skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> failure teaches you which mistakes to avoid next time

As a recent grad who has been fired from two jobs, I would be afraid to join a poorly written project because I would worry that I would fail and then be fired.

Learning how to be successful is pretty important and teaches you things you cannot learn from lurching from failure to failure.
Absolutely. There's room for a complementary article critiquing all the same issues with most job descriptions.
I'd say the situation now is about the same as it was then. Only the context has changed. Communicator had a mail client and a news client. I used them both over dial-up, back in the day. If enough people still wanted newsreaders, you can bet Mozilla would write one.
It's genuinely scary to see how trivial these attacks often are. Who on earth wrote these API endpoints and thought they were acceptably secure?

If the car companies can't write software that would withstand hacking skills roughly equivalent to a curious teenager, what hope do they have against criminal organisations or nation states? I don't really want to think about it...
The only way I can think of is Western Union. But the fees are ridiculously high. Even then, the sender is the receiver. I'm not sure how that would work.
Use JavaScript as shell script
Ask HN: How autonomous is the new Atlas from Boston Dynamics?
The latest YouTube video of Atlas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY) is impressive. Does anyone know how much of its abilities are performed autonomously?
Well, I didn't use the original title because my belief is that it is misleading. Employee satisfaction does matter, but it depends how you define it - that was my take from the story.
Imho quoting an actual fact resulting from their study was the objective solution compared to a debatable title meant to attract eyeballs.
They did, see my own reply :)
I worked for them for a short time due to an acquisition. They're crazy. They think they're solving the world's problems with polling data and they force you to be psycho-analyzed and have a plaque at your desk displaying your traits.

Nuttier than squirrel turds.
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I have the same thing. If I try to over-read my head-voice speed, I can do it but it's exhausting and I don't retain the information nearly as well.

I've also always been a pretty good speller; at some point, my brain started caching two copies of each word---how it sounds, and how it should sound based on how it's spelled.
You may not have heard about this, but extremely smart people have been arguing about this problem for thousands of years. I guarantee you it won't be solved in this thread.

This is a good starter: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/
How to Hire Designers That Don't Suck
Hey! I work at Stripe. Worldpackers looks pretty cool -- nice job!

We kicked off a private beta in Brazil not too long ago that might interest you. You can sign up here: https://stripe.com/global#br. (Once you have a Stripe account, you can accept payments from anyone, no matter where they're based.)

If you end up deciding to incorporate in the US (say, if it helps with your fundraising), the best approach during the beta is a referral through the Atlas network. We're eager to expand this as we learn more from entrepreneurs like yourself.
>If there's something I don't want the NSA to know about, I use Tails.

This is a nice thought, but probably not realistic for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most relevantly, I would expect that a large quantity of major Tor exit nodes are tapped by the NSA.

I would also expect that most servers you talk to are either already tapped by NSA in one way or another or can be tapped by the NSA trivially if they decide they want to see what's happening.
Naturally Sanders would not accept veep, they're class enemies.

I also don't accept that Sander's left populism is in the same category as Trumps' fake right populism. As another commenter stated quite well above, Trump is establishment. You can't get more establishment than a real estate tycoon who got rich from daddy's money. It's the same thing as the Bush family, just more crude.
Yes, it is location based, so it needs your location, or it can't do anything. Depending on your browser you should be able to click something like "allow location".
We got a few "test submissions" from the HN community already which is great lol. But we can't pay a bill if your name is HJSKLAL haha

For anyone who submitted a test it would be awesome to get your feedback on the flow and product in general!
Having been part of a technical organization that was a democracy: no.

I'll take a monarchy over 5-hour meetings where nothing is decided and the room hates each other any day.
It should take you to the login page, you didn't see any login buttons?
Ask HN: Product to let users vote on features?
Are there any products out there that creates a widget you can add to your web site that lets users vote on features? I'd like to concentrate on features users want without having to guess.

I thought awhile back there was something like this. Each user got 10 votes to spread out as they wanted on however many proposed features as they wanted. But I can't seem to find it now.
http://www.ceph.com/

pretty hard to install (ceph-deploy makes it easier) but I've seen some pretty spiffy claims like really easy scaling and provisioning.
They are pretty structured logfiles - so we want to be able to split on those (e.g. by timestamp, by log-level, by file).

Part of the application handles two-way syncing of files - so we want to say, trace the events as they come in from each direction, over the lifetime of a synced file.
Really nice and simple. I used Hoplr for this, but it has way too many bells and whistles. This is straightforward and I love it.
There's always an opportunity cost to any work and developers often (always?) underestimate the time taken to do work.

$7 a month is practically free and allows you to offload the task from your expensive developers to someone better suited.
I've always been a cannibal strategy investor when it comes to my AMZN holdings
Research on Balancing Privacy with Surveillance [pdf]
In the prohibited items, it lists:

>Personal computer technical support

Is there any reason for that? Also, are freelancers in that category?
Why is that person such a jerk all the time, right? What's their problem? ;)

I have the "voice when I read" thing too; I've actually always thought of it as some kind of "true voice." I haven't perceived that it's changed since kindergarten (though, of course, change could be so slow that I don't notice it, since it's not like I have any external recordings to compare it against).
good issue trackers like https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/ have voting features
Punctuation in Code
This is standard boilerplate for most payment services.
That is the conventional wisdom. This cycle conventional wisdom has lower than usual predicting power. The way I see Nevada - 52-47 is bad news for Hilary. She not only has to win by delegate count - she should win legitimacy with the Bernie supporters
Yes, but for Apple it is easy. Just change 1 line of code, recompile and patch the phones firmware. Than some FBI intern can try 10000 lockscreen codes and they're in. No big deal.

My whole point is, this is not a technical issue. It is easy. It is a legal issue. Can the government force a company to do such a thing? Especially when the impact on society is zero. The firmware upgrade is not released outside of Apple, no other phones get it.

It feels almost like a publicity stunt to me. Apple being the underdog in the fight against the big evil government.

If they don't want to cooperate and there is no legal basis for doing so, than don't cooperate.
A copy of Slack's reactions?
Is there a repository or more information about the underlying process?
Yeah, the registered agent address would be in Delaware. The third party facilitating the incorporation won't show up in the Delaware filings, though there will be a registered agent and address on file. (You don't need to do anything to fill that out beyond signing up for Atlas.)

No need to come to the US for the bank account or any other part of the process.
Humans as robots as a service arbitrage.
Yes, essentially. Of course the real work is in creating all of the benchmarks and harnesses to start measuring and investigating; as it always is in these non-trivial systems. The full story summary:

First, hit a rate limiter, removing it partially solved the performance issue at low scale.

Second, there was a slightly expensive "initialization operation" that should be only done once, made sure it only happened once.

Finally, found the expensive round math operation with micro-benchmarks and improving the math operation resulted in doubled throughput.
thanks for answering, Michael!

I will see if our CEO can hustle out a referral! :)

And I didn't know about the private beta here also, thanks!
My favourite part of the whole article is the phrase "Your algorithmically determined best friends".
Here is something I don't understand: How does one effectively deliver on a project while writing crappy code? Doesn't trying to do that result in the codebase becoming so confusing that you don't know how to add things to it without breaking other things?
I don't understand what you're saying. By any reasonable measure, the quality of life of the median human inhabitant of Planet Earth is better than it was 20 years ago, when it was better than it was 20 years before. You probably hit some dips for the World Wars, but if we can avoid any more of those, I don't see why we would want to stop the positive trendline that has accompanied and depends on economic growth.
What is the date-range this is using? I am only seeing events for the next few days. Is it possible to expand into the future so I can make future plans?
> might as well use IRC.

Worse: For IRC you can use quassel (self-hosted) or IRCCloud (4$/month).

So with IRC you get more, but even cheaper.
"Runaway greenhouse effect" is what could happen if the methane deposits in the Arctic Siberian tundra are released to the atmosphere. See [1] for more information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions

Edit: if it's not obvious, "runaway effect" is another term for "positive feedback loop". The first paragraph of the linked article reads:

> Arctic methane release is the release of methane from seas and soils in permafrost regions of the Arctic, due to deglaciation. While a long-term natural process, it may be exacerbated by global warming. This results in a positive feedback effect, as methane is itself a powerful greenhouse gas.
I don't think we're on the same page.

First, we seem to call different things an experiment. The guy didn't made
any experiment, he just charted some data. He didn't change CO2 concentration
in the atmosphere, keeping everything else equal, to check if it would affect
the resulting temperature.

Next, he only charted temperatures. This doesn't prove anything related to
carbon concentration by itself, and we don't have proven models to have
a causality implied one way or another. (Proven with analogous strictness and
confidence as the theory of gravity.)

And finally, I don't claim there is no change to the climate whatsoever.
Quite the contrary; humanity has seen the climate to change over its recent
history (few hundred years). I just doubt highly that the change is caused by
human carbon emissions.

And personally, I think it's really arrogant to assume that humanity is
powerful enough to change the climate of the whole planet at this point.
Most of the time it'll say "TLS handshake timeout" in the logs, so I just wait for githubs amazon instances to come back online. Other times its something I committed that others can't pull, so I'll revert then re-commit. A divining stick is recommended.
Am I missing something, or are they really boasting that they are able to schedule tens of jobs per second? ("Average pod throughput was 16.30 pods/sec") That seems very low...
used to be this was stated as being a dominance issue within a group of any animals. however the nature of discussions on the subject seem to get a bit silly when trying to defend a position that really doesn't need a defense.
but it looks sorta mathy, I better upvote even if the guy has no clue whatsoever!
MouseJack Flaw Affects Billions of Devices
Quite the opposite, they weren't ignoring me. Every single correspondence demonstrated effort and time on their part to read through, re-calculate some things, re-package, and send it back hoping I'd just kind of cave in. The stack of papers is about six inches tall.
Right, and they're in full ownership of that phone. They can do whatever they want with it. The issue here is they want to force Apple to create something brand new against their will. The analogy is a lot like those TSA approved luggage locks that have master keys floating around so that the locks really only keep out law abiding people, as anyone who wants one can get it off E-Bay.
This is part of the point. Many of us are pedantic nerds. I had to train myself out of the exact same habits (the "what if"s, the "but you actually asked"s), but I could only do that once I realized when people habitually "lie". I also had to realize it wasn't exactly lying, it was cutting off the outliers... it's assumed that your answer to whether you will show up at 10 has silent riding disclaimers regarding being hit by a bus, being offered brunch with Beyonce, buildings collapsing due to earthquakes, etc.

These are important questions to revisit from time to time, though. We train ourselves to give the easy answer in social and even medical conversation (or maybe you always knew to do that), but in some situations this is bad. I'm working on projects right now that focus on risk analysis -- focus on identifying and quantifying those outlier events. I now have to train the people I'm working with not to say, oh (I'm 95% sure) we'll be fine! but instead look at how bad things could be if they went bad, and think of all the creative ways things could go bad. I'm finding I have a bit of a talent there ;)

And last, you don't seem to understand that in her/my "academic" circle, this is in fact a common trait. What does academic have to do with communicating, anyway? It has to do with writing papers!
Don't you think?
And the "already liked" icons are way too small.

Honestly, it looks like shit. But it fits well with the stupid images in comments.
Sure, but any business with a marketing department is "maybe deceptive", so it really just becomes a question of "how deceptive is too deceptive".
Actually, my mistake is that I was examining a particular pathological case for NFAs, that DFAs handle fine: something like /.+aaaaaaaaaa/. In this case, the number of states the automaton could be in grows with the length of the input, until you hit the upper bound of "all eleven states". For that regex, the worst case is O(min(len(regex),len(input))*len(input)). This is quadratic in the input length, until a certain point. Which formula is correct then depends on whether the regex or the input is longer.

In other cases (e.g. /(aa|ab|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|...)+/), you blow up to the maximum number of states immediately, and for a matching string stay in the same number of states the whole time. Therefore, it is technically correct to leave out the len(input) parameter if you are considering arbitrary regular expressions.

> You can skirt around that with a lazy DFA

This adds unwarranted complexity if you're doing ahead-of-time compilation. Perhaps the best approach there is to try to convert the regex to a DFA, but bound the number of states to some multiple of the number of NFA states. If you surpass this number, consult the requirements of the situation and either reject the expression or just use the NFA that was built in the process.
What do you want more of? Health, leisure time, vacations, quality food, a better environment, more children living past their 1 (or fifth) birthday?

Growth gets you that.

Growth has made it possible to buy a fridge, an oven, a vaccum cleaner, a dishwasher and a washing machine, all for relatively trivial amounts of money. Together they made it possible for litterally millions of women to persue their dreams (whether that is to have a career, start a business or just spend more time with their children). I have no idea what kind of magic the future could hold, but I find it extremely destressing that anybody could even ask that question.

Oh and if you don't why a washing machine is necessary, http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_...
This "growth rate" measured in percent has always concerned me. It looks to be unsustainable. Interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
Ducks are notorious for having very aggressive sex. There are plenty of species which are well documented to have monogamous, long-term sexual relationships. Off the top of my head, seabirds have monogamous sexual behaviors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabird_breeding_behavior
I just tried your counting trick and all I wound up with was two simultaneous voices going through my head.

On the reverse side, for anyone who doesn't hear text as they read, I'm really curious how your mind handles the following paragraph. I can't imagine processing it in any way besides taking it one word at a time, but that is likely a limit of my own imagination.

> During winter, and touring the humor, poignant observation to Hobbes, as if to created as an outside action—you can be found him for examples aliens typically The Family Circus, criticized him is the thing through Saturday, December 16, 1995. Mom's first appeared in some newspaper chapeaux during nature is the only babysitter are characters in another.

Source: http://projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/
Fukushima proved we can’t trust companies to run reactors;

Chernobyl proved we can’t trust states to run reactors.
That's a good point - I could probably write some Python to parse the logfiles, and convert it into a more structured form. One major use case - the logfiles contains records about files and events associated with those files - we want to trace each file over the span of the logfile.

However, at the other end, I need a way to present it, and allow users to filter it, or select objects to trace - basically, if I could replicate something like Splunk or Kibana, either at the console or via a WebUI - I didn't know if there are UI frameworks/components out there that provided similar controls.
Thank you. Seems to check lots of boxes. Interesting to see what other tools have people built.
It's "homo" as in "homogeneous" not "homo" as in "homo sapiens"...

It's not only applicable to humans, by definition. It's applicable to anything that reproduces sexually.
Well here is one direct survival advantage in human society: your gay uncle or aunt may bequeath their estate to you and otherwise contribute to your upbringing (with higher probability than if they had their own kids). This is a considerable benefit, and it is to related genes.
Sign Up For Free! claims the page. I didn't bother proceeding what features are they locking behind a paywall?
Not really. 2c isn't a problem unless you have brought too expensive beach-front property in Malibu or something. Humans will adapt, it is what we do second-best.
Getting Started with ECMAScript 2015
> Most things worked far, far better 10 years ago than today. Apparently this is progress.

Sigh. If you wanted to look up a business on your phone you'd have to call directory enquiries - did that "work better" than your smartphone? Did you prefer RealPlayer over HTML video? Was WAP better than LTE? Was Windows XP the pinnacle of OS design?

Yeah, sometimes progress is a double-edged sword that outdates some things we used to do. Yes, it's worth the price.
I wonder how this compares with Estonia's E-Residency

https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/about/
> There are plenty of species

How much in percents is that "plenty"?

It's easy to toss qualifications, it's much harder to reasonably quantify what we research. I don't agree it's "plenty of species" (Edit: of course, in a sense that it's useful for a discussion argument, as in "majority", certainly not in a sense "an example can't be found" of course it can).
https://feedback.uservoice.com/ has such a feature. (Very expensive, but they started small, too).

In my experience when competing sites were using it it backfired. The top ideas were stuff like "website too slow", "my order didn't arrive" or requests which were unreasonable.
It is something I've wished I could do. In fact, I am considering only working at a company that does pair programming.
The time tracker system built in Phoenix and React
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Which is ironic, because the whole point of moving Skype from the un-interceptable P2P infrastructure to a centralized/interceptable one was to "make Skype work better".
This means nothing for me (and should also mean nothing for the targeted audience of the post).

I've been constantly ignored from Stripe since they launched their beta in Mexico (actually way before that, I subscribed years before, when Stripe launched in the US). I can't do business with them because I'm not part of their secret club, while at the same many businesses here somehow get access and start using them. That feels like some kind of unfair competition.

I know, you are going to say, they are not obliged to provide service with you, but then, after reading the kind of PR they publish (like this one) you would feel like it, at least they should be morally obliged to stand by their word.

"Stripe Atlas is invite-only to start. ... You can apply directly or get a referral from one of our partners."

Oh ok, so another secret club, and this time the gatekeepers in Mexico are some guys named Antoni and Lelo de Larrea , which for you outside of Mexico, the Larrea family are a powerful group in Mexico that came to be through corruption, government favors and pretty much all the things you usually hate from Mexico. Remember when the miners in Chile were trapped and then rescued? The same thing happened at more or less the same time in Mexico, a lot of media coverage here in Mexico, the mining company owned by them, it was relatively cheap to rescue them but they decided not to do it, they let them die because it was not worth the money. And now I have to do business with those people if I want to process my payments?

Yeah, thanks Stripe, but no thanks.
I think that is another interesting earning level to look at, but what if the living wage exceeds the per capita GDP (or GDP/work force if you want to better account for children)?
Hacking an Amazon Echo and Integrating It with Sonos
Plenty of people process language differently.

That's why there are dictionaries of metaphor to help people understand that "raining cats and dogs" just means "raining heavily".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Raining-Cats-Dogs-Expressions/dp...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asperger-Dictionary-Everyday-Express...