skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> many island solutions with firewalls

I wonder if it will be less pernicious than this.

> Same goes for China, Russia ... great firewall.

I don't know about Russia but it certainly seems that China is establishing some social networks that are wholly distinct from other western ones. In that way they're "island solutions" but less malicious sounding.
Why is Donald Trump "a very real threat"? To who? Maybe it's Google who are the true threat to democracy?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-t...

"Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.

The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he “cannot support Donald Trump.”
Will Tesla put out the specs and pricing details before the Reservation date? It would be fair, because unlike their other two products, Model 3 has a competing product, and it would be only fair for TSLA to give more details so the consumer can compare it with Bolt EV and choose what fits them.
account deleted! later, AngelList
thanks! I think HN strips '@' from the title
> Most startups

Can you provide the numbers pls?
FWIW I just launched a web service API for doing that - https://documentalchemy.com/

If you're comfortable with an external API for this, converting MS Office documents to PDF is as simple as:

curl -X POST --form "document=@$SOURCE" -H "Authorization: da.key=$API_KEY" https://documentalchemy.com/api/v1/document/-/rendition/pdf -o "$DEST"

You can test it directly online here - https://documentalchemy.com/demo

If you're not comfortable with an external API for this, I think the conventional answer to your question is to use unoconv [1] which is simply a Python script that uses LibreOffice [2] or OpenOffice (formerly StarOffice) [3] to do the conversion.

[1] https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv

[2] https://www.libreoffice.org/

[3] http://www.openoffice.org/

You can also use Libre/OpenOffice directly for the conversion, but unoconv is geared toward having an always-on version of office running in the background that you use for the conversion, which is a significant performance boost relative to launching the app for every conversion.

unoconv is a little flaky, but works well in general (it's certainly a part of the DocumentAlchemy backend).
Generally, it's because we feel that layman opinions on how the law work should affect how it actually works in a democratic society.

For instance, civil forfeiture, wherein property can be taken from a person who has not been proven guilty of a crime in a fair trial, is widely rejected by the public, even when the opinion poll uses the most biased questions possible. (i.e. Should drug dealers be allowed to keep the profits from their crimes if they escape conviction and punishment on a technicality?)

Also, a jury verdict is little more than an aggregated bunch of layman opinions.

The opinion of the general public is that software should not have bugs in it. Also, it should be gratis and always keep up with the latest GUI and HID fashion trends. As a software professional, I often do additional work to meet those public expectations, even if it has no technical merit. That's because the opinion of the customer matters, when they are employing the experts to work on their behalf.
Back when the web was still young and I had less than 1 year experience, I interviewed at IBM for a web developer position. They gave me an aptitude test, which they said I scored amongst the highest they had ever seen. This got me through several rounds of interviews but at the very end, I was rejected. When I asked for feedback, the hiring manager said that I didn't have enough experience. It felt like a complete waste of time, because they KNEW I didn't have enough experience from the beginning, so the entire process was really offputting.
Across Continents: A Stolen Laptop, an Ominous Email, and a Big Risk
Refactoring Non-Deterministic Systems
It might save us from Zergs some day...
If you needed to stay open source, you could probably wire something up with Apache Poi to handle the msft end of that and pdfbox to handle the pdf end (edit: I mean read the msft file with poi and write out equivalent info using pdfbox into a pdf). It might be ugly, but with enough effort it may work.

Where I work, we ended up paying for the commercial Aspose products. Example doc to pdf code: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/wordsnet/How+to++Convert+...
Pitches aren't sold through fi-fis, it's sold through pew-pews
I think cold hiring is dead: draining exchanges of info lead too much too often to nothing and leave both parties dissatisfied. Referrals are the easiest way to go.
Timeneye is an intelligent tool for teams to see where working time really goes
It used 1st century vocabulary because that's all that could be had when it was written (about AD 90, Greece), using a different language, culture, context, and mindset than anything that exists today. If one were to update it, it would be impossible without fundamentally changing it, due to subjectiveness and the gulf in descriptions.
And the thing that sucks is that a lot of the best places to get started as someone out of college is a .NET or otherwise boring shop. Not everyone who is talented and intelligent has been programming since 7th grade or went to a brand-name school.

Unemployment after graduation for CS majors is one of the highest because a lot of times they aren't ready for the real world. They get started in a .NET shop and grow in to better developers. I think we can all agree that if you consider your self good at this it's mainly because you had to or wanted to do it for real and thats where they get the experience to be on their own.
Passive learning. Podcasts. People want to learn things. But people don't want to devote time to learning. Passive media that reclaims dead time is the solution.

Listening to a podcast during your commute is clearly different from watching a lecture, taking notes, and solving problems. Not every concept is conducive to passive learning. That's no problem. Let the podcasts cover concepts that tie into further active study.
so, basically what you just said here is you would try to hire people that were like you, by giving them tests that you know you would do well on.

I mean I would do well at this particular set of tests so fine by me in that regard.
Trump's pretty bad IMO, but worst case scenario he'd only be the president. There's really good checks against the president's power. The unfortunate (glaring) exception being that we've somehow lost track of the bit about Congress being the only one who can execute a declaration of war.
Yes, you can agree to transfer all of your property to Microsoft in exchange for a Windows license. But including this in EULA will not work though, as there are limits on what you can agree to without signature or notary.
Someone please add deep neural network for this poor deer...
Using that on Battle.net violates the TOS. So your account will get banned if you do that.
[SLIDES] Microdecision Making in Financial Services – Greg Lamp  PAPIs Connect
A related question: why do some (actually a lot of) people grind their teeth during sleep?

According to wikipedia: The ICSD-R states that 85–90% of the general population grind their teeth to a degree at some point during their life, although only 5% will develop a clinical condition.
> When production begins, we will begin deliveries in North America starting on the West Coast, moving east.

If California is getting them in late 2017, it'll be years before I might be able to buy one in Pennsylvania. Bummer.

Looks like it'll be a Chevrolet Bolt replacing my Leaf later this year. Same price tag, same 200+ mile range, can't be too upset.
Nazareth's Optima Design Automation is paving the way for self-driving cars
Why not just post the map?
That experience might make an interesting and informative blog post, too. It gets at the "why."
My wishlist from the top of my head:

- Google puts me in a bubble. They assume, that I have a single identity, a single set of interests that are related. While I would not always want completely unfiltered results, such as when I want to quickly get to a relevant common result with as few keywords as possible, I would like to be able to effortlessly switch between the bubbles the search engine thinks I belong to, i.e. to switch context, even things such as my language. Along with that I would want easy access to truly unfiltered results.

- An API.

- Advanced filters to really dig into the search results. Google is already pretty good at these, but sometimes even the Google Fu isn't strong enough.

- Some way to get rid of things like when you used to search for something, and the top result was always experts exchange and I would accidentally click on it. Every single time. I'm sure I was not alone, so there must have been some way to get better results.

- Full control over my search history. Full. Control. Heck, I'm even partially entitled to it by law, but it's still a PITA. I want to view, add, modify and permanently delete records. Or just turn the whole thing off. No, not "turn it off", as in hide it from myself, like I can now. I mean really turn it off.

- And of course everything Google already has, like (reverse) image search with filters, and the advanced search parameters, such as "site:domain.tld" and the range operator "it costs 100..900".
Email reveals: Google sought overthrow of Assad
>For one Google could influence the US presidential elections by skewing search results and making certain candidates look bad and others good.

It'd be very hard to prove, but yes. This could be extremely granularly controlled, too-- apply a few filters to weed out those who are likely to be able to detect subversion, then drill down to the demographic in the geographical area that needs to be energized to vote for a certain candidate.
They weren't interested in working with platforms either - they were actually actively offensive when we contacted them. Probably something to do with Wagner's background at Venda, a platform provider he founded.

Their users group call themselves "the prisoners of Venda"!
The story, I think, exemplifies human desire to learn and change for the better. No matter what the circumstance, ask for help and you may be surprised!
Not directly related but also relevant to the OP: half the reason I'm applying to Facebook in the first place is that I know telling recruiters at other places that I have a Facebook offer will do more to make me attractive than any actual work I've done at non-TrendCos.
More and more I see toolkits basically turning microservice into a message queue system. More and more intelligent behavior is needed at the endpoints that its starting to leak into the pipes.

Often times the behavior of the endpoints (e.g. discovery, reconnecting, timeout, etc) is so critical that you need that in all clients which totally defeats the "decoupling" of microservices [1] (ie any language or technology can participate). That is extremely complicated endpoint logic requires shared components (see referenced article).

You could get all of the behavior by having a semi smart broker like RabbitMQ with out having an extremly complicated endpoints... but thats not microservice.. its evil old enterprise single point of failure.

Perhaps I'm biased, old school or just so jaded of hearing "microservice" but I really think many companies particularly young startups could get more work done with an intelligent pipe ie message broker over fairly complicated to setup microservies and duplicated intelligent endpoint logic.

TL;DR semi-smart pipes are looking better and better these days.

[1]: http://www.microservices.com/ben-christensen-do-not-build-a-...
Is this the same car which is Codenamed F17???
If yes, I heard this car be similar to a future car
> in the context of a non-sexual business

I think this is in the context of an "after party" where people are NOT forced to attend -- i.e. they're on their own time. A bar with house music and alcohol (forget about the dancers) doesn't readily mesh with "business appropriate" conventions.

Also, I could be mistaken, but I'm guessing the parent wouldn't mind "handsome men" dancing at a party. I'm not seeing how your comment goes against his stance.
But you kind of do, because as far as I know, you need an app. QR codes has some major promise initially, but it hinged on becoming built into the camera apps of phones, which never happened, so forget it
I like this article. I think im somewhere between the "competente" and "proficient" level learning and working with C++ and CUDA/C. As long as you dont consider yourself "an expert", you`re good. Experts are rly rare and otherwise you are most likely an expert-beginner stuck in the dead-end of the fork.

Two things i may add:

1.) I think the only way out (beside getting help from others) of the expert-beginner dead-end is through gaining more knowledge, instead of gaining more experience.

2.) In applications, theres a massive, i call it "invasion" of "experts", just because everyone is claiming to be an "expert", not to be sorted out by HR. HR is most likely not a domain specialist in programming stuff. Now, given you state in your CV, you are "proficient", but an "expert-beginner" states "hes an expert", your kicked out of the interview stage. What a mess!
Roads and bridges are fine. 700 hammers for the military maybe not.

I worked as project manager for a contractor doing public works at one point. The government (at least in the US and probably everywhere) wastes a staggering amount of money.

Not saying the government doesn't need funding. They do. But they could certainly do a lot more with less.
Beware, asking for stock instead of options can be worse. If you are granted stock, you are being given something of value, and you must pay taxes as if it was income on the "fair value" (which, admittedly, may be low).

If you are given options, as long as the strike price is current value, you are not on the hook for any taxes until/unless you exercise them at a higher price. (ISO vs Non-qualified affects the details on that, but the point about stock grants remains.)
Because you can't take that map with you.
Is there any chance that putting the $1,000 USD down for reservation will qualify as purchasing the EV and getting the EV Tax Credits before they are all used up? Or is the Model 3 most likely going to be out of contention for those credits as the Model S is well over 100,000 units sold already.
A multinational corporation has decided to map defections in a civil war in order to encourage people to defect from the government. An evil government, sure-- but it's a company weighing in on one side of a war. It isn't within their mandate.

Manipulation here means that manipulation elsewhere is possible.
Just curious, how did things end up at the company you worked at?

I had a similar experience with a startup out of college. On reflection, I should have noticed that among all the photos on the "mentioned in the news" billboard, the only familiar faces were the founders...
Consider this guy's opinion. The used Tesla market might not look like it does for other cars.

http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-building-throwaw...
Just asking: do we know that massive neuronal loss does not occur with "normal" long term sleep deprivation?
They only fooled all of those people on Reddit that kept upvoting these "Anonymous goes after Trump" stories for the simple reason that they hate Trump.
Your reservation does not qualify as purchasing an EV.
I used to use a Play framework module to create simple PDFs. You just do your formatting in html and render it as a PDF. https://www.playframework.com/modules/pdf (only for 1.x series). There seems to be a version for 2.x series but I have never used it(https://github.com/innoveit/play2-pdf).
How to watch the livestream of Apple’s keynote today on Windows and Android
Minor nitpick: how difficult is it to slap a date somewhere? Especially with this design it is impossible to tell when in the last 30 years this post was written (for the curious, it looks like it was posted today).
By forcing a bot to use a keyboard and mouse, it's no longer so much an AI challenge but an engineering challenge of creating robotic limbs that match human performance, totally unrelated. The two aspects should be separated. Arguably, the AI aspect is far more interesting as it relates to StarCraft.
It should but it doesn't (or didn't). Up to recently there was practically no investigation on such cases and tax evasion on such circles was rampant. You drive a BMW, run a private clinic in an expensive area in Athens and your annual income is 10k euros. That's OK, I mean why would you lie to me? OK, I'm probably exaggerating but you get an idea. Since 2013 or so there is some effort to audit professionals with such declared incomes but it is practically impossible to check a backlog of 20+ years of cases especially with the glacial pace that the revenue services move.
Don’t be left out of the “Loop you in” Apple keynote on March 21 2016 at 10 a.m. PDT just because you don’t have a Mac, iPhone or Windows 10.
GoDaddy Announces Worldwide Launch Of Cloud Servers and Cloud Applications
I recommend Douglas Rushkoff's book "life inc, How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take It Back":

Centralized money has been the means for sucking profit out of local economies since about 1300. Rising income inequality has been an 800 year process. I thought I knew how the world worked, but Rushkoff changed my world view.
Excellent post, well written and spot-on
They do. Porcine hearts are a more reliable, consistent, and easily obtainable source for decellularized heart matrix. It's a great tool for experiments to develop the technology. Transplantation however is a different story.
I've never played this game so I'm trying to imagine it based on parent comments. It is trippy and dark with sci fi elements.
China has something similar as well, called the Fapiao: http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2013/08/13/understanding-...

Though as I understand it, it requires a dot matrix printer to populate these receipts (or writing them by hand).
> This set me up for a series of relationships that - retrospectively - I can only classify as abusive. Passion is great, it is motivating force, a driver to learn and practice and hopefully eventually to excel at something. But at the same time it is an Achilles heel. It allows the unscrupulous to take advantage of you, it means you will work for compensation well below its actual value and it means that you will do so to your own detriment, up to and including your health.

There's a healthier way of looking at this. Here it is: you learned something about yourself in this process and you were adequately compensated. You were compensated by your passion. In consulting there's this school of thought that you put a high price on work you don't want to do and a lower price on the work you do want to do. That way you can target other goals, like experience and passion, and still feel compensated (by money) for the work you aren't as passionate about or won't learn as much from.

You can blame the people you struck deals with in the past, but that doesn't help anything. It's better recognize that you learned something about yourself and how you value your work. Once you "own that" you can make better decisions going forward based on your convictions and values regardless of how other people want to deal with you.

If they are lucky, everyone has experiences like this. Unlucky people get locked into bad deals that cause them to lose time and money past the learning experience. Music is an area where this happens all the time. Young musicians, because of their passion, often end up in long term deals that are not in their best interest.

Key life lesson - don't commit to long term contracts based on hope. Look for opportunities to indulge your passions with minimal long-term complications. That's a healthy learning cycle.
Why do Eric Schmidt and other CEOs want to take down Donald Trump?

Because the Donald really wants to change the flow of trade and how large corporations build and hire.

From Oprah show, 25 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs17_AkTI
Eddie Hall Breaks Dead Lifting World Record by Lifting 1026lb’s
Ask HN: DevOps and System Administrator salary
I'm starting a new thread for DevOps and system administrators as these roles are paid differently than regular software developers job classification.

Experience: 6 years
Company: public listed big corporate
Salary: 125k, 100 stock units and 15 days leave.
>provides some evidence that they've certainly been thinking along those lines.

They've been acting along those lines, you mean. That's even scarier.

We are in an election year in the USA... and if not the USA, there's always some other election in some other country. If not an election, then an insurrection... Google has no business meddling in the affairs of states.
I'd guess they'd have to attack Google's perceived weaknesses, like privacy concerns. If more people decide they want the sort of thing DuckDuckGo is offering, then people might switch.

And definitely, better filtering. Being able to construct more sophisticated and targeted queries would be useful.

A site that did both with sufficient coverage of available websites would be nice.
no but you can take a picture of that map
See, some of us that were already into computers when Sun was a startup got bored of it.

Your answer is a typical example of UNIX CLI users that need to express themselves as being more intelligent than GUI users, while forgetting that some us do have enough CLI experience and decided to grew out of it.

I can use macros and key + mouse combos in FPS style across many GUI applications and if I ever need a CLI, Powershell or Terminal (Mac OS X) are just a click away.
I'm not sure, but anecdotally, one person I know said that it had been an issue, until he started limiting how much liquid he drank starting 3-4 hrs before bed.
No, it's probably going to turn into the same thing that's happened with liquor laws in the US where some states have state ABC boards and you can only buy the very specific liquors that are on the approved list and only at the state-run liquor stores. Even states that don't have state-run liquor stores have very strict importing and distribution rules which leads to three steps between the distiller and the store, with each step taking money off the top and paying taxes.
I think some of it too is herd logic. Oh the number of times I've gotten a PM or QA to say "You should validate this field in this particular way..." and the only response to "Why?" is "Because everyone does it that way."
"I once had an internal recruiter tell me during a phone screen that my resume was weak since I went to a no-name school in the south called Georgia Tech."

Wow. Just wow. What a (cognitive) bubble to be in.
Piketty: The Roman Market Economy (2013) [pdf]
Have their been any notable causes? My money is on stress.
wow, Mr Wagner is a real life The IT Crowd Douglas Reynholm

https://youtu.be/oye9AmOdsZc?t=5m