skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another bogus assertion: Big companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple etc. are constantly iterating on innovation. Most of that innovation never sees the light of day just like most startups are destined for failure.

IMO the benefit to being an entrepreneur is that if you truly have a winning idea, you can own a lot more of its fruits by pursuing it from your own business. For it requires nearly the same skillset to procure VC as it does to persuade a large company to let you build something. Risk is and should be proportional to return.

To that end, I have nearly 20 patents filed from within large companies, most of them single inventor. And my salary amortized over a 4-year startup life cycle is on par with what I would have gotten as a non 3-letter title at an acquired startup that wasn't a Google or a Facebook.

So why take a chance on failure without the chance of a big payout? And except for the 3-letter titles, that's what a lot of newbies unknowingly sign up to do, risk >>>> return. I have no desire to socialize this learning experience for them.
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Uncle Bob recommends in "Make the Magic go away" that programmers do some programming in assembler to help demystify languages and language features that seem foreign. I know it has helped me.

https://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2015/08/06/let-the-magic...
My suggestion would be to be completely up front in what you're willing to pay, even going so far as to add it to the job description. If that means you have salary 'bands' dependent on what region of the US an applicant is from, put 'em up.

Ninja-edit: also, if the money just isn't there, consider taking on someone on a part-time basis. $80k/yr is terrible FT wages for the senior-level folks you're looking for, but if you say "We'll pay you $80k, and you just clock in M-W 9-5 (or M-F 9-1, however the math makes sense for you to divvy up a 20-hour week)" I think you'll see an uptick in interested, qualified applicants. Yes, it's a compromise (just like asking a senior-level anything to show up for $80k) but at least you'll get the senior-level brainpower on the team and still be within your budget.

Ninja-edit x2: Looking at the 'Team' page, I'm not getting a good sense of where your devops/engineering talent hails from. The folks who appear the most USian are the guy who lives 'on a farm', another who 'attends SFO Giants games', a third who 'enjoys the slopes in the Sierra Nevadas', etc. Everyone else's location is either unmentioned, or they seem to hail from Brazil, the UK, Greece, etc. The interactive map at the top seems to be mapping the accounts of suits and c-levels, but very few devops/engineers.
As someone who regularly encounters these types of diagrams, I guess that I'm too close to the issue, because I'm not seeing the problem. To answer your question, financial e-mails are more likely to be mislabelled as personal than as professional, but not as often as it labels them correctly.

A quick curosry glance at the central diagonal tells me that Finance, Personal/Programming, Professional/EPFL, and Group work are the categories of e-mail which are most likely to be categorized incorrectly by the software. Looking at the columns tells me that the Academic and Personal are going to have the most misfiled messages in them.
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They buy data in 25MB packages and we put a 3x icon in the app that is like 2MB! I'm feeling guilty for ignoring people with such limited access to data when I make apps and websites! :(
My advisor said to me "A really smart person isn't one who comes up with complicated solutions to solve difficult problems but someone who can make very simple and elegant solutions to complicated problems."

I'm inclined to agree with him.
There's 29 comments here and every single one is neutral or positive about Flux as an idea.

Am I the only one who used it, and hated the fact that my colours were obviously all wrong?

Each time I used my computer at night, I noticed that everything was tinted red, and it had no obvious effect on my sleep.
Exactly. Or a mere 29%! Would be interesting to know where the difference is coming from.

Guess the poor will be staying poor.
The use of bootstrap style CSS classes.l, but it's a strech. Seems like every new layer of abstraction that does more than one thing is now a framework.
You dont have any evidence and making assertinons. Im basing my information on the best information we have and on the optinions of reputal cryptigraphers.
Netflix has no chance in Poland, we have cda.pl. Want to watch The Martian? http://www.cda.pl/video/5378262f

mad max? http://www.cda.pl/video/49320174

as an added bonus almost everything is nicely localized with subtitles and/or voice-over. cda.pl was already in court and won :)
Here are NASA satellite images of the storm:
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/blizzard-bears-down-on-us-...
There is an interesting article about him, his amp and the resulting problems due to his disappearance:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/nwavguy-the-audi...
As a Nylas user...please do!
Can I run mocha tests with it? I find I often want to debug mocha but don't want to deal with node inspector.
"My mom, in her late 50s, uses facebook everyday and I actually set up an account for her a few years back (opened a gmail for that, but my mom never checks her gmail, so she's entirely reliant on me to retrieve her account info if she changes/loses her phone)."

heh... I do the same exact thing for my mom, except she doesn't live in Myanmar, she's in Flordia.
During a review of W3C WoT & ETSI M2M standards I noticed that security is totally ignored in these tech-standardization bodies. The standards leave security as an exercise to the industry and the maker communities (who are not spending money on security until they have an problem). That said, it's also not trivial to implement something that at first sight seems straight-forward like 802.15.4 Security[0][1] without a deep understanding of the security architecture supported by the underlying platform:

[0] http://www.jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/pdf/1687-1499-20...
[1] https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/15.4-wise04.pdf

Since the web is now getting "engaged" to the devices with CoAP and other protocols I wanted to create awareness of how bugs can spill over into the real world and do real damage there. If hacked insulin pumps or baby monitors don't scare you enough how about hacking a train? https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7490-the_great_train_cyber_robbe... ?? (everyone should probably watch this simply because SCADA strangelove guys are crazy and awesome)

Anyway to counteract the usually very "marketing intensive" tone of IoT groups on LinkedIn I decided to start this IoT Security group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4807429 it would be great to see people from all camps (IoT is a combination of 3 silos: 1) embedded, 2) web 3) infosec) actively contributing with technical topics in this group. I will keep it open to posts from marketeers but am heavily policing it for blogspam and remove any posts that are not security related).

Also I have some ideas about hackerspaces (http://hackerspaces.org/) which IMO every city should have and support. They're needed to propagate knowledge between these individual camps properly. (my contact details are in my profile in case you are interested to discuss more offline).
I've been ahead of the curve a couple times and I've crashed and burned because of it only to see someone else do essentially the same thing 5 or so years later and knock it out of the park. That's bad luck and bad timing IMO not some social injustice. Anyone with talent these days can soft land into BoringCorp IMO. We're not exactly swimming in talent.

I'm not far from taking another swing these days and I think the time I've taken to develop financial cushioning has also let me develop better skills to analyze both the nature and the timing of the sort of businesses I wish to pursue.

And if you have kids, that's your startup, take 'em to IPO. They're worth far more than $$$.
Ask HN: JavaScript tips and tricks
Hey hackers
Let's share your javascript tips & tricks.
For example:

~~2 === Math.floor(2); // true
Apple, LG, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony reportedly tied to child cobalt mining Congo
Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
Will it be released as open-source?
Doesn't really make sense to develop it as a closed-source application, when the application itself is offered for free, and open source versions exist already.
There are very specific concerns I have about implementing secure cryptography in a browser runtime. ...

What are your thoughts on our strict uses of asm.js for the actual encryption (libsodium) and static typing for the rest of the code via TypeScript?

I'm aware that asm.js isn't literally native code, but we and, (without putting words into their mouths) I believe, the Cure53 team felt that these were both very effective mitigations to the risks you point out. Combined with a strong CSP and an entirely Angular-based UI (so no silly mistakes like untrusted user input in jQuery selectors, and to date no known XSS), I would say that Cyph is vastly different from a project like Cryptocat.

As it stands, the team that audited you found devastating crypto flaws; for instance, you repeated nonces!

It was an accident, in pre-production code. (And hardly "nightmare"-level; it was one nonce reuse that only occurred during the initial handshake, and notably wasn't obviously exploitable.) That was also the only bug found by 5 experts over 12 days in the entire protocol implementation[1], which I would say is more impressive than not.

The whole point of that audit was to catch those sorts of silly mistakes before we switched away from OTR in prod.

This also has nothing to do with WebSign or the impact the browser has on our attack surface; we could very easily switch back to the asm.js libotr cross-compilation we'd been using if Castle turned out to be unfit for production.

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1: There were three Castle-related findings, but only one was in the Castle implementation. One was an outdated/no-longer-correct statement in a document and one was a configuration weakness elsewhere in the code.
Ideas, but no real solutions.
Touch with Leap Motion: WebGL demo using Leap Motion and signed distance field
I've never ironed a T-shirt. I didn't know ironing t-shirts was a thing people did.
Sure, you can innovate in a safe job. And then your employer likely owns it. Good for them!

That's not a criticism of corporations, just pointing out that taking a risk and striking out on your own isn't necessarily a reckless decision.
Is mindfulness making us ill?
6-figure fine means it’s a new day for taggers in S.F
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I've worked with a few different branching styles, including:

1. Feature branches that get merged into master via PR in GitHub

2. Sprint branch, bug fix branch, and master

3. Developers push directly to master (or if they really need a code review, push to a branch)

So far I prefer 3 the most, then 1, and I hope I never have to do 2 again. 3 is fastest, and we write a lot of Go so many of the comments I would have made on a Python PR for example aren't necessary.
> Y'all think this state is full of idiots. Y'all are only half-wrong, and it's still probably better than your state.

Texas ranks dead last in education, healthcare, and most indicators of quality of life. Clearly, it can't be better than any other state, unless your compared metrics are restricted to "no taxes" or "cheap housing".
This guy is fantastic. Having spent a little time around professional audio, it doesn't surprise me that he did amazing stuff for 18 months (anonymously) then vanished from the web.

This piece on his site has lots of interesting insight into the audio industry. It also relates to objective, critical thinking in general.

http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/subjective-vs-objective-...
It seems like most of these complaints center around the idea of the inherent subjectivity of the prior. In cases like astronomy and other hard sciences, the prior reflects actual scientific knowledge and is not really subjective at all. In cases where we don't have that kind of evidence, empirical Bayes methods work very well by just peaking at some subset of the data and finding a good point estimate for the prior.

I'm also not sure why the OP thinks that calculating the normalizing constant is a huge issue. Most of the time you rarely need it since you're likely going to end up doing an MCMC or some other sampling method for the posterior, in which case you only need proportionality.

There are lots of problems with Bayesian methods in practice, but most of them revolve around the scalability of modern methods to massive data sets and very complicated models. Many Bayesians tend to think that it's absolutely crucial to quantify uncertainty and that the added computational cost and human effort is worthwhile. In practice, point estimate methods to find MAP or even just maximum likelihood values work really well for most problems. If you look at the trend in most machine learning, for instance, generally people find a cool way to solve some problem with good performance (e.g. SGD + Deep Nets), then some Bayesian lab spends a few years trying to interpret everything as a generative model and coming up with a clever way to sample everything (e.g. Lawernce Carin's lab at Duke has done a lot of this work in Deep Bayesian Nets). The end result is usually better, but by then most people have moved on to a newer problem and the appeal of getting a marginal boost in performance is harder for me to see. The Bayesian nonparametrics crowd has historically done a pretty good job of hitting a sweet spot of compromise on this by keeping a Bayesian view but still (usually) treating everything as an optimization problem first (e.g. variational inference methods).
One little known fact- the city will reimburse you for paint and labor up to $200 if your building gets tagged. The $200 barely covers your paint costs if it's a large tag, but it's better than nothing.

I tried commissioning an artist to paint a mural on our large retaining wall in the hopes taggers would "respect the art" and not tag over it, but it got repeatedly hit again and again even over the artwork.
You have to get a new address every 30 days from their website or pay $1/mth https://tvunblock.com/donate/
You're washing them too hot, or you're drying them too hot.
Separating mediums, text and video, is I think an archaic perspective on communication. Convergence happened long ago (for bloggers, as I've mentioned a few times).

We should be fluent enough to use whatever medium best gets across the next idea in the article.
The Spirit
The Dao of the Shell
A new way of rendering particles
Happy to have a conversation - ping me at info@myanmarplus.net
It's true that oil & gas are powerful political interests, but there are others as well. In this case, I don't think it's so much out of a desire to be "green" as out of a desire to develop what's seen as a big potential energy resource. West Texas has a lot of pretty steady wind, so it's seen as a valuable economic resource to develop. Wind energy also has its own state-level political clout and lobbying, because large landowners in West Texas see it as a way of improving monetization of their large holdings of ranchland, and large West Texas landowners are a well-organized interest group. Heck, even small farmers have similar hopes of increasing their income by renting out turbine rights, which adds to the political pressure to enable wind development.
I think it would be useful if IDEs allowed a team to share when multiple people are editing the same file at the same time. And even get notified when such a change gets committed so you merge it right away. And I don't mean just watching the repo.

Sometimes two people are working separately on the same bug when they could be collaborating. Its also easier to merge changes one by one, instead of dealing with 10 at once. And if a change is completely incompatible, its best to deal with that when the code is committed, not a week later.

It would also be cool if there were chat integrated with that, with a history that gets linked when you commit so you can understand the context later.
What's the incentive to do so? People like the app.
So many jokes... gotta... hold.. back....
> I don't think anyone looks at their typeface and is turned off by it.

Neither of us have any idea. Old newspapers are the only ones using that design, so I expect people will associate it with the old, fading industry.
"which is basically just printed money"

This is not the case for most proposals I have seen.
so ?

not only you can block but you can also mute

block and mute someone on twitter and whatever the hashtag they use, or if they reply to you, even trough other persons

you will not see a single line of theirs
This failure could have been predicted with a simple understanding of Systemantics, one of the precepts of which is:

A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
Give it time. You'll get used to it after a while, to the point where a couple of weeks later you won't perceive the colors as "wrong" (assuming no other light source in the room). You'll just perceive them as slightly warmer.
He must tell the police the address and date of birth of any woman he plans to sleep with.

Additionally, this type of requirement can be foisted on people who have not been convicted of anything.

I think is under section 123 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/pdfs/ukpga_20030...
> If right now, people are willing to do simple work for minimum wage, but we change the system so that people want twice as much before working...

...then they would still be getting paid minimum wage, because the other half of the money comes from the basic income.

It might even allow employers to pay them less, because the UBI would remove the need to have a minimum wage. So someone who was making $15K/year full time at minimum wage who is now getting $12K/year UBI may now have to accept $12K/year in wages because the market for unskilled labor is highly competitive and $24K/year in total income is highly preferable to $12K.
Netflix engineer here.

To the commenters above who are disappointed with their country's catalog and plan to cancel their trial: sorry to see you go, but we did the best we could for launch. We make sure canceling is easy, just go to the account page on the website.

As you can imagine, buying the rights for titles in a new region is expensive, so we start off with a giant loss on the balance sheet. But as we get more members we'll be able to buy more content in each country. Here's a list of a few dozen big-name titles that are coming later this year [1]. So we hope you come back soon.

About the patchwork availability - that's not what we want, it's just what was for sale. In the recent past the only buyers of TV shows were just buying for their own country - like country-wide TV networks. For each show, that left a random set of regions where the license was still available. We're trying to get global licenses for everything, so it'll gradually become consistent country-by-country.

[1] https://pr.netflix.com/WebClient/loginPageSalesNetWorksActio...
(sorry for the PR link but it's the most complete list of 2016 releases I could find)
Big Oil Goes Mining for Big Data
I didn't want to be a dick, and milligram seems like a nice minimal grid which I don't think we have enough of, but it serms like they changed .btn-primary to purple and shipped skeleton.
I think register access is technically faster than a L1 hit, but due to store forwarding from the write back cache, this extra latency is usually not visible, so in practice they're the same.
I was talking about the company itself. I would have to look up the exact case.
Redshift is a lifesaver.
Other author here... There is this new W3C initiative: https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/
A quick scan of the F.lux forum itself and the six or seven HN articles posted here in the past 90 days shows lots of people having issues. It's really not an easy problem because it's trying to do something that operating systems aren't great at and don't really give you a clean approach to tinker. And video drivers are some of the worst code out there. But I've used this thing off and on for years and it's always been glitchy. If you follow Lorna's Twitter you'll see she rants about all the lights in the house going nuts on occasion, too.
Why do you think middle class suburban teenagers work awful jobs with no chance of career growth (Walmart, McDonald's, etc)? Most of them have parents providing for necessities. It's because people always want more. Even the poorest people today live like kings compared to five centuries ago, but people still strive for more despite this relative prosperity!
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Human brain networks function in connectome-specific harmonic waves
Show HN: Can you help me do some science?
During a recent Hacker News comment thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10952335), I used a "toy" machine learning model, designed to guess a person's age based on any fictional characters they can list in one sitting, to correctly predict the submitter's age. Later in the same thread, the same model guessed another user's age - 20 years too old! It got a lot of upvote activity, and it got me excited to revisit this side project.

I'm preparing to write up a post about the model, and would like to do some rewrites to improve its accuracy. I need your help!
Like Cloudflare, it defeats the purpose of SSL. If you don't have control of the key then you should never use it as an encryption guarantee for your users.

Is it better than plain HTTP? Perhaps, but you should be aware of the pitfalls.
I wrote a comment a while ago that has some code examples: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243#issuecomment-8220... (and the following two comments)
French Guiana 4,5k vids
France 1,9k vids

the funny thing is that formally Guyane is an overseas department of France
He had an interesting mind. Absolutely too objective, in my (subjective) opinion. It was almost as if his entire purpose was to remove the validity of all opinion from the discussion completely, and frankly, it was sad and inhuman—despite his amazing technical contributions.
Yes, they own it, in exchange for protecting you from the 90% chance of failure (perhaps you should save your best ideas for when you've acquired enough resources to build it on your own? I don't, ideas are cheap, it's the executions on those ideas that has built value for me).

And I don't think startups are reckless, but I think a lot of the people that join them fail to do rudimentary financial calculations as to whether doing so has a better expected return than a safe(tm) job.

Otherwise, they wouldn't accept chicken scratchings worth of lottery tickets and 20-50% lower compensation. But yet they do, over and over, no matter how many people lay it out how bad an idea this usually is.

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-y...
This has started happening to me this week, and it is getting worse. In fact, I just opened the laptop, and the screen flickered for 10 seconds---worst yet.
Keybase
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ursynthetic; my proof: https://keybase.io/ursynthetic/sigs/lMCp1eYBYDySPBevhNv7OPDBtdqCA98oYxGUw8GS2W0 ]
there is no doubt it is. Surely this should be a given even before knowing about the snowden saga. After snowden saga we all should know this as a fact.
More generally, we decided that trying to get faculty to adopt better structured authoring tools for syllabi was hopeless. There are lots of good, unused syllabus-building tools.
Could you mute back in 2012, when this case started?