skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Neither of these things were revealed by the Panama papers

are you sure? The article says that

Almost lost among the many revelations is the fact that Russia’s
biggest bank uses The Podesta Group as its lobbyist in Washington, D.C.

so I wonder if you have a reference to back your statement?

Also, you say

> Sberbank is owned by the Russian government

but this is not the point of the article. They are saying that Sberbank is controlled by the Russian government, which is subtly different.
This chap would get top marks with this app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzbgpGuX6-s
For purely remote scenarios, it is an important indication of whether you will be back soon or if you are afk for an extended period of time. Without it you are left broadcasting your status ("going afk for an hour to run an errand, etc") on channels, or having to hack up your profile each time and assume that other users will know where to look to determine when you will be back.

Just about every messaging system has support for this: ICQ, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and now Google Hangouts, HipChat, etc. Even with IRC there are cheap ways to simulate it. It's really hard to get used to not having it after making good use of it for almost 2 decades.
Building Pinterest's A/B testing platform
I'm not so idealistic as to think I can change the model. I just want the content in a way that's acceptable to me so I can consume it now. It's not a waste of time if I save more time not looking at ads, not loading ads and have to remove less malware infections from my friends and family's computers. Not a waste of time at all!

The only way the model is going to change is if everyone adopts ad blockers and anti-anti solutions. And that's not going to happen. So I've got to deal with what we realistically have until someone comes up with this mythical better model and makes it work.

I can't change the model, but I can change what my computer does about it.
Well, okay, sure, if you want me to make some numbers up, I can do that. Just understand that you're not actually asking me to estimate the time a process will take, you're asking me to make some numbers up so that you can convince yourself to feel good about the speculative investment you're making!

Edit: we've apparently had different experiences around the word "estimate"; for me that's always been a term used by managers who want something they can slot into a Gantt chart or its equivalent, and trying to play along with that game has always led to frustration. The people in my experience who have been looking for "some criteria to make a decision" haven't generally called the information they're looking for an "estimate". The processes which have actually worked, in my experience, don't start with tasks and try to generate a schedule which fits: instead, the process starts with a schedule, and the engineer's job is to figure out what can be done in the time available and how most effectively to make progress within that framework.
Frenchie here. I think it is a very common misunderstanding. My bet is that if you got a blank stare, the person just had no idea what you were saying. It has nothing to do with your proud or protection our language. I got a lot of blank stares when I moved to the US 10 years ago ;-)
It gets even scarier with frameworks like nw.js where you can just execute native code directly from the DOM.
U.S. demands Apple unlock phone in NYC drug case
Tesla Retracts the Features on Model 3 marketing page
>is that Yahoo is being mismanaged to drive price down.

Remember when Mrs. Meyer was named CEO and HN vehemently argued that she was going to turn the place around? And anyone who said otherwise was accused of being sexist?

Here's a doozy from back then:

"every once in a while I wonder whether she's so much smarter than me that I just can't comprehend her strategy."

Now the narrative is that she mismanaged it intentionally? Should she be thrown in jail for ripping off shareholders then, like this place calls for the heads of banking CEOs?
If you're still using string types for pathnames you may want to check out the path and path-io packages. The path package defines a Path type parameterized by its locality (absolute or relative) and type (pointing at a file or a directory).

Especially the distinction between relative and absolute paths adds a nice safety layer.
Asking people if they have a mobile phone in 1999
As a local, I often feel I would like to know more about the place where I live, read and ask historian friends to tell me stuff.

But, whenever I would go abroad with some programme where there was a "protocol" guide provided... it was pretty boring. Because he/she would go into so many details I had no connection to. I don't think I would actually pay for a "professional" guide.

... it's just my experience on the subject.
This sounds like a great idea, here are some thoughts about it that you could use to fine tune the pitch

1. For people who use some kind of a cleaning service, the cleaners usually bring their own vacuum cleaner. In this case the owner might be unable to send you the dust. Would be interesting to look into what fraction of your target audience falls under this category.

2. Would be nice if the service took the vacuum model number and sent out a box with a vacuum bag every n months, where the user could take their used vacuum bag put it in the box and mail it back, and use the new bag in the vacuum.

3. Could this be refactored into some kind of device that one could fit into the vacuum? This way there would be no headache of mailing bags out.

4. Whats the legality of sending out bags containing potential amounts of asbestos / toxins etc?
I think it was more Ballmer not having a clue about mobile. When I first saw his idiotic response to the initial iPhone I knew he would fail hard in the mobile space. Even today I think his idea of a smart phone is a Windows Mobile 6 device.
Moonlander – Really hard game made without a single line of code
What I Learned from Tickling Apes
I kept getting tripped on on some specific word being missing in the aside, but I can't identify what it was anymore. It's less that it was "just a collection of words" and more that I'm fairly sensitive to reading grammatical errors (even if I'm often rushing too much to prevent them in my own comments), and I kept interpreting one where there wasn't one. That's not necessarily supporting evidence for the original comment, as even though I did remember having some problem with that sentence specifically, the fault could easily have been with me.
youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

Any examples would be just noise.
Ask HN: Employer Violated NDA
I just recently left a company and on leaving I signed a NDA basically saying that neither party should discuss the reason for the split to anyone. So, on the same day I left, the founder had a meeting with the other employees and told them the exact reason I left thus violating the NDA.

We have meetings frequently, so it's customary for them to be recorded. One of my former co-workers sent me audio of the meeting and he violated the NDA to the fullest extent.

I'm really not familiar with the legalities of this situation. I wanted to know what my options are, and if anyone has any recommendations.
Linus Torvalds: The mind behind Linux
It could just test for many things and the "data science" could do some anomaly detection.
And American Spanish has "computadora". (Ordenador is mainly used in Spain.)
I was surprised to see that most of the comments here seem to take DevOps to mean simply Ops. The whole point, the only point, of devops is to not have "write feature, throw it to ops"-processes. I think the latest generation of PaaS can been seen two ways: on one hand, it's like having a great ops-teamt that will handle everything you throw at them (and have set up clear borders for what is "their" responsibility), the other is to say that it's great for devops: with the low level of management needed for cloud infrastructure (compared with setting up your own hardware, choosing and tuning a network storage solution, manage fail-over for databases, making sure to patch ssh/TLS/libc/libz/libtiff/libpng...) means that we get better DevOps: you might prototype in a local docker, but as part of the commit cycle, every dev will run tests, and push out to production, with rolling updates.

I don't know when "DevOps" became so watered down -- I guess it's the same old story as with Lean/Agile: the real win is in changing the business process, and has nothing to do with tooling and consultants: changing processes is actually hard, so no-one does it. But when you've paid out the nose for "educating" your "team" to do agile/devops, you start to claim that your waterfall was built by Toyata. Because you paid for the privilege.
I am curious about the alignment of incentives here. As others have pointed out, this industry is notoriously expensive with vendors enjoying comfortable profits without having to go through this direct competition platform amongst their peers. What incentive do they have for joining the platform?

Furthermore, what incentive does a couple about to get married have for joining the platform? It sounds like they are somewhat locked into the vendors that come to them. I think you mention that they can cancel but then there is then no incentive for the couple to take it seriously. It turns into quote shopping instead of an actual marketplace.

I like the idea because this space is ripe for change. There is a lot of money flowing around and people who get married are confused about where is the best/most affordable/most reputable place to put it. I think if you can align the incentives on both side properly, this could be a real winner.
Sounds like the traditional overselling to me. Not sure why this is HN frontpage? No different than 99% of hosting providers.
It looks like probably secure is defined in cryptography to mean breaking the algorithm is equivalent to solving the underlying intractable problem [0]. In my mind provably secure meant that the problem was actually intractable (which is not the convention).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provable_security
Actually you don't or else you break the whole scaling / immutability model. I'm talking from production experience here. I ended up moving to OpsWorks and the level of abstraction worked better for me then.
I agree, however depending on your make/model your brakes can be disabled electronically as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake-by-wire
FTA:

"VC1 cloud servers, based on x86-64 CPUs, again engineered by our eletronics team."
Consult a lawyer, not HN. HN is the wrong place to go for the legalities on any situation.
I think they mean simple as in 'simple to write / understand'
This article is pretty old but it does a pretty good job of discussing David Li's Gaussian Copela. It was/is the formula that played significant role in pricing the derivative instruments that helped cause a bit of panic back in 2008.

his original paper is still below if anyone is interested.

http://www.defaultrisk.com/_pdf6j4/On%20Default%20Correlatio...
Facebook, Whatsapp, almost every phone call you make for decades, and much of the backend for League of Legends were all built on Erlang.

Not that the others are unsuccessful from an engineering or financial standpoint, but the last one, Riot Games' League of Legends recently hit 1 billion in revenue. It's a fact that it's the most popular video game on Earth today.

If it didn't work or "failed to deliver on its promises"- none of these world-class, top-tier services would be where they are. To repeat myself so it sinks in. Yes. It is a fact that every phone call you make hits Erlang code somewhere.

Because people actually stand in the face of Erlang and spout this nonsense to this day... I'll take the claim one step further and will back it up if challenged as if it's not already self-evident.

Erlang has proven itself better, for a longer period of time than Java. Many have tried to replace Java. No one, and I mean no one has tried nor has anyone succeeded in replacing Erlang.

Only C rivals it for carrying the world on its shoulders.
Autre Frenchie ici-présent. I concur.

A tip to foreigners: it's considered exceptionally rude not to say hello to someone behind the counter, or when entering a store. I often cringe when I see Americans order something at a café counter: they have the best intentions, they're trying hard to be polite, and right off the bad they commit a huge faux-pas by immediately saying "un café s'il vous plait!".

tl;dr: always start with "bonjour"
>I have programmed, and I have worked in factories

So have I, and I come to the opposite conclusion. Does my anecdote trump yours?
Leaked Encryption Bill Is ‘Ludicrous, Dangerous, Technically Illiterate'
What type of lawyer?
Wish more guys would take cryptocurrency.
By itself it isn't that big a deal but considering the .5 million she was paid to give speeches to Russian investment firms, or the 2.35 million she received from a Uranium mining company that she helped sell to Russia. It is starting to be a pattern of behavior.
This one never gets old, because it will always be a problem. Developers don't have it quite as bad as other creatives, mostly those in the arts, because people who know nothing about art generally assume that art is worthless.

For me, it's the whole DevOps movement implying that dedicated Ops have no value and that some kid fresh out of college who wants to use node.js is just as good at Ops as a sysadmin with 5 years experience.
Microsoft drives an Edge between Adobe and the web: Flash ads blocked
Epic Moments #2 – Bard Pentakill – League of Legends
Wanted: A Slackbot for Banking
Yahoo Japan is run by its own company these days, so Yahoo buyers are only getting a minority stake in it.

Among other things they have the best map data and the largest auction site.
But spam is more "usual" than ham, so ...
The PDF Is Dead. Also, Play with Gravitational Waves
The project has existed only since last summer.
This is interesting idea. I was thinking about something similar - to be an facilitator during solving technical problems with system approach methodology.

I am wondering, how big is demand for your services? If it's not secret you can shoot me an email.
I'll give uBlock a try!

I am aware of Ghostery's business model and I am not against businesses selling metrics and/or ads in general. I think there should be consequences for companies that do not have the best interests for the users.
My wife (we're American) watches a lot of British programming, and for some shows she has to put on the subtitles. Between certain English accents and slang, it's hard to follow sometimes.
Yeah I can definitely see that side of things. The manual aspect of QA is definitely reducing, though I would hesitate to call it entirely dead. I love the fact that I've got experienced manuals who are able to craft well written procedures that I can automate.

There are more and more opportunities for QA Automation with the ability to write those procedures, which I suspect are the ones replacing the manual QA specialists you reference.
> We’ll also test your water for lead, mercury, pharmaceuticals, and other toxins.

OP is also offering water testing capabilities.

n.b., this is a great idea, but I really want a way to trust that the lab is doing the Right Thing, and false positives/negatives are acceptably low.
All proofs have axioms if you chase them all the way down. Given the axiom that the solving the math in the crypto is intractable, the crypto algorithm is proven secure. But only so long as the axiom holds.

For example, quantum computing may break the axiom, and then the proof will be invalidated.

It might be more correct to say assumption rather than axiom here.
What you are saying was true until this February when this paper came out https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/170

It hadn't been implemented yet I'm any practical crypto system that I know of, buy it certainly seems like we are finally going to have actually, provably hard problems to build out security om.
Employment lawyer
That's a realistic position, and I can't fault you for that. I was responding mostly to "What do you have against a good old fashioned cat and mouse game?" I don't like where we are going, but I don't necessarily see a way to exert enough force to stop it, nor know what stopping it would result in. I don't think we'll actually end up with paid content going away, but it sure would be nice if we could skip a few years of bullshit half-solutions and fast-track something that works, whatever that ends up being. :/
-f best

It's in the documentation.
"We" made that choice before Amazon started banning competitors' products. That's a recent change.
These are virtual x86_64 servers, their non virtual ARM ones seem to be the C1x and C2x.
Lawsplainer: What Does That Controversial Mississippi Law Do, Anyway?
What will you do differently than existing test labs that accept samples from the public?
Ad networks don't want to trust publishers to accurately report page hits with inline images, they also would presumably like to be able to track users and serve up "tailored" ads, which they can't really do if they don't get any information on the user before serving the ad.
Unconditionally, Probably, Classically hard crypto
> I'm going to go sit in the corner now, and think about why the first thought that came to my mind was so horrible.

But what about Christmas?: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090706
Is this an alternative to monit / inspeqtor? If so, what's the advantages it offers over those?
Weekly Top 10: DevOps in the Enteprise and Bimodal IT
Yeah, if only the children of ENY would find their fucking bootstraps...

They are in fact denied agency.

What's lacking in ENY are any meaningful community resources, from schooling, to infrastructure to policing.

It's not the people's fault they were born into that hellhole.

Let me guess, if somehow we could bring market forces to bear on Brownsville, the free market fairy would save all of these communities from themselves.

Give me a break.
The PDF you link attributes that quote to Drew Gross
We took "largest" out of the title, in keeping with HN's usual practice.
I have actually been looking for something like this, but I am more concerned about mould. Would that show up in a test like this? Our washroom has mould growing which we keep fighting back with bleach, but I would love to know what kind it is and if it is dangerous. Could this work for such a use case?

The tests that I did find were bloody expensive (300$+) and had to be done one per room. Too much for us.
I've been to many countries and French are by far the hardest people to communicate with. Every time I'd ask something, I would be completely misunderstood. Like this time I tried to order a set menu in a fast food restaurant (Quick). You'd think it would be the easiest thing ever? Except the cashier brought out 2 identical burgers for some reason. It took me 5 minutes to explain that I only need one burger, all the while a huge queue accumulated behind me. I can't help but have a suspicion they're just fucking with me.
Took a look at their pricing page. That trend of showing per-hour fraction-of-dollar pricing is really disturbing. Who rents a host for an hour? (Well, I can surely imagine use cases, like spawning a beefy host for a day while getting abnormally high traffic, but I seriously doubt it's common.)

Type 0: $0.05/hour ≈ $36.50/mo;
Type 1: $0.40/hour ≈ $292/mo;
Type 2: $1.00/hour ≈ $730/mo;
Type 3: $1.70/hour ≈ $1277.5/mo
It's a well known result that one time pads are provably secure. (Also, no PRNGs are involved.)
The typical argument about the superiority of cloud services is that it's more hands-off, but what they don't talk about is how shared resources causes all kinds of new headaches I never had before.

I recently migrated from a dedicated DC to AWS because of business reasons (ie. CAPEX vs OPEX).

Before, my PostgreSQL DBs were always perfectly in sync because they were on a dedicated, private network. Now, I often get large replication delays because the network in EC2 isn't of the same quality I had before, so I've had to spend a lot of dev time working around the delay issue with creative caching solutions.

My point is, there's trade-offs and mostly my calculations show that they're not really worth it, if you have knowledgable Ops people. Which, once you grow to a certain size, you should.
While this isn't polling as such, I've found the FiveThirtyEight Facebook map of candidates to be intriguing. When you drop out the other candidates, Trump vs Sanders is still a competition as you'd expect, but Trump vs Clinton... she barely shows up. Her number of Likes is surprisingly low.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/facebook-primary/

I'd usually ignore Facebook likes, and FiveThirtyEight insists it's for fun as well. However, their throwaway comment "If Facebook likes were votes... Donald Trump [would] garner more support than Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio combined" has actually proven to be accurate.
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I also want to thank my parents for buying me C64, my first computer, especially during the time when my family wasn't doing so well financially; I can't ever be upset about giving tech support to my parents.

It reminds me of a C64 TV ad of a student who had to drop out of college because he didn't have computer skills to be competitive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDcZeGbElnM). Somehow, it all seems relevant now, as C64 gave me a start on programming.
I'm French, and speak American English natively (i.e., when people meet me they think I'm American and when I tell them I'm French it takes them a bit of time to believe me - "you mean, you have french parents but were born here?" etc.).

Most people don't realize that a language's accent is a physical thing. Your throat, nose, tongue behave differently when speaking different languages. If you're French, you can't speak English while keeping the same physical arrangement of your mouth and throat than when you speak French. So if you want to speak a language with a native accent, you have to experiment with all those parameters, and find what your voice sounds like in that language. For instance, my voice is a bit deeper in English than it is in French; this is particularly noticeable with my female friends who are speak both English and French natively - their voices tend to be very noticeably higher in French.

I've been learning Japanese, and it seems that I get best pronunciation results when my throat is in an even lower, more relaxed position than English. I intend to pick up mandarin at some point and am very much looking forward to experimenting with that, as I have no experience with strongly tonal languages.

Kids get this intuitively, but adults have a much harder time with it- it has to be taught consciously. Which is why most French people, even after living in an English speaking country for many years, retain a horrible French accent. We really ought to be teaching kids from the maternelle, much like many of our European neighbors do.

That being said, one thing I just have never been able to do are regional accents in languages I already speak. I cannot for the life of me speak with a northern French accent (my family's from the south, although I grew up in Lyon so have a mostly neutral accent), or a British accent.
As far as I know, all the major conferences in our field charge you to attend if you are speaking, so I don't understand what everyone is saying in this thread.

I've spoken at many conferences and at all of them I've needed to buy a full-price ticket (or my employer did). RubyConf was one exception I can think of.
This and its parent post are (honestly) mystifying to me. I found it very easy to read.

I can only conclude that bite-sized Twitter and Facebook content have left many people incapable of reading long-form prose.
Yet another reason to not use Wordfence