skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick off the cuff math, if you figure $200k all-in per employee, that's $100mm/year they'd save by going from 1000 to 500. They lost >$500mm in 2014[1] so that would not make a large dent if their goal is to achieve profitability.

The problem is that they don't seem to have any path to growth. If they slash headcount in half and you've got most of those people dedicated to keeping the lights on then it's hard to imagine a future where they get much bigger and if investors see no path to growth then their stock price is going to take a beating.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=TWTR+Income+Statement&annua...
Open Questions on React, Growth, and the Tech Job Market
You can register for domains through AWS Route 53 and it'll automagically register on Gandi with WHOIS protection and link it up inside Route 53. You then don't need to leave the AWS UI, it just seems like it works magically.

(I think this is true...I can't remember now actually).
And it could be less accurate in many other circumstances. That's why you provide the original data and maybe also the snapped data, and don't just make the original inaccessible. (And worse, tell no one you're screwing with the data you're giving them.)
I receive all mails @ my domain and I get about 1 spam a day. Fastmail's spam filters are pretty good.
I know you're not a minority in this, but why do people like to watch shows that make them angry?
Ask HN: How would you make a program that finds abstract word associations?
Hi! I am facing an interesting problem, and I want to ask for your advice.

How would you go about writing a program that finds abstract associations between words?

Like if you input "balloon" it would output things like "birthday", "blimp", "red", "soap bubble", etc. Not synonyms, but the sort of connections human would make.

Is that even possible? I'd appreciate any hints and ideas.
> Their illegal behavior weakened the rights all of us depend on.

I disagree. It's good to be wary of this sort of thing, but Australia (where this happened) doesn't seem to have a police brutality problem. Had the police done the legal thing, an innocent child would have been cooked alive. So in this case, I'm glad they broke the law.

Laws and morals don't always agree. When they disagree, that is a failing of laws, not morals. Many things are illegal, but moral. For example, it may be necessary to steal or trespass to help save a life. Sometimes, despite your best efforts, those actions are for naught, and the person dies anyway. Does that make those actions wrong? No. And in those cases, you'd be hard-pressed to find a DA willing to prosecute. I'm OK with that.

Again, I think torture should be illegal. I think programs like the CIA's extraordinary rendition are abhorrent. I think Guantanamo Bay will be rightfully condemned by future generations. I'm certain the post-9/11 institutionalization of torture has caused far more harm than good. But I also think that torture can, in some cases, be morally justified. And I think my example demonstrates that.
The AMA does work rather nicely for physicians, but it's less clear that it works nicely for patients. There's a strong argument to be made that the USA suffers from a chronic undersupply of physicians, and that certainly boosts doctor pay but it comes at the cost of patients having to pay higher prices for poorer quality service.

The AMA also has the advantage of being an incumbent. If we were to hypothesize a similar national organization for American academics that was attempting to follow a similar strategy, their first problem would be how to generate the artificial undersupply that allows members of its profession to enjoy such a favorable job market in the first place. I'm guessing anything that accomplishes that goal more quickly than waiting for a market correction would, would end up being a pretty painful experience for the large number of folks who find themselves forcibly shoved out of academia.
World's Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
I fear that customer support might still accept emails without the suffix from the "customer". These are people, not robots, so if the address is close or in the vicinity of being correct, they might accept it. Same goes for the dot characters allowed in gmail addresses.
One method that I've seen used (heard it described by a guest one of Leo Laporte's podcasts a looooong time ago) is to iterate account names by year. For example, this year the email address would be pyre2016@example.com, and next year it will be pyre2017@example.com. Not sure how well it works, but the idea is that by that every year you start over with a fresh address (that takes a while to get onto spam lists).

I'll note that I don't use this method as it seems too high maintenance and the effectiveness is unclear.
7 Insights from my trip to Korea
Don't overthink it. The failure of Lavabit was designing a system that enabled disclosure at all. It wasn't end-to-end encrypted; its users had to trust its operators, which, because operators can always be coerced, is never safe.
Yeah someday maybe we can get a vertical split pane like other environments have had for a decade or more!
Panix.com supports this, plus an alternate that works almost everywhere. You can use "whatever@yourname.users.panix.com", and it ends up in your inbox, filterable by the "To:" address. I create a new email address for every company I sign up with.

(Satisfied Panix customer.)
I assume it's because AWS uses Gandi as their registrar.[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8116506
$2000? That's it? Not surprising that "Less than 2% of all prospective employees end up accepting the offer."
What you need is the following (and no more):

a) A valid email address. (A gmail that forwards to your real email will do).

b) A valid postal address. By valid I mean "in the proper form".

As such the following would get flagged:

1 Main St.
Anytown USA 10016

(because it doesn't exist..)

545 Jones St.
New York NY 10016

(let's say that's a post office..)

is fine.
Could you imagine if China had the threat of a virus to ensure people stopped breeding for two years? Imagine the help that would've done to their depopulation campaign!
For what it's worth, I own the first version of this and while it's interesting, it doesn't grip me in the way a game needs to. It's something you mess around with for a bit, enjoy, then forget. Might be really useful in trying to create a universe for a fiction, say, but I feel you need some personal motivation to play this (I didn't find my initial 'that's interesting and cool' was enough over time).
The Bitcoin Believer Who Gave Up
Eh, I am not for the CoCs and I agree with some of the points made here. But it also comes across as rather insensitive and blind to the very real problems of the people who are dreaming up CoCs etc.

I have spent a lot of years working to try to find a better path forward. I appear to be the highest karma openly female member of HN. So far, that doesn't seem to have done that much for me. I sometimes question my stance. It gets little attention or support and the bitching from both sides gets a lot more attention and upvotes and...I am not sure there is any point to anything I do.

I don't expect to have a regular job ever again, so some of the concerns that other marginalized people express kind of do not apply to me. But I do feel that I face very real barriers as a woman that posts like this one completely dismiss as not real. I generally do not agree with the approach of the people dreaming up CoCs, but I am sympathetic to the frustrations that fuel those choices and this post does not offer real solutions to very real problems. Unfortunately, it comes across as very dismissive of people who have very real problems.

I don't think this is the way to start a constructive discussion about how to find a real path forward.
>The Silicon Valley obsession with endless growth is harmful sometimes

There's healthy ways to grow, and unhealthy ways. I agree with you that twitter (the company) needs to be happy with the size of twitter (the product), but that doesn't mean the company needs to stop growing. There's plenty of opportunities to leverage the technology stack and the userbase of twitter to get into other markets and allow growth to continue. Their future growth is not in getting more users to sign up for the twitter microblogging service, it's in other products like Vine and Periscope (and potentially a longer-form writing integration like has been rumoured)
~/public_html

NCSA httpd supported an option that allowed every user on a system to put html documents in a specially named directory and have them instantly served up to the world. User created content exploded--undergraduates (like me) were instantly addicted.

I'm not even sure who came up with ~/public_html (Rob McCool or Ari Luotonen are the primary suspects) but whoever it was will always be an undersung hero of the web.
I might be being pedantic, but the only mention of 2FA in the OP is:

"As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able to spot phishing attacks from a mile away, I would have thought my accounts and details would be be pretty safe? Wrong."

Are you sure the author enabled 2FA on his Amazon retail account, or was it only enabled on his AWS account? The two systems do not share the same 2FA.

FYI I enabled 2FA on my Amazon retail account and when I called customer support they verified it. Once the verification failed and they refused to give me support.

Anyone else confirm a similar story with 2FA and support? Anyone willing to explicitly test this out?
In an ideal world, the bank would direct you to a notary public who would check your identity and public key fingerprint. (Sadly, the present state of things is probably too dysfunctional to manage that.)
This is what happens when your management goes down a rabbit hole called Teal organization instead of evolving over time.
So, commit criminal fraud to prove a point?

Bad idea.
That is consistent with my theory as well. It would be awesome if someone more experienced in the Intel graphics stack would dig a bit more into what was happening...
Keep in mind too that Caller ID is trivially blockable (and blocked caller id isn't remarkable enough to be super suspicious), and it's also easily within the capability of many of the 4chan/gg griefers to spoof "correct" Caller ID numbers as well.
Unions are most valuable for laborers and society when labor is fungible. Assembly line work, for example, really really ought to be unionized for the benefits of the worker, society, and probably the employer comes out a bit ahead too (expectations are set, wage negotiation is simplified).

Academic research is very not fungible. If you think there's a 10x programmer, there's a 50x scientist, a handful more at 10x, and the median (yes,median) "nominal" scientist is probably -2x.

A unionized system will protect the -2x and the 50xs, being treated equally to these idiots, will drop out.

I'm all for free association, if scientists want to unionize, that's up to them, but the broader social consequences will not be pretty.
There's only so much fat you can trim. Even if you managed to automate everything, fired everyone and just let Jack run it on his own, you're looking at a max of $1.5b profit/year. With no prospect for growth that $12B market cap is going to collapse very rapidly.

Right now they are trying to find other niches to fill so they can continue to grow, they are just not doing it very successfully.
FlyElephant as a tool for calculations in C++, R, Python, or Octave
I was looking it up how many months with 2000$ that stipend would be. Turns out it would be a single payment. Also I don't know if there come any strings attached.
Feel bad for a colleague of mine who joined the company when the stock was $60 and got his stock bonus at that price
Is your Erlang CV online to view?
Keep in mind that Zappos is based in Las Vegas, and that the vast majority of their employees are support staff likely making under $30K a year. If $2K is almost as much as you make in a month you might consider taking the payout and finding a new job if you're not happy with the culture.
Show HN: Soundcloud Profile Visualizer
This looks cool, but there doesn't appear to be a way to get info about where the user ended up in the script. It would be nice if there was a way to tell an external system what happened in the chat.
Social video startup growth hacks itself with fraudulent celebrity endorsement
I can't remember whether the Lavabit story was before or after the leaks. Would we still have the Snowden leaks if Lavabit had complied immediately?
It doesn't end here, though.

A high turnaround was to be expected. The interesting part would be if things stabilize again.
Do you have a good idea of the rate of false positives?
While ago I setup FDE on a new drive, put the passphrase in my encrypted password file, put the new copy of the password file on the encrypted drive, and then proceeded to wipe machine that had the only other copy of that password file (well at least the up-to-date version with that passphrase). A nasty surprise indeed. Thankfully I only lost a month's worth of files (mostly photos).
The clock is ticking for the US to relinquish control of ICANN
Live and work in Baltimore. I don't have a clearance, but I can confirm those types of people are a dime a dozen here. Just like ibanking in nyc or googlers in the valley.
It's the same in Spanish, and it caught my eye as well.
If there is written, explicit permission to perform this attack, how is it different from a corporate penetration test?
> The best guesses by outside observers is that for a lot of them about 80% to 90% of their graduates relapse within a couple of years.

The problem with this statement is that you can go back to using drugs, but in a significantly lower risk pattern than previously. E.g. if you were shooting up heroin, but switch to smoking weed. This is actually pretty common, so these top line relapse rates dramatically understate the efficacy of these programs. That's not to say they're super effective, but I think there's at least something to be said for intellectual honesty.
Why the Future Is Bright for the World’s Poorest Farmers
The article suggest that some of these non-tenure track jobs are make work for spouses. I don't think that is a major use of them now. In fact, if it is then what is the problem? They should have the tenure track salary in the same household.

My point is that the people taking these jobs are being foolish. They are taking clear part-time low paying jobs and then wondering why they part-time low pay income.

The reason they are taking these jobs is because they can't find tenure track gigs. Okay, so they didn't succeed. That is no excuse for taking a shitty consolidation job and then bitching about the pay.

>Why you think your experience at a graduate program Northwestern can be generalized to undergraduate teaching and is applicable to most other schools in the US?

I'm not saying we shouldn't care because these jobs go to millionaires. But we shouldn't care because these jobs aren't meant to actually support a person. Judging by the fact that they are part time and low pay, I think it's clear it's not just Northwestern that views them as non real career jobs.

In fact, several universities actually only let someone adjunct one class a year because it's not supposed to be a career.

>Moreover, they are not all "willingly" doing so. Many are trying to unionize

That sounds willingly to me. Of course they would rather get paid more. But their is a lot of supply for people who can teach these courses. Especially since the commitment isn't very high.

These jobs are essentially volunteer gigs that you get paid a token amount for. But some people want to be a part of academia so bad they are willing to live in poverty to do it. That's fine, but that is their choice.

EDIT:

I should also note that schools are exploiting the glut of potential adjuncts. But I don't really have a problem with that. As you note, we exploit lowerclass workers. Why should I care if the PhD is getting the same treatment as a janitor. In fact, we should probably care less since these adjuncts would more easily find a better white collar job.
> Quick off the cuff math, if you figure $200k all-in per employee, that's $100mm/year they'd save by going from 1000 to 500.

Your math is off by an order of magnitude. Twitter spends >$100M per quarter on stock-based compensation alone. [0] Just what do you think Twitter's major expenses are in "Research & Development" (for example)? I guarantee you that employees are by far their number 1 line item (as they are for most tech companies).

Twitter's Q3 2015 expenses were ~$500M. Do you really think that the majority of that wasn't salaries?

[0] http://seekingalpha.com/article/2253623-twitters-stock-based...
The Uberwomen Who Beat Sleep: Origin of the "Uberman" polyphasic sleep schedule
This is basically how Yammer was introduced, as "Twitter for the enterprise". I think the Slack model makes a lot more sense in most work contexts, though Yammer may be an okay addition in a big enough company.

The idea may not be too far-fetched as Facebook actually does have an enterprise product, Facebook At Work. I think Twitter is too focused on other things to try it though.
I'm a web developer who is trying to learn Rust. In here I just tried to summarize things I learned about basic Rust programming. Comments are very welcome :)
> Wow that's a great indication of the composite cable reducing quality...

Yes, but...

Double Fine has this Let's Play series with video game developers called -IIRC- Devs Play. One of the first videos is a playthrough of Aladdin and The Lion King on the Sega Genesis. One of the comments that the guy who worked on both titles makes is that you have to keep in mind the target display device [0] when evaluating the art and VFX choices for a given game. The art for both games -but Aladdin in particular- is really gorgeous, but loses a fair bit of its beauty when viewed as hard-edged pixel art on an LCD screen.

The hard-edged pixel art that we see on modern sets is likely not at all what the art and effects teams who worked on these games intended. Their design decisions took into account the blurring effect of the target display device.

[0] Namely, NTSC/PAL CRT TV sets.
It started after the leak (the first pen/trace order was from June 2013).
But adjuncts aren't doing research are they? They're teaching the courses that the research-level staff don't want to do.
The solution is get on the administration track https://www.higheredjobs.com/salary/salaryDisplay.cfm?Survey...

e.g. Chief Student Financial Aid Officer	$83,726
If you are the officer of a company you own in the U.S., anybody can get your address from the annual corp. report.
> I'm faculty

That doesn't make any sense as a sentence. Faculty is a noun, not an adjective.

Do you mean 'I'm part of the faculty' or 'I'm on the faculty'.
It's gone from (L)GPL v2 to v3, which some companies care a lot about (e.g. Apple).
Computer Monitors and Eyeglass Lenses: The Color Fringing Problem
Probably all the managers are leaving. They can't do non-manager jobs emotionally or logically. Microsoft moved some managers to individual contributor roles a few years ago and people were openly crying about it. They wouldn't have power over people any more and can't deal with it because that's all they know/want. This is a great opportunity for Zappos to backfill with makers and doers and realize what they set out to accomplish.
Gmail also supports you.r.nam.e@gmail.com (add random dots to the local-part). (Almost?) every system considers '.' a valid character. However, you need to keep track of which tagged address goes to what service, much like the case of a tag with random hex digits.
C++ names decoration is a problem. no_mangle refers to Rust (i.e. it's useful for calling Rust code from other languages). Rust has no control over C++ names mangling.
Thw thing about Apple is they give no fucks about backwards compatibility for developers anyway. You're a developer and you're working with Apple tech, so naturally you were waiting in line in the cold to get their latest hw and sw, weren't you?

This bit me on the ass when Apple forced a libstdc++ update on OS X 10.3 with a new ABI, permanently breaking all C++ compilation on my Mac. Compiling C++ programs for 10.3 was still possible, but you needed a 10.4 machine, the latest Xcode, and compatibility libraries to do it.
The median scientist undoes the work of two 1x-ers? Seriously? Could you elaborate on your basis for saying that?
And yet, Dirty Harry has the DA rejecting some evidence he collected on the basis is wasn't lawfully acquired.
Have yet to see that in a modern procedural.
> $1.5b profit/year

If they actually got to $1.5b annual earnings, they could definitely justify a $12b cap. A P/E of 8 would be ridiculously low for the technology industry—heck, for any industry.

I'm not enthusiastic about Twitter and certainly wouldn't buy the stock, but the company also definitely isn't "worthless." There's certainly a path to profitability.
I have a paper notebook that I used to design data tables and pseudo code for projects I wanted to work on.

I misplaced it, I would work on it from time to time while riding on a Metrolink train. It is either in my house somewhere or someone stole it.
It's extremely easy to create apps in Python and Qt.

Deploying those apps consistently is hard.
Articles on linear logic are must read. Quite clear explanation of relatively complex concept.

Also I like his "cross-science-field" papers, like one about garbage collector and thermodynamics.
Worse, they'll happily sell you Whoisguard for domains that don't support it. When you discover it's not usable, they'll give you a refund, then include it again in the next billing cycle.

I switched to Namecheap based on recommendations here, and their previous stance on certain privacy issues, but I'm running out of alternatives.
Huh? There's an extreme oversupply of actors too, but Hollywood is unionized and the minimum daily rate for actors is pretty high.

Sure, there's massive unemployment. The same will happen with adjuncts if they unionize. But it'll be better than the current situation.
Actually, the insane amount of advertising and media groups on Facebook have pushed me to Twitter, and it's very refreshing. I'll be moving away from everything but FB Messenger (imo their best product).
App Economy Jobs in the United States (Part 1)
Where does this crazy idea that everyone going to graduate school wants to be a tenure track academic (your definition of success) come from?
I wonder if this can simulate the view of the sky from a planet's surface, given an interesting planetary system. I'd like to simulate what the day/night phases look like on the namesake planet of Kim Stanley Robinson's "Aurora" that I have just read... the moon orbiting a super-earth itself orbiting Tau Ceti.

Or for that matter, the planet in some science fiction novel (can't remember the name) that orbits in some weird trinary (or higher) system and only has nightfall once a century (triggering a social breakdown everytime it occurs).
It's part of the trope/archetype of the infallible hero.

They don't need checks and balances, because they're always right. How many movies are there where the hero tortures completely the wrong person?
If anyone wants to start a fund to sue Amazon for this, I am ready to pitch in a $100.
Just want to point out that atoms and function names ARE the same in that function names are atoms, they must be in fact as that what the system demands. So are module names for that matter. That is why if you want a function with a "funny" name you quote it as you do an atom

'the answer'() -> 42.
>Education is nothing more than an industry. They don't care if I pass or succeed, as long as they've got a job at the end of the day. I'm convinced of that.

Oh definitely. Admittedly, if you're an undergrad right now, a certain percentage of you are expected to fail, each and every year, because (it's assumed) you're just stupid or lazy.