skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am excited by async/await but it makes code non-trivially harder to debug. The tools are far from there
Yeah, you'll have to push your way past me.
Not if you live in a normal country
How would the dust testing results help in the formulation of an action plan?
And this is how you create a world where you can't trust anyone to follow through with their commitments.
Imperial ambitions
Let's start with closed off areas and known paths. Then we can expand out.

Indeed they are, next up, self navigating RC cars, ala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfJHgSNx_vY

Still looking for cofounders; so a lot.
Twitter acquires employee feedback tool Peer
Don't steal people from the street.
Here's a minimal example:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
go hog()
for i := 0; ; i++ {
fmt.Println(i)
}
}

func hog() {
for {
}
}

It stalls after about three seconds on go version 1.6.

Here's the issue on github:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/543
Some laptops already have physical switches for wireless connectivity, couldn't you just add one of those that cuts power to the onboard microphone and camera?
I've been telling friends and family to do this long before the Snowden revelations (as well as disabling their computers internal microphone). Many of them mocked me about the shine on my tinfoil hat. They don't do so much mocking anymore.
I learned to weld at age 17, on the job in an apprenticeship. My colleagues and I are the highest paid metal fabricators in the state, our company is good to work for, we do some big and interesting work, we take on multiple new apprentices each year, some as young as 16.

Not everyone is cutout to be a university graduate going on to a white-collar career. I was expelled from high school because I didn't fit the mold. Leaving school and going in to a trade was the best thing I could have done at the time.

I feel many young people are under-served by school. They don't have the drive / desire to do uni and school didn't teach them anything useful, like basic financial management, how to lay a brick, or fix a leaking tap.
It's not that uncommon. EFF sells a sticker set specifically for this purpose: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set
Agree - its basically a way to take away ownership. That way, for the next 10 years or whatever, you're guaranteed to be a return customer. If software is standalone, I still believe in ownership. If there is a system, or data, to access, then subscription makes sense because those incur a recurring cost for the business.
Have there been any documented cases of an iPhone's camera or mic getting hijacked?
> I can imagine plenty of reasons people would have for avoiding trailing commas even after they became valid syntax.

Could you list a few?
I've heard that good architecture involves doing just enough to responsibly defer decisions... But in your case it's technical and physical :p
EFF sells a sticker set specifically for this purpose: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set
Some people want to take additional assurances that they won't be blackmailed with explicit footage or find themselves on a revenge porn site. That sort of thing can make identity theft pale in comparison.

Another aspect to consider are devices used by children. Tape should be pretty much requisite.
Clinton campaign chair: Americans 'can handle the truth' about UFOs
Something perhaps relevant, small companies tend to have a small admin function, who use the same password for everything.

Not everyone in the world knows much to change their password, especially if they're using a desktop client such as Outlook. It just connects.

So it is possible that everyone in the company was logging in with the same password as the exposed email.
I appreciate the enthusiasm and the intent, but this is misleading. The maybe monad can be a wonderful abstraction, however the way used makes me think of something that can be expressed with applicative functors.
The SpaceX people in the broadcast are mostly engineers and occasionally product managers. Listen to them introduce themselves.
Victim blaming does not apply here. You're using software written by other people - you dont get to decide what it does insofar as to actually modify the source code yourself.
Or what if kids were allowed to try out a few different areas of employment for extended periods.

Where I work we have local high school students come in for 1 week of 'work experience', but for most of them it takes a good week of training to get them up to speed on how our processes work. If they could stay for longer it would make them more useful to us and they'd also learn a lot more and have more of any idea of what it's actually like to work 38hr weeks. Maybe they could even be paid.

I believe school could do so much more.
I agree, I can't recall seeing a laptop cam without an indicator led.
Want to find out all reported deaths today in the world
Each day a lot of people die in the world. If i wanted to find a list of all the news items that that resulted in deaths of say more than 5 (to rule out natural deaths), what are the different approaches I could take. For now I am OK with a lag of say a day or two for that matter. I am more concerned about undiscovered news items that may get covered in somewhere on the internet.
We're in the second quarter now :)
GNU/kWindows doesn't make any sense to begin with. Modern Windows OS is the NT kernel with the Windows user land. A more appropriate name would be GNU/NT.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11456833
We will ensure that hotels we partner with always have water, in Nairobi, for instance, water from local authorities is unreliable, so some hotels have boreholes, but many don't know those with these. We will standardize / ensure 5 main issues are met at partner hotels: water availability, clean rooms, diversified payment, good breakfast and access to basic amenities such as mosquito nets
The problem with monads is that truly understanding monads renders one completely incapable of explaining monads to anyone uninitiated. This seems to be the most fundamental property of the monad.

It seems, from the plethora of monad explanation articles that get posted here, that many people, in their hubris, think they've learned monads and think that they will succeed where so many others have failed and come up with the first approachable explanation of monads. These explanations fall into one of two categories, either the explainer has truly learned monads and offers up an explanation that's correct but entirely confusing to anyone who doesn't already understand the concept. Or, as in this case, the explainer hasn't actually understood monads and offers up an explanation that is, indeed, approachable to someone learning monads but is, never the less, incorrect.

In these cases, it does no good for those who understand monads to try to explain where the explanation fails. Because as people who understand monads, their explanation will surely cause far more confusion than it will address. It is therefore all that they can do to simply point out that the explanation is wrong and that we're still waiting for the one true approachable way of learning monads.
Yes, all software has bugs, but some bugs are much more serious than others. For example, if my tax software had a bug that made it install updates very slowly, I might tolerate it. But if it had a bug that caused the wrong numbers to be sent to the IRS, I wouldn't use it no matter how beautiful and fast the software was.

Hopefully, when we make the decision to release software, the bugs we knowingly leave in the product will be merely annoying and not cause harm to the user.
Wire of Death
There's something in the pipeline for me on innovating on how we type, as in articles and web content. To me, it seems like the QWERTY keyboard has been around forever, its layout was specifically designed to make people type slower when the first typewriters were introduced. Why aren't we seeing more innovation on the software side of things? That's where I come in :)

And I also launched my first startup, upperhound.com, this morning - eyes bloodshot just before I went to bed. I decided I don't want to be a wantrepreneur any longer. Procrastination is such a killer. I mainly negotiate 50% + SaaS membership discounts for interested subscribers.

Btw, asimuvPR, what are you working on currently?
I mean, I totally approve of the concept of vocational training. The thing is that like most internships it undercuts actual workers in practice. It's not just the intern getting coffee while observing work as intended, it's actual business work that displaces an apprentice or secretary (illegally, but never enforced). If you mandated and enforced that such workers must be paid the full wages of their trained counterparts (or close) then I'd be highly in favor of it. But that's not the motivation of the people who make such proposals - they're looking to undercut trained workers without any sort of mitigation for the damage to wages. The NLRB has been forced into a deadlock for more than a decade against just such a possibility. This SCOTUS nomination lockout is nothing new.

On the large scale you get our current education system, where people take out big loans to get trained as a teacher and then usually burn out in 3-5 years and take a job at Starbucks.

And you especially get mentally ill people who work a register for $2 an hour and displace an able worker who needs to feed their family. There's no excuse for that, we are a modern society and we can take care of our disadvantaged as well as paying a living wage. People should not be forced to rely on the mentally ill or child laborers to make ends meet, that's simply unacceptable in modern society. We honestly don't even need every abled worker anymore, let alone the mentally disabled.
Find something that frustrates people and build something that solves it for them.

Innovate on something that people do every single day. For example, people communicate every day, sleep, eat, exercise, work, entertain, use consumables. Make a list of literally anything you can think of that people do every day, and more than often ideas and issues to solve pop up.

LISTEN to people as they "wish upon things" every now and then. Ex. "I wish someone would xyz.. ", "I wish there was a way to xyz...", "When will there be xyz...". These types of comments are a goldmine for choosing a theme.

Hope I answered your question and that this helps, my friend!
Shame! I used this a few years ago when it launched and found it fun. When they blocked it around schools I knew it was over. I'm 30 and live far from a school yet the app always thought I was at a school. That was when I stopped caring.
I'm pretty sure his meaning was that an "indicator led" is not the same thing as an "on" light. A usb webcam is on as long as the host is providing power, the led is on the honor system - completely implementation dependent. My $2 dynex lights up when accessed in Windows, but I can easily pull images from it in linux without the led coming on - it is driver controlled. It wouldn't be hard to modify the windows driver, or write your own.
That was exactly my point. The TSA lock bittings are available and the back door keys will be available shortly after instituted.
If we got to 50 guests daily, we would be ramen profitable, life in Nairobi is much cheaper than in SF. We can live in hostels at our uni, for so long as our 4 year study program is still on, it costs US $50, a year. We can also live on $2, a day for three of us' meals.
$35 for a t-shirt?!?! I was ready with the credit card until I saw that salty bit.
There's water at 30-40 feet. It needs to be reverse osmosis filtered but it's plentiful. That being said, desert life can be harsh and it's not for everyone. If this project gets off the ground and shows some success, I'd really love to expand to a few areas of California where the conditions are more moderate.
I really have to thank you for this comment. I had serious trouble understanding Haskell's type notation, and translating it to Java-ish was immensely helpful.
That world doesn't need to be created, it's the world we have now.
Different but relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11313193
You've noted something very interesting. People in the West seem to have forgotten the essence of government. Government is not a charity. For better or for worse, it's a monopoly on violence. Any action it takes is ultimately predicated on the threat (or use) of force. IMHO the sooner people realize this, the better.
Not sure if this changed, but at 35m 47s they just show a static shot of the rocket on the drone ship. The 'live' footage of the landing was earlier in the video (27m 20s).

https://youtu.be/7pUAydjne5M?t=27m20s

Awesome to watch.
I can top that: https://i.imgur.com/8A4lF4p.png
"Don't bother trying to break encryption, break [whatever] implements the encryption instead"

that's how i interpreted it
Amazon sells the nVidia shield TV which is an android device for your tv that has chromecast capabilities but admittedly at a much higher price than the Chromecast. Still, if you buy on Amazon and want that kind of functionality it's a good value for a home theater in a box. The android games are pretty lame though.
"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you. "

John Updike
Yep. But not true on Linux, yet.
What language is this? It looks like Javascript, but with some additional operators, such as "=>".
I'm confused. Who uses what and decides what and modifies what???
So, is this about the C standard or the C++ standard?
Most nations today would be richer if they had long ago just submitted wholesale to a rich nation, allowing that rich nation to change their laws, customs, etc., and just do everything their way. But this idea greatly offends national and cultural pride. So nations stay poor.

I'm sure the people of these nations would love to watch their culture be erased as they become an underclass in the territory of a powerful nation. Just ask the Native Americans!

When firms and managers from rich places try to transplant rich practices to poor places, giving poor place workers exactly the same equipment, materials, procedures, etc., one of the main things that goes wrong is that poor place workers just refuse to do what they are told. They won’t show up for work reliably on time, have many problematic superstitions, hate direct orders, won’t accept tasks and roles that that deviate from their non-work relative status with co-workers, and won’t accept being told to do tasks differently than they had done them before, especially when new ways seem harder.

"Many problematic superstitions?" What? Who is this guy even talking about? This sounds like a caricature, not an actual description of reality.

The farming mode required humans to swallow many changes that didn’t feel nice or natural to foragers. While foragers are fiercely egalitarian, farmers are dominated by kings and generals, and have unequal property and classes. Farmers work more hours at less mentally challenging tasks, and get less variety via travel. Huge new cultural pressures, such as religions with moralizing gods, were needed to turn foragers into farmers.

Again, how does he know this? Is he just making up stories, or is this based on some sort of evidence?
Or perhaps, you know, something to do with Google being funded by branch of CIA?
I guess before they fade away they want to know what their employees are thinking?

Just kidding, we shall see a return of Twitter to growth in 2016 after Sanders gets elected President.
The self interested way to deal with this as an employer would be to give offers to all three and tell them up front that there are multiple offers being sent out and whoever accepts first wins.
پیست اسکی شیرباد در مشهد
I recently had the chance to meet Gen. Hayden. He is quite competent and could hold his own in a technical discussion at a high level. He understood the minutiae of the Clinton email scandal and shared some insights that made me reconsider my view on the issue.
1) I think both can work simultaneously. Either single works or entire catalogs. In the latter case, I'm thinking anything sold as a book, regardless of content.
2) Not yet, but I think for case (ii), I'd try to manage them as collections of case (i) instances to simplify things.
3) We will err on the side of writers. A shareholder can advise, but never dictate. Advice will be displayed to authors filterable by stake held. They can decide how to weigh things from there. We will do our best to make everyone happy on a case by case basis, but "Your advice might be ignored" will be displayed prominently throughout the purchasing process.

I appreciate your interest, and stake in my case (ii) is on a firesale if you would like to become investor zero and help me work out the kinks on the fly =)
I used to work for a company that took that line. We were given a quota, say to hire 5 people. I proposed sending out 7 offers with the expectation that not all would accept. And if they all did accept we would certainly find a use for them. HR rejected this idea.

So a lot of it is made up by HR folks who want hiring to appear in their reports to be more predictable than it is.
I thought the same. My girlfriend carries hand sanitizer with her everywhere, it wouldn't be big of a deal to carry your own hand soap (liquid based) if you find a pocket sized one that fits in a purse or your pocket.
You would find ioerror's cell phone project interesting: https://people.torproject.org/~ioerror/skunkworks/moto_e/
I won't know unless I try /super
Thanks a bunch, stake in myself is available if interested in becoming investor 0 =)
Art of the Problem Tackles Computer Science
For the "maybe a" case, you then need to take all of your code and place it in some machinery that knows what "maybe" means, and how to extract "a" from it.

And then you need to write or convert all your functions to return maybe values rather than just plain values.

All of this could be easily done with exceptions. Why do all that when something simple like an exception will do, is easily understood, and easily coded?

If there are other common usage patterns where monads are great fit, I'd love to hear it. But, given the examples of usage I've heard about, they seem to be a somewhat painful mechanism which are useful only in a few obscure cases.

Admittedly, I do not understand category theory, so I can accept that I might not be able to see the benefit unless I do.
Edit: my reasons look so small compared to that rocket landing. Makes me feel like whatever I'm working on is just _not_ BIG enough.

Rolling upgrades, artifact transport, and cleaner host machine alone can give you extra donut and YouTube time. Also doing forensics can be easier knowing the a specific container is at fault.

About the clean base host, One doesnt have to install anything really. No worries about runtimes, supporting libs, etc. This allows new machines to start even faster from zero.

More donut and YouTube time.
Totally appreciate it, and hey, my first rejection. Eventually I'll get a yes =)
If they don't like it that way they should offer some minimum term of employment or a two-way minimum notice period.
Ok, so you guys will be hard to kill. That's a very good quality to have for a start-up.

How will you convince the first hotel owners to start using your service? How will you find and convince the first users (you will have to choose one or two mediums in the beginning)?
My KSP launches are similarly inaccurate
It's worth mentioning that Elm uses this style: http://elm-lang.org/docs/style-guide#types

I was initially surprised by this but now knowing that the creator comes from a Haskell background, it makes sense that he would prefer it.
Ecmascript 6 added => as a short function syntax.
You're right, but I guess you're being downvoted because nobody wants to hear it. JavaScript will never get anything like numpy, because it doesn't have integers. Doing mathematics without integers is like driving a car without wheels.
Sounds like the soap protocol. I've had to deal with it recently at work and paired with the suds python library auto generates the api for you
Dropbox handler on Amiga [video]
"3 months from now, we will decide if we want to be continued working on AirBnB"
This is huge, and I think that is common in companies that join Y Combinator.
Giving time to work on the project exclusively and have to present something at the end. It forces the team to focus on the task, avoiding these questions, at least temporarily, on whether they should continue or not. At In the end, it should be easy to decide.
Right. Anything but losing the damn commas.

nineties {
dude: true
awesome: true
rad: true
}
On ~95% of his articles there is extremely little content. It's usually copypastes of release notes and emails.

Yes, I'm aware there's excellent articles on performance tests and such. They are rare.

I have a lot of respect for Phoronix for the sheer amount of time the guy invests in it, but it is pageview driven because of its ads. I sent in a tip on his paypal because of this as I'm hopeful this move will encourage less fluff and more high quality content.
By using a program you do not write or udjust, you are completely at the whim of whoever wrote the program.
That's still psychologically stressful for the potential employee, but I'd at least respect it for the honesty (assuming it is in fact an honest statement).
Lol why didn't he just use PageRank...
The country is not more productive if the amount of money earned by the second working spouse pays only for the cost of childcare, which is actually the case for many families.

Now, funding public school and paying more income tax does bring in more revenue for the government, which governments tend to like.
Keep in mind though - if you do this pull this off there's a chance you may be permanently blacklisted by the company. What's the guarantee you won't pull the same move next time around?

I don't fault with the recruiter's pressure move at all. I mean the company probably has taken the job listing off and preparing for your orientation.

I understand the sentiment about at-will employment and companies can fire you at any time... but whenever there is a question of "Can I do this in a non-bridge-burning way?" you should take that path.
Thanks. Enough money flowing through the system to warrant SEC attention is a problem I'm ready to have. Until then, I'm in sales mode, and stake in myself is the product. Interested enough to bite?
I clearly struck a nerve, since you wouldn't just post a longer version of 'no' and not support your argument otherwise.
What was your view on the issue?

I had read that they didn't even have SSL on the box for some time after it was up and running.
Every corporate laptop I've worked with has the camera and microphone physically removed.

If needed for a function, a USB camera and/or microphone is applied for through various chains of approval, and plug-in pull-put tracked.
One of the best things of the interview book "Programmers at Work", was that all the greatest programmers used printf to debug.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11457964
It is the opposite. Subscription model is a good solution for preventing stagnation.

Really? If you own a niche, before you had to convince customers to upgrade by adding good new features. Now the money flows in automatically. And since you own the niche, where else can the customers go?
I've always found this style a lot better and can't figure out why people don't use it.

Adding items to the end of a list, tuples to a dictionary, arguments to a function etc... is more common then adding them to the start.
The Reactions from the Religious Heads and their followers would be one of the most interesting things to watch unfold.
Lots of earlier dicussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11457964