skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flipping burgers can earn you $5000 a month? Sign me up, that's more than I make.
that link is great
Some ircd's implement channel mode +z which only lets SSL clients join.

> So if you're sending plaintext data over an encrypted connection, you are trusting that the server won't reveal that data by relaying it over other unencrypted connections.

Yes I'm saying that if you have confidential conversations you need to trust everyone to not publish the logs (and use SSL/set +z). No matter how good the crypto is.

It's a case for having end to end crypto in IRC if anything.
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How does MS makes more money for windows-10 users than windows-7 users if windows-10 is free ? Have the store revenue became that significant ?
My first-grade son was playing at 'DAP time' where they checked out a kit (blocks, string, whatever) and did whatever they wanted with it for 30 minutes. He had the box of keys.

Now, nobody checked out the box of keys - it was boring. Nothing you could build; no clear categories (too many kinds of old keys of too many shades of color). But the teacher noticed him taking them one at a time, dropping them over his shoulder, picking them up again and putting them in a row on the table.

She didn't disturb him - that was a rule of DAP time, nobody gets to interrupt you. But when he was done and had put them away, she asked "What did you find to do with the keys?"

He answered "I was putting them in order by sound". See, he was constructing a scale of sorts, by the sound they made when they hit the floor.

Wasn't another year when we discovered he had perfect pitch. Went on to master the piano and the cello before junior high; played in every school orchestra and event. He was playing professionally in High School (City orchestras; Orchestra Iowa) and competing at the national level.

Anyway, never underestimate the use of simple toys.
I don't think that's true of modern Tcl anymore, though.
What's the name of the open source version? It sounds interesting.
?!?

What is this article talking about? "Ruthless Microsoft's Smart Decision To Kill Windows Phone"? They haven't killed anything. I'm baffled that this author seems to have misinterpreted their earnings report so badly.
Healing Words: Quintus Serenus' Pharmacological Poem
> Whistleblowing protections that extend to what Snowden did would effectively convert the entire classification system to a set of recommendations as opposed to laws

Snowden as a CIA contractor or even if it was a CIA employee doesn't have whistleblowing protections.
Only in the most trivial cases.

Most systems I've worked on have some overriding architecture and assumptions. The worst quality erosions happen when changes are shoehorned into the code without a complete understanding of those factors: it's likely there'll be semantic mismatch between the new feature and existing components, unexpected bugs, and harder to modify code (because the overall architecture is no longer coherent).

You can mitigate the disintegration by having a maintainer with a strong understanding of the architecture and the problem(s) being solved by the original system. Talking with them can give you a roadmap on how to modify it properly, and if it's even possible to do so while maintaining architectural and design coherence.

Note: my comment is an opinion based on personal experience. I'm not trying to play it off as fact.
If this is sanctioned, it would be worth the time people have spent fighting against Free Basics than the ones who were tricked to support it.
TLS (to the server encryption) is supported, if the server supports it. There are plugins for most IRC clients to do OTR (which is end-to-end, future-secret and reputable (meaning that the receiver can't prove to anyone other than themselves that you sent it) encryption).
> Snowden embodies a new generation of educated and technologically-trained workers and youth who are increasingly hostile to the existing social order.

Aye, we're practically swimming in those.
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Is this a speculation?
Use a CNAME.
Here's another good explanation:
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/01/12/ddos-attacks-and-dns...
It is speculation, and as I said in my other comment, I'm totally baffled by it. The author has written a whole article about something that hasn't happened.
Bootstrap is not overkill due to the inclusion of mobile layouts alone. Reimplementing them from scratch in CSS and making sure the website still works 100% without elements breaking out of the CSS containers is difficult and a task many startups fail at.
Windows 10 OEM install licenses still cost money. E.g. Amazon $114

Also, subscriptions to Office 365, Microsoft Drive etc.
> How could somebody have accidentally added a hidden motor and some electrical controls to a racing bike?

I don't understand. Are you suggesting that's what I'm implying?

> Why would someone "on her team, who sometimes trains with her" have such a bike?

Because it's a bike from a previous season she sold to them (a well known practice that even pro teams engage in to make some money on the side from bikes they get from sponsors), and they added the motor? And it's not someone on her team.

> It seems quite clear that either there was cheating, or a very inventive attempt to frame her.

There's no logical necessity for choosing only those two scenarios. Here's another one: some guy bought an old bike of hers, added a motor so he could seem like a tough guy (in case he kept it secret), and it got mistaken for one of her bikes.
Show HN: Buk.io, a platform for internal links to ePub files
Wasn't a UK citizen illegally rendered, detained at Guantanamo and released after many years without being charged? I haven't heard of any enquiries/investigation s into that episode by the government across the pond.
It was earlier than that. I remember a relative owning an Apple QuickTake in the mid 90s and Wikipedia reckons they went on sale in ’94: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake . I personally had a Samsung digital camera in 1998; it took a max of 128Mb SmartMedia cards.
An Introduction to C++ Coroutines [video]
I have/had a Fit and the charging every 7 days got on my nerve to the point where I stopped after 4 months. I can't imagine having to charge it every night.
Shootout redux: Smartphone camera vs. tricked-out DSLR, one year later
> set to vote on the proposal

Who will actually get to vote and when?
Windows 7 is "free" to the user as well. The manufacturer of your computer will have paid for it. Windows 10 is only a free upgrade.
Since we're switching to serious, here's my thoughts on development. Totally unqualified, but here we go:

It doesn't really matter whether your kid can program at 5 or 15, whether he can read at 4 or 8. Nobody who puts in the effort doesn't get to a stage where they can do either of those things.

From my own observations (a limited set) what mattered is what you got up to when you already learned how to read, and you had vast swathes of time to spend either on reading things that you needed to know, or play video games (which you need to do as well, mind you). It's the kids who dedicated themselves to getting good at something who eventually did so. Academically and sports. And everything else.
Adobe Contribute... i.e. Adobe code mangler.

That's been my experience in the past with these kind of tools as well. Its easy to make a mess.
What a fucking weird article. It goes on about how Microsoft is fine without Windows Phone, and alludes that they have already killed it. The title just straight says they have. Except, uh, that's a blatant lie?

Never mind the fact the speculation about "Microsoft doesn't need windows phone" is just pretty wrong in the first place: Apple doesn't "need" iPhones, they could make a profit just selling Macs. Does that mean they should kill iPhone? It's better for Microsoft to try and build a brand they can have profits on independently of software sales, since it will obviously lead to more people using their software on their phone which is quickly replacing home computers.
As a windows phone user I hope this is merely a speculation. WP is a great platform for entry level phones. I recently upgraded my WP8.1 to Windows 10 and it runs like a charm even though it only has 512 RAM.
Maybe not so young any more but... About 13% pre-tax, 25% of take-home (after insurance, retirement contributions, etc). Of course, when I moved in, it was 32% pre-tax. Roughly another 3% if you include Internet and cell service, but landlord covers electric, heat and hot water, and I use Netflix instead of cable.

For context: living in a large, renovated, but underpriced studio in a gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn.
“The Witness on track to sell more in a week than Braid sold in its first year.”
Fear not, there are in fact some kludgy hacks in there. The BrowserFS stuff is really clean though, and since DosBox is written in C and uses the normal POSIX file api (DosBox thinks it was compiled for Linux), plugging the two together was pretty easy.
Domestic counter-terrorism is a Spetsnaz mission too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vympel
The form factor of the Apple Watch ruins it for me. Watches are (generally) round. The square shape has the same jarring effect on my aesthetic sense as the rounded PIMs from the Danger HipTop/Nokia N-Gage era.

A Moto360 but at about 1/3 the thickness would be something I might consider. I would have bought one already if it didn't look thick enough to be a Woz-style nixie-tube watch.

In fact I'm rather hoping my next watch might be a used Rolex GMT Master II (Black/Red or 'Coke' bezel).

TL; DR: Keep iterating.
The Other Children of Silicon Valley
Something to think about from end user Joe, here: A quick search seemed to indicate that Swift support (officially) began in iOS 7. Great, that's the version I'm on. If anything coming down the pipe for Swift depends on a later version, I'm not on board. I'm not going anywhere. A lot of users, myself included, have been burned when a version upgrade runs like a dog on old hardware...but unfortunately, I'm not going to spring for a new iPad every year, much to the chagrin of Apple. It'd be interesting to see how App Store success correlates with how many versions you can support.
That's anecdotal at best. According to a good deal I've read, the "new generation" actually does have quite a few problems previous generations never had to deal with. My father was able to buy his parents house after a few years of work. Anecdotally, I've been working full time and going to school and I can't even put much of a dent in my loans. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/09/the_mos...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/19/baby-bo...
I don't really see where you're going here.

If you're not working, you're not the target market for an application for professional developers and designers.
Note that he is referring to revenue (Witness retailed for $40, Braid was $15).

Especially notable since Blow blamed piracy for a significant loss of potential income with the Witness.
Maybe the fact that I probably spend as much if not more time at work reading source code than I do English has changed something about the way I read, because I immediately saw the second "the". Then again, it could be because I've taught programming before, and that made me be more aware of things like this:

for(i = 0; i < 10; i++);
a[i] = i;
Good question. Most designers I know use Sketch and I'm pretty sure Sketch doesn't output HTML or CSS.
Ikea appears to be sold out in all of Northern California. They do provide a predictor of future available stock, and it looks like they are intending on restocking in Southern California stores.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/availability/S29084966/
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My parents are smart people with degrees from public land-grant universities but they are not world-class at anything. They had stable, good-paying jobs with proper pensions, and could easily afford to buy a home big enough for a family. It cost about twice their annual income.

They "won the lottery" with me in that I had an innate interest in technology and got into computers and networks in the mid 1980s. I ended up at a public land-grant college, but even if I hadn't, I happened to have the right skills at the right time to ride the .com boom and acquire experience despite my lack of pedigree (and 20 years on, it no longer matters what school I went to.) I busted ass and continue to do so, but I'm not blind to my fortune. And yet, I do not and have never had a pension, and I have always spent 2-4x the fraction of my income on housing than my parents did, for worse housing. Most of my generation was not so lucky as me, but at least they were about to get jobs and build a resume.

My kids are young and if they're just as smart and hard-working as me, they're fucked. The ladder has been pulled up, and pedigree is a lot more important starting out now than it was when I was younger. (I know, I've been a hiring manager for years - and in technology which is a MUCH more egalitarian field than most due to demand.) To give my kids an advantage I've moved to a small country in Western Europe so they can grow up multilingual and have cultural exposure that might make them attractive to elite schools in the event that we've "won the lottery" with their natural abilities. And if they don't, if nothing else, they have access to less expensive housing, education and health care, and live in a society that's much more egalitarian than the US - one that might give them a shot at "just a living" without exposure to the worst predatory aspects of American poverty.

All this is to say, no, things aren't the same. Yes, one still has to work very hard to be the best (one also must be very lucky to be the very best.) The difference is, there was once "good enough to make a decent living" and now, not so much. This isn't about meritocracy, this is about the distribution of reward (across the spectrum of "merit" if you like.)

I'll be voting for Bernie Sanders, myself.
That isn't a differentiation that usually matters when applying the term 'spy' in general.
Smartwatch with a 30-day battery life
Crawler works from a single IP. User-Agent is fixed to the robot's UA. Cookies are totally ignored. The search-engine works with just 2 servers. Crawler/Indexer and Webserver/queries. Crawler is a root-server with 1gbit/s connection hosted in a datacenter. Webserver sits here at home with 200mbit downstream and 20mbit upstream.

I use the Alexa top-1-million sites as seed-list for the crawler. The errors that do appear during the crawl are either sites that have an outage or more likely simply dead-links. Oh, and URLs that turn out to be blocked by robots.txt. There are a lot of sites out there which block anything but Google and Bing from crawling them.

Cloudflare is not an option for me. It would let Cloudflare know what my users are searching for. VERY big no-no. :)

I can filter out 99% of automated queries. Luckily they are still pretty dumb at the moment and give me enough fixed clues to identify them.

I like your idea of keeping the API free with a very low request-rate. That could work. I would have to find a way that they can't just generate many API-keys though. Using captchas for API-key requests won't stop them from doing that.

I posted a "Show HN" about a year ago. Brought in about 1500 extra visitor that day. Got up to 9th place on the HN homepage that day.

New webdesign is already done. I have a German site too. https://deusu.de which actually gets 90% of traffic. That site already has the new design.
Ultra-fine particles emitted by commercial desktop 3D printers [pdf]
A watch should be real-time low bandwidth but high-confidence communication device. Kinda like peripheral vision. You cannot interact a lot with it nor read a lot from it and I find attempts at stretching the functions too much are 'tiring'.
Absolutely. My grandfather had a friend like that who was also loaded (DINK + old money) and had no kids. They lived in a fancy hotel suite.
Especially since the proposal is very unlikely to pass.
I think the best part of this article is the approach to learning new things he presents--going beneath the surface, learning the fundamentals below the “API” layer (abstractly speaking). Really great explanation of that insight!

The part I am having trouble with, with ~5 years of real world data science experience in industry, is the implicit assumption that we all need or want to become good at deep learning.

In my experience, most businesses, at best, are still struggling with overfitting logistic regression in Excel let alone implementing/integrating it with a production code base. And we all know that toy ML models that sit on laptops create ZERO value beyond fodder for Board presentations or moving the CMO's agenda forward.

The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of businesses, with respect to statistics/ML, aren’t doing super duper basic shit (like a random forest microservice that scores some sort of transaction) that might increase some metric 10%. This is due to lack of sophisticated analytics infrastructure/bureaucracy/ lack of talent/ being too scared of statistics. Ultimately when you’re rolling out a machine learning product internally (I’m not talking about Azure/ other aws-model-training-as-a-service type things), the hardest part isn’t: “We need to increase our accuracy by 2% by using Restricted Convolutionallly Recurrent Bayesian Machines!” The hardest part is convincing people you need to integrate a new process into a “production” workflow, and then maintaining that process.
I agree. In my experience at a large company (in a business org) just knowing SQL giveth magical powers.
Didn't it have traits?
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I think it depends on what you mean by "rule." I would say that we don't have any hard and fast rules that our daughter must obey simply because we say so. That doesn't mean we let her do anything particularly dangerous, but we try to explain why we say, "no," rather than just saying, "because I said so."
I'd encourage you to not make stark black-and-white statements about parenting, or judgements about parents who are doing it differently. I certainly wouldn't go about dismissing a parent's love for their child.

In this case, sure, there's almost certainly some children who should be left to develop their own ideals and values as part of maximizing their own potential and finding their own path. There are a whole lot more children who need to be taught some ideals and values, or they'll grow up to be an adult completely without them, and society will be poorer for it. Determining which group any particular child belongs to is the primary caregiver's job, not yours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_algebra

Even wikipedia "gets it"
Note that rent, food, etc is also scaled accordingly. (Not a bad deal in the end, especially considering the cashier/waiters/etc earn enough to live decently).
But it matters in this case, and it explains the confusion of the poster asking the question. A spy would not have been let go.
Thank you & any technical blog post I write will certainly get submitted through here!
Although I'm not much of a C guy, I really enjoy reading ANSI C. I like the Lua source code[1] for instance.

[1]: https://github.com/lua/lua/tree/master/src
DIY wallpaper cut from what is now said to be the world's most expensive book
Vulkan in Open Source [pdf]
Is this what you're looking to do?

https://jsfiddle.net/sadz6va6/

Disclaimer: New to flexbox myself. Might have committed some sins.
Mediocre Wifi can easily add seconds of latency.
As a web developer who works almost exclusively with Boostrap and finds the beginning stages of building a site with Bootstrap to be very tedious, I love this. My boss (does a lot of web design work but not coding) might find this interesting too. He's been wanting to be able to sit and make mockups but can't find the motivation or maybe time to do it.
I always hated wearing a watch. I even used to carry a pocketwatch because I hated it. It always made my wrist slightly sore to wear a watch.
Creating Profitable iOS and Android Apps Without Code
Technology Radar Nov 2015 [pdf]
I don't think the mental process is necessarily all that different in pure mathematics. The process of creating new structures and proofs in mathematics definitely involves a lot of trial-and-error and vague intuition. When the evidence mounts that a particular approach is likely to succeed, more effort goes into refining the intuitive approach into a valid proof. Further iterations often build on the original proof by tweaking the parameters to make it more general or change the context, just to see what happens.
I don't get it. Why did InVision buy them off? just to kill it?
Home ownership isn't very high in Switzerland (and at least in urban areas there aren't many apartments below 1M). And you have to pay income tax on your rent anyway (even if to yourself).
Bill Gates: My parents took me to a child psychologist
> Frankly, I think the incentive is born out of desperation. These are dark times. The current state of rapid media creation and frantic consumption is creating widespread stress and anxiety that’s no longer sustainable.

Journalism always was a low-paying field, but besides being satisfying, it still was a job you could retire in a decade ago. Very few of the young newspaper reporters I used to work with 10 years ago are still in the business, having gone into doing PR or government for saner work hours and much better pay. I can only think of one of my fellow interns who put her years as a beat reporter at a regional paper who successfully made her way to a national outlet. I made the jump myself but only because I was also a programmer. While there are new avenues into big journalism careers, such as blogging or getting your start at places like Vox/BuzzFeed...it doesn't seem like the career path from college to small to regional to national paper exists anymore (I've heard the freelancing route has been just as decimated), and the jobs created by online outlets are a fraction of what traditional news outlets used to have.
Reading (or not) contracts and feeling good about it
Also, some quick feedback: The HTML and CSS panel was hidden by default for me. It was a little hard to find. There's also no quick way to hide it again that I can see. I have to resize it to minimum. Might be worth exploring how double clicking works with PHPStorm (maximizes it) and adding a minimize option to right click context menu. Also undocking options for CSS/HTML would be nice for dual screen use.
Return on Pharma R&D Spending Hits New Low in 2015