skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago after reading this I was so disgusted at LinkedIn I closed my account.

They have a pay for placement scheme with both employees and employers. They tell employers, "hey pay money and we'll give you top candidates", then serve candidates who have themselves paid for placement.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ask-the-headhunter-...
FB is "nowwhere" in the space? as in, they are "now" in the space "where"? have you heard of facebook at work?

(and yes, you are dumb :)
Many of the positive comments are from other long time members of the Hacker News community...there's not a lot of green on this page.
Non-Consensus Based Entrepreneurship: The Art of the Non-Obvious
It's a striking reminder that, although the systems we use day-to-day may be intimidatingly complex, they are hackable. Moreover, even someone with a comparatively basic understanding of reverse engineering (e.g. me) can see how it works. Very exciting.
20 TOP paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free right now
CoreOS's rkt – App Container runtime hits v1.0
Unreal Engine 3, actually. The generation (with various iterations) from Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War, and Bioshock Infinite.

Unreal Engine 2 would be from the period of UT 2k4 and Killing Floor.
Lots of angry sentiment towards this company here. I understand it doesn't necessarily bring this demographic as much value since most here are probably happily employed and don't need it. There's plenty of others who count on a service like LinkedIn, which doesn't have a good comparison (e.g. Twitter to Facebook).

Personally, I've found value in it from the potential clients I've received (I'm a contractor) and the ability to look up just about anyone I may need to do business with. I use it professionally to get an overview of others like I use Wikipedia to get an overview of a topic.

I do know they have room to improve. I've been using the service since 2006 and have seen all manner of their silly practices. But as a well-known, professional network with a large userbase, I have yet to find a rivaling alternative.
Sadly it's broken in the latest version of Chrome.

Uncaught TypeError: RegExp.prototype.sticky getter called on non-RegExp object
Most of these videos I believe were created with Paulstretch, an open source audio time stretching application specifically optimized for creating nice ambient textures for very long stretches.

Paul Nasca gives a brief overview of the algorithm here:
http://www.paulnasca.com/algorithms-created-by-me#TOC-PaulSt...
Devops everywhere celebrate.
What does this mean for Connectifier, the company LinkedIn acquired hours before markets closed yesterday (and before after-hours trading caused LNKD to slide 40%)?
HTC line of Android phones with HTC Sense was probably the best and most distinct UI customization I've seen.
They had it way before Material design even came into picture.
He is not "plainly wrong" if the first definition of the word in question is literally supporting what he is saying. Your assertion of his correctness is what is plainly wrong.
I don't understand, 90% of the clutter would disappear if invest some effort into pimping your emacs. Imagine how fantastic it would be if you published this with org-mode.
>> "The law was intended...|

The intention of a law and how it enforced can be quite different. This law could be abused, I think that's the issue.

>> "People traveling through several countries to get to Denmark seeking asylum do have a choice. Many of them are men and left their family behind btw."

There's a reason the men are leaving their families behind. Travelling across Europe can be very dangerous - I'm sure some of the men who lost children to drowning off the coast of Greece wish they'd left their families behind. The men take the dangerous journey, get some shelter for their family in a new country, and then move the family there safely. Not all asylum seekers have had their homes destroyed/are at immediate risk of being killed. You would typically start trying to get out before your city is being bombed so it makes sense to leave your family in relative safety where they have shelter/food/a community to help them.

>> "muslims aren't even allowed to wear gold wedding rings."

Not all people seeking asylum in Europe at the minute are Muslim.
> Perhaps we should discuss the people that decide to smoke sooo much cannabis where driving into stationary objects like people's homes, bars/restaurants and non-stationary objects like pedestrians and other cars is rather common.

I agree with all your points but this one. I think this may become common if Cannabis were legal in your area. I think it's only uncommon right now because people are using Cannabis in their own homes or someone else's home, for the most part.
>If the product is buggy, isn't the QA to blame and should thus get the axe first?

Obviously not.

While it CAN be, one much more common issue is project managers death marching the developers with impossible deadlines and tons of hard features for the next release, and then rushing to market when it's not yet read.

The QA can file all the bugs they like and do a perfect job, but developers can't fix them soon enough, or they fixing requires working around complex architecture choices that were done in a hasty manner.

Think of open source projects with thousands of open bug reports submitted by users (thus serving as QA team in this case). Is it the fault of those users that the bugs are not fixed?
Neat, but this (/etc/ssl/ca/certs/users/) is a "DB" in its loose meaning :)

Cheers
First thought: "You can carry any X dollars around, the form of a credit card."

Second thought: "Oh, the $ is a indicator of some kind."

Third thought: https://xkcd.com/1306/
This is certainly different then being respectful of religion. I am more then able to go into details and such but I don't think this is the place for it. If you want you can email me at mtelesha at the big G company email account.

If you want information on historical facts and academic inaccurate information and myths by lazy academics dipping their toes in a discipline they don't know about I would love to. I have a ton of those stories. The academic discipline of a Biblical Scholar (I am more of Theology trained aka more history facts and figures and philosophy based) I can lay out a decent academic data.

Just so we are clear this would be non-proselytizing and more of an fact finding from academia. It really is an awesome study and many academics and PhD of the Bible are not even Christians but are fascinated by the historical data and the academic discipline.
what do you call an ethiopian with a pickle on his head?

a quarter pounder.
I read this entire article, nodding my head throughout: why would a large country, with many other problems, invest time, effort, potential embarrassment, and legal implications, just to hunt down a few critics. Then the Snowden rendition plane story made its way to the top of HN, and I forgot which country we're talking about. Pot meet kettle.
Why Whooping Cough Vaccines Are Wearing Off
What we're seeing is a slow-mo burst. The outer balloon shell has given way and has left the inner water ball still, albeit briefly, intact. Only a matter of time before we all take a bath.
When an untethered machine can provide all of the functionality of a machine that phones home.

(never)
A language with which the programmer can specify the static or dynamic three dimensional position of the sound sources, absolute or relative to the listener in a specified environment. The geometry of the environment can affect reverberation, amplitude etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/07...

> Edward Snowden said he repeatedly tried to go through official channels to raise concerns about government snooping programs but that his warnings fell on the deaf ears

> In testimony to the European Parliament released Friday morning, Snowden wrote that he reported policy or legal issues related to spying programs to more than 10 officials, but as a contractor he had no legal avenue to pursue further whistleblowing

("appropriate channels" was a quote from the previous comment I was replying to)
If I could use this to get subtitled gifs of the scene in question, not just screenshots, it would go from amazing to godlike. On the roadmap for v2, hopefully?
That's roughly the pixel density in the retina iPad.
At a 20 billion valuation that still seems quite high. I think to justify the valuation they would at some point need to generate $1.5-$2 billion in FCF and at the current growth rate that isn't happening.
The idea that LinkedIn has enough market value to be able to lose $10B of it makes me sad.
While I agree with you, I would say that bubble bursting is more synonymous with larger disasters like the housing crash in 08 or the Dotcom bust in 2000. In my opinion what's happening with overvalued companies is more of a market correction. To me it doesn't seem like people are in panic, people are just saying things along the lines of "well yeah, they were overvalued" and they move on.
My Mom asked me if I was recently on LinkedIn. Apparently they emailed her after I made some new connections.

I turned off all email notifications and despise the fact that they email my contacts about my activity.
Using C and C++ Code in an Android App with the NDK
Interesting use of html 5
Even virtual assistants are sexually harassed
And the sad thing about it is that (i) they have so much mindshare they don't need to do that shit any more, and (ii) it probably makes the average person that would consider subscribing to an online networking tool less likely to consider buying LinkedIn Premium...
Off the top of my head, there are two reasons people seem to de-duplicate code. One is because two or more things happen to share similar code. Another reason is because two or more things must share similar code.

It seems like you are speaking of the first reason. There is no dependency, and the programmer is creating one. IMHO you should have at least 3 instances before creating an abstraction to reduce your code.

The second reason is different though. By creating the abstraction you are not adding a dependency, you are making an implicit dependency explicit. There is a huge difference. In this instance any duplicate code is bad.
No bubble burst this time, it will be a sequence of large corrections. Too many small time investors willing to invest for low returns to crash like 2k.
Something can be unacceptable without necessarily being the worst possible case.
Tableau down 50%.

HN Discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11042482
> This is still trying to force a private institution to conform to your wishes.

I'm curious what your opinion is of our current advocacy campaigns attempting to "force" tech companies to hire more women, or "force" movies and TV to to have more characters who are ethnic minorities.

> The HRC, GLAAD, and etc never demand that Liberty University (socially conservative institution) let say Dan Savage speak at their university.

Maybe they should! They'd certainly be well within their rights. Although I'd be interested to learn more about a situation where someone like Savage was prevented from speaking at Liberty University, as I hadn't heard of that.
The "1000 km" title is misleading. The tiles will be mostly installed on parking space near commercial centers and on a few low-speed connecting roads.

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

Some details and a video on https://www.aruco.com/2016/01/1000km-routes-solaires-france/ . The video does show how they think of it for side roads (and don't say it because PR).

edit: also part of the breakthrough here is that the upper layer is made of recycled glass and resin and is not slippery.

Bit surprised by the negativity around this on HN.
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They used to give guidance about what 'know' meant and I still adhere to the 'I will only link with you if I have properly worked with you' line. The fact that few other people do have devalued its use.
Wonder how this guy feels with 5% of his families investments being in LinkedIn http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/01/3-reasons-l...
On-Demand Platforms: Smooth supply side payments
All I can add is that Autodesk has the best office layout that I am aware of. In 1990s.

In their HQ, every single employee got a little glassed in office with enough room for a desk, chair, and 2 chairs IN front of the desk. There was room for an employee to bring in a sleep bag and sleep if necessary with some privacy.

IMO much better than this open office stuff. Hopefully they still have that.
Just curious - why did you give them your contacts? I've been on it for years and have never uploaded a single contact. I've just manually connected with people I know. Whenever a service asks for my contacts, I know it's because they want to spam them.
If CSS is written properly it can cascade! I think some people enjoy doing more work than they need because sometimes it adds fun or makes their particular job on a team less intense. But I get paid based on how much work I am able to do, so getting things done as directly and pragmatically as possible benefits me the most.

You can also use some expressions to match selectors in CSS, for example I use `.float-none`, `.float-left`, and `.float-right` as class names for my basic image floats. I can select all images with these classes applied with `img[class^="float-"]` and I can catch individual classes with `.float-left` or something like `img[class*="-right"]`. I think people would sooner learn and use tools that promise to make CSS easy, instead of advancing their CSS skills.

Check out http://elementqueries.com for some of the crazy fun stuff you can do with CSS by extending the language with a little JS. I'd sooner write styles like this that let you reduce the amount of HTML and CSS you have to write than to start introducing extra steps and tools between my files and the browser that multiply the amount of HTML and CSS being output before I can see the result.

I do also author and publish my own CSS stylesheets and plugins that can be used in other sites, so pretty quickly I can bring good CSS into any codebase to fix most common problems.
Gah, what a terrible idea. Making a durable, safe road surface that's also useful as a solar source? Why not just put a solar roof on the entire road instead? It'd probably be cheaper, and almost certainly safer and more efficient.

If we wanted to generate electric power off of road surfaces, why not embed piezoelectric or some other compression-to-energy mechanism instead? Cars rolling over the road apply a tremendous amount of physical energy to the surface. Capture that energy. It's probably more than you'd get from solar.
Or maybe programmer B is trying to maintain a monolith of pasta for which there is no documentation, the original programmer has long since left the company, no one is entirely sure what the business rules of the program are actually supposed to be, there are no tests, and you don't have time to actually read and understand all 100k lines of code.

Management just needs this one little feature tweaked, so you dive in to where you think that needs to go, make the new thing happen while absolutely changing as little as possible because god help us if anything breaks.

Now imagine that you're not the second or third person to be responsible for this, but maybe the tenth or so, and it's been going on for decades. And the last person to work on it was really new to this language and didn't understand its idioms very well, or vice Versace, and you don't understand the language very well.

I greatly enjoy these conversations about code quality and maintainability, but I've encountered it more than once where business constraints don't allow you to even start to think about these issues. You have no choice but to respect the abstraction you inherit because your job is to get in, get out, and pray you didn't break some edge case that no one would ever think of.

Or maybe I'm just an amateur/novice.
Bunnie Huang's “Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”
I really wish all the various companies that use 3D modeling and animations software would fund and/or contribute to Blender (or some other open source 3D app)

Maya and 3dsmax are great and arguably better than Blender but it seems like if they pooled their resources they could change that and everyone would be better off for it.
The NRA is a gun owners group, the NSSF is the industry lobby.
What are better alternatives to LinkedIn? I'd be happy to abandon it.
Bay Area Housing Hack Guide
The angry sentiment isn't because people don't see potential value. It's because they do see the value - and how the company keeps spoiling what could be a good user experience.
Not mentioned is the total cost of the project, estimated at around 2.7 billion Euro for 10-15 years of life expectancy according to the industrial manufacturer (Colas).

There is a very long way, in France, between political declarations of intention and actions, so I'm betting this will never be done. Which would probably be for the best, a predictable failure such as this project would slow down development of renewables in France even more.
> Isn't it harmful?

No, it isn't.

Next question?
Arguably most of their more innovative stuff like XSI, Mudbox, etc have all been acquisitions and not original IP.
Yeah, I was saying Boo-urns, and it couldn't find it.

Also, yeah, this is coming down as soon as the lawyers get ahold of it.
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The free Doulci iOS 9.3 iCloud Activator
> Cars rolling over the road apply a tremendous amount of physical energy to the surface. Capture that energy.

This is a misunderstanding of thermodynamics.

There is no energy to be captured without adding friction to the existing situation. Even capturing the vibration would tax the vehicles traveling over the road.

This is similar to the old "smart steps" concept[1], which takes extra energy (beyond the energy already required to take a step) from the person walking on it.

1. http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/13/tech/innovation/pavegen-kineti...
So, a bubble-bath, then?
Gene Editing: Are Scientists Going Too Far?
Meet the World’s First Ubuntu Tablet (That Is Also a Desktop PC)
> because somebody uploaded the email address

You mean they scrapped it from your email account because you clicked on one of their links in your email.
Email from my 88 year old Father:

"I am on linkined now. What do I do?"
> other config files are generated from configuration.nix

Ah, now I get it.

So if I have to use stuff like Zsh or Atom, the only reason they have their own configs is, that no one bothered to write a Nix expression to generate them with their packages?
>when making that tradeoff what parameters make a duplications better or worse than a dependency?

This depends entirely upon the context. Overduplication and tight coupling are universally bad but the trade off between them is often a matter of opinion.

In practice I've found that once you've hit the point where you're trying to trade duplication + tight coupling off against one another the code is already in a decent enough state that there's other more important work to be done.
blogspam (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), original discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11027369
Compared to SolidWorks, SketchUp, and even parts of MS Visio. The UI and meta-data handling is very cumbersome and every time we use it we think how much better some parts could be. As with many mega-corps they tend to follow or buy the innovations of others, eventually.
For all of human history:

[Insert new thing]: Are Scientists Going Too Far?

Consider the converse: if there are debilitating genetic diseases that cause incredible suffering, is it good or ethical to deliberately refuse to prevent or treat them on the basis of vague concerns that have not materialized?
At some point, LinkedIn changed its mind and decided that you should connect to anyone you're barely acquainted with and/or have exchanged an email with. They're actively encouraging forming these "devalued" links. They even use shady practices like borderline forgery of invitations.
Why a computer buffer is called a buffer
If by "functionality" you mean "stuff that makes money for the manufacturer and is at best marginally useful to the customer", then I agree.

Otherwise, the whole experience of the 20th century demonstrate that it's possible to build stand alone appliances that provide useful services to the paying customer while meeting the manufacturer's financial goals.
If you've ever run tableau server, you know why.
What makes a smart machine smart?
Break out your Chrome inspector and follow along in our exciting home version:

https://frinkiac.com/api/search?q=hoyvin

Results look like this:

[{"Id":1745953,"Episode":"S13E08","Timestamp":797213,"Filename":""}]

Concatenate the episode and timestamp to get the image:

https://frinkiac.com/img/S13E08/797213/medium.jpg

Caption here:

https://frinkiac.com/api/caption?e=S13E08&t=797213

Look for the Subtitles array:

"Subtitles":[{"Id":138914,"Episode":"S13E08","StartTimestamp":794266,"EndTimestamp":796533,"Content":" ( gavel pounding ) So, Professor,"},{"Id":138915,"Episode":"S13E08","StartTimestamp":796533,"EndTimestamp":799834,"Content":"tell us about Operation Hoyvin-Mayvin."}]
huge corrections under way, guarantee this is not the end, just the beginning.

unicorn slaughter.

upside:
expect house prices in the SF bay area to become more affordable.
The spelling in the captions can be hard to predict, and it's not good at fuzzy matching:

https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=I+was+saying+buu-urns
Guile compiler tasks
Annoyingly, they removed the most useful bit (for me) several years ago in terms of getting work.

LinkedIn Answers was a bit crappy, but I used to spend quite a lot of time giving good detailed answers to people. That ended up with a few short consulting gigs that we quite fun "Could you come and sort this out for me".

They never built on LinkedIn Answers, let it stagnate and then killed it. It was much better than the stupid Groups system.
Why it is illegal than ?
Brilliant. just what I need to needle the wifey
Imagine if I bought "stock" in your job. I monitored your performance and set expectations for your work. You fail to meet those expectations, so as the majority shareholder of your job, I have you fired and replaced with someone else. Or you underperform once and I use this threat every single review.

That's how Wall Street ruins good business.
To which some may reply that trying to remove a symptom does not a cure make.
One of the authors here. I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this: https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screensho...
"Tableau Software tumbled 36% after management warned it was unlikely to realize benefits of certain tax assets. The news sent shares spiralling despite the software company's better-than-expected quarter. The company earned 33 cents a share, more than double estimates."

Also their growth is down.
> Did you folks fix the "oops, I accidentally selected too much and OOMed the machine" crash that was supposed to be resolved by the new query planner in .10?

> The current version still has the problem that if you do a massive SELECT then it will fill up memory until the process gets killed. In the future we'll give controls to limit how much memory a query can take.

...

It locks on the query until its killed manually and/or kills it automatically.

It doesn't crash.
Hm, would be fun to see a plot like Google's n-gram viewer of HN's use of the phrase "bubble burst" over time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035955
Instead of using an ignorant sarcasm, take a look at facts and formulate an argument:

http://etfdb.com/etfdb-category/technology-equities/

http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/18/there-are-now-229-unicorn-...

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/sectorandindustry/industri...

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/sectorandindustry/industri...
Strong beliefs, loosely held.
announcement discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035955