skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be clear, every manufacturer was playing this "game". Yes VW played it harder than most and got caught out. The reality is there is no petrol/diesel manufacturer that has been found to be playing it absolutely down the middle.
How are you filtering these jobs? Six jobs in a week (the interval between emails) seems a bit on the low end to me. Maybe you apply very strict criteria for including a job on the list?

I couldn't resist and applied a similar filter to the jobs / gigs I found for my own service, SendGigs. I require one of the the tags full-time or salary, and exclude everything that is tagged US-only. Then I'm left with 20 jobs, see https://www.sendgigs.com/2015-12-10

So at least to me it looks like there is a lot of remote opportunities for non-US developers. And it is getting better with more and more companies figuring out remote work.
Before it was part of their high-end "business" plan. Now you can use it with any tiered plan. (I think).
Give me a break. I have been using Hired for almost two years and everybody knows that number is made-up bullshit. It means nothing and everybody knows it!! You're slanting the numbers to make Hired more attractive. I love Hired. The company has totally changed my life for the better, and I could not be happier using it, but this is BS, and anybody that's used the platform knows this number that accompanies interview requests is almost nonsequitur to what actually happens.
Good call on the actual price. Still 1/13th the current cost of the not-yet-operational ITER... Makes me wonder if the stellerator concept will be more feasible in the long run.
It just doesn't work that way, the best audience for this is big co (because the combination of strict expense rules and big sales force makes it perfect) and yet it is absolutely impossible to get an enterprise signed into something like this.

Yet when the sales guys are putting in their expense reports every month (because it's too much money to ignore it for longer than a month) you could save them time with something like this, and guess what, they can expense the cost too, but only if you give them a report that is ready to send in the format they need it.
This is the most interesting answer I've heard to this question so far. Will be using this when in conversation with friends.
Note that this has been a 14 year play from founding to IPO. It's a long road without VC, but still really nice to see someone building a tech company the old-fashioned way.

Atlassian may be the one of the only tech companies that actually deserves its valuation.
The Founder’s Null Hypothesis
But they were bootstrapped and very profitable for several years before taking any funding.
How many employees get to split the remaining 20%?

Well done, founders.
Personally, I use Perl for small-ish programs (roughly less than a thousand lines, counting comments and long text constants such as SQL queries) dealing mostly with text, and in that area it is fairly hard to beat.

Also, while Python's library ecosystem has grown a lot over the years, in Perl you can find so many modules on CPAN, ranging from very common tasks (like talking to a database / ldap directory / network service) through fairly exotic (at least in my perception: e.g. formatting datetime values in just the right way to feed them to MS SQL Server, figuring out if a given day is a holiday in a given federal state of Germany) to downright silly (but in a clever way: CPAN's ACME::* branch). You think of it, CPAN probably has it.

One thing I have grown to appreciate about Perl is its mentality of helping you getting the job done no matter what. Python is a - relatively - clean and simple language, where Perl is not ashamed to be messy, but it's oh-so-useful I just cannot stay mad at it. ;-)

Last but not least, the Perl community is awesome, there are so many friendly and helpful people around willing to share insights, code, and words of encouragement. (That is not to say other languages have bad communities, not at all!)
It is a learning tool. Handy to have on a mobile device. Learn while commuting for example.
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I was surprised that the journalists didn't drill into "terrible situation in his unit" claims. They just let it slide completely - and this is the key to the whole story. Why the situation was so bad? Also, I found his story full of WTFs - he's afraid to go back to his base after his escape, but then he decides to go and capture some bad guys (armed only with knife), but then he just surrenders to a bunch of taliban who somehow manage to locate him walking in the middle of the desert at night. I was really disappointed in this episode, they just left lots of BS unchallenged.
"It depends on whether air quality matters or not. That is a fairly black and white thing"

On the contrary, I don't think it could be less of a "black or white thing". It sounds like you're making an argument that these cars are producing a material increase in overall NOx, causing a public health hazard. I haven't seen that argument anywhere else. Do you have data on what the net increase in NOx is? .1%, 1% and 100% would mean very different things.
The US government found many ways to cut back on free speech. Most direct is probably the fact you don't get to stay part of the Presidents press core if you regularly say bad things about them.

But, there are thousands of little things that add up to surprising levels of control.
You just click in the gutter to create a breakpoint and start a debug REPL - look at the IntelliJ Run menu.
I thought crooks successfully transact services with Bitcoin like they do cash, western union, and traded CC's. Must not be as hard to obfuscate as you make it seem regardless of the ledger. Someone else mentioned mix networks to hide whose doing what as well but I'm not up-to-date on them.

Overall point of the discussion is that people finding out he has a physical/digital object worth millions might try to rob him. Some of them also use Bitcoin as payment for crime. So, anonymity seems like a good choice.
>Especially when you should be thankful it's been reduced to 8 words.

Oh believe me, I am. It's a step in the right direction, at least.
I've tried several receipt tracking apps, and they all failed to overcome the OCR challenges.

If there is even a 20% chance the app cannot recognize the total amount (ignoring taxes and tips), then suddenly I am manually reconciling unrecognizable receipts.

So, if I'm always manually reconciling expense reports, then why bother with an app... I'll just continue taking pictures and forwarding them to my email for manual expense reporting. 100% of the task can be done in one sitting.

That being said, I SINCERELY HOPE somebody WILL develop the machine learning algorithms necessary to get 99% OCR accuracy in this space.
> Your husband is drunk in the gutter. You can A) leave him there or B) drag him inside, clean him up, and put him to bed. If you pick A, you're allowing him to experience the consequences of his own mistakes. If you pick B, you're enabling him and saving him from his own mistakes. The person picking B is co-dependent, not supportive.

Outside of the context of an extended pattern of behavior, that's a bad example: as an incident, in isolation, it is not essentially co-dependent.

Broader context might reveal it to be part of a codependent relationship (e.g., the same thing happens weekly, with the same response, and no discussion or addressing of the problem) or a supportive one (e.g., it happened once, was followed by a discussion of why it happened and mutually agreed and followed-up-on steps to prevent it from happening again).

Context makes the difference between A being healthy and reasonable and just being an absolutely horrible partner (and person.)
The funny part with those chips in the US is that on most terminals I've used you can just click "Yes" instead of entering your PIN number. This gives you the option to sign for it. So it really doesn't solve the problem at all.

Afaik you can't do that in Europe. At least I've never heard of it being possible.
> That's why you set up a separate entity to limit your liability first.

That may limit their liability, but it won't prevent them from losing their investment.

> Since the aim is to revive a game for its own sake rather than exploit it commercially

I think that's incorrect. I do not get the impression that
Night Dive Studios exists as some kind of game preservation charity. It seems like a business that occupies a small niche around reviving old games to exploit them commercially.
I was a platoon leader in the same era and same type of unit with similar experiences as Bergdahl's unit -- although I have no specific knowledge about his story beyond what I've read in the news.

My perspective: he's lying like crazy to get an AWOL charge (intended to return) rather than a desertion charge. The first might be a dishonorable discharge, the latter prison time.

There are several reasons his story doesn't add up -- the most glaring one is the assertion that this wacky plan was the only way he knew to get the attention of a general officer. All soldiers know about writing their congressman, and Bergdahl in particular seems to be pretty wordly and would have heard about this avenue. Writing your congressman would result in a huge shitstorm for the higher levels. It is a formal step that is taken seriously, believe me, I've had to write formal responses to congressional liason offices.

Second, his emails to his parents (which are already public) hint at much more than loyalty for his fellow soldiers in the face of poor leadership. He had concerns about US policy, culture -- I'm not sure how talking to a general officer and blowing the whistle would have made him feel better.

I'll add, as others had, it's possible that his chain of command failed in some regard -- and it's very likely that he was exposed to at least one really bad leader during his time, especially at the NCO level. I also can see how someone like him was an outcast in his unit. He was into ballet, he hung out with the Afghans more than he did his own unit -- etc. Infantry platoons aren't really models of tolerance and inclusion in some regards. It's a rough life in general.

But -- and this is the important point -- there's an oath involved with military service, and it matters even in the case of bad experiences. This is really, really important when you go to sleep in the middle of a hostile desert and you trust that the person guarding you is doing his duty. I think those without military experience might be thinking that all of the veterans who react to this are just proud of the esprit de corps and have some sort of ethical blindspot -- like Nathan Jessup in "A Few Good Men." In truth, the idea of a soldier abandoning his unit like this is unforgivable because it's a matter of betraying a fundamental idea, which is that even if you personally hate the guts of one of your fellow soldiers, you risk your life for him because that's the only way you might all survive the deployment.

I spent a lot of time deployed just hoping that I wouldn't mess up something important and get someone killed. The notion that there is any justification for deliberately abandoning your unit is tough to swallow. I'm going to see what his grievances were from his perspective and then make up my mind -- if he exposes a massacre of civilians, for instance, I might change my mind. I've read his emails to his parents and other articles, though, and it seems in general he thought the other soldiers were assholes, people called him bad names, and he thought that poor judgment was rewarded.
I personally think that context will improve these systems.

The current task they are performing is extremely difficult: I think it is analogous to having a listener receive anonymous random phone calls from people they have never heard before, speaking in a random accent, in a difficult/noisy environment, who speak for a few seconds about a random topic including proper nouns that the listener has never heard before and then promptly hang up and the listener is asked for an exact transcription with no mistakes.

I don't think it is surprising that the error rates produced by Mechanical Turk workers seem high for some of these tasks, and it actually seems like a big accomplishment that a speech recognition system can do nearly as well under such difficult conditions.

Context about the speaker or the current subject of conversation would clearly help, as would visual cues, and the ability to ask the user to repeat or clarify something.
> Cashiers will also say that even if they've never seen another card fail to read :P it's to make you feel better.

My mum is a cachier. It is a constant headache where she works. Some tills the staff avoid using until last because the reader sucks so bad.

But, to you, C&P is an infallible technology that doesn't comfort to our normal rules of physics, so I'm sure nothing will convince you.
Last two rounds were for the employees. Atlassian raised rounds to allow employees to convert equity into cash, if they so desired. Housing is very expensive in Sydney. Additionally Atlassian paid the taxation bills of their employees as well. In Australia, tax is due to be paid immediately on issuance of equity instead of the fair and reasonable benchmark of upon sale/capital gains. This has since been corrected in legislation but it excludes Atlassian as there are company age (ASIC registration less than x years old) and revenue/valuation limits. See http://generalstandards.co/blog/new-esop/ for details.
Hey there! You’re right, we launched Redshift to our enterprise customers last November. There are three big changes today…

1) We’re lowering the price and opening it up to all our customers to make it more accessible
2) You can bring your own database. This is helpful for customers who already have a data warehouse and want to load Segment data into it.
3) We now support Postgres, in addition to Redshift
FWIW, the transaction time using the chip to authorize vs apple pay is night and day. The Apple pay swipe is quick and you can put the phone back in your pocket. The chip card has to linger through the authorization process and makes the whole thing feel slow.
I really wonder why did this end up in the front page. The homepage of the repo would be a lot interesting.
My favourite thing is hitting Alt and searching through menu items. It's what I miss most when using Gnome or Windows.
> not only enable HTTPS on our site but also use our own custom EV certificate¹

Their certificate doesn't look EV to me. (I checked both developer. and www.)
I mean, but that's what the rest of the season is for right? This episode was merely a setup in order to describe the event/scenario, and we can only presume that the next episodes will dive more into detail to dissect the situation. The event already happened, we know what happened start to finish. It is precisely the details of 'why' that this season is after.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but I am pretty sure it was daylight the next morning when they spotted him in the desert.
A Brief History of Email Apps
I'm curious whether this would hold for creative, mentally taxing work like programming. I'd love to get 2.5x the coding time in, and I've found that I can often ignore my limits and keep coding long after my brain tells me that I'm exhausted...but then when I wake up in the morning, I find that I really should've stopped when I got tired, because it will take me 2.5x the time to unravel the mess I made the night before. Ignoring your brain doesn't work so well when you need your brain for what you're doing.
I think the long plan here is what Tim Cook specifically said when announcing Apple Pay - eventually, the iPhone will replace your wallet and keys. This in turn will make iPhone an essential part of life - a necessary goal for a product so successful to continue growing. Expect an identity product in the near to mid future.
Holy smokes we need this so badly in the States!
The service let you create a message that is encrypted with a passphrase through symmetric cryptography and give you a secret url to share.

To read a message a user need both the secret url and the passphrase, the message is destroyed after the first read or after 10 minutes.

The service is convenient for sharing sensitive information such as passwords, secret urls, credit card numbers sent via email or chat, in this way these informations are kept out from email or chat logs.
prospectus: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/0001047469150...
I don't know that a Slack bot is the right type of larger solution though. For instance, I use the ExpenseIt app on my phone because it's paired with Concur. That's got a much more flexible input when it comes time to do the actual expense report, and it's already processed all of those receipts for me. Now I just need to go through and pair it all up with the transactions on the card. Is Concur perfect? No. But the ExpenseIt app works there because it allows me to add data on the fly then toss the receipt.

I don't think I would be compelled to use a Slack bot to do the same thing, even though we use dozens of other Slack integrations.
On the sustainability of Symfony
That's hardly an effective way of suppressing dissent or criticism against the President. The press corps is not the press.
This is also by far my #1 wanted feature. Otherwise, fantastic job!
Are you female?

I ask because I can't imagine it being that much of a hassle unless you're sporting a stupid number of CC's or you're digging through a purse for your wallet constantly.
It's a pretty easy market too, you don't even need an app, just contact any senior sales person and pitch them on a solution to do their expenses, they just have to send all their receipts and a sample expense report sheet to expenses@mycoolcompany.com.

You do a few manually, then put together scripts to automate each user with the correct sheet format, cover pages, currencies, categories, etc. by using the manual ones as a template.

Charge them a fee (maybe a flat fee for each report, say $40) and ask them if they'd like you to include that charge in the report from now on.

This is a tech solution for a services problem, imho.
Is this supposed to be an impressive project? Because if it is, I feel sorry for the developers working there.
Talent development company Everwise raises $8M
I think your criticism is a little off the mark.

The integration with banks happens on Dwolla's servers, not in any client libraries they may offer.

This library in question is just a thin wrapper around validation and AJAX for talking to Dwolla's HTTP API.

The code for a Dwolla API consumer to make a bank transfer could be just a few lines, without any libraries, which is what I was expecting to see, not that this demo isn't cool too. Showing off that your API is so straightforward you don't need a client library to use it would be good marketing to me.

Here's an example from another payments startup that used to make similar posts on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5026802

I was always super impressed with Balanced and the way they communicated with developers.
Is the fact that starting your career in San Francisco nets you better offers elsewhere in the future a valuable statistic? There are a lot of top tech companies there and so presumably luring people away from them costs companies in other locations more money. I feel like this stat is really just saying work at a good company and then your next offer will be a lot higher
Holovect Volumetric Display (real 3D projections)
Drug maker challenges tribal court’s right to hear lawsuit
According to the Walmart press release you will not need to hand over your phone for it to be scanned. Instead you keep the phone and scan a code displayed by the register.
Did you notice any differences depending on the carbs? White rice, brown rice, sweet potatoes.

And what about accompanying seasoning? Olive oil, coconut oil, fatty meat/fish.
Their biggest customers are large companies that DON'T want apple-like perceived simplicity - they want a powerful product that they can customize to their needs.

The company I work for has both JIRA and Confluence. It took a lot of work from several team members to get it to the current state where most people are happy about how it works, but the output is very highly valued by higher-ups.

It also has a growing ecosystem and good integration.

They've also made some underrated acquisitions, like the JITSI team (Blue Jimp), which recently made ENSO and is working on Hipchat

https://enso.me/
If you look at the underlying markup, you can see that the web site was designed to be responsive. The sad part however is that it's going to take a bit more time for mobile resolutions to be supported properly.
How do you test a disaster recovery plan?
For a country whose culture already stifles expression and speech, this is bad news. I'm proud that supposedly so many Japanese stood up to protest these legislative actions. Having lived there, I can say that the government comes across as way more untouchable and heightened than here in the US, and that it takes a LOT before action can be taken against them. The US messing in their politics in order to get more aid in their wars is infuriating and makes me worry for the future of such a rich country.
I might be confusing this thread with another. The posters there claimed that when considering the infinite number of possible systems that you end up with undecidable statements. Probably countability has nothing to do with this.

Also, the popular article linked elsewhere seems to imply that this has very real implications on experiment, which is upsetting.
It'd be nice to see some cities in the great middle like Phoenix, Albuquerque, St. Louis...
This is Serial. They devote a full season to each issue and it's supposed to be something controversial that people can discuss and theorize about between episodes. Season 1 was about a murder in Baltimore, and whether the convicted person actually committed this murder or not (still an open question for listeners (not necessarily the justice system), by the way; there wasn't a big reveal of proof one way or the other at the end of the season).

I would expect that Bergdahl's narrative will be examined more critically in subsequent episodes.
I decided to reinstall Ubuntu a while ago, because I was upgrading in-place since 10.10, and I decided to create a local Ansible playbook and a bash script for whatever the Ansible playbook couldn't handle.

I added it to my dotfiles repo and it's been working perfectly. Not only for installing on a new machine, but for syncing changes across computers as well. I install some new software on my laptop, I add it to my provisioning file and commit one or two of its dotfiles, and, when I move to the desktop, its entire state is one "git pull; provision" away.

I have no idea why I haven't done this earlier. Here's the playbook, if you're curious:

https://www.pastery.net/ztduxp/
Forgive my ignorance, but could you elaborate or link to a source on the legal difficulties of working remotely?
let's say gcd is still much lower level than channels+select or asyncio+single run loop or actors+shared nothing.

At the minimum, i would say it's much more flexible but also much less opinionated.
You're forgetting the price: Paid Slack accounts start at $6.67/user, HipChat $2/user. That's a very big difference for even a medium-sized business.
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That exact property is why cargo check works.
Does this font feel Canadian to Canadians?

The Dutch government also has its 'own' typeface [1,2], used on everything from the official weather reports to tax forms and road signs. Dutch people recognize anything written in it as something meant to be taken seriously.

[1] https://www.rijkshuisstijl.nl/bouwstenen/lettertype

[2] http://designworkplan.com/typography-fonts/rijksoverheid-san...