skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I learned which questions to ask from bad experience.

Would you mind sharing your best, most probing questions-- the one's that proved most useful cutting through corporate posturing and BS?
I feel that Google is harming themselves (as discussed in another thread) by increasing the ad content above the fold related to search. I'm not sure how they will integrate even "recent" news into results without adjusting things.

That said, I think it's a good idea to reduce the overhead of mobile news pages. However so many of the clickbait sites are too heavy for mobile to be useful. On the occasion I see something interesting, and click on it, a lot of the time the page is barely responsive, and I'm on a relatively fast device.

I feel like it's time to start enforcing better standards on the advertisers in order to improve the usability. This is a large part of why people lean towards captive apps on mobile.
I really wish the poll questions included anything at all asking about whether people understood the potential negative consequences of simply "unlocking the phone". For example, "do you believe Apple that unlocking this phone would compromise security for other users?"
Lovely. A Psycho-Pass reference. I was wondering how quickly it would turn up :)

FWIW my Psycho-Pass is pretty clear today. Can't wait for the english version of the movie to finally get released by Funimation.
> I then write a cheque to move USD across the border, and use VBCE to convert USD to CAD at market - 35 basis points (aka. about 2% better than what Paypal offers).

Transferwise might be cheaper/easier
Rushabh here from the ERPNext core team. ERPNext is mostly used by small businesses with 3-50 users and covers most use cases for accounting, inventory, sales, purchase and other functions. We estimate there are between 800-1000 businesses using ERPNext at the moment. These are mostly small businesses (non tech) in services, manufacturing, distribution and retail.

The project is reasonably stable, but still takes a bit to set it up. The community is quite active (https://discuss.erpnext.com) and there is a long list of things that need to be done (https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/issues)

It has a metadata based framework and has REST API's out of the box. Its never been discussed on HN, so would love to get feedback.
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>I have been urging colleagues to respond any time anybody asks about FBI and San Bernardino to say: the real conversation is about China wanting to unlock the phone of a US Embassy employee who they suspect is a CIA agent and don’t we want Apple to be able to say they can’t do that.

Wanting Apple not to be able to comply doesn't mean they shouldn't comply when they can. They should comply, and make sure they can't comply on newer models (i.e. make secure enclave nonupdatable without wiping keys or unlocking first).
Bingo. Every time I see a fresh gripe from the likes of the FBI, I think of how much worse it would be if we didn't have the nominal protection of the Constitution.
Sysdig is absolutely incredible software, but when are you going to work on getting it upstream in the Linux kernel? That will massively lower the barrier to entry and make sysdig "win" so to speak.
Are AMP and HTTP/2 best practices contradictory to one another?
> I didn't need a smartphone for this task because there was a real live human being, who brought to the task all of the adaptability and intuition that modern systems lack.

OK, my example was simplistic. I want to find the best chicken tacos in San Francisco. I can't call directory enquiries for that - I have go find reviews. Then call to make a reservation at the place, then find driving directions of how to get there, somehow. In a paper road atlas? Am I having to advocate for the benefits of the internet on Hacker News?

> Realplayer sucked but it was about a thousand times more reliable than the current compatibility crapshoot

Well of course it was, it only had to run on one platform. Compatibility is a lot easier when that's the case. Today we have HD video being played on mobile devices in your pocket. I can't remember the last time I ran into a compatibility problem with online video.

> I used to be able to take a supersonic flight across the country, without having my body inspected via millimeter-wave radar.

That's a political decision, not a technical regression.

> Has anyone set foot on the moon in your lifetime?

No. Can I load, on demand, stunning satellite photography of planets orders of magnitude further away than the moon, on my phone, on the bus to work? You bet.
Yeah, you're right: C Corps won't be a perfect fit for every company, though we found they were the right starting place for the beta based on what what people are already doing. We're looking to add support for LLCs: https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#Can-Stripe-help-me-set-up-a-dif....

We've worked closely with Silicon Valley Bank to make the setup tenable for entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Making it easy to start a business from outside the US is the point of this program, and we're looking forward to making more improvements as we work closely with more entrepreneurs outside the US during the beta and continue expanding Atlas globally.

Thanks for the feedback! If you end up taking part in the beta, we'd love to hear more about how it works for you in practice.
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No, not directly. Briefly, your two best options probably include E-1 (treaty trader) and E-2 (treaty investor). Both come with their issues and restrictions, but they're a common path so long as you either have substantial trade between your home country and the US, or have a certain amount to invest in a US business (generally north of $200k, although this isn't technically a hard requirement).

Have a read through the notes to the relevant sections of 9 FAM.
most of the people I know, regardless of what platform they use seem to think that skype sucks. especially if they tried to use it on their mobile phones. We all put up with it because there are no real competitors, and the open source alternatives are all pretty lacking as well
> I really haven't messed with ERPNext, mainly because I can't get it to install correctly.

Please post any issues, tracebacks on the forum. Install is pretty straightforward and works well for most people https://github.com/frappe/bench

Edit: You can also use the VM https://erpnext.com/download
Well what's driving people into starting a cooperative? An ambitious entrepreneur with capitalist growth ideals clearly won't chose it.
QUOTE: << Is it possible to condense high-dimensional data into smaller dimensions and retain the important geometric properties of the data? >>

Like in a non-dimensional number?. For example the Reynolds number in fluid flow.
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Personally I prefer uMatrix - it lets you enable specific things across domains instead of a binary allow/deny, and allows global versus per-domain or per-subdomain rules; e.g. I might be fine with one site collecting metrics but not globally.
Not entirely true. You would get a warning if its not exhaustive matching for a sealed trait and you can make warnings into compiler errors with a compiler flag.
I used to work at a company where we did a lot of pair programming and enjoyed it a lot.

As a fast touch typer I preferred to be the one at the keyboard. I sometimes like to sketch things out first to test my initial idea.

I think pair programming can be extremely effective and fun when done in an ambitious work environment with open minded people who can work well with others. I much prefer doing pair programming than not since it's an opportunity to discuss requirements/design/solutions and also a kind of code review before the actual code review.

Coding on your own hides wrong assumptions, incorrect thinking, lack of teamwork/collaboration, misunderstandings and code quality issues which could likely to be found in pair programming sessions before a code review. It can be a great synergy when trying to solve complex problems where two people balance up different aspects of problem solving.
I'm assuming this TC article thinks its audience is WordPress content-creators and not just media companies? Here's its first acknowledgement of tradeoffs (or rather, that the tradeoffs are no big deal)

> And you don’t lose much as AMP markup supports a wide range of features. For instance, AMP has worked with ad networks, such as Outbrain, AOL, OpenX, DoubleClick and AdSense, to create optimized tags for mobile pages. So you can still put ad tags in your AMP-enabled pages. Similarly, you can add analytics tools. But these JavaScript calls will be optimized.

I've never been in the work of dealing with ads though now that I think about it, that probably is one of the key things that the average, devoted content-creator would care about.

But I do think this is a bit underplayed:

> As for all the things that usually slow down web pages today, such as embeds, JavaScript-heavy content or Flash, WordPress strips out this content from the AMP pages. Comments are also omitted by default.

So...YouTube videos and things like embeddable Google Maps are not allowed? I was assuming "no"...because that is Google's bottom line...(also, they're whitelisted in the spec's extensions [1]). And I know the anti-comments-section sentiment is strong in the media industry, but kind of weird to see "oh yeah, no comments" as an afterthought. I'm assuming that means no WordPress comments (which come built-in with a standard WP install)...but what about Disqus and Facebook? There are more than a few media companies in which comment sections are more than trivially important.

[1] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/extensions...
I am not exactly looking for Skype alternatives.
Looking for video chat solutions in general.
Are there any popular video chat solutions based on WebRTC?
Have tried Firefox Hello, but it was a barebones solution without features like echo-cancellation etc.

Edited for clarity.
The sites I never visit (ahem) and discussions with people younger than myself seem to indicate that "inappropriate use" is no longer a taboo or an exception for heterosexual couples, but the rule (or at the very least tried once). This makes the stance of it being "unnatural" extra hypocritical.

PS Don't even get me started about saddlebacking 'virgins'.
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First of all, yay for native IPv6! :)

Just a nitpick:
You're currently hosting the page through Hetzner, and as such on German servers. By German law you're required to provide a valid imprint/Impressum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressum
Why does it move and wiggle? It makes it unnecessarily hard to click on nodes. Also, it took me at least 30 seconds to figure out how to start at all as I didn't notice the small inputs in the upper lefthand corner.
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Founders/owners of a S-Corp have to be Americans.
Thanks for confirming that. I only had a few data points to go on so far. I did work with a small one-person-band £300/year accountant for a while, but then paid for the Freeagent account on top of that (£300) and didn't feel that the accountant was doing more than, as you say, the paperwork. Still, helped with securing a mortgage, so not all bad.
Make up your mind Bloomberg:

Google said [...] it will put websites built with its Accelerated Mobile Pages [...] in the Top Stories section of a search results page

VERSUS

AMP isn’t “a signal we use in ranking” pages, Besbris said. He declined to comment about whether AMP pages would rank higher
Wonderful, thanks. :)
No, your WP site supports AMP if you haven't bothered to do anything custom and don't care about anything other than standard design.... in which case you have work ahead of you.
Indeed, an S-Corp is typically the best decision when starting.
I read the article, all the comments, and I don't think that everybody really discusses elephant in the room here.

US politics is no longer country politics — it's more of an important part of world politics than an isolated thing. Just the same, US economy is more of a part of world economy. The article quotes "taxes on the rich" going down, but it omits the main reason: "taxes on the rich" are really taxes on capital (which includes not only billionaires, but individual investments of hundreds of millions people), and the capital is mobile now. If the US wouldn't lower capital taxes, the capital would just flow away. Same principle works for US blue-collar workers: sorry guys, but you're competing with workers from India and China now. And, to be honest, on a humanity level, it feels completely fair that your wages going a little down while theirs go up, tremendously. Same is true for financial elite: US financial elite is no longer financial elite of one country, but financial elite of the entire world.

And, of course, same is also true for US presidential elections. Of course, only US citizens can vote in it. But the political establishment itself is already slowly morphing to being a part of international political class rather then being tied to a specific country: it's especially apparent when you look at various NGOs, think tanks, funds and other similar organizations. And both Sanders and Trump are perfectly logical candidates in this context. They may be radicals on US political arena, but in a broader, worldwide political spectrum they don't feel out of place one bit. (Which is pretty ironic when you consider how isolationist both of them are).

So, the whole world is looking at this US election cycle, but if you're part of US, the whole thing will make much more sense if you take a break from the spectacle and look around.
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On Chrome on OS X at least, this webpage seems to be using jankyscroll.js http://zweig.co/jankyscroll/

You might want to look into if any Javascript is interfering with the scrolling.
Ha, for a second I thought they were going to do something about the ad saturation.
uBlock and NoScript on Firefox for Android pacify this consumer just fine.
Out of curiosity, how big is your cluster in terms of nodes, capacity, throughput, etc?
All new cars sold in the EU will soon be required by law to have a cellular connection capable of "eCall" (reporting the car's location in the event of a crash).

Once there's a cellular system in there, it's 'free' for the manufacturer to add any other features they like and are willing to pay for the SIM for. Low volume "IoT" SIMs are a few euros per year.
I agree with you that a more secure device could have been created. However, Apple did not write this poll, and that's what I'm focused on in the above comment.

> So what prevents the FBI from asking Apple to have a team visit the Apple offices, get access to all code that runs on the iPhone and the docs and signing keys?

I believe the DOJ would like to set a precedent here of having Apple weaken its own security. If the US wins this case and Apple is compelled to write special software, then Apple may be expected to provide a back door to any other of its present or future devices. That is much more powerful than having the FBI grab source code and hack the system themselves. They'll simply expect Apple to do it for them.
Or put it another way, pretend Apple runs a storage facility. The FBI wants access to a particular storage locker, but Apple is refusing to cut the padlock on the door. Very few people would argue that Apple is justified in that situation. I'm personally not sure why digital privacy shouldn't follow the same laws as physical privacy.

By Apple giving itself the ability to unlock the phone (through a new firmware push) they now have to justify why they shouldn't use that ability. If Apple never had that ability, they could simply say "It isn't possible" and could never (legitimately) be accused of obstruction of justice. Apple put itself in this position.
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Ask HN: Do you keep a journal?
If so, how long have you done so, and has it had any effect on your life? I've been keeping one for a couple months now, and I still find it to be a bit of a "chore." I document my daily work, thoughts, feelings, vent frustrations, confide to it, and monitor progress in various ways. But I have not found it to be useful other than as another distraction and pull on my time. I've read that journal-keepers are usually more productive, but I'm more productive on days I don't spend thinking about my journal.
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Where does it get its data? I'm getting "No events found.".
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If it were really the case that the FBI "would rather not have to follow any laws and just do whatever it wants every time, anytime," they would have already raided Apple's headquarters and taken what they wanted at gunpoint. Obviously, they believe their position is legally justifiable.
Is it not unfair to say that just because animals use their genitals in certain ways that means those genitals were evolved for that purpose?

There is more logic than "you put the penis in the vagina" that implies that the two are designed for procreation. All you seem to have here is that animals touch eachother's genitals sometimes. Not sure how that has any evolutionary implications. Even less sure that there is more than some reactionary evidence to show otherwise as well.
No problem. Not trying to be a dick, but pretty much every time there isn't a pricing page, it means the price is "too rich for my blood" so I just close the browser.

It often means I'm going to get a sales call and a linkedin request too but that's a whole other story ...
First of all, I'd be curious to plug Algolia on this blog :)

Then, maybe you should have less words per line. http://digerateur.xyz/2015/11/18/tri-bulle-ation/ is a good example.

Also, I'd love to see Jupyter notebooks made out of the coding material you cover. But maybe that's only me.
The establishment won't give up power without a fight. There may be a second "Business Plot": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
In the article: "In a report covering the first six months of 2015, Apple said it had received nearly 11,000 requests from government agencies worldwide for information on roughly 60,000 devices, and it provided some data in roughly 7,100 instances."

So an icloud backup negates the need to force apple to unlock?

Any way to backup an ios device online on a 3rd party, encrypted using a public key?
I don't, and neither does the developer of cydia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11158036

>The problem I have is with stuff like their answer to the question "Could Apple build this operating system just once, for this iPhone, and never use it again?", which essentially is outright lying: the "master key" in question is their signing key, not some piece of trivial software they develop (and then sign) in order to automate this process for the FBI. Apple already has the only master key of relevance: that key already exists; the idea that the master key is something that they need to "build" and then would have to "protect" is them trying to divert attention from what is actually important.

>The world isn't somehow different once that software exists
$14,000 for a 3 month program with no accreditation?

If someone is not in a hurry, spending $20,000 or so for a Harvard Extension School Masters in Software Engineering seems like a better investment. I have a Bachelors (non-STEM) and an MBA, and am taking CS50 right now in preparation for the Masters.

The problem I see with a lot of bootcamps is they focus on specific technologies which may become outdated (thus necessitating re-learning) without giving students a solid grounding in CS. In the long run, if you're willing to make a more gradual transition to programming, a solid grounding in CS is, IMO, a worthwhile investment.
Turning off the web API stops people communicating with Nissan's webservice; it doesn't stop the car communicating with Nissan's webservice.
Meanwhile underfunded state schools who do the lion's share of getting people into middle class jobs and giving the students a leg up in life, serving those in between scholarships and the trust fund kids get ignored and bypassed.

Yes this has the potential to benefit third world countries if the students go back and contribute, but we well know there are many poor and disadvantaged in the US as well who get the short shrift.
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Strange. Putting these systems in the cloud just gives you different problems. It doesn't really make them go away.
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No, it can't happen at all. After processing the first state that visits all states on input i, all subsequent states explored in input i stop before traversing states that have already been visited. Since all states have already been visited, each state after the first on input i can be dismissed in constant time. Given that one can check whether a state has been visited in constant time, this is still just linear, not quadratic.

Let's just look at code already.

Here's the loop over states at input i: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/regex/blob/master/src/n...

If we match a character at input i, then we follow epsilon transitions: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/regex/blob/master/src/n...

If we visit a state that we've already seen, skip it: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/regex/blob/master/src/n...

If that first state visits all states, then `nlist` (which is maintained while following all states at any position in the input) will contain all states. In each subsequent iteration (line 165), even if the state wants to visit all states, it will be immediately stopped at the first check in line 300. No additional states for that state are followed.
Mostly from other sites via APIs - could be that you're in some region (or have such position selected) where nothing's happening ;)
You don't want my job, trust me.

I honestly tried to turn down a $30k raise because of how frustrated I am with it some days. I only gave in because I was going through a hard time with a death in the family which killed any desire to mix that with looking for a new job.
I have a LinkedIn profile because I was led, back in the day, to think that was the best way to put myself out there for businesses to find and hire me. I don't think I've gotten more than 50 views in the entire time I've had the thing, which is blown away by my personal website (which is still a tiny number of views, but swamps LinkedIn).

That and every time I connect with someone or make the mistake of clicking on their emails, I end up with 20 more bloody emails over the next few days for job offers I don't want (drywall contractor this past one, no joke) or people I don't know who are trying to connect with me (most likely recruiters).

I really don't know why I don't delete the thing.
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It strikes me as either absurdly high or absurdly low.

Why high? Because $7/month buys you more than one DigitalOcean droplet, which equates to hosting a static site for you. Drop in a static site generator or just a single HTML page and you're right up to the same point as you are with this: all the hard work is generating the questions and writing the answers. If you aren't a for-profit business, this is way too much money. If you're a scrounging-for-pennies startup, you already have a website -- don't spend extra on this.

Why is the price low? Because anyone who is making money off their product or service can easily afford to hand you $84 a year to make their FAQ pretty and easy to edit. $7 isn't actually enough to make them take you seriously. Does it handle user management for a hundred users? Does it integrate with a single-sign-on system? Can you privilege users to edit certain topics and not others?