skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing I find weird about this is how Lumberjack is not compatible with any of Amazon's own devices. I would have expected their engine to support Fire tablets and Fire TV, at least.
More importantly, end-to-end encryption means that your desktop/laptop/tablet/phone/TI-83 is doing the crypto, especially signatures.

On a somewhat related note, I remember reading some documentation on a one-time password scheme, which I can't find anymore. It briefly mentioned something about using DES calculators to handle crypto signatures (for what reason i cannot remember). For our purposes, a PGP/GPG hand-held device would be neat, though perhaps cumbersome to actually user.
This sheds some pretty good light: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lamb...

You will wind up with multiple containers in use at once if you have enough traffic so a call to the general pool that is running your Lambda function will most likely only keep one of the containers from recycling.
>In the “friends of the court” brief, it says the law was never intended to “permit a wealthy for-profit entity to digitize millions of works and to cut off authors’ licensing of their reproduction, distribution, and public display rights.”

This "cutoff" language is part of what makes the Author's Guild argument fall down. The authors still get all the normal licensing rights as before, so the argument appears wrong on its very face.

What the guild is actually trying to say, I think, is that this new use is something Google should have to pay for. Which is a stronger argument, because it's not trivially refuted by the current status. By overstating their case I think that their point is lost.
x2 for that - and in no way am I insinuating anything about _this_ particular company, but its getting bad in general with this type of stuff.

also anyone remember this thread from HN a few years back -
http://thestartuplegitimizer.com/
EXACTLY

Our belief is that if someone doesn’t like them, and they won’t click on them, any impressions served to them will only annoy them-- plus, serving ads to people who won’t click on them harms campaign performance.

and you know what, it's not the ad so much that bothers me, it's the 27 trackers added to the page by three ads in adsense and all their roundtrips and javascript lag

I wish we could bring back the days of text ads that were interesting.
This reminds me a lot of what mxcl went through with Google

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
Question to all you HNs readers... what's the situation in your city/country like when it comes to communal/shared living, particularly with 'strangers', i.e. two young professionals who share a home for economic reasons?

Here in the Netherlands it happens but it doesn't seem to be the standard. It's extremely popular for students, and some of the leases remain after the students graduate and it effectively becomes a young-professional's home, and rooms get filled up when someone leaves, usually via FB connections. But actually applying to live with strangers say as a 29 year old is rare... either you have your own place, or one with a partner.

The reason I ask is because, theoretically and often in practice, shared living is more space-efficient. The living room is shared, the kitchen, the bathroom, the washer, all the little things, and then you attach 4 bedrooms to it, and you can get a footprint that's smaller than 4 studios with a similarly sized kitchen/bathroom etc. But it only works if, culturally, people can stomach living together with other people they're not family or intimate friends with. While undoubtedly many people want their own place, in a time (and city) of scarcity of space, I wonder if part of the solution should not simply come from shared living, rather than more space efficient solo-living. What's it like in your town?
They've been working on a browser extension for it:

https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end...

https://github.com/google/end-to-end

I don't know what they might do in the future to encourage people to use this, or if they feel that there's a point at which it would be sensible or useful to actively promote it.
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That's not the same thing because you know in advance exactly which terms you're getting and you can make your decision accordingly.
> I remember things were different around 10yrs back

You say you're hiring for a "full stack developer". I'd say that requires far more broad knowledge than a developer 10 years ago, when we tended to specialize back-end/front-end/ops.
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>I strongly question the use of a Early-Morning USA embargo.

Why?
I would be ecstatic if Bandit integrated with Code Climate.

But wait, there's more! 18F is discussing pushing for exactly that. [1] There's also a sorta-recent call on Twitter to figure out interest. [2] Speak up if you think it would be useful!

[1] https://trello.com/c/PTL7z9uU/20-investigate-writing-a-code-...

[2] https://twitter.com/aidanfeldman/status/695670289879928832
I'm going to make an argument for the Author's Guild even if I disagree with them...

Google is taking books and digitising them. That within its own right isn't illegal. But Google then takes the digitised books and utilises that content for profit (every time you click buy, Google gets a cut of the sale) and what's more the court has withheld the author's ability to decide how they want their books to be advertised/presented.

I could scan in books, present content without context, and misrepresent what a book is trying to say. For example I could create a climate skeptic website that takes pro-climate change books and misquotes them into supporting me. But because of this "transformative change" from physical to digital, suddenly I am allowed to do that.

Every time Google quotes part of a book without context they're changing the meaning of that book. The author has lost their right to stop that from happening. Essentially Google has committed libel against authors by quoting them without context or permission.
I love this concept, and think the premise is absolutely true.

As others have pointed out, practicing and just churning out quantity often develops habits and bad practices.

One way of combatting that seems to be switching up your routine and deliberately avoiding these habits. This article explains a little more on that: http://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-uncover-method-l...

But I think it's apparent all over. People who are able to produce a large quantity of new ideas/methods/etc. almost automatically are of higher quality.

Take the Beatles for example. The produced a huge amount of music in their relatively short recording history.

But they didn't just follow the same patterns, they experimented and look where they got. Writers can be the same, and athletes, and why not developers too?
From the reCAPTCHA site itself:

> reCAPTCHA offers more than just spam protection. Every time our CAPTCHAs are solved, that human effort helps digitize text, annotate images, and build machine learning datasets. This in turn helps preserve books, improve maps, and solve hard AI problems.

That seems like disclosure to me?
thats the risk with these type of launches. I'm sure the founders were aware of this type of reaction. Its just a gamble.
Stack Exchange also reduces the amounts of ads for all users that have more than 200 reputation. This is a pretty easy threshold to hit, and after that only the ads in the sidebar remain. So many of the active SO users will only see a small amount of ads anyway.
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I don't know that I buy the varied hardware thing much anymore. I mean, it's either AMD or Intel, a few chipsets, very few integrated video and it's well defined.

Support for dedicated video can be spotty I suppose, but most macs don't even have that so I'd just ignore it.

As far as controlling the hardware, it sounds like a good point, but I'd be surprised if Apple had less than 100 different variations on their laptop/desktop models over the last 5 years.
Suppose that the Energy distribution for a certain amount of light (as seen by earth) was given by

/- 1 if f < f0
E(f) = >
\- 1/f^2 if f > f0

Then we would have light "at all frequencies" which could be said to be "an infiinite amount of light" but the total amount of energy would still be finite.

Most of these explanations don't seem to first figure out whether if you had a uniform distribution of stars (at discrete points) in an infinite (Euclidean) space, if the amount of radiated energy seen at an arbitrary point would diverge if you summed over all available frequencies. If it doesn't, it seems like lack of sensitivity is the main issue here, and the cosmological arguments are simply additional reasons for why it doesn't happen.
I'm sorry, but do you just disregard overflow in your applications?

Just because software is on the web, doesn't mean it doesn't have to care about logic errors
The Griffiths texts for E&M and Quantum were some of the best educational books I've ever read, and unfortunately both were stolen from me as an undergrad.
I love how aren't reading my comment. I also didn't know buserror's sarcasm tag immediately transferred to your comment. I genuinely thought your comment was in earnest. The Four Seasons thing did happen, parts of your comment are factually wrong. The fact that you fail to see what I'm commenting on is probably as funny as my original mistake. Sarcasm tag or not I was still commenting on the lack of facts in your post. So agree to disagree??
Yeah, both are right in context. It's just like saying "gravity doesn't make objects fall at the same speed". It actually does make them fall at the same speed...but if you include other relevant forces, the overall effect is different.

FYI, gravity might eventually overcome spatial expansion on a cosmic scale. But we don't know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch
This addresses a lot of complaints people have with ads from a UX perspective, but misses some of the technical reasons that a lot of folks (probably disproportionately represented on sites like SO) have for blocking ads and tracking scripts, which is that they're fucking intrusive, not just on a given experience but into one's life. Since most ad impressions are coupled with some persona creation and event linking these days, it's not as simple as "we want to make ads more relevant and high-quality".
"agile" and, especially, "lean" emphasize feedback and iteration as tools to achieve quality and fitness for purpose (i.e., "great engineering".)

They do not emphasize feedback and iteration over quality.
Hi I'm from the WOO team, the reason for a closed beta is because we want to control the quality of candidates however you are a HN user which is why we created a link to HN users to bypass the invite - here it is: https://woo.io/eng/useinvite?token=1085A2AA0E9B89D90AF94BCD0...
Brightcove moves away from Flash to HTML5 for their video player
I wouldn't say illegal. The libertarians are pretty vocal.

However you as an individual have the power to choose whether or not you consume advertising, and it's almost always a better choice not to.
Twitter can do whatever they want (and they are) but it ceases to be free speech when they start censoring.
I do reduce often, but this makes everything else on my desktop too dark so I can't read it. So I have a keyboard shortcuts that run xrandr --brightness <intensity> that I use frequently, but it is not the ideal solution for everyone. Better solution of this problem would be if websites detected brightness+contrast preference set up in browsers, like they detect language or browser window size, and changed their CSS accordingly. It would be great accessibility and UX improvement of the Web. We should make some standard for that and push it up into browser projects. Anybody experienced with such a task?
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Actually, this is an interesting case. It looks to me like the early votes were real, but then a bunch of later voters showed up to promote the story. Perhaps teammates got wind of their startup being on HN.

All: promotional voting is bad on HN. It's against the rules, users hate it and are good at detecting it, and we penalize accounts and sites that do it.

In this case, though, there clearly was some real community interest, so we've reduced the penalty on the story. Hopefully the thread can focus on the actual startup now.
"bug"
Maybe you should accept that not everybody knows everything. Your questions are nice to impress your geek buddies but do they really help you to deliver quality?

So what they use ORM instead of raw SQL? Your role as interviewer is to figure out if they would be able to learn. I can almost see your ads: 5 years of OOP with design patterns, 5 years of MySQL database, 3 years of API, etc.

How about you try to figure out if they can learn? A few months ago, I interviewed a junior guy. We were looking at a simple code exercise he did before coming in. I asked "Why did you lose a List here?" "I don't know, I needed a collection" "Do you know how List is implemented?" "No". I spend a couple minute explaining about singly-linked Lists, and ask "Now that you know, would you use it again?" "No, cause it's terrible for append operations".

He didn't know, but I explained and he understood alone. Why don't you try to explain and see if they can come to conclusions?
"Since these things happened on the same day, some have mistakenly assumed that they were related."

Huh? How could you not think two announcements about the same service on the same day by the same company were related?

Facebook totally could have spun this as "We're open sourcing Parse! (oh, and deprecating parse.com)" but a blog post called "Moving On" wouldn't have been the way to do it.

Regardless, releasing an open source version of the service you're shutting down is a hell of a lot more than most companies would do, so kudos to Facebook/Parse for that.
I didn't know him before reading this, but I have followed and enjoyed fail0verflow's work. It is a very sad loss.

Edit: I actually realized who he is now, as I only knew of him by the name "bushing". A shame to see a great hacker go.
Really like the idea, simple ui, yet clean, the onboarding was very smooth.
Now let's see what I get...
It's fascinating that an amount of time small enough to be completely meaningless to most of us can have such a big impact.
I'm missing something here and would so happy if someone explained to me. I am sorry if I'm making false assumptions as my knowledge on the subject is very limited.

If the universe started from a single point in space and time (i.e., Big Bang), and no matter moves faster than the speed of light, how could ANY star be more distant from us than light could have traveled in the same time frame?

(I'm assuming no matter is travelling at v > c/2, otherwise my argument would only be valid for things traveling in the same hemisphere of the expansion as Earth)
You hear very often that the programmer industry is "age-ist", in other words, the older programmers have a hard time getting hired.

This post is the other side of the coin: older programmers think that when they entered the industry it was "the golden era", and everything since then has gone downhill. This is akin to someone in the late '90s asking all entry-level programmers "you mean, you don't regularly disassemble your object code to verify that the compiler did the right thing? What's wrong with you, why are you relying on your tools so much?"

The fundamental issue is that the industry is maturing, but the names of the positions for which you are hiring hadn't quite kept up with what you are looking for. People whose primary job is to make sure that data gets from the database to HTML and back really don't need to know what is under the covers. This position is called "product programmer". Their job is to translate whatever your UX guy cooked up into things that actually work. If you then need to make sure that whatever they made scales up to thousands of requests, you need to have a different person called a "performance developer" - these people really hate translating UX wireframes into code, but once that part is done, they can optimize everything up and down the stack with their eyes closed.

Also, this is a personal pet peeve of mine: if you are asking what a singleton is in a job interview, you are interviewing for the wrong thing, so no wonder you are getting the wrong interviewees.
Ben was also instrumental in the Wii hacks, played a role in several iOS jailbreaks, and helped me reverse engineer the Second Life protocol.
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In my opinion, you should just behave like your emails are public record.

This is the best way of approaching that technology.
Not necessarily; all hobbies simply become social. Gunpla? You go down to a anime store to do it with others. Kayaking? Storage facility the manages the kayaks and can rent personal storage. Robotics? You'd head down to the local Maker shop and rent storage/locker. It's simply becoming "social".

I'm not saying I agree or like; just that it doesn't mean giving everything up.

But.. There can be benefits to building a robot in a room where you can go on the slack channel and ask for a part... or kayak with someone new similar to going for a round of gold with a new partner.
Why do you believe non-American cloud providers aren't compromised?
Even though it may be against their interests someone may look at a person making one million a year, see they pay close to 50% of their income in taxes (if they live in California for instance) and think that's enough.

The majority of our income taxes are paid by very high income people. They may also feel that if we tax them too punitively they'll leave or cheat or have less money to start/maintain businesses, etc.

The top marginal tax rate is about %40 right? It used to be 90% in 1960 and 70% in 1980 although these kicked in at much higher amount of wealth than in the modern day. What do people think is 'fair' considering most do not even understand progressive taxes. 100 years ago there was no income tax.

I personally think we spend too much and the main reason I support higher taxes on the rich (especially cap gains over a certain amount) is so it is not as easy to subvert the political system in their favor. I don't know what number is 'fair' though.
Certain types of safety-critical systems are regulated with liabilities coming in. They have to be built in a rigorous way to show the developer attempted to counter some amount and types of risk. There's a niche market that uses tech like OpenGL to build GUI's and simulators for safety-critical systems. I think this clause is a smart dodge of unknown risks rather than a joke.

Relevant page:
https://www.khronos.org/openglsc/

Example companies doing that stuff:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110224145307/http://www.altsof...

http://www.esterel-technologies.com/products/scade-display/
This is more about protecting yourself from incoming phishing attacks than your outgoing mail.
Gmail uses an associated Google+ profile for authenticated emails, so you need both for it to work going forward, I presume. To get started, check https://www.google.com/business/

Outlook uses Facebook and Twitter, if you have these contacts integrated. Yahoo does this too: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/smart-contact-cards-arrive-...

There really should be some kind of standard or mail header though. :) Come to think of it, services could support a vcard mime-type attachment, perhaps? Except that likely wouldn't support URLs to profile photos... Maybe we've identified a missing feature of DKIM? ;-)
Just playing devil's advocate, but look at the UI. The box I saw says "CAPTCHA" and "type these two words". So the argument for fraud would be that 50% of words Google solicited under the guise of CAPTCHA were actually used for the sole economic benefit of Google's other services. Maybe on a count for fraud the plaintiff's can't prove that they would not have created a Google account having known the 2nd word was not for CAPTCHA; however, the Plaintiffs could certainly prevail on a unjust enrichment claim.

As the company who invented the anti-trust defense "competition is only a click away", Google should equally be capable of acknowledging there in absolutely no burden on Google to create 2 boxes for new users, one identified as CAPTCHA, and the other as a crowd-sourced word to be used for Google's other services.
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You can’t do both
Does Chrome now ship with an adblocker, suggested at installation?
> As spacetime expands, energy density decreases, space becomes less light-emitting and more transparent, and light already in transit becomes red-shifted. Our field of vision is still technically flooded with light, as it always has been, but by now the red-shift is so extreme that the light is in the radio spectrum.

You talk about the radiation generated before 1M years in the universe. This article talked about the light from the existing stars in the universe.
Imagine Hubble's deep field image again, but this time imagine you can see towards infinity (beyond the observable universe). If the universe is infinitely big (and old), then there would be so many stars in the image that there would be an infinite amount of light in the image.

In this hypothetical universe, the Sun would actually be a dark spot in the sky -- because it would be blocking the infinite amount of light coming from an infinite amount of stars behind it.

That's the paradox -- that we do not see that. No matter how sensitive our eyes are, we would be able to see infinite light. (Actually, our eyes would be melted... and all current forms of life impossible... but you get the picture.)
I'm pretty sure if I posted copyrighted material on Twitter and the rights holder issued a DMCA takedown, that Twitter would have to comply.

Any illegal content can and should be taken down. Twitter is trying to add another layer of judgement beyond that. That's what we're debating.
The toilet OP linked to is a real toilet experience. Flush and forget with no exposure to what went down before you. These http://www.xrunner-venture.com/the-toilet/4586730377, http://resourcesanitation.com/our-concept/ are nothing more than outhouses.
There was a child post of this which was deleted, but I thought was very on the mark. (It was likely deleted because it said things about a certain BigCO internals that potentially weren't public)

That being said, I'd like to independently re-echo the thrust of that post because I did feel the contribution was key:

There are often internal channels in large companies that the boots on the ground use to communicate with each other in a more informal fashion. I've noticed across multiple companies that this is a FANTASTIC leading indicator for the success of a feature. For however much flak engineers get for not being "people persons" or however you put it, or needing "Designers" to guide their customer facing work, I've seen significant correlation between popular sentiment and feature success. Perhaps at the end of the day, enough of our outlook as "consumers" remains to properly instruct us despite whatever programmer bent we may have; or more pessimistically, our own sentiment on what we're making subconsciously impacts our output in a meaningful way.

So to end this ramble briefly; I think we CAN tell, the powers that be just need to look in the right places, and listen well if they do.