skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the article.

I remember both Jack in the Box and Odwalla in the news. The problem is, I won't do business with either company because they are generally garbage products.

Why isn't he raising the alarm about that? Instead, it is about extremely rare outbreaks that only occurred because of mishandling the product to pad someone's pocket.

Yes, people died. What about all the people who continue to die because they eat these products, and it isn't because of E Coli?

Odwalla is full of sugar, far more than what their fancy label and branding suggests, and Jack in the Box is just nasty greasy fast food.

So yes, this article really is just fear mongering.
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Have a look at the legal industry. There are quite a few legal tech startups by now. Even web-scraping applications are rare in legal. The sector is famous for being profitable (high margins), rusty and inefficient.
Free trade should never override inividual rights and protections.
I have always felt that the problem with linkedin wasn't so much the 'questionable' growth tactics (fake contacts which don't actually have accounts, etc) as much as the absolutely abysmal content that gets posted there.

Whenever I go on linkedin, I'm spammed with an insane amount of articles about 'leadership' which are written in the worst kind of HR'ese by people that are blatantly trying to promote their brand. Facebook and Twitter are interesting because people share cool things which I like reading.

The kind of content that people create/share on linkedin makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Don't even get me started on 'influencers'. Ugh.

So - the problem with professional social media is that people sanitize everything so much that it's completely uninteresting to read. You could have a wonderful product, but it will be a beautiful shell filled with meaningless self promoting garbage.
I hope he does.
It's actually ironic, most people seem to think:

"getting investment" === "success"

Even my JavaScript runtime knows better.
Has the Queen become frightfully common?
Well yeah, we need a callout or customers won't know where to look.

In all seriousness though, it seems the site has linux/chrome issues. I am looking into it.

Thanks for the screenshot =]
Ant Simulator Kickstarter Cancelled
I would humbly point in the direction of Somewhere.com
Out of my experience it's stable on Windows, although lacking in other departments (eg. no dark theme)
Social feeds, open chat rooms, getting followers—these are all ingredients of an highly addictive product, the typical instant gratification product of our generation. At work you do not need that shit. Normal Facebook can be excellent for professional networking and sometimes way better than Linkedin but why Facebook for productivity?

You want to communicate? Every productivity solution has some chat, which can extend in seconds to a multi-user chat, to a call or video call (Hangouts, Office365). But yeah you can also use Slack, Hipchat or whatever, no rocket science for a decade. You want a feed of your coworkers? Why? You want to follow coworkers? Why? You have Facebook already.

Email, messaging, video calls, an office with collaborating features and a task/ticket management solution. THAT'S IT, you do not need more. Depending on the industry and profession some more and specialized stuff might be required (such as CRM, SFA).

I am wondering how the Facebook London remote team got the approval for this nonsense from Zuckerberg.
Depression is a big no (and other "demons").

But for autistic scale - experience of synesthesia is on the opposite edge. http://www.wired.com/2014/10/magic-mushroom-brain/ Though, the "lack of control" needs to be addressed before starting adventure.

I agree that "hacking one's brain" is not for everyone, and its better to be safe than sorry.
Never underestimate what misguided cleverness can do. Heartbleed, the most famous of these issues in the last few years, would have not occurred on systems like OpenBSD, were it not for its developers' quest for optimization in their malloc wrapper.

I've seen buffer overflows in Java, too. It's immune to writing past the end of the arrays, but it's not immune to, say, smart programmers using one large array to hold multiple buffers that they manually manage, because who knows when the GC kicks in and wrecks havoc. Python may be immune to use-after-frees, but the OpenGL bindings that it calls through the FFI aren't.

To err is human, and languages like Rust don't make it less likely to err, they just give you new opportunities to do it.

Moving to a safe language like Rust would help, absolutely, but to a far lesser degree than people hope. It would close far fewer cans of worms than the hive mind hopes, and it's so new no one really knows how big its own can of worms is.
ElonMusk, you behave like a big child
Ultrasound technology lets you touch and manipulate virtual objects
I've worked 5-6 programming jobs in 5-6 different industries. Honestly the job is pretty similar in any industry. I'd recommend working for whoever pays best and/or a team you get on with.
A severe vulnerability affects eBay, be careful to phishing attacks
Seems like an obvious competitor to Slack.
My first thought was Slack must have turned down Facebook's offer, thank the gods. It's not too weird to ask coworkers to sign up for Slack, but it would be really weird and probably unacceptable to ask someone who works for you to sign up for Facebook for all kinds of reasons. I'd feel more comfortable requiring employees to use Reddit at work, seriously.
We don't know Microsoft isn't worse. And even of it isn't maybe it's better to limit the number of companies with extensive collection of our personal data.
That smells like bull. Source ?
I don't have any specific industry for you to get into, but I have a suggestion on how you might be able to find it. Attend as many trade shows as you can and talk to the folks to get an idea of what they are doing, although some of them may be difficult to get to due distance, cost, invites etc.

For example, Embedded World in Nürnberg, Germany provides a good cross section of industry that has embedded engineering involvement in it. There will be a similar one for telecommunications, Automotive etc.

Good luck on searching for your calling.
Just a heads up: I'm being shown the Windows x64 button and I'm using a Mac (OS X 10.10) and Firefox.

There is only one button on the front page but you seem to support multiple platforms so I'm assuming this is a bug?
I'm very much into DSLs, and I've been building and using them extensively throughout a very wide spectrum: database engines, CADs, hardware design and verification, compilers, device drivers, HPC (GPGPU).
I always wonder why IBM chose these horrible serif designs over their previous, much nicer, cleaner, fonts you can find on their 32xx terminals...
Thank you - I think that this is an excellent point. "Stupid" is what the Escalante figure implies people assume about his students. However, his view is that they just haven't been shown how to do things and therefore have not learned. The implication is that everybody can learn. I agree with your line of argument about how the word "stupid" might be used. Thank you for making me think further!
A bit minimal for my needs but a cool start.

Unless I missed it, there doesn't seem to be a way to drag items around - I tend to use visual arrangement in my mindmaps quite a bit.
10 useful steps to perfect Website Optimization
This is far more exciting than the smart glasses. No privacy issues here. I'd love to have the planning of the day or my relevant news of the night like how much I earned with my web sites while I was sleeping.

There should be a way to switch between the person's identity in front of the mirror though.
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We don't know that Microsoft is worse, but we do know that Google's entire business is based on surveillance and personalized advertising, and that it's an insignificant part of Microsoft's business.
How to Detect Lies: Speech
You have to enable options and test the impact.
For example, on my cheap vps, when I enable gzip like google recommends, load time actually increases. Maybe it would be lower for someone using pigeon connection, but not for the average case.
One should consider the possibility that the entire web development industry is a giant busy-work factory making half-baked kluges to a fundamental problem that will never be papered over: http is a stateless protocol for sending hypertext. markup. meta-data and context for resources in a folder somewhere. It's a file-system thing.
A web browser is a declarative-markup-tree rendering-engine with scriptable nodes, and the language chosen for scripting is an accident of history.
Using http and web browsers in ways they never were intended to be used is possible, albeit painful.
Now that we have virtual DOM's and isomorphic platforms like clojure/clojurescript and we compile to JS, now that we have JS on the server, now that we have our head so thoroughly up our ass that we forgot the point, now we can consider the circle of ridiculous nonsense complete...

The world wide web took off, and we have to live with it's technical debt, or...

The solution is simple, bold, and risky:
1) pick a port. (Nowadays that's even a joke. we tunnel everything over port 80.)
2) pick a protocol with some future (hey let's just tack websockets on as an upgrade, gradually get browser support, etc)
3) keep moving...

I am not ultra impressed with the web of 2016...
The web of 1996 was way cooler.
I want a VRML3 rendering engine for a browser.
A diode crowbar or a single would imply a drop of ~0.6v on the line so you always would get 4.4 volts .

However there is other kind of protections like this : http://www.edn.com/design/analog/4368527/Simple-reverse-pola...
From 7 cases to 4 million: America at high Alert from Zika Virus :WHO
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The Scooter Computer
Harvard scholars identify tenets of America’s built-in inequity, offer answers
Triplebyte has a blogpost[1] that seems quite relevant. Most companies seem to want "product programmers"[2], as opposed to technical or enterprise programmers. The second link below is another blogpost by them explaining this taxonomy.

It would be interesting to see how much this applies to non y-combinator companies (which is what their study covered), but I'd have a guess and say that, for most startups, quite a lot.

1. https://data.triplebyte.com/who-y-combinator-companies-want-...
2. https://data.triplebyte.com/a-taxonomy-of-programmers-d0e9d8...
> I'd argue that GNU set out to advance the cause of gaining power over developers

Power that is shared equally is not held "over" anyone. Share-and-share alike is not power, its equality.

> The ironic thing about FLOSS is that it acts counter to the ideals of libre

According to which philosophy? John Locke (1632–1704) rejected several hundred years ago the notion that liberty should have no restrictions.

Thus, freedom is not as Sir Robert Filmer defines it: 'A liberty for everyone to do what he likes, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws.' ... Freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of nature. Freedom of people under government is to be under no restraint apart from standing rules to live by that are common to everyone in the society and made by the lawmaking power established in it. Persons have a right or liberty to (1) follow their own will in all things that the law has not prohibited and (2) not be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others

Rules that are common to everyone are not power, and its not counter to the ideals of libre. Shield me against the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others, and I will have liberty. Proprietary licenses and DRM are frameworks that arbitrary limits who can modify the software, who can read it, and who can use and share it.
If you are buying 'raw' ingredients, such as mushrooms or marijuana, there is a much better chance of getting what you expect.

Of course, it's not guarenteed (they could for example be sprayed with another substance), but even in terms of economics for the dealer, it probably wouldn't make sense to try to adulterate such things. Adulteration is much more prevelant when dealing with relatively expensive, highly processed drugs, where there are many levels of people in the supply chain; the temptation to cut it to increase margins is just too high.
What amazes me is how small London was then compared to the huge thing it is today. What constituted "London" in Wren's plan is like a small bit of one part of the city today. I mean, it makes sense when you think about it, but it was just surprising to see it visualized.
Elon Musk personally cancels blogger's Tesla order after 'rude' post
> Strategically Google will never drop ads, so the next best step for this project

I'm curious what this step would be?

NGINX pagespeed is a server side module that you run before you send data to the end-user.

Many people who own servers want to extract revenue from their end-users, and yes, that means ads.

If pagespeed stripped ads from a person's website, I think they'd be very unappreciative of it.
Writing an Hadoop MapReduce Program in Python (2012)
Oh, don't even get me started with build tools.
Nowadays we have build tools to build build tools.

I'm sorry, but when FRONT-END DEV considers build tools standard we are LOST lost lost...

How many JS libraries and CSS scripts do we really need to embed in a page? How many of those functions or classes are even being used in that page?
Why do I have to scroll to view source on a page with mostly text and a few colored boxes?

Hand-coded html and css is not that hard folks...

it's just the habits, the frameworks, etc...

1/4 of the web is powered by Wordpress wtf!?
I've seen and heard of people getting promoted to get them out of somebody's hair. That may involve a in-organization horizontal or vertical promotion, or a glowing reference for another job. Promotion for incompetence is a thing.

I'm not saying this was the case, but don't assume just because he was promoted or because they gave him a leave of absence (!!) that it must mean he was great.
Microsoft has already launched dozens of apps on Android and iOS, and there are several it has already bought in. That's part of its cross-platform strategy.

There's no guarantee that Microsoft won't rename an app, or incorporate the technology into an existing app, but it has no reason to pay $250m for something just to shut it down...
> ... makes visitor analysis literally impossible without joining the Google Analytics dragnet,

Google Analytics does not give you referrer information from Google search. They keep that to themselves regardless of if you use their analytics software or not.

The only things they do is (a) integrate with webmaster tools which you can use without Google Analytics to give you general search term aggregates and (b) integrate with Google Ads to show your campaign performance, which any other analytics service can do as well.
“Hello” from QA [video]
Thanks for sharing that! I'd never known that was the case. I do prefer vi bindings over emacs, but I can make do with these. This'll be just a little life-changing.
...until April when the (stupid, IMO) psychoactive substances bill will make production (e.g. growing), supply, import or export illegal :(
Show HN: Go-agrep – fast fuzzy string searching using a precomputed database
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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: It depends.

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My view is that if people on my box can run a compiler, they surely can run Ruby, or Python, or PHP or one of the many many other dynamic languages that I have which will let them do whatever it is they want.
It's the 'city' proper, i.e. the City of London [1] (sometimes known as the Square Mile) as opposed to the city, London, or the Greater London area. It gets very confusing but, yes, London as most people think of it has got much, much bigger in the last 350 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
No IPv6 support - 2016. :(
I need two things to consider this:

- Like semantics (Like to mark as completed?)

- Markdown
"... Last year, when consultants from Deloitte surveyed Swiss watch executives, eighty per cent of them indicated that demand was down “due to anti-corruption legislation” in China."

source - http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-kleptocrat-i...
Andrew Weil on Spontaneous Happiness
curl -s whatismyip.akamai.com
Custom Web browser from Comodo poses security threat, researcher says
Ever work with an engineering team? Building new weapons systems? Fighter planes and the like? Just as creative an endeavor if not more so than software development yet they have schedules and budgets to meet too. And yet people's lives depend on the result. Software development can learn a lot from other engineering disciplines.
Show HN: Thinkosaur – Shows for programmers
Import.io styleguide
"there's a big gap in the market for a solution that gives non-technical managers some reassurance that progress is being made"

That's not a tool gap but a trust gap in the team, and no tool can remedy that, IMO.
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I found out that jotform has an api, but didn't read the docs.
> but by having the second 100 people sampled conditional on the results of the first 200, you have ensured this is not true.

I still think this is counter intuitive, and you must have a lot of practice in the field to get an intuitive feel for such cases.

The next 100 people are sampled just as randomly as the first 200. So by adding 100 people, we are essentially re-doing the experiment with a larger sample.

So how could the original experiment be valid if it had had 300 samples to begin with, when the now-augmented experiment, which for all intend and purposes is the same experiment, isn't valid?

I am not defending the validity of the above argument, but I am defending that it sounds pretty damn obvious.
So its basically just like dealing with bureaucracy?

Reduces your ego to null and forces you to rethink things you've taken for granted, while contemplating your existence within rules of it.
Hello! I agree with mrmondo insofar as Turtl is too immature for me at to me at the moment.

That said, please post updates -- I'm on the lookout for Evernote alternatives, now that its demise seems imminent.

I don't use any of the fancy evernote features, so if you're interested, this is what I'd require at a minimum:

- Save and sync text between OS X and Android

- Button to take a picture and insert it into a note

That's really all I use.
The Onion routing protocol is not as anonymous as you think it is. Whoever controls the exit nodes is the one who controls the traffic.
mindmup does diffing and version control nicely (the format is JSON) and it's web based, multi-client.
http://discover.mindmup.com/geeks
The New Aristocrats: A cultural and economic analysis of the new virtue signalling
London itself, as in the City of London, is still only a square mile, it's even called 'The Square Mile'. And the City of London is more-or-less based on the borders of the old Roman city of Londinium. Parts of the Roman city walls are still around today.

Greater London is an amalgamation of the neighbouring boroughs that grew and merged into the London metropolis today. Eg, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham, Camden, etc.

You can see which borough you're in by looking at the street signs.
Yahoo to Pursue Asset Sales, Cut 15% of Staff
Any feedback will help the team make it better. I have listed high level features in another comment here.
Fitness trackers are leaking lots of your data
Seems to say "Loading.." indefinitely. (Probably because I'm behind a corp firewall/proxy)
If that pleases the users ;)
Have you tried one of those wacom drawing tablet/screen things? Is the latency comparable (or even noticeable)?
I think that's coz of the load of being on HN front page.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+my+public+ip
If you like web-scraping, and you're not an idiot, you immediately have an information advantage for anything you decide to do. Do not underestimate this advantage.

I would suggest you leverage your interest in web-scraping and use it to customers in what ever niche you believe you can sell them something.

Collect your "beta" users through web-scraping, figure out a way to reach them at scale. Build/sell a product they want (you can leverage your information advantage to figure out what this is)

This is personally what I do and have created/worked on many bootstrapped companies over my career. Niche for me is fairly irrelevant, as long as I have a pool of interested customers ahead of time. I primarily use my information advantage to figure these out.

The additional skills you will need is:

* learn to think as a "user/customer"

* minor copy-writing skills (or at least understand what shitty copy is and how to improve it)

* UX

* Data mining & Analytics, Analytics, Analytics

* A/B Testing, Iterations, Incremental Improvements (see point above)

* Hypothesis Driven Development (https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/how-implement-hyp...)

My one suggestion is to avoid any projects which do not have a clear monetization strategy. If you're following my blue-print companies that don't make money from day will only incur costs as you reach your pool of customers at scale.
FWUPD is more a "from the devs but embraced by the vendors" effor: http://www.fwupd.org/developers
Just for curiosity, do you consider coffee a drug? Had you ever drank?
I know someone who worked on a heads up display for paramedics. People have been trying to make these for a few years.

Just think how complicated it actually is for a nurse:

- it's got to supply actually useful information that isn't fairly trivial to get by picking up a chart

- it'll have to hook up with some sort of input device

- are they carrying around the AR device and the input device at all times?

- it's got to be wearable for 8 hours or it's completely pointless (you can't use it half the time if it's essential)

- it's got to be light and durable

- for almost every hospital it'll have to have specialized software written to integrate

- an amazing UI to use it without touching anything as they can't keep cleaning their hands to use it

- there's got to be total network coverage in every hospital room, it can't cut out in wi-fi deadspots (I have no idea how good this usually is)

And those are the easy problems I can think of without any particular domain experience. I imagine it will get a lot more complicated when you know what they actually do.
I am very methodical about when I add coworkers to my (private) Facebook profile: the day after I leave.

I see my coworkers for approximately 1/3 of my entire week. If I have a question for them it can wait until tomorrow/Monday. I have nothing to gain by them having access to photos of me at a bar with friends or pictures of me at a half marathon or something.
I have one, maybe a couple more. They chose me, I didn't chose them.

And no, it's not normal. But it might happen to you like it happened to me.
>Imagine an attacker is able to inject small files onto the system via a channel that would not let them transmit arbitrary binary data, and that the system is otherwise sufficiently firewalled to prevent them from just downloading their own tools without first further compromising the system.

I'd just send the binaries base64 encoded. Decoding is trivial, with any number of tools commonly installed in the system.

Limiting access to compilers, alone, is 100% useless. You either go a lot farther down that road, or there is no point in starting.