skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This. Facebook has been known to bait and switch on developers time and time again, even outright stealing what devs have worked on if it becomes competitive.

If you build on platforms like this, you're going to have a bad time.
I agree, five isn't that many. I meant it more like "I've only gotten five, even with all this work."

I don't know where else to apply and interview. I've worked all my connections (I don't have many), and spent a lot of time looking around job postings, mailing lists, and local communities to find places that seem right. I have a breadth of tech I can work with and I know that I am looking for small to medium size teams, so I apply to whatever I find that looks like a good match. Do you know any other way to find the right places to pursue?

I've tried to get feedback but have been unable to get anything useful. I have also tried to ask the people I know at those companies for any inside info, but nothing has come from that either.
These studies have been debunked countless times. When all is equal (hours worked, degree, and experience), women get paid pretty much the same amount as men.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wage-gap-myth-that-wont-die-...
Where do you see the button the www.getpaint.net? This is all I see and it looks legit [1]

[1] http://imgur.com/S8iV9cX
I think he meant a loan secured by property that the kids would otherwise expect to inherit free and clear.
Necronomicon oaths work even if you don't swear them.
By straightforward, do you mean "blast the access tunnel in case of emergency and bury it under 100 ft of rock"?
Keep in mind that a single spaceship wouldn't take up the whole beam - for one thing, there would be a bunch of them, and for another, we simply can't focus a laser on something the size of an iPhone from even as far away as the moon. That said, it is still a massive amount of power that needs to be reflected.
Equitable App – A bill splitting app to split bills fairly
I used and wrote code for NeWS - the pre-curser for Java. I was also at the talk where Gosling admitted the problems it had. In some cases, a lot of features of Java were in response to the problems with NeWS.

NeWS was so awesome when it came out, where you can dynamically change the interface at any time. But NeWS had some horrible bits. As a language, it was very hard to read. If you saw a name, you didn't know if it was a variable or a function. That is, you didn't know if the value would be pushed onto the stack, or if it would pop some values off the stack. Best Practice was to add a comment after each line to indicate what the top of the stack would look like after that line. So if you got lost reading one line, you could figure out what the next line would do. But without it, after seeing three words in a row that you didn't fully understand, you were hopelessly lost.

NeWS (PostScript) was a write-only display model. You could not remove anything painted on the screen. You had to write over it. Adobe had Display PostScript, but that never took off.

And because of the write-only display, NeWS had a hard time freeing resources. Garbage collection was very difficult because of this. You would allocate a white square, and never truly "remove it" from memory. As I recall, a page refresh had to re-interpret all of the code - there wasn't any caching of the window.

Also - the entire display model with postscript-based scaling was CPU intensive, especially if you had a computer with slow graphics (quite common at the time).
The thing is, I feel the same way about my hobbies. Why can't I make as much $/hr as a carpenter or landscaper? Why can't the market accept that this is what I would prefer rather than working as a programmer by day and carpenter in my spare time? Simply put, the market values what it values. There is a definite limit to how much it will care about your passion because other people eventually care about their own money and time too much to give it to you. Unless I am willing to work long hours, I can't make nearly as much as I do now working just over 40 a week. In business for myself I wouldn't have access to the same benefits I get in my programming job. Nothing would compare.
Yet another case of mistaking language for reality. When you think about it, hasn't that been the culprit in humanity's folly for so many thousands of years? Derrida is probably upset somewhere ...
I think people are conflating bots with something intelligent, some people go so far as to say AI bots, which is very misleading. There's a lot of hype around autonomous agents, with not a lot of understanding.
Was about to post that exact same link.
A Nicoll-Dyson laser has much the same effect, but you can fire it again and again as long as you still have a sun.
Fixed now. Sorry. The load from HN was too much for a while.
Given that the resource being limited here is signing operations performed by their HSM, this wouldn't really help much. (OCSP responses wouldn't have to be signed for quite as long, but still.)

There's a staging server issuing untrusted certificates with significantly higher rate limits for this purpose. With the reference client, it's a matter of using the --staging flag.
The current bots trends started when silicon valley saw how successful WeChat is building a platform on top of its chat app. It has an eco that is not tied to AppStore/PlayStore. What WeChat is doing is more of building apps rather than bots on top of WeChat. They took the idea of SMS apps (e.g. SMS to vote for American Idol, SMS to top up your mobile data plan) and model it for chat. So one can basically build an Uber app inside WeChat, and that's what Uber's China competitor DiDi is doing. WeChat users in China can do all their Didi, shopping, order food, buy cinema tickets, book train tickets, payment, online banking all within WeChat app. Fast forward few years to 2015, and Slack bots become a thing. So interactive apps via text commands become bots as it gains more intelligence (or not like the case of Tay by Microsoft). Facebook is doing catch up and apparently it is different from WeChat. One crucial thing that made WeChat so successful is payment, and that enables commerce via the platform. There is no such option in Messenger. Maybe not ready or Facebook has a different direction for its bots platform.
We need to...why?

That's how things were financed in the middle ages

In the middle ages, can you get thousand of people to essentially send you a small paycheck every month on an ongoing basis?

And what exactly is wrong with that model?
I know there have been a couple of companies that are making the move to openly discuss employee pay. It's something that surely needs to happen. Twice in my short career I've run into very obvious pay discrimination revealed after an employee on the way out told me their salary. Once to me, once to a fellow female developer. Excited to see both voluntary moves toward this as well as legislation.
I wish I could get my friends to use DuckDuckGo's XMPP server. Google removed federation from their server.

AIM, Yahoo and MSN were all closed gardens and people reverse engineered them to make gaim (now pidgin/libpurple), audium (libpurple based?), trillian, et al.

There is a Facebook plug-in for libpurple. I've looked at the source code for it and hangups (OSS hangouts library) but I'm already short on time for all the projects I want to work on.

In any case, in the past, devs in the community used these closed walled servers for our use. Today the very nature of IM is different with its use dictated to us by Google/Facebook's marketing gods (no online indicators, you're always online, you're never away, everything is a text, e-mails are apparently too long and difficult to read).
This was on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11472612
The problem of what to do with radioactive wastewater have not been solved.

Nuclear power is not economical. It actually works really well on the small scale, but not for city power generation.

Nuclear power is simply the worlds most expensive way to boil water.
There are cheaper ways to boil water! http://www.nea.is/geothermal/electricity-generation/
I will write the function,

While you go have a beer

Where is my module support?

Where is my linter library?

Where is my code ending?

Where have all the semicolons gone?

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Sing to Paula Cole's "Where have all the Cowboys Gone?"
All of those things had a clear benefit in the cost-benefit analysis of the prior state and after state. Getting rid of reproductive sex isn't worth it at all. It's way better to do it the old fashioned way.
I went and read a little on the Web Authentication spec[1].

I have a laptop, a smartphone and a tablet. Their 'use cases' section seem to imply that once I register with a site using this new auth system, I have to use the same device to authorise any future login attempts - either on the same device, or on another device over USB/NFC/BLE.

So, if I register on my laptop, basically fuck any chance of being able to make use of the site on my phone/tablet when I'm away from my desk.

If I register on my phone, that means I then have to have my phone on and with me to authenticate.

If I lose/wipe/upgrade my phone, I guess I'm just fucked.

Some might argue the second is the same for 2FA, but that is not the case. The (T|H)OTP spec says nothing about what can be done with the secret that is provided, from which OTP's are generated. Consequently, I can keep a (encrypted) copy of my 2FA config, and even sync it between mobile devices, so as long as I have access to either my tablet or my phone, or a replacement for one of those that I sync the 2FA app db to, I can generate any required 2FA OTP.

If the spec doesn't allow for a user to manage the private key how they see fit (e.g. syncing to other devices they own, and/or to off-device storage) this is honestly worse than the current situation.

[1] http://w3c.github.io/webauthn/
The Twitter debacle is what really did it for me. As others have pointed out this is sharecropping through and through. You build anything meaningful on this and Facebook has you by the you-know-whats and can pull the rug out from under you at will. Thanks but no thanks.
Then don't build on it. Period. If you don't like what Facebook is doing, don't build on it. Don't use it. People who built on others' platform shouldn't expect utopia. You don't own the house, you are just a tenant. Contract is done you are out. Well, there isn't much of any contract between you and Facebook Platform anyway.
I'm off on vacation for a few weeks (unlimited vacation that's closer to the real thing?!) - if you're applying between now and the next time a post comes up, I won't be able to respond so please apply directly on our careers page!
> These are actively being served through Google Adsense, right now.

There should be a button to report them. Please report them.
Dear Cloudcraft Pro developer: This is the most exciting thing I've seen today. I've been wanting a tool like this since I started using AWS.

However, the "Pro Solo" pricing strikes me as being way out of whack. It's as much as the "all apps" Adobe Creative Cloud plan. It's a 6X multiple of licensing all Office apps for a year, and just under the cost of licensing all JetBrains products for a year.

Please provide a reasonable (say, $99), yearly "Solo Designer" plan for "infinite grid" planning and illustration, so that I may happily give you my money instead of using a free version with mysterious canvas size limitations.
How do you reconcile this mantra of spontaneous order with the start-up necessity of iteration?
See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/impl...
Another article by the wsj saying the opposite.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/gender-pay-gap-widens-1445389259
Have a look at what we're doing with our startup: https://platform.happening.im - it's exactly what you're describing: a (group) messenger that allows third party developers to create their own HTML5-based apps that can have complex functionality and/or interfaces.
The gender based wage gap is a myth: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-ga...
How is lack of extant tooling swalsh's fault? Would you like to write some?
It redirects to

https://messengerplatform.fb.com/

see also

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform
The farm that grows climate solutions
I thought this also, but "[...] to keep the beam tightly focused on one probe at a time would require [...]" in the original article points in the opposite direction.
Facebook Messenger Platform Beta – Updated
To be fair, the universe was pretty friendly and created us in the first place.
Why warn? Why not simply drop/block them and notify the ad network/ad buyer?
Another article by the huffington post saying the opposite

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/no-the-gender-pay-gap-is...
This is the first DCE RPC protocol level vulnerability I'm aware of. DCE RPC isn't the web, but millions of businesses depend on it (mostly unknowingly) to do admin on their local networks every day.

Not trying to mitigate someone else's hype, but from the Samba point of view this is one of the most serious bugs we've ever had to fix I think. We've had worse bugs that only affected Samba (root-level compromises, shudder), but the effect of this one is the most widespread.
How much will an average household save if they go with you guys? I remember looking into this at one point in NYC, getting confused and thinking that the power companies were all pretty much the same. If you aren't saving people a substantial amount of money then it's not likely to be worth it for them to switch, which is my guess as to why so many users stick with the defaults.

Also, how will you get users? The reason I looked into it at all was that I was visited door-to-door, but I blew them off and only did the research when I realized they weren't completely full of shit.
SRI is far more interesting than it should be.
I'm not even sure that the number of people who died
or could die is really the most severe point but i rather believe it is the cost of a nuclear accident.

We as a society decide every day to let people die because it is too expensive. Think of healthcare, safety norms or human aid.

And having massive areas in high developed countries beeing uninhabitable is unbelieveble costly.
Think what 100 sqm in california would amount to.
Note: The link you post is about Facebook's rewrite of their chat services from Erlang to C++, not WhatsApp.
At what point is using Storm or any other alternative inevitable? I am always reminded of [1] in these cases. Have you found instances where an implementation of the core logic in C/C++ (maybe with thread parallelism) is fast enough?

1: http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-tha...
> Active sabotage would be difficult to accomplish because there are multiple layers of redundancy and control systems and people that would all have to be bypassed.

Did I just imagine the news articles about two Belgian nuclear plant operators having been members of ISIS for some months, even participating in some attacks?
Cosmic rays are far too small to easily see coming, and we get those all the time here.
But they can't really monetize chat by inserting ads. That would be a dumb thing to do, even if we assume most users don't care about privacy. Well, the reality is even those who don't really don't like having an AI spitting out an ad in the middle of your chat with friend.
Twilio adds Facebook Messenger to its communication API platform
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rate-limits-for-lets-enc...

Also linked lower down in the thread
Thankfully for Zuckerberg, our industry is very bad at learning from history.
It's not the vendors, it's their customers :-).
XAML Edit and Continue
After someone comes up with an answer to that let's backport it to the very concept of the cloud.
I don't get the pricing, really. Remove the free plan, offer a 1 month free try for paid users and lower your first paid plan. $50 a month is nuts for individuals.

I really don't get cloud plans like these.
Didn't Facebook used to use XMPP too?
You can use Cloudcraft for free and create exactly the same type of diagrams as with the paid plans, for as long as you like. There's no watermarks, missing components, etc.

If it saves you time and money, or you think the additional features add value, you could consider subscribing. But it's fine if you don't.
55 years from humanity's first flight to space
Will New York City’s Free Wi-Fi Help Police Watch You?
It was true for Steve Jobs[1].

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.priori...
Beware of the Impossible Smart Contract – Blockchain News
> I expect the cost of using current battery tech to balance solar/wind day to day throughout a typical/ideal month would be huge, let alone however much you would need to cover the possibility of a stretch of overcast days and calm winds.

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/hawaii-co-op-solarcity-ink-d...

14.5 cents/kwh is huge? And that's with existing battery costs, not taking into account Tesla's Gigafactory ramping up.

"The dispatchable solar plant has a 52 MWh battery system that will store energy generated during the day and allow it to feed up to 13 MW of electricity back onto the grid during the evening peak.

Under the 20-year power contract, KIUC will pay SolarCity 14.5 cents/kWh, less than the cost of conventional generation in Hawaii, and slightly more than the cost of power from the co-op's other exisiting solar farms."
Apply HN: Codeflow – A revolutionary programming platform
Url: http://codeflow.co/ (There is a demo video)

Codeflow is an attempt at changing the way we program computers.

Most of the current programming languages are inherited from the command-line era of the 1970s. The personal computing industry have moved a lot since. The GUI revolution triggered by the mouse, touch screen interfaces triggered by the iDevices, the VR/AR & gesture/voice based interfaces of today and so on. But programmers are still stuck with a keyboard, are forced to remember the exact syntax & commands and type things character by character, to perform even basic tasks. The resulting stream of text isn't pretty and doesn't convey well even to a fellow coder.

In Codeflow, you program by wiring independent modules on a visual canvas. The Input interface of each module is visual and therefore self-documented. We invented a completely visual expression language to connect the pieces together. As a side effect, the 'code' will always looks like your brainstorming diagram.

Think of a modules as a mobile app. The same way you don't read a manual to operate so many mobile apps, you don't need a manual to figure out the configuration for individual modules, be it querying a mongo db or setting up an http listener. You definitely need an understanding of the concepts of every component, but you don't ever need to learn the syntax or read docs for interfacing with the component.

It wasn't easy, we almost took three years developing it but we believe we have achieved what we dreamed of. Apart from doing several internal projects, we also convinced and worked closely with two startups to launch their backend stack on Codeflow (http://tailslife.com, http://plento.co).

Codeflow will be opening for public soon and will be fully open sourced. Please upvote if you think Codeflow should be part of YC.

p.s. If you are interested in using the platform for your next or current work, please reach out to me - murukesh@codeflow.co.
A Docker Container Pattern – Compose Configuration
wow, I really do not want to quibble with you about something we agree on, so for the record, "hey everybody, I agree with cyphar!"

However: the GPL2 says that you can impose no restrictions on what what people can implement with free software so long as they it is only redistributed as free software, so it seems to me that while DRM'ed software is not free, DRM software itself could be free. Hey, if a DRM scheme could be designed to ensure software freedom, it might even be embraced; we already have GPL clickwrap license clicks which a narrow reading of the GPL might suggest you can't have (it's an "additional restriction" that the original software you licensed may not have had; for instance, if clickwraps are covered by law that the GPL is not covered by, you are forcing additional terms)

I know that the GPL3 had some fine tuning with regard to TiVoization and web servers, but I'm not aware that it would bar DRM software itself; but perhaps.

OK, I found it here for GPL3. You are partially correct that the GPL3 contains some anti-DRM measures but not in the sense you describe:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.en.html
"It's always possible to use GPLed code to write software that implements DRM. However, if someone does that with code protected by GPLv3, section 3 says that the system will not count as an effective technological "protection" measure. This means that if you break the DRM, you'll be free to distribute your own software that does that, and you won't be threatened by the DMCA or similar laws."

I thought one aspect of the GPL (copyleft being a clever copyright hack) is that the license applies only to the code you are licensing, and not to other copyrighted works you may have authored, but in a certain sense it does. I'm sure RMS and Moglen and FSF have thought harder about this than I have, so it's quite likely I'm missing something; however they do have broader agendas as well.
I think you are blocking ads. I am too and that's what I see. From a device not blocking ads this is what I see:

http://imgur.com/yZDK7og
Framing the problem as "benefits gap" as opposed to "pay gap" sounds like a good way forward I think. The article rightly points to the difference in terms of parental leave and other benefits, which are usually not brought up when talking about pay gap.
360 video is cool but feels a little gimmicky for personal use.

180 degree 3D video, on the other hand, is AWESOME - that's the true-life look/feel that I think is going to be game changing and sell another 100m units for GoPro or whomever comes up with it.

So far the players I know are:

http://vuze.camera/
https://webeyevr.com/
http://lucidcam.com/

Or some combo of kit that you can cobble together:

http://shop.gopro.com/accessories/3d-hero-system/AHD3D-001.h...

Or run a DIY game:

http://www.stereoscopynews.com/hotnews/3d-technology/softwar...

Anybody have any experience to share on a good consumer balanced solution?
FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS
Please add wildcard support.
I Don’t Think Uber Is Actually a Great Business (Yet)
I had a similar situation just recently with an old Gmail account. Despite knowing the password, Gmail wants me to answer the security question or log in from a place I logged in ten years ago or list folder names (which didn't exist the last time I used that account) or ...

The whole point of this misery was to recover my Steam account to play a few games. Fortunately, Steam lets you recover your account if you can provide proof of ownership (like CD keys of physical copies).

I don't want Google to be the safekeeper of my digital identity.
Would they slow down when they reach another star? What kind of observations can you do if you move at that speed?
As a non-hit artist, married to a non-hit artist, and who's produced a bevy of non-hit artists, I can say that roughly none of a non-hit artist's income is likely to come from Pandora / Pandora discovery.

At $0.0001/stream typical, Pandora itself cannot ever add up to meaningful income for a non-hit artist. Most of the income for the non-hit artist will come from that core group of committed fans who buy everything the artist makes, contribute to kickstarters, and shows up at all the concerts.

As a discovery tool Pandora's value is debatable. My anecdotal experience is that of all the various ways that I and other artists I know have made fans, Pandora was never one. YMMV.

(Update: I just found a bit a data that states that Pandora accounts for ~10% of new music discovery which is a lot better than I would have guessed.)