skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea of complex algorithms is overplayed. For instance, ViralNova.com was/is a click-baity site very similar to BuzzFeed.

It was started by a single hacker like most of us here on this forum, with 2 part-time writers. Initially it was just a wordpress blog, that he later turned into a custom CMS because wordpress is so inefficient and kept crashing when he had spikes in traffic. Scott (founder) sold it in 18 months for somewhere around 80 Million $.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/zealot-media-buys-scott-delon...

> For a while, ViralNova was a one-man startup run entirely by DeLong and two freelance writers. Together they were able to grow their website to Buzzfeed's size and scale — about 100 million monthly readers

Doesn't this mean that BuzzFeed has too much "fat" ( in terms of employees) that cuts into their profits?

Thoughts?
I think the degree to which people were aware of the impact they had on the world, in contrast with our blithe willingness to ignore that, is going to be looked upon unfavorably. Previous generations were generally ignorant, misinformed, and lacked the resources even if they wanted to change that.

What's our excuse now, other than habit and our own worst natures?
Cool site, would be nice to see a breakdown of how much each answer contributed to the final estimate, though (unless I missed something on the last page).
As it is known now, there sort of wasn't a "tech work culture." People just topped out at fairly low salaries relative to now. People were mostly "lifers". There was very little hope of a replacement job. I had relatives caught up in the early 1970s aerospace bust and they were out of work for a while and had to retool.

As a view into it, see "Moon Machines" - that's what it looked like as a child to me.

A lot of the "work long hours" thing is cargo culting / social signalling to project the image of "high performance." The first step is admitting you're not John Carmack. I have tendencies that way; I'll get caught up in something at home on the weekends and completely lose track of time.

But it must be managed. I know better than to do that at work. You have to let the work breathe ( a metaphor for letting all your cognitive processes catch up after a burst ).

It's fun to do... beer/coffee-fueled sprints far into the night but it's not very responsible nor sustainable. I learned this looking carefully at what I'd done in those.
Humans have bugs all the time, you can just faint for no reason while driving . ..
Facebook's React Native F8 App Open Sourced
As far as I remember pension guarantee corp is underfunded it likely would fold with one large failure.
Great writeup!
PS: "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is devops." -DevOps Borat
In response to everyone asking about open standards and standardized platforms, there's already an open standard for networked IP cameras and it's called onvif, run by a non-profit organization (for what that is worth). There are open implementations for OnVif and virtually all cameras shipping from China already support OnVif.
I've always explained it like the digital equivalent of those trash magazines at grocery store checkout stands. It's not for everyone, but it works for some.
I think, the guys who built the system for a 100 airports probably know best how to change the system for a 1000 airports while preserving all its advantages.

Maybe NavCanada can slowly scale up by exporting it to bigger and bigger countries until its big enough for American airports.
Trolling people's word choice and similar is a game better played at Slashdot.
Building the F8 2016 App (with React Native): Part 1
Woah. A great system for drones to start self-reporting flight plans into .
That's a bit more esoteric than what I was going for but fair enough.
I have no official source, only experience. My company has been selling on Amazon for over 6 years (we're medium-ish volume, 200+ orders a day on Amazon alone).

We're found majority of customers have no idea who they're buying from. Majority assume it's always Amazon, and often contact us about other orders they've recently placed, etc.

If you browse around Amazon, you'll notice items that have many "offers", clicking this link will show you the seller's who are listing that product. You'll notice how few Amazon.com is actually listed as a seller. Typically they're listing the top 10 items in any given category, but there's millions of products on Amazon, and very few they actually carry. When they are listed on an item, they're not always the best deal anymore.

We don't worry about competing with Amazon.com anymore, we worry about competing with our Chinese manufacturers (sometimes the same ones we source from!), who get USPS/US Gov't subsidized shipping (free shipping from China, and product costs ~1/2 of a US seller).

Amazon is transitioning into a seller platform, not a seller themselves. All the warehouses they keep popping up everywhere are mostly for FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon) warehouses, where 3rd party sellers send their products so that Amazon can warehouse them and ship them when there's a sale.

Amazon FBA is a fairly competitive fulfillment cost, sometimes beating our own internal fulfillment costs (we're stepping up our FBA game because of this, but unfortunately will ultimately result in fewer warehouse staff in our company).

Another secret - Amazon is rarely the best deal for any given item. Officially, policy says you must offer the "best deal" on Amazon, but this is never enforced in our experience. Amazon takes a commission of up-to 30% (depending on the item category), so unless you already have very healthy margins, you end up baking in an additional 30% to the retail price. Customer's pay your commission fees. So, if you find a product you want, see who the seller is, and try to find their website outside of Amazon.com. Chances are, the item will be up-to 30% cheaper (sometimes more!). Of course, this isn't an always guarantee, but it pays to check.
This could have been such a killer app for Google Voice, you make hit *22 or something after a call to indicate its a spammer/sales/robocall and totally improve the experience for everyone else who doesn't have to listen even to the ring.
>It's very hard to complain about wages when you make $200k+ on flexible 40 hrs/week with free food.

How large a portion of tech workers make this much?
I suspect that Amazon has realized that people don't upgrade their kindles the way they do their phone per say and they think that people will be willing to pay a lot more for something that lasts them 4 or 5 years, if it feels higher quality.
I'm not talking specifically about eating them while alive, which is a relatively rare practice anyway. Their torment as by-catch and just in general seems more ubiquitous to me. Eating them alive is gruesome, but frankly a lot closer to what an octopus can expect in nature. Being put in solitary in a tiny box though? Being held in a tank in terrible conditions, and then brutally dispatched?

That's all too common.
The problems you've described make sense. They're not problems I have because I generally don't exit Emacs (and I don't use it on the command line, but in server mode with GUI clients), but if I did, I'd want to come back to the same environment I left. Changes you know you want to keep, you can add to your initialization code so that they're reapplied on the next startup, but that's not the same, and it doesn't cover ephemera at all.

Which editor are you used to using that does, though? I ask because I'd like to experiment with it a little and see what it does and, to the extent possible, how it does so, because that seems like a useful capability for Emacs to have, and one of the nice things about Emacs is that it offers a programming environment flexible enough to support most other editors' "hey, neat" capabilities - the Sublime minimap, for instance.
Yes, but have you been part of the development & testing effort for mission-critical software (e.g. a class 1 or 2 medical device?). It's not true in all cases, but for the most part the level of QA that goes into the devices before release is significantly higher than that of your average product. This is why regulation is required.
As far as I know he hasn't filed a complaint yet, it's just been verbal/emails (which is still more than enough to interfere). I assume he will file something soon.

RE naming names, the complain is public anyway, but still it's not something I feel great about. However, behavior like this is becoming more common (I spend far more time dealing with related issues than I'd like) and it needs to stop.
I guess the meta-bot would use the NLP interface of the other bots. (You need natural language processing and generation anyhow, so you may as well use it as a bot-2-bot interface.)

I think your 4th point is more problematic, when you have a meta bot and the actual interface interacting, then you will get false positives, which in this case means bought/not-bought tickets.
Building codes in the US typically require minimum dimensions for habitable spaces. These minimums reflect experience developed over the millenia and the requirement that laws and regulations have objective criteria and that governments generally apply them uniformly.
Yes, my bad, you're right. Do so little iPad dev that I forgot about that :)
Uh, he was right unless you missed the part where the 28 year old was replaced by someone even older than the author.

There's something the vast majority of millennials seem to lack and that is respect for the wisdom that comes with age. This doesn't say anything else that necessitates a defensive posture or taking a chip on one's shoulders - though another character flaw of applying and seeing everything in the light of themselves generally causes this. This is the naivete of youth and unfortunately most don't even realize as much until they are way past their youth
Since it is just as much Sofia media as it is a publishing platform/blogging tool-- I agree. I like Twitter, but there are a lot of idiots there. I like Facebook (sometimes), lots of idiots there as well.

We all like tools to encourage free speech here (I'd assume), this is just one of the negatives that comes with it.
The list of schools is always one of the most contentious point whenever we have the opportunity to pitch Seedrunners :)

In a sense, it is a necessary evil to have such a restrictive list.

One, creating scarcity helps us build interest in Seedrunners.

Two, we carefully review and help each of our startup build their application (as it is in our interest for every one of them to have the best profile possible for the rankings). Something we could not realistically do if we were to receive thousands of applications.

Finally, and most importantly, it has a significant marketing power when it comes to investors to guarantee that every startup is led by founders coming from the best schools in the world.

Once we have proven that Seedrunners works and have the necessary financial resources, we will easily be able to open Seedrunners to all startup applicants (same goes for community membership).
I would not bet too much on the ability of collective struggles to solve individual problems. I still think that this is at the heart of Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago". both the movie and the book. And it has taken on the patina of timelessness and universality in my experience
Makeitopen.com – new Open Source learning site from Facebook
What about something like Jekyll and text being edited in vim or emacs? There are many people, myself included, that prefer hard breaks for a variety of reasons.

Just because something doesn't fit your use-case doesn't mean it's not common.
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It looks like you'd define your own DTD, to be a subset of HTML.
The key word is "buy." If it's associated with your digital purchases on Amazon, you can directly access them from any device. If you've downloaded/saved a document to a specific device, it's only on that device.

However, my understanding is that you can import content to your personal Kindle library. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_...
I live in Amsterdam, so I mostly read AT5, www.at5.nl
Aircraft autopilots also rely on experienced and licensed pilots to operate them and be responsible for the aircraft at all times. Self driving cars have assume the operator is not particularly capable nor paying attention to anything happening on the road.
The Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness (2014)
It is important to unit test the boundary conditions.
It's not that it doesn't work for less economical majors in less competitive schools. It's just that the market is crowded out by the availability of credit from government loans. If there were no government loans or were less restricted, banks would offer credit to those less credit worthy, however the interest rates would be higher (higher than those the government now offers).

So incoming freshmen might see options like this:

State school, engineering 5% interest

State school, lib arts 8% interest

Private school, engineering 7%

Private school, lib arts 12%

This would also be a huge signal in terms of assessing the value of a degree from a school. I'm not saying that those with higher interest rates are less desirable, but in terms of an investment, they are a riskier. The interest rates would be mostly determined by historical loan performance of those that went to those schools and majored in those fields.
It'll just be back stopped by the general fund, just like Social Security.
That does not match my experience. Is this something that has changed recently in Silicon Valley?
A nail in the coffin for Firefox?
from wiki, canada:

> Nav Canada manages 12 million aircraft movements a year for 40,000 customers in over 18 million square kilometres, making it the world’s second-largest air navigation service provider (ANSP) by traffic volume

usa:

> In 2006 En Route and Oceanic Services supported 47 million operations in the national airspace system. We are responsible for controlling more than 5,600,000 square miles (15,000,000 km2) of airspace in the U.S. and more than 24,600,000 square miles (64,000,000 km2) of airspace over the oceans.

roughly 1/4 the volume, I'm willing hazard a guess it would scale.
I think the idea is that Linux has two orders of magnitude more loops, so one order of magnitude more 4-level-indentations is actually an improvement over Git's code, by ratio.

It's not as if Torvalds wrote the entire codebase by himself, anyway.
It is worth noting, that domain used by the malware (as well as some other domains) was seized and shut down by .pl's registrar's (NASK) security team (CERT). Here's the report of the operation: https://www.cert.pl/PDF/Report_Virut_EN.pdf
Burr-Feinstein “Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016” officially released [pdf]
How to Recover in the Aftermath of a DDoS Attack
Why are you comparing self-driving cars to exclusively a "paying attention driver"?

For self-driving cars to be safer than human drivers, there is no requirement that the self-driving cars should be better/safer than the best human driver... the self-driving car simply needs to be safer than the majority of humans.
A similar interesting octopus story not mentioned in the article:

A particular light in a German aquarium kept short-circuiting and no one could figure out why. Using camera surveillance it was finally discovered that every night, the octopus would climb to the edge of his tank and shoot a jet of water on the light, shorting it. It was speculated that the light had been bothering the octopus' nocturnal routine.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3328...
Ok, I have a Kindle Paperwhite 7th generation. It's 300dpi. There's no reason even to desire this, right?
> AFAIK there is absolutely zero evidence for a historical Moses.

Lack of evidence is not evidence of anything. The scientific method is good for eliminating the likelihood of a hypothesis being correct based on evidence...not the lack of evidence.

> "most religious people" will argue for Moses himself writing the Torah in its entirety

It always amazes me how many people have opinions about the Torah without studying the Talmud in it's entirety.

Why not defer to those Rabbis who have spent their lives studying the talmud instead of scientists who choose to ignore a massive body of research and discourse that is highly relevant.
Incidentally, C-x 8 is by default bound to a keymap that includes a lot of glyphs not often found on keyboards. You can insert £ with C-x 8 L, which might be more convenient than M-x tom/insert-sterling-symbol RET.
Ride-Sharing Startups Compete in ‘Uber for Children’ Niche
For my personal installs I just run Arch with the latest version of Gnome stable.

The reason I still suggest an Ubuntu derivative is because it's really easy to find instructions on how to do something, and their still mostly the same. I don't know if the same is true for Fedora just because I haven't used it before and encountered the same googling problems.

Of course, this may be a bad thing, because the number of wrong answers, or unanswered questions out there.
I was hoping this would get more attention so that Yelp would see it. Oh well :)

I agree.
Putting the Angular 2 “Tour of Heroes” Tutorial on a Rails 5.0.0.beta3 Back End
Interesting web directory (AI driven)
You're really kind of changing the subject and trying to put words in my mouth here.

The reality is that apps in every language have security vulnerabilities and bugs, and different languages are more or less susceptible to different classes of bugs. Nobody is claiming C++ is perfect, and it's irrelevant to this conversation.

Getting back to my original point, even completely solving the memory safety issue, getting mainstream adoption for Rust will require competing with C++'s other advantages, like its huge ecosystem, and I think it's optimistic to think that will happen in just 3 years.
I'm not sure the AWS network follows the same setup, AWS has very distinct blocks between the US/EU/APAC compared to GCP where you can inherit the same IP if you quickly delete/recreate instances in different regions?
Judging from the screenshot it even works on Windows XP. This is really impressive, since Windows kernel drivers typically have to be written in plain old C.
What is the 418: I'm a teapot HTTP Status Code all about?
It seems the US can't learn anything from anywhere in the world because it's too big, too many states, too small (in comparison to China) or for some other reason.
Intelligence isn't inherently good. I don't want to be replaced by a sociopathic murder bot. One that may not even be sentient. It wouldn't experience emotions like love, or joy, or fun, or anything. What a sad way for the universe to end, as cold emotionless metal.

The child analogy breaks down quickly. My biological children would share 99.99...% of my DNA and most of my cultural values. An AI "child" need not share anything in common with it's creator, and they might totally detest each other.

And lastly my children don't murder me and replace me. I would be pretty upset at such a child, and would probably disown them and try to defend myself. I would have known I screwed up producing them and be sad.

Lastly see Value is Fragile: http://lesswrong.com/lw/y3/value_is_fragile/

>My friend, I have no problem with the thought of a galactic civilization vastly unlike our own... full of strange beings who look nothing like me even in their own imaginations... pursuing pleasures and experiences I can't begin to empathize with... trading in a marketplace of unimaginable goods... allying to pursue incomprehensible objectives... people whose life-stories I could never understand.

>That's what the Future looks like if things go right.

>If the chain of inheritance from human (meta)morals is broken, the Future does not look like this. It does not end up magically, delightfully incomprehensible.

>With very high probability, it ends up looking dull. Pointless. Something whose loss you wouldn't mourn.
Source Code of React Native for Windows
It should really be up to the workers whether they enjoy how golden the handcuffs are.
Silly Microsoft, should have at least had some caching layer instead of analyzing every image. RIP CaptionBot.
React Native Gets Backing from Microsoft and Samsung
For 16.04 it is hard to say, as it is only beta right now.

But I do have Ubuntu/Unity on my laptop and one desktop computer since 12.04, updated to each intermediate release about a week after its publication and encountered almost none of the problems that the author described in all the time. My laptop is a 4 year old Thinkpad W520, the successor to the W510, that the author referred to in his user story.

I use fulldisk encryption, have two graphic cards in the laptop and a Gefore 970 in the desktop system, I use the Lenovo dock and have multiple monitors connected to it. The desktop system is a dual boot with Win10. I use tons of software of different trades. So my setups are not completely trivial, but work absolutely flawless.

The mass of problems described by the author probably indicate a more general problem, either caused by the video setup or, considering the range and randomness, maybe a hardware defect (RAM?). Maybe the laptop is also a bit old, which, of course, should not be much of a problem for Ubuntu.

The things to take care of, in my experience, are:

1. setting up the proprietary drivers for the dedicated graphic card can cause trouble. Ubuntu offers the driver installation (Nvidia in my case) from Synaptic or the Ubuntu Software Center but it is a matter of fact, that the installation cannot be done reliably from within a running X-Session. It is mandatory to boot into the terminal and do the installation manually with an apt-get command, then reboot the computer. If you know it, it is absolutely no problem, but Canocial does not give instructions for this procedure, probably because it contradicts their claim for usability. Users who fail on the graphics driver installation often start to hack in random commands they find in user forums, maybe go for the xorg-edgers drivers and eventually end up with a seriously messed system. But: the problem exists in other distributions as well (except, maybe, Arch ;-)

2. background light control per hotkeys did not work out of the box but needed a manual tweak.

3. I made bad experiences with the Unity Tweak Tool. Some of the author's description match my experiences when fiddling with it. Try not to touch it. System preferences and "Ubuntu Tweak" are completely sufficient for me.

Otherwise I am more than happy - the system is super fast, super stable, all major upgrades worked flawlessly so far, hardware-changes (graphics cards, hard disks) caused no trouble, incremental backup (backintime) works perfectly, and I cannot remember a crash, not even a crash of the X-environment. In my experience, nagging problems that require significant research and fixing are very common for me on Windows, much less so on Ubuntu and almost not existing on OSX. On the other side: I can almost always fix an existing problem on Ubuntu, for Windows I often need help from others or the problem ends in a fresh install and on OSX there is not much to fix at all ;-)

In conclusion, I cannot believe that the aggregation of problems described by the author is in any way typical for Ubuntu per se.
I mean, a large number of the issues he wrote about seem directly related to Unity, even if similar problems occurred in other distros.

The lack of even giving it a try just seems weird to me, given the amount of kvetching and problems the author encountered.