skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it's "long form", which is increasingly becoming an excuse to neglect any attempt to captivate readers. Images in lieu of good writing is bad, but long drawls of text aren't much better.
Well even French people between themselves occasionally use "hello", so it's quite natural to answer hello to someone who seems to have a foreign accent.
- webhooks for each task

- tasks close-able only by majority vote

- tasks which open another task among a defined set, choosen by voting a poll

- conditional tasks based on meeting a deadline

call it workflow.us or maybe trollo :-)
Yes, you too can be the next startup to place your complete destiny in the hands of an organization that owns the walled garden you are sharecropping, that can watch your every monetizing success, copy it without penalty at any time of their choosing and then cut you out going forward.

You better have completed your "liquidity event" before that happens.
Don't ignore missing values, impute them
Yeap, Jeff Atwood only cited it: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/467415214648881152
Uploading, Resizing and Serving Images with Google Cloud Platform
I'm not sure if WordPress is actually doing this, but they might be using something like camo[1] to transparently rewrite any http:// URLs to an image proxy running on SSL.

This gets harder to implement correctly depending on what kind of content you allow on your sites (i.e. does your CMS only permit sanitized HTML, or are users allowed to do basically anything?), so it's not a perfect solution for everyone, but it might work here.

[1]: https://github.com/atmos/camo
They did: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/upcoming-intermediate-ch...
Bill That Would Ban End-To-End Encryption Savaged by Critics
> There's no reason you need a SIM card to make voice calls, video calls and text chat.

Agreed. It was even point number one in my list of commentary:

> * You can use Signal with any phone number that can receive voice calls: http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21319067... [0]

I heard a long time ago that the dependency on phone-number-as-username is something that they want to get rid of. However, I'm pretty sure they've been busy with the WhatsApp work and doing general work on the existing clients, so I don't know the timeframe for such a change.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452508
I know most of the tech community likes to joke about this but I think there's something serious to consider:

How can we educate the wider public that breaking crypto makes everything less secure. Most of the arguments I've seen in the wider context seem to split down tech/non-tech lines with this being the key point that's not understood.
This assumes failure is clean. Some failures are tougher, for example, imagine code going into an infinite loop. It either system, you have waste but the scale of the disruption in Erlang is kept isolated where Akka would fail to release the thread. Otherwise, I'd definitely agree that Akka handles vanilla failures just fine by using supervision trees.
from both the slides and the demo UI, you've got a much stronger design sense than the average open source project. Lucky users!
It isn't quite possible to block youtube-dl but not other ways of accessing YouTube. However, if you're downloading a lot of videos from one IP address, Google will blobk your IP from accessing YouTube. I know this because it happened to me after I ran a service to allow people to make gifs from YouTube videos, and the way I got them was with youtube-dl. After a while (about two years) they blacklisted my IP.
mpv (which calls itself a better mplayer) and vlc both use youtube-dl internally if given a youtube url to play.
The problem with WhatsApp is that IT is not open source, so you only have facebook's say-so that they're using the signal code, and you have to have faith that they've implemented it securely, and you have to trust that, as an american company, the current or future government won't silently compel them to introduce a weakness, such as allowing that when a phone gets the message `sing` it sends an encrypted copy of the last n messages back to facebook.
I'd be more comfortable using the compilable, open source signal app, because i at least have the opportunity to see what the code is doing, should i somehow manage to find an sabotaged version of clang, gcc, vs etc.
Sure, but now dev has the responsibility for upgrading all those libraries again. Just because your container worked fine 5 years ago, doesn't mean it's a good idea to run the same container in production today. Maybe it parses png images, or handles ssl termination.

Or you could say that ops now has the responsibility to scan all containers for old binary code/bad behaviour, and throw the container back over the fence if they find an issue.

I do agree that containers are a good start on having such a "contract" -- I'm not sure it's enough.
I've not used Stylish, but from looking their Chrome Extension page it looks like they don't allow you to write CSS for pages, but rather apply themes that have been built for sites by third parties?

Stylebot lets me just write css, or can grab an element off the page and they give you a GUI to edit the most common style properties. The ability to just write CSS as simple as .stupid-ad { display: none; } is what I was after.
The funniest part is feinstein is California senator.
Know who San Francisco congress rep is?, pelosi another champion of freedom...
Voting doesn't work, it's a waste of time, our corrupt illegitimate government will continue to violate every ethic and change every law which increases their power.
Anyone who defends such monsters are no better than monsters themselves.
Again, the US government kills with impunity, tortures with impunity, commits war crimes like the recent hospital bombi ng, has the highest incarceration rate in the world... The list of goes on and on and yet people plug their ears and bury their heads in the sand. We live in a police state, just accept the truth.

EDIT

The community can down vote but can't respond to the truth.
This is awesome news.

I wonder if Squarespace will follow suit in this endeavor.
> Buying with Prime is a pain in the ass, since half the stuff they sell isn't eligible.

From what I can see, Amazon sells very little that isn't Prime eligible. There are lots of "Marketplace" offerings that aren't Prime eligible, but you can filter those out by clicking the "Prime" checkbox that pops up on the left whenever you're in a search or category view.
It's something to be aware of when people are all "build up, build up!" (And I know that building higher doesn't necessarily mean building true high rises but, in general, the more stories the smaller the footprint.) I've actually known people who moved into luxury high rises and ended up leaving because they found the experience too isolating and removed from the surroundings.
That article has nothing to do with cancer research.
A Statement from Bruce Springsteen on North Carolina
Not so sure ...
There is a BIG gap and strategy difference between
- thousands of VM on 8 or 16 Xeon cores
- Scaleway technology with only few VM per node (2 to 6) with dedicated Avoton cores and dedicated memory (no oversubscribing)

Most of clients reports huge performances differences, and it's very easy to measure the difference.
That's why VC1x VPS are so so good, constant performances, and for this price, it's really awesome
In the Bay Area?

Come visit the MADE! http://www.themade.org We're a lot closer!
>We're going to stream the music from YouTube initially. Hopefully this is legal. Genius and plug.dj both do/did it. If this ends up being a problem, by the time anyone complains we'll have made it out of the seed stage, and making deals should be easier.

In considering the goal is to be helpful in this process I'd like to point out the story of Aurous does not bode well for this mentality or business model[1], as that concept didn't even entail a subscription revenue. Avoid negotiating licenses at your own peril, I believe.

[1] http://aurous.me/
"Admit nothing; deny everything; make counter-accusations."

Man is obviously insane, needs urgent help.

;-)
Misleading app. If you say "bon appétit" in a good French accent, it fails, then if you say it in a very bad accent but imitating the distinct pitch and rhythm of the guy in the recording, it scores 100%.
Well, let's be honest here... Did anyone expect anything different from these two?
We're using technology to build a virtual hotel chain, and will distribute inventory through our portals or through partner travel agencies. We'll partner with hotels, standardizing experience and branding them under our banner. All our hotels will give a promise of a uniform experience, so no grading is required
* If I had this idea here's how I'd approach to validating it.

Solve the problem for yourself

Google and you'll find that there is [mold inspection], [lead inspection], water tests, and both professional and direct-to-consumer versions of the above.

I would get a professional mold inspector, and compare the results to direct-to-consumer lab tests like http://www.amazon.com/MyMoldDetective-MMD100-Mold-Test-Kit/d...

Same for other tests.

I'd expect this to take maybe 20 hours of billable time doing research and logistics, $2-3k for inspections and tests, and 1 month of calendar time.

Research the market

Look at keyword search volumes. For example, using free version of https://www.semrush.com/ we get

Keyword Volume
mold inspection 4,400
mold test kit	8,100
lead inspection 260
lead paint test kit	1,900

Figure 4 billable hours doing that

* If I were considering investing into such company the questions I'd ask myself would be:

* would this area be a passion for the founders
* is this a good market
* can the founders execute on this idea

Based on the info presented and my priors my answers would be:

* No
* Yes
* No

So what I would say would be:

"This is a good idea and the market. I think it's a little to early for you to raise money. Consider solving the problem for yourself and better understanding existing solutions. I'd love to chat again once you are further ahead."
https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ I'm talk about this pricing (bare metal) not the blog post for VPS. I'd appreciate toning down the douchiness.
Self Encrypting Drives
Roughly paraphrased: "We don't care what kind of lock you build, so long as you build one that you can always unlock for us. We're not mandating any particular design, but you have to unlock it on demand."

That's not really a lock, then, is it?
> I know of no other language that invented new words [...] when RNA splicing was discovered (Épissage)

Well épissage is not a new word just like splicing was not a new word.

Épisser is joining two ropes together by weaving their strands. That's sailor language, not some new word invented to spite the English.
Senate’s Draft Encryption Bill [pdf]
What are the rationales underlying your choice to stop using Go and move to Elixir for web app or API development?
You got some potential there, but you need to grow that collection by several orders of magnitude.
Moore’s Law’s Ultraviolet Savior Is Finally Ready
Half of America still thinks the word 'socialism' is a curse word. There are enough ignorants, malcontents, and profiteers to hold back meaningful progress far beyond any of our lifespans.

Not to be a wet blanket or anything, but people expecting big, commonsense improvements to the US social system are doomed to be disappointed.

Additionally, the sheer size of the health insurance industry is a speed limit on how quickly such a transition could happen, both because of their ability to retard or corrupt political progress, as well as the scale of economic disruption such a change would entail.
You compile with various compilers and you decompile them with different decompilers. This is trivial today.

Randomness hardware? There are already perfectly good PRNG routines available as used by currently available strong encryption.

I understand the criticisms of just relying on the fact that something is open source but the alternative - closed source - has exactly 100% of those problems, plus a whole other lot of new ones too.
I used to have links to these, but in the 1.5 hours I had to wait before I could send a comment again ("You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."), I lost them. You might want to just check them yourself – often the reddit thread is mentioned in the comments, or as source in the blog post.
It is insane that this was fully done without a single line of code. And the basic gameplay and levels were done in a few hours too. Crazy!
I wouldn't call it easy reading though :) By the way, it's written in Pascal, while all current implementations, afaik, are rewritten in C.

Also, I found "TeXBook" very hard to follow; "The Program" is much more understandable. Every chapter in "TeXBook" starts with a few paragraphs of relatively simply text and then descends into a bunch of additional paragraphs marked with "dangerous turn" signs that talk about things that were never mentioned before. As the author put it, they're explained "somewhere", but it's really hard to find that somewhere.
> Also, Swift doesn't do garbage collection. That may cause problems when trying to build a shared GUI framework.

Do GUI frameworks require garbage collection? Cocoa doesn't.

But the current Android frameworks are written to function with GC, so if Google wants to support Swift or any other non-GC language, they would have write and maintain a second framework along side the old Java one.
Oh no :)
Every successful group in history has gotten there by assuming the victim-position and being saved by wealthy activists. /s
Army's latest challenge: cyber awareness on the battlefield
That's my theory as well. I've heard many horror stories about American being served by racists french, but most of these starts with the American not knowing you have to start with "Bonjour". Extremely unpolite not to start by "Bonjour" in France, even when you enter an elevator with complete strangers you will have to say Bonjour.
I believe this violates the single responsibility principle...

But seriously, do you really want all the Jeeves text showing up in your chat? Isn't that kind of annoying - like showing your friends your working when trying to give them the answer to a math equation?
SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that the system will work as is. Adults who want to meet people and make friends are really easy to get along with. We needed interests to bind us together when we were young kids in school because we hadn't had any life experiences by that time. We had all essentially lived the same life up until we graduated college. But once you're an adult, you have so much more to talk about--so many stories to tell.
Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journey across Europe
Do you have an example of a popular mobile messaging app other than WhatsApp
A better attitude is to get in while it's good, and get out in time. This can be big profit.

I agree with what you're saying, but if you don't fool yourself into thinking you're safe, and you have a proper game plan (or simply don't invest too much!) you'll be fine. If you make money, sweet! If not, eh.
Unfortunately I think you have it backwards.

Malware ads are being displayed because they are winning the auctions. That's because - on a CPM basis - malware authors are probably the ones who will always be able to pay the most. A successfully infected machine is worth a good chunk of change.

Ad networks are uniquely suited to malware delivery. Have an exploit which only works for OS X users? Don't bid on the windows users.
If anything my argument holds up because you're putting even more abstraction between you and your systems by using the managed services, which leads to less understanding of how things actually work.

For instance, I went with running PostgreSQL instead of RDS because I have much more control over what's going on in the DB than I would with RDS.

But your point that the managed services don't require ops might be true in the short term, but what happens when something breaks? Or you experience a level of growth that expands past the capabilities of the services you've organized? There's hard practical limits to all the of SaaS offerings - mostly latency and throughput - that doesn't really come up in these discussions.

The analogy about it being like assembly programming might be more apt than I originally thought, given how not doing it yourself generally results in slower and poorly optimized solutions, but then "good enough" is often the mantra of the day at a certain scale.
What sort of features would you like to see in a C/C++ replacement?
Is this being upvoted because of the pay-what-you-want publishing model? Or is this being upvoted because it's a good resource?

I'm fine with either, but it's not clear to me.

When I see things published with this model, and without reviews, I have often "bought" a free one and then afterwards "bought" another once I determine that it's not junk.
UW team stores digital images in DNA – and retrieves them perfectly
It's the latter. Privatization of sectors that are responsible for meeting human rights such as right to life (enforced by the police - as of now a public entity), liberty (right to vote - in some cases needs to be afforded by paying for IDs), education (we had a strong public education system until late 1980s), health care (private insurance companies are run as profit-making corporations, treating patients as cash-cows that are disposed of when valueless), and others is not sound policy for a democratic nation. We fell victim to the siren songs of lobbyists and paid media analysts, and have supported massive privatization and agglomeration efforts by corporates over the past 30+ years. This is hurting us.
Came here to say this as well. I spent more time searching for a period than actually taking in the message.
How we get high availability with Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails
I'm saddened, but not surprised. Like I said, there's a really weird bias that a lot of otherwise progressive and intelligent people have against remote work, and I've never heard any convincing arguments from people who've tried both that one way is categorically better than the other. Perhaps it will take something as extreme as a major environmental or economic catastrophe to warm people up to the idea because people seem to be clinging to the old ways for silly reasons.
>- Focus on mobile. Ignore desktop. Seriously.

What? Do lawyers not use laptops, what with all the writing? Are they seriously spending their days typing with thumbs on glass? That seems insane.
From the article: "As reported at the end of March, the Podesta Group registered with the U.S. Government as a lobbyist for Sberbank, as required by law"

And are those things different? Maybe Russian corporate law is different than it is in the US, but owning 51% of a company generally gives you control of that company, unless there are weird share structures like non-voting shares a la Google. But generally speaking, majority ownership and control are synonymous.
Assertions for Redux actions testing
Not available in my country (Finland) :'(
Survey Reveals IT Admins Have Room for APM Improvement
Can you explain the first sentence to us? Most of the references go right over my head.
It's called a browser... Why stay in FB to do this?
not really... it's more like a de-escalating tax bracket; The longer you've owned the home the lower the taxes you pay. However, the reality is that in return you're receiving the exact same "services" as the person buying today. How is that equitable in any way?

Their good investment allows them to sell that property at a profit, rent it for cash flow, or just sit on it. It's still their choice. Just like in the financial crisis, companies were hoarding cash due to uncertainty but because interest rates were zero-negative this encouraged spending and propped up the economy until more material improvements could be achieved. It's basic economics at the end of the day.
I was wondering how this is different from what Westlaw from thomson reuters is doing.

http://thomsonreuters.com/en/products-services/legal/large-l...

May be you could compete on price? Or what is your strategy?
As far as I am concerned, this bill is unconstitutional.
The SpaceX subreddit has an excellent megathread with lots of information about this launch. https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4dtoly/rspacex_spac...

Here is a link to the technical webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh8V0COrrzE

This is SpaceX's first ISS cargo mission since their last attempt last summer, which ended in an explosion and loss of all cargo. They will also be attempting a barge landing of the first stage, which they have not yet successfully completed. They will likely stream the landing attempt, but live video is no guarantee as there is usually too much interference.
It's ultimately a short-sighted choice - you get running really fast but then if you do well, you basically have to re-engineer from scratch.

It's basically the ultimate technical debt.
I dunno but I'm the author and I think it is pretty useful :). The guides have hundreds/thousands of stars on Github and I think some folks found it useful.

I'm using this publishing model because that is how modern scientists do it - avoid the traditional publishers so you can offer content for free or relatively cheap.
You see, I think it goes a different way: Editable-any-time-after-publishing digital content combined with Snapchat-esque manic speeds of delivery have made a significant dent in clear, well assembled writing.
google is doing the opposite of "don't be evil", they are not likable any more
Howdy - Zac here from Packet.

The clients of ours that leverage the by-the-hour model generally use the same devops tools (Terraform, Docker Machine, Ansible, etc) against our API to provision and orchestrate bare metal that they would against AWS or DO to do the same with VM's.

The use case drivers for those who choose bare metal often seem to be price/performance ratios, network, bring your own hypervisor or not use one, etc.
So.... what you're saying is that the least wealthy, most disenfranchised, most victimized, least politically powerful individuals should be able to counteract incredibly powerful external forces and just fix their communities? That seems horribly naive and borderline victim blaming.
Sufficiently advanced imitation of a native French speaker is indistinguishable from a good French accent.
I've been following AutoMicroFarm for a few years now. They have some really interesting ideas and I'm really curious to see where this goes. Unfortunately my current living situation doesn't permit me to try out any of the ideas, but O hope this at least generates more discussion on the concept.
Apple Is Giving Us More by Taking Things Away
At the very least, the employment angle. Civil Rights Act of 1964:

"It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer

(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;"
Agreed, that C# doesn't inherently turn you into an architect. It's more like C#/Java has a culture of 'architect'.

Objective-C is seriously in MVC-Land (or maybe MVVM-land too), and pretty much discourages the more convoluted design patterns that I saw back in my server dev days.
If you replace "Go" with "JavaScript" the whole blog would also apply. Except there are way more JS lovers than Go lovers out there. And these two groups almost seem to never overlap.