?
AT&T recently announced some initial "Gigabit" deploys in the Chicagoland suburbs. I guess now we know why.

AT&T has been horrible in Illinois, with years and years of dragging their feet as well as reneging on commitments made to the State in return for e.g. tax breaks and rights of way.

Even with their announced Gigabit service, one really faces roughly twice the cost of Google Fiber if one chooses to opt out of AT&T's connection/data spying. And they impose a 1 TB / billing cycle (month) data cap. At the supposed 1 Gbps maximum speed, that's a bit less than 154 minutes of data -- less than 2.5 hours. For the entire month / billing cycle.

It's not difficult to imagine a 4K household easily exceeding this cap, or even a 1080p household with several users.

So... Go, Google Fiber. I don't hold out much hope they'll get out to me, but I'm glad that they may finally be holding incumbents' feet to the fire in a large urban market -- one that is considered AT&T's "home turf", to boot. (The erstwhile SBC headquarters were/are in the Chicago suburbs, and a lot of corporate management/leadership is or has been in the area.)
Is that all a custom UI, or are you using a UI library? (A quick look at the code didn't show anything obvious other than jquery/zepto.)

I ask because I'm going to want to do something like that soon, and it's really slick.
> Especially the ability to dock your phone with an external display/keyboard/mouse. For a large portion of the market it displaces the need for a second computing device. Microsoft is much further along on this front than both Android and iOS.

From a software perspective, Android has supported this forever. From a hardware perspective, there've been Android devices where accompanying docking solutions was heavily marketed, though none in the last few years, because its something users keep not really wanting in practice, even if they conceptually like the idea in the abstract.

Plus, a substantial fraction of the price and size of a "second computing device" that's larger than your phone is going to be the display, so docking doesn't really solve much of anything (especially when the devices are all cloud connected.) There's zero friction moving between by Android phone and my 12" tablet -- with BT keyboard and, if I felt like using one, BT mouse. And I could use the BT keyboard and mouse with the phone itself, if I wanted to. Either device could connect to an external monitor via HDMI with an inexpensive adaptor (and either can cast its display via Google Cast.)

What, in practical terms, does docking solve?
CSS isn't less efficient than a traditional windowing model. In fact, its declarative nature is a big help when adopting legacy content to modern architectures. The "WM_PAINT/C++ code that calls GDI" model is not easy to adapt to multicore and GPUs.

This is not to say that the browsers of today are optimally architected, of course. (In fact, I think they're quite suboptimally architected for 2015 hardware. The "it's too easy to fall off the fast paths" problem of HTML/CSS is a symptom of legacy browser architecture, not a problem with the layout/styling model.)
Indeed, but SNI is more than 10 years old now so very well supported. I'd appreciate someone else correcting me if I'm wrong here, but I believe SNI is also enabled by default (where it's supported).

In any case, even without the hostname header, it doesn't take much research to find a short list of possible candidates (eg https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/193.0.6.136/informa...).
It isn't a system where large mining corporations are supposed to have a hangman's noose around it, either.
OPEN Open Source
I would honestly like to know the upside to posting vs. the downside. I think there is also a saying for this, something like "don't spit into the wind".
Well, efficient in that sense that if you're 100% that in a group of 100 people there's a terrorist, then instead of searching to find which of them is a terrorist, you just kill all of them. Ta-da. Dead terrorist. And 99 other innocent people, which will probably give rise to another 5 terrorists.
I don't follow. How does sexism explain this?
Perhaps a "magazine" HR/engineering uses to promote inbound candidate flow and knowledge sharing.
> "I see so much of these kinds of articles. All I can do is despair as my generation begins to make the exact same mistake as our outrageous parents who had very similar things to say about childhood programming which we all wax nostalgically on now."

Thank you so much for this insightful post. As the parent of a two and four-year-old, reading this article all I could think was, "But Sesame Street is not for you!!! Who cares if your adult-self doesn't like Elmo?"

People don't seem to understand that Sesame Street was established on and heavily influenced by hard scientific research [1], and that research has found letting your children watch the show gives them a head-start on learning before they enter public school. When the show changes, science informs those changes.

And I can see it with my boys. Elmo youtube videos taught my two-year-old the alphabet, his shapes, and counting to 10, which blows his daycare teachers away. My four-year-old got the same jump on these concepts from Elmo. Funny enough, he seems to have outgrown the character and has moved onto Team Umizoomi [2] where he enjoys problem-based learning for math and patterns. It's best to watch these shows with the kids, engage the learning with them as they watch, and also make references to the characters and events to reinforce the learning away from the television.

I also find all the "get off my lawn" comments in this thread and in these kinds of articles disheartening. I agree that it seems like my generation is just adopting the cycle of knee-jerk cynicism to change to which our elders subjected us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street_research
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Umizoomi
Only time + money. But more of both than you likely want to invest.

Disclosure: built my own ISP 13 years ago after a similar "how hard can it be??" moment.
I use Tweetdeck [0] to present stuff in categories. It works for me, but to be fair, my needs are quite simplistic.

[0] https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
I think that's still too recent, sorry. People might get upset. Ask me again in five years. :)
Ancestry to Retire Family Tree Maker Software
I feel this maybe a little late to the game. It could be useful for companies who have hired a bunch of junior developers and need more "Senior" people.
Sure, it's fine to make a throwaway account for such cases. If anyone has concerns beyond that, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll figure something out.

I expect that Peter will mostly answer questions in general terms, rather than advising about specific cases. But everyone should feel free to ask what they're wondering about, and if there's any worry about personal exposure, by all means err on the side of discretion.
You don't need to put a chip in my brain to detect my mood, simple skin detector, like your watch should be able to do that.
Also, brainwaves can be detected with the headband, these are general rhythms, so you can't get specific centers, but it is getting more useful every day.

Anyhow, I think I understand where your skepticism originates, it make sense, I think a lot of smaller advancements would allow us to come closer to this.
If your "instrument/note memories" thesis is correct, then it's not too hard to imagine that Brainr's initial setup would involve a calibration process to work out what your* particular mapping of sound memories is shaped like.

* to give this putative "plays the music in your head" app a terrible name
Ukraine and Romania successfully avoided Deutsche Telekom monopoly.
Alex Jones Calls Out President Obama: Epic Rant
That's good news! Dunno why I thought it was three books.
For very young companies, it's also typically a case of "we don't know how to write a handbook and policies, so we'll just wing it, make up our attendance policy as we go along, and approve people's vacations on a case-by-case basis".

Since it's a young company, most employees are indespensible, and without any written guarantee saying "you have X days of vacation a year", everyone is too afraid to even ask for any time off.

I worked for one of those. I'm glad I got out. Unfortunately, I landed at a company that's ridiculously stingy with PTO (10 vacation days, 8 holidays, 7 sick days -- this is slightly mitigated by the fact that you can make up hours you miss without using PTO, so I've done things where I leave early one day but stay late the next), however because company policy requires that employees take all our vacation days every year, at least I know what their expectations are. I took a vacation this year because I knew I had the days for it and so I just filled out our standard form and gave it to my boss, knowing it would be accepted. On the contrary, I didn't take a single vacation during my time at my previous employer, and in fact I never even asked for one, because we were bouncing from crisis to crisis, and I could just imagine my boss saying "are you crazy?".
It's not just the raw capabilities that are important. This is something Apple has understood for a long time. Microsoft is figuring it out.
>Microsoft may be somewhat further along on this front, but I don't think it's as much as you think - the apps that can run in this way are not full windows applications.

But that is going to soon change as MS is working with Intel to launch Intel powered phones (x86). [1]

Regardless of whether Windows phone succeeds or not, I believe the path they are taking will eventually be where all the OSes will end up. The saying "The best camera is the one that is with you" may hold true for computers in the future.

Imagine hotels & coffee shops offering a dock for rooms/tables and the only thing you need is your phone. Plug it in and voila!, your personalized desktop with all its settings and data. This might even be secure, cost effective and more efficient method for portable desktop.

[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-launching-intel-pow...
I imagine I am using the new cert. My question is that if an attacker got a hold of the past one, could I be MitM'd? They removed it from the Windows CTL but didn't mention anything explicitly about revoking it for everyone else...
Petition to ban Donald Trump from UK reaches threshold for government response
I did a SAML implementation with Ping Identity for a "large kids brand" and it was horrible. Getting permissions and roles out of LDAP, passed through SAML and translating them to our application was so brutal it was laughable.

Guess what happened. 12 months later they dropped everything except the SAML login support and switched back to using our permissions instead.
I don't mind at all Twitter throwing stuff at the wall to get more engagement. Just leave the option for its current users to turn it all off.

Otherwise they run the risk of annoying or driving away their strongest supporters in a failed attempt to get new ones.
Does it need to work in real time? The only person present while a game is running is usually the gamer. L.A. Noire did a great job with ahead-of-time facial modeling based on real people.
The problem with Sonic is their 12 month contract
Where have you interviewed that hasn't asked you to implement X algorithm by memory?!? I'd love to interview there!
I would agree with you, except that it's based on work by Gwern, who is not a guy to sell wolf tickets.
I think you seriously underestimate the amount of work that would take.
Academics-for-hire agree not to disclose fossil fuel funding
"Engineered for children" is a good thing if it means that the show producers have incorporated recent research into early childhood development when designing the show. This is true of shows like Daniel Tiger, Dora, and (although not mentioned in this thread) Blue's Clues.

The brains of little kids do not work the same way that adult brains do, so shows really do need to be constructed differently. Mr. Rogers knew this--it was a big part of the success of his show--but both research and TV technology have come a long way since he started his show.

It would be bad if a show was simply A/B tested for stickyness, but that's not the story with the shows I mentioned above.
Basically, it's supply and demand.

Satoshi has a large position relative to the whole market. If he every wanted to convert those coins to US dollars or some other currency, I'm guessing the supply it would introduce would cause the conversion rate to crash unless done in a sophisticated way.
Will this be enough to fire tenured professors?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10695375
That security advisory is the longest possible way to say "Private key for *.xboxlive.com certificate disclosed." In my half-asleep mindset, I was expecting it to include the private key.
Why Poor Countries Are Poor (2006)
Conversely, every for-profit company wants to be its own unique thing -- i.e., a monopoly which can extract monopoly rents. When you aren't unique, you're a commodity competing on price.

EDIT:

> However, I didn't stop to consider that all these networks are effectively trying to modify their features until they all are basically the same thing—and thus, in est, commodities.

They aren't trying to become commodities; the are trying to duplicate the features of the currently-most-popular social networking service (and thus commoditize that service) while adding their own unique and distinguishing features on top of that (thus avoiding being a commodity themselves.)
While we're at it, SF has also failed to "disrupt" its own housing crisis (until very recently), its infrastructural issues, its transport problems (well, I suppose ridesharing is the workaround), its flagrant income disparity issues, and the fact that the whole industry which has enabled remote work and teleconferencing is still shackled into this overcrowding, overpriced region.