skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
President Obama’s 2016 State of the Union Address
Basically everyone who wanted one already has one. I have a hero 4, and even though I got it at a 50% discount, it still was too expensive for what it does imo.
At What Age Does Genius Strike?
That's awesome! With SpiderMonkey hitting 90%, WebKit at 81%, V8 92% and Chakra at 80%, ES6 as production target becomes realistic!

I'm wondering when Android/iOS default browsers will get updates because that's going to be the one remaining blocker. (and IE11 of course... but that's just waiting for userbase to move away from it :/)
I've eaten in Italian establishments that do not carry Carbonara on their menu and become quite sniffy if you ask about it, given that it arose so recently and primarily because of food imports from the USA.
Having had the opportunity some time ago to visit that area, I'm sure they are referred to as the new developments.
How does this compare to Walmart's savings catcher? https://savingscatcher.walmart.com/

It appears that savings catcher is only for current prices, not prices that drop later.
Once you go high enough in most organisations, appointment becomes political and / or based upon leadership and vision.

Assuming senior intelligence folks practice good tradecraft is a little like assuming that the CEO of a software company is a gun programmer. Often not true, and sometimes for good reason.
And slo-mo starts actually getting useful/interesting for sports at 240p+ or even into 960...
I'm pretty happy with ReSharper++'s functionality (although refactoring beyond rename seems really unreliable); but the performance is abysmal. I don't know how many hours I've spent watching the "ReSharper is thinking..." popup because I edited a resource file or something. If the next release doesn't improve things dramatically I'm going back to visual assist.
That's a sweet bullet point on page 3. I don't see what that has to do with security of rolling your own crypto and coupling it with the whole distribution.

If you want, you can link OpenSSL statically. It's about as recommended as statically linking the entire universe into a binary.
CloudFront Update – HTTPS and TLS v1.1/v1.2 to the Origin, Add/Modify Headers
It's mainly useful for 3rd party (or 'minified') HTML, just to make it readable. It's rare you'd want to use it on HTML you've written yourself.
Possibly... but you have to trust that the software is doing what you told it to. A hardware killswitch would be far more trustable.
What Do We Know about Electronic Health Records and Medical Liability?
The naming of the channel and hence branding was a real stupid move by them. As if lesser informed members of the public would see past their collectively understood common enemy meme AL-*.

It doesn't take a PhD in philosophy to prescient this.
Why couldn't they just have chosen something more "user friendly". Hell I even got talked behind my back by HR in a world class consultancy (CAPGEMENI, there I said it) firm for reading Al Jazeera, as if it was something dangerous and that I had dangerous intents (Nothing further happened).
Tutoring generally works well, especially if you've got formal qualification (and even more so if it's in Math).

Past that, see what you can negotiate for in exchange for a lower salary. Maybe it's three months of paid vacation per year, or a four (or three) day work-week, or something along those lines.

Remote work might solve some of your problems as well.
I don't have a GoPro. I've looked at comparisons online. The Xiaomi is not visibly "softer" than the GoPro, AFAICT. Its low light performance is not great, but again, I don't know how the GoPro performs in low light. In any case, at $90 online, it's okay if it's a little below the GoPro in terms of performance.

The Mobius ActionCam is surprisingly sharp for its price and size. But it's only 30fps and therefore quite choppy. Also has a bit of rolling shutter. Here it is riding an RC car and a model rocket. I'd say it's good enough for that sort of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psu8JkJYwBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbh2O4_UWT0
> We are not selling data

Yet. Do you offer an iron-clad guarantee you won't in the future? Otherwise it seems like the first thing you'll do if investors start to put pressure on you...
focusDegree would sound better imo and address your points.
I assume its related to the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, financial reporting and off-balance sheet liabilities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act#Sar...
Can you explain a little more how this subgame-perfect equilibrium should be reached? From the game's description it appears that, all other things equal, I as a pirate reject a proposed coin distribution if I could kill the proposer. Thus, if offered 0 coins, I would always choose to reject that plan.
What I'd appreciate would be if Google would start penalizing them in their search results, because they really degrade the experience. Literally 30 seconds ago I did a generic google search ("small business loans consulting" in particular) and the second hit looked interesting...oops, it was a Forbes link, hit back.
That's such an interesting essay -- some of the complaints seem so egregious, it's no wonder Pascal didn't take off. All of the complaints seem (to my eyes) very reasonable. The high points:

No closures, so global vars everywhere

No breaks in flow control, it's goto (deprecated) or nothing

Strongly typed, but arrays of different lengths are different types.

Casting types is not possible

A number of annoying order-of-code requirements

"and" and "or" have no guaranteed precedence or order of operation..(!)

Those are enough to make me want to hurl the compiler against a wall.
Becoming a driver for Google's self-driving car project
Fear and Loathing in the PC Market
> until the black hole evaporates in front of you (Hawking radiation)

There would not be Hawking radiation since the black hole has not formed.

> That said, I doubt physicists would have overlooked this for 100 years

Other people have noticed this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternally_collapsing_object

It doesn't seem to get as much attention, I think because there is less interesting math there to do research on.
A side note - it's difficult to earn the trust and respect of a team, especially if you come in as an outsider to a manage a close-knit group that's been together for a while, and likely has seen a few managers come and go.

There's also a certain amount of displeasure from purely technical folks on reporting to or being managed by trained managers; those with MBA's and whatnot - irrespective of your previous experience as a developer yourself. Obviously not by all, but a few here and there. Agile / Scrum etc fare much better with devs, not tradional PMO etc.

Both these things count against you, and the worst thing you can do then is to enforce the things you've learnt from your management training - as there will always be a certain amount of pushback, especially if you try and make them aware of the business case behind it - some devs like to know the bigger picture, others don't care; they don't want that pressure.

It comes down to paying attention to each person, not the collective, and figuring out their needs. Software or core skills make up very little of how they would see you; some of the most talented Scrum masters I've met have never touched a line of code, and I respect them more so for it.

As a manager / leader, some of the best ones I worked with and now try to emulate are the ones that trusted me to get the job done, and made it possible for me to do so. They sheltered the team from the flack coming from higher up, fought for various privileges, always took the fall for any shortcomings and essentially made an excellent environment for us to work and communicate, not to mention they never let you feel the pressure and allowed you to continuously fail and learn from it.

Instead of thinking of your role as trying to educate and lead, try thinking more in terms of "what can I do to help my team succeed?" and then ask them that exact question - every day, every week. You're not their teacher, nor are you their guardian. You are there primarily to make sure that your team can go about its business unhindered from all the bureaucracy and whatnot that gets thrown at them.

Once a team knows you'll go out on a limb for them, they'll trust you and then reciprocate with their work and actions.
I thought SSDs were integrating TRIM into the drive's firmware/controller nowadays.
I've always struggled with the concept and purpose of a 'sealed" record. It's like the justice system is trying to have its cake and eat it too -- they want to keep a record that someone went through a judicial process, but the details must not be revealed? Why not just wipe the record and replace it with some sort of generic "John Doe had a legal proceeding on date X"?
> Basically everyone who wanted one already has one.

And there are a gaggle of imitators at the bottom of the market (various Chinese brands) and the high end (Sony, Panasonic, etc).
I saw that too, but apparently not all agree. That's why I wrote opinions differ.
Sadly Unity will not be supported initially.
True, but Red Bull is selling a consumable. One GoPro will last you for years. One Red Bull will last you for 30 minutes.
I'm skeptical. I read the first 3 volumes nearly 20 years ago, skipping only a couple of the most laborious mathy sections and don't recall seeing this.
Dying kangaroo’s sad goodbye captured by Hervey Bay local
Except that clang is free, under a completely open license, which completely and utterly negates your second sentence.
On the other hand, my desktop that's been dirty-upgraded from Win 7 to Win 8 to Win 10, and is hand-assembled from components I didn't necessarily check too closely for compatibility has uptimes regularly measured in weeks, despite running multiple instances of Visual Studio, a full SQL Server instance, piles of long-lived Chrome tabs, and whatever crazy stuff Steam and my Steam Link are doing.

I'm not sure I'll ever buy another OEM PC. So much crapware comes pre-installed, and it's so difficult to get rid of it, that I usually wipe the disks and install Windows from an MSDN iso. Of course, there's still the drivers... And more importantly, the tens and hundreds of MB of shitware that comes bundled with a tiny device driver. No, I do not want the ASUS Smart Keyboard Whoop-dee-doo application launching at startup. I just want my keyboard to work like every other keyboard has worked for the last 30 years.
General greatness aside, I have to say that's the best quality awk code I've seen. Too many people treat writing awk like picking up after your dog - something to get done quickly, when you have to. Which leads to write-only line noise code, which leads to people treating awk like picking up...
Interestingly, this practice is more common than you'd think, even at name-brand universities. My own alma mater got in some controversy over this [1]. This is also a shady practice of a lot of "for-profit" college chains [2].

This happens whenever any organization optimizes towards maximizing some narrowly-defined KPI: they find ways to game the system to juice their numbers.

[1] http://www.c-ville.com/uva-law-funds-the-first-jobs-of-many-...
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/corinthian-colleges...
Good point, but I wonder how much influence Al really has anymore? What would Qatar want from him, anyway?
Broken record, maybe, but Buzzfeed does produce what you might qualify as "real" content. My favorite is their look at the passage of the AUMF

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-w...
Awesome review
Allow me to be devils advocate here. I'm the all powerful Admin. Whether or not you're on company time isn't the boundary here, it's the network. If you're on my network, I have the right to inspect your traffic and/or restrict access. Not just the right, it's part of my job responsibilities.

While I don't agree with these policies on a personal level, I've seen enough to understand it's usefulness in certain environments.

To avoid these kinds of things, always use your own device on your own internet for all things outside of work. Then you only have to worry about the upstream snooping your data.
It's not about difficulty, it's about time and money.

I _can_ manage a server. But for $25/month to just forget about it? I'll take that tradeoff any time. (And have, back when I had production machines myself. And will, if I have time for that side project again sometime soon...)

And for stuff that needs more than one dyno, well, if we assume $100k/year for an ops person, that still gives you sixteen of Heroku's beefiest instances for the same price? I still think it makes sense.
I once went through something similar years ago in London when I was looking for my very first IT job.

Although I was already quite technical (already running Debian as my OS of choice, back when it was not as frendly as it is now) I had a totally non-computer-related degree, so I decided to get some paper certs to get me started.

I found a recruitment company in London that also did training on the side - technical and also job application coaching. The deal came with a guarantee: job within 3 months paying £20K+ (at the time a very reasonable entry salary) or your money back.

I thought it was a great system - the company got a pool of candidates that they got to know well over a few months and supervised their training and we got a lot of help getting that entry job (more difficult at the entry level in my experience than later as you move higher up).

In the end I got a job before the end of the course and through a different agency but it was still a useful experience.
And they will figure it out, too. It's not that hard for me to spot card counters, and I'm not a pro.

Seems like over the years the way they've dealt with card counters is by tweaking the game, though. They've added decks, they shuffle sooner, they shuffle when you increase your bet or when a new player sits down and plays for nontrivial amounts, and lately with continuous shuffling machines.
"Simple high school math" which is sometimes taught in a single hour of a single day and forgotten about by tomorrow because it isn't on the test and we really need to cover the quadratic formula before the mid-term.

Something that I saw on HN not too long ago that really benefited me was something I should have been taught in school. I probably was - but as I mentioned. It was taught in a rush and I had forgotten it, if it was even taught at all.

What is 36% of 25? I'll be honest. I find that's a pretty tricky one to do in my head. I can estimate it to 8 by taking 33% of 24 (close enough, right?). So I'd estimate it to be a bit over 8. Honest guess.

Well the trick I learned on HN is to reverse it. Since % is really multiplication, the commutative property applies. Take 25% of 36 instead and bam! The answer is a flat 9. No estimating needed.

Now the "I'm an idiot" part comes from the fact I always did percentage as multiplication of a decimal. I should have intuitively put 2 and 2 together and figured out the commutative property applies. I hadn't. :)

Given the popularity and support the tip received - I'm going to guess I'm a good example of the average person. The average person was taught percentages in a way that they can convert to decimals but don't think about the math in decimal form. So they miss out on something that is obvious once someone stops and points it out.

So to cut my rambling short: simple math is rarely simple for the average person. The average person, from my experience, is worse at math than they would probably like to admit. (And I'm also an average person.)
Can We Fix American Cities by Tearing Them Down?
Considering how cold it gets up here in Canada, this is scary.
Odd that they chose MySQL, when they were previously using Postgres. In particular, Postgres' JSON support is so extensive (including indexing, which now is even more extensive [1]), and offers performance benefits over MySQL.

The advantage of MySQL in this situation is probably the support for multimaster replication.

[1] http://pgxn.org/dist/jsquery/
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... and then six months later your server runs out of disk space and collapses because you hadn't configured proper graphs, and you spend several hours frantically trying to fix it. And then two months later your RAID controller fails and you realise that your backups stopped working when disk space ran out you never fixed them again. And then when you rebuild the server you realise you documented/automated 95% of the setup of the original machine, but that last 5% has you totally screwed because a package you were depending on has been deprecated by your Linux distribution and you need to figure out how to build it from scratch.

Running a server in a production environment across multiple years is hard. One of the hardest part is when everyone forgets about it because it's fully automated... and then it breaks.
The report is about GoPro cutting a % of their workforce because lower than expected sales.

I see 3 different kind of comments for this entry:

-A comment about an opinion of a GoPro camera... this reflects on "I would not buy another because".

-A comment about internal politics about the company...

-People stating "I have one" why should I have another?

with that said, most of them are about "I have one" or "I don't see a reason to buy another", the market has got to a point where most of the people who have bought one doesn't see a reason and the company have not provide one.

How is possible that no one on GoPro had done a market investigation prior to set quarter goals? for me this is a failure of estimating sales where there were no sales to be performed.

The real question here is "What is this new feature that would make our users want to buy a new one?" that would reflect on stronger sales?
There are also legal and security risks created by the proposed TPP laws related to DRM and "technological protection measures", https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/eff_tpp_tpm_analysis.pdf
This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering
Swift was unfree until recently. That couldn't have happened with GCC.
When does it make sense to offer subscription plans for power customers?
Hi all

My company offers deliveries on a 1 by 1 basis, I'm investigating wether it's worth offering unlimited purchases for frequent customers similar to Amazon Prime.

2 objectives:

1. Better customer experience
2. Bringing forward cash flow.

Any suggestions on what kind of threshold is optimal ?
It's not just that, though. They will also shuffle if you substantially increase your bet, or if you're a new player coming in with larger bets. So even if you get a good count you won't be able to exploit it.
Ask HN: Effect of SDNs on internet network topology and freedom
Hi there, I am a little bit concerned by the trend the big corporations and internet media are enforcing us to follow (coders / developers).
And I am speaking about what is happening in general in the last few years to programming tools, think about Ruby on Rails, what happened to my loved poor Javascript, and so Node, React, the massification of SDNs, Docker, AWS! I see more and more people detached by knowledge of the tools they are using, and more interested in the new fashionable corporate imposed paradigm that closes enormous complexity made of dubious solutions inside a box bringing the programmer at a state I would define as a "stupid consumer".

More in particular speaking about the evolution of the internet and service providers:
Its like 40 years we are adding complexity over outdated solutions, when our network is continuosly changing topology and performance, day by day. And now over all complexity we already produced, the trend to higher efficiency is to virtualize all this complexity inside huge server farms, and so privatize and centralize most of the network and its services, running it in few enourmous farms. To me this sounds totally nonsense, politically biased and also dangerous choice in the time we are now living..

What do you think about it?
Are you satisfied by the tools you use every day?
Wow this happened to my family. We didn't have heat for I think 5 hours. Now we are in the SF Bay so it didn't get crazy cold but I had a wife telling me to fix it and the stupid thing wouldn't come online. I chalked it up to one of the kids pulled the unit from the base plate and the battery drained.

It seems like a GIANT bug to me that the Nest won't come back online till the battery is almost fully charged.

I "fixed" it by putting our old thermostat back in then I put the nest back a few days later.
My workload was CPU-bound. Test TensorFlow CIFAR model training on the VM with the same amount of CPU on all three major providers. In my case Azure was ~30% slower, whereas GCE and AWS were neck and neck.
Well, one pirate changing their vote to "no" wouldn't actually kill anyone. So it sounds like you want a utility function over outcomes (prefer outcomes where someone is killed) and another, separate utility function over actions (prefer voting to kill someone even if that won't actually kill them).

That's a pretty unusual setup, because game theory usually just gives you a utility function over outcomes and lets you derive strategic behavior from that, without fiddling with individual actions. Though I guess most people solving the problem have tried to merge the two utility functions somehow? That's probably the root of the disagreement in this thread...
> If you're using Go, you should already have the infrastructure to do this.

Unless you're using packages in an APT or Yum repo. You instead get to wait for packages to come downstream, almost certainly not in anything approaching synchronicity. Awesome.

We got away from statically linked monoliths for a reason.
> Character cell terminal, and CLI are more popular and mainstream than ever.

No they are not -- mobile interfaces are the complete opposite of CLI, and they're more popular than anything else in absolute numbers.

CLI wins on the desktop because its flexibility allows for easier automation of "work", stuff humans don't really want to do, stuff that is still predominantly carried out with keyboard-based workstations (desktops and laptops). What you refer to is basically mainstream OS developers finally recognizing that first-class automation support via text interfaces is extremely efficient for power users in professional settings -- hence the rise of Powershell and the demise of graphic-based alternatives like Apple's Automator.

But that's it. For everything else, graphical icon-based interfaces are much more popular: they allow for easier exploration and are more finger-friendly.
"Heads I win, tails you lose"

The guarantee still doesn't prove that Udacity's credentialing process provides any incremental value above and beyond just taking the classes. Is it the knowledge, or the credential, that got you the gig? I'd like to see some kind of analysis comparing results for people who got certified vs. people who didn't.

Any hiring managers in this thread? Would you ever hire someone, say, with no degree or a BA in English Lit or something and no experience for an actual development role, if all they had was one of these nanodegrees?

Absolutely on the side of the 'disruptors' here, and agree that our existing educational model is hopelessly fucked from a cost-effectiveness and outcome perspective, but just not sure if it's worth it for someone to shell out $299+ for something that most employers won't recognize or value.