skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you check your spam folder? Since we're a new org we are a little unknown by some spam filters.

If it's not in your spam folder will you email your account details to info@remotetogether.com ? That we I can diagnosis the issue better. Sorry this is happening to you!
This is being tracked at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187209
Wikipedia editors in no confidence vote
I thought the about page was rather good and the political points interesting.

tl;dr he argues we can get this data from a Japanese satellite rather than US ones because the climate denial folk have blocked funding.

In linked material:

>[the House of Representatives, led by Republicans] slashed Earth science funding by $260 million and added extra money for planetary science that the agency did not ask for. For example, nasa requested $30 million for a robotic mission to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, but the House gave it $140 million.
AgreeOn finance app releases new update
Can a handgun kill bacteria? I remember reading about experiments to test whether bacteria could survive meteor impacts. They couldn't come up with a gun powerful enough to wipe them out.

Here: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-25736-5_3
Who is going to tamper with nonsensitive pages? People injectibg, e.g., malware-loading "your computer has a virus" popups.
I don't see the problem. Obviously they are innovating through paradigm disruption.
All kinds of information and resources to help make your remote work better
> The funny thing is, virtualization is dying. All of the large private datacenters these days are non-virtualized bare metal on commodity hardware.

Well, you sound like a Google employee, because that's pretty much their party line.

Of course, reality doesn't mesh up with that when you step out and look at other data centers.
> Where the data resides is not a distinction between web apps and native apps.

Huh? The data is only accessible to native app after you have installed the app on a device. If you only ever use your own one desktop, then it's probably hard for you to see this. Can you even try to imagine that you cannot just install arbitrary native app on let's say, your friend's device to access your data? But you can easily "install" a web app, since technically it's just a website like this one.

> What do you mean with this?

http://nolanlawson.com/2015/06/30/safari-is-the-new-ie/

> However, one advantage that native apps have when it comes to accessing cloud data, is that you can still access and update that data even when you have no connection to the internet.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/12/background...

> True, but web apps will always be removed from the underlying OS's "metal" by at least one degree, no?

Not always now that Web Assembly will be implemented by browsers. (Not to be confused with "asm.js", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly)
Wealth IS a zero sum.

Take a very abstract product... something we assume to be unlimited in nature and examine it.... let's say a poem. A poet produces poems and sells a book of poems. We assume that the poet has created wealth out of thin air and that wealth is therefore not a zero sum game.

But in order to produce the poem, the poet needs energy. Energy for sustenance, comes to all humans in the form of food. Food is either meat or vegetables. Meat comes from animals that usually eat vegetables. Vegetables gain their energy from the sun. The wealth (poems included) that humans produce is limited by the energy we extract from the sun and material we can extract from the earth. All abstraction comes from physical primitives which are limited by physical laws, thus all abstract products such as poems, literature and art are all limited and thus part of a zero sum game.

Actually if you follow the energy chain of everything to the root, all things end at the sun (nuclear power is an exception). You could say that the sun is basically an unlimited source of energy... but commerce is directly affected by the rate in which we can extract energy from the sun. Since it is physically impossible to extract energy from the sun at an unlimited rate, the rate must therefore be limited and all commerce, products and abstract ideas that arise from usage of this energy must also be, in turn, limited.
"That said I believe front and backend should work closely together. There is no reason that the frontend should be blocked because the API design can be figured out before the backend is written and the frontend can mock out the missing features until they are available."

Came here to say exactly this. At my current workplace, one of the very first steps in any project that involves both FE and BE work is for FE and BE engineers to get together and design the API. Once that's done, work can proceed on both sides in a largely asynchronous and independent manner. And one of the first things to be implemented on the BE is API endpoints with multiple mocks that can be requested by the FE, so the FE can start integrating with the endpoints as early as possible.
Actually both parts are a joke, but only if you don't look for it.
So... GUI work goes on its own thread, however that works out
He admits that he works long hours to get that productivity though[0]. He's probably 10x better than many who would work the same hours as him, but I'd be willing to bet if he limited himself to 40 hours a week he wouldn't still be 10x better. (Not trying to make any judgements either way, just an observation & prediction.)

0 - https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/684475417726595072
nah nothing goes wrong when voters are pissed off. Voters can only choose between two candidates who are basically proxies for quarrelling rich people.
Just looked you up via your HN username. Looks like the email went through and was delivered. Hopefully, it's in your spam folder.
I've had colonoscopy with and without meds. It's not so bad without.

Mind you, when I came round from my bowel resection (which was a 5 hour op) my pain relief wasn't working and I had to wait 6 hours for my doctor - that was a crazy ride - so I think my attitude to pain has changed.
How a Girl Dealing Depression Turned Her Struggle into a Startup Idea
Interstate commerce is a thing. We'll happily pay you for the water you send us.
> Lots of things kill bacteria. Bleach for instance.

I'm not sure that's a reasonable comparison - this is a substance with local repute and a history of successful use.

Nobody is claiming that bleach is useful in similar applications.
A better example is the AirTrain JFK, which is in New York and is driverless.

I don't know much about the Paris system, but has unattended operation scaled to the ridership volume of the NYC subway during rush hour? The problem I foresee is people holding the doors of the train; already a major cause of delays with two staff members in every train.

I'm only familiar with AirTrain, which handles "people getting stuck in the doors" by stopping for an insanely long time at each station, and the Yurikamome in Tokyo, which is tiny compared to the real routes there.
sbcl's compilation output is so verbose that the compilation instructions mention that it builds faster on xterm than gnome-terminal
except on iOS GUI thread kinda has "main" attached to it, main_queue
“Some people write crappy jQuery code → jQuery is bad for you.” Never gets old :P
HN App of the Week: AgreeOn
I seriously doubt anybody gets lax treatment when it comes to meeting the standard requirements of a FAA certification. Regardless of the background of the persons carrying out the certification.

With that said, FAA certifications aren't completely unbiased and non-Boeing certifications may be subjected to additional scrutiny above and beyond the standards.

I used to work in Flight Simulation and specifically worked on a project that had to go through a baseline certification for training readiness.

It was an 80s era simulator, produced by a manufacturer other than Boeing, running on older hardware. We installed and updated the system to match the airlines tail number configuration, added new engine models (GE to P&W), updated the visuals to match the current runway configurations, and updated the engine avionics from analog to glass displays. Subject to say, there was a lot riding on our ability to get it certified.

After experiencing the process first hand. There's definitely some room for subjective bias. They came up with every reason they could think of to fail the system but in the end we met the baseline and then some so it was passed.

I think the bigger issue is that Boeing is closely tied to the policymakers so they have carte blanche to pass new standards that fail old-yet-reliable systems. Keep in mind that, unlike the software development world, stability trumps technological advancement. Unless the former directly contributes to the latter in a way that improves safety (ex requiring TCAS). Systems running on 20-30 year old hardware are the norm, not the exception.

To make matters worse the FAA regularly releases advisory circulars (ie not standards) that are sometimes leveraged by certifiers as if they are standards. They can't really enforce a non-standard but that won't stop some from attempting to use them as leverage.

A system that fails the first time can still be certified but the process to resubmit will likely delay operations for months. For a Commercial Full Flight Simulator that could add up to $750-$1500/hour, 24 hours/day, 7 days/week in lost revenue. Considering simulators are a 'cheap' alternative to flying actual aircraft, I could only imagine how much an airline stands to lose if an aircraft were to fail.

Boeing is a prime example of a government sanctioned monopoly. It's allowed to be so because the company is vital to the US economy, the barrier of entry is too high for a competitor to enter, and Boeing has to compete on the international stage with Airbus. In simulation, the story is the same except instead of Airbus/Boeing it's CAE/Alteon (ie Boeing).

Many of the new policies introduced are 'safety theatre' designed to artificially raise the watermark drown the competition.

The ironic thing is, Boeing has grown so large they they're basically running out of room for growth. Their only option going forward is relocation and/or outsourcing. Both of which they've already started to do.
I just checked my v1 and I was able to edit the schedule but I have no way of knowing if I was editing my weekly schedule or making a 1-off correction. I'm guess it's the later and not the former because the change isn't reflected in the App.

From my perspective it is pretty bad. While I could edit an entry in the schedule (e.g. move it, change temp range), I had no way to add or remove an entry in the schedule, had no idea what the original values were, how to cancel/undo, or know what I was editing without making a change. It was frustrating at best.
Neat, but it's laggy.
2015 Corruption Perceptions Index
It's beautiful and flat in IE11 ;P
I'm not sure that is a quality data point. This company is a fin-tech startup aimed at student loan consolidation. I could be wrong but I would be surprised if the Super Bowl was not a very good target for them in terms of ROI.
Sleep, Memory and Psychiatric Health (2015) [video]
>> the likelyhood of any of this working unhindered by various "security" and "traffic optimization" tools is approaching zero very quickly.

Except that anti-virus software is now man-in-the-middling HTTPS, and it is considered "normal". All the security of HTTPS being thrown away for the sake of scanning all transfers.
Three.js is the main high level WebGL lib most people seem to be using, also for many MineCraft clones. It's not as web-hostile as Unity. Besides WebGL, it has renderers for CSS and 2D canvas too.

There are other actively developed Web-friendly WebGL frameworks, like Goo Create, PlayCanvas, BabylonJS and many more.
Because they're easier to fuck with. It's expensive and time consuming to fight back.
It seemed pretty straight forward to me. How did you not find it useful?
If fat were deposited and not burnt under starvation, body would be unable to perform work (law of energy conservation), and organs would fail. Ultimately, starving people would be dying fat.

But we know this is not the case. Starving populations are very skinny.

This is not to say that starvation is healthy, only that starvation is a reliable, affordable, and obvious way to lose weight.
You could have just looked at the traffic directly with wireshark rather than trust an external site.
That doesn't necessarily preclude a treatment option nor does it preclude its ability to dissolve in water.
It's intriguing how morale is again on the stage; we went from "obesity is caused by lack of will" to "it's not deserving we pay for that research".

Isn't that likely, though, that this research pays for itself?
Why is it called CSS when it's a JS library for 3D? Totally confusing name that breaks convention.
Menus are neglected in web application design?
Until NJ decides it is willing to pay more. Having both the city and the hinterlands under the same political structure ensures the hinterlands aren't going to go find a better city willing to pay a higher price. If you look at the old maps, that seems to be how the eastern states were laid out. Each of the large port cities were given their own hinterland to form a state.
Tnx for the insights! Very nice post! I totally agree with you. Governments always everywhere seem to spend tons of money for a shi service all with intention to improve something.
Awesome work and thanks for the helpful links. Would make a really cool background / screensaver to loop the prior days imagery in HD :)
Just learned about this..great project. Thanks for sharing.
> A way around it is to serve a preview of the article and require readers to read the rest on the publisher's website, but at that point you might as well just use Twitter.

Don't say that. Reading Twitter isn't early as efficient as reading my RSS reader. I dread everyone moving to Twitter.

Also RSS is open and Twitter is not (one reason there are better RSS readers).
Seminal Papers in Software Engineering: The Carnegie Mellon Canonical Collection
Oh! So the sun IS really rotating around the Earth. The church was right all along then...
One thing I've been curious about with GraphQL and supporting libraries. All the examples I've seen have a hardcoded schema definition, which makes sense because they're just small examples. What if the schema itself is dynamic or stored in a db, with separate schema for every user of an API. Fetching the schema and loading it into the library on every request seems inefficient, although I suppose you could cache it, but I haven't seen any libraries or examples that address that problem.
The process of killing bacteria may be partially physical. If it is the shape or porosity of some mineral that is key, and if that shape also causes clots, then there may be no chance of a safe treatment.
Without knowing about the recursion limit that's what I should have written if I understood .pop() was mutating the input var's global state. It's a nice accident though.
Pedantic point of clarification: there's no such thing as "the West Bay Caymans". The damage happened off the coast of the West Bay district of Grand Cayman.
SaaS EHR and Clinical Applications.
> I hold up Bundler as one of the great success stories of open source

It's a great success in many ways, but the problem it solves is completely self-inflicted by rubygems. I've also been doing Ruby for over a decade, but I've also learned a lot from other library ecosystems, and I feel pretty confident saying that disallowing version ranges makes all those headaches completely evaporate.
"Any vessel that causes damage to local reefs can be fined. However, despite a number of incidents of reef damage over the last few years by both cruise ships and luxury yachts, the government has failed to collect on sanctions."

What the fuck?
Another reason not to use anti-virus scanners.
Makes me wonder if AMD will open their Radeon IP for licenses.
Even Nvidia has opened up, although no one has come forward to license it yet ( I think ) .
Wow, the comments here are amazingly bad. A bunch of people sneering at the author for having to support older versions of Python that his customers use. Suggesting that he bundle hundreds of megabytes of dependencies and force the users to install them. Can you give this guy a break?
Medium Blocked in Malaysia Due to Sarawak Report
> They should have kicked ass on product. Instead they got caught with their pants down at the Vive announcement.

Amusing how everyone seems to think that Vive will be the best product on earth while Oculus will be "just Oculus", "not kick ass", "not great" etc. with nobody having either one so far. The power of "We love Valve" vs "We hate Facebook" seems to be really interesting from a PR/Marketing perspective.
The problem with Go is that it only works in practice, not in theory.
Thanks! Without your work at graphql-core this would not have been possible! ;)
I never understood the fear of leaving the system's package manager's packages. Maybe I've been on Slackware too long, but compiling/installing packages from source is the norm. Also, package managers tend to ship with --enable-everything-everywhere-no-matter-what configure options. Compiling from source you can say yes, support libpng, no don't care about libjpeg etc and get a much leaner setup.

I know there's the argument that by straying you don't get security updates, but I can't really imagine Python 2.4 getting much security updates nowadays.
DePy2016
A Declaration of Device Independence
> This picture is from one of the last times I saw Marvin. His health was failing, but he was keen to talk. Having watched more than 35 years of my life, he wanted to tell me his assessment: “You really did it, Steve.” Well, so did you, Marvin! (I’m always “Stephen”, but somehow Americans of a certain age have a habit of calling me “Steve”.)

Unreal. You're so great, Wolfram.
Shodan: The IoT Search Engine
Much of the persistent world-state in Minecraft consists of blocks laid out on a 3D grid, which are probably fairly easy to optimise. Compare this to other 3D games where there are lots of entities with dynamic physics that can move to just about any world position, and I think Minecraft would be the easier of the two.
>>> Allen’s communication team shows the billionaire is not taking responsibility and implicated the Port Authority, saying the crew followed officials’ instructions on where to place the vessel.

Don't care. Captains are always 100% responsible for the movement of their ship. Though rare in practice, captains are expected to override anyone, including pilots, to ensure safe and lawful operation of their vessels. The captain works for the owner. The owner is financially responsible for mistakes of his employee. Allen should pay up.
You should write a little more why people should put there trust in your website. I mean, it's basically a forum, right? What should make me believe that you are cabable of forming a community that helps each other in these regards? What does it have that Reddit, Stackoverflow and HN don't offer already? Etc.

E.g. we have an aggregator for remote workers. We will gather contracts for you, help with book keeping, have a project manager and corresponding tools prepared (issue tracker, wiki, chat channels) etc. To not make it an ad, I won't say our name. But I just want to show you that people already spend a lot of effort in that area. Certainly the demands we have working remotely are not all met already. But right now it's hard to see what makes your site interesting.
Tim Arnold pointed to one such success: his own advertisement for GoDaddy.com in the 2005 Super Bowl. The ad generated 5 million Web hits in 48 hours and doubled the company’s market share in the months that followed. Writes Arnold, “It was an outrageous spot that arguably stayed on the right side of the line of good taste and political impropriety. Viewers gave it mixed reviews, but GoDaddy’s business went through the roof as a result of it.”
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/super-bowl-a...
Leaked Snapchat Code Hints at New Voice and Video Chat Features
Ask HN: Speech recognition/synthesis witho Google?
Hey everyone!

I am interested in creating a digital assistant and would like to start with voice commands. However, it seems like every JS library I find is a wrapper of some sort for Google Chrome. I'd prefer not to rely on them for my project.

Is there such a library or project that exists?
I'd work on being more humble, and open-minded, especially considering your lack of experience. This is one of the more ridiculous posts I've read on HN.
Forget Early Adopters: These People Are Happy to Be Late
Subtle vulnerabilities with PHP and cURL
you dont need a cluster to display GUIs.
Shimano may not have been a good guy, but its kind of weird how its framed as the evil man exploiting the poor, vulnerable women, rather than a consensual act between 2 people.
That isn't Linux.
>transmitted by surgical instrument

I admit am a biology noob, but doesn't that imply that the cause is a Virus/bacteria or some sort of agent?
3 lessons from Jack Welch about winning at business
Highly configurable client side RSS reader
High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks at NYSE Floor
Eh, If there's one thing I've learned about people, it's that nobody thinks they're not great. The ad is a challenge and it'll be very successful at driving traffic to their site.
println is in the spirit of transcriptomics
Only the wealthy are building homes – and they’re bigger than ever
I'd guess that they're balancing levying fines against these entities and the tourism/money that they're bringing to the islands.
In retrospect I probably should have used the second half of the title: "glimpses of tracing tools from the future".
Spyware Janitor
Bitwise Neural Networks
What is Something You Recommend (and why)?
Whether it be something to buy, an experience, a hobby, a perspective, or any anything else, please share some thing you recommend.

Some things I recommend to most people I meet:

- Google Chromecast. While the chromecast does not add any new functions, its ease of use is so high that you will get a lot of utility from it. Due to how easy it becomes to stream music/tv shows/movies etc from your phone/tablet/computer to your TV, you will end up streaming all the time. For example, now whenever I am near my living room, I'll put on music through my TV or an episode of Seinfeld or something.

- E-reader. They are quite cheap. I find the reading experience to be far superior to reading a physical book (especially if the book is heavy). You now have access to almost any book whenever you want it (and potentially for free/low prices). Anecdotally, I have heard that once people buy an E-reader, they find that they end up reading significantly more.

- Squash (or any other quick-cardio based sport instead of a cardio workout). Each game is short but still an incredible work out. You feel great afterwords and most importantly, each game is a ton of fun to play (a lot more fun than running on a treadmill). It's easy to learn/start out and not very expensive (atleast in the places I've lived)
That's what this article is claiming. Too early to really know.

And it might be like a prion: A bad protein, rather than a living organism.
Are engineers the target audience or PHBs?

They should have put up a blog post with an overview like this one: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/global-continuous-delive...
Getting Things Done – For Software Developers
Show HN: A little knowledge portal I've been building
NanoLocker – Ransomware analysis
Where do I go to vote in favor of no confidence?
Well Water vs. River Water: Kungfu and Security in China
Peach just released a web version of their app
That yacht hosts one of the SeaKeeper oceanographic monitoring systems for the SeaKeeper society, so for it to destroy a reef while (automatically) measuring sea health is a bit ironic
From what I've read about some medicines it's something like "We originally used it for this but it turns out it stops this too! (we're not entirely sure why)"