skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a programmer (although I can program) but I do a fairly important job at the company (that I own) that takes a great deal of thought, training and experience. So yes I do feel that I am "better" than a postal worker or a garbage man a job that doesn't take a great deal of thought, training, intelligence or experience or quite frankly in most (but not all cases) motivation. Of course there are people who are garbage men or postal workers that are there because of luck not intelligence or effort, but there are also people who grew up middle class like I did that aren't doing anything significant in their career either.

This idea that all of us are equal (we are not even factoring in luck) is really just a modern day PC version of the way the world is not.
A commenter on the lwn page pointed to http://danluu.com/file-consistency/ which seems like a nice overview of file consistency issues in various os's. It includes links to papers on the subject as well.

I found it pretty interesting, so i figured i'd note it for others.
This was a hard day for us at Optimizely but it was even harder for the individuals directly impacted. I want to reiterate that I chose to share this publicly because I care deeply about the individuals affected and believe the world should know that this decision was driven by factors outside their control and shouldn’t be viewed as a reflection of their performance.
This is exciting! I'm really happy to discover a nice looking email client that I can run on ubuntu!
Yup, well aware, I had originally started this idea before Dan Shapiro came out with his excellent game. I haven't however bothered to change the name of the project yet... If you have a good alternative name do let me know ;)
Yep that's definitely true, but on average 17kHz is the cut off for 19-20. I know first hand that there are uncommon people, like me.

Through an accident with way too many fireworks, or not enough fireworks depending on how you look at the situation, I hear a random high C noise when it's completely quiet. My hearing in my right ear cuts out at around 15kHz.

But on average. anything under 17kHz is audible to the average teen-young adult.
The nature of the typo "fandation" instead of "foundation" makes me think the perpetrators were from a Russian speaking country.
edit:spelling
All that would do is move more work overseas.
Would love to test advertisers -- do they/you have a publisher available to test it on that makes sense? It could be a blog site that shows images about their products, or even their own home page linking to products within their catalog.

I'm always down to implement new ways to demonstrate the versatility of the product -- please email me when you get a chance (email in profile).
Flagged because it possibly contains personal information.

EDIT: After skimming the file I still don't know what this is, except a file with 200 rows of personal data. I still think this should be removed.
I like this. I've thought about something similar that was more targeted at the high end market.

A woman comes in to your boutique clothing store and drops $10k in your store. In the process your sales associate working with her learns she likes opera and wine. You tell [SERVICE] and they source and deliver a personalized gift according to their tastes on your behalf to show appreciation for their business.

I like where you started. It might be interesting to "hire" a few expert gift givers that can find awesome gifts given a persons likes and a budget to get outside the flowers and chocolate options.
To shut down GCP, they would be shutting down the same services and infrastructure that power their own services. The dogfooding memo from years back is being taken to heart, and you're seeing more and more exposure of internal services and infrastructure.

The scary thing would be if it ends up reducing the rate of innovation because they worry about changing APIs or services too much; obsolete accumulates quickly when you're serving large numbers of people because most business want to write once run till it's dead. But this is true of any service that exposes anything but an extreme abstraction.
Grid (game engine)

http://www.planimeter.org/grid/

https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk

The Grid engine is a 2D game engine built on LÖVE.

Grid makes powerful concepts from 3D game engines accessible in a 2D game environment.
Ask HN: How did Netflix beat Hulu?
Is anyone familiar with how Netflix achieved such dominance in the streaming space? Not long ago, the field seemed wide open, but nowadays it appears everyone is trying desperately to catch them. What specific moves did Netflix make to achieve the position they are now in?
Pivotal ( the company that engulfed Pivotal Labs and Spring ) did contribute the Cloud Foundry integration in Spinnaker. This is not used at Netflix, though.
Hugely agree with your response. Just to add slightly to that, I think the fact that Facebook had a quite similar Go AI in the works (just without self play reinforcement learning) in the works is an indicator of how clear this research direction was. The complexity of Google's solution (2 neural nets and a fast evaluation function, plus other small details?) really indicates to me a lot of manual engineering and iteration went into this. So it is not really an indicator of cool new theoretical breakthroughs, but an indication that applied engineering to make use of known techniques can achieve great things.
A well-tested, easily extensible & customizable, offset-capturing, robustly-specified Markdown parser in Go:

https://github.com/akavel/vfmd

with a (long-term) plan of writing a WYSIWYG desktop Markdown editor around it. A hobby project in spare time, so pacing is on and off.

Also much too many other hobby projects. But hey, that's what makes them hobby!
Did we ever really leave that behind? Seems half the Show HNs are "best in Chrome" things.
Hmmm. Yes, you're right. Typesafe is probably the wrong word to describe this according to you and wikipedia :)

The problem I tried to describe though is how feasible/typical/normal? it is to catch more or less (type) errors on compile time...
Like here, where I basically my point is that it is too hard to use Java's type system to it's full extent because it becomes too cumbersome to actually use it on the callsite.
So basically like any other big enterprise.
Rate Limit Reached:

You have reached the Github anonymous user limit, please login with your Github account to continue.

Oof. I was just scrolling down the front page.

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Edit: After I signed in, I got a bit lower, then got the same message again (telling me to sign in)!

Make / break suggestion: File the stats on a local server. Don't expect the user to query Github or you're going to drop fans fast.
It not only IBM, there are quite a few other ones that I could write endless books about such war stories.
Thanks for being a donor, much appreciated by those who were given a new life and their families.
Benchling (YC S12) is hiring engineers to build a run button for biotech
With all the fuzz behind Kotlin, just because JetBrains, I am surprised that Ceylon has so little awareness! Ceylon, which has great features, multiple compilation targets (can't wait for the LLVM backend), has a great entity backing it (Red Had), and is created by a celebrity (at least in the Java world) developer (Gavin King)!
There are plenty of companies with under 150 employees who do solely security, and who develop security applications and products.
that is the foundation of jesuitism.
It is devils advice that ends justifies the means as oposed to Christianity that you can not achieve anything good with evil.
When you say somebody is jesuitish or jesuit it means you qualify someone as being cuning rather than wise.
That is the deception that was popularised from jesuit monastaries that just gave more grave picture of how dark human soul gets after falling from grace in herecy and being oposed to God. From those phrases Latin heretics comited some of the worst attrocities human kind ever witnessed like balkan holocaust in wwII over jews gypsies and orthodox. And supporting genocide conduted over centuries on balkans. And doing plain and simple what isis is doing now.
"Live" views of the Earth from Himawari-8 (a geostationary Japanese satellite).

Latest image: http://earth.apawl.com

Video of the previous 24 hours at: http://earth.apawl.com/recently

Bonus: Video of the eclipse earlier this week. http://earth.apawl.com/eclipse
It is worth remembering that just because we are reaching some physical limits of "classical" chip design. For example, both x86 and arm date back to the 80s. While I have no doubt that the implementation of these architectures has improved to reflect modern manufacturing capabilities, this still suggests that there is room for architectural improvements in performance.

Beyond simple architectural improvements, we could still move beyond basic transistor based computing. The most common example is quantum computing (which offers an asymptotic improvement in some cases), however I can imagine there beyond other classical devices that can compute certain functions more efficiently than a pure transistor based solution can.
Working on new features and a new design for our developer's journal app https://devarist.com
Sanders seems to agree:

[1]: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/reversing-t...

[2]: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/agenda/#step7
Rumour has it that the NSA already has threat predictor algorithms and processes, how long until the NSA provides the FBI this and you get arrested for pre-crimes or thought-crimes? How do you answer the charge that you were thinking about doing something bad?
Looks interesting. I'm curious why you built this. Prosper202 is the canonical approach used by most affiliates. It's got both self-hosted and hosted options.

From your landing page, I can't tell what missing features led you to roll your own.
If you'd like to learn more about it this is basically the best video you could watch in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-rkIfo It's quite long so I'd watch it at 1.5x and/or in chunks.

Even though it's for parents of children with ADHD it makes it clear with good examples what they're dealing with. Also worth keeping in mind that the disorder is different for adults in some ways.
Well, it usually starts out being more equal when the job first starts. Over time, however, your value goes up faster than you get raises (which is why you get the largest raise when you change jobs).
Seems to be similar for intuition in humans–some moves just feel right, and they're the result of thousands of hours of experience. You can justify it afterwards, but the intuition itself usually comes first.

The AI google designed is architected similarly to how the brain works in dual process theory: you have a NN providing intuition like system 1 and a supervisor much like system 2 which double checks system 1

https://youtu.be/l-GsfyVCBu0?t=52m10s
The vitriol and negativity in this thread makes me really not want to share my things here.
Why shouldn't the global economy seek to make labor fungible? Why shouldn't Indians and Hungarians have the same opportunities to work that I do? I think putting other people who are trying to produce value at a disadvantage for personal gain is a bad thing.

Yes, some people get to buy new yachts when they stop buying labor from American workers. We could prevent them from buying labor from other workers, or we could do something about the yachts.
FTC chief technologist says its time to rethink mandatory password changes
Four Reasons Why You've Got a Rotten Job – Or No Job at All
> The node/io.js split and eventual reunion is a fantastic example of why the system as it stands currently - which strongly encourages schisms to be explicit and branded distinctly - is in fact a very practical model.

Well, maybe, for large projects, where there's a defined community with lots of visibility. Not for small projects with no hype spotlight shining on them.

And even then, it didn't work out that beautifully for Express.js, either, which was not exactly obscure.
Why do they enforce having a referrer set? If you refresh the page it becomes a 404.
But when your target users are in airport lounges they do. :)
Yeah, let's spread the nonsense further! There are constants and variables; values are something else. Just because "val" is a short abbreviation everybody gets, it doesn't mean we should abuse it!
Doing networking in the standard library without introducing a proper async framework is just more madness. Polishing off promises and futures, and getting coroutines nailed down, would have made introducing an intuitive network library a doddle.

Instead we'll get something carved out of ASIO, which is a complete mess full of gross unintuitive APIs and callbacks.
Thanks!

We do try to deal with CSS transitions but I don't think we have every situation covered yet. What page were you trying it on?
The origin is unclear. The fact that the thematic of a game of war is prevailing now, to me means that it might have as well been in the beginning. Actually it shows at least that those semantics are relevant to war, and to live, so what I was saying stands.
> What's the takeaway for you?

For many people, from the writers of the Single Unix Specification to the Debian Policy people, the take-away was and is use printf, for nigh on 20 years now.

* https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch12.en....

* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/echo.html#t...

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490605

* http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/echo+printf/

* http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Bashism#Builtins

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh#echo

* https://lwn.net/Articles/346028/
Were you guys at the PDAC this week?
You can have some psychological safety and should be able to have a discussion without a lot of anxiety. However, both parties need to cognizant of the effect of the context and circumstances on the interaction. You can't accept much of anything in employment at face value. It's a very politically-charged environment and it is certainly wise to refrain from getting too comfortable around your superiors (and other colleagues, for that matter).

Politics is everywhere people are (politics is the management or attempted management of others' perceptions and opinions). It becomes a big deal as soon as you get even one rung up the ladder; if you're an in-demand skilled professional, you might be able to get away being more or less politically ignorant up until you get one report. At that point, it's unavoidable. People who are not in high demand spend their entire careers playing political games, because it's the only way to survive, let alone advance.

Employment is a popularity contest. If you want to make it as an employee, you have to be winning it.
Does Spotify provides the 30s sample of the tracks freely ?
It depends a lot where you live in this little planet of ours.

I know quite a few countries where being a IT person won't matter one tiny thing.

It is job hunting and begging like everyone else.
Yeah. This is the way it works, and I'll complain too - but we all know how it works.
Yup :) The comment is valid though: you don't get more type safety because of type inference. Thus saying it gets more typesafe is probably wrong...
What Slack is doing to our offices and our minds
it is happening on the same way for EMC now. My team,me and lots of people were gone for the deal with Dell. They've been transferring all the work to China. Right now, what i heard from my co-worker, the laid off is still ongoing.
It's so amazing that it works! (Donor here as well.) I would love to see the support system expanded. Even with the recipient's insurance footing the bill for the surgery, there's still a significant burden on donors to be able to provide the time off to do the transplant in many cases.

I'm starting with my own state to help find ways to lower that threshold for potential donors here: https://www.change.org/p/minnesota-state-house-give-minnesot...
I don't think you should be title-casing the repository names.
Not In My Country

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http://beta.notinmycountry.org/

It's a tool for organizations to fight corruption their community. Our main deterrents are rating/ranking of public officials (think teachers & tax collectors), responsibly controlled crowdsourcing of corruption reports, and campaign pages to raise money and awareness to litigate a case or assist victims.

Currently active in Uganda, talking with organizations in Ukraine, Kenya, Nigeria, and Liberia and with major global anticorruption organizations.

If you're reading this and you know about network security and/or I2P & onion server provisioning, leave a comment, I could use your help.
For anyone wondering about this comment: http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corpo...
satsearch: https://satsearch.co

We're building a search engine for satellite parts. Sourcing satellite parts that meet your design requirements is really painful and leads to wasted man-hours and procurement errors. With the advent of the small-satellite industry and companies like Planet Labs, Spire, Skybox Imaging etc., there's an explosion of activity in the supplier market across the world.

We're aiming to be THE place to get accurate, up-to-date information about the state of the market. We're in the process of acquiring data by on-boarding suppliers. We strongly believe that the data wants to be free, so we're going to be offering an API so the data can be embedded in engineering, procurement and market analysis tools.

We are in the process of positioning ourselves within the exciting push to open-source the space industry. Given our expertise, we're focussed on building open-source spacecraft design tools, and satsearch is a vital asset for that. If you're interested in getting involved in building FOSS for the space industry, drop me an email.
You really need to read Trump's book to interpret him. His extreme statements are the opening positions for negotiating a deal. Start out asking for 3x what you want, then you can give up stuff you don't really care about and make the other side feel like they have "won" something.
I completely agree. I settled on using sockets.io for the small pieces of my website that can benefit from the realtime aspect of Angular and friends. It's shocking how little code you need to make an awesome 'modern' website. All pages load in under 200ms on first load and I can mostly stick to what I know.
We actually use Browserstack for some of our devices.

Spotbot monitors your site over time, so it'll alert you when things change. With Browserstack, you have to manually run your site in all the devices you care about each and every time you want to check something. Or you can write a Selenium test, but that's a lot more painful than just entering a URL and letting us take care of it for you!
Yup, there's an art to it. You have to make sure your manager is actually on your side first. Good managers are, bad managers pay lip service to the idea. In between there are many well intentioned managers who haven't figured out the skill of encouraging openness.
I bet it would be drastically different if the employees were the stakeholders.
Hi DC2, actually I do cache some of the results, first 10 days and top 50 repos per day. I think I didn't expect people to scroll as far as they did. I'll up that cache later
It depends how protective the country laws are.

Here in Germany, Nokia was forced to either find alternative jobs for the employees of a plant they were closing down or to return to the local government all the subsidies that had gotten to built the plant.
A friend of mine was in this position. It was a requirement for her to get severance, as degrading and awful as it was.
And better.
IBM rule #4: All rules shall be composed of series of nonblank characters, separated by blanks.
This is the new reality - it's hard to argue against a >10x disparity in median salaries compared to your outsourced replacement, even if it might be a failure in the long term.

Do you think you could you persuade IBM's board (a proxy for their shareholders) that as a US worker you really deserve >10x the pay of an 'equivalent' worker in some other countries?

History will continue to repeat itself across corporate behemoths. The process is just too compelling with a short-term profit motive in a globalized economy.

Xenophobia is a common reaction to this. It misses the point. There are great people amongst your 'replacements' who are hired. There will also be terrible people. The same would happen if the process was entirely contained within one country. Imagine trying to hire the bulk of a skilled companies' workforce in one go. It's a disaster.

The kicker is that just like acquisition, outsourcing is rarely successful. The upfront financial benefits are clear. The true costs are from a change a workforce - lost knowledge, skills, quality and ethos (The things that really power a company to success). By the time they realize their mistake - it's too late, and a new management who haven't learnt the lessons will have already been rotated in.

Companies die of old age. Big blue is playing chess with the reaper.
Well, "Compute Engine networks do not support IPv6 at all."
FWIW I have no problem with sites doing this. You can participate in ad-blocking arms race if you so desire. I have no obligation to run your JavaScript just because you sent it to me. You can try to make it a requirement and I'll probably just use software to circumvent it.

But underlying point is that you have no moral or ethical claim to how people view your content, just as you have no moral or ethical claim that a person cannot rip ads out of a magazine. If you want them to pay for your content, the Open Internet is not the place you should be publishing.
No employer could ever stay in business if they paid employees as much value as the employee brings in. A $100K engineer may work on features worth a million dollars a year, but that doesn't mean that an employer could pay that employee a million dollars because the employer has many overhead expenses -- office rent, paying for servers, marketing expenses, paying the sales guys that bring in the million dollars a year, paying other support employees, putting money in the bank to ride through lean times, investing in new products/features that may never make money, etc.

The only way an employee can be paid as much money as he brings in for the company is if he is self employed.
HackerWeb - http://hackerwebapp.com/

I just recently launched an iOS app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackerweb/id1084209377?mt=8 in conjunction of the web app. It's my first ever iOS app and is built with React Native.

I've also written a post on my journey in building the app: http://cheeaun.com/blog/2016/03/building-hackerweb-ios/

Here's a video preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xDf67mjQw
Since when is thinking about something a crime??? It is the act that is important.
How #AI is helping schools to excel in Digital Marketing
If you own land, you would owe land value tax, regardless of what you have done to the land. If you just hold the land and do nothing you still owe tax. No one forces you to sell the land.

This:

>When there's a more profitable use for your land than you are current exploiting, you must give the land up

is not accurate.

> Land should be collectively owned by the people living on it and producing from it.

Why should this be the case?
I'm not so sure about this one. Doing something well can be a pleasure in itself, and even take the sting out of a job that looks like useless busywork. And if you find a really elegant solution it could be useful for something else later. At least you can take pride in yourself and keep your skills up.
Seems like your offering differs in that it caters to visual inventory and you can segment an image by its pixels to distinguish unique products, which is cool.

What sort of customers are using Pleenq so far?