skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow cool idea! I've kind of already been doing something like this but posting little code snippets to my twitter account for later reference. I like the idea of creating a repo like the OP and not having to spam my followers with my random, crappy code! :~) Cheers!
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I still have a life and family away from office, and remote work doesn't mean "don't leave the house".
At the core of this is crackdowns on the promises made about job placement, income, etc. Will we see similar efforts in the bootcamp space?
And, it ignores the variety in the goals of marketers, and the audiences they are trying to reach.

For example, on Twitter you can target ads to public conversations among influencers. You cannot do that on Facebook; there are no public conversations among influencers on Facebook. Influencers use Facebook the same way you and I do: to stalk people and avoid their parents.

Or consider the quickly growing content marketing options, like branded content (the Buzzfeed and Vice model), buying native content slots on sites, and content "recommendation" systems like Outbrain and Taboola--which are way cheaper than Google or Facebook.

Want to reach teenagers? They don't use Google and Facebook. You better be on Snapchat and Instagram (and, actually, Twitter). Etc.
I generally take about 5 minutes at some point each evening to write up something that I learned that day or earlier that week.

I've always viewed them as being quick and easy to write up which has taken away the intimidation that can come with trying to write a big blog post.
Then again, someone mentioned this very card, and the response was that it was internal hardware, so still a mystery.
Do you have reason to believe that they do not respect requests from print publishers not to scan their books?

https://support.google.com/books/partner/answer/3365282?rd=1

https://www.google.com/googlebooks/publisher_library.html#op...

Regardless of whether they have a legal obligation to do so, they certainly make it sound like they obey such requests.
Which is also an interesting question.
Another case where The Perfect is the enemy of The Good.

Baby steps, people.
Breaking down costs like that (per end user payment) is awesome; I'd never thought of doing that. (It's not very accurate in a lot of businesses, but it's an interesting way to think about things, so it's a useful tool.)
Your commit messages are remarkably consistent :)
No, best practices are to avoid using any of that and trusting anyone's servers. S/MIME if you trust the CA system, PGP if you don't. Supporting either of those would be a real step forward for privacy - but of course if Google can't snoop on your email then it's not helping them target their ads.
Oh, I agree that MOOCs are a boon to people who could not otherwise attend college. But for those who can attend college, there is a lot of value that is hard to get from a MOOC, and I'm not talking about prestige or networking or credentialism.

Heck, I watch online course material while I do my exercising.
Fingerprints form while in the uterus. The location of a tree's first leaf will be influenced by the factors up until that time. It's still the same thing. Leaves won't move around from branch to branch.
Hmm, interesting. I think you are right.

(NASA is an acronym. NSA is an initialism.)
> We all know Google is doing it, though.

What, precisely, do we "know" Google/Microsoft/FUDCo is doing? Certainly not willingly collaborating with every quasi-legal search and seizure presented to them.
I keep my org notes in a private repo, which I often edit directly on Github. I organize by topic. e.g. Cooking, Photoshop, Haskell, yoga, drawing, Go, Emacs, vim, etc. I use my two README.org to organize the information. One is for all topics and the second is a much smaller immediate README that I want to view daily. I keep it pruned since the main README has all the references.

I'd like to breakout topics of general interest but I feel that I'd need to be more organized. Last week, however, I did move my Ergonomic Notes (e.g. RSI, keyboards, mice, programming by voice) to a public repo.

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes

I also find it helpful to group topics and create menus in the org files:

Menu: Ergonomic Keyboards | Ergonomic Mice | Programming by Voice | RSI
Mostly around communication. Slack and IMs and video chat are great and all, but you can move way more information and have it be received much more clearly in person. There also can be a feeling of isolation, depending on how teams are structured and how many employees at the company are remote.

Also, there is no "going to the bar after work for a couple beers", which for many is fine. But still humans require some measure of being physically near other humans, so you need to be much more proactive about socializing and seeing friends/family. If you aren't diligent about this you can become kind of a hermit. If you have young kids this is probably not a big deal, you'd be too busy anyway.

Plus, like I mentioned before, you're now on the hook for the office space. Working remotely can lead you to justify paying for more house or apartment than you otherwise would have, because "well I need an extra room for my office". The freedom it affords is quite nice, so many would probably be fine with the extra outlay. But you should be clear about what you're paying for, and why.
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>a mass exodus and spike in housing supply is exactly what we need. too bad the broadband providers aren't making it happen.

building 1km high towers (be it in SF or several miles in the ocean off the Ocean Beach - doesn't really mater) would do it too - housing supply with great connection. Humans are social animals, and, in particular, nightlife is nothing on Peninsula compare to SF, and in rural it is nothing even compare to Peninsula.
We've just posted a blog post "Introducing Dynamic Modules in NGINX 1.9.11." https://www.nginx.com/blog/dynamic-modules-nginx-1-9-11/

We'll take a read through the comments here and are looking forward to answering questions and receive feedback. You may also email the NGINX development mailing list (info in blog post).

(I work @ NGINX).
Ah, I see, I misunderstood your comment. But I think pip gives you better options than NPM, which installs into either /usr/local/(...) or the current directory. The latter sounds like a mess waiting to happen.
Work from home, son shoots you with nerf gun, work from office, brogrammer shoots you with nerf gun....
> most companies that have physical offices also have corporate retreats or events

Citation needed. I'd never even heard of a corporate retreat before now.
Yeah, I didn't read that very closely :-/

Still cool, but not as much as I'd thought.
I like this concept a lot! I'm not sure whether I would give each employee money for coworking space, because I think that would make me feel like I need to choose and commit to a coworking space, since otherwise it would seem that I'm throwing away the money. It would also make it sound like it's compensating for not having an office, which I think is a net win for the people who are going to enjoy working at a company with a remote culture.
wait() doesn't need to block at all actually, you can use WNOHANG.
How can they fail to even mention Warcraft III, an epic multiyear development effort and one of the most commercially successful video games of all time?

Its debut was an epic win for Blizzard. It made more money the year it came out than any Hollywood movie. WC3 also set the stage for World of Warcraft, which would not have experienced nearly the same uptake without it.

Truly a glaring omission in an otherwise interesting article.
> Well, you have no reliable way to assert your personal mail server is not bugged and observed right now.

Quite true. If you, personally, are a target of the NSA, you are totally fucked. We know that they will make up evidence if they cannot find some.

However, we put locks on our doors even though most of them can be picked very easily. Why?

Security best practice is "defense in depth". You defend at each level to make it more expensive for an attacker. The goal is to make attacks against your stuff more expensive.

If you make the government have to dispatch someone physically, there is a vast amount more friction. There was an inspector from Scotland Yard who once commented that "If your drives are encrypted such that it takes us more than 40 hours of work, your drives are not going to convict you. We will spend our time on gathering other evidence." Physically seizing a server is annoying paperwork.

So, the goal is to prevent them from being able to dragnet low-level offenses for cheap. If you're a murder suspect and they have good reason to come after you, then they're coming after you irrespective of the cost.
Any Indian HN users have any more info?
I was lucky enough of having a good math teacher that understood and taught Lorentz and Einstein equations, he used to say "Once that you get it, you will laugh at them", here I am several years later still waiting for some of those laughs.
I don't think it's going to kill the patient having a choice of only Facebook and WhatsApp to talk to each other without paying for minutes or SMS. Or indeed enhance their freedom of choice when they decide to stick to SMS because it's good enough and cheaper than the internet.

I started using AOL when its walled garden tried (not unconvincingly at the time) to pass itself off as the entire internet. 15 years later I can't even remember the last time I visited a core AOL property.
In Bucharest one can rent a 50sqm flat for about 400E per month (all expenses paid) in a decent neighbourhood. Prices have been steady since 2009. I shared a couple of bigger/smaller flats with 1 or 2 friends throughout college but now I live alone since I work from home (quite boring though). Usually people rent in groups in their early 20s mostly due to financial issues but afterwards they prefer to get a 30y mortage to buy their property since the cost is arguably the same and most see rent as wasted money (not necessarily true though, mortage definitely has its downsides)
With encrypted indexes maintained on the client end. Web search is a complex problem, but searching a single user's mailbox is child's play, you don't need Google for that. Client end processing could work for advertising too, but at that point you have an information leak that severely weakens security, the client will ask for adds relevant to terms found in the message.
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In California, districts supplement state funding with local bond measures.

http://www.bondbuyer.com/news/regionalnews/california-school...
I'm self employed and have an away from home office also.

Like OP it makes a break between work and home. Plus, a few times clients have dropped by to see something. Also, I get dressed and see neighbors from adjoining offices on a regular basis. So I don't become a totally socially inept nerd.

I don't have any kids but if I continue with this, I fully expect to get more than 43,000 worth of value out of the office over a 10 year period.
Yep, was about £10 three years ago before shit got crazy.
No I'm not talking about the getting-in part, I'm talking about the once-you-are-there part and the deep social connections that can be made by sharing real-world experiences.
Interesting. Okay I'll give that some actual thought and see if I can get something down to submit to the HN crowd.
Yeah, I enjoy the company of my co-workers, we have a great time together. Including going out for drinks after work etc.

If I didn't enjoy the company of my co-workers I'd probably just find a new job.
"Mediocre" is not an extremely harsh thing to say. And drum loops on YouTube is a lousy way to have drum loops. They should be available in MIDI if they're just MIDI stuff, and should be downloadable. Taking MIDI and rendering it to YouTube where playback and tempo are particularly fixed… c'mon. I assume the point of YouTube is a mix of being able to show ads (not sure, I block ads) or just be there because it's popular.

Honestly, I'm trying to be critical not just of the site but of the idea that Hacker News folks think this is notable. I don't know how to express that distinctly, given that much of the points are the same for both critiques.
I'm curious as to why you decided to left out push notification. That was one of my favourite Parse features, and I think it's why a lot of people use it.

Was it too hard or time consuming to re implement?
Why is a closed beta such a "bullshit" concept? I see start-ups do this all the time, it makes sense to me. Either to manage scaling (Gmail) or to control the quality of the users on the site.
Do you even know what you originally replied to? Because it's right there. We already know Google stores a great big swath of data about you for various purposes, including advertising. We know that one of the many sources of this data is what is gleamed from scanning emails for advertisements. Don't act like it's not common knowledge.
I like this a lot, and will do my best to convince my agents to allow me to implement this idea...
but of course if Google can't snoop on your email then it's not helping them offer you a high-quality email service for free by showing you (hopefully) relevant and unobtrusive ads

Fixed that for you.
Apple is part of the karma, is sorta what you're saying! :)
Indeed, but promoting some anarchist (or just anarchy-compatible) ideas does not make one an anarchist.
Slava @ RethinkDB here.

It's been a pleasure working with Kyle on doing an exhaustive analysis of RethinkDB and tracking down bugs revealed in the second test. Our lead engineer wrote a detailed analysis of our findings (linked from the blog post, but I wanted to link it again): https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/5289#issuecomm.... For anyone interested in the details, this is a good read!
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and spawned dota -- which more or less propelled mobas into the forefront of gaming.
Understood.

Good deal then.
This.

Rich kids are also much better positioned in terms of parental funding and familial social connections to do things that bring them international acclaim afterwards. They then get a platform to tell a worldwide audience about their life story and their parent-subsidized gap year, creating a very distorted view of American culture abroad.

In other words, only a tiny percentage of American kids get 10k from their parents to go on vacation in Europe. It's just that the international circulation of media that say "I had kids and worked two jobs to be able to pay the bills and never got to go anywhere" is far lower.
Could some one explain why accounting/legal and payroll would be 5K per month for a company this size? It seems high to me.
Great teachers(not feynman's level, but still great) for standard subjects(math, physics, etc) shouldn't be that expensive. There are still a lot of savings to be had.
IoT = "Intel on Thou".
> Would you rather see an advertisement or an entire article on a blog centered around a product?

A site that mixes ads in content won't be popular for long (it's bad content). It's also often illegal without disclosure in many places. And once you are producing this kind of ad-injected content you already have a personal connection with an advertiser and make non-targeted advertisements!(everyone sees your same blogpost about the same shoes).

If a website can afford to do that they didn't need ad networks to begin with! They could have "magazine ads", I.e dumb images served from the source domain. Thats exactky what I'm hoping for - Internet ads being just like magazine ads.
The article doesn't answer the question in any satisfying way. A layman would probably believe that the environment in the uterus is the same for both twins, too. The "satisfying" answer is still quite boring: as with everything else, there are stochastic processes in play during embryonic development. For one, cytoplasm is divided asymmetrically, so the two embryos don't begin their separate journeys with a perfectly equal share of their progenitor's resources.

Also, this is a rather silly sentence:

Although very similar, the fingerprints of identical twins are nevertheless unique because they are not completely determined by genetics: they are an example of phenotype, which refers to the physical characteristics of an individual that are determined by the interaction of genes and the environment.

By this reasoning, the only thing completely determined by genetics is genes, since every manifestation of genotype could be called a phenotype.
Fewer than a dozen actually signed up for the service, but I didn't spend much on paid traffic anyway.

I had 3-4% of a few hundred visitors press the fake "get started" button. I only relied on forums and HN comments that said 1-5% is acceptable.
Sure. There are idiots who deny/ignore externalities, and then there are intelligent dogmatic fundamentalists who prioritize their fundamentalist model regardless of ramifications.
The NSA is merging its cyber offense and defense teams
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Agari is on a mission to eliminate email as a channel for cyber attacks and enable businesses and consumers to interact safely.

Create your free DMARC record here: https://app.agari.com/dmarc/record_creator

Here is a webinar with Steve Jones, Executive Director of DMARC.org, John Rae-Grant of Google and Mike Jones, Agari Director of Product Management talking about email authentication. https://www.agari.com/project/webinar-the-authenticated-emai...
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Valve flies out the entire company with families on vacation once a year.
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I agree, it's only a question of terminology. My comment was only that the definition as given was incomplete.

Thanks for the link. It's too much beyond me to really follow, but I've no doubt that such a definition is possible.

Would you say that Python's with statement is sugar? The PEP at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/ might suggest so, but Python has no way to generate new unique symbols for variables, so the translation of:

with open(filename):
pass

can't trivially be converted to:

mgr = (open(filename))
exit = type(mgr).__exit__ # Not calling it yet
value = type(mgr).__enter__(mgr)
exc = True
...

because of possible name collisions.
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Same. I love being in the office despite the 30 mile commute. If you need to work with people it also makes it a lot easier.
This sounds like a tempest-teapot scenario because he doesnt seem to know about http/2 which includes the feature TBL is ranting about. Instead, he comes off as fingerwagging at folks for doing something to stop-gap fix the web because the http RFC didnt include security from the beginning. Adding tls to http/1.x is impractical, utopian mythology because there's too much deployed to ever change until http/2 becomes widely deployed.

Instead of ranting, downplaying the EFF and others for improving the situation or wishing for the impossible, TBL missed the opportunity to support adoption of http/2, which might not be perfect (PHK mentioned rushed process and protocol complexity) but it has been touted to supersede http/1, https and spdy.

btw: there's also unauthenticated opportunistic encryption like tcpcrypt which works via server and client plugins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2#Encryption

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540
> Action games may be the minority of all games developed, maybe

I specified "fast twitch action", not just action. For instance, both of the open-world action games you mentioned are single-player only, so issues like lag and slowdown are less critical. Also, enemies in those games are almost always slow-moving- definitely no fast-twitch required.

For fast twitch action (not shooter), I might include things like street fighter, where button timing and reflexes are critical. Most 2.5d platformers I've seen would not suffer that much for the occasional dozen-millisecond GC pause. In fact, many of them have worse pauses than that for less prosaic reasons. ;-)
I'd happily pay Twitter $1/mo to keep suggested tweets out of my TL.
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> But isn't ck2's point that this a President doesn't have the authority for this? Are't these supposed to be congressional authorities?

Because the US doesn't have a parliamentary system where parties have clear parliamentary leaders (there are leadership in each party in each house, but there role is not the same as party leaders in a parliamentary system), and because the President has substantial powers not found in separately-elected heads of state in parliamentary systems, and because Congressional elections are separate by-seat elections and the Presidential election is (kind-of, the electoral college makes this not really true -- but closer than any other election) Presidential campaigns are single, national elections, the Presidential elections are a major nexus for national policy ideas that take legislative action to support (and Presidential primaries, particularly, set the ground for national party platforms in presidential election years.)
It isn't a perfect analogy, but it still works. The only reason the other option, "development is completely random" isn't the right answer is because of the word "completely."

Honestly, the survey question is poorly asked, and doesn't produce a particularly interesting discussion. Maybe something was lost in translation.
we have a very boring, traditional, class A office space in a commercial district of town. it looks like a small law office, or an insurance sales office. no cubicles, just shared rooms and normal desks against walls.

it's quiet, and well lit, and cool. i can work an honest 8-10 hour day with occasional breaks without a problem. every full time employee (except interns) has a view. it's nice, but it's not "luxury" space. it's not very expensive, less than the cost of one junior employee.

i will never work in any other kind of environment ever again -- maybe a dedicated home office, but even then, i do like a (very) short commute for the same reasons you do. there are a handful of other tech companies here (it's mostly law firms, finance, psychiatrists, etc.) and they seem to have the same idea, and are doing well.

it's kind of like the black turtleneck theory -- the office is not something we think about, like at all, so that we're free to spend our mental energy on other more productive things.
That seems like a bit of a stretch. CryEngine isn't going to run on a Firestick or a cheap tablet, it's a full-on game engine meant for desktop computers or consoles, not mobile gaming.
I hope Forbes realizes that blocking access to users with add blockers is not only a way to get rid of freeloaders, but also a way to ensure those people avoid Forbes altogether in the future and also avoid passing around Forbes links, since not everybody can see them. Alienating your audience is a very expensive mistake and the cost savings related to page serving are negligible.

While I can turn off my add blocker, I won't, my mother can't because she's not aware I have installed one for her and has no idea what it is and what it does.