skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume that floatation tanks are not particularly conducive to folks with obstructive sleep disorders (where typically, when extremely relaxed, air pathways collapse enough to restrict breathing - usually exacerbated by sleeping on one's back)?
I would think a CPAP would be too loud and provide a heavy distraction from the goal of total isolation.
Long before Let's Encrypt, SMTP transactions with STARTTLS have permitted self-signed and non-root-CA chained certificates.

The pervasiveness of self-signed certificates for SMTP servers means that rejecting them would drop large amounts of email. STARTTLS is basically useful for thwarting passive collection of network traffic.
A state actor who can sniff traffic can just as easily serve a secret order to the email server operator to compel them to hand over the data. In fact this is already SOP for governments when dealing with communications which are encrypted in-flight but not end-to-end.
That support should be coming. As far as I heard, they're trying to create one cross platform gaming ecosystem based on their services/platforms.

From the FAQ: "Mobile support for iOS and Android devices is coming soon, along with additional support for Mac and Linux."
Some web sites have this option, but you have to pay for it. I believe that is a fair compromise. If the site is worth it, I'll donate. If not, ublock stays on, and then it won't really bother me if they go under having relied solely on advertising to stay afloat.
Am I reading this right that 9 people are making an average of ~222K? edit: ~290K
FBI unable to unlock San Bernardino killer's phone content
It works for some and not so well for others. I worked remote for 2 years and don't plan on doing it again anytime soon. The social isolation was hard to deal with.
One of the things ad-blocking will force people to reconsider is deals of the form "Person A pays Person B for the time and attention of completely unrelated Person C, who is not only completely unrelated to A and B but who is not even known to them beyond the most generic statistical demographic concepts."

There's obviously nothing legally wrong with that contract, we're just forcing a re-evaluation of the moral rights Person A has over Person C given the above transaction.
It can still be the case despite knowing it. Simply being aware of the existence of a bias isn't enough to counter it in a lot of cases.
Pardon me for using a simple high-profile example to make the point. Detailing the failings of socialism in a mathematically provable form would take far more text than you are willing to read. As you note, it is very hard to empirically establish without ambiguity the economic realities of taking from those who earn and giving it to those who don't. Perhaps, given the understandable disagreements, we should adhere to the notion of individual freedoms which the Founding Fathers enacted for the USA and let those who wish to pool their wealth do so, and those who would rather decide for themselves do so; alas, we face the votes of those seeking to force, thru threat of government-sanctioned violence, others to adhere to economic principles they deeply disagree with.
I use a Google Drive directory full of markdown notes for this purpose. Edit with Writeily, the amazing Android markdown editory, or Macdown on desktop. Done.
> Google has been making it harder and harder to run your own

insecure mail server
What incentive is there to move to Google or Facebook as long as you are selling all of your ad inventory, and at good rates?
X-Image-URL is neat - but how do we trust it? Ensure the header is DKIM signed?
The nature of gnu social and ostatus is that the users of it, by the nature of it being niche, are technical. The major feed usually contains almost exclusively developers and FOSS activists talking about coding or software freedom.

That is the commonality right now on ostatus, and new communities can join it any time and form new centers of commonality.
On the main page Lumberyard is described as a 3D game engine, which is the case because it's based off of the 3D CryEngine game engine.

If they're to add 2D support, it'll probably be a while. And it'll likely be something built using the 3D technology, unless they want to put in a lot of work to optimize for a 2D use.
You're correct. I find WoW's success difficult to judge recently. As, perhaps Activision ruined it, or perhaps it's just a game that's now 10 years old. And MMORPG gameplay is down overall.
That's not what I was implying. I noted the Buffer retreat since that's a hidden cost of remote work I haven't seen people discuss.
Amazon Attention to Detail in TOS
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2015/12/10/the...
I have always loved travelling so when my daughter was 5 I started a travel fund for her. I should have about $15k saved up for her by the time she's 18. It's completely separate from her education savings. I personally consider it equally as important though.
I can't imagine anything lonelier.
I think as HNers, we're focusing too heavily on niche cases (like running your own email server). But, for general public who is still sharing their own (and more importantly, their clients') SSNs, passwords, and other very sensitive information on email, this may be the trigger that educates / trains them to be more careful. I am definitely looking at this as a positive.
New terms added for the gaming engine they just released. You have to read the whole paragraph.

Best. Terms. Ever.

57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.
Hi there, I have two questions: first, which CAs will you use? and second, what will you do when a CA gets compromised? Thanks!
My favoriate, check if port is in use:

https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/blob/master/unix/check-if-...

Would be cool, to be able to collaborate and comment on each article. Perhaps, make this entire thing GitHub gists or Wiki?
I would be surprised if Fastmail didn't adopt similar policies.

These are good-for-the-user policies.
> Because init is common to several UNIXes and ip=dhcp is a Linux specific feature?

And yet the author seems to be comfortable using those linux-specific features:

“Also, the kernel paremeters must have the rw flag or you have to remount the /dev/sda1 as rw, but changing kernel parameters are much more easier.” (from the follow-up post).
Nice idea - I'll look at adding that in for sure...
I hope they remember to put signs up at the swimming spots where they dump the lamprey attractant.
That's per month, which would be very roughly 290,000 per year I think, before taxes.
Stenoboard, the open source stenographic keyboard
I'm not sure you're aware of how rude this comment comes across, but: it sounds pretty rude. Am I misreading it?
That's how it usually works out though. I always get in trouble with management when I try to anticipate things we will probably need in 6 months before making design decisions.

A lot of people think that Scrum means not looking beyond the end of the next sprint.
As I understand it, they pay for coworking space as a benefit.
Only if you pronounce it "Ess-Kew-Ell" and not "Sequel", though, right?
Actually was disturbed that you felt 'exstudent2 should craft the conversation around whatever you want instead of his valid points about who this new Twitter committee associates with.
From reading the abstract, this is doing the same as reported in a 2014 paper in Phys. Rev. B by many of the same authors [1], but with a different material (K3C60). In [1] they propose the hypothesis (hence "possible" in the title here) that:

"the light establishes a transient superconducting state over only a fraction of the solid, with a lifetime of a few picoseconds"

While certainly an interesting piece of solid-state physics, I don't think it brings us much (if any) closer to useful-for-transporting-electricity room-temperature superconductors. (It could certainly be useful for other things though.)

[1] http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.184...

Edit: this group also had a similar paper in Science in 2011 that might also be of interest:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/189
Yeah I'm not usually the guy to ask about relevance to HN but I really am stumped on this one too.
I don't understand how the migration to a monotomic clock source is treated as a trivial move. In practice, using a monotomic clocks source makes coordinating lease time records correctly.
Well, no, it really isn't. None of that really occurs on a personal server, and local ISPs probably don't do wholesale data storage because that's not their business, but it is Google's.
I just have stopped visiting sites with annoying ads like that. Which really means I have stopped visiting a lot of the free Web.

News? Economist and NY Times. Recipes? Cooks Illustrated.

Of course the Web is still useful to buy things from a merchant; there, the site obviously has no incentive to be annoying. And sometimes for free stuff it's better to go to the site of someone who is already selling you something. You mention Bon Appetit and Epicurious. If you want free recipes, go to food manufacturer's website or to a grocery store's website. They are loaded with free recipes and there are no annoying ads...of course, the whole site is an ad. But it has what you need.

I understand if sites have a business model that needs annoying ads. I just don't visit them. It seems hypocritical to me to visit the site while not respecting its business model, especially when there are other sites out there whose business model is more aligned with your needs. I would rather support them with my money or clicks rather than visiting annoying places and then installing more software to suppress annoyances.
Pronouncing SQL as es-kyoo-el is a rookie mistake. Sequel!
It doesn't have to be fully language aware, but it has to understand most, if not all, of the syntax. As soon as you start trying to match braces, you need to handle strings, comments, and probably a whole bunch of stuff I'm not thinking of.

Here's an idea: wouldn't it by trivial for <insert your favourite language compiler here> to expose the AST of your code, and solve this problem the easy way?
Amazon is the worst about this. "You just bought an ITEM_X, clearly you want to buy ITEM_X_CLONE as well." So stupid.
..and as a business owner, I also have a right to defend myself.. which most likely means more and more power to people with money.

See what happens when we have these pissing matches? Everybody loses.

It's even worse for the average user because businesses have the resources to either destroy you in lawsuits or change tactics.

It worked real well for the independent artist in the 90s that could actually earn a living.

Now they are forced to go to one of the major labels or apple/spotify, which are much worse in terms of compensation.

Wasn’t the whole movement aimed at helping these sad artists that were being screwed over?

I called bullshit on this 15 years ago and predicted what has happened today.

If there wasn't a culture of rampant entitlement for free things, we would have a better landscape today.

But, I can only warn the community so much.
That too. It could also mean that something unknown to us (dark matter halo?) dampens gravitational waves on earth - which is what ESA's eLISA would get around, if it is the case.
I wonder how long it will be before Google fully cuts Gmail off from the outside world, much like how they turned gchat from a member of the federated xmpp/jabber ecosystem into hangouts and cut it off from the everyone else.

I guess if nothing else, it would probably reduce spam!
Facebook used this number and mentioned on it during the earnings call, showing how their business is growing and people are spending more and more time using their app and website. Does this have any implications (if they knew the bug was already there) that they publish wrong and inaccurate information to mislead investors.
Can you share the number of people who actually came , signed up , signed up for trial period etc .

And you have mentioned "When I got a good conversion rate on the fake landing page" ... What were the numbers which lead you believe that conversion rate is good ?
Remote is good for some people and bad for others. At big companies there will be enough of both groups that going one-sided in either direction will hurt some people, and ultimately hurt the company (COUGH YHOO). IMO the best solution is a flexible working environment that can support everybody, especially in large cities where the commute can be an absolute grind in and of itself.
But how can something that is further away than the maximum travel distance allowed by the time elapsed since the big bang exist? Is there a non-locality of the time dimension that makes it so? Was the expansion rate of the universe faster than the speed of light? Or... what?
I definitely hear that! HeadsUP! offers complete refunds until the device has shipped. So it's on us to deliver (as it should be).

Amazon's Alexa enables HeadsUP! to get into the connected home -- like turning off home lights.

I hope it fairs well :)

- Founder
This!!! "Prestigious" colleges aren't mostly about the course material, which after all must be learned and re-learned throughout life (at least in my case). The more important part of the experience is communicating with and learning from your fellow students. How do they approach problems? In what kinds of thinking do they generally succeed where you fail? How do /you/ deal with failures and stumbles when they occur? Truly, I think that the idea of online courses replacing the value of attending and living at an institution like CalTech, Yale, or Harvard is beyond laughable.
I think if you reread the (now dead) thread, you'll see that's not at all what I did. My first comment on the thread didn't appear until after that commenter had already dug into examples of speech he found objectionable from Sarkeesian.

It's pretty clear to me where you're coming from now, so I'll leave it there. Thanks.
Are you me? Exactly same situation. And I find it much easier to concentrate in the solitude of my private office room (rented from a co-working company) and be more productive there.
Nirvana: Smells like teen spirit cover
My bad, not sure how I got 222K. I don't get these numbers, if you assume it's for 9 employees, it's too high. If you assume it's for the 50 employees that they say they have, it's too low.
>Too often science leaves the human observer out of the equation.

It seems this problem may have come full circle with the Measurement Problem. But yes, human beings themselves emit light, however that light resonates on a frequency that our eyes have not evolved to see, so we invented infrared optics.
I don't think so. 9 people was mentioned in 2013. Tallying up the costs seems more current and the picture of the team shows 50 people.
I have done something previously in the past but never keep it up that long. I like your layout. Was it all manual? That is - did you have to do the index/readme manually?
I think that still underestimates the effect the professor has on the students. There's nothing like a professor who is excited about the topic of his lectures. Take a look at some of Feynman's youtube lectures, and imagine hearing that stuff in person!

It's like the difference between listening to a CD and going to a concert.
Pictures: World of Amiga 2000
Ask HN: What companies are open to developers that seek part time work?
I'm not an entrepreneur looking to moonlight from my startup. I'm not starting a consultancy and need some extra work while I build a client base. I'm a programmer (and occasional UX designer) who likes his job and has always had an interest in programming but I also have some hobbies that are very important to me that don't make any money. I'm very happy when I have a chance to work in software about 3 days a week and the clients I've found that accept that schedule tend to be happy with my work (many have asked me back when they have enough work for me).

But for most companies asking for part time work is a non-starter. I've heard in some other countries asking for part time work is more accepted, is this merely a culture issue? I constantly hear about how hard it is to find good/experienced engineers and yet it seems like most companies would rather stick with the status quo than even entertain the idea of someone less than full time.

Anyone else have a better experience seeking part time employment in software? Are there companies that are good for this?
I was trying to respond directly to the question I was asked. So I know better next time, which guideline was I violating? Feminist Frequency is a council member so it seems pointing that out is on topic.
I really doubt that. Changing a legal contract is not something you do without approval. That sounds like a quick way to end up unemployed.
It doesn't solve it, and I don't think I claimed it did - I simply inferred that I don't think installing it into the system (or user) Python is a good idea either.
Except Google links to their own store in the US (Play Store) which they definitely do profit from directly.

Click the "Buy Book" link here:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Harry_Potter_and_the_So...

Unless Google are claiming they make no cut from Play Store book sales, which is laughable.
To successfully compete with the Ivy league, onlines will have to provide a way for their students to signal two things:

1) I'm the kind of person who can pay larger amounts of money than most for an education.

2) I know and am known by lots of people who fit into the group described by #1.

Until that happens I don't think any ivy covered bricks are coming tumbling down any time soon.
How old are you?

I only ask because a 13 year old cannot possibly have the experience, knowedge, or wisdom to be as smart as an average 18 year old.

Unless of course, the 18 year old is really stupid or has some sort of disability.
Modern C# means .NET 4.6

For example GC.TryStartNoGCRegion

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn906201%28v=vs.110...

SafeBuffers

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/system.runtime.interopser...

Or using array segments

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9cc4bx8k(v=vs.110)....

Unity has made a lot to spread C# love among game devs, but it also gave a bad reputation to those unaware how .NET really is.
yes, I just placed each post alphabetically as I went.
Here's why: cost!

To be clear, I find it refreshing that they just come out and say it. It seems obvious to me that when you work remotely, you're paying for the office space, and any company that believes the savings in pushing the office-space expense onto the employee outweighs the benefit of holding offices will start moving in this direction. (Since this particular company pays for coworking space, they're not pushing the cost to employees. I'm speaking more generally)

Having worked remotely for a substantial portion of my career, I have found the best for me is a mix of working at home and working from the office. That's my personal feeling, but still I think there are more downsides to remote work than many would like to consider.
How to not look like a slacker on Slack
I was beginning to think I was the only technology worker who likes being in the office!

I have the option of working from the office or from home, at least 2-3 days per week depending on what I have on. I much prefer working from the office. I enjoy hanging out and talking shit (and working) with my colleagues/friends, grabbing coffee, lunch somewhere nice, and when I leave at the end of the day I can flip from 'work mode' to 'home mode'.
Yeah - I visited virgo years ago when they were about to start calibration - it's super cool, but then again, I think michelson-morely interferometers are cool as a category. They were invented for a not dissimilar purpose - testing the properties of the luminiferous aether seeing if light and matter moved at different rates depending on the earth's motion through the aether. The result was negative, and a patent clerk got thinking.

Now his ideas are being put to the test with the same apparatus.

So cool.
I use ~/.bin/ for what sounds like the same purpose. I'm not sure I'd call that a convention - it's just what made sense to me - but it does ease issues requiring that userspace executables be on my $PATH.
It is fun to see what technologies I've been writing about the most over the long run -- Vim and PostgreSQL seem to be the big ones!
Interesting. I'm wondering if they also warn Gmail users if a mailserver has TLS enabled with a self-signed certificate. Because i think many mailservers actually support TLS but do ignore certificate verification, because of the self-signed certificates.
..if that's the case, should i also have the option of paying taxes? I do find them morallu wrong.
And around 20 years ago using C for serious game development was also a joke.

Apparently we need to go through this cycle every few decades.
You have small children running around the house, so you'd never get anything done there because you'd be constantly interrupted.

I have childish coworkers running around the office, so I can barely get any work done there and I am constantly interrupted.
This experiment not detecting gravity waves might not be too big a deal -- "Oh, there just aren't as many sources of gravity waves floating around as we thought."

Eventually, though, a conclusion that gravity waves don't exist would be enormous. It would completely upend mainstream theories of gravity, which all posit gravity waves (of some sort.)

In fact, I'd say the only reason we're looking for gravity waves is to tick a box -- we don't even consider the possibility that they don't occur, we just think it would be cool to have seen one.
I would double check that if I was you. My Debian Jessie machine (from the official Vagrant box) reports Python 2.7.9. No pip.
They said they were paying for every employee to work at a coworking space. So everyone everywhere would still have a place to go (assuming they work in a location that has a coworking space).
I know. If we receive light that traveled a distance of X light years, then the event is occurring X years in the past.
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There is an alternative universe where I push https://github.com/dgrtwo/ParsePy/issues/13#issuecomment-160... a little bit more, and actually complete the python server implementation of the Parse API.

I wonder what would be happening at this universe if it also saw this "closing née open-sourcing of Parse": would a competing implementation get sudden traction? Would I be selling bitnami images (that is what I was thinking about how to make money with it) for mobile developers who didn't want to mess with backend services? Would it land me a job on Facebook? Would I take it?
Great idea!

By the way, minor note on unix/copying-file-contents-to-system-paste-buffer.md:

"pbcopy" is an OS X only utility, but X11 (Linux, BSD) has a rough analogue in the form of "xclip". Just in case you ever switch over ;)
Right, and I'm saying that indexing a book shouldn't require permission either. Just as you can use robots.txt to opt out of indexing, so can you contact Google and tell them to remove your work from their index.