skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All ads are not adware malware and ad blockers aren't blocking just the bad ads.
This piece is screaming for more pictures. Here are some from the places mentioned in the article in the order of their appearance.

Ninth Street: http://imgur.com/kc3IqM8

Grand Street: http://imgur.com/8nzlYys

Kent Ave, Williamsburg: http://imgur.com/bscl26i

Prospect Park West: http://imgur.com/WiLvOyE
Some programmers do that, most don't.

But more to the point, if you desire a work/life balance you absolutely can find a programming job that will allow it. It'll pay less than the unpaid overtime job, but it exists, and will still pay more than most occupations.
Sonos announces employee layoffs
The eyes are small targets. The only time you can reliably gouge them is when you're already winning a grapple, at which point it's superfluous. Finger locks are similar, with the additional disadvantage of being less likely to end the fight even if successfully applied. Admittedly, UFC rules now also take entertainment into consideration, but early UFC rules mostly just banned things that risked permanent injury for very little tactical benefit.
"Resource Action." That's even worse than my previous corporate cog job where they called it a RIF, "Reduction in Force." Who sits around and justifies themselves by coming up with idiotic terms like this?
> Necessity is everything. Cost-benefit might factor in when comparing different options, but the cost is often very high, especially to retrofit accommodations onto existing systems, when compared to the benefit that the general population receives from those accommodations. But we do it anyway, because we live in a civilized society that recognizes not everybody is the same.

We clearly don't do it anyway. There are plenty of things we could do that would help certain people in a big way but we don't because the cost would be prohibitive.

> Would you build a web site and ignore IE users completely, just because you don't use IE?

It has nothing to do with whether you use IE. It's a matter of how many other people do and how much it would cost to support them.

But web development is a completely different context, because then the cost is fixed rather than per-unit. Which means, if your site is at all popular, it is worth the cost most of the time.

It's basically fail fast. The first version isn't going to be particularly accessible because there is little point in doing that work if you're just going to close your doors next year. But if you succeed, now it's worth the effort to go back and do it, because 1% of a billion people can justify a lot of effort.
Bromium (https://www.bromium.com/) is a commercial product that does basically this on Windows, and is also based on Xen.

https://www.bromium.com/advanced-endpoint-security/our-techn...
Well the email thing is pretty embarrassing, just fixed. I wrote "hi@spotbot.qa" and set up an email for "hello@spotbot.qa". Face palm.

We are experiencing a lot of load (or we were until we went down). We scaled up and things seem to be working better now.
I've never met anyone nor worked with anyone who thought they were better than someone else because of their job. Maybe that's something you want to believe, but it isn't true. A great deal of the engineers I work with in the bay area are socially conscious to the tech sector's impact on the community. And really they're harmed by it too, a software engineer can't afford to buy a house either.

If what you really believed was true there's no way that someone like Barbara Lee could be in office with such huge wins every two years when so many of her constituents are the same people that work in the area you think is so terrible. Why are you even posting on HN? This is a technical news site.
> which forces everyone to live in San Fransisco.

SF is hardly the only place on the planet where tech is their direct business.
This is a good lesson to learn, even for the rest of us. A few extra minutes making sure your work looks professional can be the difference between $80 Million and $1 Billion.
No longer destroyed!
http://melthq.com

I'm building the API for physical gifting.

Want to reward your best customers with chocolates, flowers, company swag, etc. but don't want the operational overhead?

Automate making a call to Melt's API and we'll handle the buying, customizing, and logistics.

The goal is to increase customer engagement, customer satisfaction, word-of-mouth growth and lifetime value.
Unless you rely on UDP!!!
https://code.google.com/p/google-compute-engine/issues/detai...

We had a gold level support ticket open about this for months and they recently responded that they are making it a "feature request". Yes, proper UDP packet reassembly is a " feature request".
On the other hand, anti-vaxxers exist. Many of them.
Oh very interesting project! The thing is indeed very small for a counter with a Geiger-Müller tube.

Yeah seems like it requires surface soldering, plus the doc in russian: not the easiest assembly.

Thx for sharing!
Indeed, Trump is the only candidate who believes manufacturing should happen onshore, as far as I can tell.
I currently work at a multi-national corporation that has offshored a vast majority of its development and infrastructure. Any savings in cost of payroll is absolutely outpaced by a massive increase in expenditure required for project overruns and failures due to lower quality of work, terrible communication, lack of real SME's, and worthless organization. The upper management's reaction to this was to bring in consultants who are considerably more expensive than local talent and are often laughably ineffective. Especially since they have to fly back home every single Thursday. The sense of impending failure among the local employees for every single project is palpable.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly
I think the problem, in cases like the AF crash into the Atlantic, is that modern planes are designed to not be possible to fly into a stall. So when some sensor fails and it suddenly becomes possible, the pilots don't even realize they are stalling the plane.
Thanks, I actually did build something like that. My original inspiration was Google Trends (thus the UI) but the data wasn't very useful, traffic on github is very spiky, even on a log graph it didn't look good.
NSA data will soonbe used for domestic policing (nothing to do with terrorism)
A HN/Reddit alternative: http://snapzu.com

Snapzu innovates on all the things that Reddit is lacking, such as:

1. Your home feed provides all raw/live posts and activity from tribes you join, people you follow, and/or posts you save. This is similar to how twitter does it.

2. You can post links and content into more than one tribe (community) at a time which helps keep 're-posts' at a minimum.

3. You can post images without using a 3rd party service like Imgur, and you can embed Youtube and Vimeo videos directly.

4. Instead of link/comment karma (yes, of the "karmawhoring" variety), you earn Experience Points (XP) for participation used for leveling up your profile, and Reputation, a percentage score based on how other users vote on your posts.

5. All members can contribute to your posts by adding "related links", which add value to the post and are voted on by other members, just like comments.

6. Each member has a limit on how many tribes (communities) they can operate, based on XP level reached. No "power mods" here.

7. A Partnership Referral Program (http://snapzu.com/referralprogram) provides additional tools and incentives to help you grow your tribes (if you have a blog, website, forum, or other social influence)
Smug condescension aside you didn't actually say why using a less secure/quantifiable language is a benefit to avionics software? I read JPL's 10 rules, they're pretty common sense stuff that I'd hope any C/C++ project would take advantage of, but they too don't address the reason why C/C++ would be better than Ada for this specific use-case? Or functional for that matter?

> Let's check ourselves a bit and realize developing flight software is a different world from web services and mobile apps.

I agree, it is far more important in avionics to be provably correct and to eliminate as many bugs as possible. It is exactly BECAUSE these aren't web services or mobile apps that C/C++ shouldn't even be a candidate.

You've made exactly zero arguments to support C/C++ here. Just acted smug and condescending to all of us lowly other developers. Do you yourself work in avionics?
Haha, that's pretty similar to my experience with Indian tech workers in general. Very literal interpretation of English phrases like that.

Maybe it's a language barrier?
Do services like this exist already? And if so, why did are you working on it. (asking as curious)
Yes, that sounds like tech workers for sure. (Everyone besides me is so stupid, which is why I work twice as hard as them and earn less.)
To be fair, I would much rather have a 401k than a pension.
http://kitchenillness.com

Only for the UK minus Scotland (Sorry, Scotland!). It maps hygiene ratings for food establishments.

http://thismuchlonger.com

This one not so recent although I do plan on revisiting. Essentially it is a motivational tool by visually representing the number of days you have left to live with dots. A morbid motivational tool. I use it quite a lot personally, and the few number of dots never seizes to amaze me.
Sweating is OK though, it's not dirty. Wipe the surplus with a tissue/towel.
This is a sad culture that everything has to be hysterically aseptic... A bit of body odor is not unhygienic nor rude. People complaining would be the rude ones. Happy to pollute to preserve their delicate olfactory senses.
I heard Deloitte and such consulting firms barely reach 1.5 year of retention (as in, in average people leave in that time). So you're best move is also the most common.
Interesting.

This reminds me of VigLink and other players in the space that essentially sell link inventory to e-commerce companies. For example, you mention Microwave Model #3023 in a blog post, create a hyperlink, and then e-commerce companies selling Microwave Model #3023 bid on each new visit to point the destination URL to their product page.
Actually, that's worth considering. Micro-drones are inherently disposable anyway. If you're using a 3-4 mm drone, you don't care that the opposition knows it was a drone; they're tiny, not invisible, and not a secret. If a dozen drones all tried for the mouth (or the drone is a skin-penetrating dart), one is sure to get through. Until we all have counter-drone tech.
But it's natural for the types of relationships you form to change as you get older, because you're changing. You're taking on responsibilities and discovering yourself and doing all the other things that passing through life entails. And as you do that, you grow and deepen and find new priorities that suddenly move you the way the old ones don't anymore. That's the human experience; it's not a bug, anymore than it's a bug for a caterpillar to become a butterfly. It's a feature.

Someday you're going to be 30, then 40, then 50, and so on, and the farther you get from your college years the more narrow and limited they are going to seem. Eventually you will look back more in wonder than in comprehension at the you you were then, the same way college-aged you felt looking at a toddler; the way I imagine the butterfly looks at the caterpillar. Besides, the butterfly couldn't fit back into its chrysalis even if it wanted to. It's changed too much to fit into those old clothes anymore.

I feel like so many startups boil down to attempts to arrest that natural development; to freeze life in amber, just the way it was when the people behind them first came of age. But while I know from my own experiences what it's like to make that transition and worry what the future is going to bring, there's not much to be gained from trying to build a barricade to prevent it from arriving. The future is going to arrive whether you want it to or not. The way to handle that is to throw your arms around it, embrace it, and become the you that you were always meant to be, rather than trying to hang on to a you that already slipped out of your grasp before you even noticed.
The title is a bit sensationalist because the number of transactions was also a factor, but anyway, they've lost some serious money on it (even if it was just one more transaction)
I'm working on an incentivized mesh network. Basically, routers pay each other to forward packets. A routing protocol takes price into consideration and tries to get packets over the cheapest routes. Intermediary routers pay each other over payment channels. End users pay backbone connections with multihop (lightning) payments over the payment channels of the intermediary nodes.

End result is that last-mile ISP's are replaced by individuals with network equipment on their roofs, "mining" the airwaves.

http://www.altheamesh.com
A simple, plugin-based system for monitoring systems on a small scale. The idea is to make it super fast to make plugins that either monitor something or send data about what monitor plugins said through another service. It's not intended to be a full-fledged monitoring application, just a "send me a push notification if x breaks" sort of deal.

I use it myself since for my personal things I don't need a full fledged application like Nagios, I just want to get told if something like a hard drive fails. Right now there's plugins for checking systemd services, drives, IP address, sending data to/from other heartbeat instances (super janky), sending notices through pushbullet, dweet.io, blinkstick, and pulling URLs.

https://github.com/thenaterhood/heartbeat
This is good to know, I was running into the problem of not having the right instance type for my workload before. We ended up changing up our stack to make it fit better on AWS.
Limitless exponential growth doesn't happen in the physical world, it happens on S-curves.

Black phosphorus anyone?
Byte-Precise Verification of Low-Level List Manipulation (2013) [pdf]
What bitrate are you able to achieve?
I make a word-processor for fiction authors: http://www.shaxpir.com

There's a quick walkthrough video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFG8fpYkDxA

Every project includes a notebook alongside your manuscript, where you can organize all your character notes, plot outlines, etc. It's especially great for scifi or fantasy authors who do a lot of world-building.

Everything is stored in the cloud and synchronized between devices, and we keep a version history of all your edits, so that you never lose any of your work (even if you change your mind).

It keeps track of your daily word-count, so that you can set daily writing goals and stay motivated, and it lets you export your writing projects to HTML for publication (epub & kindle export are coming soon).
Short term gains and long term destruction.

And totally agree that most of it is garbage.
Apple SVP says quitting multitasking apps won’t offer improved battery life
That's not just IBM's outsourced vendors. The desire to do the minimal amount of work to adhere to the exact wording of contracts seems to be prevalent. For us, it takes us 3 to 4 weeks to have a single VM created. And even then its usually done wrong. When asking them to do the partitions different, the response is that they're unable to change the script. A month to simply have a script run.
They say we have 8800 left, right?
tapping into, and directing against the vulnerable.
Corporations have to answer to the board. The board acts in the interests of investors/stakeholders and will eventually have to deal with 'extracting value' from the company to meet short-term investor demands at the expense of long-term sustainability.

To make matters worse, the CEO/board can justify higher levels of compensation if they greatly expand the size/scope of the company. Whether or not the growth matches the market trends. Just look to all the comments of employees complaining how their job is to warm a seat and/or maintain excess/unnecessary administration overhead.

The exception are companies like Facebook that refuse to cede decision making to the board. It pisses off investors when the company fails to extract value at a rate matching investor expectations but I bet FB will fare much better in the long-term. Unlike companies like Yahoo/IBM that morphed into pump-and-dump chop shops of underutilized talent.
Ask HN: HackerX events, are they worth it?
See http://hackerx.org/
Penny wise, pound foolish.
A micro-drone the size of a bullet or smaller can't fire one. I agree recon makes vastly more sense, but we pay scientists to be Dr. Strangelove, so if there's a way to arm them, I've got faith in the Pentagon/DARPA to come through with something.
They bill by the hour.
We're building a new mail app at Nylas! https://nylas.com

Oh and it's open source :) http://github.com/nylas/n1
ToroDB - https://github.com/torodb/torodb

It's both a NoSQL and SQL database in the same place. Has the best of both worlds.

Speaks the MongoDB protocol, stores the data in PostgreSQL.

You no longer have to choose either Mongo or PostgreSQL: you can have both!

There is a lot of detail on this recent FLOSS Interview: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/377?autostart=fa...
I think if Google execs had been directing Google engineers to make search results less favorable to Bernie and/or more favorable to Hillary, we would have heard about it.

The relevant engineers themselves would have more opportunity to change the search algorithm without generating public complaints from their coworkers. I really doubt they would, though, so conspiracy theorizing about it is still silly.

Like I said, I think the potential for political bias doesn't come from Google executive conspiracies or Google engineer conspiracies to alter the search algorithm, but rather from how the execs and/or engineers might react differently to outside demands that they change the algorithm, depending on the degree to which they sympathize with the source of the demands.
I've been enjoying doing literate programming using org-babel inside of Emacs.

Writing literate programs allows me to easily keep my code and documentation synchronized. I make a update in one place and generate my "README.md" and project files from that one document.

Here is a sample application that I wrote to demonstrate OIDC: https://github.com/jpf/okta-oidc-beta

And here is another sample application I wrote to demonstrate implementing SCIM: https://github.com/joelfranusic-okta/okta-scim-beta

(All of the files in both of those projects are generated from the README.org file)
Thank you for your kind words. Funny enough, today I got an email saying that the role I'm interested in is too junior for me. This was an AngularJS role I applied for. I think the perception is that Angular/React/LatestJS-Framework are for younger lot.

As you suggested, the combination hopefully should put me in a good position. Thanks again for encouragement. I really need it.
New app Primo promises communication like never before
I think his argument is that without type inference, programmers will avoid more complex types, and therefor model their domain with less precise types.
I really enjoyed the bike infrastructure in the Netherlands.

I also almost got hit head on by a vehicle that decided to use the bike path (it was segregated) to overtake. It wasn't some huge highway either, it was the main street through a village, a few hundred meters from a stop light.

So I guess I probably was unlucky, but I probably would have died if I hadn't swerved over into the grass between the street and path, so the experience sticks with me.
All we need is higher kinded types and implicits.
You gain the exact same things as you gain on other cloud platforms. You do not need to worry about the followings:

- data center power

- data center networking

- hardware provisioning

I don't think they are better thn GCE or AWS in terms of Linux support (maybe minor things) but they are not significantly worse either. What comes after that, pricing, machine types etc. is a different question. I see lots of companies using Azure because they got free credit for it.
> But then the industry might need to admit their collars aren't as white as they pretend.

You're fucking insane if you think the plight of the average programmer is anywhere near what custodians go through.
I used to work for one of these IBM-like offshoring firms before I knew better and the quality of their work is simply garbage(there's some good people in there of course). For example, I was called in to troubleshoot a faulty URL - I asked them for it; they linked me to a localhost page. Other joys included network engineers who didn't know what port SSH runs on and Java programmers who literally copy-pasted straight from the web.
Thanks. I have started the process. Step 1 is to update the resume :)
Certainly, people can site justifications from thousands of years ago. I was just confused by your use of "just before".
Spread drones out about a half meter or more apart.
How  Non-Profits Can Think Like Startups
But it can make things more complex too. e.g. I recently learned that the main reason that asynchronous C# methods have to be declared "async" is so that the compiler knows that in the method body, "await" is a keyword. Without this backward compatibility requirement, it could be inferred from the return type + the presence of 1 or more "await" keywords.
Law changes the liquidity game for tech company founders, workers and investors
As a developer at a media company, I know first hand, the effort required to bring streaming video across all the disparate platforms. Even if 50% of what is promised works out great, it will be a fantastic product for every media company.
I forgot to say I've lived mostly in the UK. A quick search shows a couple of models are available, but that's a tiny selection compared to most appliances, and they're being sold at a very low budget shop.

Britain doesn't really have snack food like America. I've never thought to warm up a cookie, and without air conditioning I doubt I'd want a warm snack in the summer. Ice cream!

Though thinking about it, the most common thing to serve during the day as a snack is cake. There's a decent variety here (remove "vegan" and anything that says "salted"): http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/category/dishtype/cakes-t...

(Or, perhaps with smaller houses on average people don't want to use up the space for one, and wealthier people with space don't want to heat up processed foods.)

Most British people own a toaster. Do Americans? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toaster
Thanks for linking to the examples! That is interesting indeed.
A retro inspired computer, based on a 40 Mhz DLX/MIPS CPU, it got 640x480 1 byte per pixel graphics, Blitter, Sprites, DMA sound, raster co-processor. SD card as storage.

Written in VHDL, running a simple DOS like "OS" based on Lua. GCC cross compiler on Linux for writing demos/games and other fantastic software, for the Amiga killer of yesteryear :)

Hopefully with a 3D printed case and open source plans, everyone can build one in a few years :)
Firefox 35. I also see a bunch of errors in the console.
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Hardware fundraising in Indiegogo... you might as well invest in Bitcoin
From my own experience, apps like Google Maps and Bria (voip) stay active in the background and therefore drain the battery fast. For example Bria will drain my iPhone 6 to less then 10% if I have it running a whole day (12 hours).

To a lesser extend I think Google Chrome and Google Mail do the same. Therefore I always remove them after usage.