skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh so everything is ok then, they just took on more work than they were capable of handling and made a fundamental mistake.

Honestly how is this not YC's fault?

It's a fundamental aspect of their business. You sould think instead that there would be a healthy amount of embarrassment and shame coming from Sam; not a tone I detect at all.
Cargo is bad. I hate how every language has to have it's own package manager.

It's worse than just reinventing the wheel because it's actively harming everyone by requiring them to have a million package managers installed and know how to use them all. And often times these language specific package managers are insecure and lack many features. If we had just a few big package managers like nix and guix people could just package for those and we could have everything in one place. Projects like node, perl, python, rust etc. don't need to be the only people in control of their package managers. They could just host language specific repos or something.
I think this looks great, but it reminded me of Lightable. Also rather than using Sublime text as a comparison, isn't PyCharm a better comparison. In my opinion Pycharm already provides a subset of functionality, in addition to several other features.
One thing I will say though. Is that I greatly respect 'the hard way'.
I miss those and their Unix counterparts, the old Motif apps. We should bring Motif back.

Heck, with flat design being a thing, we should bring Xaw back.
No, it wouldn't, because we have different ideas of which people comprise each group. I would apply strict scrutiny and the tightest limits to the angels group. Its obvious from past behavior the government, especially prosecutors, favor adding to both groups at their convenience.
Yes, I agree completely. Take leftpad, for example....

And more seriously, there are times when factoring out "common" code makes the code significantly more complicated, and often turns your common code into a morass of special cases as your application progresses, and these cases that looked "the same" end up being "not quite the same".
the playbook will fail if there are undefined variables, I find the story suspect.
> Government is not as stupid as we'd like to think. Government doesn't believe that "terrorists" will stop using encryption. These laws are not for "terrorists". They're for us.

This is one of the things that the Snowden leaks should have made clear to everyone but sadly that isn't the case.
> My biggest complaint with Kobe is that he scored a lot of points because he took a lot of shots.

Isn't that the point of basketball?
The difference is that for my friends I have granted them explicit privileges beforehand to have access to that kind of data. It's different when a stranger is scanning me, mining me for data. And actually yes I do feel like a product or mark at conferences when people come up to me and just chat me up because of the company I work for (you've heard of it) - they almost always want quid-pro-quo type interactions or otherwise don't care about me per se, but just the quantification of me that exists on the badge. It's one of the reasons I don't enjoy industry conferences that much or when I do go, I prefer not to wear a badge.

And honestly, scanning from a distance is still incredible invasive.

You can be the "master of your eyes" but don't get offended if I or others think you're a creep. You may not be touching me but you're definitely noticeably staring. The rejection Google Glass actually gives me some faith in the decency of people, but you're probably right, society at large will adjust because the profit motive and law enforcement capabilities for this sort of technology are too great for them not to become entrenched by media and government interests. Personally I find it inhumane and repulsive, but I'm old fashioned like that. I prefer more organic human interactions, nuance, getting to actually know someone beyond a readout on a screen. I'm a private person in an increasingly public circus of society.
interesting perspective by ‏@kimmaicutler:

"@paulg's advice to Pittsburgh is so the opposite of what @sama, @justinkan want SF to do. http://paulgraham.com/pgh.html "
https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/720031161989267461
Plus them storing them in bags and carrying them so much. I can't recall if the gold bars can come in more convenient sizes and weights vs standard ones that are heavy. This was also a counterpoint in arguments against Book of Mormon discovery given calculations showed it was over 1,000lbs. Truly a miracle to get that sucker from point A to point B.
What's the difference to / advantage over YAML? When I want a loose syntax "JSON with comments", I can just use that instead.
‘Blackhole’ Exploit Kit Author Gets 8 Years
Still need to either set the envvar or pass the equivalent flag.
Reenvisioning SF's Haight Street as a Pedestrian-Centric Place
Remember folks, the Government you get in the future is unwritten and unknowable.

Sure, I don't think Obama is going to throw me in jail and I have nothing to hide now...but that doesn't mean in 20 years there won't be some Nationalist/Authoritarian type in control of the country like we saw with countless fallen democracies in the 20th century.

Similarly, the Government has shown it incapable of keeping a secret with the sheer number of security failures they've experienced. So anything they have, we can assume is both public and indefensible. They use this capability and they might as well hand the information to criminals on a silver platter.
304, not 403. And actually, only a 301 Permanent Redirect should be followed and used instead. bit.ly and URL shorteners it powers, which includes atav.st, use 301 Permanent Redirect.

Fetching the headers would also be a good way to check the MIME type (for automatic warnings like [pdf] or [video]), as well as checking the title.
(scribbles with mouse, clicks on things)

"When I open my terminal...."

I am evidently not the target market.

Do professionals actually identify with this stuff? Am I really that out of touch when I think that that much mousing around is CRAZY slow? And who switches back and forth from GUI editors to a terminal?
A Crossroad Developer
- "Apple pays a lot better"

That may be true in Silicon Valley, but I got news for you there are tons of programming jobs outside of Silicon Valley or even the west coast. In the DC area, defense contractors are the highest paid folks due to the enormous expenses in both money and time involved with getting someone a clearance.

- "Defense contractors are infamous for treating employees somewhat lousily"

Where do you get this information? I worked as a government contractor for 15 years and never saw programmers get laid off. Sure the big contracting companies (Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, etc.) have layoffs occasionally when there is a downturn in government funding, but they aren't typically laying off the folks that are their technical bread and butter, but rather folks who are pure overhead (HR, accounting, marketing, etc).

- "In fact, I would seriously bat an eye at someone who, with offer letters from both, chose to take a job at a defense contractor rather than Apple."

This seems to be a rather biased statement. Given the choice to work on software for controlling a satellite, software for data mining social network data to discover members of terror networks, software used for analyzing IED fragments, etc. versus software for sharing vacation pictures, dealing with spreadsheets, playing MP3s, etc. I will take the former most of the time because it is a much more interesting problem space. I also very much enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that my work may have helped save the lives of many people by preventing terrorist attacks.

- "The main thing the defense contractor job has going for it is the working hours are likely to be standard 9-5 with little or no overtime (as that gets billed to a government contract, so you're generally not allowed to work overtime without special approval). At high-profile places like Apple, unpaid overtime is generally expected to some degree."

This is also only partially true. If you are just a low level programmer, sure you work your 8 hours that are billed to the government and then go home. As soon as you are mid-level and above, that is no longer the case. All time spent doing reviews, interviews, internal software for the company, proposal support, etc. is above and beyond your 8 hours billed to the government. None of that time can be billed to the government and you are expected to bill 40 hours per week to contract so the rest of that work gets done above the 40 hours you bill.
How are these people still in business?
Reminds me of the time I accidentally typed in 'crontab -d' instead of 'crontab -e'.

Those two letters are eerily too close to eachother.
Naked Labs' full body-scanning mirror
"My guess is if he stayed out of hard drugs, arms, etc. he might have also stayed completely safe because it sounds like they simply couldn't handle him until it got kicked to the FBI/DEA/etc."

That's basically Ratliff's claim, too. He would've gotten away with it.
Intuitive human gamers solve problems that today's computers can't
The bash -e and -u options might have saved him here:

http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
This sounds like a good idea on the surface but this just shifts the problem.

Ultimately, you still only have 10 fingers (general assumption), and not a large space like 30 char passwords.
Yeah, true. And in production, that's what I do. Append is for when you don't know how long a slice will end up being.
Money is just an abstraction for actual goods and services produced by the economy. If your wages go up, presumably so does the wages of those whose services you consume.

If less people worked, the economy would produce less and we would be worse off.
It's the equivalent of PHP developers claiming the way PHP works if great.

I've used generics in several languages now and it's so awesome for reducing boilerplate and duplicated code.

The guy is just flat out wrong.
I can see both sides of this. But looking at this argument:

> There are two ways to evaluate the the C specification's rightness and properness. [...] The second is to ask what is most useful. And there again the C committee have clearly failed.

Just two days on HN we saw this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11468603 In which it says:

> no matter the kind of software, performance is almost always worse than our customers would like it to be.

That is why all of this is happening. There is a market demand for performance. Compilers that increasingly exploit UB in C is just a manifestation of that market demand.
Gosh, those silly, stupid Americans. What will they get themselves into next?

> Just don't eat processed food

So...

Don't eat canned food.
Don't eat frozen food.
Don't eat packaged food, often labeled "natural" or "organic." [1]

[1] http://www.foodinsight.org/sites/default/files/what-is-a-pro...

ffs, maybe if Americans just ate like Europeans, everything would be fine.

Oh wait a second...

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/c...

Hmm...
Exactly. Free, high-quality stuff vs paid, high-quality stuff. There's a reason BSD, Linux, Apache, and so on powered more of the Internet than good, commercial alternatives. :)
Isn't it just a maturation of the process? First we throw everything at a dart board, then we take notes on what sticks, and finally we repeat the steps that made them stick as best we can while wasting fewer darts.

Many of us here are founders and we'd love it if funding was effortless, but at the same time we can't allow hubris or denial to turn us into doomsayers. Things don't last forever.
Yes. And I learned something.
My own software business makes Photoshop plug-ins. I doubt that has much intrinsic value, but I'm proud of what my customers have used them for. One customer runs an Etsy store selling t-shirts of Pugs wearing plaid, designed with my software. It's extremely niche, but makes her super happy & she earns more than I'd ever expect from it. Another customer runs a drug rehab program, and for those who complete the program, they get a free portrait photo shoot to see a before/after comparison of themselves, a visual reminder of what their life looks like away from drug addiction. I've also given free copies of my software to youth art programs, though that's practically free for me to do anyway.

I put some of my revenue/income towards charitable projects, but I keep much of that private / anonymous. My general philosophy on that comes from two of my favorite books, "Banker To The Poor" by Muhammad Yunus (of Grameen Bank) and "The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune" by Conor O'Clery.
By default, ansible errors out for undefined variables.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_filters.html#defau...
The bill may allow the government to force a software vendor to perform work without any agreement regarding costs. It allows the government to decide "reasonably necessary costs".

Once any work has begun, the government can force (subpoena) the vendor to testify regarding results, without any payment whatsoever.
Why is this a moral problem? [1] Isn't this a market problem that the market can solve? Basic Income would add actual liquidity in the labor market. If workers actually have the option not to work, then the market has to finally figure out how to make the worker want to work.

Maybe that competition would lead to better companies and better work.

[1] Other than the lasting impact of the Puritans on American society, of course...
I'm always conflicted with this.

On one end, I feel like security is hard enough that we don't need to go weakening it, in any way, to allow the government to be able to (with a lawful warrant) read the data. I feel like the citizens of the US are overall more secure with end to end encryption that no-one can backdoor.

On the other end, security is hard and we fail in so many other obvious, exploitable ways. Even with mandating that e.g. Apple be able to decrypt the contents of any iPhone it does not actually reduce our security in a meaningful way because there's so many other ways we routinely fail at security.
It is nice when your devices appears to always be on. But lets be real, my windows tablet isn't a phone.

So, I disabled InstantGo/Conected Standby on my dell tablet, and the battery now runs for days. I charge it once a week or so, unless I start playing games on it (in which case the battery only lasts for something like ~3/4 hours). That device gets pretty heavy use for book reading/ netflix/ web surfing.

The downside is that the power button is stupidly placed next to the volume buttons. So I frequently hit it instead of the volume button and that results in a ~5-10 second hibernate/resume sequence. I've been considering how hard it would be to physically cut the lead to it and the useless "window button" and PtP solder the windows button as the power button. (I haven't found any software solutions for reversing them).
or at least those that weigh about the same as a piece of paper...
I've been short Theranos from the beginning. It's very obvious to people who have interacted with the type of person Holmes is.

> Stanfraud graduate (not even graduated)

> Father has a IV in his name

> Both parents work in DC (east coast)

These are HUGE red flags in a field where results are much more tightly correlated with technical expertise. They wouldn't be in another field that is less tightly correlated such as banking or politics.

Furthermore, anybody that has done any amount of research in any capacity knows that an undergraduate claiming their research project (in biology especially. CS is possible) could launch an entire company is either purposefully delusional or incompetent.
*Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.8

Can we please fix the title? Seems pretty misleading
Misleading title is misleading. Just dropping OS X 10.6 - 10.8
It's an oversight, but does it really matter anywhere? YAML can be used for a JSON-y syntax that allows comments, which is good enough for most use cases.
Headline got trimmed so missing key info: "Google Chrome has dropped support for Windows XP, Vista, and Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.8"

Seems a little aggressive and user-hostile.
Expectations of a Junior Developer
> The important part is that this group of folks we're calling Government is trying to prevent us from being allowed to have secrets and whisper to each other.

A huge amount of my social and work communication is via IM, text, email etc. What is the justification this should all be recorded and reviewable but things I say in person are not? I don't see a huge difference at this stage given how much communication happens online now.
It's something we've thought a lot about. For anybody interested in this, shoot us a message at onprem@kite.com
VCs win with an average hit percentage of .100. A lucky lottery player would win with an average of .0000001.
US corporations have $1.4tn hidden in tax havens. Apple tops list, MS 3rd
I've done a decent amount of hiring over the years. When I ask the candidates if they have any questions, I expect them to interview me as a potential manager. Everyone has their own set of criteria so there is not universal "good question to ask". Instead, you should figure out if you'd like to work with/for me? Do you feel you'd grow personally?

Perhaps you're in a phase of life where you just need the money to recover from an unfortunate situation. Still, you must figure out what are the criteria you won't compromise on, and make sure you're getting that. For some, it's work schedule; for others, it's communication styles. Maybe you'll be driven insane by my cheesy puns and so you'd probably want to figure that out ahead of time. Ask me what I'll do to ensure you'll be respected as an individual on the team.

When I'm a candidate, I like to ask how my failures will be dealt with. I will goof up at some point, the question is how is that managed. The larger point is there must be some discussion about potentially unpleasant situations.
"murdered buildings and infrastructure"
not all shots are created equal - the "long 2" has a lower expected value than taking a few steps back for a 3-pointer, or finishing at the rim for an easier 2

we can't really hold kobe's last game against him imo - he's definitely been a ballhog but if it's his last game he should have the opportunity to shoot until his arms fall off
I'm in London and am in a similar situation to you, email me and let's meet or chat, perhaps we could pool resources...
Yeah, probably a bit over-engineered; just having a little fun. The idea is that you can filter and sort based on metadata, merge multiple lists, make mashups, and render/style it how you like. Feel free to just open an issue with a question, or post it here!

In the YAML, you can get away with just:
-q: Your question here.
This is not an argument for encryption. This is an argument for who has the keys. It is much easier to reach a compromise on the latter than the former.
Code Is Not Speech
Planned economies failed. The socialist governments in Western Europe haven't failed yet.

(there are even several countries with 3-4 weeks of vacation for everyone and similar annual per person productivity to the US...)
Yup, ironically Ancel Keyes is probably responsible for a huge number of deaths, the road to hell is paved with good intentions as they say.
I work at a Smart Grid company and we make devices and software that help conserve energy and natural resources. I'm glad to have found the job because my previous job didn't have what I perceived to be a benefit to society and that really bothered me.
>You keep your heart rate down by slow steady breathing, and always try and pull the trigger between beats.

I used to be very active in competitive freestyle archery (scope and release) for both indoor and 3D. You do work to control your breathing and heart rate but I've never heard of anyone trying to time the release to their heartbeat. Instead many competitive shooters train to disconnect the release action from conscious thought. You literally stand a few feet in front of a target for hours, shooting without aiming, and commit to muscle memory the action of triggering your release. "Back tension" releases are very popular in archery specifically because there is no traditional trigger and they are instead activated by tilting or squeezing.

Once you no longer think about releasing you now focus your shooting solely on aiming. When you're ready to shoot you fire off the muscle-memory-trigger thread in your brain and your body just involuntarily goes through the motions of firing the arrow. When done correctly the actual triggering of the shot is a surprise.

Olympic archery is very similar. Olympic shooters use "clickers"[1] on their bow that tells you when to release. You pull the arrow back and began to aim, continue to pull back slowly until the clicker clicks and that triggers and automatic response to relax your hand and loose the arrow. You practice shooting over and over again such that whenever you hear/feel the clicker you release automatically and therefore separate the release process from active thought.

http://www.k1-archery.com/images/product_images/original_ima...
Too bad he wasn't running Illuminos (OpenSolaris) based servers (or even some Solaris versions) that would have just flat out refused to run rm -rf /
Or any backup solution worth its salt, including "RAID1 where you yank out and replace one of the drives every other week".
I did read the privacy document, which does not address the acquisition/shutdown aspect, which is fairly important; Oracle (for example) may not have the same views on the privacy of the acquired data as you do.

Also, do you have plans to support deletion of indexed data?
Microsoft Sues Justice Department Over Secret Customer Data Searches
The poor drafting of the bill is reflective of lack of support from groups who have the expertise to produce a more realistic bill like NSA lawyers. The bill reflects the lack of cooperation from the Intelligence Community that has been reported.
I would agree with this. Every client doesn't need this running, but having it running locally would be nice. I imagine, a business with many programmers all using this would get pretty cluttered with constant updates to this, but an onsite installation could easily clean that up.

Even if you have to ship individual backend modules (when more languages get supported). One place might only need the bash/python/js syntax whereas another might need only php, etc.
"In the early days of RX Limited, employees purchased individual web domains at public sellers like GoDaddy. Later, RX Limited spawned its own domain-selling company, ABSystems—the equivalent of opening a printing press for web addresses. But instead of selling those addresses to others, ABSystems generated them by the thousands, virtually for free, exclusively for RX Limited."

This guy knew how to scale! Started/bought a domain registrar to generate the so many spammy sites needed to sell all those drugs.

Another unrelated point. He found himself in a career crisis in 2002, and also discovered he was adopted, which according to this series (and some Australian media articles) disturbed him. And there are two distinct career paths before and after it.

Although, I am filled with disgust at his actions, esp. he got people killed. But it also stuns me the amount of "progress" he did in a span of less than a decade from 2002 (assuming by 2011 he was done with it, sort of).
The same way we do with everything else, democracy, laws, and the legal system. I'm not sure why encryption would have to be different in that regard.
Can you also remove the "most visited site thumbnails" each time I open a new tab ? or at least give an option to disable that? because you removed this option. I know there are Chrome developers lurking here, frankly what does it cost them to re-enable an option to remove these ?
Run, Forrest, Run
Starchip enterprise