skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the math program that Jason Roberts is providing to a group of younger students in Pasadena. If you've never heard the TechZing podcast I'd recommend it: http://techzinglive.com/
When I was a research assistant in college in the US, we had an Iranian student apply to work with us several times, even after we told him no the first time. We were researching the properties of yellow cake uranium for the Department of Energy! Obviously there are strict rules on that kind of work, hiring him would have been VERY illegal, but he still kept bugging us even after telling him that.
I think the confusion here is you've assumed I meant that Twitter needs to become more like FB from a content perspective. I mean from a usability perspective. My father would like to follow along with current affairs/breaking news/sports and other celebrities.....he just can't get it to work the way he wants.
I am most likely to see a wired article by following a HN link. That texture has some other article that is similar is totally pointless, as it is either the wired article or nothing.

Don't get me wrong, texture is probably doing great things, but until we get copyright changed to include a right to stream any work (subject to payment), such collections will be mostly pointless.
..and you can also have a different set of files/folders ignored than those in .gitignore, AND it's customizable per project with Project Manager. Huge plus for me too!
I still get the paywall message.
It is laggy even on Chrome. React is not necessarily the best tool if you are looking for for smooth transitions.
Trivial answer: the webpage is a monolithic PNG

Yes, please! If they are going to serve every article as a single static file, then I might actually consider paying for it.
The issues go far beyond insurance. The whole platform was a mess when my company used it and support was virtually non-existent because of their complete ineptitude.
Why do you think that's the case? A typical company is hiring at least one person per month, and depending on the size of the company, probably many more. Plus, if people keep telling them the numbers, they can get a pretty good idea of the state of the market just from talking to all the candidates, which gives them quite a lot of datapoints. Do you do a monthly salary survey of a random selection of 30 people in comparable job roles?
Lol. Couples having more/better sex are happier and communicate more; and they likely have more/better sex because they communicate more and are happier. Great analysis there.

I'm really waiting for the next study on what keeps water so wet.
From June 6, 2012. 33 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4078211 .

(I was hoping there was a new Hague post, then realized it was one I had read before.)
This seems such a Java thing to do. Everything about it makes my skin crawl.

I'd love to hear some real-world experience.
Evercookie – Fingerprint for a Browser
Which FANG is which Beatle?
"Open source" generally means not only can you get the source code, but you can use it freely and make your modifications available to others. There's some wiggle room for exactly what qualifies there, but Amazon's terms are pretty far from any gray areas.
> We know that there are many reasons for running an ad blocker, from simply wanting a faster, cleaner browsing experience to concerns about security and tracking software.

They sound as though they're trying to accommodate 'us', but the proof will be in what the 'ad-free' experience is really like. I wonder if they're considered a paid RSS feed as an alternative - that would certainly solve much of the issue for many.
Online satellite spectrum and carrier monitoring
If somebody did that monolithic PNG a bunch of hackers would see it as a challenge and there would be a "Show HN: how to get around wireds new png system" within a week.
A bit off topic, but is anyone else surprised that The Economist's editors permit the use of 'newbies' rather than 'new users'?

"Third, newbies find Twitter..."
Fox news has a mirror

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/02/09/what-keeps-couples-...
Nice project! Even if you believe that systemd is too complicated, it's a great example on how to build an asynchronous, modern init system. Upstart uses some highly questionable tricks (ptrace!) to track processes across forks whereas systemd uses cgroups.
Did Pricing Strategy Contribute to LinkedIn’s Market Meltdown?
I get what you're saying and I agree with you, but what's the alternative? It's hard to justify a $5,000,000 fine or a multi-decade prison sentence for selling someone insurance without a license.
I was surprised to see this tweet by a technical director at Github:

https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/690601512813367297
correct url should be:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/we-wuz-wrong---tech-stock-coll...

For some reason, the above main site url redirects to their mobile version:

https://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/finance/news/we-wuz-wrong...
I think because the network effect is a fundamental foundation of social networks. Think of all the SN's that have come and gone. It appears you can't really remain static with a non/slow growing user base. Eventually, something else comes along that has a broader range of people making the content better; you stop opening the older, more static app.
GM Opened a New Powertrain Performance and Racing Center
HPE has a new 8 socket large memory server
SpaceX Has Highest ISS Resupply Price
Still, it's quite obviously possible. Nobody has implied that this was specifically due to a single point of failure or a single human error...we'll have to wait for more data.
>The main reason to me are the parasites.

I thought sashimi is frozen to kill parasites?
Yeah Facebook says so. How many times have companies (even Facebook) said something and something entirely different.
Facebook still reserves right to not allow you on their service. In addition they want ability to see and even modify content going between you and the customer.Facebook can actually say that they can't accept you because of reason X while they actually want no competition to Whatsapp or Facebook
Who cares? The reduction of "happiness in marriage" to the single factor of sex is narrow-minded and frankly...weird.

An article about sex and marriage getting voted to the top of Hacker News isn't really lending the article any credit ether.
That is true - do you have a suggestion? Apart from Facebook and AdWords, what kind of marketing should OP try?
That seems pretty crazy to me. I get that they're using this as a loss leader to promote their services, but it seems to me that they'd do much better if they just made it work great with AWS such that it was the natural choice. If you integrate AWS heavily then people will pick it anyway, but if they think it's their own decision they'll be a lot happier with it.
OOJavaScript Engineer – ITV Media Player
There were most certainly victims in this Zenefits case. My employees count amongst them. We were wronged by Zenefits and people with medical problems found themselves out of insurance because of this company, then Parker tried to shift blame to us but the issue all along was him using unlicensed, inexperienced brokers in the states we have employees in.
I got that distinct impression as well.

Also this: "We have problems, but they are less serious than those faced by just about any other nation on earth."

Seriously? The US has much more serious problems than just about any other developed nation.
Yep, you're right. Virtual DOM abstraction is not good for smooth transitions. I'll implement reflectDOM method for every object type. Thanks for your feedback!
The Reality of Missing Out
"I don't mean to sound overly dismissive, but isn't this just part of being an adult?"

Reading and understanding what you read doesn't make any difference.

In the U.S., employers have a lot of power. Workers have none. When every company has a non-compete (or whatever other egregious terms), eventually you have to sign somewhere so you can feed yourself.
Galaxy S7/S7 edge accessories and wallpapers leak, 2700mAh 'Backpack Case' inbound
Doesn't shorting a stock require that you select a time at which the stock will be worth less than it is now? Isn't that just a slightly different way of trying to time the market?

Presumably someone might think we are in a bubble and be right, but not have enough information to know when the market will correct or to what degree.
Getting banned is not the issue with that scheme, getting criminally prosecuted for commercial infringement is.
The device seems like it's a lot more than a piece of filter paper and an air intake - surely there's much more going on in there than just particulate collection.
This would actually make for decent television. Man vs. Machine.
Ha, I was sort of feeling the same way...Sanders is the only one for whom politics, rather than personality, are mentioned.
I would understand "AAA game engine" as merely meaning that it is suitable for making AAA games. I don't see why that phrasing would require an existing AAA game developed with it, unless you require an existence proof of its capabilities before you believe it.
Web Bluetooth – Controlling the real world from your browser
"Serverless" is a framework used by AWS: https://github.com/serverless/serverless

And it now supports Python. Would be interesting to see someone using AWS Serverless framework with Django Plugin support.
The initial config was a bit rough, but the initial config included docker and jenkins. Jenkins is basically a dashbaord for deploying docker containers now. My "maintenance" is clicking a build button when I need an update, and I could probably configure it to watch docker hub or git and run the builds automatically.

I definitely don't "all you do is maintain these services"
Show HN: How Will We Explore Books in the 21st Century?
How would I know what it says when I can't read it.
I can't seem to open files of 1MB properly in Atom.
Also I find it very useful to open logs to find-replace some info from logs.
This is an implementation issue about react-designer renderer. I'll implement custom renderer for instant dom updates. Virtual DOM is not efficient to handle this.

Thank for your feedback, I'll try to fix it.
> I am pretty lenient, and would go for anything that resembles a compiler-enforced tagged union

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/doc/html/variant.html ??? (and I think it's supposed to be coming in c++17)
An indirect way to support Django is to use products and/or services of its sponsors: https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/corporate-members/
ADP has the same thing.
All of them. Seriously. I long ago stopped being surprised when I find my client using some long-ago enshrined Access app to handle a critical business function. Nothing compared to Excel, tho...
Can the Placebo Effect Be Used as Medicine?
I think the world needs more intelligent folks like yourself who have a healthy amount of skepticism. I myself actually consider myself a proponent of these decentralized social networks, and I'm placing plenty of faith on these open networks...Though i don't go in blindly assuming the entire world will eventually adopt these. For me, if i can get my family and friends at least interacting with me - whether through my network or through a pass-through between the 2 systems - that's enough for me. Much like your email example i agree that most will use some free offering because of ease of use, etc. However, there are folks like myself who do wish to host our own...but the expectation - much like email - is to ensure interaction is as seamless as possible between the proprietary and the open networks. I use Gnu Social for now...my hope is that if this stack (Gnu social) fails, i hope it fails fast, just so that the next evolution - whatever that open platform might be - could iterate and progress faster, again with the goal of ease of use/implementation, more seamless integration (between networks), etc.
From the early days of Hacker News, termites as a service.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423
For those who want to go straight to the demo, it's at https://books.archivelab.org/dateviz/
"The primary theme for this release was to improve the upgrade path to Angular 2."

Why? Will developers really attempt to upgrade 1.x apps to 2.x apps? It's well known 2.x is considerably different from 1.x.

I would think any apps using 2.x will be either freshly written using 2.x or AngularJS developers will simply move to React or something else.

It's bad enough to make 2.x so considerably different from 1.x but to change 1.x to be "more compatible" with 2.x just seams ignorant to me.
Would you rather have a correction in the real estate bubble or the tech bubble?
Oh I certainly agree, but a lot of people on here are saying they don't understand it, but want to/have tried. I'm just pointing out a way that might demonstrate to them the value it can offer. If it's not intuitive to them, that is Twitter's fault, but that doesn't mean value doesn't exist.
It's like chipping in $10 for a bag of artisinal coconut chips on Kiskstarter, but instead of getting a bag chips you get a mature web framework. And maybe artisinal coconut chips.. I don't know, I've never been to DjangoCon.
20% is Mandatory
How uhh structured.

I'm all about good communication but asking those exact six questions every evening would get old fast. Do the two of you have so little in common that all you have to talk about is your monotonous work day?

There is something to be said for having shared hobbies in a relationship (yes, also individual hobbies) if only to give you something to talk about. We talk politics extensively for one example.
Actually scientists aren't really sure what makes water 'wet' :) (at least from a molecular perspective)
Advanced config with configuration meta-data in Spring Boot
Pervious discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10835544
How about: company discovered that having a good product your customers really use and recommend helps to sell the product.

I enjoyed the post. Nothing ground breaking, but a nice reminder that no amount of marketing will help you if your customers are not satisfied with what they get. Good luck to OP!
Ca. 1996, the DOJ web server was hacked by somebody. At this point, I don't remember the details--Adolf Hitler as AG, a naughty picture or two. It shouldn't be hard to find.
India's New Open Internet Law Is Stronger Than the United States
No, this isn't what the Wikipedia article says. To quote:

In programming languages, closures (also lexical closures
or function closures) are a technique for implementing
lexically scoped name binding in languages with first-
class functions.

which is the same definition that wingo is using. Stack allocation is another technique for implementing lexical scope, if the relevant bindings are still on the stack.
Actually I'd say the updates stopped between July and January : https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
ProTips: Don't be a dick. Listen. Talk.
You know, you are free to move to any of a list of cities with booming (or at least sufficiently breathing) tech industries and more realistic costs of living, in no particular order:

- Austin
- San Diego
- Washington, DC
- New York
- Portland
- Pretty much any state capital will have agencies with plenty of contract development work
I've been trying to find a simple dataset of music to experiment with and this is perfect. Thanks!
I think Twitter is in a different position because Yahoo! has never build a bi-directional connection between producers and consumers.
Obviously, that's not limited to media and ads companies. Any kind of industry is investing in PR.

I believe Twitter could succeed as a PR company but will probably fail as a tech company.
It's interesting to see what's happening in the cloud-backed gaming space. We're working on similar ideas at http://improbable.io but with more emphasis on persistent and unsharded worlds. I have the feeling that Lumberyard/Gamelift does "scaling" in the sense of "adding more shards", not "adding more compute power to the single unsharded world".
Looks good, will make the menu more distinguishable in the next release.

Monetizing: focus is on creating a great user experience now. Once that's achieved and the app adds value there’s a few ideas
And then your crime goes from (mere) 'computer misuse' to 'espionage' or even 'treason', with the exciting penalties they draw. I don't think anyone with half a brain wants to go down that road, particularly since the info isn't even that valuable, but the penalties would be the same as TS/SCI information release to an 'enemy government' or similar.
Ok, here is a question. I went to the site and tried the document conversion service. I gave it three very clean PDF files containing CS articles. In all cases, what I got in response was "The input document failed to be converted because An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the element content of the document."

Tika is able to parse them without a glitch, and has been doing so for a few years at least.

So I tried with some sample HTML taken from the main italian news sites. In this cases, it parsed it, but returned some garbage HTML tags and no content. BoilerPipe or similar libraries are able to extract a clean body of the news in all cases.

How is that state of the art technology?
Also, the more people who enjoy the bag of chips, the better, unlike with actual chips.
Works! also safari in private mode, will get you in.
I can see the infrastructural scenarios where this would be beneficial, but maybe even then, I think this is a convoluted way to not use what I consider critical workflow tools, specifically environmental files, config files, git merge, git rebase, branches. I think you would be better off looking to see if you can organize your files better, restrict merging major branches to employees who are properly trained/competent in merging.
What exactly do you mean by "bubble"?
This kind of dismissive thinking is counter-productive. Our intuitions are often wrong, and hindsight-bias allow us to fool ourselves that our intuition would have been right when we already know the answer. In order to figure out what is actually happening, we need to do studies and experiments rather than just thinking about it, to find out where our intuitions are wrong. When our intuition happens to match the outcome, that is not failure, nor is it a reason to mock the people who did the work. They are advancing our understanding.
It seems like there's a lot of momentum towards people wanting a "replacement" for linkedin... kind of makes me think of the transition from SourceForge (has always been a spammy hole) to github.
Open Source has won in Enterprise and every company has examples. Microsoft has continued down that road especially the last few years. IBM has made some moves but the vast majority of its strategy is with closed source projects like Watson.
The Open Banking Standard
Glu Mobile (maker of Kim Kardashian app) is a $500M fad
I fail to see how this brings ANY value to ANYONE, other than those who explicitly wish to engage in abuse of authority. I also fail to see how teaching this as a skill in university is any better than teaching advanced pocket picking skills to school children as part of the standard curriculum.

So, you'll excuse my potty mouth, but I have to repeat myself - EVERYONE engaged on either side of this practice is a certifiable idiot.
Midnight where?
Should Software Architects Write Code?
I was curious about their "encryption" since they seem to emphasize it a lot.

https://www.stackfield.com/security

This page indicates they're using RSA-2048 and AES-256. Wow, that's so vague. So I signed up.

It's using Javascript Cryptography, which is never a good sign: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...

Their RSA implementation is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack (Bleichenbacher's 1998 attack):

https://www.stackfield.com/Scripts/Plugins/rsa.2016012205415...

https://www.stackfield.com/Scripts/Plugins/rsa2.201601220541...

They're using AES-CTR, but they're not authenticating the ciphertext.

https://www.stackfield.com/Scripts/sf.wssecurity.20160122054...

(JSBeautifier comes to the rescue:)

function DecryptOrganisationByMaster(e, a) {
if (e === undefined || e.MyOrgRoleId === 3) {
return false
}
var b = e.EncryptionCode,
c = e.EncryptedCode;
if (b === undefined || c === undefined || b === "" || c === "") {
return false
}
if (OrganisationPasswords[e.OrgId] !== undefined) {
return true
}
var d = Aes.Ctr.decrypt(c, a, 256);
if (d === b) {
OrganisationPasswords[e.OrgId] = a;
return true
}
return false
}

This really should have been reviewed by a cryptographer before being branded so heavily as an "encryption" solution.

EDIT: Also, their Aes.Ctr.encrypt() function doesn't accept a nonce:

https://www.stackfield.com/Scripts/Plugins/jquery.aes.201601...

See https://gist.github.com/paragonie-scott/53428f0947337d66a786
This and the fact that they just released a new version is very good news!
I've tried several other editors over the last 2 years or so, but I keep coming back to Sublime. I love many things about Atom, but janky scrolling on a 2 year old MacBook Pro is just unacceptable.
Another big advantage that isn't mentioned a lot is that Sublime is a lot lighter on CPU. Just for all the folks that are developing on battery power.
What Keeps Couples Happy are love, Loyalty and forgiveness
Challenges for Implementing DevOps – Explained by Masters Gene Kim and Topo Pal
They did slash headcount, but lower headcount does not necessarily mean better choices will be made, as the timeline shenanigans demonstrate.

What they need to slash is the attitude of "owning the channel".
Understanding punctuation in erlang
not free, but have you tried http://www.jammit.com/ ?
It's a joke on saying "Put the customer first" as the second item in your priorities. "Put the customer after integrity, but before all that other stuff" doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
The free iCloud tops out at 5GB (which is low for storing device backups and photos; ideally, you should get the same storage as your device size for free). You can pay for more storage.

And if you don't want to trust iCloud with photo sync, there are other options (Dropbox does that, and Plex has a photo sync function if you want to host those files yourself).
I agree, but that variable cost is what makes it variable to the consumer which is generally not accepted. Putting a hurdle before a click to view an article generally destroys your readership.
You are talking about the US which indeed has done a little bit better in the past 3 years than the rest of the world. However US economy does not equal the world economy.
You are right, especially about #2.
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The point of this is that you don't need to learn any new frameworks - it works with your existing code. You can deploy your existing apps on Lambda without having to change anything, and you're not locked in to AWS if you want to go back.
These so called "bubbles" are purely psychological because they are based on imaginary abstractions.

>This was the situation of the Great Depression when here we were still, in a material sense, a very rich country, with plenty of fields and farms and mines and factories...everything going. But suddenly because of a psychological hang-up, because of a mysterious mumbo-jumbo about the economy, about the banking, we were all miserable and poor - starving in the midst of plenty. Just because of a psychological hang-up. And that hang-up is that money is real, and that people ought to suffer in order to get it. But the whole point of the machine is to relieve you of that suffering. It is ingenuity. You see we are psychologically back in the 17th century and technically in the 20th. And here comes the problem. So what we have to find out how to do is to change the psychological attitude to money and to wealth and further more to pleasure and further more to the nature of work. And this is a formidable problem.

-Alan Watts: Money, Guilt, and the Machine
What Forbes did after it had readers turn off their ad blockers is still fresh in my mind: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160111/05574633295/forbe...