skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no way to skip commercials or record shows. Sling does offer an interesting alternative: each channel is accompanied by an on-demand section of recent broadcasts, meaning you wouldn't need to record anything because it'd already be available for streaming. Sadly, support for this is inconsistent between channels.

I signed up for Sling TV over the summer to help get me through long sleepless nights with a newborn. It's an interesting service but there are lots of little problems like the above. I dropped it around Thanksgiving.
It is ok to share your own stuff. I mean, look at the submission history of the guy you are responding to ;) minimaxir posts tons of his own content, but it is good content, and he also participates on the site otherwise.

Also, agreed with CarolineW. Show examples.
It didn't work for me (using chrome latest).
> AJ English is quite different from AJ Arabic that at times I feel it's a different channel entirely.

I'd be very interested to know about AJ Arabic (and I don't speak Arabic at all). If you don't mind sharing a little more: How does it differ from AJ English?

Also, maybe 15 years ago I'd hear how AJ Arabic was the only real journalism in the Arab world and a force for democracy and reform. Was that your experience? Is it still?

Finally, how and how much does AJ Arabic serve Qatar's rulers' interests? How much better or worse is it than the other government sponsored competitors (e.g., I seem to remember Saudi Arabia runs one, and of course there is the BBC).

The best coverage I've found, in English, of the Middle East is Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post, both from Israel. I know people may assume they would follow the Israeli government line but I haven't noticed it in the journalism which reports much that challenges the government, including abuse of Palestinians (maybe in the editorials support the government but I don't read them, and Haaretz is against Netanyahu). They cover important stories I don't see in AJ English and cover other stories better - though I read all three anyway.
POTUS also walks around with a cellphone. At least as safe as that.
The finger scanner makes me think of a funny story:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-21756709
Toyota renamed the MR2 in France because 'MR deux' sounds like 'merde'
Not really surprising. This is a common bug, and people are looking for it much more aggressively over the last year. Even Nacl had one of these bugs!

There was a carry propagation bug in OpenSSL/BoringSSL/LibreSSL just a few weeks ago.
Introducing Nameko (2.0)
It's down ~23% in after market trading. Ouch. Good thing you didn't pull the trigger eh
One major caveat that I just recently discovered - purchases made through Amazon are only covered if they're actually sold by Amazon, not through a third-party reseller and fulfilled by Amazon.

If you change your purchasing habits to choose items only sold by Amazon, you could quickly exceed any possible savings by paying the higher direct price than you'd pay for the same product (with the same shipping time) that you'd get from a third-party merchant.

Just an FYI if you're thinking about signing up for the service.
They fixed it now, the icon is back.
We don't sell user data and we make money by taking a cut of the savings we're able to claim on behalf of our users. It aligns our incentives and keeps us focused on maximizing the savings our users get.

We started building Paribus when we realized that most retailers were actually using PII and user information to price discriminate and overcharge their customers. The last thing we want to do is help enable these practices.
Wow, very impressive. As a developer, I'm not in need of such a tool, but you've clearly put a lot of effort in and it looks great.

Who do you think the target market is for your product, and how are you going to reach them?

Can you explain what you mean by "on top of html5 canvas"? I looked through the source code for your moebius page, and I assume was built using moebius. I has the html tags, so I'm not clear on what you are doing with the canvas element.

Congrats, nicely done.
And by the time you really "need to scale", you'll typically have plenty of resources to figure it out. It seems to me the pull is inexorable to bare metal or a close equivalent.
OKCupid shows you the last time they logged in, and I've checked with a dummy account and it's off by 10-15min at most. I've also chatted with a couple, so there is definitely a real person at the other end.
It would be great to know what the curriculum actually is. "Senior Web Developer" is for "intermediate front-end developers" -- does that mean it's front-end focused? Maybe I'm missing the links to the syllabi, but if not I'd like to see them.

Edit: I feel dumb now. If you scroll down on the detail page, there is more information. For some reason I thought it was just the footer down there.
Buy low, sell lower?
Seems to be a feature people would be willing to pay subscriptions for.
I'm all for people having fun. I'm also all for people really understanding their odds. In my experience, 'pick a dime' works better than 'struck by a meteorite' in the limited time I've used the example. It seems that people around me have a harder time grasping the wide gulf between abstract stuff like "struck by lightning" vs "10 times as likely to be struck by a meteorite", and something they can measure/visualize and break down in to pieces.

The driving example is exactly the same as saying "put 250M dimes in a big pot, then pick the exact one randomly". However, restating the problem, in a way that breaks down naturally into individual units that people can grasp, can help prevent it from becoming too abstract.
If Western media could not stop the WMD lie, what are they good for? You can find BBC fabrication in faked Madaya media images [1], or see bad stage acting used in BBC Panorama 'Saving Syria's Children.' [2]

[1] https://thewallwillfall.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/madaya-bbc-...

[2] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/
(I'm not a mod or admin, so I'm not sure about this stuff. Perhaps I'm wrong.)

1) Hacker News has a variety of methods for marking submissions or comments as dead. Not all of these require moderator intervention. Many submissions are marked dead by spam filters. Or they're killed by user flags. Some comments are caught in spam filters, or the user has been caught in a hellban. Or sometimes users flag the comment (I think this is marked differently as "flagged" rather than "dead").

2) Users with a small amount of karma can "Vouch" for dead items. This will bring them back to live status, and might trigger the mods to look to see if the account was mistakenly killed.

3) Even if the account was correctly hellbanned users could vote to un-kill individual comments. Although abuse of the vouch feature leads to loss of the button.

4) Can you point to anything that you think was incorrectly killed? Plenty of stuff which is critical of HN or YCombinator or YCombinator companies is posted and not killed. Mods have said, many times, that they do not intervene in killing those threads.

5) YCombinator companies are held to the same community standards as everyone else. A YCombinator company that used sock-puppets to vote up their submissions would get banned.

6) Sharing your own things is fine. There's even a section of the site dedicated to sharing your stuff: Show HN. And the rules ask people to engage in constructive criticism, and avoid undue negativity. It's a problem if the only thing you submit is from your own site. But it's a problem if a user only submits from one site even if it's not their stuff. Some people take every opportunity to mention their stuff in comments. "Oh hey, just wanted to say my site EXAMPLE.COM does this, try it out, let me know what you think". Sometimes that's okay if it's directly relevant to the parent comment. And HN is seems to be reasonably tolerant of it. But you have to be honest ("This is my site" is okay, "hey, have you seen this site?" is less okay) and you have to not over do it.

But, like I say, I'm just a user so maybe I've got this all wrong.
In truth, if you haven't actually read Finnegans Wake, you've missed a grand literary experience.
Knuth's books are a baseline for "how things are done" for many, many areas, so having read them lets you hit par on most holes. Optimizing code for an architecture is very interesting, but it comes after 1) figuring out which ways the math can be stated correctly and 2) calculating the order of computation. Then architecture gives numbers to put into the order of computation. Knuth focuses on the first two, but maybe a few books' worth of focusing on those is understanding them well and not such a waste.
It's not useful as a reference, but it is full of delight – though only if you actually do the problems. Many of them are chains of inquiry that build on each other and culminate in some result that gives you so much intuition about whatever it was they were dealing with.

If you're in the Toronto region, I actually run a reading group for these books: http://www.meetup.com/Knuth-Reading-Group-Art-of-Computer-Pr.... We get together about once a month and go through the problems together. Just last night we had a 2.5-hour session about only section 2.3.4.1. I doubt you'd be able to get this much content from a sub-sub-sub-section of CLRS.
CLion and AppCode are the exceptions to that rule currently, though I wouldn't be surprised to see the CLion functionality get folded back in to IDEA eventually.
> $145 million for 800 employees, or $181,250 per employee

It seems like a lot, but this is the corporate HQ. The staffers will be re-located and/or hired from the surrounding area - and surely will make nice salaries.

Since these executives and other staffers will be living in the area (in large part), they'll put their salary right back into the local economy (buying groceries, cars, houses, paying bills, etc...).

Most of those employees will put far more than the $181,250 back into the local/state economy over their tenure at GE.
Chicago checking in. We've had a number of corporations move their HQ to downtown and it's done nothing for the job market.

Boeing has been here 15 years now.
It's OK. You may display that book prominently and proudly on your cubicle's bookshelf. You've earned it! ;)
I think the GP means that odds of getting a small win -- i.e. $4 -- went up and odds of winning big went down. So you are more likely to get your money back in small wins. Since poor people play more, they are disproportionately likely to benefit from the increase in small wins, thereby defraying their costs a bit.
There's a stable solution if you can offer a credible pre-commitment. Instead of a tentative 50/50 split between Alice and Bob, they pre-commit to either voting for a 50/50 split or voting for giving Carol the entire cake.
npm can install directly from GitHub:

npm install visionmedia/express

Or any git repo:

npm install git+https://git@github.com/visionmedia/express.git
npm install git+ssh://git@github.com/visionmedia/express.git
There needs to be one person besides yourself who thinks your work is HN-worthy. If that person exists, they'll post it to HN and you have no problem. If that person does not exist, then your work isn't HN-worthy and you shouldn't post it yourself. Instead of complaining about HN's rules, find one person who will vouch for your stuff.
AmazonAp: See what did this girl in the shower. This is amazing
> But, there is a lot to offer in the industry of programming. Knuth picked an order to offer this information and is going in that order.

Perhaps it's sacrilege, but I've always considered it kind of weird to take on a project like TAOCP in a field that's growing far faster than it can be documented by one person.
A Startup Founder’s Secret Confession: I’m Not So Busy
There are already plenty of phones that last more than one day. Despite your belief, people don't care about them.
I too own TWTR! I bought shares because my friend did. I have zero investment discipline. So now I just put every penny into my mortgage.
Another fun article from the same author from 1984, "VALUE OF [Desktop] WINDOWING IS QUESTIONED."

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/25/science/value-of-windowing...
Huh, I thought you could use a product key with all versions. Learn something every day I guess. I personally sign in, but I've seen the option.
> a corporation that barely pays taxes

I'm unsure how this really matters in regards to GE HQ relocation?

They pay 100% of the taxes they are legally obligated to pay - if you're unhappy with that amount, change the laws. But lets not pretend they're an evil corporation solely on the grounds of them not paying more taxes.

It's not somehow patriotic to pay more in taxes than you legally owe.
There's decision-theoretic reasons to be the sort of person who refuses unfair bargains that make you slightly better off. Specifically, people will give you much fairer bargains, because otherwise you might refuse them.
Not my experience at all. I find IDEA to be more responsive that Eclipse, both on Windows and Linux. Not by a whole lot, but noticeably so.

Even recent NetBeans releases are just as responsive, in my experience, as recent Eclipse versions.
> why?

because have more time than money.
And HN is fine with "Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

HN is not fine with

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

"Hey, I made something and I'm trying to promote it".

[repeat]
Looking further at the terms:

"* Graduate has not rejected any job offers."
These are some of the highest paid corporate officers. The state income tax will offset the cost in a few years.
Gravitational-wave rumours in overdrive
How I got 2.3M app downloads
> Embedded computing is still huge and has drastically different performance requirements

Even chips as small Cortex-M4 has a write buffer, 3-stage pipeline and branch speculation. And real embedded computing is more and more utilizing hardware similar to desktop/mobile/server. You can't run self-driving car / neural networks / image processing on a single threaded CPU with no cache or branch prediction.
> The traffic from the Echo has been studied extensively.

cool, got a link to those?

mainly out of interest reading about such systems and DSP, btw.

actual trust could only come from open source--"this closed source, auto-updating software hasn't been observed to send sensitive data over the network so far" is something I might as well take your word for :-)
The fundamentals of computation remain the same.
The number of people and expected video quality have also increased
Real Letters to Powerball
Well, nobody can guess the exact bottom. Buying, even yesterday, may not look so bad if you look at the 1+ year chart. Unless you're into day trading.
As a biologist who codes (and knows how both biology and computers work up and down the stack from quantum to macro) I'd say this isn't really wrong, but it's not right in a way that would be useful to coders. The analogies are a stretch, at best, and one needs to appreciate we're dealing with 4.5 billion years of technical debt.
I surprised their is no discussion of that here. It might not be the most important story Al Jazeera had broken, but it was their biggest pop culture story in a country that often puts a huge pop culture emphasis on their news. The story has been mostly ignored by the mainstream American media and the people accused were more aggressive in their responses than similar athletes have been after similar reports. I can't remember the last time a news organization was immediately sued for libel after these type of accusations.

If you are being critical of Al Jazeera, it was a shoddy reporting job and didn't merit being published. If you are being generous, it shows they have almost no impact on American news cycles. Either way, the response wasn't good news for Al Jazeera.
Sorry didn't see this was already submitted. Happy if dang wants to move karma over.
Drone video of largest ship ever to visit U.S. entering San Francisco Bay
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I think that's from the old original operation flashpoint. :-). It's a cool design idea anyway.
Not really. There are a few gems here and there in the text, but overall it is a slog. CLRS is a better text book for getting up to speed in algorithms. If you are going to read it though, the volume on searching and sorting is probably the best. I didn't much like volume 1.
> "It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve [Jobs] said. "I've read all of your books."

> "You're full of shit," Knuth responded.

(http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Close_Encounters_...)

Yes, now we know that this never happened, but I like to think it did.
Seems like if they send the people a new device in the mail it would be more valuable to see if the camera and other components were salvageable -- then I could see people stealing them for pieces :/
I wish fuckedcompany.com was still around.
I remember using a laptop with a color LCD around 1992. It truly was almost unreadable, like trying to read something written with a morass of fallen leaves.
You are correct, employers are allowed to block e.g. Facebook (most have given up on that though). But never read or act upon their email/connection data/... in a semantic way.
I have no english source for this, sorry.
Certainly, I realize he's not writing about the cool new library for Python or something, but even just looking at actual computer science stuff, the field is expanding rapidly.
I've been convinced for quite some time that the 60-80 hour work week thing is mostly fictitious bragging and a culture of workaholic bravado. I think people actually lie about how much they work to appear more important or more 'serious'.

In any case if you are doing knowledge or creative work and are working more than 40-50 hours a week (for longer than a short crunch time), you are burning a lot of hours but are probably not working efficiently.
If the message is not found, gettext returns the argument unchanged, which would be a bug (English text incorrectly appearing instead of localized text). So that's not it.

The answer to my question is that xgettext and gettext have special handling for PRIuMAX and the other formatting macros in inttypes.h. http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Prep...
You cannot build a perfect system
TAOCP is like a math book, and you were hoping it will make you a better experimental physicists. :)
The author is ignoring the fact that there are no refunds with bitcoin.

He talks about predatory banking, but the finality of bitcoin transactions and lack of competitive insurance makes it even easier to scam the "unbanked". Bitcoin is also only pseudo-anonymous, and is more complicated to use than cash.

The Bill & Linda Gates backed M-Pesa fits most of the criteria laid down in the article, much more than bitcoin, but seeing as that is a competitor of Freemit (the author is the CEO), I don't think they're going to go into it.
Presumedly, those third party providers need to have some sort of security audit, bonded or somehow "known".
And you miss out on the fun
(It looks like the link to the article 404s now)
> article more than anything shows the attitude the world had about computers in general. Which is that computers are for serious business people.

That was the attitude in 1965, but not in 1985 - the home computer market was already in full swing by then. The C64, Macintosh, PCjr, etc were all out before 1985.

"Laptops" were huge and heavy to the point of being portable desktop machines, and they all required an AC outlet to do anything more than like, an hour of work.
He/she is comparing them to other major networks and claiming they were better. I'm disagreeing with that assertion.
Azure App Services and AWS Elastic Bean Stalk aren't any more expensive than the same size VMs.
Before the internet we spent a LOT of time on BBSs!

And we generally had (sometimes indirect) access to the internet -- Usenet, uucp, email -- through some combination of Fidonet, WWIVnet, and somebody running an open-access Unix box.

And on those BBS systems there were door games as well as discussion boards, file download areas, etc.

The internet existed then too -- it's just that the national science foundation didn't allow what they called commercial traffic on it at the time. It was a wonderful resource for people learning to write software (comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.c) or who wanted to screw off (talk.bizarre).

And around that time '85 or '86, I had a PC Pursuit account that allowed me to hop all over the country to get to BBSs in other cities that weren't on one of the store-and-forward networks.

There was plenty for the average person to do with a 1985 computer -- provided they had a modem, telix, and kermit, xmodem or zmodem -- and an agreement with everybody in the house to check before picking up the telephone handset.
Performance Review Generator
Another very good post on the topic: https://m.signalvnoise.com/manufacturing-quality-time-fe043f...
It's effectively free since their obtaining refunds on your behalf that you otherwise might not have, but it's not technically free since they take a cut of the refunds.
Good. Let's have the pastebin, please. This is the same guy who lied to Congress, which lie was exposed just a couple months later, and nothing happened.
While this is cool, isn't the concern that a retailer would get upset and change a policy to prevent this from happening? What's the end game here?
Hybrid mobile app using Ionic framework with a REST back end full solution sample
The older editions of "Sorting and Searching" contained a lot of information on efficiently reading and writing to sequential storage devices [tape]. Don't know about the current edition. [1] That said, "Combinatorial Algorithms" is all about efficiency that is relevant today. Combinatorial problems are the sort of thing where good algorithms stomp caching, branch prediction etc. because the fundamental problems are in NP and NP/32 is still NP.

Knuth has spent 50 years creating computer science that we can take for granted. But in the end TAoCP is a "little book on compilers" and if that's not relevant to one's vocation and the topic isn't intellectually interesting in and of itself then it's probably not the right book for a person.

Knuth always reminds me how hard this stuff really is.

Good luck.

[1]: edit. The First Edition has a centerfold showing the sequences of different society's executions across multiple tape drives.
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Hello HN,

This past Monday, I launched a new social network with my team. We've spent the past 2.5 years building the app for Android, iOS and Web. It took awhile since we've been working on it largely in our time outside of school and work.

https://www.breakmates.com

It's meant for college/university students who have breaks ranging from 30 minutes to 5 hours in length.

We'd love any feedback you may have! Please don't hold back!
What I like most about this is the incentive it places on Udacity to actually create a curriculum that employers find attractive.

It's far from perfect and students shouldn't expect miracles, but it's a step in the right direction.
Yeah, was aware of that -- was just trying to check if the CEO thought that a metric used to move around other managers could be applied (atleast in part) to the CEO too...or what he thought about that?
$25m in free property tax from Boston and $120m in subsidies from the state for... (wait for it) 800 employees. I'm sure Boston/MA will be in the black on this well within our {great}^{999} grandkids' lifetimes...