skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea and something that's missing with podcasts. I took a look at some names and noticed you have missing data. For example, Christian Finnegan is a regular on Keith and The Girl podcast but he's only listed twice https://www.podcat.com/people/zXNOK2

Here's his profile for our podcast
http://www.keithandthegirl.com/guest/40/christian-finnegan

You can scrape our guest list here
http://www.keithandthegirl.com/guests/

or you can use our API endpoints to pull json content. Here's the doc but I can make tweaks, if you need https://github.com/KeithAndTheGirl/API/wiki/Keith-and-The-Gi...
This is actually unlikely to be Rust's solution (at least in the long term), because it requires running LLVM IR through emscripten to generate asm.js to generate wasm. Making Rust and emscripten use the same LLVM IR is difficult because emscripten has a large out-of-tree LLVM patch that Rust would need to share.

The wasm backend though is in upstream LLVM, so rustc can use it directly, bypassing emscripten for translation of Rust.
Would it be possible to post links to all of the crowdfunding campaigns and/or product pages?
In an odd way, it makes me more optimistic about fusion power plants in my lifetime. The reality is that we work on these advances but are terrible at predicting when we will achieve them, and then one day we find we have arrived.

That AlphaGo can play at this level suggests that similar techniques could help other parts of the infrastructure (like air traffic control) and that would also positively impact the quality of life for a many air passengers every year.
You have to be able to push commits other people have made. E.g. if you work together in a different repo and then publish the result to github, one person pushes all the commits.

Maybe GitHub should indicate more precisely who pushed the commit, but on the other hand that's often unnecessary noise as well.

If you want to be able to trust the data in a commit, it has to be signed (which nearly nobody does, and AFAIK GitHub doesn't display)
I have a hard time seeing how you can get a monopoly on restaurant food/fast food. There are few barriers to small-scale competition, and it's very easy for your competitors to differentiate their offerings.

If McDonalds were to buy up every competing fast-food franchise in an area overnight, it'd be just a matter of time before somebody would open a Kurger Bing across the street.

Speaking of economies of scale, those are the kinds of economies of scale you need to compete with to make it big. You need to own half of your supply chain - which seems to be an anathema to VC-funded businesses.

A better question to ask is: Why aren't established food franchises, who own their logistics networks, and can compete on price, not interested in getting into this game? Perhaps they are all missing the forest through the trees - or perhaps food delivery-as-your-core-business is a race to unprofitability.

Now, if you do think that they are missing the forest through the trees, why not have your startup aim for a partnership with Subway, where they handle the food, and you handle the distribution?
You can look at the past for that, although obviously it doesn't predict the future. But it ought to be a priori obvious, at least, that the more you know (as a species), the more surface area of knowledge you have to synthesize into an extending step beyond the known.
Does anyone who is familiar with WebAssembly development know what kinds of things Dynamic Linking (mentioned among the future features) will enable? For instance, would it permit the creation of optimized WebAssembly libraries written in C++ that could be called by a JavasSript program (say, for things like image processing)? Would it eventually permit library sharing between, say, a Python runtime compiled to WebAsembly and JavaScript in the browser?

Because that would pretty cool.
Ask HN: Best/worst way to onboard new employees?
We’re hiring our first engineering employee and wondering if anyone has any advice on how best to onboard them?

Any great tips?
Anything to not do?
What’s the best first week experience you’ve had?
The availability of strong encryption does not enable or disable child rape or human trafficking. This will happen behind traditional closed doors and guarded with guns and/or money unless other aspects of society and human nature change.
Feature Request: Episode ratings.

This is awesome!
HFT in the Jungle
That's why you drill down when a statement sounds like it came from a blog/book/screencast.

While I agree it's frustrating dealing with someone like this, often times it's easy to pick out the statements/topics that the person is regurgitating.
You are talking about a step in a specific direction.

If you make few more steps in that direction, you can simply write your own operating system, make native apps for it and then call it all "a website", because you can run it in a browser using e.g. this JS computer simulator https://copy.sh/v86/
Kafka.

Disclosure: I haven't looked since I last built something using Kafka six months ago, but doing a small-scale project I found it limiting that there was no straightforward, UI-style view into the state of my various servers, topics, etc.
Ken Jennings just welcomed Lee Sedol to the "Human Loser Club"

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/03/...

Pretty good article here.
I have been working in such a thing for a openvpn server. (https://github.com/AuspeXeu/openvpn-status) but it's fast from feature complete. one could think of actually storing a history, adding capabilities to generate client configurations over the web interface etc.
See http://www.ycombinator.com/hardware for current campaigns + products actively shipping. Nebia et al aren't on the list: companies get dropped post-crowdfunding and re-added when shipping:)
I see at least one exception: Optimize 360.

Google Analytics used to offer the ability to run very rudimentary experiments. If they now provide a point-and-click, WYSIWYG solution comparable to Optimizely and Maxymizer, then this is a pretty interesting move for them and big competition for any players in the split testing and personalization space.
We want to talk to Tovala about a partnership
Fuck HN Moderation. HN mods support government fascists, and absolutely accept the statui quo, will bury Snowden news, and allow government shills to post. Fuck HN mods.
WhiteHouse Begins Realizing It May Have Made a Huge Mistake in Going After Apple
Seeing this post, I did the same for 'Bill Burr'. For Burr's profile it has him listed as 'Hosts:' for 'Monday Morning Podcast' under his profile picture; As well as the mentions in the center. So, I repeated this for 'Tom Merritt' and you're right, it only has the the mentions; no 'Hosts:' section.

It looks like the only way to contribute, currently, is through the contact form. https://www.podcat.com/contact
> Transpiling some dynamic languages to JS is still sensible.

It's still practical, today, should you want to use something other than JS but I don't think it's that sensible. You take one language's syntax and idiosyncrasies, convert it to another language with its own, sometimes differing, idiosyncrasies and now you have to debug it, sometimes in a different language than it was written it.

I don't mind TypeScript or any of the others but I think WebAssembly is what makes those language great; transpiling to JavaScript is a hack.

Just imagine ECMAScript 7 then ECMAScript 8 support coming in very quickly after announcement because your JavaScript now compiles to WebAssembly. You won't have to wait or deal with browsers that are lacking the necessary APIs; it'll "just work" because it's all compiled to WebAssembly.
A javascript application compiled to wasm doesn't really make sense. Javascript isn't a compiled language.

This compiled/interpreted distinction has gotten quite fuzzy, and it has been for decades now. Smalltalk was always a compiled language with really late binding. It did compile to a bytecode which was interpreted at first, but that became JIT compiled in all but one commercial VM. This all happened over a decade ago.

Also, there is clearly a subset of Javascript programs that could be usefully compiled down to a small, fast, compact machine language program.
A couple of quick notes:

* If you don't provide a link to your github profile, I'm not supposed to look at it. This an HR requirement. Other companies may use this same policy.

* I definitely look at github, but it's not always easy to tell if a project is original or not. Quite often I'm presented with either 30 forks, or a few projects that seem like they started as some boilerplate.

* Don't just provide github, also provide a specific project to look at. Even better, point out a particular section that you are proud of.

* Even with a well-stocked github, I will still ask you to code. This likely isn't to tell if you can code, but to figure out what it would be like to work with you.
That's what I don't like about a lot of bleeding-edge web development. You end up depending on a half-dozen abandoned pet projects. Somebody had an itch, scratched it, got bored.

I swear half of the gulp eco-system is just that - half-abandoned, half-working little cute plugins that someone did because someone else's plugin, even though 99% identical, didn't do the one thing they wanted, so they wrote their own and then abandoned it, instead of maybe contributing to the other one. Sometimes, web development frameworks and libraries just feel like a giant software ghetto - a giant web of dependencies that someone combined into something with little thought given to long-term maintainability.

One of my team members refuses to incorporate a dependency that is by "some guy" and hasn't had any commit activity in the last month.
Cool. Shoot us a note - hello@tovala.com.
The Dragonboard410c runs Aarch64 linaro Linux. I have one and I'm using it to test 64-bit ARM development. On the 96boards website you can download the Android or Linux disk images. It's not getting as much attention as RPI's, but it works pretty solidly and the price wasn't awful at $75 for the board (which includes wifi/bt).
Kafka in Clojure
The future of digital identity?
Manajer Dynamo Kiev Sergei Rebrov
Wow super cool! Thanks!
> This sounds like a failure of business model rather than an intractable problem.

Not really, the business model is highly successful, even in the face of rampant piracy. The free software movement might consider it a failing of the business model, but unwinding that would mean applying the free ideology to all aspects of copyright and trademark, and not just the free software movement.

Moving past that, your hypothetical has some deeply flawed considerations.

First, you cite an open source game, not a free game. It is easy to sell open source software that is not free, and this is a well established fact (look at the id Software comments below). Also consider Oracle, which sells a large number of open source products, as does Google, and to a lesser extent Microsoft. Their open source offerings are offered under free licenses, but are backed and protected by extensive IP, including trademarks and patents, which essentially makes the products non-free.

Second, setting up a build environment and building the software is more technically challenging than pirating a copy, however, much like pirating a copy, that technical cost only needs to be paid by a single user who is motivated to share the software. I submit the entire history of the software protection mechanism / cracking scene arms race as evidence that such a cost will readily be paid.

Third, shifting the discussion back to free software, the sale of open source software is usually predicated on a license that prevents other sellers of the same software from competing on the consumption of that software - whether it is a trademark, or proprietary bits that are compiled, or hardware that requires that packages be digitally signed, or any other number of constraints. This even applies to GPL software - the original owner of the GPL content can sell a copy of the code under a different license, however anyone who forks or extends the GPL licensed code is obligated to propagate that license forward, which severely hinders a competitors ability to sell the software.

For software to meet the constraints of being free according to the FSF/GPL, these restrictions cannot substantially exist as the licenses provided allow a user to remove the technical constraints, or replace the trademarked content. It is certainly possible to release the software for free and retain control of the trademarked/copyrighted elements (for example, Quake 3, Doom 3, etc).

Do note that the companies that have released their game engines as free software have typically done so as a marketing move to allow developers and engineers to learn from their code / build on their code, and still offer commercial licenses - again, ancillary to the core release of the game. These releases rarely coincide with the release of the game since, again, the primary gain is capturing revenue from the initial consumption of novel content. I am not arguing that Free Software is bad, I am simply saying that the expectation that all software must be free is an untenable position given the cost (and associated risk) of developing some classes of software.
Julie Rubicon (A story about Facebook's data center Enchilada and PIG)
I have had easily 2 orders of magnitude more fun with desktop games (CS, Portal, HL2, Mirrors Edge) than mobile ones.
Ask HN: What's the next AI milestone?
For me, ever since Deep Blue has beaten Kasparov, Go has always been that "intractably large problem" that I would refer to when talking about things-AI-can't-do.

Now that our AI algorithms are capable of dealing with trees that have more nodes than atoms in the universe, what's the next concrete AI milestone that I can start bringing up at dinner parties?
Stagnating at your programming job? Don't quit just yet
Great! The search on Apple's own app is just horrible. I'm gonna use this one for sure. Well done!
its hard finding good (CHEAP) developers
Hi jmcmahob443,

My name is Khalil, CEO of Hykso (www.hykso.

Are you talking about product crowdfunding like Kickstarter and Indiegogo or equity crowdfunding?
I too have been working on Aeron chairs for the last 10+ years and have never found a better chair. I may not have researched as thoroughly as many others here but I too have back problems and they never show up on the Aeron.

As to the hard front hard front lip, that to me sounds like either poor adjustment or wrong chair size. There are 3 sizes to pick from and offices often don't contain all 3 to fit the worker's size. So, you may end up sitting in a larger chair than appropriate.
Seconded. I put a comment on OpenVPN but deleted it to support this.
Restricting process CPU usage using nice, cpulimit, and cgroups
DuckDuckHack
You can learn more about the Nebia shower at nebia.com
Would there be any benefit to compiling dynamic languages with GCs (like Python or Ruby) to WASM? It is cool that is technically possible, but this looks like a target for C, C++, and Rust code.
Usually, abstractions like this serve as excuses to not launch. Launching doesn't fix everything, but it does increase your speed of learning dramatically.
Indeed we are.

FreedomToCreate's point, as I read it, is that our identity as a person is nothing more than our brain state at the present moment. That is, from moment to moment we are a different person as our brain states change.

If 'I' am nothing more than my brain state at this precise moment, then any previous brain states that preceded this are separate persons. How then can I be held responsible for something "other people" (i.e. my previous brain states) did?

Of course, we could say that the legal and philosophical definitions of 'person' are different, but what purpose is the philosophical definition if not to inform our definitions in other domains like law?
I have a bunch of hardware stuff lying around. Arduino kits, soldering equipment, even a pocket oscilloscope! I had good intentions with it but now it's mostly just sitting there. Any small cool project ideas to build? Also I always have this problem where I'm missing one tiny component (I live in NYC in Brooklyn) and have to run to a store in Manhattan or wait for an online order to fill it...any tips on things to keep around that everyone should have (I have different types of resistors, etc).

Mostly I feel like a software guy that's a bit of a hardware wannabe and it feels like I'd never get to the point where I could build a legit product, and would love some guidance on how to ideate in this space.
Looks like a great way for recruiters to harvest email addresses.
Wow. Thanks for filling up such an obvious gap in content database. Loving the topic/mention based search, looking forward to great things in this aspect.

Although first requested feature would be ability to sign, make profile for listened podcasts and preferably add notes/review/ discussion about a specific episode.

Thanks for the product. Looking forward to its growth.
What do you plan to do as a next step post-crowdfunding (other than delivering your product, of course)?
On the street, sure.

In academe anything under ten mangabytes is noise these days tho and I imagine the dark economy is two factors beyond anything we have access to. :/
Or more likely the overwhelming majority of people who think they are "A" just aren't.

Funnily enough, often people who clearly are top rate don't think so (impostor syndrome). Dunning–Kruger appears to be very healthy in development circles.
So how big are the Julia binaries? Would it still need a VM?
Talk and AMA with David Heinemeier Hansson on Rewriting Basecamp Codebase
I have a blog that gets about 12k visits a month. I certainly don't have people beating down my door to hire me, but more that one interviewer has mentioned my blog as a plus.

If you're the person known for browser compatibility tests, I can imagine that would be helpful for certain classes of jobs and consulting assignments.

Note this doesn't mean that I think the author should continue posting awesome content for free. It's his life, he can do what he wants with it! If it isn't generating the required job or life satisfaction, he should definitely quit doing it.
How do you managed to get your campaign to the press? Any advice if there is no time for building up relation-ships with the journalists?
More so with your contribution.
No, I meant the 5th amendment and coerced self-testimomy.

To me, that's an obvious example of evidence the government would like to have in many cases, but we clearly decided it cannot. A judge cannot grant a warrant compelling an individual to waive their 5A rights. That seems to have direct bearing on the idea of providing individuals a right to strong personal encryption.

Admittedly, there are many edge cases (furnishing information about a third party that one has personally encrypted), but we've bounded what the government can and cannot have before.

Although from another comment I made I generally agree with your position that this is a pretty serious point of balance between the individual and the state due to the nature of encryption.
YTD Video Converter
I completely disagree with you.

The 2nd Amendment forestalls many arguments about what the law IS. It does not forestall arguments about what the law SHOULD BE.

And it is important that we engage in a discussion about what the law ought to be. For instance, although courts do not (well, ought not) respond to public opinion, there is a public discussion going on now about the appropriateness of the government ordering Apple to rewrite their OS to allow the FBI to decrypt a phone. That discussion is healthy, and a good thing. As another example, I often engage with people in discussions of why freedom-of-expression (1st Amendment) is so important, and I am prepared to lay out the arguments for why it is a good law.

The 2nd Amendment ought to be treated the same way. Those who think it is good policy should be able, and willing, to lay out the reasons why it is a good law. And many of them do. I believe some of those reasons may be based on bad science (e.g. "It is good not to restrict gun ownership because greater gun ownership reduces crime."), and we can talk about that. Other gun rights supporters pass laws requiring that no federal money be spent on collecting data on gun-related risks (perhaps for fear that the results will not support their positions?). I object to that behavior, and I hope you would too.
paying for a stable and educated society increases the size of the talent pool you can draw from.
See I'm the inverse. I'd take the 8 hour project over the whiteboard.

Thinking in a quiet, relaxed environment beats trying to reason through a problem while also thinking about how you are "performing."
It may be superficial, but when I show up on my first day I want my desk to be ready. I don't want to spend my first 2 hours on the job chasing for a keyboard, an ethernet cable, etc. Same with all the credentials to access to the git repo, or the bug tracker, or the inbox, and etc.

In your case it may not apply if it's really your first tech hire.

I guess spending some time to give a tour of the industry, then of the share of the market you're going after, then of your product.
EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard – Which apps keep your messages safe?
Hedge Funds Do Various Different Things
It's true. I'm an amateur ~1 dan, and games rarely come down to 1-2 points. It does happen, but way less often than some giant group dying and one side resigning in the middle of the game.

If a game ever comes within a few points, neither me nor my opponent is really sure who won until we actually count to determine the winner at the end of the game, because usually neither of us is an autistic accountant. That kind of close record keeping throughout the game is necessary in top level pro games, but not in amateur games.
Ah, yes I spot the 78 bay Quanta one: http://www.qct.io/Product/Storage/Storage-Server/4U/New-Quan...

Can't identify the 3rd one yet...

EDIT: Found it... HPE Cloudline CL5200, 80 drive bays.
http://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/hpe-c...
Sequoia Capital VC fires back at claims he kept 'sexual slave' for 13 years
AlphaGo's Team Are Still Working on the Program
Knowing Google, it would be a good promotion to have a Youtube Plays AlphaGo.
The Right Way to Beta Testing Your App