skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just general disclosure that Steam on Linux does have 1600 games now, and at least a few dozen AAA titles. I have no problem gaming on Linux like any console owner would - if it releases for my platform, awesome, new games. If it does not, it might as well not exist to me. I have no shortage of games to play (I still have to beat Witcher 2 and I'm 20 hours in... 3 years later). And Blizzard stuff / anything older than 2010 runs perfectly in Wine nowadays, and with Gallium Nine I can play Skyrim on my 290 at its max DX9 settings at ~100 fps.
One reason I'll never visit the states.

If I absolutely had to I just wouldn't take a phone/laptop with me.
One of my favorite ones is Instagram's: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/
I lived in Allandale but spent a lot of time downtown at the bars, and a lot of time south with friends. I did not venture out into the suburbs, which I am guessing are even more not-Austin than where I lived. You're right that the weirdness is low-key and agreeable. What I mean is that people hold up the "Keep Austin Weird" and it is nothing like the weird of Portland for example. There are microcosms of weirdness inside Austin proper, but you have to go looking for it.

Also, I must apologize for specifically saying "East Coast" when describing Austin. It's unfair to you and everyone else on the East Coast. Well, mostly unfair. I've spent most of my life on the West Coast and so it was a subtle insult, but you're right, Austin is less like the East Coast than it is like Los Angeles. But one thing is for sure: Austin is nothing like Austin from the 80s, and I am just the messenger for that last statement, having spent most of my time in Austin hanging out with life-long Austinites of lore. So I apologize for the "East Coast" comment. But, I really do want some Chuy's now that you mention it.
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If you want to enjoy SendGrid deliverability but a different interface, check us out: sendwithus.com

We're designed as a higher level on top of email deliverability, offering some pretty rich features (email storing, great A/B testing, drip campaigns...)
If anyone thought having high school level tech skills alone made them insulted from competition they were in for a rude awakening regardless.
> They pulled the same stuff in the past where FBI talked about how they couldn't beat iPhones but NSA had them in the leaks & was parallel constructing to FBI.

Do you have a link to a leak that shows this? I couldn't find anything with a simple google search.
Note: Their free plan is down at the bottom of their pricing page
I doubt so.

Despite the selfless application of miraculous promises, In Cuba, cancer has been reported as the leading cause of death in the population aged 1–64 years, and the second cause of death after cardiovascular diseases in the population aged ≥65 years.
This is my situation. I have a bare bones Nexus 6P where all of my apps fit on one screen without scrolling. Only the phone, SMS, and Pagerduty apps send push notifications.
It's my understanding that the current battle is about the request to bypass the retry cap.
On my wish list is for the iPhone to effectively support multiple concurrent users. You login with your simple PIN for most cases or when the kids are using it, and you can login with a passphrase and are now working on a completely separate partition, with its own apps, settings, Apple ID, etc. I guess they could even support TouchID in this case as long as you enroll different fingers for each.
Making the switch now. I send less usually 10-20 emails per month using Mandrill, no way I am paying their absurd costs and getting Mailchimp just for that. Sendgrid here I come.
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SendGrid is competitively priced - as @jamestanderson mentioned, $20 goes twice as far. Mailgun doesn't offer a marketing product at all, and I am not sure if they provide the 24/7 support we do.

At the 40k+ volume levels, you're also going to get a complimentary dedicated IP, which means better deliverability. You can get that at Mailgun too, but it's a $59 surcharge every month.

Finally, the InboxTrail comparison posted elsewhere in this thread shows Mailgun getting flagged as spam 37.5% of the time.
Google Ventures on How Sketching Can Unlock Big Ideas
I am being totally honest with you when I say that I ran into more and bigger douches in Austin than I ever did in Los Angeles. LA has a reputation, as well, and certainly deserves a lot of it, but also I was surprised that Austin had such a huge population of douchebags. They're everywhere! And mostly from what I understand from friends, the douchebags are the imports. People that bring their anger from Elsewhere.
The only relevant information being used by the government is who visited what site. (If this is incorrect, let me know). That corresponds to the outside of letters, which the government can read legally without a warrant.
For lack of a response from someone who has actually tried getting ASIO working on such a setup, I suggest you just try it. Grab a Live CD and a spare external hard drive and just give it a whack. Passing through the sound cards should work. USB might be trickier if you're not just passing through a whole USB hub. But considering how new IOMMU is, I imagine the intersection between people who have tried it and people who use Cubase is incredibly tiny.
and if you're a citizen of the country you're trying to enter...
A lot of the comments on that article burn me up. People in the U.S. really think there's a terrorism problem here. The only problem is that government spending so much money on a non-issue! Politicians love to "debate" it because they know it is one of those things that looks good to the naive citizens but they really don't have to do anything because there's nothing to be done.
"What about you reader are you normal?"[1]

Which they then go on to explain the hilarious abnormality of being normal.

[1]https://youtu.be/_Oc9tKkH7WE?t=7m6s (1 minute watching time)
Consider using CitusData to scale out Postgres horizontally. You can shard by time and basically get linear speedup based on # of shards. Its extremely fast and will be open source in early Q2 I think. You then can put your Postgres instances on boxes with SSD instead of IOPS. Writes also scale mostly linearly.
It's not puritanism so much as risk management.

Spouse sees credit card charge for something sexual, questions it. Consumer is backed in do a corner. What do they do? Chargeback.
Kindle Fire! The $50 one is just good enough that I can use / take notes on it, but not so good that I end up browsing the web.
Why would they have made the Secure Enclave allow updates on a locked device without wiping the key in the first place? Either they didn't think it through, assumed they would never be compelled to use it as a backdoor, or perhaps they were afraid some bug could end up having catastrophic consequences of locking a billion people out of their phones with no way to fix it? Do we even know for certain that the Secure Enclave on the 6s can be reflashed on a locked phone without wiping the key?
HN protects itself quite well from very long URLs. But reddit[0] will happily host 20kB.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/47gjbv/experim...
Any reason not to use JSON? Apart from needing lightweight traffic, in which case MQTT would be fine, right?
Absolutely. I went to school with (and am close friends) with many engineers. They worked very hard on their studies while I sorta goofed off and didn't finish school. I respect their dedication to process, standards, not reinventing the wheel when not needed, and commitment to projects that last an entire career. Their tasks include making things work better for people in general and not just a segmented community. It's also good to remember "Engineers" make decisions that other people's lives depend on.

I am proud to call myself a programmer or a web developer. Our work is hard, it's dynamic, and it has the potential to impact many lives. But we should be sensitive to the engineering community as lives depend on their work and calculations not falling apart.
Agree 100%.. this is an insane move by Mandrill and if SendGrid can at least show email subjects they will reap the benefits imo !
Stanford creates world's biggest scholars program
Typo: "printing the first hundread to the screen"

Anyway, looks interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on it, even if the whole visual part turns out to be a steaming pile, the text-based language looks quite promising.
I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to
I read that as "it amazes me that people aren't all using Haskell yet".

Because 'show' is probably all done for side effects. And then, maybe, Haskell would have caught that, due to the wrong type signature. If called from an otherwise pure function.

Most other "strong typed" languages wouldn't catch that. But that's hardly something type systems solve on their own.
Don't think this is by the same people, but I've used https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=coolcherrytree...
Nightingalesystem: aerial security system designed to monitor large areas
First of all, ingest your data as .json.gz -- line delimited json that's gzipped -- chunk this by time range, perhaps hourly, on each box. Periodically upload these files to the cloud -- S3 or Google CloudStorage, or both for a backup. You can run this per-node, so it scales perfectly horizontally. And .json.gz is easy to work with -- looking for a particular event in the last hour? gunzip -c *.json.gz | grep '<id>' ...

Most of the big data tools out there will work with data in this format -- BigQuery, Redshift, EMR. EMR can do batch processing against this data directly from s3 -- but may not be suitable for anything other than batch processing. BigQuery and/or Redshift are more targeted towards analytics workloads, but you could use them to saw the data into another system that you use for OLAP -- MySQL or Postgres probably.

BigQuery has a nice interface and it's a better hosted service than Redshift IMO. If you like that product, you can do streaming inserts in parallel to your gcs/s3 uploading process for more real-time access to the data. The web interface is not bad for casual exploration of terabytes of raw data. And the price isn't terrible either.

I've done some consulting in this space -- feel free to reach out if you'd like some free advice.
Just for a counterpoint, about a year ago I did a landing page and accompanying marketing campaign for a friend of mine who runs a small landscaping business in Pittsburgh. With Squarespace and a couple days spent on a branding strategy, his site was head and shoulders above any competitor.

After a small investment on his part in advertising, we were generating many more leads than he could handle at a very good ROI--seemingly because the nice site was doing a good job differentiating him. So at least in his case, having a decent website did bring a real competitive advantage.
ahem https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

Edit: Too bad you can't use asterisks in HN comments...
+1000. It’s not like developers are licensed and only so many exist. The reality is you can’t find someone with the experience and talent you would like, who is interested in your company, team, product, location, and compensation. Tough to change some of these, but upping the compensation or lowering your standards are fairly easy. Crying shortage in an unlicensed profession is getting really annoying. You either don’t have the resources to compete at the level you’d like or you are talking your book trying to drive down wages in a bid for more government subsidized training or increased immigration. While I agree with more CS/tech in schools and robust immigration policies (I feel they both work to make a country stronger), some people in SV/VC land definitely have ulterior motives and a stake in the game when talking about shortages and policies to address them.
Scaling business from 200K to 1.2M. (ecommerce)
> This forced journalists and writers to be concise and to the point.

We need to bring teletext back.
It also doesn't make that much sense, considering that 15-17 year olds are regularly issued debit cards for checking accounts (though the parent is also usually a joint account owner). AFAIK nothing in the Visa/MC network has "Birthdate" field.
For folks looking for alternatives, there's a good list here with some indicators on the quality of delivery as well.

https://www.inboxtrail.com/compare
I don't mean to diss your experiences clearly softlayer worked for you in your environment but I'm honestly shocked to see Softlayer suggested here at all.

We just finished trying to set up some servers in softlayer and it was thee biggest pain in the ass we've had to deal with in a LONG time. Everything required a support ticket.

And that's if you're willing to overlook their reputation. Just Google "softlayer spam" and you'll see what I mean right away.

Glad that it worked for you. But wow... Never again.
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If you take the watch off, it automatically locks. I wouldn't mind it also automatically locking my phone and requiring a passcode instead of TouchID.

There is a VERY limited amount of time in which you can take the watch off and switch to another wrist (like milliseconds, you have to practically be a magician to switch wrists (which I do throughout the day)).

Apple has the watch, they could use it to beef up security for those that want it.
Unless the implementation is public and verifiable, which is unlikely, the idea that there is a "secure" iPhone is just that, an idea.
I guess the last one percent is making sure you don't brick customer phones inadvertently with software update or fix.
Are these fears born out of experience or are you just voicing concerns for what you think is going to happen? To be honest, what you've written reads like you are the victim of a lot of scare-mongering and hysterical claims about the effects of legalization. For one thing, I see no evidence of "the US totally overdoing this", least of all because there is no US wide approach to cannabis legalization, even among the states where it is legal. Most of the states where cannabis is legal seem to be handling the matter with great caution, with the laws and regulations in place specifically precluding the commercialization fears and behaviors that you are citing. Just google "Alaska cannabis laws" or "Oregon cannabis laws". Some cities forbid the sale of recreational cannabis altogether, limiting users to what they can grow themselves. You shouldn't judge decriminalization in the US based on sensationalist reporting from the worst excesses of it; you have to remember that the US isn't one place and one set of laws when it comes to cannabis legalization.
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So just to be clear... you want the same entities that are demanding backdoors and key escrows and the like to ultimately be the gatekeepers of security? I can only imagine what a regulatory required update may include for, say, "homeland security" or other reasonable compromise... reasonable in the mind of a regulator or legislator. I can see nothing but a legal framework rife with unintended consequences coming out of the practical implementation of such a suggestion. I wonder how the current Apple controversy would work in such a world (not that there aren't laws that may already apply in that case).

Look, I understand why you would want such a thing and I don't believe that your desire is wrong. However, the method you propose I don't think would work the way you expect in the final analysis.

If you really want to do something in this area: why not work to create a consumer products security organization. Yes, it wouldn't have force of law, but you could certify products which manufacturers could use as a valuable distinguishing characteristic in the marketplace. Yes, all of that requires good marketing, etc. and not everyone would pay attention... but that may be better than the use of government force.
You should take into consideration the many DARPA and public/private university dollars that laid the rails for the FOSS stuff to take off for the internet to evolve. Granted not closed-source, but directed-spending, funded research with lots of people involved, not spare-time hobby projects. FOSS nowadays is invisibly supported by large corporations. My first net experiences were on Genie's pay service, and BBS modem dialup to other people's homes and servers. You were truly free to do as you pleased, not worry about the interpretation of GPL, GPL3, etc...
I find the MS hatred compared to the Apple ecosystem here very unfair. I had a 386-based pen tablet, the NCR 3125, in 1994 (it came out in 1991, 19 years before the iPad, 2 years before the Newton). As a closed-source system running either PenOS or Windows 3.1(?), it had serial communication to other laptops via LapLink and a cool handwriting recognition system. The PenOS SDK was free to acquire and play and learn with. I believe Wikipedia incorrectly states the Apple Newton in 1993 was the first PDA to have handwriting recognition, but I guess if that's considering the NCR 3125 was not a PDA.
The point is that if you go back past the 5 years windows that is constantly touted in this article, Apple would be the 'evil' one, stealing from Xerox, BSD and others, and then encapsulating it into their walled-in, monolithic kingdom. They were largest market cap company until Google displace them this year (Alphabet), and it is definitely not FOSS, yet the masses go like Soma addicts to the spartan white, cloned stores for more with nary a protest. At least the MS kingdom has so many branches, you can choose to follow any one of them. MS Research is amazing. F#, F*, Typescript, the SMT solvers like Z3, Simon Peyton Jones of Haskell fame, is funded or paid by MS. I think MS is far too diverse of a company to pinpoint one aspect and call it 'evil'. It's the one that is wolf in lamb's clothing, Apple, that is truly to be feared ;)
Obama's big mistake on cyber
Seriously... what were they thinking?! I hope someone from @mandrill can chime in.
Interesting points.

I'm wondering about MongoDB. Have you tried it recently? It really improves with every release. We have a 20TB Mongo database and it's fast and problem free.

Also regarding the queues. In my personal experience a single RabbitMQ server with good hardware can easily handle 50GB a day.
Anti-Stalinist isn't anti-Communist. (Sorry for the extremely late post, though.)
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Sounds like you know your stuff!

I couldn't find any email on your profile, do you mind sharing it?
it's an appeal to emotion and it's actually a bit disgusting to me. I wish my government would stop creating the terrorists that it wants to then fight.
It's interesting that Quetelet Index aka BMI is arguably 'wrong' as it's comparing volume of something with one dimension ^2 instead of one dimension ^3. There are reasons it's valuable in human health as square cube law scaling has negative consequences. Still, it's interesting just how 'old' that measurement is.
Are you using GorillaServers solely for data harvesting/crunching or for all of your infrastructure?
Signed up for a couple services to check them out... sparkpost is looking like a top candidate so far.
Unfortunately the industry's response to people avoiding explicit ads seems to be including ever more product placement. At least I can skip the ads with my PVR. Better that than having immersion in a show I enjoy totally broken by some blatant product logo or, worse, a really out-of-place line delivered dutifully but still awkwardly by an actor whose character would never say that.

Possibly the only more annoying thing in TV is when some totally out of place, usually bright and animated logo pops up a couple of minutes before the end of the show I'm actually watching, usually with a boxy ad for some other show on the same channel next to it. Way to completely ruin the ending of the current show.
There's no absolute expectation of privacy on the laptop. There's definitely a reasonable one, unless someone wants to argue that a layman independently verifying every bit of code and every silicon gate in it is "reasonable".

Is there a reasonable expectation that my new car won't explode when I turn the ignition, if I haven't stripped and rebuilt it to verify every part?
How is Microsoft extinguishing Skype? I've seen no such evidence personally
That was most likely a backdoor deal between AT&T and the NSA. There was no legislation enacted. AT&T was not REQUIRED to install that room.
Be careful not to take the base rate fallacy too far, with enough difference in likelihood even a small base rate won't prevent an effect from being significant, and regardless of the base rate you'll still get some information out of it, it might just not be as much as you wanted.
Article from 2011.

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3108087
There is nothing wrong with binary protocols.

Sharing c structs across languages is brave but it is doable as long as padding/offsets/lengths are expertly crafted and very strictly controlled.

but on the other hand sharing pointers would be madness.
Except that with Touch ID, you only have to enter it when you reboot the phone, or if you've mis-swiped 5 times. I've had a strong pin for a couple of years, and really don't find it even a slight inconvenience (in the way that I use a super-weak password for Netflix, as entering passwords on an Apple TV is a real pain)
Some 'pure' design jobs may be drying up but there is plenty of work in the front-end developer space. When work becomes thin designers should focus on Sharpening their JS skills and they will find plenty of work.

When someone is bemoaning the lack of work available I suspect the real problem is their inflexibility or technical stagnation. This is especially apparent when a novice roped in from the mail room can out-compete them and eat their lunch. The problem is the designer's skillset, not the industry trend.

The following anecdote is from my perspective as a Sr. Programmer. I've worked with many great designers over the last 10 years and this is an example of my worst experience working with a 'pure' one.

About 4 years ago I once worked with a designer who refused to break up a 60 meg psd file into separate elements I could use for buttons/background etc. I don't even have Photoshop. Her argument was she didn't know which layers/elements should be separated. She gave this to me the day before I had to have the site in prod. So I fired up gimp saw that it had 500 layers and just exported it to a jpg and used javascript imagemaps for the buttons just to get it out in time. This is after a week of work on another site they changed their mind on. I ultimately didn't get paid for any of my work and it was the last time I freelanced.

Primadonnas who do not put in any effort into learning basic technical skills to maximize their effectiveness can take a hike.

I've worked with great designers who were excited about the technical aspects of their craft. They understood that knowing what's possible makes them a better designer. Even when their graphic design degree did not provide them with any CSS training they quickly adapted because nobody has time to pass something back and forth moving elements around a few pixels at a time. I've seen more than one end up as great front end programmers and UX/UI designers. Even the ones who never quite got JS but embraced CSS were a great resource to have and made our sites look great. These are the kinds of people who make projects fun.

If jobs for people who consider CSS "beneath them" are drying up I say good riddance. Nobody has time for the overhead entailed from having programmers move elements around back and forth a few pixels at a time to please the designer who can't be bothered to learn valuable skills of their own trade.

The rule in technology has always been "Adapt or Perish" nobody bemoans the loss of COBOL jobs today for the same reasons people don't know what a "Printer's devil" is.