skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I like FiveThirtyEight's live blogging.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/iowa-caucus-presidenti...

The 19 January 2016 analysis from FiveThirtyEight, "Beware A GOP Calendar Front-Loaded With States Friendly To Trump And Cruz," about how the delegate rules in different states mean that a leader at this stage of the race may not win the Republican Party nomination is also helpful for perspective on the campaign.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/beware-a-gop-calendar-f...

And now that results are coming in, FiveThirtyEight's post "Four Roads Out Of Iowa For Republicans" is looking downright prescient.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/four-roads-out-of-iowa-...
Thanks! I never thought of it that way.
mpc-hc is the best for Windows.
Neat site.

Someone should make a screensaver like the last two random attractors on: http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lyapunov/

http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lyapunov/explore1.jpg

http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lyapunov/explore2.jpg

Those look badass.
> Open source is a form of software licensing that lots of people develop and use for lots of different reasons. That's it.

Open is more than one form of software licensing, each license modified by the different idiosyncrasies and values of different people that develop software.

> Everything else is politics and philosophy

Open source IS politics as well. The origin of the term itself is a way to subvert Free Software
Nor did MIT prevent 2 of mine when the company closed an entire office or killed an entire product. It did make the landing a lot softer and quicker I think.

Partial layoffs (20% of your job "family") are usually about the employee. Wholesale layoffs (all of a job type, all of a product team, all of a location) are generally completely independent of the specific employee, skills, capabilities, or performance.
Since I'm not allowed to downvote stories I'll just comment here without to help push it off the front page. :)
I was confused for a second there; @jdminhbg is quoting the HN guidelines
ssh multiplexing is ON by default. The default is `MaxSessions 10`. Unless you have `MaxSessions 1` in your config, then you have it enabled in your environment. If you have 2FA and SOC1/SOC2 controls, then technically you are out of compliance.
How did you get into JS? I have avoided throwing myself into the "front-end" because I feel like I don't have any artistic bent and I don't enjoy pixel pushing.
Ask HN: Why did GitHub go down?
Did GitHub ever reveal the cause of its substantial and unusual service outage last week? Was there ever a post-mortem published?
Apple Inc, going for free within 8 years
I loved this game back in my qbasic days.

RIP Milo!
I'm pretty sure we are in agreement. :-)
I just use Xcode's debugger on Rust code. If you see issues, please file bugs against Rust; I'd like Xcode to work.
> A brief power disruption at our primary data center caused a cascading failure that impacted several services critical to GitHub.com's operation. While we worked to recover service, GitHub.com was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. Service was fully restored at 02:29am UTC. Last night we completed the final procedure to fully restore our power infrastructure.

https://github.com/blog/2101-update-on-1-28-service-outage
Some feedback:

The cost is a non-starter. The main reason I go through the hassle of writing compilers for my websites is that I want them to be long-lived.

Presently, I use Nearly Free Speech as my hosting provider. Their pricing scheme for static sites costs me about $2.50/yr and I can maintain an account balance. My $50 account balance will keep my site online for two decades whereas it would buy me only ten months on your service. (Not to mention that Github hosts static sites for free!)

To consider another service, it wouldn't just have to beat the cost but instill a sense of confidence that I could trust the service with my data for the foreseeable future. A few features could tip the scales though:
- Open ID auth instead of basic access auth
- Easy SSL setup (gethttpsforfree.com was recently a huge help)
- Inexpensive hosting for a very low-volume mailing list with HTML archives

Good luck!
There is also Convos [1] a web front end client to IRC that addresses some of your concerns. It uses Redis to maintain state.

[1] https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos
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How much are you worth to Facebook?
Martin O'Malley suspends bid for the Democratic nomination
Awesome! If you could pass this their way that'd be so neat. :)
Export Shapes with Shadow and Identify Glued or Connected Visio Shapes Using .NET
HTTPS subresource validation fail
How to make a lot of gold in World of Warcraft
My experiences (and intuition) suggest that you'd find a cottage industry springing up to "teach the test (and nothing extra)". Combining the functions of education and certification, as conflict-of-interest as that appears, largely avoids the problem.

Any certification process for a non-trivial field is necessarily a sampling process. If you allow students to bypass the education part and they just have to pass the sampling test to gain some valuable credential, I think you'll find an industry springing up to shortcut the education process in favor of the "just barely passing the test" process.
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I think the srt file needs to have the same name as the main video file and they both need to be in the same folder.
Google has search monopoly Apple has nothing comparable. The rest of google projects are mostly there for google to claim that they are Tech company competing in many markets as opposed to a Search company.
What does Google not do? In our family of 4 everyone has their own calendar and there are a couple of other shared ones that we can all see, and it works great.
If you start firefox with the `-P` option, then it lets you manually create a profile, before starting. I assume you could configure it at that point.
Shouldn't createPackagesTar be createPackagesGz ?
Don't sweat it. I'm making more mid career than all of the prestigious engineering schools listed a few threads below, and I have an MSEE from flyover school. Just concentrate on something you enjoy, get good at it, and you will do fine.
Bloomberg Editor Quits Over Fear the Company Can't Cover Michael Bloomberg
We do know more: Ruth Porat basically said that Nest, Fiber, and Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences, and where I work) are making money.
The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals.

Filezilla and alikes succumbed to that long time ago while VLC stand above the crowd.

Kudos, hats off and happy birthday!
First, Google abandoning Reader was a terrible decision. Easily worth a PM and a few devs.

Second, I understand that part of the reason Apple executes well is because it minimizes distractions. But I believe a well-executing company like Apple should be able to take on more projects effectively.
Criminals aren't going dark, says Harvard study
hi, will you be able to refer?
Since several people have said "it opens everything!" I thought I'd list a couple it doesn't handle: HYMT codec (multithreaded version of Huffyuv, useful for lossless capture of HD) UT Video codec various versions (also a multithreaded lossless codec set, I believe some versions VLC can play... but not the last several), oh and some FFV1 variants (clearly ffmpeg's fault, but still). All the above work fine with MPC-HC on Windows, if you have the codecs installed. VLC is still my player of choice, but as I've used HYMT and UT Video a lot, I've missed having them supported.
Those code bases were started in the mid to late 70s. MUMPS was hot shit at the time, at least for health care software. The language was created at Massachusetts General Hospital (affiliated with Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard), put into the public domain, used be the VA (VistA), and others.

Advantages (at the time): freely available, everybody else is using it, easy to learn, interpreted, good performance on resource constrained hardware, multi-process/multi-user support, built in database/persistent storage.
That is AMAZING for a company barely a year old. Kudos to all involved.
Your numbers are off. I hesitated to respond because the actual numbers are still pretty immaterial (but technically material) overall, but it's more like ~$2b than $500m. That's significant, especially for GCP, which is growing quickly in an still very immature and very large market. Give it 2-3 years and GCP will have surpassed AWS.
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Specifically looking for developers who have a passion for product design.

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Lektor looks really cool. For the life of me I don't understand why it's only in Python 2.7 though.
pension funds are the largest owners of companies - generally owned by middle class
Feature engineering. Transfers about 3.5b records into features that go into a variety of models. Previously was a hadoop streaming job (~40 hours); now about 6.
The sequel is excellent as well. I'd also recommend it highly. It's great seeing how one's culture affects your writing style and content.
Windows 10 Becomes a Recommended Update on Windows 7 and 8.1
I use this for groceries and it's great! Really easy to add items as I think of them, then check the list while at the store. Thanks for the app!
Because western countries don't tend to get access to Chinese science fiction authors. Totally worth reading.
Daily inspiration quote on terminal
There are no other factors less than 2^32. You can see my other comment for details on verifying this.
Actually, people have. They just haven't packaged it all up into a happy-clicky single click deployment. There is a little bit of configuration involved, but I have confidence that a majority of folks here could do it in two cups of coffee or less.

For me, it is Convos (web front end that uses redis for state tracking) + UnrealIRCD (IRC daemon) + Anope Services (channels, users, permissions, etc). It isn't as pretty as the Slack UI, but it could be.
I saw a similar one previously, but this looks definitely much better! Or was it a redesign? Awesome work (:
And Apple's flagship product, and responsible for the majority of their income, is a phone trinket made in China.
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Thistle delivers delicious, organic and healthy meals to customers looking to put their nutrition on autopilot. We make it incredibly simple to get and stay healthy. Customers sign up for recurring subscriptions and we deliver hand crafted meals in a delightfully simple experience. Eating healthy food has never been easier.

The engine that powers our incredibly simple customer experience and our complex operations is the technology behind the scenes. Our systems power everything from customer orders, account management, and food feedback, to inventory and production operations as we grow and scale. We are looking for engineers to lead the charge as we grow within the Bay Area and beyond.

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- Optimized production and packing

Stack: Python, Django, Postgres, Bootstrap, Heroku
Where did you attend university? What course on compiler theory did you take?
So, he never actually said it was a cumulative failure curve. I'll admit a graph of the probability of failure per year (non-cumulative) may be less expected, but doesn't necessarily indicate an error on the authors part.

And the bit about his estimates of the number of conspirators in the NSA.. he says the exact same thing: "In the PRISM case, the figure of 30,000 comes from total NSA staff. In reality, the proportion of those employed would would have knowledge of this program would likely be a lot less but we take the upper bound figure to minimize the estimate of p."
Not really, speaking as an IT leader at an F500 still running NT4.0 workstations and some Win98 desktops. Unsupported, isolated on VLANs to avoid infection, but still running. The same company is still mostly using Office 2003. If MS has 3rd party entanglement with VARs and SIs, Google has the same with developers & startups. I'm honestly not sure which would be worse for the economy if it disappeared.
There's no need to refer people to lesswrong for this. The interpretation of probability as a subjective degree of knowledge/evidence is well-known. For example: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/ or http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-bayesian/

No need to spam links to that cult site.
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Permiso automates the process of getting business travel assessments – answering the question whether a traveler requires a business visa, a work permit, or can simply just go (or never go!) Answering this question requires a complex rules engine to take into account country specific rules and travel history. Companies not getting assessment on their travel are exposing themselves to fines or corporate travel bans. This is a pain point in many big companies – and is raised as a priority issue when a senior executive has trouble at a border.

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let's make it interesting. also, is it ethical to create a proprietary clone of an open source project?
You could disable your network connection before starting Firefox and then change the preference.
Yes, but she had nothing to do with the stock price rising (all due to BABA's rising value).

If someone offered me a shitload of money to run a sinking ship, I would have taken the job, just as she did. With this level of compensation, she's all set for life, does not need another job ever. But, with her connections and name recognition, she will have no trouble finding one - trust me. It is a systemic problem with boards of directors hiring incompetent (but well-known) executives who keep screwing up one company after another. All about connections.
Copy and CudaDrive Services Will Be Discontinued
Thanks for the heads up. I've normally used MIT style and haven't worried about that sort of thing but I'm getting into "as public domain as possible" licenses lately. Do you think ISC is a good license?
Moreover, that the vast majority of capex spend over the next year will be Fiber roll-out, which is pretty reasonably considered as a one time impairment in my opinion, and not remotely like data center build-outs, real estate purchases, etc.
Unless we ourselves are composed of self replicating probes. It's still a bit of a mystery how quickly life appeared on Earth itself. Perhaps Earth was seeded via panspermia, and the cells themselves are remnants of self replicating probes?
a) Make organic results crappier, make paid ads look more like organic results. People may be more likely to click on paid ads.

b) You'd think this. From what I've seen, mobile ads have up to 4x higher CTR with a as much as a 30% lower CVR. This is from multiple high spend accounts I have managed. Fat finger misclicks? Mobile ad "cards" also look almost identical to the organic result cards.

Google used to roll major updates all of the time, now they come within 2 weeks of earnings releases, fairly consistently. Look for them to continue manipulate their black box (quality score) to help inflate CPCs, blend paid ads into organic (a la Baidu), reduce the number of organic results per page, increase the prominence of Shopping campaigns, remove advertiser control (no true exact match, or no exact match at all?) and generally try to squeeze SMBs by reducing organic visibility and subtly suggesting to try AdWords. Google's advertising business is at odds with providing the highest quality search results. They aren't really innovating in search, they're just turning dials to increase their earnings per mille for ads displayed.
Armin has historically been one of the most vocal of those critical of Python 3, and has even compared it to XHTML. He was pressured into porting Jinja2 and it cooled him on Python, if you read older posts of his. The answer should be pretty clear when you notice that Lektor fails on a print() not having parentheses (and not, say, a dependency).

Unicode in Python 3 is his problem, and there was one post I can't find on mobile where he started ranting about POSIX and Unix for some unclear reason. I can't follow him on a lot of it, as much as I respect his work, because if you read objectively it's pretty clear the reasoning is often there to support a predisposition. Meanwhile, my whole stack is Python 3 and I'm having a grand old time less the pieces where I had to sub in shittier libraries, and not a single problem Armin has ever raised about Python 3 has hit us. Not one. Most of it boils down to Unicode issues that have been issues outside of Python for 20 years.

This isn't to say Python 3 is perfect. (Far from it.)

He also often writes what I like to call the "Alex Gaynor Conclusion," which is tediously enumerating in the conclusion why you're going to call him wrong in his opinions which somewhat minimizes effectively disagreeing with him. There is a subculture of people who do this, and it mildly bugs me. Nothing against him; just an observation.

Anyway, port it and drop a patch, and I'll buy you scotch. I know better than to make any request other than that, and it's cooled me on using Armin's software in general (to my disappointment; Armin's Web stack has been a trusted friend through four different employers, from Werkzeug on up, and it's a massive bummer to see Lektor confirm suspicion).
She has organized fund-raising events for the Democratic Party (Hillary, I think)
I don't think it's just about innovation. They were one of the first big companies to figure out how to make money selling ads on the Internet, though many of their best paying customers were actually failed dot-coms. It was still enough to get them through that first round okay.

The main thing they've lost out on is not having something that competes with Google on ads. Especially the part where Google's entire ad buy market is automated while Yahoo's isn't. Their management made a big bet that just giving out media and other cools stuff for free to users would bring in enough eyeballs to make things profitable. That worked for awhile, but the switch to mobile and a large number of other competitors on the Internet ad front has hurt both income and market share.
Doing group chats with my family of 5 using Signal private messenger. The privacy guarantee is nice, but I'll admit there are lots of little issues in Signal group chats, often between iOS and Android.
Problem is parents "think" they know how to rear their children. Often they go with custom --and for many that custom is hard knocks, bullying and being physically superior to other pupils, rather than fostering academics [as a proxy, investigate how parents of academically low achievers discipline [or don't] compared to academically high achievers.

Society isn't a meritocracy. Most people don't get handed things based on what they "deserve". It's fallacious to think so. What people should have, in an ideal world, is a proper beginning, starting with parental support, community support, societal support. What we don't guarantee or provide is equal outcomes.

Look at third world countries where most parents are poor or aspirationally middle class. Poor kids do succeed, but on the backs of their parents [the sate provides very little]. Parents who go hungry and make sacrifices such as deciding which child will go to school and who will instead work, in order that one of them make it out of poverty and helps the rest out. Without parental determination and perseverance, you would not see success in the poorest conditions, yet we do.

But as Americans we think that's beneath us --we don't need to work hard, we're no. 1. Some think wisdom and success will visit upon their child by being pushed thru an educational system. It takes dedication and direction from parents with state assistance [in the form of universal education] as well as the support of society [culture].
Systems, Not Sith: How Inter-Service Rivalries Doomed the Galactic Empire
Recognizing and Localizing Right Whales with Extremely Deep Neural Networks
Improved CRISPR–Cas9: Safe and Effective?
if there was a public API that you could cross reference IP from your website that you suspect as a bot, would you use it? Would you pay for that kind of API?

Of course I would start off by ironically scraping proxies from public domain as those are often used. Not sure what else determined scrapers use to get data, but it's safe to say that 98% of scrapers are trying to pay as little money as possible and often complain when a scraper gets blocked...fuck these people seriously