skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually found both useful. Both target different audiences and provide different perspective on the issue. I probably wouldn't click through to 11167428 if I didn't use WordPress; whereas I wouldn't click through to 11167478 if I had already seen the AMP announcement last year ("I know about AMP; when will there be stuff I can download/install/play with?").
The Air Force started as a branch of the Army, which poses no constitutional problem I can see.

Assuming there was a problem, I have no issue going through the amendment process to modify Article 1, Section 8 to include an Air Force.

I'm surprised that of all the things the federal government does, this one merits a comment.
Gardasil vaccine is preventing HPV infections in women
Finally! I wondered how people actually know that the genetic code is the same in every cell. How would you prove that? What if everyone is a chimera to some extent? We are just getting started understanding epigenetics.
To me the problematic part that makes it different to at least some open source projects is that all those technical leads and core committers are apparently employed by Google (and working on company time, I assume). That could mean Google, and Google alone, gets to decide where it goes.
Show HN: Fortrabbit PHP PaaS Launched in US
Seriously unity could already do it without the old mono runtime with what MS offer : the Roslyn compiler for C# and the LLILC a MSIL bitcode to LLVM compiler for iOS, and the netCore runtime for android. Their C# to c++ compiler seem now a misguided way.
How to Use Systemctl to Manage Systemd Services and Units
Whats .net core got to do with xamarin.forms

Xamarin.forms has nothing to do with winforms.

It's a cross platform mobile UI library.
There is a similar phenomenon at work with the Witness too. I've heard it attributed to the fact that the brain continues expending energy on unsolved problems even subconciously. Not sure if that's true or not.
Web design work hasn't really dried up, they just call themselves UI/UX designers now. And they work on designing and prototyping applications instead of building brochureware sites for small businesses. The skills required are a bit different because technology has changed.

Web designers are like photographers. Camera technology advanced so that anyone can now be a mediocre photographer, just like anyone can now be a mediocre web designer. Until recently the technology (for both photographers and web designers) was difficult enough to use, that just knowing how to use it was a valuable skill.

But, software is still eating the world, and it won't be done doing that for long while. All that software still needs people who are experts in human machine interaction--UI/UX designers.

On another note, I think that companies having easier access to VC money may have encouraged some of them to hire full time designers where they used to use short term contractors.
How logos of today's biggest companies have evolved
Why is the color of his skin so important to keep noting throughout the essay?

When you boil it down, VC's only care about one color: green. I highly doubt skin color is the reason you aren't getting call backs or having VC's roll out the red carpet.
Be very careful with this decision. Austin has a reputation and the name of the city moves lovingly across the lips of starry-eyed dreamers, but I must warn you that Austin these days is an East-Coast city in the middle of Texas. I am from a town in Kansas that probably would have made a great sister city to Austin in the 80s (Lawrence), and so I understand viscerally what people love about Austin. But enough people from the east coast and Los Angeles have diluted almost all of the things that once made Austin special. Real Austinites do exist, and they are as cool as you have heard, but they have moved and live outside of Austin in places like Elgin or New Braunsfels. The city does not live up to its reputation, unlike other places (for example Portland is as weird as you hear about and Austin doesn't hold a candle to that weirdness). Just an opinion from a guy that's lived in a bunch of places.
How Evolution’s Innovations Can Help Scientists Yank Water Out of the Air
NUID – An entropy friendly and highly performant unique identifier generator
I really feel like the web today - the turnover, the frameworks, The Cloud, the burying of old under new - is the automation trend working faster and harder than ever. It all works better for the 80% case than an individual doing it from scratch - so we all succumb to it. And that's always been true of technology, but it used to be at the behest of a big platform owner like an MS or Sun or Apple. They set the marching orders and developers hopped on the bandwagon. You redid everything for the new platform.

But with the Web, the genie is truly out of the bottle and nobody can put it back in. It's the same shitty platform as ever, with more and more kludges added on. So we look to automation for a silver bullet, and by sheer force of numbers we've succeeded in building something that Just Works most of the time and requires deep technical skills to fix otherwise.
Content Performance Policies – A Standardized Alternative to Google's AMP
Parity is the magic ingredient to some complex problems
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/04/02/google-to-drop-chin...

it's not tinfoil to note that there are CAs under the control of authoritarian governments.
What's the use case here over a UUID?
In some places, e.g. the UK, full time employment gives you certain benefits - it's not as straight forward as contract where work where you can be let go at will. Also, I wouldn't expect looking for another job to have such harsh penalties as you seem to be suggesting.
Have your tried Synergy for your mouse/keyboard situation? Another possibility is perhaps a KVM switch that if you plug in two outputs into the same computer that it is recognized as two distinct USB devices. I don't know if it's possible but then you could pass through one to the VM directly.
If you don't have an ironclad way to make money, you will not get funded in Austin. No one in Austin cares about growth of users if those users are not actively contributing to the bottom line. Relying on some sort of soft advertising or vague monetization hand waving for sometime in the future will get you absolutely nowhere. It's been like that since the first bubble burst and maybe a little bit before.

This attitude has some serious pitfalls, no doubt. You don't hear about many 'grow users to the stratosphere and sell for obscene piles of cash before the first hint of profit' stories here. Or 'critical mass was achieved and now we can't help but make rivers of cash' stories (which, to be fair, are fairly rare).

But you also don't hear about the 'we poured money into this unprofitable thing because of an impressive growth curve and it imploded because we couldn't find a way to turn users into money' stories here either.

Fewer headline grabbing stories, no doubt. But what you do end up with is a whole host of solid companies that either make money from almost the beginning or that go away quickly. Investors here want to pour gas on a fire that's already burning (doesn't everybody?). They shy away when there is no spark in sight.

But that doesn't mean there's not a lot of innovation happening. There absolutely is, but just not in the 'get the users and the rest will follow' realm of high-risk.

You're going to have to get lucky with the right investor with an appetite for risk in a competitive area of social apps where even the most successful companies struggle to turn a profit or show how your current user base can be solidly monetized today.
lol @ down voting because you don't like what i say. who is this dang? he seems to like to do that. the title is not honest.
A coworker of mine has been wanting to do this for ages, and I've always wondered - what's the workflow like for getting the mouse and keyboard from the Linux screen to the Windows screen?

For the past few years I've been running two desktops side by side (one with Windows and one with Linux), then use Synergy to get from one to the other painlessly.

When I next upgrade, IOMMU might let me consolidate the number of PCs available, but only if it's relatively painless to get from one OS to the other.
Was the vulnerability made public? Was it patched?
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/start
I recently got rid of my cell phone. There are a lot of benefits and just about as many negatives. Overall, I think the benefits outweigh the negatives. For context, I've been on-call for the past 7 years since the start of my career, so ditching the phone probably comes from that. fwiw, I have a land line, but that's about it.

Positives--

My instinct is no longer to check my phone when I'm bored or waiting. It was rough at first, but I can be pretty content just standing in a line with my own thoughts.

Nobody can call me at any given time, whenever they want. Social anxiety has a mental toll on my energy, so not having a phone around gives a significant boost.

It's easier to accept not knowing something.

Plans are planned significantly more concretely.

Negatives--

"You don't have a phone?! What's wrong with you?!" -everybody

Not having a GPS/google makes things hard to find in certain circumstances.

There's a huge expectation when dealing with any modern service that you'll have a cell phone and can be contacted at any time. For example, it's impossible to order an Uber on a laptop.

(I realize the article is about smart->dumb, but the problems are still surprisingly similar)
Jobs get folded into other jobs all the time in the tech sector. Does anyone remember webmasters? They're the ones who would configure the web servers and host the files for you, set you up with FTP credentials etc... Now devops people fill the bill and so do most web developers I know but it's just a subset of what they do.
Agree. Lots of money still being thrown at Drupal agencies.
It's a text editor though and doesn't focus on being a full featured IDE. I think a Cross Platform text editor is definitely a must have regardless though. I just wish it had debugging (or at least just execution) natively without me having to find a plugin, sort of how Geany runs / compiles anything I throw at it without much (if ever) effort.
Great news, hopefully they will listen to the number one request and have cheaper prices.
You Seek Control When You’re Stressed
> (Note, though, that serving 2000px wide images to iPhones is fixable in the browser, with downscale on decode.) :)

From a rendering perspective, yes. From a "make this page load faster", no, because the network download time is 10x-100x larger than the processing time.
Because it's important to the narrative about opportunity.
Sometimes I wonder if anyone has ever posted to HN not believing they are in the top 50%, 10%, or 1%. It's like how everyone's kid is above average. The topic of how everyone else sucks seems to be evergreen.

Everyone's just trying to get by. If someone gets less work, that isn't reason to think that they have poor skills, or are screwing over small businesses.
IMO alternative firmware projects make things better for the 0.1% while throwing the other 99.9% of humanity under the bus. If we want the Internet as a whole to be more secure, not just our own home networks, we need to solve crappy vendor firmware somehow and not signing updates is unlikely to help. OnHub has a good tradeoff with signed auto-updates by default and a developer mode switch for hackers.
A Closed Letter
You should just call it 'FAQ'. I actually browsed through it a bit thinking it was made-up stuff for a made-up demo.

If you call it FAQ, nobody in sound mind is going to think you're not using your own product to demo it ;)
Great team, great product. Highly recommended.
interesting. no mention on mandrill blog.
Benchmark time! For the example article mentioned in the article [1],

- Default page: 74 requests, 1983kB, 2.98 in Firefox

- Adding amp/ at the end: 14 requests, 464kB, 0.51s in Firefox

Good! And sad it's not the default :-/

EDIT: after proper reading of the consequences, of course it's not the default. Indulgent readers will correct the above sentence as "hope we're moving to this kind of performance by default."

[1] http://blog.longreads.com/2016/02/18/the-freelancers-roundta...
What this means for MonoDevelop? Will it stagnate and die, or florish with fresh water from Microsoft's wells? What will be THE tool to develop for/on Linux?
>I neither bought nor sold the data.

Considering you're still on probation or whatever (I think?), is that really wise to say?
The times are a changing o..O
Question from an outsider (of medicine and of medical research): Why is this study new? I mean I can understand why it is news (for the mass media)...but isn't this something that would've have been tested long ago to a certain degree? At least to a degree in which, today, doctors are content that a venous draw is a statistically useful amount of blood to derive health results from? Wouldn't that have to based on some study that purported to find the minimum volume of blood needed to reliably represent someone's health?

Not only does it seem like a very fundamental question to have already asked...it doesn't even seem like a very difficult study to do. It's not substantially longitudinal over time -- for every subject, you take several pinpricks, and run the tests. Or logistically difficult to manage.

So I get why it's news, in terms of Theranos and what not...but this has to have been something that was studied many times over many decades. Or is the NYT misinterpreting/signifying the significance, i.e. the Rice scientists found a previously undetectable kind of difference, but which is, yes, technically shows that blood drops are different?
I'm envious. Here in CA, while it only costs $20 to form an LLC, there is an $800 annual tax thereafter.

Delaware has a $300 annual tax on LLCs.
Can someone tell me where to have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
It's covered in this blog post[1]. Some mitigations are in place now.

[1]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay...
Yup, ignore anyone who understates the problem (some prominent voices in the nomad forums are either in denial or have a vested interest), it is absolutely lethal during March and April. I love Chiang Mai but will be leaving on Friday night, probably returning mid-May.
I generally use Google Keep that syncs between my devices, but I'm not completely happy with it.
This article raises important questions and observations. I've lived in Austin, DC, and Silicon Valley. I've met Joah (the author), and I wish him, his company, and anyone like him good luck!

Given that VC's often move as a herd (more or less; e.g. seeking signals from others before acting), there is a hurdle to cross. Perhaps it would be better for Austin and companies there if VC's were a bit more numerous, diverse, and willing to act first. By 'diverse' I mean all senses of the word; in particular, covering more industries, models, and risk preferences.
Thanks for the clarifications.
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Thank you very much for this post, this had been one of the things I've wanted to do for so many years but never knew if anyone else found a proper way of doing it, every time I would google this I would end up with bad results.
That's true. Most businesses still need their own website. But now they build it in Squarespace, talk to their customers on Twitter, and send physical goods with Fulfillment by Amazon.
Indeed. When you get out of your small "coder" box and into the enterprise layer where the negotiations and implementations are happening you will know nothing has changed in the way Microsoft is doing business. Their TAM and KAM layer is exactly the same as the use to be. They are just moving the layers for vendor lock-in now.
I actually was considering to try LizardFS after trying MooseFS, but this made stop.

Why would you fork a project and then rewrite it in another language? What does rewriting it in C++ add to the user?
It's a giant drawback, because backporting new features from MooseFS is much much harder.

If you love C++ that much you would be much better off writing a new solution in C++. This only shows poor motivations for the fork.
Synergy is decidedly non-optimal for gaming, unfortunately. Various games try to grab the mouse pointer in different ways and synergy throws a wrench into at least some of them.
It couldn't possibly take over if vengeance against guys with hockey sticks was a primary utility-function-maximizer. Perhaps in Canada, but it would be easy to defeat, having never trained against artillery and whatnot.
> Although Snowden's lawyer claims the Bill of Rights was supposed to make the government's job "more difficult," he is missing a larger point: almost all of what the federal government does today is not it's job at all!

I don't think he's missing the point. I think he is making the point that, even to the extent that government is serving legitimate purposes through powers that are unquestionably delegated to it in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights is intended to constrain the power of the government in ways which make it take more effort, because the alternative which leaves the governments job easier when it is well motivated also makes the government more dangerous when it has poor motives, both by endangering the innocent as targets of government action and by making it easier for the government to seem to be taking appropriate action while it neglects the real needs of the populace.

Due process protections make the government demonstrate that it is taking action against the right parties when it takes certain actions.
When you speak to a doctor; when you speak to a lawyer that you're paying for.
What Bitcoin Core 0.12 Means for Bitcoin Developers
And add on personal info release - the API will provide a username if queried with a VIN.
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You have a reasonable expectation of privacy inside an abode. If a patron left a recording device, they likely would be in violation of Federal and/or State laws.
Or you know the other option. Uninstall facebook and twitter and instgram and snapchat and....

Your battery will last much longer. You won't get constant popups showing you your life isn't as good as your friends lives. And you can access the internet if you need to.
Samsung is actually in a lawsuit in the EU over this right now. The lawsuit says Samsung should provide at least 2 years of software updates as part of the 2 year mandatory "warranty".
I understand the appeal of partying like it's 1999, but for me the real measure of mental fortitude is having all the options and choosing to avoid them.

My girlfriend and I used to be on our phones all the time. It turned us into reactionary consumers of information and we didn't like how our conversations and feelings were essentially being dictated to us by our information sources, so we stopped using phones in the evening, and we have significantly cut back in the morning.

Working hours are hardest. The flip side of intense focus is a craving for distraction when energy is between peaks. I have experimented with the Pomodoro Technique from time to time, but so far I've had trouble breaking the habit long enough to make it an expectation rather than an exception.

But other HN users may find it useful. Pomodoro helps you work with the time you have, instead of against it, and it helps enforce a protection from distraction by design.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Given my experience with the managers of CSC here in the States, that sounds exactly like what I'd expect.

From my discussions with that friend I mentioned though it sounds like the attitude is changing and there's more work going to smaller shops like his (though friendships with government officials seems to help loads when it comes to securing work). Honestly it sounds like a really exciting environment to work in when we talk about it and I wish I had the time to really learn Danish so I could have a decent chance of securing good work out there.
> Here we're talking about mapping data into a high dimensional space, then trying to project that down to the minimum dimension space that can preserve the relevant information.

Isn't this what M/PCA is all about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilinear_principal_componen...
"Most" of us? Maybe if most of us are execs and senior VPs. For the rest of us $10K is a big chunk of change--a significant percentage of compensation. $10K is about $500/mo after taxes, which could, for example, mean being able to afford to live in a much better neighborhood or send your kids to a better school.
Considering Microsoft is pushing to support devs on Linux and that the probability of Visual Studio being ported from Windows is near 0, I don't think Microsoft would kill off MonoDevelop.
Between VPs trying to predict the unicorn bubble burst, the end of half of Yahoo, and the fall of the website design market, they're starting to convince me that a lot of developers will soon be on the market and the crisis is back. Now, I'm an entrepreneur, is it a good time to hire ;)
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There's a bunch of problems with this that established companies face:
The cool kids want to work for Tesla in the Valley, not Nissan in podunk nowhere (which for a lot of people is anywhere but SV).
These companies don't know how to find and hire the kinds of engineers who can do this right, even if they could get them interested.
Even if they could get them, the culture still matters - the right engineer(s) can't fix the problem if the culture / management structure won't allow it.
Combat Robotics, funding a contraption
Ahoy all, I was lucky enough to assemble a team of hardware and software folks to compete in this year's TV series, Battle Bots. As it turns out 250lb combat robotics are not cheap, we're running into issues finding sponsors for the beast, anywhere in particular I should poke?
Some are pushing to call the Islamic State’s actions ‘genocide.’
Good on you! I have a work-provided smart phone, and while it's nice to have, I constantly stun my more progressive co-workers by leaving my phone off for long periods of time. It doesn't take that much more time to turn it on if I truly need it, but often I just forget about it.

I suspect I could do without a cell phone of any type. I'm just not the target demographic, I guess.
You make absolutely no sense.

The competition for .Net isn't Xamarin. It's the Java platform.
>I want everything online sold through amazon, events posted on facebook and news posted to a single platform

That, as a trend, will be disastrous for everybody.

First, it will make you and most people you know unemployed AND unemployable, as ever more markets get into the control of some monopoly player or another.

Then it will fuck up the monopoly players themselves, as it's tough to make money off of people when they don't have a job providing them with money to give you in the first place.

Between those two stages, the monopolies will abuse their powers to pad their profits and skew the market even more.