skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At our company we kept getting emails from them on email addresses that are only used to send data to our service. This was starting to become a problem, so we called them up and asked them to block that domain. They said no. Eventually they said they'd blacklist the email addresses individually. Our response was "OK so we're going to send about 20,000 email addresses for you to blacklist, and probably about 1,000 more every 2 months or so". They blacklisted our domain.
For me I don't get gifs, just a list of stills from the same scene
It is absolutely harmful to smoke it.
#2 is just not true. They deliver point releases that add new core functionality all the time. For example, Photos for OS X was delivered in 10.10.3. A point release that came mid-year and delivered a huge amount of new functionality, including photo streams shared between iOS and OS X.

They also deliver many bug fix releases throughout the year, on both platforms. The 9.x releases have seen them add support for WatchOS 2, and many other things.

It's a huge ecosystem, and many teams, that all have to line up their product release schedules, and now 4 operating systems (OS X, iOS, tvOS, WatchOS) that have features that all work together. This is not trivial.
Cool! This is a super awesome guide. Wish I had this when I was looking for an apt. in SF...
> There is no energy to be captured without adding friction to the existing situation.

The point is that there is already added friction (we want cars to grip roads and feet to have cushioned impact) and wear (asphalt is a liquid). Cars already compress roadways, brake on them, etc. To the other extent, a flexible base could reduce some of the wear by adding flexibility.

For "Smart Steps" yes, they consumer energy from the walker, but the walker also has less impact on joints. Running tracks prefer absorbing surfaces (rubber) for the increased friction vs concrete - not absorbing energy.
I think that's country specific. I'm in Denmark and I never heard of Xing.
> (...) you can "pump" Redox Flow batteries into storage tanks to increase capacity without increasing power.

Why wouldn't you keep them at maximum capacity all the time?
Hoping to also receive 40% less spam from them too. LinkedIn's an ugly company who's primary business model is social engineering and active exploitation of their user base - sharing the bottom rung on the social ladder with recruiters (aka Customers) and their widespread indiscriminate spam and phishing attempts.
"This, I would think, is clearly enough to warrant a criminal investigation and, perhaps, an arrest warrant."

Except for anyone who has a clue, they know they are trumped up charges. This is the guy running wikileaks.
Blockchains don't have to contain proof-of-work as long as the values in the chain itself aren't valued in and of themselves over longer time periods. In Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency built using a blockchain, the values represent debt owed to someone in exchange for a real world item, and that debt stays active for the life of the entry. There are a slew of proof-of-somethings that allow blockchains to become cryptocurrencies. I don't exactly ascribe to these ideas of value store as related to compute provisioning, but I suppose there could be some actions which might benefit from it, such as certain types of licensing.

That said, triggering provisioning using cryptocurrencies is likely to be a thing at some point.
From what I can tell it has, but I'm not a financial expert.

It wasn't that the Q4 earnings weren't up to snuff, they were, they exceeded expectations. It's that LinkedIn lowered it's predictions for next year.

The job networking site said that revenue for first quarter of 2016 is expected to be $820 million and adjusted earnings per share will be 55 cents. For the full year, revenue is forecasted to be about $3.6 billion. Investors were discouraged by these numbers, because they were expecting $867 million in revenue for the current quarter and $3.9 billion for the full year.
They really hammer it home with the emoji commit messages.

There's also exhibit C:

From Github repository "Scientist" : README.md

"How do I science?"
Eh at 5% it's probably just most of the "high risk" section of his portfolio. Most people sort of treat that section like lottery tickets anyways.
I posted this yesterday but today there's a story about "Welsh home installs UK's first Tesla Powerwall storage battery". Good news.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/05/welsh-hom...

This project to store energy in trains also looks interesting.

http://www.aresnorthamerica.com
Exactly. To summarize, the major use cases for the "internet of things" are industrial. Think mining, mills, etc.
Code as if you are going to rip it out tomorrow
I'm relieved you didn't consider my comments to be harsh.

It's tough to put together a screeencast, much less a series. You have my respect for doing so, and for choosing a simple but non-trivial problem like sorting that people use every day, instead of something like Fibonacci.

> I think in this case, I would write new test suite

I think that's reasonable. I bring this up to point out how the TDD formalism, as red-green-refactor, doesn't work. This means the "refactor" in TDD uses a subset of the available refactoring operations, which further means TDD cannot be the only thing which drives the design.

(My usual example is going from naive string search to Knuth–Morris–Pratt. I think in the future I'll talking about moving from classic quicksort to Timsort. I've also used this to demonstrate that TDD is a form of white-box testing.)

> I wasn't focusing enough on this point.

One of my complaints about TDD is that it focuses on tests for the next small code transformation. This is very helpful for a lot of people! But maintaining that focus means that other aspects receive less attention.

> And see it fail with stack overflow

But what if it doesn't fail? Do you leave the test in? Or do you tweak the parameters until if fails? What if a recursive implementation never fails, perhaps because the compiler used tail recursion? How many non-failing tests do you add?

Test case analysis is part of the traditional QA process, and I feel that too many TDD people reject it because they see after-the-fact tests as being counter to the TDD philosophy.
Quoting Family Guy and Charles Manson in the same sentence should be grounds for a state sponsored lobotomy.
> Linkedin is down 38%. Tesla is down quite a bit. My guess is that some VCs were leveraged and had to liquidate positions.

You're not a VC if your money is in publicly-traded firms.
It totally does have milpool:

https://frinkiac.com/?p=meme&q=i+think+i+left+my+glasses+in+...

It's just that nobody ever says "Milpool" in the dialogue.
Are there any invites floating around yet? I'd love one, email address is in my profile. Very interested in developing other tools against Keybase, with mruby or Elixir.
How do they keep getting around your spam filters? Blocking the domain has worked well for me.
Pumped storage is great if you have the geography for it. In a lot of places (such as the UK) it's all already in use.
Hopefully, when they close the site, our personal data will not be given to the third party. Or... what was in that small script?
Part of the trouble is that the FBX format in parts of these industries is like the DOC(X) and XLS(X) formats in office productivity software: everyone uses it, so if you want to use a tool that doesn't reliably convert to/from it losslessly you are at risk of severe friction when working with others. And like DOC(X) and XLS(X), it's a proprietary format, which creates various complications for anyone who wants to create and maintain any sort of conversion tool.

Another part of the trouble is that Blender suffers from some common ailments in the FOSS world, notably a lack of UI refinement, stability, and documentation. While there are people trying to improve these things, and over time they are making some decent progress, and it's not as if the Autodesk products themselves are perfect on any of these counts, on balance there is still a much stronger ecosystem around the incumbents. A challenger like Blender needs to be not just playing catch-up but dramatically in the lead to shift this sort of market.
I love how article titles obfuscate the "is" of equation in that statement. By saying "decision = ridiculous" the only argument someone could have is "is not" to counter it.

The article's first line states it more as a matter of Hammond's opinion:

> The UK foreign secretary has branded as "ridiculous" a UN panel's ruling that Julian Assange be allowed to go free
"There is orders of magnitude more computer science innovation in Autodesk than in the average "unicorn"

I was under the impression that they've bought most of their marketable innovations. I realize this was not a fair comment to current employees there - yes, the software suites are impressive and Autocad reseachers have produces very nice things. I would still categorize them as a huge corporation with vested interests rather than an innovator in themselves.

Now, offering stable products is a good thing for many people. Owning DWG gives them an underhanded advantage though, and slows down the evolution of computer assisted design as a discipline, IMO. The DWG situation weights more in the anti-innovation camp more than a hundred clever Maya plugins.

DWG is considered a "standard" while effectively it's just a black-box binary blob. The prevalence of the DWG format means that either new players in CAD need to licence the RealDWG suite from Autocad, they can use third party reverse-engineered libraries like Teigha or they can hack their own. Teigha has been at it with several hired developers for a decade and they still lack bug-free support for the format. The fun part? Autocad can very well deny RealDWG to anyone they don't like. How's that for a market space for disruption.

It's nice to see there are new things happening in CAD world like OnShape (https://www.onshape.com/) that is not yet bought by them :)
Same question here.
I just paid for a Handsontable Pro license and looks like they are planning quite a bit of roadmap ahead.

But really interested to hear about a comparison
I was hoping to find the quote in which Grandpa Simson mentions Estes Kefauver, but searching for "Kefauver" yields no results. :-(
أين+مسدس+القذافي+الذهبي؟..+
Oddly, it works with quotes.

https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=%22moon+pie%22
> I use the git-hide package to remove the ".git", "node_modules" and "vendor" directories from the tree view which does seem to have a nice effect on speed.

I feel it'll never be a sensible choice until people no longer have to type sentences like this.
The analogy would likely be better if, rather than firing him, you docked his pay.
It's funny how often I've made this argument with even fairly experienced programmers and they seem to have a visceral reaction to the code being "less dry" than it could possibly be.

Similarly, once a codebase uses several very wrong abstractions, it becomes significantly more confusing to work on, exponentially increasing cost.

The temptation to use a mature library as a dependency is very strong since time is initially saved. When that library introduces the wrong abstraction, the consequences can be severe.

I typically argue for (at least) creating the correct abstraction and having it wrap the mature library to constrain or properly name its behavior, and to make it less strongly coupled to the rest of the system.

It doesn't just take experience to realize these sorts of things, it takes a willingness to question one's own code and imagine how it might have been done better, or how it might appear to someone who didn't write it.
"AS LONG AS they aren't all phoning home to their corporate overlords every 30msec."

We're working on that.
To me it looks like a wasteland of recruiters. I used to think it was neat when some recruiter would contact me about a job, but now I realize they are just spamming everyone with (your framework here) listed in their skills. The over-saturation of recruiters, connections with everyone you even slightly know, and people endorsing you for skills they don't know you have has made it all meaningless.
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Thanks for this. The most interesting one to me is that there seems to be clear political will to restrict gun ownership in urban areas. I'd always wondered if the whole debate wouldn't be a lot less heated if it was done at a regional level, rather than even a state level.

The most depressing one to me is the divide between registered voters (slightly pro-gun) and non-registered voters (heavily anti-gun). If you want political change, maybe try voting!
LinkedIn lucked out and rode the network effect to its current size. Note that the only thing you like about it is its network effect, which is more a question of timing than open competition at this point.

If other websites like Facebook, Yelp, Google, etc. dumped so much crap on the user while offering so little the internet would be almost unusable. LinkedIn should rot, I'd love to see it, because then everyone would migrate to a better alternative.
I fell for this a couple of times. They grabbed my friends email and created a fake profile for her.

When I clicked connect, I thought I would invite her to my network, but it ended up with an invite to LinkedIn to her email.
It's also worth checking out Handsontable:
https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable

I've not used their pro version but the free MIT Licensed is really excellent.
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Once you take the crazy money out of the equation, the SF Bay Area is not that appealing as a pure real estate play.
NSA eventually confirmed it as well http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/pape...
But it's an aggregation of sentiment, not just one person.

And if you feel that sentiment is wrong, there's your chance to make money! Start buying stock in that business at the low price the "fools" have set.
Sure, your equity grows over time, but lets say you buy a house and live in it for 5 years. Add in the relator fees, title taxes, maintenance, property taxes and interest paid on the mortgage.

Now compare that with renting. In some situations you might be better off, but that usually requires appreciation in the value of your home. Often renting leaves you with more money in your pocket than buying does.
Something smells in the Democratic Party
expand?
Thanks for making my point. Even though I gather you understood what I was saying, you still found a hole in the words I used to state it. Trust alone isn't enough to support _any_ kind of mass surveillance.
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Did Indiegogo pay for this site?
I think I might have caused a misunderstanding of the issue (I was trying to be brief). It really doesn't matter who I'm running compass as (root or otherwise), the issue is that the container is writing files to my host with a different UID:GID then the one I'm using on my host machine.

I wouldn't normally run compass as root, it was incidental to the actual issue.
(anecdote) I live in Colorado where cannabis has been legal for quite some time. People driving in to stationary objects while high on mj definitely hasn't become any more of a problem than it was previous to legalization (read: its not a problem.)
I find doing anything on linkedin via mobile to be the worst experience.

I am pretty surprised that in SV, they have one of the worst performing mobile experiences. It is always super slow, lags, unclicks, takes me back to an entirely previous page when hitting back, as opposed to the screen I was looking at before I read that profile... etc...
My mom has endorsed me for literally every tech under the sun without knowing what any of it means.
Your point is true, if we were to replace all the asphalt roads with a new form of road.

I suspect the energy and material requirements for making an energy-capturing dampening system that feels similar to asphalt to the vehicles overhead would far outweigh the benefits (I'm picturing some sort of electrolyte putty with thousands of wire leads every meter, funneling microamps of energy into a the heavier wire in a conduit underneath).
But.. how do they know who you've emailed? I don't get how LinkedIn knows this from Gmail
The Java/JVM bias is a deficiency of open source Big Data, not bioinformatics!!!

FWIW, Google doesn't have a JVM bias in terms of its big data stack, but it still has langauge biases. Bioinformatics is built on Unix tools and Unix composition AFAICT, and that philosophy needs to make its way back to the big data stack IMO.

My question is what's wrong with what they're doing? If it's working, why not keep doing the same thing, rather than trying to move to Hadoop, which sounds like the wrong tool?
SMART - Surveillance Marketed As Revolutionary Technology
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UUCP was designed for networks where many nodes were only online for a couple of hours each night and then over slow analog lines. Perhaps it has lessons to teach us.
You Can Talk About Innovation Without Resorting to Cliches
The question that pops up in these interface discussions, and it's pretty much applicable to all users of GNOME classic and KDE, is this: who still launches applications using the mouse? I haven't done that in 5 years. It is five times faster to launch apps using the keyboard, and this saves infinite screen space. Seriously, when I boot up, I hit the Super key, T, enter, super key, S, enter, and Super, F, enter, and the terminal, sublime, and Firefox instantly appear. I quickly search for other applications with a few more key strokes. I don't need a window list cluttering my screen, because a quick hold of alt and tab shows what windows I have open. This is how people launch apps and open files on GNOME3, OSX, and even Windows, now, and it is objectively superior to the old click to launch, click to select interfaces.
'Smoking' would contribute to cancer. Vaping and eating it would not. And while not completely benign, it's not even close to as harmful as tobacco is. I'd recommend doing some research instead of basing your opinions on old timey reefer madness logic.
The problem is that their business model is probably more sensitive to overall economic health than most. Premium services that are nice to have for recruiting might be some of the first things to get cut from customers' budgets in a downturn when they're not hiring as much. I suspect that investors are jittery about the economy overall and think LinkedIn might be in for a slow couple of years if the economy stagnates. They're repricing the stock to reflect a slower growth trajectory.
github notifications are hard, starring is too low frequency while watching is too much spam
is there something like a monthly/weekly digest for repos?
> The tiles will be mostly installed on parking space near commercial centers..

What would possible block the sun from reaching these solar cells...

> I find it actually a great idea, especially with more electrical cars looking for plugs at those locations.

Oh yeah.
I think Google has some sort of "push" system for publishers to use now.
Show HN: Let's Go Phishing: Fake phish your friends to see if they're prepared
VCs do not liquidate immediately at the IPO or even upon lock-up expiration. But I would agree that this downward pressure is not VC-driven.
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That is an invite to your network.

The difference is that you were not aware of how interested in LinkedIn the contact was, and you were not aware you were ALSO inviting her to join LinkedIn
Or maybe, this is a crazy idea, some VCs have diversified portfolios that include public stocks.
I also deleted my account, they are the worst company that is almost required in todays job market. I'm protesting it haha.
Did you think that as soon as a company goes public, VCs get to sell all their stocks?
It's more like if I decide to pay you $300k because I'm pretty sure you'll do great work. If you then turn in a performance no better than a guy I pay $150k, then I'm going to go "oh shit, I was wrong and should pay you a lot less".

The stock market is all about expected future performance. Nobody forces companies to be publicly traded. If you don't want to deal with the expectations game then don't sell shares of your company to outside parties who generally don't care about your actual business.
My tongue was firmly in cheek.
What do people think of Go's new(ish) vendoring?
31 Steps to Become a Developer
My real estate agent endorsed me for OCaml.
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Listening in on Merkel's phone calls. Yes, an ally of the US but allies spy on each other all the time and have and will for all time. Was it illegal? That's a hard no. Was it immoral? That's an interesting debate.

Edit: Though I did appreciate her Captain Renault impression about being so terribly shocked that as head of state she was a target for espionage.
Or even with just one quote:

https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=%22moon

It looks like it uses really naive word breaking, so it considers the punctuation part of the word.
I help mod Android for a living. From my experience, there is a tonne of things OEM want that improve either performance, stability, security, and usability (atleast until Google cleaned up their act with JB).
I agree with this. I have received a ton of value from linkedin, but the UX - particularly on mobile (including their crappy apps) is frustrating.
Actually there are some aspects that are admittedly simpler when you lay them on the ground, like for instance cleaning them with vehicles. Vertical panels next to the roads would still be equally bad idea as there is a lot of chemicals and sand and air movement that would create you all kinds of problems, and plus you would have a lot more issues with vandals (or just people throwing half-empty bottles and other heavy garbage from cars), they'd obstruct the view, could be potential safety issue because of lights reflection in the night, etc.
I'd like to know, too. It changes slowly, fortunately, and more and more jurisdictions recognize cannabis as both a potent medicine and safe recreational drug.
by whole thing I meant the iraq war + downstream consequences; sorry I wasn't clear
It would probably be pretty trivial to set up a filter or two to automatically delete those emails. Or maybe just leave your account open (though it sounds like you would refuse to do this on principle). I never receive emails from Facebook.

I think it's a bit extreme to cheer for hackers to take down a big company just because they send you a few emails. How much time has it really cost you, in total, to delete their emails? 5 minutes? And for that the "behemoth" should be "shot down?"
In gmail, everyone you've ever emailed is in automatically added your address book. LinkedIn provides an easy (maybe too easy) way to upload your address book to LinkedIn.
Or weren't written by a government as part of a multi-million-dollar malware R&D program that reduces to practice way-out-there speculations about what malicious software could theoretically do.