skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few points

(1) Some industries use live chat substantially more than others. Many developers will prefer it to a phone call; other workers more inclined to communicate quicker and more effectively by talking than typing.

(2) You're not really replacing 5 back-and-forth emails with the average person. You're replacing asking the prospect to either phone you back or send one email suggesting a time to call them.
(If they take 5 emails before they agree to talk to you, they probably won't click on your live chat link either)

(3) Live chat actually has most of the perceived disadvantages of both email (lots of typing, uncertainty over when the other party will actually reply when initiating contact, less human interaction, permanent record of any mistakes) and telephone (immediate response expected once the conversation has started, irrespective of interruptions or whether it's a really complicated question)

I can imagine this working pretty well for selling to developers and startups and pretty badly for selling to (e.g) other salespeople, professional services, traditional middle management.
fuck you too , go home and cry to your mama
If you use IPython a lot, I wrote a similar tool that may be useful (alerts you when a command/cell has finished executing): https://github.com/samwhitehall/ipython-bell
Otter Browser [1] is a FOSS clone of the old opera. It seems to have active development, last time I tried it (more than a year ago) it was pretty decent.

[1] https://otter-browser.org/
Is it possible to make a fully fledged but ugly interface that can be styled separately decoupled from the code?
Nope. The Superbowl was streamed with Flash Player on CBS own website. Hulu still streams with Flash Player. Zynga and King use Flash player in all their multi-million dollar earning Flash games. It's not going anywhere.
I guess that's the reason for the title "The Only Honest Hackathon"
Thanks! :D
Data analysis of GitHub contributions reveals unexpected gender bias
What? I'm not being dickish, but can't you not see how your answer is a direct reflection of your reality?

Even more so, if you have less money you need to track it a lot more than those that do.
How on earth is Breitbart anything approaching a reliable source.
Ok. With that kind of argument, I suppose anything can make sense.
When Gorden Moore wrote his first paper on things doubling every fixed time period it was on the lowest cost transistors back in 1965 but the term Moore's Law didn't come into use until the mid 70s by which time he had written a number of other papers pointing out a number of other doublings including feature size. In the old days these all doubled in lockstep so the original coinage of the term didn't really distinguish economics from minimal feature size.

So there's really no legitimate way to insist that Moore's law has to refer to the lowest cost number of transistors. It actually wasn't that by coinage and it certainly isn't that by common usage. I've even got a copy of a memo by Moore in my 6.175 lecture notes endorsing a broader conception of Moore's law.
A few good ones from my browser history:

GetRandomRgn: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/06/18/10321...

A good idea ruined by bad application programmers: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/11/03/55532...

How window minimization really works: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041028-00/?p=...

See you later. J: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060523-10/?p=...
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That surely looks like a no-brainer for PHP users. I know folks who have hard-coded dependencies on PHP 5.3(!) you wouldn't dare to have nightmares about.
Software Engineers make a lot of money because their contributions have the potential to affect a lot of people.

Comparably, a nurse may have a positive impact on a dozen lives over the course of a week. A programmer's contributions may affect thousands or millions and the positive effects compound over time. Even if it takes longer (comparable to other jobs) to accomplish anything meaningful.

Many developers don't overcome the communication barriers with users to realize the impact their work has.

A task that could take somebody 5 hours a month can be automated to take 5 minutes with a program. Package and sell that program to thousands of users and, in terms of reducing operating costs, the software is a cash cow for any business in that domain.

Devs love to get caught up on theoretical minutae, CS fundamentals, testing coverage, methodologies, axe grinding over subjective preferences for frameworks/styling, etc.

None of that matters. Your value is literally measured in your ability to enable others to earn money or save money.
My favorite is still:

new Date('2016-02-11') !== new Date(2016,1,11)

One is midnight in the local TZ, other is midnight in UTC.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson_interferometer

Basically fire two lasers at right angles to each other at mirrors, and see the pattern when they bounce back.
misses one more reason: landa is utterly inflexible. as soon as you try to serve pages and data you need to jump a load of hops to get what you want out of it, and sometimes it's not even possible.
There's a word for it: tsundoku
Spinning Hydrogels with a Cotton Candy Machine
When light interferes with itself it creates a "pattern". When the light beams are out of phase, the interference pattern is different. The gravitational waves basically minutely increase the distance that one of the beams travels and causes it to go out of phase with the other, thus changing the interference pattern.
Threat and Leak Analysis with the Help of Text Analytics
Some applications (probably those that are also distributed outside Homebrew) do contain the Sparkle framework (which may or may not be disabled).

As an example, in my case this concerns MacVim (on one computer only though)

Edit: maybe this is somehow tied to Cask?
That's not really free though, is it? Because I can't really just start hosting it, claiming to be its author, and have people believe me. (White-labelling). For that to happen, the original authors have to stay anonymous, it has to have much less branding included.

So it's not really all that free in my opinion, even with your additions. /s
The reason for that way of phrasing is because it appeals to ego. If you want someone to do something, particularly someone with a known ego, then this is an effective way to get them to listen to you and not dismiss you.

Of course, there's a fine line between stroking and patronizing, though.
It's used a bit. Adding hotpatch support was a major feature in Wine a few years back, when Steam added their in-game overlay feature. I believe one of our devs did most of the legwork getting the ms_hook_prologue attribute into GCC so we could support this.
Yes that is respectful, and a gracious way to announce it. But you'll note they still accepted credit and get attributed with credit.
" First of all, they wondered whether they were seeing the outcome of "survivorship bias," [...] But that wasn't what they found"

And later

"One explanation is survivorship bias"

Can you pick one and stick to it?

Also, the confusion between "count of PRs merged on GitHub" and "competent in software" is not even obvious.
I don't know. Sounds a little like giving everybody a participant ribbon.

Scientists and engineers, more than anybody, understand that they are standing on the shoulders of giants.
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Good luck with that!
An idea that a couple of friends (can't remember if cyphar was one of them) and I came up with: piggyback some actual crypto on top of Snapchat, using steganography to initially transmit public keys. Would be interesting to see this happen.
Thanks for the tip! And fixed.

(I have old and myopic eyes so I don't do mobile devices and didn't know of such obvious in retrospect tricks. Another thing to push me to getting a cheap smartphone to replace my ancient Nokia candybar feature phone.)
This is awesome! Love the idea and a great team leading the execution!
Ask HN: DOs and DON'Ts of collaborating with an NGO as a startup
Hi HN,

We have developed a technology that is very interesting for NGOs that work in low connectivity areas. We'd love to start a project to help improve people's communication conditions but, as startup first-timers, we have no idea as to what we should expect, costs in both time and money, and even how to get in contact with them.

As a HN user, I have read some articles about Watsi, but none that I remember regarding founder experiences. We'd love to get some first hand advice from startups who worked with NGOs, some tips, DOs and DON'Ts, how to approach them, etc.

Thanks!
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Nope, I am talking about Homebrew, it provides the best way to install htop on OSX.
By the way, I purposely omitted most of the details, even the URL, since I really don't want this to be interpreted as spam. If anybody is curious, please check out my profile or drop a comment here for more information.
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Rabbit Brain Returns Successfully from Cryopreservation
So pretty, I wish one could wander around inside of them but I assume it might be difficult to render in real time.
I’m not logged in but the video plays fine here.
The Technopiate of the Masses
Single Sentence Pitch
It seems to me that pitching time is less and less every day.
The new frontier is the One-Sentence-Pitch

I'm coming from Rome to SanFrancisco at the end of next month to present my big idea and the "Secret sauce"

So I'm trying to improve my pitch skills and presentation material. I've found something interesting I'd like to share.

This is the known schema by Adeo Ressi
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/24/one-sentence-pitch-winners/

My Company <name> is developing <offering> to help <target audience> <solve a problem> with <a secret sauce>

I've also found this one from Oren Klaff

For [Target customer]
who are dissatisfied with [the current offerings in the market]
My idea/product is a [new idea or product category]
That provides [key problem/solution features]
Unlike [the competing product]
My Idea/product is [describe key features]

Here are some experiments and idea in progress.
Any advice is appreciated.

"For people and companies who are dissatisfied with ugly, unpronounceable and anonymous links, our product is a new way to short and share links. It associates your brand with your links and, unlike common shortener, it creates links that are memorable, pronounceable, increase trust, expand brand visibility and are cool. "

REBRANDLY IS LIKE BIT.LY, BUT WITH YOUR BRAND NAME IN THE URL. THIS WAY, EVERY LINK YOUR SHARE CREATES A CONNECTION TO YOUR BRAND
I hope this is just an alarmist headline. SoundCloud is pretty essential in its space, it's one of the few services that lets you natively get audio on to Twitter, the main place musicians share snapshots of their work and remixes, and a key part of numerous podcasts and ways to embed easily shared audio on the Web. This is one startup I absolutely don't want to see go down the pan.
From Yes, Prime Minister in '87:

The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country. The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
Running letsencrypt as an Unprivileged User
WeChat had more transactions over Chinese New Year than PayPal had during 2015
I like the idea of being able to switch to live chat, but how would you be on call 24/7 that is a lot of effort.
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If you are serious about your software...
Well, it's the documentation that looks off, not my apps and libs.
have you ever paid a cent to soundcloud?
In my mind, but I would not mind a reminder to tell me I have to pay something today.
Cool. Maybe this will convince me to by my wife that iPad she's been wanting. Excited to check it out.
Unless the question is missing important context, it should be answered; or to say it another way, anwerers shouldn't be concerned with if it's the right question, only that the question is clear.

If someone asks the wrong question, they might get the right answer, that doesn't help them. That's not a problem. That might be the right answer for someone else - no answer is just for the original submitter, but for anyone else to whom it is relevant.

The problem I've found is I've asked a very targeted question, and rather than answer it (or not, in the case that someone doesn't know the answer) people imply it's missing the context of what it's for - it doesn't matter, that would be a different question!

It seems sometimes people ask "what are you trying to solve" (in the guise of "helping newbies who ask the wrong questions") hoping it will turn out to be an easier question.

I'll also note, even if the question is the "wrong" way, those are the best ways to clarify how to do, since they'll be done on only rare occasions, and hence have less documentation.
Looking at Github's A+, can someone explain what's the point of pinning public keys for 300 seconds max?

https://securityheaders.io/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2F
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I would say the same thing. Do something not related to tech on your time off. Go hiking or explore a new city.
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Eh. It was dead since they painted an Opera logo on a Webkit wrapper (a sad day indeed). This is just an episode of Walking dead.
The trouble is there is no real alternative. There's Vocaroo, but it serves a different niche than SoundCloud.
uTorrent and VLC could definitely be MAS apps... the limitation of MAS are not significant for uTorrent or VLC. Application that need elevated privileges, or that needs to access/"pilot" other apps or needs to write everywhere in the filesystem (without user selecting the directory) are...

I don't think any of those apply to VLC or uTorrent... The main problem of MAS (for app that don't need what above) is the app store app in itself (it's garbage) and the review time (that hit back anytime you need to patch something fast)... otherwise the model it's not bad per se...
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I don't know about OP but I have been a paying customer for years. No soundcloud would be a huge loss.
"Irradiated" and "radioactive" are not the same thing. An irradiated sandwich poses absolutely no threat to its consumer.
As far as I know, that's the mechanism by which microwave radiation heats molecules, but the specific design of the oven is to produce standing waves so microwaves can become concentrated. I may be wrong, though.
there was some IRS law/rule in the 1980s that made hiring contractors less attractive for this type of arrangement. I remember reading about it years ago, but the specifics do not come to mind now.
Honestly I'm not very well versed in this space to have a real opinion. On a personal level, I judge people by their abilities rather than their race or gender though I fully appreciate that there are difficulties with this.

It does seem to me that class isn't talked about though. Sorry but a middle-class Ivy league black woman is not of a lower status than a white working-class male.
Probably politics and money. You'd have to go through an eminent domain process to condemn and buy up all that property, dig up and remove all the earth, underground utilities, etc. down to a depth of at least a few feet if not yards (in the process, probably spreading comtaminated dust all over the surrounding area) and then fill it in with clean earth.

Many many millions of dollars to do this.
What other/similar analyzers are out there?
An alternative to Mint is http://www.hellowallet.com which I like more.

But analyzing transactions in your accounts is all about looking at the past. You might consider focusing on the future instead. For example:

1. Plan how much you want to save for retirement, vacation, etc. and how much you'll need to pay bills

2. Set up some automatic transfers to save the money for #1

3. Have fun with the rest / invest

#1 is easier said than done. Financial advisors can charge US$2000 to create a good plan. We're building a tool now to automate what they do.
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No, I don't think it really makes sense for LLVM to mainline an architecture no one can use. I doubt they'll be on board with this.
I think this is a real-time tool you can use to explore them.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/boxplorer/
I really ought to do a blog post on the math behind this but it's not really a simple matter of power density because drive currents have traditionally shrunk along with the area and hence capacitance of transistors. For a long time people didn't reduce voltage to achieve classical Dennard Scaling[1] because back in the day nobody really cared about power but you could always go back to scaling that if you wanted. I suppose that the reason it looms so large in our heads is that Intel was having problems with power on the Pentium IV right as things were starting to change around 90nm.

Some things that make increasing performance with feature size more difficult recently are that transistors spend lots of time velocity saturated, there's increased leakage current, and the capacitance of wires has come exceed transistor capacitance.
Thanks. I didn't know about X-Content-Type-Options! It is getting harder and harder to know all these headers nowadays. I am big fan of these checking tools with scores, it makes web developing entertaining. (A+! https://securityheaders.io/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsatoshicrypt.com... )
No, it's a trap.

It works until you get to those with really big egos who take pride in dismantling such tricks and gaming others by pretending to fall for their games. These need higher levels of gaming.

But in the end, if you truly think that something is a good idea for everyone involved, just explain why.
I uninstalled it after the announcement. A sad day for Opera.
>Since no one would argue that knowing an extra language is not useful,

Why would no one argue that? If I am a person from Kansas I am never going to run into anyone who doesn't speak English. Where is the usefulness in learning any other language?
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I'd imagine that's the end of the already 4th-5th place desktop browser. Kind of a shame, but not super surprising these days.

edit: added 'desktop' qualifier
That's a good point, but 10.6 support was dropped in 1.7.0 so technically the 1.5s should be able to run 1.6.1.

Also I undercounted the number of old versions, turns out ancient sparkles didn't have a CFBundleShortVersionString in their plist and I also have a bunch of Sparkle 1.0 and 1.1 lying around.
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I think it depends on what country you're in. In some countries, they have to block pages if you're not signed in for legal reasons (since they can't legally track you).
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All my production buddies hate it. They pay full price, your the world and yet Soundcloud take down the tracks that they OWN. With no recourse or apology. Their system has been broken for 5 years at least for the power users in the community.
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This is a legitimate question. I'm brazilian and I constantly see Facebook posts in Portuguese highlighting "Of the top X things, Y are Brazilian!", whereas I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities.

My theory is that there are relatively few great international contributions from Brazil and we rejoice anytime we see one.
You might also be interested in this living history/reenactor's channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fE5KzvOZRk
Except you have to look at it a long time and know that you're being tricked before you perceive it.
So they wasted a perfectly good network card for nothing.
Soundcloud has not done 'peak mySpace' yet:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=soundcloud&geo=US

All seems on the up in terms of interest from people using the search engine. Very enviable curve.
Oh yes, WinTrek, I spent many a relaxing afternoon hunting down Klingons.
What if you go on holiday abroad? What if you want to do a contract job for a Chinese/French/Spanish/South American/Japanese/German company? What if your company is selling something to a foreign company and they need someone to speak with their technical team that doesn't have a good English speaker?
I didn't say get rid of government. There are plenty of nations with functioning societies and services ranging from those with zero income tax to a flat tax.
It's never too late. I was a D student through most of high school, just barely graduated. I didn't care. Drank through three different colleges without getting a degree and spent most of my twenties bumming around. It wasn't until I was nearly 30 that I started getting my life together. I'm 38 now and feel quite successful and happy with where I'm at in life. I'm sure from my parent perspective, I was pretty hopeless.
This is a badly written article. Impossible to tell if the headline is accurate or if the writer made an alarmist guess.
Article is bs.

they lost 44m in _2014_. Raised 77m last year. They may need to raise more in 2016.

Nothing else. No other facts. No info on their balance sheet, etc. Doesn't even know if they're growing, what their revenue or losses for 2015 were.

And based on that, Fact thinks that's enough to say they "may be forced to close".
Nice combination of technologies to solve a problem -- could be very useful for a business that needs to be able to archive and access paper records.

But for a household -- there are very few documents you need to keep long term. Better to just keep those in a fireproof file box, and shred and discard everything else rather than devote any resources or mental energy to keeping them around in either paper or digital form.
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> ... It's not going anywhere.

Yet.
I'm curious as to what the product does?
How did you determine that Kansas people will never in their lives encounter non-English speaking people? Are you asserting Kansas people do not ever travel and nobody visits Kansas and Kansas people could not possibly have a reason to talk to non-English people on the internet (for business or personal reasons)?
At a previous job I was truthful about taking a day off just because. The job got upset and our argument escalated until I quit
Well, my conclusion after many years, echoed by one of the themes of Nature article including the lock step nature of node moves, is that Moore's Law is more one of economics than anything else. So I focus on that original definition of it, it seems to be the essence of it and its implications.

Now, if you're in the weeds of designing a chip or node, yeah, things like feature size are paramount, but why are you going to the trouble of moving to a new node in the first place, especially with the end of Dennard scaling a decade+ ago? Power consumption could be an alternative to the raw economics, or maybe taking up less space in the smaller mobile form factors. Intel's leading with mobile chips for some reason.
Knowing a language is more than knowing how to speak it, in the process of learning it you learn how the culture that created it thinks and acts. There are words that are exclusive to one language or the other and say a lot of the people who speak it.

Learning a language is, I think, as learning to play an instrument is more a cultural and leisure activity that might be useful sometime and helps to connect with other people and cultures.
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if a founder was recruiting you as an employee, and told you their strategy was to shoot for an IPO instead of shooting for an acquisition

would that have any tangible value to you as a prospective employee?