skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
don't forget google-sorry-excuse-for-xmpp jabber implementation on gtalk.

But it is nice to see the world coming to yet another cycle. sigh.
In a funny coincidence, just a few minutes ago I got an email indicating that an off-screen dialog bug I reported on Windows 8 almost three years ago has been fixed. (Actually I think it was fixed early last year in a Windows Technical Preview build - two years after I reported it!)

I had my ThinkPad and an external monitor positioned like this, with their arrangement set in the Display control panel to match:

+----------------+
| |
| |
| External |
| | +--------------+
| | | |
+----------------+ | ThinkPad |
| |
+--------------+

When Windows 8 introduced the new file copy/move/delete dialogs, it also introduced a bug. With this monitor arrangement, the dialog would be displayed offscreen:

+----------------+
| |
| | [Dialog]
| External |
| | +--------------+
| | | |
+----------------+ | ThinkPad |
| |
+--------------+

Oops.

Just like in the XKCD, the modal dialog locked up the File Explorer window that had opened the dialog. After running into this many times I figured out a workaround using keyboard shortcuts to move the dialog back onscreen.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-f...
Is it me or is the page being served over an unencrypted channel a gaping security hole?

I presume it encrypts on the client side, but whats to stop a man in the middle swapping the javascript so it sends the attacker your files?
To the contrary, I understand it perfectly, I just don't agree with it.

There are plenty of people who think that think gay people shouldn't be allowed to be married. I understand that too, and also disagree. Just because a lot of people think something doesn't make it right.

It took real people time, money and effort to make the shows that others are pirating, and to my mind at least, their efforts entitle them more to it than my "need" to watch it entitles me to pirate it.
If anyone does do this, please don't enforce uniqueness. My dad is a doctor and he complains about medical software that assumes previously input data is correct and does things like preventing inputting a new patient just because their ss id is supposedly already registered to someone else. Then there are the classic data validation mistakes like assuming everyone has a first name and last name (some foreign nationals don't), assuming everyone has a birth date (some people don't know this), assuming addresses have streets, etc... Doctors see patients from all over the world, and the world is a pretty diverse place.
Sunwise
>A lot of folks did not like it at first but I think its no longer an issue.

The sudden popularity of Mint and ElementaryOS at the time of Unity tells me its still an issue. Those who care just left. Personally, I couldn't use Unity on a daily basis for this and other reasons.
You can push down on the joystick-looking part to make the disk under it drop down a bit and spin quickly, flinging recently-deposited ashes into a container under it, if it's the kind I think it is.

Commenting to provide the info only because if my grandfather hadn't owned a similar one that I'd gotten to play with years and years ago, I'd have had no idea WTF they were.

[EDIT] "as" to "a".
Another part of the equation is the efforts of companies like mine, Genability, that are working to drive down the "soft costs" of clean energy.

If you want to help create software to make clean power cheaper, you should join us -- we're hiring: http://genability.com/careers/work_with_us.html
Good point, there are two possibilities here:

1) There is a bias in the cited sample (not the huffpo's, the op's).

2) Silicon Valley is one sleazy place.

I want to be open minded because I as a man am someone oblivious to a lot of these issues, but it might be called for if we had some details on the OP's study.
They might have meant Ctrl+Click
You understand? I have no idea why when they could of easily just turned and said "It's impossible to do that." Technically true.

You'd only take the practical steps to filter people if you really wanted to filter people. I have absolutely no idea why they would want to do that.
This might be good reading for you http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/07/15/ui/
which <executable>

dpkg -L <package>

will find anything that's in program files.

i think this is a really good post, though, b/c it demonstrates something that happens when we use engineered things on all levels: "different" is (perhaps falsely) equated with "difficult."

i suppose it would be possible to make a package that uses FUSE or something to provide a /prog_files with a similar directory structure to what a windows user would expect, but... nah : )
Yes, as I said, the law is defined broadly but applied more narrowly. There's always the question of degree, that's assessed by the victim (in deciding to pursue the issue), the prosecutor, the judge, and the jury. The legal principle is de minimis non curat lex ("the law does not concern itself with trifles").
When is “Code as Configuration” a good idea?
ES2015 Proxies landing in Chrome 49
By now everyone knows that expected payoff of working at a start-up is the same or lower than a big company, but with much higher variability.

If that were true, places like Silicon Valley would be smaller, I think.

The thing is though, no matter where you work, as a professional you'll spend 50+ hours a week working.

Nonsense. I've been doing this stuff for decades and in my entire career I have never worked for anyone who expected or received 50+ hours per week routinely. If this is your norm, you need better employers/clients.

Particularly in creative fields like the software or Web work we usually discuss around here, I would even say that most people can't sustain 50+ productive hours per week for an extended period.

You could work at a large soul destroying company that MUST pay you more because you have to put up with their BS, or you could work at a small company where you can look the founder in the eye and tell him or her to change something you don't like

You imply a false dichotomy. There is a vast range of employers and many other ways of working that do not involve either working in a dead end job for a faceless corporate giant or working in a small start-up.

I have nothing against start-ups. I have started my own companies, which I run to this day, and the majority of my earlier career as an employee was working for smaller businesses. But I do think articles like this are useful from time to time, because a lot of relatively inexperienced people do get taken in by the start-up culture and, in some cases, I would even say abused by it. If the start-ups are as attractive as their advocates would have the newbies believe -- and again, I'm not saying they don't have some big plus points -- then it won't do any harm to offer a more realistic look at the rest of the picture, will it?
Disappointed to see so much FUD over here. I switched to atom from sublime 2 months back, mainly because its tooling for ES7(emmet, babel, eslint etc) just works. And the editor is much more accessible to me than sublime.

Btw, I develop on an 14'' i3 3rd gen, 8gig, no-ssd laptop, and I am able to do react-native dev, with the emulator running just fine
My wife for example received 100% of sexual advances on the way to and from workplace and none at workplace (yet). The percent of women who received unwanted sexual advances outside industry is definitely much higher than 60% so I think they are quite protected in the industry. That's why I encourage more women to get into tech and also to work more overtime hours; it statistically minimizes the chances of receiving unwanted sexual advances.
‘Anonymous’ Attack Nissan’s Website to Show Anger Against Whale Hunting
What’s Wrong with the Producer-Price Index (PPI)? Rent Is Too Damn High
It is funny that I downvoted on YCombinator site. :-)
See few hints how to write efficient lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html . You can apply them to JS too.
Gigaclear trials the UK’s first 5Gbps ultrafast broadband service
90k is essentially broke in SF.
Ask HN: Best books/resources on technical writing?
The reason for this is the technical difference between streaming and playing a DVD. Transporting a DVD isn't copyright infringement. Streaming always requires a license because it involves making a copy.

Netflix actually built itself on the fact that you can send DVDs wherever you want.
renewables: pay once.
fossil: pay per barrel.
I was hoping for more.

The illustrations have little relevance to the corresponding OS, and the text is fairly superficial relative to the actual changes in the various versions.
Depending on how you look at it some platforms are already running Linux.

QFX5100 runs a Linux KVM hypervisor with the traditional FreeBSD based Junos running as a guest. Same with the new x86 based SRX (SRX1500). There are more moving to this model.

The x86 based SRX is the most interesting with the forwarding daemons running on the hypervisor OS and the Junos based VM is just for management and protocols. It's not that hard to see that management and protocols can be easily ported.

There are more details that are locked behind an NDA.
Why should anyone need to have admin privileges to find a file?
Just curious, what's the advantage to installing this with homebrew? Does apm still work from the terminal?
> your connection could be MITM'd

MITM isn't a risk, if I understand this statement in the undeadly.org announcement:

The authentication of the server host key prevents exploitation
by a man-in-the-middle, so this information leak is restricted
to connections to malicious or compromised servers.
This article was, of course, flagged into oblivion within minutes of being posted, despite having 27 upvotes, because Silicon Valley is quite sure that there's no sexual harassment problem.
If you're fresh out of school, you get more experience in a year than that crappy little project you'll be given at a large company and be chained to for four years.

I had the opportunity to work at several start-ups (on the east coast) during the first DotCom bubble in the late 1990s/early 2000s. It was generally a good experience for several reasons. First, I didn't have a software background/degree, so it gave me a chance to cut my teeth and the learn from good mentors (perhaps I was lucky in this regard...my first employer was started by two late 30-somethings). Second, given what I was doing right out of school (running a small climbing gym), the pay, while still under market rates, was a fortune compared to what I was making.

Nearly 15 years later, I have no interest in taking another job at a start-up. I work for a fairly stable company, doing interesting work, with lots of flexibility around when and where I do that work. I do, however, appreciate the experiences I had when I was willing to take that risk.
What is the coming event that is going to close the window?
I really need a yahoo account with verified sms to download this?
Introducing 18F's CSS coding style guide
If you are using a proxy you weren't really paying for content in the first place because Netflix didn't have the right to sell it to you.
Side complaint, it'd be awesome if they put id's on the tags for each subheading, so linking to each would be a pinch.

If the authors are reading this, consider that.
Leaks and rumors suggest Samsung's Galaxy S7 will challenge the iPhone 6s
Mobile fans and followers mark the seasons with Samsung's announcements of its new flagship Galaxy S phone, at Mobile World Congress in February, and Apple's iPhone announcements in September. As each announcement approaches, the leaks and rumors surface and ripple throughout the news and social media.

Instead of adding a ripple with another report, greater clarity may come from a look at the rumors as a whole to gauge what Samsung is trying to accomplish.
Yeah, that definitely happens. If being a founder is out of the question (which, as others have said, is the only situation in which you should value options as nonzero) yet you want to work in startups, then your focus should really be on becoming Magic Mike. Actually getting a chance to "grow with the company" is the exception, not the rule, even if it occasionally happens in engineering.

The idea that just hiring a team lead from Amagoofacesoft will solve all your engineering management problems is deeply embedded in the Valley ("nobody ever got fired for going with IBM"). Never mind that you'll be scraping the bottom of the middle management barrel at those companies, since the really good ones aren't going to leave.
There was an exhibit demonstrating a similar optical phenomenon in the Exploratorium (http://www.exploratorium.edu/) in San Francisco:

The viewer watches a series of projected photographs of a streetscape with small differences between each (a pedestrian appears, a taxi disappears), but they don't see these changes because when the image changes, a small flash occurs, which somehow resets the optic system's change-detection system. The viewer can then press a button to suppress the interstitial flashes, and with no flashes, they can easily see the differences as they occur.
The first day (actual founder) or the day before the papers are for the A round are officially signed. These are the actual and only correct answers.

If you are the founder you get the best deal overall on expected value.

If your offer is generated before the A Round closes, you can negotiate equity at a pre-A-round valuation, but you are never exposed to any pre-A-round risk, and you can negotiate a post-A round salary that is contingent on the round closing.
Nice article! Worth to read
With all the people complaining about Atom performance, I cannot confirm this. Switched from Sublime Text about two years ago and never had speed/snappiness issues. If anything Atom does quite well with gigantic files.
> Vulnerable client on hostA is not a problem.

Ok, that's what I was wondering. Thanks.
Haha cool, I just thought it was a bad example because defence in particular is notoriously well funded. In fact it's a better example for citing as a source of virtuous secondary benefits (like CERN, SETI or the search for MH370) because though controversial it's given us the internet!
Seconded. That said, this is laughably doomed for failure. It's still shocking, but this is NY. Their police force is the most militarized in the country and most of the world. Over-stepping their authority and bounds is a daily activity.
Thanks :)

I have always loved discovering new places, travelling, taking photos, meeting people and experiencing different cultures. This has always helped me in becoming a better human being. Once when I was travelling I felt that except for sharing a photo on existing social networks (and adding a caption) or sending it as a message on messaging apps there isn't a place online where I can go to specifically inspire my friends to travel to the place where I was. And that's when the idea of Uggozi started taking shape. In Uggozi we bring the joyful experience of sending and receiving picture postcards to mobile. To create a postcard one can upload a photo or select an existing gorgeous photo of a place, add an inspirational quote to its back and send it to friends.

It's been often said that we're 'born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space' but what if we could rekindle our innate desire to be explorers. At Uggozi we hope to do just that. One can become the 'Uggozi explorer' of a geographical location by taking the first popular photo from anywhere in that geographical location.

Uggozi derives its name from the isiZulu word ugq!ozi which means collective inspiration and aptly defines our mission of making a community where travellers, explorers and dreamers can collectively inspire each other to explore this beautiful planet. In the first step of this journey we are focused on making it the most visually appealing and inspiring place to be at when you get those wanderlust pangs :)

We moderate the photos uploaded so that their subject is the place they have been marked with and not an individual. The photos should somehow define the place, it's culture or people. And also to deliver the best experience on a device, Uggozi shows only the photos that will look good on that specific device.
Star KIC 8462852's puzzling fading behavior
What Is Traction and Why Is It Important for Investors?
Strongly agree. The main webpage for any programming language should always include a bit of sample code -- generally a short but nontrivial complete program.
Also, it's unclear that big companies would be willing to hire 100% of the people who want to work in tech. For some, working at a startup might be the best way to learn and improve. Google might not blindly extend 100k+ more offers, above market rate, just to cover everyone who wants to be a programmer. So for the (likely majority of) people who can't realistically get into Google, a startup might be one of the best ways to learn and make money.
How I got my first startup job
oil price rebound
Ask HN: How to track share value from a previous startup job?
Short version: When I left a previous startup I worked at, I purchased one of my options (I was & remain confident that if/when they are ever to have a liquidity event, common stock will be worthless). Is there any way for me to find out what sort of fundraising activity has happened since I've left?

Longer version
I joined the company mid-pivot, after they had just closed a fairly large round of funds, which pushed up the e strike price to very high levels. While there, we burned through a good chunk of that money, and I am aware of 3 other times the company raised cash, albeit not publicly known about (revolving debt via a bank, some high-net-worth-people investment and some "partnerships" that included money).

Just before I left the company, there was a stock option repricing that brought the price down ~66%, although I was a bit unclear on the details of it. I still decided not to buy more of my options, even at this new price, due to the aforementioned worries. The reason I bought 1 share is so that I can judge whether I made a mistake or not. I'm using this as a learning experience, whether I have good judgement for whether a company's stock is worth anything. Friends of mine who were at the company years before I joined chose to forfeit their options which were in the $1/share range, and mine were in the $30 range (after the repricing, they were $90+ before), and they'll never really know if they left a good chunk of money behind or not. I'd rather know!

However, I've been unable to find out why this repricing happened, or any information about the fund raising activity. I've searched SEC.gov for company filings, but they end back in 2013--my guess is that the JOBS act changed this sort of reporting? Some companies still seem to file documents, but it seems that it's no longer required.

Summary: Does anyone have experience with tracking former companies' financial activities and how it pertains to current stock ownership?
How to turn your B2B videos into your #1 sales tool
Yes, this is always named in the same breath as my GP post, the gorilla video is a classic. The video I posted much the same thing. It makes you realise how much of what we perceive is really what we think we perceive
The interface to the outside world is different, the granularity of abstraction is different, and the pricing model is different. All those make it suitable for different applications, which indicates it's a new market and not going after the same customers as a PaaS.

AppEngine still treats your whole codebase as an "app" - all your handlers share configuration, they share a data store, and you interact with them over straight HTTP or XMPP. You're billed per instance-hour, which implies instances (virtual machines), and the control panel is setup to scale the number of instances devoted to your app.

Lambda is just a collection of functions, and you setup those functions to be triggered on various events. Those events could include HTTP requests to an API gateway, but they also include S3 or DynamoDB writes, Cloudwatch monitoring, SNS, and a wide variety of other apps. You're billed only for computing time; having an Amazon Lambda function uploaded that's doing nothing costs you nothing.

I get the sense that Amazon Lambda : database triggers :: Google AppEngine : webapps. The former is utility code that glues together events in multiple storage systems; the latter is designed to serve a single application and interface with all of its data needs.
Agreed. I don't necessarily outright disagree with the OP, I just get the impression that we're missing some of the facts. And not getting a complete picture can do just as much damage as entirely ignoring it.
Does anybody else find this eerily reminiscent of heartbleed?

Obscure broken feature that nobody uses (or needs) is enabled by default and allow private keys to leak.
Oil prises rising again.
A+Fascinating+Projection+of+What+Americans+Will+Look+Like+by+2050
There is such a thing as secular Buddhism:
http://secularbuddhism.org/

Although many people practice it as a religion it doesn't have to be practiced as one. For example one can attend a meditation workshop and learn Theravada or Mahayana techniques in a non sectarian environment free from any ceremony, dogma or iconography. Unlike the Judeo-Christian faiths there is no litmus test for who is a buddhist and who isn't one.
I would almost certainly not choose to prosecute someone hungry for stealing my food. I might even steal food from another if I or my family were hungry enough. There's a need there that, if unsatisfied by any other option, is resolved through theft, and I accept that just fine.

We're not talking about food though, we're talking about Orange is the New Black, which is far from a necessity.

Beyond that, if I thought it was just broke teens pirating, then I probably wouldn't feel the need to speak up, but it's not nearly limited to that demographic. I have six-figure-income, grown up friends who swap pirated seasons of TV shows and in-theater movies with each other on Plex.
Noise that can change a work life and will make you stop using music while working
You may be interested in some thought experiments I'm running to try and achieve the aims of a verifiable public domain dedication under existing US law:

https://github.com/berneout

I'm also of the view that a truly irrevocable copyright waiver/dedication isn't currently possible under US law. We're not alone:

http://www.rosenlaw.com/lj16.htm

But you should be aware that others take a different view, if you're not already:

https://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html

The most interesting reading I've done is probably the old CC mailing list threads on CC0-1.0's backup license. If you set yourself the goal of writing international/portable language, things get really hairy.
> I think they want to solve the problem of harassment in tech

Fine, why choose tech then? Are they biased? It simply doesn't make sense.

If they want to help women, they could perhaps start in an industry where it's most likely to be a problem (and I'd bet it's somewhere where women are doing low paid job). Here's why - we probably already know at least a partial solution, just look at what are the other industries doing. You don't get either information without a survey.
Yep, offline support is already on the roadmap :)
I've worked out of the house for a long time. When I don't need multiple monitors and a desk and can get by with a laptop, an Ikea POÄNG.
VS Code has much better git integration than Atom will ever have out of the box because Atom does not want to compete with GitHub for Desktop.