skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhm, is your game a commercial project, with a lot of art, complicated requirements involving SDKs from social networks as well as marketing, analytical and bug report tools, commits and random code from incompetent developers who were fired a year ago, urgent gufixes that were put in as "temporary" and stayed forever?

Because of course it would work nicely with a small hobby project ran by a single programmer of adequate level.
> Wildlife that we destroyed.

Who is "we"? I didn't do any of the destruction. Did you?
The good is in the fact that they're a reliable driver of sales. The bad is that this particular method of revenue generation entails a lot of financial gymnastics 'on the books' that other revenue drivers don't typically require.
Frankly, I don't care about GTK vs. Qt. From a user standpoint, what I wish for the most is that apps have a unified look and consistency. File dialog bookmarks should be synced. If I change theme in one, it should change theme in the other. If I change fonts in one, it should change fonts in the other. If I plug in a 4K display, all apps should scale DPI identically.

And from a programmer's standpoint, I wish we could end this battle already and someone just tell me what to use so that my app can become a part of everyone else's consistent look.
Interesting that there's more debt than money. Apparently a lot of money is borrowed to lend out.
I understand how positions can offset and cancel each other out. What I don't understand is if the notional value is never fully redeemed, why use leverage at all? That is, if only the spot prices are used to actually exchange money, why inflate the value of a trade with leverage?

I apologize if I'm misusing terms - I'm not a finance expert.

The only explanation I can think of is that leverage is used to exploit dumb money that isn't hedged correctly. In which case, leverage is a barrier to entry that diminishes the number of participants in a market and reinforces cartel behavior. Which I would think is a bad thing.
Mobile Theses
Firefox won't crash if you raise the memory limit in /etc/login.conf. OpenBSD kills processes using more than 512MB by default.
I see where you're coming from and agree that commit IDs aren't very friendly, but from a technical perspective it solves the same problem of having dependencies on specific versions of software.

Now that I've looked into glide a little more I'm curious: since the main benefit is the ability to use semantic versioning to manage your dependencies, why do you use a glide.lock file instead of making the "glide" command a simplified way to update/maintain vendor submodule references with semantic versioning? Then users wouldn't need the glide tool, only developers, and users could just use standard go tools.
Considering that the nominal value of above-ground gold reserves is comparable to that of commercial real estate worldwide, it looks overvalue to me.

There is so much productive use of commercial real estate, while gold is at best a medium of exchange and quite an inconvenient one relative to coins and banknotes. (Gold's industrial value is much lower than this and arguably its psychic value would not hold up well without its liquidity as money.)
"women in technology" = 9,310,000
Ford Sync. Whatever generation they were selling in 2013.

I don't really rely on it for traffic information or anything, just maps. If I'm driving on local 'main' roads and visually pick up on indicators that there's something inconvenient ahead, I'll use the nav unit to identify appropriate sidestreets to take instead.
Good, concise illustration from Reddit:

"If Powerball sells 1 million tickets at 2$ each, where the jackpot is worth 200,000,000$, is the size of that market 2M$ or 200 trillion $" [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/3xb2xh/all_of_th...
Over-enthusiastic mortgage lending to poor borrowers without risk, because the risk was wisely managed and diversified through perfectly designed, financial, innovative products that covered all the bases (for a nice commission, of course).
That is not my main motivation for asking this, but yes you are correct.

If DDG wants to use such a list as a signal then they would have to check it a bit for potential abuse.
For example to only count the excluded sites that are in active accounts used for searching, but it could indeed have other potential search improvements.
Cited Bloomberg Story: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/when-s-win...
isn't cryptography NP?
Just an fyi - I built this -- Some features I'll be adding:

* Service to submit startups to multiple directories like producthunt, blogs, etc...

* Listings with a checkbox so you can Submit to startup directories yourself, if you have time, and save a note on which ones you've done so far.

* Flash deals/Daily deals for startups from businesses that cater to the startup crowd.

* I'm also going to aggregate data from hackernews(mostly showhn posts), and producthunt so you can get app ideas, or see what others are building.

Open to comments, suggestions, -- I've been off work for 2 months, and my portfolio is lacking, so I decided to try and build some hopefully passive income apps, or at least beef up my portfolio so I can get a dev job, money's getting tight, if you'd like to hire me let me know - will also build an MVP for $4k ($1k after first 1-week sprint, $3k on delivery).
That is one part of it. Those mortgages could be blended into derivatives, which could then be run up in a speculative bubble. Pretending there was a single cause for the financial crisis is a little disingenuous on both our parts.
Sorry have to say that if you think ALL science must be reproduced your missing something. Oh well just look and see if I am all wrong. Or just go with that view point.
It's the mismatch. Honor and reputation work for small high-trust societies where everyone knows each other, but a nation state (not to mention a global economy) requires more robust enforcement mechanisms.
These are long form essays and are really "editor's picks."
Humans are slamming into driverless cars and exposing a key flaw
This is awesome,great api and very efficient.
Thread's killer app?
The term was defined by Pauline Leet in 1965. She defined it as:

"...both of them [racism and sexism] are making decisions and coming to conclusions about someone’s value by referring to factors which are in both cases irrelevant."

(This is in the context of a poetry group, so "value" most likely refers to ability to create good poetry.)

The first time it appeared in print (by Caroline Bird) it was defined as:

"Sexism is judging people by their sex when sex doesn't matter."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism#Etymology_and_definitio...

If you think this is wrong, by all means cite some sources and update wikipedia.

It may be the case that academic usage has shifted, but lay usage has not.
Also without naming usernames...

I've definitely seen this. This includes a handful of threads discussing legitimate concerns about BULLRUN-style influence that were suddenly insta-flagged, punted from the front page and hidden form the main index[1] by those same shills. Several times the "nothing to see here" explanation took the form of a sudden concern for "not wanting to tarnish someone's reputation".

[1] which means moderator access

edit:

Anybody that thinks this is unlikely needs to watch PHK's "Operation Orchestra":

https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/nsa_operation...
Please, let's keep HN respectful and not devolve into reddit, even if you disagree strongly.
To him, there is a distinction between complying with a search warrant and building backdoors into devices. From the article:
"The CEO also said he would never build government backdoors into its products and noted that the Canadian company was leaving Pakistan because the Pakistani government wants to monitor all Blackberry Enterprise Service traffic"
You wear your watch on your dominant hand? That feels very unnatural to me. Just manipulating the straps alone seems difficult, so that's a barrier right there...
I also strongly like NAT. In roughly descending order:

1) It fails safe. Virtually all device misconfigurations result in failure to pass traffic, rather than being passed accidentally.

2) You get full control of your external signature (at that protocol level). When Comcast and AT&T realize that they can charge for more than a single /128 on their consumer networks we'll see a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on /r/technology, and it will be completely inane to those of us that saw the same companies attempt the same BS with NAT detection in the late 90s.

3) I would like to be able to implement dual stack in networks that I'm responsible for with as much similarity as possible. Having to reason independently more than needed about how IPv4 and IPv6 behave is needless difficulty.

4) IPv6 allocations today are asininely large. We're going to have 30-45 years of overallocation and then be out again, and in the interim we'll have a whole host of new braindead protocols in the manner of FTP and VOIP. The collective lessons we've learned about NAT will have (for all intents and purposes) been lost and we'll get a bunch of new shoddy hacks for dealing with them (passive FTP and NAT-T).

5) If it's a useful tool, by the user's estimation, why can't I have it? The internet grew up on what amounted to "be a good peer and we can all get along", but on this specific topic it quickly dissolves into STOP LIKING THINGS I DONT LIKE, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT, I'M TELLING THE IETF.
I'll note that the article doesn't have a giant box for the combined value of all insurance policies, maybe because it's obvious that having $100,000 liability policy for your car insurance doesn't sound technical and scary like "derivative."

What blows my mind is that it seems like everyone in the media has taken this obviously incorrect premise and run with it.
Design Patterns in Clojure
If I'm reading this correctly, the Kafka topic only had 5 partitions, but they had 10 workers.

With the Spark direct stream, kafka partitions are 1:1 with spark partitions, which means at most half of the workers would be doing work without a shuffle.

Seems like a pretty basic oversight that should be addressed.
It's creepy when it's someone undesirable.
My Star Wars
I like NAT, too; but just because I like solving the problems it creates. It gets especially funny when you're overloading the public IP address with a one-to-many ratio with internal IP address for outgoing traffic and then you add PAT for incoming traffic.

It gets even better when you're only using one IP address for that one-to-many NAT (and it usually is the firewall's external interface IP address because, well, we're lazy), all your internal users are requesting the same external and you run out of ephemeral ports without even realizing.
I also like when someone architected an application where the server running it has to request different resources from different external sites and, for some weird reason, has to present itself with different IP addresses. Oh the joy.

So many NATs and so many scenarios. It is lovely how different vendors come up with all sorts of names and acronyms: NAT, PAT, SNAT, DNAT, DIP, MIP, you name it! If we didn't have NAT we would have to invent it :)
Thanks for your comments!

I've had so many issues while being invested in the outcome of something I didn't have power over. Letting go of those decisions has made me so much happier.
$140k is market rate for a Sr Engineer in 2012. More like $175-180k now in SF. Source: friends, hiring in this market, my own experiences
Each release is like an obituary for grudgingly tolerated Unix software. See X11, Apache, BIND, Sendmail, OpenSSL, etc. Let's toast to a GCC replacement before 7.0!
It is. I get an uber where I live within 2-3 minutes. And sometimes I've gotten uberPool matches essentially going to the same destination picked up within a block. These are only achievable with considerable penetration into a local market.
Why Online Data Isn’t as Useful as You Think
What exactly did the Stock Options system do? Was it the registry of options? Did the accounting department have such a secure setup?
Well, leverage is kind of a separate is from whether or not your entering into a derivative contract or making an investment in the underlying asset. Bu the simple answer is, the more you lever up any investment, the more money you stand to make.
New Bolt Protocol in Neo4j 3.0
I shall be brief. Your advice is great... and I would enthusiastically apply it if I hadn't adopted it years ago.

My results have differed sharply from yours.
> There's also a bunch of scraping websites that don't have actual answers which just pollute the results. Being able to suppress that kind of site would be wonderful.

The funny thing is, Google's targeting algorithms actually do a wonderful job of alleviating this problem just by studying what you and other people click on. It depends on whether you see it as a privacy invasion or as a prerequisite for machine learning and providing better results.
The real problem is Congress takes quasi "bribes" from lobbyists but the EU can't go after them and neither can the FBI post congressional protection laws they made after the ABSCAM scandal.

FROM 1982: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/07/15/t...

So, politicians are paid to vote left and paid to vote right and the ones that can't be bought can be leased.
Derivatives did exacerbate the unwinding of the mortgage mess, because the chain of title was so convoluted. I've read reports of people who were given homes in south Florida because the owners of mortgage debt were unable to finish foreclosure proceedings before the statute of limitations ran out. That is an extreme case, but the milder case of banks being landlords when that's not what they're good at, plus borrowers being stuck in foreclosure limbo longer than should be necessary, introduces unnecessary friction in the economy that wastes time and money.

This could be the self-regulating limit for derivatives - the legal time required to unwind them in the case of mass redemptions, bounded by the business cycle length and statute of limitations for a locality.
Thanks! It's outsourced. I actually use another YC company, Mobileworks, to source the editors.

As for time limit I just charge for 15 minutes or 45 minutes. You get what you get in that bucket. Some folks can get a bunch of help depending on the length and density of their writing. It all really depends on the situation. Some stuff that comes in for 15 minutes is like 4000 words of deep philosophical treatise, hard to proof read much of that in 15 min, but we do our best! :)
Bounce.js – Animation tool and library
What other cloud providers do people use that support ZFS? Is ZFS on Linux a viable option these days?
There's no proof at this stage that a government agency is behind this. It could easily have been an employee inserting this code in an attempt to blackmail the firm, or perhaps to gain financial advantage by learning corporate secrets that would allow them to beat the stock market.

Hopefully there are source-control logs that show when this alteration was made and by whom, but given how hardware companies treat software I doubt it.
Saba talks how to live stream video. Also talk about standing out in social
I this this might be the slides [1] -though if anyone has a video of the talk I'd love to watch it.

[1] https://ruxcon.org.au/assets/2014/slides/Breaking%20Bricks%2...
We’ve Just Made Forecasting Quicker, Easier and Cheaper Than Ever
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-sanders-campaig...
"The ex-employee, Josh Uretsky, told CNN that he wasn't trying to steal Clinton data but rather trying to understand the gap in security in the system."
Machine learning and Personalization can increase sales over 87%
Painting Video with Neural Networks
Sorry, the idea of comparing their salaries to what they could supposedly earn outside of government is just wrong. First not all of may have had substantial jobs or education prior to running for office. Lastly, most of them become quite well off after leaving office from speaking fees if not retirement.

They are excessively paid relative to the average American and their salaries should be curtailed to that of average American's so there might be some incentive to improving that. People bemoan golden parachutes of some executives in the private world but would be aghast if they learned just how overpaid many state elected and appointed officials are and some even double dip.

Political office should be service, not a damn lottery winning
I imagined for whatever reason that if one would account the 'global economy' as a closed system then debt + value would come at a balance. Didn't consider derivates as holding such a huge value. That also mean most of the debt is backed by gambling with production yield, which is scary.
From the article:

"A deep-learning system can be trained to recognize particular species of birds, but it would need millions of sample images and wouldn’t know anything about why a bird isn’t able to fly."

Deep-learning ≠ only image recognition

Of course if you train it only on images it will only know how a bird looks like, but if you train it on the properties of the birds and their ability to fly, then it will learn why a bird isn't able to fly.
Yes but those products (Mortgage backed Securities) are cash products, like a bond or equity, NOT a derivative.
Historically, true. But we are rapidly approaching the point where there will be no privacy available to buy.
To play with it for 30 seconds and then forget about it. Or to show it to friends at work. Or for any number of silly reasons. Personally, I'm interested in the code - I don't know how to do that in Emacs, and I wish I would.
Visual IOT wiring platform
Go.CD 15.3.0 Released: Continuous Delivery / Integration Software
Not sure if this is intentional, but it took me 3 reads of that header to realize it did not say "descent night's sleep".
Two things about Witeshark that I hadn't realised until recently but that changed my life:

- Wireshark has a Command Lime Interface that is very usable and incredibly useful to debug a machine you can only ssh to: tshark

- you can look at packets captured with tcpdump with Wireshark/tshark
Ask HN: Hardware Startup in Toronto Seeks Co-Founder
(posted for a friend)

Is there anyone in my network interested in joining a new startup creating a hardware device? This is technology licensing, OEM and B2B sales opportunity for the right sort of go-getter.

They want a co-founder to help bootstrap and take on all the sales activities.
I was just about to ask if it can keep me warm like my old laptop did...
One of the benefits of getting older is "discovering" great books by rereading them after many years. Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicals is among those for me. This essay reminded me that Bradbury's take is that any humans living on Mars would be independent regardless of what's on paper. Simple physics insures it.
You could have them do it, but it's just going deeper down the rabbit hole. The eventual question is "who/what do you trust?" - maybe it was the git server that got pwned?

A PGP-signed commit with a key generated on a smartcard (and never exposed) is a little better, but ... Someone pwned RSA before, and I'd be surprised if Gemalto and Yubico (just two examples) don't have some Three-Letter-Agency backdoor (and .. I'm sure those TLAs have equipment that can read modern smartcards).
I prefer:

> Ours is not to reason why, ours is to do so that no one has to die.
Politicians Dream of Shutting the Web but It’s Not Easy
Not to forget, that most Watches are designed to be worn on the left side. (Position of the Buttons etc.)
Smartwatches are improving here, in displaying a rotated screen, but often even these are asymmetrical designed and thus harder to use on the right arm.
That's not a market at all. That's a $198,000,000 giveaway.
If FB wanted to show the researcher that they were really, ALL-CAPS serious, then they would talk to him directly as in "You've got stolen data and we're going have the FBI arrest you, seize your computers and put you in jail ruin-your-livelihood if you don't stop" serious.

So I still don't see how calling the guy's boss trumps that in terms of scariness. Because if I'm the wronged party (i.e., FB), that's what I'd do if I couldn't resolve it amicably.
Actually people not switching products because they still like one of the major features (being cheap in the insurance case or having personalized results in the Google case) is perfectly compatible with old school economics and the rational agent model.

The reason people complain is simple. They don't actually want to switch to any of the alternatives so they want their current choice to be fixed.
Money is govern liability, so is already debt when is created.

Also, all the debt is a liability for the debtor but an asset for the creditor. We could just change the label in the graph.
what does "blended into derivatives" mean? Yes mortgages were sold on a packaged up into MBS (Mortgage back securities), but these are cash products, like a bond or equity, NOT a derivative.
My introduction to this was:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/the-chosen-few-a-ne...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/jewish-literacy-as-the-r...
Will they still need someone to do what you do occasionally?

Try to stay on working one or a few days per week or work for them on a contract basis.

It is easier to find a job if you are currently employed so hanging on 1 day per week or as a contractor you could list them as an employer or yourself as a contractor.

If you're interested and have the skills you could try to pick up some of your own clients including your current employer.

Sounds like you have basic skills but will need to spend some time getting to the next level.

If you enjoy web development you could elevate your skills by learning web application development front end with Angular or React back end with Rails or Laravel. If you have a few months till your let go you could make some progress learning new skills.

You won't be an expert or even employable over that time but the sooner you start learning the sooner you will be.

Check with companies in your area and see what skills they are hiring for.

If bringing in the same level of income isn't critical you could take an entry level developer position and start working your way up.

Play around with some of the popular languages and see what you like, what you are interested in.

Good luck.

Enjoy the Holidays, things will work out. You're still young, have a good foundation of skills to build on.
> Smoking is banned in restaurants because it's harmful to the waitstaff.

I wasn't aware that waiters are enslaved. Of course, if they have a free choice to choose to work in a restaurant which allows smoking or not … that's their free choice.

And the pseudoscience behind so-called 'secondhand smoke' is thoroughly discredited. Anti-smoking bigotry is just that: prejudiced, emotional, unthinking bigotry. But it's socially acceptable bigotry. Folks gotta have their two minutes' hate!