skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i search city/local-specific tech job boards as well.
Anyone else baffled by this line?

>> “In reality, we have the best color scheme there is in the world, we’ve got a lot of loyal customers, we still get a high volume of calls to our color scheme on a daily basis,” he said.
You should go deeper. That you believe people aren't evil from experience is not evidence that people do not do evil - it's evidence that nobody does evil knowingly/willingly etc. You can do 'evil' very easily if you don't think it's evil. If you've justified it in some way that makes it good. That's what's so dangerous about it.
Greeter?
We end up with YouTube?
What Facebook is trying to do is completely different... you were always able to use non-microsoft products/programs on Windows or browse non-microsoft websites... what Facebook is trying to do is much worst (probably evil).
The bug speak about some security scanners and antivirus products. But the thing which triggered was a malware. Oups! I should have said a potentially unwanted program.
I really detest Reddit tbh (to be honest). It is just a continuous circle jerk of the common denominator making jokes and puns to appeal to the common denominator. People keep saying "that's just the default subreddits, try other subreddits!". But the entire site is build on the premise of collecting karma and getting awarded for appealing to as many people as possible. How else can you do this than to post content which appeals to the common denominator?

It's like people continuously patting themselves on their back for being so witty.

Having said that, if you are really so inclined to browse social media on your boss's clock and instead of looking at the real deal you have to cover it up by pretending to be working - you should sort your priorities.
We need to consider how many Rifts are actually going to be sold at this price point. It's surely many, but it's not going to be millions of devices (this is a very expensive niche product being marketed to a relatively small slice of the market with even fewer supporting games to use it with).

With that in mind, 7k free units may very well indeed be sizable.

Regardless, they already pissed off most of their original backers during the sudden-no-forementioned sale to Facebook (which to this day remains a bizarre marriage). Sure, it may make some folks feel better, but it's unlikely to tip the scales in any sizable manner (or effect the eventual outcome of bringing this product to market).
I can indeed get more information from the website. I just want more of that from the Android client, which is where I spend most of my time. I'd also like to read the text reviews sometimes, so it would be nice to at least have a website link from inside the app, even if they don't want to put that directly in the Android client.

I do have a Windows laptop, but I rarely consume content on that these days. Mostly I am watching from my tablet, sometimes from my phone, and just very occasionally from my Blueray player (because the UI is terrible, slow, and buggy).
For some background around the discovery and analysis of the issue, see this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...
nothing new either, there's also outlook disguise https://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/
It looks less good when you compare our numbers vs. those of other countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

We have higher traffic related death rates per capita than any other 'first world' country, including coutries with similar geograhpy such as Canada and Australia.

We have higher traffic related death rates per distance than any other 'first world' country (other than New Zealand, but still including Canada and Australia)
Collapse comments is pretty light and makes reading comments easier.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
Really not necessary
https://lol.browserling.com/incognito.png
This is actually false. The leaders of North Korea fought to liberate the peninsula from the Japanese, while many of the leaders of South Korea were officers in the Japanese imperial army. For a brief moment after WWII, the North Korean freedom fighters were the good guys. No, obviously, the tables have turned. But that does not remove the stain of collaboration from the South Korean elite.
he also seems to think that most people just aren't nearly as smart as he is... and so it's best not to confuse them, with you know, choices.

It's tragic that this is a mistake we see again and again in tech, even with the presence of anti-authority/countercultural tendencies and groups in this field.
I don't know that bathrooms need doors.

If you don't answer honestly, then people won't consider your answers to be reliable, and therefore everything you say will have less value.

Imagine a person that's completely transparent and honest. You can't find a more predictable and reliable person. That's something you can trust and rely on. How could you dislike such a person? Honesty is beautiful.

We live in a society where there's a race to the bottom when in comes to openness. We all are ashamed, lie, cheat. Full of insecurities. Constant worries. Who would like that?

This leads to a society where appareance is more important than substance. You go to we'll rated schools nkt to learn and get better, but to impress your future employer and get prestigious jobs. They hire you for the same reason (safer to justify hiring Ivy League students to your boss). The best way to get a job and climb up the ladder is nkt to work on your skills, it's to bullshit well. All because we're used to seeing the perfect side of people (they get to choose what they show you). That's just disgusting.
I just sent you an email, I have two more.
I find this interesting, but somewhat sloppy writing. Examples:

"Problem: Estimate the number of distinct items in a data stream that is too large to fit in memory"

That is not what the title promises: the size of the stream.

"assume the data in the stream consists of uniformly random integers between zero and N"

I guess the lower bound is inclusive and the upper bound exclusive (that probably doesn't matter in practice. It would matter if you want to estimate the number of different byte values in a data stream on a truly tiny device, but I would guess that anything that can do that division to get the estimate would have the 32 bytes to store a bitmask with 256 values)

"Maintain a single integer xMin
[...]
expected value would be 1/(xMin+1)"

With xMin a nonnegative integer, that estimate (of the number of different values in the stream) would never get larger than 1. The code is correct; it multiplies by N to get a number between 1 and N (inclusive).
I've never had any of these experiences when riding in cabs. The cars were always ok, the drivers were polite and well spoken, they took direct routes and never demanded cash.

I use Uber for one simple reason: It's 30% cheaper than a cab. It isn't the quality of the cars, the personality of the drivers or the nature of the service. All of those things vary from case to case for every transportation service. Uber's only compelling feature is their lower price.

From what I understand, the average Uber driver makes very little money, < $9/hr after Uber's fees and vehicle maintenance costs. And the low customer prices are effectively being subsidized by venture capital money. How long can this last? Could this be another Groupon situation, where the Ponzi scheme doesn't fall apart until after Uber's IPO?
Keys Case Spotlights Flaws of Computer Hacking Law
Thanks, I got confused by this map.
Do you believe that because Asian folks have reasonable (maybe even over-) representation in tech, that tech is an inclusive environment for all people of color, as well as women?

Edit: And, another thing!...I believe I've personally seen more anti-Asian racism in tech than most other kinds of racism (though the extreme level of sexism in tech far surpasses any racism I've seen). Fake Indian accents and jokes about English skills abound among nerd circles, for example. It may merely be because I know more Asian tech workers than folks from other races and have worked in environments with a reasonably large Asian population. It is possible to ignore racism or sexism and power through and keep doing your job, but it doesn't mean the environment is welcoming or inclusive.
From the bottom of that page:

> Netflix data from across all regions is provided by the great folks at uNoGS.com — by far the most accurate Netflix database on the Internet. Check them out!

So yes, you can use the exact same database: http://unogs.com
Good idea, but that exp() function makes my inner perf-nerd twitch a bit.

I'm personally a fan of pre-generating a fixed set of points that are linearly interpolated and scaled. It has a few advantages:

-Extremely cache friendly, can even be cheaper than computing a spline on a lot of platforms since it's essentially just a look up table.

-Your curve doesn't need to fit any specific formula(I.E. you can have a step function as part of it if you want).

-You can pull data from design applications to generate the curve allowing non-developers to have control over look-and-feel if you want to get that fancy.
Eric Ries has written extensively on how he initially spent months engineering cross-IM compatibility for IMVU, and then when they shipped it he found that a large number of their customers saw separate IM networks as a strength, not a weakness.

They'd say, "Hey, that guy was neat; I want to add him to my buddy list. Where's my buddy list?" And we'd say, "Oh, no, you don't want a new buddy list; you want to use your regular AOL buddy list." You could see their eyes go wide, and they'd say, "Are you kidding me? A stranger on my buddy list?" To which we'd respond, "Yes; otherwise you'd have to download a whole new IM program with a new buddy list." And they'd say, "Do you have any idea how many IM programs I already run?"

"No," we'd say. "One or two, maybe?" That's how many each of us used. To which the teenager would say, "Duh! I run eight." It started to dawn on us that our concept was flawed.

Our early adopters didn't think that having to learn a new IM program was a barrier.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201110/eric-ries-usability-testi...
Unlike a "gaming" monitor (don't buy the hype), the Rift can only be used for a few tasks (namely, gaming)... the monitor is a general purpose product and will get a lot more mileage out of it for the price. It's an "apples and oranges" thing.
Dell refreshes Latitude 7000 line, adds USB Type-C and a hint of style
Maybe your dad was just a generous guy ;)
I find that a bit frustrating too, though to be fair it's not Netflix's fault those restrictions are in place - they're just complying with copyright laws.

At least it's not as bad as Paragon charging for basic NTFS reading/writing functionality on Mac OS X.

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
You have a valid point. I've been wondering when they will be forced to clamp down on cross-region browsing. There was already a rumor/story this was impending, some months ago, but it apparently did not come to pass -- yet.

In my case, in particular I'm interested in foreign language content that Netflix will not carry in my region -- even though licensing might be a relative pittance compared to other contracts.

In that vein, while Netflix has been promoting its English language (and transposed to Seattle) remake of "The Killing", the original Danish production is simply stellar and well worth watching, particularly if Scandinoire is your kind of thing. UK Netflix still had the first two seasons up until a few months ago, when they dropped. But, lo, January is here and they are back. Wish they would add the third season, though.
They've been known to send cease and desist letters at the very least: http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/netflix-sends-cease-and-desist...

Not sure if it's ever become more serious than that though.
I see the glass as half full.

You are right it is complex, but some of that complexity is inherent to the problem of determine what the income of a self employed person actually is.

When I started my taxpaying career I would fill out the 1040EZ in 15 minutes, that was one of Reagan's best things. A lot of people only get W-2 income for them and the experience is streamlined.

The key thing is emotional. If you have a complex life over a long period of time you will have trouble with your taxes but you also will have trouble with your bank, phone company, airlines, and many other public and private organizations. The people at the IRS are not ogres who want to wreck your life but who want to orderly keep the lights on.

Don't get me started about how they'll (almost) stick probes in to your orifices in Japan or how people in Italy pay a fraction of what they should. VAT taxes work a lot like the "Flat Tax" some people like, and the administration of those is far worse than the administration of income and payroll in a small biz, I funded one that had a near death experience. If a small business has to pay it in multiple jurisidictions, such as US states, it's maddeningly hard. A central VAT could help with that though.

(For instance, you have to pay a few $100 in NYS just for the privilege to file your sales tax. You can get started quickly making and selling a few widgets that cost, say $50 and thus learn something about product-market fit with a tiny investment. It's a great way to make money and have fun and maybe you can scale it up. No way are you going to pay that fee before you start doing such a little thing and practically you won't later.

You think you got away with it because it takes a long time for the government to scan all the paperwork for problems.

Get up to having a storefront with a corporate registration and you will likely get caught and then you owe something like $5K of sales taxes so if you are not good with paperwork you'll find the corporate veil works against you and not with you this time and you could end up with no corporation in weeks unless you pay up the cash and all of it. A photo of our shop that was barred by the state was in the local newspaper If it wasn't for the faith and good will of our customers, who bought into the company, it would have been done for. )
You could also view it as not too different. Windows wanted to be the platform under everything. Now Facebook wants to be the platform under everything, and content/apps will have to go through Facebook (look at the direct publishing stuff they're already doing).
"Internet they might not have even heard of with millions of websites?"

If they haven't even heard of it then it doesn't sound like its a viable alternative does it?
I am a fan of Gerogify which focuses on the typography of the site. I think it makes it a lot more readable.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...
I will forward your comment to by website team. This is definitely something we can improve. Thanks and have a great day.
The smartflix page states they are using http://unogs.com/
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Great, thanks! Indeed, I meant to ask if, among the welter of options, there were any particular recommendations.
I have no idea whether you're calling this article trolling or good advice.
It really isn't.

It's because "the unions" is colloquial shorthand for "labor unions" which, whatever their plusses and minuses might be, are a very different concept than `taxi unions'

Because of this muddled terminology (and probably because suggesting a single source here is obvious oversimplification) you sound like you don't know what you are talking about and are just typing a screed. Hence the downvotes.

I think you are smarter than that, and can find a more articulate approach.
That's not how prices are set. Just because I can borrow $X thousand dollars on my credit doesn't mean I go ahead and purchase all the big screen tvs and computers I want. Just because I can borrow $XX thousand to purchase a car doesn't mean I'm driving around in a new mercedes. Just because I can borrow $X million to purchase a house doesn't mean I will purchase real estate which will turn my net accrued savings to 0.

When people only think short-term (what's can I afford monthly) vs. long-term (what will I pay out over the life of the loan vs. what I'm getting now) they make mistakes. These mistakes are self-inflicted but these people tend to then blame any and all others for why they can't get ahead, why the system doesn't work, why the American dream is dead :).
I've replied up-thread about this, but while it's true that some people complain about it, many also see this as a strength. Plenty of people are quite happy to install 20 IM clients in order to keep different aspects of their life separate.

If you doubt this, think back to the numerous HN threads where people complain about how they want to keep the Facebook profile separate to their LinkedIn profile. It's unclear why this is different.
Brooklyn Media Breakfast: The Future of Experiential Design
Advertising this is a bad idea and I'm 99% sure this is going to get taken down because of it :p
I maybe wrong but I don't think Netflix has these restrictions just to fuck with people and ruin their day. It would seem from their implementation point of view, simply having same content everywhere would be easier. I suspect these are enforced by licensing rules from those who own the content. Anyone want to confirm that?

This might get Netflix in trouble if those who own the contents will see it, see Netflix not to anything about and either increase their fees or refuse to let Netflix license the contents.
This is not surprising at all.

Traveling around the world, cab drivers are often times some of my favorite people. I like the profession, generally finding cab drivers to be interesting and knowledgeable of local areas. In San Francisco, I try to take regular cabs when I can just to meet people and support the old profession and working class folks.

Bay Area, about a week ago. It was dark, cold, and raining around 5:30pm. Myself and the wife, who is at term and therefore obviously pregnant, got off at the train station and attempted to take a cab to alleviate the few minute wait in the rain for a Lyft or Uber.

I didn't have any cash. I know by now that you have to ask if they take credit card ahead of time; fine.

Me: "Hi, do you take credit card?"

Them: "No, no credit card. It's broken."

Me: "You've got stickers on your window that say you take them?"

Them: "Well, how far are you going?"

Me: "No thanks, I'll try the next one.

Me: "Hello, do you take credit card?"

Them: "Maybe. Where are you going? Minimum 15 dollar."

I know that it's about 12 dollars to my house. I tell him where we're going, and he just shakes his head.

Me: "Fine, screw it. I'll just get a Lyft."

I pulled out my phone, standing in front of a line of Taxis, and got a Lyft. About 6-8 minutes later, they picked us up, and took us on our way.

An entire line of cab drivers, my pregnant wife and I standing there in the rain and cold, and not a single one of them trying to actually take the fare.

During the 15 minutes or so of this interaction, and us waiting for Lyft, not a single cab was taken by the very strong flow of people leaving the train station at rush hour. Lots of pickups from friends and family. Plenty of Uber cars. Pink mustaches in quite a few windshields.

It was like something out of a movie. An entire line of real people, sitting there in their cars, often complaining about a lack of business, or how times have changed, or how insurance is X, or Uber is Y.

Not a single one with enough gumption to step up to the plate, smile, and say: "Where to mister?"
Paragon puts in a non-trivial amount of effort to build functionality that people are willing to pay for. I'm not sure how that's bad at all.
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According to that link we should be terrified that any man is a sexual predator just waiting to take your kid away. Fuck that.
You know… Before you have a kid, everyone tells you, "it's the best thing you'll ever do." And as soon as you get the baby back from the hospital, those same people are like, "Don't worry, it gets better." I'm like, "What the fuck was all that before?" - Quote from While We’re Young.
Utilise is an americanism, we don't use it in Britain (and when I first heard "burglarize" I thought it was a joke). I suspect performant is the same.

Whilst implies parallelism/concurrency, it's not the same thing as while.

Problematic is more a tumblrism than anything else.
Getting Married on a Budget
So... who provides the energy that makes our lifestyle possible is this magical world of yours?
> Smartflix is a simple application that combines an index of Netflix content available worldwide, an optimized proxy service and a chromeless web browser that embeds the Netflix web player.

Welp, this will be shutdown anytime soon since it is an obvious violation of the Netflix TOS.
You can also bet that the HR back channel will get used (off the record) as all the VP's talk to one another.
The future of ESL in China is here
It may have very long time frames to work in, may be faster or able to evade the nefarious detection intent of humans by working in ways very different from how we work.

Read a book recently that contained an interesting AI attack. Basically, it set a lot of small objects in motion, with complex orbits all computed to result in a large impact at some point in the future.

We would not notice something done this way, by analogy.
Socket.IO 1.4.0
The first and last yellow cab I took in San Francisco: the driver didn't know where the Presidio was, took us somewhere completely different, and then argued with us for a solid five minutes insisting we'd given him the wrong address (we hadn't, multiple times, with the zip code, explaining that it was near the Golden Gate bridge). The driver had a GPS unit in the car. I couldn't even get angry; brain was already saturated with amazement.
Sure cable companies make money but most money seems to be going to TV networks and in turn TV actors

Do you have figures on that? I would surprise me if actor salaries were major cost, but I don't know the industry.
Netflix says Adam Sandler’s Ridiculous 6 is its most-watched movie
Bookmarked! Still waiting for the PiZero to become available, but meanwhile I'm satisfied that I can continue developing on the big Pi and port everything to the Zero.
5 ways to make your operations more resilient in 2016
Having worked with all the players in this space I found that people often did "top level" sorts of computations like "I spend $x and my web site traffic increased by Q%" they don't really think about how much of the $x was wasted or could have been invested more efficiently.

I also think it is one of the reasons that digital (aka Internet) advertising commands rates that are 1000x lower than other less easily scammed systems. I used to wonder how a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal could cost a quarter million dollars[1] with its under 1.5M subscribers, but a similar amount of advertising content on a blog with 10M daily unique visitors would be lucky to get $20,000.

So opportunity here, make online advertising more auditable.

[1] http://www.wsjmediakit.com/files/uploads/201410/PDF_Newspape...
> you input the address into your phone's app

> ...

> Any time you have humans entering data, you're bound to have problems like this

So no matter what there will be problems like this?
Steve Jobs was the same.

Doesn't mean they weren't both right though.
Implementing NTFS is non-trivial. Why should they not be able to ask money for that?
Why do you find that bizarre? Given the asymmetry of resources and conflicting interests between people and the companies who know so much about them, it seems perfectly reasonable to want companies to know less. The vast majority of that knowledge is used to take from the consumer, not to give.
I believe Numenta Grok[0] tries to do exactly that: applying ML to monitoring. Anyone knows if it works?

[0]: http://numenta.com/grok/
canistream.it doesn't work for amazon and is missing movies :(