skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found LinkedIn to be very useful for keeping track of former teachers and managers. For example, a tutor who helped me a great deal in 1980 is now the head of his department and I have watched the slow but steady decline of a former manager who was a real challenge to work with.

I also use it to keep track of former colleagues who were difficult to work with and avoid applying for jobs where they are working now. Even if I don't end up working with them again, it's an indication to me that those companies have a defective HR department so they've probably hired other difficult people too.
It's well-known in the trade that there is an upcoming public health crisis because of antibiotic resistance, yet the biggest research efforts go to cancer drugs because that's what provides the highest return on investment. Hell, I am on cancer money, but what we really need is new antibiotics! Also, no one wants to introduce any new class of drug to the market because the research effort is too expensive and the market does not exist. The market in current statins is so much bigger than it was when Merck introduced the first one, and they had to go and verify the target, the mechanism, everything. Merck did all that for every other competitor that wants to bring another statin to market.

It really is the financing model that is opposed to the public good. People will admit it freely. And the heat that the FDA gets when something slips past them is incomparably smaller than the heat the pharmco gets. Anyone remember Vioxx and the cardiac side effects?

The FDA's incentives are aligned with the public good. There are already drugs for most conditions, and if there is anything that performs outstandingly well in clinical trials there is the fast track.

As for the natural monopoly, it's a fact that the number of manufacturers for any given drug is surprisingly small. For orphan drug the market is so small that it's inevitably just one manufacturer. The upfront costs to qualify equivalence are just a contributor.
There's an amusing bit of Javascript in that page to cause it to print as a single blank page. Never seen that particular "dark pattern" before. At some point, he appears to have commented it out and replaced it with a single CSS statement that does the same thing.
Verizon took a pretty big gamble in 2015[0] and bought spectrum covering more than half of America. So even though taxpayers pay for a lot of the infrastructure so they can be a common carrier and deliver services without manipulation, it was pretty risky to assume most of the populated regions in America will use cellphones in 2016.

Since they broke that agreement, they had to pay. 10b is a big risk to take, and 1.3M is likely to panic the market. So while I am happy to see them go bankrupt, I could only imageine the chaos that would ensue if taxpayers had to try and resell that to someone.

If you asked those 190million people whether they would rather have $60 to sell the bandwith or have the country pay to build them an entire wireless network, legislate on their behalf, and limit most of their future profits tax burden, while allowing them to make a profit, and then inject and sell adverts, no brainer, $60 up front.

They are just a Unicorn company anyway, lets see if selling a core service you got for free into an impenatrable market is a good business. Can't wait to see these guys on http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com

[0]http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-aws-3-we-have-le...
Growth metrics for your pre-beta startup in 2 hours
why does this page have self-playing video

why can't i make this page stop playing its video

why is there a text element sitting over a flash video player blocking me from being able to make it stop playing

did you know that safari's 'reader' functionality will hide self-playing flash elements, but will not make them stop? now i know this.

oh, and now i know that clicking the blue speaker icon in safari's title bar will make this page STFU.
Even more reason to use HTTPS for everything... We can't even trust the providers we do pay not to sell data on us.
[Disclaimer: I work for SUSE]

SUSE Linux Enterprise also uses btrfs by default. There's also a bunch of features like booting into snapshots and snapper (snapshots taken before zypper transactions and on regular intervals with decaying granularity) which are in both OpenSUSE and SLE.
The books have been determined by parsing all tweets made by YC partners in which they positively recommend a book.
Ask HN: What is the Product related book/article that you ever read?
I'm very interested in learning more about everything related from product inception to deliver, so if you have good recommendations I'd like to know. Thank you.
Heroin Epidemic Increasingly Seeps into Public View
New Java Developer Center for Microsoft Azure
How is using a default name like Anonymous or "Anonymous Coward" (or some other default name on other sites) different from making a throwaway? Making a throwaway might take you few seconds longer but to an admin, it's exactly the same thing. Your IP is tracked in both cases.

It's just that "Anonymous" username is EXTREMELY DECEPTIVE since you're NOT ANONYMOUS at all!
I have a hunch that you defined make-vars as a separate function just to be able to nest two multiple-value-bind, one in the macro and one in the expanded form ;-)
I do: http://www.jakeseliger.com. But I can tell you why most people don't: Writing interesting content with any kind of consistency takes a lot of time, energy, and effort, and it's poorly remunerative in the short term. For many people it's poorly remunerative in any term.
As I've read a lot lately: Headphones are the new walls.
> forces you to make a distinction between map and mapM. You can't unify them because one takes a -> b and the other takes a -> m b.

You have the same distinction in exceptions? One map would bubble the exception, the other would internally catch and exclude. You don't have to write two versions, map still works for cases with and without Result, but it will not have the additional behavior of excluding errors. You want that additional behavior, hence you write mapM; just like you would in C++.

> About memory safety: can you give an example where a "naive" implementation of catchable exceptions would compromise memory safety? I know about RecoverSafe but it seems to be solving a different problem (marking types whose logical invariants are preserved in case of panic).

There's an example in the rfc: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1236-stab...

In Rust logical invariants are used to enforce memory safety. If the destructor of something within a vector panics, that might result in an invalid vector. There's a pattern colloquially called "pre pooping your pants" which would help in this specific case (http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/everyone-poops/), but not in general. Writing unsafe code in Rust involves careful bookkeeping if you want to be sure the code is safe; and that goes out the window when the rug can be pulled out from underneath you any time.
And he's opposing current housing increases, based on a fight over open space that happened decades ago and was resoundingly and permanently won by open space. This is not the issue anymore, and it's an idiotic equivalence. The Bay is full of crappy construction that is ready to fall over on its own without any help from developers, but sitting on multi million dollar land. This is what needs to be and would be developed. When people today oppose development, it's these shit holes they are protecting.
Is owning the specification really the same thing as owning the hardware source? Why is it that you need the long-term vendor contracts? If you go beyond the spec and make all the hardware control boards, software, etc. open, could you lower that cost?

Boston has one unique feature that makes public-ish ownership of specifications and the hardware running more plausible than other cities... it has a large number of technically-sophisticated potential stewards for such a program who aren't going anywhere: all the colleges and universities.

MIT and Harvard are something like the largest land owners in cambridge and boston... they're not leaving anytime soon, and ideally they have an interest in maintaining relationships with their community. They're invested in the area, and as academic institutions, inclined to support open source initiatives like this (how many of you use the MIT keyserver for your PGP keys?) Imagine a "civic service" initiative where the area universities are stewards of the open source implementation for the city's infrastructure.

Not at all saying you want the T to run on overworked grad student code -- outsource that in a professional RFP -- but if the concern is that technical stewardship might be out of the realm of a municipal infrastructure agency, Boston's academic population could make for an interesting partnership.

Hairbrained stream-of-consciousness idea, but hey, that's what internet forums are for ; )
Verizon now owns Converto (http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/6-major-pieces-verizon...)...

Supercookies makes this a big deal.
Yeah, I just do the quarterly estimated payments. If your business is constant (not growing) it's easy to handle via extra withholdings. If you are growing, they at least make it easy so that if you pay an estimated tax that matches the prior years tax owed (paid quarterly) you avoid any penalties, even if you have to make a lump payment to settle up the difference when you do your taxes at the end of the year.

We have a pretty sophisticated business intelligence platform written in R that gets us estimated revenues within 10%, so I know how to budget through the year for taxes owed. I just pay my known quarterlies and keep enough in the bank to handle the remainder at year end.
That's not a real solution, because its not scalable. They should literally be scaling horizontally rather than vertically. There's a lot of less densely populated space around.
> "Can we trust this young nobody," way.

That's normal science at work. Old sages are biased, like everybody else. Fortunately, they are mortal too [1], and science keeps moving forward 'one funeral at a time', as the saying goes.

The problem is with people who want to substitute faith in the Divine Providence of God, with faith in the (eventual) Unfailibility of Science. We are just a bunch of social primates, after all. We were never meant to peek into the Deep Mysteries of Existence, anyways... which does not mean we cannot use our relatively advanced intelects to figure out a bunch of clever and useful tricks.

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[1] Something that is nightmare fuel to me is that one day we are going to stumble upon some serious life extending technology, and then we will all end up under the thumb of a bunch of ancient, obstinated fools who cannot/won't accept the limits of their own leadership skills.
The way I like to put it is that stateless components are great because they don't have a mind of their own. Stateless components have one responsibility, and that is to encapsulate all of the UI details of a component, but not the functionality of that component.

The dropdown component is a great example actually. It is a minor convenience for the dropdown component to have it's own "open/closed" state. However, when you need more explicit control over the dropdown in a certain portion of the interface (i.e. this dropdown should open not only when I click on it's trigger element, but also when I enter the konami code on some other portion of the site) then it becomes a less minor inconvenience that the open/closed state is actually not in your control.

In general, I do create stateful wrapper components for things like this. A single stateless component that handles common UI details can be wrapped by multiple stateful components that handle functionality. Here's a simplified dropdown/tooltip example.

HoverCard component: A stateless "floating div" component that can be styled and positioned around a trigger element. Handle things such as listening for events (Esc pressed, click or hover over the trigger, detect clicks outside of the HoverCard) and fitting the HoverCard onto the screen if there is some overflow.

Dropdown component: A stateful wrapper component around the HoverCard component with custom functionality. Manages it's own "open/closed" state which is toggled via the event callbacks (onEsc, onClickTriggerEl, onClickOutsideHoverCard) it supplies to HoverCard.

Tooltip component: Another stateful wrapper component around HoverCard which is very similar to Dropdown but with different HoverCard styling and slightly different "open" state management. For example, it uses the onMouseOverTriggerEl and onMouseLeaveTriggerEl HoverCard callbacks instead of the onClickTriggerEl HoverCard callbacks to toggle its open state.

The cool thing is that they both get all of the benefits of HoverCard.
I agree that a fixed structure is more efficient than a growable stack, especially in terms of memory allocation. But I don't understand how you apply this to an evented server. Asynchronous callbacks are often associated to closures. But closures can vary in size, which makes hard to store them in a fixed sized structure. What am I missing?

I haven't read nginx source code, but I guess they are able to store continuations in a fixed structure because they don't use closures and they know in advance what information must be kept. I don't see how this approach can be used as a general purpose concurrency mechanism for a programming language. But I'd like to learn something :-)
They don't need to start up an ad department: they have AOL.
Don't you think it is somewhat reductive not to even allude to that complexity in your article then?

Without that, the article does seem to claim that just changing the label of the button had that effect.
Your statement seems to imply that the loudest, and most controversial, members make it terrible for EVERYONE inside the community.

That is not the case in 4chan. There are a large number, if not a majority, of boards which have healthy, constructive cultures and are extremely helpful for hobbyists and enthusiasts.
Yes, the only incompatibility arises upon distribution of binary files compiled from both ZFS sources and Linux sources. As of version 15.10, Ubuntu already provides for downloading and compiling the ZFS sources using dkms[1]. However, binary distribution is unquestionably more convenient. Source distribution requires installation of a compiler, which may not be desirable in all environments. For example, in a Live CD linux installer, where space is at a premium, enabling installation onto a ZFS filesystem would require the ZFS sources, the appropriate Linux headers, and a compiler to build the ZFS kernel module all to be included on the disc, instead of just the binary module.

[1]: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=zfs-dkms
It's interesting you say this, as that exact functionality got implemented very recently.

https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/43370/~/ad...
It's not strictly a matter of protecting investments and real estate values. Many people simply don't enjoy living in dense areas. They prefer having a little space, privacy, and quiet. There's nothing wrong with wanting that, and the complaints by residents who have been there for years about the impacts of greater density are legitimate.
Why wouldn't you open a web socket
stop using repeat offending website
This was a very interesting article. And I can’t speak to the statistical methodology described. But I think it paints too broad a brush in terms of why the Air Force fatality rate (or “Class A Mishap Rate” as it’s called) decreased over the decades. Quick side-note – I’m a former USAF pilot and studied USAF history a bit.

The short version is – technical details like adjustable cockpits certainly played a part. But the bigger driver was the ever-increasing culture of safety, mishap prevention and leadership accountability.

Safety: things that were common place “back in the day” have been banned for many decades in today’s Air Force. These include traveling without appropriate weather checks, acrobatics maneuvers at low altitudes and unauthorized airspaces, and flying without enough sleep.

Mishap Prevention: incredible resources are poured into scientific investigations on what exactly happened in each incident so that A) we can learn from it and B) all pilots can be briefed on the mistakes made so that they can save their own lives.

Leadership Accountability: if you are a senior leader at an Air Force base with a fatality, you have a large issue on your hands that needs to be handled with extreme attention to detail. Lapses in safety are not looked favorably upon at any level. I wasn’t in the USAF back in the day. But it’s fairly obvious that there was less punishment meted out when mishaps occurred compared to when they happen now. Different times – yes. But overall fatalities were just accepted as “something that happens.”

The safety culture is all-pervasive and common in today’s military. But there were different attitudes back in the ‘40s. So while many of today’s pilots gripe about the excesses of safety culture - and I was one of them – most pilots know deep down that it’s a good thing. I wouldn’t want to return to the old school days where crashes were just the cost of doing business.
Yes, also interested. Perhaps here would be good: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
How abou: "A revelation is the best way to tell people you are expecting a new family member, getting out of the closet or revealing stuff people don't know about you. It's easy and fun to use. You should give it a try!". Should I add more? Birthday salutations maybe?
There is a difference between effect size and significance. Things can be extremely statistically significant and have very small effect sizes.

But the problem is less here and more that people don't care to understand the models they are using to judge statistical significance. A p-value is simply a magic wand to wave over the data and bless it. Statisticians may tend to look at the data a lot more qualitatively - a p-value might tell you something, but much more important is: "How accurately have I managed to model this system?"

This is the larger problem lurking behind "p-hacking" and other colossal statistical fuck-ups: people don't understand the mathematical models they are applying, the limitations of the data, and often don't care to, as long as the veneer of having 'done something' can be applied.

This, again, is probably a product of people cranking out shitty papers to make sure that they keep publishing, to continue eking out grants; which, again, is probably a product of research science being generally underfunded for the demands placed on it.
Load Balancing with Docker Swarm
This reminds me of something similar, music from malloc, and file reads... by hooking with ld_preload.

Code: https://github.com/gordol/ld_preload-sounds

Preview: https://soundcloud.com/glowdon/malloc-read-hook-self-compile
Sure, but bank size falls off very quickly after the biggest four. Compass is about 3% of the size of JPMorgan by assets (source: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/03/03/ranking-the-50-big...), and 10% of the size of JPMorgan by branches (http://www.usbanklocations.com/bank-rank/number-of-branches....). Theirs are less than 0.7% of bank branches in the US, compared to JPMorgan's 6.6% of branches.

You can disagree with whether this means they had barely any footprint or not, I guess that's semantics, but it certainly makes more sense that they would buy them to expand, not to get rid of a competitor.
I'm confused. How did you go from an SSH SOCKS proxy to ppp?
Which only serves to prevent the technically unsavvy. In Firefox: Shift+F2 "screenshot --fullpage" then print the screenshot of the page.

I've also never seen someone do that before, good spot.

What's interesting is that the CSS media query doesn't work for older browsers. So users using IE7/IE8 can still print the pages.
Traditional management structures are shit, but at least you know how they work, and there are lots of well-worn coping methods for dealing with them. The problem with crazy new management styles is that they often hide their true nature underneath a veneer of newness (for example, "flat"), and that true nature can sometimes be completely different from the ostensible version.
Hi, Designer of the VR device posted here. The bottom of the viewer is open so you can touch the screen with your thumb. We really wanted to make the most sharable VR device so we focused on simplifying and making it fit into a pocket.
Green line expansion (two stops) initially budgeted at $954M in June 2010.

5 years later, costs estimated at $3.09B and project is terminated.

A Reliable Project Budget is Defined as being
within +10% and -5% of what it would Cost
to Design and Construct the Project

Costs went up over 300%. The level of incompetence on display here is borderline criminal. Have a friend who works at one of the big 4 who is being called in to audit this failed project. Should be interesting to get an insider perspective on where taxpayer money was spent.

http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Board_Meetings...
No, the plan was, "have the lawyers evaluate the possible license incompatibility, decide that the really isn't one, and release the module." The SFLC is essentially running a FUD campaign here by trying to paint Canonical as being reckless.
The 'PDF' link at the bottom is for the old version of the paper. The current version (v2) is available here:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07387
You unsafely assumed. I had more than one business.

As a former small business owner I know very well how workers and small companies are being put in an unfair competition, especially because bigger companies have de facto monopolies and the support of both administrations and governments to play dirty.

Especially by having hidden subsidies or regulation unfairly protecting their business and weakening others.

I think as someone who was taxed 40% as a worker, 50% as a business owner, I have the right to be scandalized at the fiscal contribution of any so called successful businesses (google, apple, fb, ms, jp morgan ...). Fuck, this is clearly fiscal inequity. What triggered revolution in USA and France.

When competition is not fair it is not a liberal system anymore. And when wealthy kids get wealthy by birth and citizens find it remarkable, I guess people forgot why and how the citizens of the USA created their own country.

USA was despising the priviledge system and wished for a system where every one had a fair chance to compete for their success (except the black slaves).
I have found there is a strong correlation between people who suck at email and people who suck at realtime chat.

It appears that not many people have learned (or been taught) to value other peoples' time in regards to this sort of communication.
Ahoy @steinnes, @efficacy

We actually have plans to make the `jet` CLI open source at some point, but need to do some spring cleaning first.

In the meantime, we'd be happy to write some more documentation. What do you think is missing, which articles do you need the most?
They mention relatively high quality gift shop reproductions. It seems to me like scanning those is another possible explanation.
Who knew chaos sounds so melodious. You sir are a genius.
No, it would require three scans -- per viewpoint. But it would require a lot more viewpoints to cover the whole surface area of the object.

Also if you look closely at the video footage the capturers use an Xbox 360 Kinect, not an Xbox One Kinect (which is used in the paper you cite) which have entirely different working principles.

One other thing that's very fishy: The Xbox 360 Kinect has an infrared projector that's very visible when running. What the activists show in their video is definitely a Kinect that's not running.

Finally, keep in mind the paper you quoted is basically lab results. To get it to a level of reliability so it would work as you described a lot more research will have to be done.