skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software Developer/Web Developer/Product Manager | NewsNow.co.uk | London, UK | Full-time, permanent

Passionate about any area of news, sport, or fairness in news reporting? Relish crafting elegant solutions to hard technical and business problems, using whatever is the best tool for the job? Thrive in an open, collaborative environment, where the best ideas can come from anyone? Confident and articulate about what you know, and humble and articulate about what you don't? Fancy the idea of competing with Google, by being clever rather than colossal?

Then why not consider joining NewsNow.co.uk, news aggregator and top ten UK media publisher with 15M users monthly. Established 1998 and profitable ever since, our ethos and business models have stood the test of time. Ours is a developer-led company: our Founder and CEO heads up our development team.

We currently have three opportunities:
- As a /software developer/, you’d be working on projects including our unique in-house article classification engine, generating live digests of our most compelling content, or mining live streams of data about events from all over the world.
- As a /web developer/, you’d work on projects like letting users view images from the news, and rate articles.
- As a /product manager/, you’d help us to ‘get it right’ through your zest for software development and the user experience, your passion and excitement for our business and your ability to inspire this in the rest of the team.

We run Debian Linux on our co-located raw metal and on AWS EC2/VPC, with MySQL, Apache, and in-house code written in a variety of languages. We do our web development in HTML5, CSS3, advanced JavaScript, jQuery. We use OO patterns in coding.

We’re also welcoming applications from remote developers if you live within about an hour of London.

If you like the sound of us, we’d love to hear about you. Please get in touch!

http://www.NewsNow.co.uk/careers/
HTC One M8 not eligible for install! What?
Good answer. TeX is an input language and is fairly good at what it does for mathematicians. From a programming language and systems point of view, it is an ancient, ad hoc mess. TeX could be used as a computer representation, but it fails for that purpose for lots of reasons, several of which you mention here.
I am typing this from KDE. Obviously? I guess. And so what. That is not the problem.
The original seems to have been made by creating a feedback loop between one of the outputs and the filter input of an analog synthesizer. The examples I've seen were done on a Yamaha CS-15 but a lot of monophonic old analogs allow you to do that, like a MiniMoog. However the filters on a CS-15 are quite unique, don't think you can even do this exact patch on an MS-20.

https://youtu.be/W4PEAKNtbVw?t=184

A good explanation how it works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdN43xfwV2U

Slightly better played
Apply HN: Digital Teleportation = SocialAR/VR
Talking with a previously unknown person is common in the real world but is quite hard to do online. Thanks to VR that mimics the real world it should be possible now to meet people on the internet...

Imagine a never ending street fair welcoming people from everywhere...

First we need to solve two problems:

- break the limit "no more than ~100 can attend an event in VR"

- build a virtual world with relevant content

DiveReal networking technology: a distributed system, a 3-layered overlay tested with 20k simulated avatars together in one place.
Long story short: add more servers to accommodate more users in your room.
btw: there is only one "room", planet-sized.

DiveReal virtual world: we use streetview, we use the whole planet, you can send your avatar anywhere on earth. With AR devices you'll see the avatars coming to your living-room (see "holoportation" from MS Research)

Go at http://divereal.com and try the software for Oculus Rift DK2 (0.7)

Also I am working on a new release due in few weeks, to betatest the dev version send me an email at contact@divereal.com
Builds available for: GearVR, Oculus Rift and desktops (Windows, OS X, Ubuntu)

This is an application for YC fellowship, if you like the project and want to help, upvote and discuss, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627

Questions, comments, ... your valuable feedback is very welcome
Apply HN: App to send, buy and maintain pre-paid gift cards
Problem:
1. Still it’s very manual process to buy someone gift card.
2. One can use vendors website(for e.g. https://www.starbucks.com/card) to buy and send soft copy of gift card to recipient using email, which recipient needs to retrieve every time they want to use the gift card.
3. Problem with Gyft: To buy closed loop gift card for prospective recipient, one needs to know the recipient’s buying habits quite well. For example, the person doesn't like coffee that much and you give them a 'Starbucks' gift card. Also Gyft is not available outside USA.
4. Customer has to carry hardcover gift cards every time they shop so there are higher chances of them being misplaced.
5. If customers fail to spend the full value of their gift cards, unspent gift cards dollars get expired OR they are forced to buy unnecessary or bit expensive item to just use the remaining gift card amount.
6. Customer neither gets any card expiry notification nor any promotional notification.

Solution:
Our idea is to develop a Gift card service, possibly a mobile app and a web app, where one person can gift any dollar amount as a credit to another using their mobile number. Recipient can then use that amount as credit to purchase any company's gift card and buy the thing they really want and have control over the amount they want to spend. For example, if someone gives you $100 and you want to buy an iPhone cover for say $50, then you transfer $50 to Apple Gift Card and buy yourself that cover. Then you can use remain $50 with say Starbucks. Moreover, credit never expires, so your money/gift is not wasted. Customers also receives notification about special offers from gift card providers, so they can choose when/where to spend their credit. For example, Apple sells gift cards at 20% off, our customers can get benefit out of that, making the most of the gift they were given.
It's important to me as well but what's more important is the lifestyle and the amenities as well. For e.g living in Silicon valley with higher rents, child care, bad commute and on a work visa, one cannot really think of long term settlement. I have seen Amazon, Facebook, Google have offices in Canada along with these companies I mentioned and that's where I feel little confident that those guys should pay out reasonable wages. I would rather look at this at meta level instead of counting acquaintances here for this gentleman's question.
Apple's copycats are turning into true iPhone competitors
Right, but the point was that someone with Bill Gates' money can pay to transfer all those problems to someone else.
Sampling from Streams: Reservoir Sampling and Variants
Apple and IBM competed for similar users (VisiCalc started on the Apple ][), Commodore was competing against consoles and crappier computers. Commodore was eventually killed by PC clones -- IBM PCs were FAR too expensive for families to buy to play games on. (IBM PCs were more generally as expensive as Macs -- clones drove prices down, with IBM maintaining obscene prices until its brand name meant nothing).

Commodore continued to have huge success with the Amiga -- but less so in the US than Europe and Australia. My recollection was of game stores being C64 and cartridges and a bunch of lesser companies, and then Amiga and IBM gradually taking over, with IBM only becoming dominant as Commodore finally succumbed to mismanagement in the early 90s (after commodore when bankrupt, it was revealed that during the years when the Amiga was the world's most popular home computer, Commodore never turned a profit).
Congrats! What about this guy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11445505 and what I typed up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11413469 here.
If anything, Nest is a comment about how growing a company via investments doesn't work. If Nest could focus on working out the technical issues without the investors breathing down their neck, I'm sure the product would do much better.

Not only that, but I already have a thermostat. It works perfectly. I've never said to myself, "Gee, I wish I could adjust my home temperature from work, I need an exact 23.5 degrees when I get home". It doesn't do enough for me to justify messing with my HVAC system, that whole "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" adage comes to mind.
From 10 years ago:

http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan06/onit.aspx

"Bill Gates has been quoted saying that his
programmers can program for 72 hours straight,"
Stickgold says. "And I say: yeah, but their product
is Windows."

This topic will be with us forever.
If Tor isn't effectively anonymising connections, then he's screwed whether he downloads it from somebody elses IP, or his own...

Download from somebody elses IP = Probably not at all associated with himself.

Download from his own IP = Definitely associated with himself.

Again. What would be the advantage of doing this? There isn't one...
Reminds of when Spain tried something similar: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/new-study-shows-s...

However in this case I believe it centered on snippets of the news content itself, not only a link.
Ask HN: Can a YC Fellow Later Apply for the Traditional Batch?
Wondering if a company gets accepted as a YC Fellow can later become a company in the traditional batches?
The FBI Bought a 'Tool' to Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone
> You don't say a library is messy because they have a lot of books, those books are neatly organized and indexed.

Well said! I think the same thing about magazines and newspapers. Although we should not be so quick to compare; part of google's success was their simplicity, compared to yahoo's complexity.

> The days of browsing through menus looking for an option that vaguely sounds like what you want seem to be gone.

Maybe. I'm doing something like this within my app, but for anywhere complicated I just have a dropdown with a bunch of examples that they can start out with and tinker with from there. I think that can go a long way in discoverability and understanding how to do something, and whats possible.
Maps.me saved my trip to Okinawa where Here and Google had no offline maps available. I would have donated if there were a button.
Then that should be the main link.
Why not just get a nice Linux desktop or laptop? Free software, all the functionality one could need, and every one I've seen has an optical drive.
100K users out of 3B+ internet users [1]? I don't think that qualifies as 'lots of people'.

[1]: http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/
What options did you settle on? I have used it in production for chopping up roughly 35,000 documents (and counting) and I have somewhat bare-bones options.

Here's what my code looks like: http://pastebin.com/KB15Q6GM

I'm only really using --disable-internal-links and --no-outline, but sometimes I force a stylesheet.
It's a shunt so that people working with the current version of React don't have to know that ReactDOM exists until the refactor is complete.

It's a good, simple refactoring strategy when you're trying to responsibly change an API.
Interestingly, I thought that was exactly the case at first. Since the domain of the link is actually signalvnoise.com, Privacy Badger blocks most of the requests to medium.com and leaves the article as unstyled text. I would have been perfectly fine with this, but the images got really confused for some reason and would only load as tiny ~30x30 thumbnails.

I'm not sure whether to blame Privacy Badger or Medium, but this isn't the first time I've had problems with the funky progressive scaling thing Medium does with images.
Are you morally and ethically comfortable with taking money from a fascist to be a living cog in his anti-education political statement?
> because whiteboard coding is stupid

not so. I've found it's an effective way to not only judge how people think, but also how they communicate and respond to live feedback.
I've used Souper a bunch of times on hand-written, performance-critical LLVM code, hoping for some magic superoptimal version of the function. Even saving a few instructions would help in these cases. Unfortunately, in my experience Souper is the identity function: it has literally not once changed my LLVM code in any way. If I'm doing something wrong, I'd love to know what. Perhaps it's not expected that hand-written LLVM will have much room for improvement? Is the intended target of optimization only expected to be fairly obviously redundant machine-generated code?
Well studies show that lack of sleep doesn't at all kill creativity (and that could lead to productivity too).

Also negative experiences create a more clear memory of the event then a positive one. So it's even possible you only remember the times you couldn't come up with the idea that same day vs not having memories of the times you did came up with solution that same day (because, you didn't have to wait till the next day to fix it, which didn't create such a strong memory of that annoying moment).
If you're vegan for moral reasons, isinglass is a problem. If not, the isinglass falls out and isn't actually present in the finished wine in a significant quantity.
I honestly can't believe this is even being debated.
A graphical layer isn't present, but you can apt-get install anything that runs in the background/command line. vim, emacs, etc. At least as far as I know.

A commenter here mentioned having difficulties installing java, however:

> if you go the apt-get route you get a sha256sum mismatch on both java7 & java8. If you try to be clever and manually download it and throw it in the cache, same story. If you try to be really really clever and manually download it and try to manually extract the tar it throws a bunch of cannot create symlink: invalid argument errors. I spent a good 2+ hours trying to force it to install in various ways. For now at least it seems java is not meant to be on Windows Bash.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446913
Fructose is NOT inherently bad. When liver glycogen stores are depleted, fructose has no negative health effects. The problem is when you are eating in a calorie surplus, and the only way for the liver to deal with that fructose is via de-novo lipogenesis.
By getting a small subset of players to buy premium cosmetic content and in-game gold. Blizzard came up with a clever mechanism involving game time and other players for the latter, both in order to obfuscate what they were doing somewhat and to give them a little more control over their economy.

The Blizzard Warcraft Store:
https://us.battle.net/shop/en/product/game/wow

Information on the "WoW Token" mechanism for turning $ into gold: http://www.tentonhammer.com/guides/guide-to-buying-and-selli...
Good brief introduction is youtube channel School of Life: https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel

Some of social philosophy essays I have read recently are:

Konrad Paul Liessmann - theory of ignorance: the errors of the knowledge society (original: Theorie der Unbildung: die Irrtümer der Wissensgesellschaft, 2006 )

Elias Canetti - Crowds and Power (original: Masse und Macht, 1960)

Georg Simmel - Philosophy of Money (original: Philosophie des Geldes, 1900)

edit: formatting
Hacky solution:
On a suitably equipped unix-like system one might...

mkdir dlbook;cd dlbook;wget --recursive --level=1 http://www.deeplearningbook.org/

cd www.deeplearningbook.org/contents

python
import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_file(
["TOC.html","acknowledgements.html","notation.html","intro.html","part_basics.html","linear_algebra.html","prob.html","numerical.html","ml.html","part_practical.html","mlp.html","regularization.html","optimization.html","convnets.html","rnn.html","guidelines.html","applications.html","part_research.html","linear_factors.html","autoencoders.html","representation.html","graphical_models.html","monte_carlo.html","partition.html","inference.html","generative_models.html","bib.html","index-.html"],
"Goodfellow-et-al-2016-Book.pdf")

Better solutions?

edit: changed ".pdf" from a slightly longer approach to ".html" which actually exists in this workflow. Thanks @TheCabin!

edit(2): ... and gave a valid path to this listdir. Check before I post... check before I post...

edit(3): ... and removed the os.listdir line no longer needed in this approach. Gosh. Just ignore what I was saying and build your own approach. That'll probably be faster at this rate.

edit(4): Don't import os without using it.
I recently did this as well and my experience has been the same. Did it mainly to manage my energy levels better. Now less reliant on caffeine and less prone to energy swings. Also in much better shape.
No, that's rather the point of offshoring things, usually through lengthy chains - although you only need three degrees to be immune to pretty much any kind of disclosure. As for corruption, it's again hard to pin down, as even if disclosed they're just private citizens managing legal investments.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Mismanagement, driving out the professionals, lack of investment and corruption have turned a very promising South American economy into a subsistence economy.

They are simply running the country into the ground thru mismanagement and negligence.
If you work 5 days a week and spend 4 hours in a commute after a year you will spend 43,3 entire days commuting. After 8 and a half years you'll have spent one entire year of your life commuting. Thing about how much stuff you could accomplish in a year.
Don't quite get the complaints about it not being available in PDF. "We'll publish your book, and you can give it away for free as long as you make people click through to each chapter" is a much, much better deal than I would expect from a big publisher.
> I think people often confuse "simple" with "pretty".

Oh man, this.

Even richer is confusing usable with pretty. I guess nowadays people say "user experience" instead of usability, or the extremely unfortunate: UX.

Simple usually covers the very first prototype version, but then there are always requests for complicating the feature set so you can't have a simple interface anymore.

Joel Spolsky had a conference talk about this once (can't remember where I saw it). There is a tension between simplicity and power: some need simplicity; others, power. It's a spectrum. What developers and designers should strive for is elegance so that one can move along the spectrum without noticing it.
Can someone help me do some math here? Take these sentences:

"It was all about five investments in which we made 115x, 82x, 68x, 30x, and 21x."

"In our 2004 fund, we invested a total of $50mm out of $120mm of total investment in our nine losers. "

OK so in the 2004 fund we have $70mm being invested in companies with rates of return between 21x and 115x. Let's be conservative and say the total return on that $70mm was 50x. That means 70mm --> 3.5B. If we assume that's the total return on the fund we get 120mm --> 3.5B.

I am now going to assume these returns were realized over a period of 10 years. So that works out to about 40% gains each year (compounded 10 times).

Is USV really making 40% every year for a decade? Are other VCs doing that well? I knew these funds were good investments but I didn't realize just how good.
"it's really about the money." - There's nothing wrong with that. Plenty of jobs exist that have to be done, that no one would like to do.

People treat money as if it dirty.
Do you think other kinds of content should be included in the web spec too? So, special tags for musical notation, special tags for all forms of maps and geographic, geological features, tags to represent chemical structures, tags for all major forms of engineering notation, etc?

To me, it's not that I don't think there is a use case for MathML, it's that it's too content-specific to make sense at the browser level.

The only way it makes sense in my head is if I think of math as a language that browsers should support on the basis of internationalization. That makes some sense to me, but if that's the idea then OP is right they should use standard notation (as we do for every other language) and not XML, and it shouldn't be styleable by CSS at all.
There was a nice article [1] on how De Beers succeeded beyond even its most optimistic expectations in Japan:

"Until 1959, the importation of diamonds had not even been permitted by the postwar Japanese government. When the campaign began, in 1967, not quite 5 percent of engaged Japanese women received a diamond engagement ring. By 1972, the proportion had risen to 27 percent. By 1978, half of all Japanese women who were married wore a diamond; by 1981, some 60 percent of Japanese brides wore diamonds. In a mere fourteen years, the 1,500-year Japanese tradition had been radically revised. Diamonds became a staple of the Japanese marriage. Japan became the second largest market, after the United States, for the sale of diamond engagement rings."

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
The Orderly CX: What's Your CX Personality? (Quiz)
Syncano Adds Jinja Server Side Templates
Fructose is actually bad but that isn't the whole story. Fructose is only bad when consumed at a poor ratio relative to glucose. If you are eating 1:1 fructose/glucose, you can properly digest and use the energy from both. If you are too skewed towards fructose, it is less likely your small intestine will successfully digest the fructose, and it will make it to your large intestine and cause IBS, inflammation, hormonal disruption, etc. Reference low FODMAP diet and frustose malabsorbtion if you want to read into it.
Let's never forget what socialism is actually like. Historically speaking, running an entire economy is very hard to do. The more you nationalize, the worse it all gets.

They need to just start charging more for electricity. There will be less waste for sure. If people still use a lot and pay more, it means they need it and the money goes to building power generation. Very, very basic capitalism.
Calling all ops pros: adapt to new DevOps skills
I agree. In Italy the C=64 was utterly dominant among consumers, with ZXSpectrum / Amstrad also-rans.
Hertz Leads $50M Funding of Luxe
One of my biggest complaints about Peter K's "MathML is a failed web standard" is that most people read that without taking note of "web" in the middle. MathML has been quite successful in publishing and as a computer representation. As far as whether or not MathML is a failed WEB standard, I have a lot more to say about that here: http://bit.ly/1ZLfCF8.
Sam Rockwell: Alan Rickman's Death Undid Plans for Galaxy Quest 2
Since I'm from that part of the world and traveling a lot there, here is my take on this:

- All eastern European countries have a great talent but that talent is created during socialist area (free education, focus on math, etc.). However, quality of new talent is not so great. If somebody is good, they go to work in Germany / Austria / Switzerland.

- Work and business habits are terrible. It seems like they always try to scam you.

- Society really looks down on entrepreneurship. To be honest, societies in Montenegro, Hercegovina, Romania and Albania are a little more open to entrepreneurship than others but..

- Laws are very unfriendly for small business / entrepreneurship. Basically, one needs to break the law in order to run the business.

In short, I'm not so optimistic :(