skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter buys NFL streaming rights for 10 Thursday Night Football games
Really seems to be casting things in an "us vs. them" light, which is just bad.
Wouldn't we rather discuss real startups that are not funded by conglomerates.

I came across this startup called Agatsa and here's their story.

It started off as a search for an easy to use ECG device, that required no help from a medical technician, led these two engineers to develop one themselves.

This led to the launch of a pocket-able heart monitoring device that is able to compute and provide an in depth analysis of ECG reports when a person places his/her thumbs on the device.
All it takes is 15 seconds!
This device is validated by more than 500 doctors and is known to be 98% accurate.

Pretty fascinating right? Watch the video to learn more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIXFQaKL_F0?=hn

In case you would like to they have a fund raising link as well.
Alternatively people could continue using their editor of choice without having an evimgelist shouting at them every 30 seconds.
There's no incentive not to sell (by the contrary), meaning there's no long term ownership, which means that the system just temporarily avoids the financial incentives to pump-and-dump, doesn't remove them.
What is a "production desktop" ? I've never heard that term in over 20 years of IT work.
My question is, how can this be verified?
As someone who developed a mild anxiety disorder after ~6-8 months of starting work as a SWE, this hits home pretty hard. Luckily I've been able to overcome with help from my family, friends, and coworkers, but whenever I try to warn others I fear I come off only as a doomsayer and immediately bounce off the "That won't happen to me" shield.
Completely doable on a random weekday or weeknight on Atlantic Ave anywhere west of Barclays Center, in my experience.
Liam Stackapril! He's one of my favorite writers.
GitLab's hosted on Azure. I don't think Azure will fall over to a DDOS, you'll just wake up to a hefty bandwidth bill.
> Excited to have had my overseas conference talk proposal accepted, I asked the new head of our department who had joined our company for only a month or two for travel approval. Fully expected a pad on the back, I was surprised to have been told that I cannot go, with the reason being “it is just not a good time”.

What?

"Travel approval" means that you're expensing the travel to the company, and the expense requires approval. For that to make sense, you have to attend the conference as a representative of the company, furthering your company business in some way.

Maybe this developer should have asked for a vacation. Failing that, unpaid leave of absence.
Its surprising to me the amount of snark that is allowed from the moderators. Perhaps of the last 5 questions I've posted, I've received rude responses from moderators twice. Each time was in response to a mistake that I had made, so criticism was welcome, its the rudeness that was unprofessional.

A contributing issue might be that the moderators are the result of elections. This would weight moderator personality types towards people who crave recognition, perhaps even more on the narcissistic end of the scale. As opposed to more "level 5" type leaders who are probably less likely to run in an election and talk themselves up.
Looking at https://github.com/gin-gonic/go-http-routing-benchmark/blob/...

All echo benches have been commented out, last change about a year ago.

Tests do not use echo's fasthttp engine.
Most academic shuttle runs are still at 90nm, or bigger. There are a few reasons for this: cost of runs, cost of tooling (hundreds of k), and the fact that your assumptions about transistor action and modeling are exponentially more complicated at advanced process nodes.

Academics also sign NDAs about the processes they use, and can only make certain things available; the most open is probably MOSIS, but that's absolutely no good for advanced nodes.

I'd say throw low power and advanced anything out the window, demonstrate a working chip, then look for funding to advance it.
It sucks when someone is not naturally gifted at something, and can't just grok it.

On the other hand, neither lab time or class time is the place to learn something. That's the place to be exposed to new concepts and theories, and work on something in a controlled environment with peers.

Most real learning is supposed to be done through homework and self motivation to apply (new) skills to creative tasks.

So while someone is floundering in class to grasp the material -- I ask, how much _extra_ time outside of class time are you spending to fully grasp, ingest, and understand concepts through-and-through the stuff you find so impossibly difficult.

All kungfu is hard to master -- but with enough practice, blood, sweat and tears and perseverance anyone can acquire great kungfu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIieUmp0aZ0
Great start. The obvious missing feature is Let's Encrypt support. I would like to see hosting companies like GitLab implement HTTPS for 100% of their served pages, and Let's Encrypt is a key enabling technology to do so.
> racist attitudes

Do you mind explaining this a little bit?
According to the FBI, which investigated, these executives tried to hack into computers to steal the manuscript, and also tried to prevent publication of the book by engaging in extortion. No criminal charges have been filed, but the hacking, extortion, and ensuing cover-up raised questions about HubSpot’s culture and the trustworthiness of its leadership. HubSpot's board fired the CMO, and sanctioned Halligan, the CEO. A vice president resigned before the board could decide whether to terminate him. The board still won't tell me what happened.

That's some HP board level disfunction and paranoia. I think there is bit more wrong then their age bias, as they lack a moral compass.
I'd say that it's a pretty easy choice. Pick the open source one.
YCSB testing reveals Scylla latency and performance advantages
From Brand Books to Dynamic Digital Platforms: The Evolution of DAM
Looks great, but I find it a bit weird that there's no Whatsapp announcement - I also wonder if it'll slow down the ability to have the same whatsapp account on multiple devices.
You're doing it again. You are using hyperbolic rude language, calling an adult a "child" -- that is being childish.

And you are ignoring the reality that people all have different levels of knowledge and experience -- there is no binary flip between child and adult.

People will extrapolate from their limited interactions with you, because communication is lossy. When you snap "don't touch that" they will obey "stay away from me as much as possible"
StoryWorth for iPhone – record family stories and print them as a book
> In my case its Math and programming. If your skill set is FoxPro DB support then, as the kids say these days, you're going to have a bad time.

What are 40+ doing in your surrounding environment, your friend's and people like you? How many 40+ are still doing Math and Programming in such environments? That should give you a clue what you most probably will be doing and what your "goal post" should be when you join 40+ group otherwise you are going to have bad time too.
Where the Traditional Brand Guide Falls Short (and How to Fix It)
Watch the traffic go by with a packet sniffer? Verifying that it is done securely is a lot harder, but you can at least verify that things are not being sent as plain text/data.
You are confusing "not a team player" with "being a noob"
I have to say the only time I ever pipe directly to vim in a real world scenario is when I want to see a diff in color:

diff file1 file2 | vim -

Gives you the diff but colorized with Vim. Handy little trick.
ThinkPad Retro is coming next year. Until then I am keeping to the T420.
Amazon Free Software Trials
Oculus Rift pre-orders get free shipping, but its Terms raise eyebrows
Territorial versus non-territorial taxation isn't such a simple issue. In a non-territorial system, it's very easy for a company to set up internal transfers to shift profits to whatever happens to be the lowest-tax jurisdiction.

Moreover, the U.S. system generally does not double-tax income that is already taxed elsewhere. A U.S. company that pays taxes on German income will receive a credit for those taxes paid against its U.S. liability: http://www.cbpp.org/research/the-fiscal-and-economic-risks-o....
No, they're the gold standard university textbooks in molecular biology. They are very useful encyclopedic references that happen to be marketed as entry level texts
Teaching new devs to stay away from teammates is not a good lesson. Humans have more complex relationships than dogs.
While I agree, there are a lot of problems with the tax system for ex-pats, and I would love some reform being an ex-pat myself, it's not clear to me why citizens shouldn't be double taxed.

Sure, for some things (national funding for roads, schools, etc...), ex-pats may receive no benefit.

But 53% of US discretionary spending is military spending. In what way does the US military provide more service to resident citizens than ex-pats? Now to my mind, all this military spending doesn't help anyone and just causes a bunch of problems, but that's not how our democracy works. I don't get to opt out of paying for the war in Iraq just because I didn't support it.

And what about programs like NASA, which I do support? They provide no less benefit to me than they do to resident citizens.

Given that large portions of the budget (Military, Veteran's Benefits, International Services together make up 63% of discretionary spending) serve residents and ex-pats, it seems like the most logical thing would be for ex-pats to get a tax discount (which they do), not to pay no taxes at all.
I started using StoryWorth more than a year ago. My parents love writing their stories. Didn't know they recently started letting you print them to an actual book, definitely giving it a try.
Wikipedia for REST WEB APIs
That's why you claim a foreign tax credit on those income taxes you paid in NL. If NL charges less income tax than you'd be charged in the US, then your tax credits will reduce your taxable income to, say, $20k like you mentioned. But this isn't double taxation because you are only be charged tax to top up the amount of tax you pay to be in line with US income taxes.

This is exactly like state income taxes. It's not "double taxation" because you get to deduct your federal taxable income by the amount you pay in state income tax.
>So if my language of choice is Go

It seems like you are trying to fit everything onto this one choice. This is never a good choice. One should chose technology or stack correcponding to the porblem needed to be solved. Not vice versa.

If you need a tool such as Django - you should use one and use Go (both here are for sake of example) for some small tasks, where it can give the most.

Building a new "fat" framework just because you like the langauge is kind of strange approach.
This might not be a popular opinion here, but computer science is not the hardest discipline that students can major in at college. Physics, biology, chemistry, and pre-med come to mind. How many students majoring in biology or pre-med have personal "hobby" experience before starting college? Probably not many.

The fact that so many high schoolers can pick up and become productive at programming is in part evidence that programming is not the most complicated thing in the world.
Do you have a link to the blog article you speak of? I fail to see the relevance of this "platooh" thing you linked. (In fact, I dare say it comes off as kind of spammy.)
(Almost?) All water on Earth came from a comet, pretty amazing when you think about it.
>I don't think I want to coexist with something which carries deadly diseases and is violent.

do you mean humans? :) Anything else taken together, including raccoons, deadly snakes and hurricanes, is the distant second when we talk about danger to you from somebody carrying deadly diseases and the danger of violence.

>coexistence with violent, disease-ridden animals consists of me living in location A and them living in location B, where locations A & B are well-separated.

so, you're living alone far and well-separated from other people i guess :)
Microsoft Needs Visual Studio proper to be on Mac and Linux
Hey Robert! I've had your virtual memory article open in a tab since it made the HN homepage recently - but I had to close it because every day it would cause a massive memory leak in Safari for some really odd reason. I'd repeatedly kill the process hosting the webpage (it'll respawn 3 times then surrender) but every time I visited that tab by accident it would happen again.

Just an FYI :)
How the Commodore Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the '90s
> As soon as someone added changes to their pull request – either by rebasing in the new changes or making it as a new commit – you lost track of the comments in the code and viewing what had actually changed since the last update became really hard (almost impossible if the new push was rebased with the new changes).

Why are they all rebasing in their PR branches if it obviously makes the PR unreadable?
Still looks like GitLab EE only :(
A single person small business is likely an LLC or S-Corp and taxed on the owner's individual form 1040.
This is way more complex to me than GitFlow with pull requests. As a matter of fact, if you use something like SourceTree for most of the initial steps it's a few mouse clicks. Also, try Gitlabs for your reviews; it's pretty good!

The idea of a more in-depth review is intriguing (we all know this is something that can be improved), but _voting_ on a peer's code just seems like a bad idea. Vote too low, people get insulted and you breed discontent and mistrust. Too high and everyone stays happy until code quality drops. People will either use this as an opportunity to diminish other's, show off or suck up. Sad, but that's human nature.

I know in-person code reviews aren't always possible but adding this disconnect just seems like a bad idea. Would love some honest feedback from people who have actually used it in medium-large scale production.
Is there anything where conda falls a bit short? Any caveats you have found? I've barely touched it but on the surface it seems good.
Write tests every day, unless you are busy; then you should write twice as often
I find it interesting that both of these revisions include an assumption of incompetence by the junior, while the original was more ambiguous in that regard.
Title is really misleading. Read the whole thing expecting it to conclude "So we decided to drop webhook support".
Agree with Unklejoe but disagree with oppositelock that CANbus make modern cars MORE HACKABLE [0] rather than "more difficult" to work on. I am not even sure if it's true for the mechanical part but definitely not the electronics and computerized components, ECU included.

Charlie Miller, a famous InfoSec expert who previous known for hacking iPhone was able to take complete control of a JEEP remotely [1]. I doubt that's possible for the older JEEPs without ECUs and cellular connectivity. And this is just a start, not only for JEEP but a lot of other cars too[3]. With EVs are gradually coming into mainstream, soon average consumers might be able to "fix" their EVs whereas they can't for the previous internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles without even getting their hands dirty[4].

[0]: http://www.instructables.com/id/Hack-your-vehicle-CAN-BUS-wi...

[1]: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-high...

[2]: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-02/24/nissan-car-ha...

[3]: http://www.canbushack.com/blog/index.php

[4]: http://www.bmwblog.com/2014/10/11/coding-tutorial-bmw-i3-ele...
Yes, I never make dumb mistakes, I am a living walking integration resiliency test :-)
Lots of polarised views here. I think of it this way: if I am young and fresh from studying the latest woodworking theory from university, degree in hand, I probably think I am the shit compared to all the grandads out there who older than 35, why some even have kids! How can they keep abreast of the latest wood trends - us younger pups publish our one or two line theories on wood-npm!
But....
My hands would be soft, inexperienced, and have no knowledge of actually working with real wood. If you bet your company on me, alone with other soft handed individuals, without older individuals whose hands show and have the real experience, you are screwed.

Rights of passage, and all that.
HTC Vive review: You can now buy your own holodeck simulator v1.0
TheLogothete is probably talking about http://www.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-whit...
Let's take this in context? Here's what he said in the interview.

I have a lot of confidence in young people, and I have a lot of confidence in everyone’s ability to do more than they think they can do. I have very high expectations for people, and I push people to reach even higher.

I take these young kids at HubSpot and I give them huge responsibility. Sometimes they mess it up, but more often than not they get it right. I think, at least in the tech world, gray hair and experience are really overrated. I think my gray hair is overrated.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/business/brian-halligan-ch...

Maybe I'll have a different perspective when I'm older, but this doesn't sound like outrageous age bias to me. He's saying that these "kids" are capable of more than others give them credit for, and that experience is "really overrated". That's not the same thing as saying that he won't hire "old" people, or that given an "old" person whom he thinks will perform better than a young person at the same salary, he'd prefer the young person.

Maybe this CEO really is biased against older people, but the evidence provided is pretty slim.

Reading TFA, the author comes across as pretty entitled. His argument is that older people are better than younger people, and he's upset that this CEO doesn't get it.

Over time, most people get better at what they do. They become wiser, calmer, more self-aware. They’ve also put in the 10,000 hours of practice that Malcolm Gladwell says are required to become expert in a skill. Why would companies not want employees who have gained that expertise?

I dunno why, maybe this CEO is an idiot. Sounds like a great opportunity to start your own company, hire the people the market is overlooking, and make a fortune.
I think that the younger workers in their 20's to 30's, especially the new tech workers, are really doing it because it's fun. So, working 12 hours a day 6-7 days a week isn't a big deal. Whereas the older crowd, the 40+'ers, want the same pay (or more) for 'work-life balance'. I've been told 'work-life balance' means up to 8 hours a day and up to 5 days a week, and after hours is for spending time with family and friends.

I've encountered plently of 40+'ers who discourage learning new skills during free time, programming on the weekends, hackathons, and the like. Simply because that stuff goes against work-life balance.

It's hard for me to believe that the 40+'ers are as ambitious as younger tech workers.
Whisper System's announcement of this: https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
Yeah but that just shows its https.
It's only as mobile as laws will allow it to be. Sure, it's a leaky bucket, but you don't need to patch all the leaks.
That "brilliant design" is permanently wasting 15% of the screen real-estate on showing buttons irrelevant to reading the article. (Why is it pinned??)
I've been participating on RemoteTogether [1] for a few months now. I live in rural Texas -- my wife and I moved here for her grad schooling from Seattle -- and locally I haven't really made many friends and it's been a bit of a tough adjustment from me as I like the city quite a bit more than a rural setting.

RemoteTogether is a good discussion community, and we have a Slack that we all hang out on. It helps break up the mundanity of working alone at home here. Come say hi!

[1]: https://www.remotetogether.com
Gitlab is still super slow even compared to young projects like gogs. I know many ppl who shied away for gitlab due to its slowness.

If I was them, I would stop all copycat 'me too' features like ci/pages ect and put the resources to making it faster.
This is a sign that their features are pritorized by business ppl who want to put features on their slides .
Right now, GitLab Pages is hosted on the same servers as GitLab.com, so it gets the same attention from our engineers in terms of reliability and uptime.

We're not using a global CDN, but this is something we will explore.
Gut bacteria regulate nerve fibre insulation
Ask HN: Restore deleted files and mails (.pst) on Windows (and Outlook)
I'm looking for a tool or tools that can:

1) Restore deleted files on a Windows machine (or from the carbon copy of the drive). The more depth and heuristic it has the better (e.g. restoring partial files that have no "inode" records anymore).

2) Restore deleted e-mails from an Outlook archive (.pst).

Bonus if the products' developers are on HN, feel free to promote your stuff :)
Better to ask about their minimum availability guarantee. Knowing that the servers can handle a DDOS attack is of little value if the service goes down for maintenance every day (just to give an example).
You're not wrong, but I'll take self motivated good deeds over apathy any day.
I'm early 50s, and I've "learned and discarded" several decades of skills: 8/16-bit assemblers, the entire DEC range of computers, MUMPS and the VA ecosystem, the Perl craze of the early 2000s; I'm in an Oracle/Ruby shop now, and I suspect I'll be learning something new in a few years. Only way to keep up in this field, throw out the details, keep the concepts, gird the loins and hit the books. Well google, no one uses dead trees anymore. I have almost 100 lbs of "replaced by google" books sitting under my carport waiting to be recycled, becuse even schools don't want them.
I'm not a tax expert but this statement is true if you only look at the statutory corporate tax rate before deductions and tax credits are taken into account. Once those are done and you used a weighted average based on country size, then the US is not that much higher (http://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2015/03/25/the-truth...).

I don't disagree that tax reform is necessary but taxes help pay for the infrastructure, safety, and public goods that we all tap into and take advantage of.
Accor acquires Onefinestay, the luxury Airbnb
>And that’s true on any phone that runs the app, from iPhones to Android phones to Windows phones to old school Nokia flip phones.

Woo! Props to the WhatsApp team for supporting these features for dumbphone users like me.

Does anyone know if/how/where you can verify a users fingerprint?
Here:

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/05/18/tax-history-why-u-s...

And [pdf file]:

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

tldr; it's a century old patch-work remnant from the Civil War to WW1 era. The US Government at this point does not want to give it up, because it means giving up tax revenue (and thus has implications for how much they can spend), and there's nothing they hate more.
Donald Trump would 'cut off cash to Mexico'
that can't always be true.
for instance, some of my friends are doing data science.

they are constantly SSH'd running jobs on the data, using different tools to understand their data.

i think SSH will always exist going forward, and we won't be able to automate everything.

any other thoughts on how to prevent data leaks?
> Reluctantly obliged, I came into the office, went out for lunch with colleagues but I was so sick I could not eat anything and can barely sit straight. I then went home, and was sick for the rest of the week…

That's just completely stupid; that manager was basically asking to have himself and others infected.
The transparency part is dangerous thinking. Management isn't perfect, low-ranked people are not clueless cogs, and sunlight is a great disinfected. Trust matters, and secrecy hurts trust.