skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a second effect. Companies that are near 100% indebted (and a dropping oil price will seriously lower their expected value, therefore getting them far closer to their debt limits even if they don't actually loan anything). Such companies, how do they respond to price shocks ? You have capital invested, and debt to pay back. But capital is a sunk cost, the debt won't disappear because you stop pumping. Therein lies the rub.

So there's 2 options:

1) you can stop working, stop producing, and use cash on hand (cashflow which they have spent years minimizing) to pay down debt. As soon as this cash on hand is gone, it's over.

2) they can keep working, and keep selling. Doing everything they can to increase revenue just a little bit (ie. selling more oil, making prices drop). This way the cash keeps flowing, even if they become less and less likely over the long term to pay back their debts, but they don't go under right now

Which would you pick ? Keep in mind that price of oil will of course go back up at some point. Wouldn't you want to delay the point where you have to give up, in hopes of delaying it past the point where prices recover and you don't have to give up at all ?

Of course not all companies will succeed at that. But the immediate result of oil companies becoming unprofitable due to price fluctuations is ... more oil getting pumped up. It makes sense if you think about it even if it is thoroughly counterintuitive.
I was just thinking: "it's come to that again..."
Author here - it's just 20 videos broken apart into each topic so when you need to come back to reference something, it's quick.

Is flexbox hard to learn? Yes, but it's because it's such a powerful layout tool. There are tons of gripes about Flexbox, but I've found that if you just put in a few hours to learn it, you are going to be way ahead in your CSS and layout game.

We haven't had to learn anything hard in CSS for years and now it's time. Hunker down and get at it!
Since nowadays we all have autocompletion and good refactoring tools (to rename a variable), I usually give a pretty explicit name, even if it's sometimes more than 40 characters long.
At least there's no ambiguity on the variable meaning, even if it makes the code a bit hard to read sometimes.
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Ask HN: Any tips for startups listed on Product Hunt
Wanted to ask if any people from the community here have been listed on Product Hunt.

If so, can they share any tips for getting the most out of it.

My startup is a discounts widget that can be used by consumers directly, but our main revenue channel is B2B (http://www.discountif.com/). We're wondering on which element to focus.
You can't draw any such conclusions from the existence of a series of 20 short tutorial videos. I could make 20 videos about how to use ls.
>Also, Iran must first past nuclear inspections before they are able to lift the ban.

This could happen pretty soon:

>"Implementation of JCPOA will finish in the next seven days," he said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35285095
HTML5 Tidy: The granddaddy of HTML tools
How I Conquered My Fear of Meetings
Is there material difference between actively helping and passively helping? If the Cisco product is but one in the chain which enables them to carry out morally disagreeable deeds, why choose Cisco out of the bunch? Do we go after OSS devs, MS, Apple, etc? All these products are on the chain of enablement.
Programmer at a Hospital -- Only have to do stuff if I get paged (rotation is 1 every 4 weeks for 7 days, 5PM-8AM). If the issue(s) affects a clinical caregiver then the issue needs to be resolved asap no matter what, priority is only regarding the issue you were paged for, if the on-call person can't resolve they will usually page additional people or escalate to a manager who can find the right people. If another team's issues are causing us problems we just need to inform the customer about what's going on and then keep them updated.
I think "barrel" has become a unit of measure. Much of the oil runs through pipelines, to tankers, transported and offloaded to refineries.

It wouldn't surprise me if 90% of all oil was never in an actual barrel, but even if so, I would imagine the barrels are reused, and so not factored in the price.
Well it's been pretty quiet from there since 9/11

I mean the USA made more than 15 domestic terrorists since 9/11

I'm just wondering what happens when the comfortable over there have to give up their luxuries - do they take it in stride or does their belief system go to extremes to compensate?
Ah come on, you obviously understand what he is trying to say. You don't always have to interpret every comment online as if the person writing them is stupid.
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Programs like COTRAVELER should be common knowledge here on HN. Therefor, every HN who chooses to carry their tracking device must believe that such a program (and the surveillance state in general) is not a credible risk.

Is this certainty due to the current state of privilege enjoyed by the average Silicon Valley tech employee? Is this a consequence of the notoriously bad human capability for risk assessment?

I suspect that the risks of allowing both business and government to generate realtime location maps and infer relationship information are overlooked because it is easy to be distracted by shiny baubles and clever gadgets while ignoring the tracking device those baubles and gadgets are tied to.

So go ahead, be happy with all of the cool toys you get to use with your phone. I hope you're also happy with the surveillance state you're helping to create. If you're lucky, nobody will use those records of your associations in the future for some ugly purpose.
I still don't get how HN works, I'm pretty sure if I would have written that purely vitriolic comment I would have been downvoted to oblivion. Genuinely curious about it ... obviously this interrogation of mine WILL be downvoted.
Sometimes it's just going to be hard. But sometimes it may be an indication that you don't know quite what the thing is, because the thing is too many things.
Facebook and YouTube has all their original user-generated-content, and Microsoft has their failed 'Xbox Originals', like the Halo television series.

'YouTube celebrities' are very successful, and Facebook has actively been been trying to court these YouTube celebrities to post exclusively on Facebook.

Apple is seemingly the odd out not creating their own original video content, but Beats One is interesting as original _audio_ content, which no one else is doing.
Unless you've got some wacky key bindings, that selects text between the caret and the mouse cursor. F12 is the shortcut I've got. Alt+F12 for "Peek".
Whenever I hear about QT licensing changes I can't help but wonder if they had started off with a GPL based license and GTK never happened how the whole "Linux on the Desktop" situation would have panned out. Would open source developers eventually opted to just use QT for GUI applications? Would KDE have become the defacto standard DE across the top 10 Linux distributions? Would there have been a unified installation package allowing cross distribution installation of QT/KDE based applications thereby facilitating commercial software vendors being more open to porting their Windows applications to Linux? I realize it's a moot point but having spent my teen to college years heavily invested in Linux and being frustrated with the lack of standards at the time I can't help going down this thought experiment.
While "would you rather type" examples are OK, I wish more people would learn how to use their shell's short-cuts and trivial scripting.

Whenever you find yourself repeatedly running long and awkward commands that you wish were shorter, you ought to think about converting them into an alias or a script.
Wikiracing
good idea to treat people working for such establishments the same way as you would treat somebody doing business with the SS during WWII. Namely put them on a list and don't give them a job. Because this is exactly what they deserve.

Extreme? Then maybe consider that these guys develop systems that lets you identify targets (such as fun-sized terrorists) that can be killed by drones by a cowardly operator in the US. Fuck them. And yes I don't care about your downvotes.
The problem is picking a name that is both abstract and descriptive.
When you apply for a loan in the US, most lenders these days will only look at your credit score(s), but they also have access to the full credit report and will sometimes have a credit analyst look at the report manually and form a judgment. So this would be like a scheme where the lender/insurer would only have access to scores, and not the full report.
At that point, why should there even be private defense companies? Why do we accept that weapons manufacturing is outside of democratic control and civilian restraint?
I think we're going to see prices cycle like this for at least a few more swings. If there were no speculators in the oil markets you might see slightly more stable prices but there's a tremendous amount of speculation which adds to the price swings, which make the underlying activities more severe.

It takes anywhere from a couple of months to a couple of years to go from "acquired mineral rights" to "pumping oil out of the ground" which you can then sell. It also costs a lot of money. On the order of multiple tens of thousands per day on land and multiple hundreds of thousands per day at sea.

So when prices are up people are expanding and drilling and going gangbusters. When prices are down people are trying to figure out how to cut costs and ride it out. During high prices there tends to be "over" investment and during low prices, "under" investment, both relative to the average investment over say a 5-10 year period. Maybe by a lot.

As you mentioned one of the dynamics is that during low price periods alternative energy is a fool's errand and during high price periods it's genius. During average prices it'll slowly make more and more sense as the average price continues to slowly rise.

But it's far better in some ways to instead of making the average price on an average day to some times make a lot and some times make a little by letting the price vary wildly. Price instability makes alternative energy investing chaotic and unappealing to big institutional investors who might plow substantial money in. Better to wait until the chop settles down and it looks good over a 10+ year timeframe.

So if you get to make the average price on average and destabilize your competitors by letting the price wander all over, what's the downside? As long as you have the money to ride out the low price periods, none!

I don't know when this interesting ride will come to an end, but supply/price management is going to continue to be very important to people with a lot of oil left in the ground.
How long ago were the studies made? One thing that's changed since then is the disappearance of continous form printing. Decades ago, you could print a 250 line function on four connected pages and lay them down on a table and see the entire function. Nowadays, reading printouts like that is unheard of.
That didn't work out so well for Edward Snowden.
Its UI is like Outlook as it works on top of Outlook, keeping employees communicating by email same as they regularly are.
That's not how ad tech works. Just because I visit porn sites doesn't mean I get porn ads served to me on NYT.
It is better than that. They've made some modules available to open source users that were only available to their commercial customers before.

Qt Charts
Qt Data Visualization
Qt Virtual Keyboard
QML Profiler
Clang static analyzer
Qt Test Integration
Qt Quick 2D renderer
Yes, of course, there are some parts that must be dealt with by the site, but the article states a list of things that are outside the reach of what a website should have access to:

> They need information on the key generation process.

While a useful documentation of sort can be provided by the website, I don't think having one visually different procedure per website will help the user

> They should allow the user to export the key and to re-import it (just spawning two file dialogs should suffice - of course the key must not be transmitted to the site in the process).

We're talking about things that go outside the browser here. I think we all agree that giving access to the exterior to a website is easily dangerous

> They need a way to list the keys installed in a browser.

... only for the related website; I don't see why a website should be able to list other keys. Of course we could filter that with the browser... or just do it all from the browser anyway. Also, no website can do this for username/passwords

> They need to be able to add and remove keys (on the user's request).

Again, limited to the website, but here again there is no equivalent for passwords
They're expensive. I swapped my iPhone for an iPod touch because my cell company (SoftBank in Japan) kept finding ways to raise my bill with one hand while making my plan worse with the other.

That, and I got tired of people calling my personal phone with their computer problems all the time. Not the fact that they called me, but the panic and urgency at their end. It was exhausting.

The same deal with Facebook etc. At least without a phone you have a reason for not paying attention every waking moment.
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You're right, that was a made-up statistic that I guessed on the spot.

Government-financed jobs (private and public sector jobs financed directly by the government) make up 27.3% of employers in DC, 29.8% of employers in Virginia, and 15.9% of employers in Maryland[1]. Federal job share (how many jobs are working directly for the government) in DC is 27.4%, in Virginia it's 4.6%, and in Maryland it's 5.5%[2].

So if you live in DC 54.7% of employers are either the federal government itself or working for an employer that is financed directly by the government. I apologize for the rounding error in my made-up statistic earlier.

[1]http://mercatus.org/publication/government-financed-employme...
[2]http://www.governing.com/gov-data/federal-employees-workforc...
Except that huge corporations use both Perl and Common Lisp on a daily basis. Craigslist, Google, etc.

So you have some old perl scripts laying around, but they work well enough and some guy takes care of them, updating them when they need. He knows perl and that's his job, so whatever. One day, the architecture changes and the scripts need to go parallel. That's a problem because the perl guy doesn't know Pony (a promising language with a community even smaller than perl6...) and really needs to get these scripts running again.

So he uses Perl6 along with the inline module, and things are working again. Over time, he hacks up a better system in vanilla Perl6, and deploys that too. He had such a great time using Perl6 that he even hacks up a few more tools he could use, etc etc, next thing you know he's a Perl6 developer.

I write ruby because it is modeled similarly to how I think about problems, but if I was a perl guy, I could see the appeal to Perl6, but saying that it's a dinosaur is both wrong and irrelevant to the FUD surrounding Perl6 right now. At this point, it's about adoption.
It uses machine learning in order to build a personalized model for each user, based on their personal habits and email communication behaviors
Not for me as well.
Always excited to hear about people and CEOs with assistants and underlings not having cell phones.

His lack of a phone most likely results in someone fielding calls for him.
I think it's a combination of C# being much easier to parse and Resharper being a mature product.
Many oil producing nations require $50+/barrel oil to have a balanced budget. After their foreign exchange reserves are depleted (a few years from now), they will start accumulating more debt at their current spending levels, and will likely have to cut public spending. This might not go down so well in some Gulf states

http://uk.businessinsider.com/imf-regional-economic-outlook-...
I used to use perl, years ago, but moved across to Python for various reasons.

I've been reading about, playing with, and really enjoying perl6 since the christmas announcements.

The idea of a 'fun hackers language' really appeals. There's a lot of 'oh sweeeeeet!' moments. I still won't be using perl for any production projects / work stuff for a while, but as a fun out-of-hours playground, this really does look like a cool new language. I'm pretty excited by it.
Background: I'm currently a 30-year-old male, who used OKCupid as a 21-23 year old male, before finding my wife on there.

I think a lot of it has to do with what you're expecting out of online dating. I was a person who liked to date, and found fun experiences even in disastrous dates. That approach often leads to lots of dates with people with the same mindset.
It's kind of sad to hear that about CPAN, it used to be pointed at as the only bastion of package organization.
This might make it more difficult to ship on locked down platforms like iOS -- LGPLv3 means that the end user must be able to install new versions of QT into your closed source app.
Time Warner Cable (cable service) and Time Warner Media (HBO, CNN, Warner Bros Studio, etc) are distinct companies. The media business spun out the cable division years ago. Apple would be buying the media assets.
>Yeah, it's just like working for the Nazis.

You do realize that at one point "working for the Nazis" wasn't really a bad thing. Over time, it became one.

You can draw other comparisons, besides body count. If you don't see parallels regarding people saying, "I don't care about the affect my work has on people around the globe, as long as I get paid" I don't know what to say.
Origin systems and Id Software did for years, Plenty of Fish had one dev, Minecraft, Stack Overflow, Instagram, Flappy Bird... there have been a lot, and it's probably getting more common in recent years.

It's kind of hard to get numbers though since most private companies don't trumpet their revenue numbers or engineering headcount.
You might be a little confused, I'm pretty sure that wantarray and the concept of functions caring about context is entirely gone in Perl 6. Now you are expected to return objects which 'do the right thing'.

However, if you really want to do some of the other things you've listed they are possible to do. Perl 6's syntax can be augmented by the programs being executed.

I'm honestly interested though, was I ultimately wrong above? Is there a smart way to define a function in python that can take both a single item and a list of items? In Perl 6 I'd just define a multi sub where the list form applies the single item sub for each item in the list.
I think it's more just that people want a real-time way of communicating with you.

And Skype doesn't count because not everybody can skype on their phones. What happens if someone needs to contact you to tell you that they're running late?
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Is LGPL3 permitted on the appstore?
Hand-crafted, artisanal data.
I found https://cvan.io/flexboxin5/ immensely useful when trying to get my head round flexBox.
I think this is great advice. Is it accurate to summarize it as "artificial constraints can create unpredictable strengths"? (In this case, the strength might be a strong sense of identity)

There is probably a name for this concept, but I don't know what it is.
Email data is not shared, as it remains client side, where recommendations are given per user.

No identifiable data leaves your device, and only anonymized info is utilized to build a "personal model" for a user.
...and there goes the whole German market out of the window.
Yes, blame the publisher. Nobody sensible would allow other web properties to inject rubbish like this -- and it could literally be anything -- into their site. If they're going to do it, they should be held to account for it.
Time Warner is also looking at spinning off parts of it's business. I could see Apple acquiring the content-creating businesses (such as HBO) and leaving the, for example, cable delivery business with TW.
Machine learning is not AI
I left the NSA a few months ago after working for them four years for that very reason. I realized nothing I did was going to affect what they were doing, and while I personally couldn't effect any change, I could at least leave and not contribute to it. So I did.
Alternatively, now that Tesla demonstrated that electric cars are better in most ways, $30/barrel makes them cheaper to produce.
Ask HN: Should I look for a data science internship at age 30?
Long story short, I'm an applied statistician with four to five years of industry experience. Most of my work has been in the marketing vertical and has involved the use of SQL, R, and Python for model development and evaluation on medium sized data sets that required minimal cleaning.

After recently being let go from a big corporation that mischaracterized a role, I have begun applying for data scientist roles as I'm interested in taking my skill set in that direction. I've had a few interviews for data scientist roles over the past two weeks, but I've considered whether getting a data science internship would help add something to my resume. What do you think? Should I look for an internship at this stage in my career?

Thanks!

EDIT: I do not have a PhD. Background is an MA in social science discipline plus lots of late nights and weekends continuing to learn and develop my skills.
When the US was populated by puritans from Europe ;)
Just curious. What kind of emergency would that be? Are we talking the broken bone I got falling off a slide during recess in 1983?
I hate to break it to you but you sound paranoid.
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No, not really. Server needs to trust that client would reject an invalid or
forged certificate. Diffie-Hellman key exchange is still a subject to
man-in-the-middle attack.
Out of interest, what disc are you using? SSD? I use a 2012 MBP i7 which was top of the line and notice slowness on its abysmal 5200RPM hard disk, even worse in Parallels Windows 7.

At work I am using a Mac Pro 2008 with a WDC WD20EFRX-68AX9N0 in it (no idea of rotational rate, thanks Western Digital!!) and VMware is slow. Perhaps it is the antivirus I am forced to run inside Windows in a VM but it isn't snappy.
I prefer this one http://flexboxfroggy.com/
Which is pretty scary; that gives some already volatile countries massive incentives to have a war. Humans are good enough at coming up with reasons on their own without paying them to do it.
I don't buy it. Apple's business is fundamentally selling hardware that is differentiated with software and services and this acquisition would be too large and crazy to pay off for Apple's fundamental business.

The Apple Car rumors make a lot more sense.
A good sum up to play with flexbox here : https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
It is also automated filtering and prioritization, as well as its aimed for corporate with individuals receiving hundreds of daily emails, thus cannot filter them semi-manually.

Furthermore, there are next-best-action features, as to save time, keep organized and reduce noise...to move to appropriate folder automatically, clean an email until a later (more appropriate time), mute yourself from a conversation until named, etc.
Snowplow looks very promising but we ruled it out because of the dependency on AWS. And we use the hstore data-type.
pa·thos - noun, a quality that evokes pity or sadness.
This. tl;dr: No on-call schedule sometimes means always on-call.
Been seeing a growing number of AI/Machine Learning for email entrants. The outlook plugin looks like a feature that I've not seen with similar apps.

Another app that I've played around with recently is BrainBlox[0].

[0] http://www.brainbloxapp.com/
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