skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all seriousness though, who is making a role model of young college kids duping old investors into giving them millions?

I'm not aware of that actually existing outside of an extraordinarily tiny enclave. The rest of America does not make such vaporware failures into any kind of role models.

Quite the opposite probably, I see far more mockery than anything. Such failed start-ups are constantly made fun of in the business press. For years now, essentially every major business publication has been waiting with bated breath for the latest bubble crash so they could mock what ultimately became the unicorn bubble.

Zenefits for example has been getting lambasted, and they're not even vaporware, they actually have a real business of some caliber in a serious business category. Color was vaporware, and it was endlessly, and universally mocked. I can't think of good examples of college kids becoming role models for pushing vaporware.
Go tools support code generators. So just use those for advanced data structures. As auto-generated it can support more features than even an advanced generics could provide.

For me the big minus of Go is that it is memory unsafe language when it runs with GOMAXPROCS>1 (default since 1.5). It is not that bad like in C as opportunities for bugs are not common, still this is an issue as consequences of such bugs is arbitrary code execution.

Another problem is lack of union types leading to poor code practice when those are emulated through (foo, err) or similar return types.
I agree with the basic premise (too much noise, the product needs to evolve) but I'm very frustrated because the author goes from that analysis directly to:

> The two major things Twitter needs to solve for are the algorithm of the dashboard (what content shows up in your feed and why) and length of tweets.

Why? I can see a correlation between the noise and the algorithm but the length? Why should it change? It feels like the beef of the analysis is missing.
> To give another example, try writing a linear algebra library that's generic over the data type without this feature (and such libraries are essential for high performance graphics programming).

I disagree. My best, fastest to compile code has always focused on just one type. You mention graphics programming: for 99.999% of the cases you want to pick a type. Usually, this will be float, and thus for SIMD a 4 or 8-vector of these, like https://github.com/aktau/threedee-simd/blob/master/include/t.... Despite the support of recent graphics cards for doubles, the fact is that they are usually quite a bit slower. Even when precision bound, there are usually tricks that will let one keep using floats (esp. wrt to Z-buffers).
> Also the Chromebook Pixel may have been an attempt to get Google employees to use something other than Macbooks.

I think it's most likely due to Apple's weak enterprise management tools for OS X [1] and the mid-2009 cyber attack on Google (Operation Aurora [2]) which was the result of one or more Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerabilities.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/27/google_mac_support/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
They are not selling groceries...

They are selling the convenience of having groceries delivered to your home...

The two are entirely different, the margins, as well...
Hospital Back to Normal After Hackers Paid Off with $17,000 in Bitcoin
Yeah, I'm doing this. The nice thing about the 30 year but pay extra every month plan is that if you get slammed by some major unexpected expense you can dial down your mortgage payments until your bank account catches back up. It gives you a buffer so you don't make yourself inadvertently house poor.

The interest rate difference was like 0.15%.
Even with mod_php you get 1 per fork with the prefork mpm, so this wouldn't even stop some Apache 2.2 box with php4 configured 10 years ago from accepting new connections.
Why Tim Cook is so furious
I wonder if this is a better alternative to the guaranteed minimum (basic) income.
> Compile-time generics

I don't even know if it's possible at this point, since it would break Go's reflection library. No IMHO it's designed not to be extendable at all.
I should say, "could have been." Cause a commotion, person goes over to nice-guy express concern or something as it escalates, and they both turn on you. It's a thing, related to the child-driven pickpocket team, but I dunno if it was a thing here.

Also, if it hasn't been posted elsewhere: https://medium.com/@jimatdeltaco/open-letter-to-a-guy-who-wr...
Chinese Missiles on Disputed Island Underscore Growing Conflict Risk
Well, there's a pretty big difference between 2 hrs and 4 hrs. Most people are applying to multiple places when they are looking for a job. So let's say 3 places a week. Now this is the difference between 6 hrs (already a lot) vs. 12 hrs (practically insane) per week on this stuff.

And at the end of all that work, the candidate receives a binary yes/no. 1 bit of information. On the other hand, the 6 hour 'beatdown', as you term it, gives the candidate an incredible wealth of information. They see what their prospective coworkers are like, what the office is like, how people interact with each other, maybe what people talk about over lunch. So 3 interviews with 1 bit of information (12 hrs) each or 2 on-site interviews (12 hrs) with a hell of a lot? What's the rational choice?

And I'm not against programming assignments, but 4 hrs each?
OK, whatever you say.
I think what many comments are missing is how self driving cars play into this. Imagine a car goes to the store, pings a helper for the items, drops off the items. Wages are way lower and you have mostly capital cost.
T-Mobile made up a drinking game for its earnings conference call
And if their email key is also lost?
IBM and SoftBank Launch First Japanese Language APIs for Watson
man curl

[cut irrelevant stuff]

OPTIONS

-4, --ipv4

This option tells curl to resolve names to IPv4 addresses
only, and not for example try IPv6.
That we're still at manual tagging says a lot about current state classificators despite all the press they generate
Apple’s Noble Stand Against the FBI Is Also Great Business
The major services that support U2F authentication now (Google, GitHub, Dropbox) allow you to associate multiple U2F keys. So, let people associate their primary key and a backup key. The keys themselves are so cheap, that they could probably be shipped with cereal boxes in a few years ;).

(If you lose the key anyway, most services currently allow you to do authentication over SMS, or use a set of backup codes.)
Drua could be up to 30m long and could carry 200 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drua
Out of curiosity (I live in London but am interested in NY long-term), where approximately do you live, and how moch do you spend for (1) housing, and (2) life (food, groceries, ...)?
Interesting. So, are you saying it's a start on my idea or what I'm proposing? As in, can it currently sync the servers in multiple datacenters to the point they could operate with microsecond spreads?
Just http://melpa.org/#/go-rename.
Sanders can't seem to connect with Black and Latino voters, and if you can't do that you aren't going to win a Democratic primary. Minorities love Hillary, for reasons that are not entirely clear to me.

Also, Bernie supporters skew very young, and young people are relatively bad at making to their polling places, especially in primary races.

He has basically no chance of taking Nevada for example, and will probably be down by tens of points. If the election is close at all there it will be a major win for him.

Also, the establishment Democrats see him as George McGovern 2.0 and are terrified of giving Donald Trump a 49 state sweep.
Yahoo is shutting down a bunch of its digital 'magazines'
Thanks. The proprietary Broadcom driver worked well enough until it didn't, and now I know firsthand why not to use them, so that's a useful experience at least.
I would love to see a service that caption sounds in gifs. Not just talk, everything, you gif a video of a car starting and the caption goes 'wrrrrrrooooo'
My understanding is that there is at least some oral record of clan violence and/or toppling of the Moai, but perhaps I'm way off on that. The museum on the island certainly presented it that way. But I'm no anthropologist.

As far as being broken at the nose, that doesn't make a ton of sense to me, given that most of the Moai have broken necks, which wouldn't have occurred if they were lowered slowly. And the break pattern on all of them is similar to the ones that were broken in transit. The platforms that they would have fallen on to are made of stones and grass so there's no reason to assume that the noses would break.

But again, I'm only reporting on what I saw and what people told me when I was there. I'm sure there are all sorts of plausible explanations.
When I left Yahoo travel in 2011, and there wasn't much shared source between verticals. We shared the same software stack (mostly), where that includes os, web server, PHP, MySQL, yui, a search engine, sometimes a PHP framework, but all of the pages were pretty specific to the vertical. Generic pages wouldn't work very well -- details for a hotel aren't really that similar to details for a car; and genericizing it means more process to make changes and a less compelling site.

When I left they were working on a unified data processing system for this group of verticals, which didn't really work. Two years later, they just got rid of most of the content, in favor of big pictures and articles. I'm guessing that's why there's no traffic and they're shutting them down.
It's good to take a time for preparing interviews but before job hunting, not for every interview, like 1 week studying algorithms and so on, .. and then go with your knowledge, i think you will feel secure when solving something than might be new instead of being afraid because "i didn't studied this" .. but for companies like Google or Facebook, be as much as academically prepared as possible
You cannot be secure while offering easy 'backdoors' into your own account at the same time. People will just have to be more careful (e.g. by associating a backup U2F key with their account), or go through a real-world ID process otherwise (like banks typically do).

Also, for the coming years, U2F will probably just be an optional second factor like TOTP. One can only hope that more sites will follow the lead of GitHub, Dropbox, and Google, because TOTP is worthless against 'real-time' phishing attacks.
Far as the patent, why would one want to claim knowledge of a patent if willful infringement gives so much extra damages? ;)
Considering the other article from HN today about Stack Overflow being able to handle their top-100 global Alexa rank traffic with one physical web front end, I'm impressed but not that impressed. PHP has been popular for a long time and lots of smart people have figured out how to make it pretty quick.

For things like blog posts, I'm sad that Movable Type fell out of favor. The pattern of using dynamic server pages to edit blog posts and generate static files for your viewers just makes so much sense to me. Then again, these days we can host our single-page JS front-ends on S3 + CloudFront and hook them up to API gateway and Lambda / Beanstalk talking to RDS and "not have any servers" :)
Are you a red-dot-aholic?
Fast compilation and minimal startup time in Go allows for very fast development feedback similar to what one gets with interpreted languages.
You nailed it. See my comment from yesterday, it's the same for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11113644
Although to be fair, high interest rates are also great for the rich. It's good to be rich.
> Debian isn't an operating system. Linux an operating system and is a small part of the Debian distribution.

No. Debian GNU/Linux is an operating system (specifically a variant of GNU/Linux). Linux is a kernel, not an operating system (I think only Linus tries to claim that a kernel is all that makes an operating system -- but I'd require at least libc and POSIX coreutils before you can begin to call something an operating system).
EriAm-Work (Rihanna cover)
McDonald's All-Day Breakfast Takes Toll on Jack in the Box
Do what I did; download their mobile app, reverse engineer it and call the web api's yourself to scrape the data.
They can infer size with fMRI.

The article claims it's good for the brain. What does it mean to be "good for the brain"?

What people want to know is not how many neurons there are but whether cognition gets better. And that is indeed the case:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21282661
Also annoying is that in order to watch a video overview of many of their products (ie. Elasticsearch 2.0, Beats, Watcher, Shield, ES-Hadoop) I have to register (name, email, use case).

Sorry, I'm not going to register just to watch the videos.
>Blogging with an onscreen keyboard is painful

I used to think that. But then i got the hang of it and now I do most of my writings on my tablet

> What do you do for a phone?

I don't have the use case for an expensive phone or even a data plan. I have a low end smart phone ($70) that I use mostly for just texts and calls. Even my whatsapp is on my tablet (needs manual .apk as playstore won't let you do this).

I am at my desk most of the day (office), so all Internet related things I do on desktop. After work hours I have my tablet at home so don't really need my phone for much else. Have a desktop at home as well.
See this too: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/books/2013/...
"During your Employment, you shall devote your full business efforts and time to the Company. During your Employment, without written permission from the Chief Executive officer, or one of his direct reports, you shall not render services in any capacity for any other person or entity and shall not act as sole proprietor or parter of any other person or entity..."

As I understand it, this is pretty much the nature of being salaried (as opposed to hourly).
Google Translate Now Has More Than 100 Languages
I stopped reading this "treatise" when in the first paragraph Aaron spoke highly of the war criminal Donald Rumsfeld.
When I was shopping for a house, I made it very clear to the realtor that an HOA -- any HOA -- was a dealbreaker.

I expected him to be surprised, but he nodded and said he'd been hearing that a lot lately.
Harness big data, such as typical flu season dates? Or maybe weather forecast?

What, do you need precision down to the last day for planning purposes?
Your response feels very naive or short sighted. Or both.

If this goes through, you better believe that there will be court orders left and right, which can't be authentically argued against since Apple has already done it before.
Toyota Recalls SUVs After Seat Belt Separated in Fatal Crash
I regularly back up to shares. I'd expect that these are not safe, either. For this very reason I do regular backups of the backup (on the NAS, which is a Linux box). These backups can only be seen as read-only share (and are not advertized).
Isn't it just a specific way to implement basic income?
Phaze – Catch the Balls
That seems to be one of the few things going for them.
I got an Archer C7 during the Winter Shopping Season, that was affected by this. In the current revision, I got around the lock by booting into recovery mode and uploading OpenWRT via TFTP. I expect that future models will close this hole, and then I definitely won’t be buying TP-LINK devices in the future.

I think it’s a bit extreme to say the C7 is the best. It never was the best performer, and already 802.11ac Wave 2 devices with MU-MIMO are on the market, potentially outperforming the C7. Maybe it’s coincidentally the best value for the money, but that will not last.

Every generation, I wearily observe the large number of router models. I thought the Buffalo WZR-600DHP was a pretty good value late in the 802.11n generation, but now it’s retailing for more than I paid for it. WiFi routers are a lemon market.
It's much simpler. https://youtu.be/xtpgkX588nM
The FBI claims they're willing to accept a device-locked hack, that it's fine if it is only RAM-resident, and that Apple may keep the device on their own premises so long as FBI can attempt multiple pin entries electronically without risking a wipe.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/this-is-how-the-fbi-wants-apple...
related $1500 June machine learning vision oven thingy http://fortune.com/2015/06/09/june-smart-oven/
That's a fine looking death machine there. Then again, the buttons on my microwave are also so horrible I've been tempted...

If he gets the voice control worked out to where I can say "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" I might be sold.
It's gotta be so frustrating. Here's this little thing that could answer all your questions, maybe. If you could just open it, you could easily solve many mysteries. And the only people who can help won't.

I don't envy the job of law enforcement. It must feel like at times that everyone is standing in your way. But where does it stop?

If only we could track everyone all the time...

If only we could watch everyone in their homes all the time...

If only we could open everyone's safes whenever we needed to...

Yes, you could solve many mysteries with all of the keys. But it's not your information. You're not owed it. No one is owed the answer to any question.

I hope law enforcement understands someday what a destructive request they've made, but I'm guessing like anything else addictive, that one taste will just lead to more.
How to play Monopoly in 2016
Lee Rigby's family criticises Apple policy
What do you mean by linear degradation?
I think if you go for the ones that are easiest to complete, it's going to motivate you to come up with more ideas. More success will fuel more motivation. Do you care to share any of your ideas?
> The fundamental problem is that everyone wants to live in the same few square miles of London.

London has a limited number of square miles, but the limit on cubic miles has not been reached. Ie build up.
SQuery, an IBM partner, is making a general purpose natural language database
If you have a business which has tons of data, you might want users to interact with those data in an intelligent and friendly way, like asking Apple's Siri a question. SQuery can turn relational or non relational DBs into a natural language answer engine. We leverage IBM Watson technology to help our answer engine understand complex questions. If you would like more information, please email guoyangrui@gmail.com
The Easter Island statues were never really a mystery. They are just large totems much like many others that are found throughout Polynesia. There was never a question that they were built by the islanders. There were some vagaries around how they were transported, but for the most part you can likely put more blame on Peruvian slavers than any other one thing.
Sanjiv B
Nvidia Forecasts Show Gamers Continue to Help It Dodge PC Slump
My current bank has no mobile App (seriously). The only bank that has one where i can look at my account without TAN is the only bank here in Switzerland which is no actual Bank therefore also without the bank secret.

I asked them what would happen if i did this, they told me this is reason enough to sue me.
Aaron specifically says you might not want to emulate Donald Rumsfeld. I'm really starting to think that conservatives might have a point that the 21st century left has a problem with name calling and ad hominem to shut down debate. It is possible to think that Donald Rumsfeld should be on trial and still be willing to learn from him.
More importantly, you could change the client to show encryption status before a message is sent and add client-side key management.
USPS is not allowed by congress to compete in those markets. Their charter and monopoly is quite narrow. It is definitely not the unions, a lot of republicans in congress want to see it die (e.g. By requiring very aggressive leech ding of pensions).
You could bruteforce the passcode.
What are these ORMs you are speaking of? Only usable ORM i've seen for PHP is Doctrine.
If you rent dedicated boxes you don't have to worry about replacing hardware or adding new servers. Also the cost savings are so huge, as someone else stated a dedicated box could be 1/7 the monthly price of an equally specced AWS instance you can easily have a 1-2 devops guys on call and still save a lot of money.
I don't see where buying/colo makes sense though, maybe if you have a really huge operation going on.
Hetzner offers a i7 Skylake QuadCore 6700, 64GB Ram, 512GB SSD Raid1 for 60 EUR/month, an equally specced AWS instance (or multiple smaller ones) would easily be >400 EUR even when using upfront payment and reserved instances. That difference is huge if we are talking about 10-50 of these machines. The only benefit i see is when you can scale your app up and down a lot during the day to save costs, but i'd still like to see a real world case where that actually saves money. I am pretty sure most companies use AWS for the convienence and just don't care about the cost because it's minor in the grand scheme of things, like super popular startups with huge funding and years to figure out and optimize profitability.
I don't think Apple has been asked to build a tool, just to help unlock a single device.

I think Pichai is making a distinction between handing over data they already own (eg. a Gmail account) and data stored on user-controlled devices, which must be hacked to access.

Which is interesting, since he's essentially admitting that their push to send everything to "the cloud" makes their users less safe from governmental snooping (justified or not). Of course, we already knew that, but it's curious to see Google's own CEO say it.
Simpler and way much more reasonable.
But the market for that convenience is noticeably smaller than the one for just affordable groceries.

And at a $10/mo subscription, that's not profitable. Hiring someone at $15/hr to pick groceries and deliver them. I don't see the math working out very well.
Functional languages: What they are, and where they're going
Basic income is unconditional on (lack of) earned income.
Linux on a microwave feels a lot like the NetBSD toaster from all those years ago. Additionally, it doesn't make sense from a technical perspective. People have converted toaster ovens to do smd reflow with an arduino [1], and that requires a lot more delicate control of temperature and timing; hell, Linux is worse for the job because its realtime capabilities are so poor. Also, if you're going to go through the trouble of redesigning the microwave, you'd do a world of wonders to get rid of the magnetron altogether in exchange for a few microwave heating transistors [2]. That way, you can target hot spots better, have better power control, and generally make better food. If you're gonna remake the microwave, do the job right.

[1] http://whizoo.com/reflowoven
[2] http://www.nxp.com/products/rf/rf-power-transistors/rf-cooki...
SPIR-V will be a huge boon for everyone and everything I hope, especially given the LLVM support (Haskell or Rust compilers anyone?). But it only augments the compiler step (AFAIK). I've had plenty of bugs in the host-side code before.

And of course, a newer version does not neccesarilly mean that the out-of-date implementations will suddenly become "in-date": if anything they're even more out of date now ;)
Indeed. After much research I replaced my venerable wrt-54g with a tp-link, wrt-3600 or something like that, anyway due to the ath9k WiFi chip it's supported by Linux without any binary blobs. And of course I promptly replaced the stock firmware with openwrt. Sad if this is going away..
They could have devices similar to those used in distribution warehouses that direct pickers from aisle to aisle, picking multiple orders at a time.