skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the revelation here though? It seems to me that there are two primary data points in this article:

- Podesta group lobbies for Sberbank
- Sberbank is owned by the Russian government

Neither of these things were revealed by the Panama papers, and neither of these things were hidden by any of the parties involved. Sberbank is transparent about its ownership by the Russian government, and the Podesta Group registered as its agent of its own accord prior to the leak.

If this were going on in the shadows, maybe there'd be something here, and I grant you that it's slightly unsettling that they have access to such a powerful lobbying firm. But isn't that sort of the point of running a lobbying firm? You lobby for who hires you, and the politicians you lobby are aware of that and take what you have to say with the appropriate grains of salt.
Seriously. It's impossible to manage systems (ops) and develop at the same time if you have any sort of complex system. With AWS and such, you need permanent ops to deal with all the bugs, issues, and slow support. With a solution like Docker you need someone to set that up and manage the cluster. Either way, you need ops unless your infrastructure is very basic.
What cheeses me off is that I get blocked from many sites just for using FlashBlock. I'm not blocking all ads, I'm just using a "disable flash by default and enable manually if necessary".
Feds Seek Court Order to Have Apple Crack iPhone in Brooklyn Case
The parents want to try a novel method of delivery to treat their kids' shared disease.

Their twin kids.

You see where I'm going with this? 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.
Any love for the difference between French and Quebec?
Seem to be 2 camps here:
1. dismiss this as a tenuous connection which stems mainly from the fact that Lobbying firms have many big clients
2. grant this connection deserves some attention and perhaps some explanation

For me, I think the author has some thoughts that are bleeding through . But I don't think its necessarily fair to judge an article mainly on its author's history (though an undeniable factor).

While granting this is the nature of a lobby firm, it does seem odd they would agree to representing Sberbank. We're talking John Podesta (Clinton campaign chairman) -> Tony Podesta (CEO Podesta Group) -> Sberbank (Podesta Group client). Is the latter connection really not cause for suspicion?
I was more relating the OPs comment:

> Though it is impressive that Amazon has turned a delivery fee - that most people don't like paying - into an exclusive subscription service.

Where Amazon has convinced people to prepay $100 per year for shipping on select items similar to how Apple has convinced customers to overpay on hardware and accessories to be part of the same style club. Community was probably the wrong word, but exclusive/elite membership maybe? And yes I hear people all the time talk about their prime memberships, especially at work.
We’ll see a lot more of this soon, considering more and more software is moving to webkit UIs, often with similar flaws.
Whether or not you turn out to be correct has no bearing on whether your reasoning was fallacious.
Bash Tips and Tricks to Use on CircleCI and in Life
How can we trust Google when it lets ads call the shots?
Game of Thrones Transit Maps
I still think you need some kind of estimate. At the very least, you should have a high level of confidence that "what I'm spending to get this" is less than "what value it will deliver".

Of course, if you can't be more precise than that, chances are that there's some other piece of work that's more easily estimated, and has a more concrete ROI. That work would logically come first.
I'm imagining the ultimate approach will be server-side includes of raw content from the ad networks so that the ad content is served from the content server and not sent off to a 3rd party.

From a security standpoint this is horrifying because it means that attempts to sandbox ad javascript away from site javascript in the browser will become impossible, since the sandbox will tell the browser what to block.
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Even with Docker, I don't think that you would prefer to configure the environment yourself rather than use dedicated tools like Chef and Ansible, assuming your environment needs are complex enough.
Have you considered opening an issue? Using the current directory as a temp directory seems like something that should be fixed, or at least made configurable.
In other words, it's this way because people want to emulate an unfriendly language, used on another domain where terseness is even more important than in Haskell code.

That does not make it a good choice. Just a kind of default, but it's a bad default.
If you want to be like that, all of them were written mid-to-late 1990 or before it:

Bash was released in 1989 and initially development started some time before that.

OpenSSL project was founded in 1998.

Windows XP was initial developed in the late 1990s, released 2001.

Macromedia Flash 1.0 was released 1996 and initially developed a couple years before.

So should we only count software vulnerabilities that was created after 2010? 2016? What proof would satisfy you?
If I were this "very large" Chinese IT company and I really wanted to buy your business, I'd create a clone to give me better negotiating leverage.

Edit: just to clarify - I personally wouldn't do this, because it is possibly illegal and absolutely unethical. But very large companies (in China and elsewhere) are not known for being ethical.
This could use a good revision/proofreading, it uses punctuation incorrectly, jumps around, and is difficult for me to read. Which is a shame because the article looks interesting. Maybe I'll give it another stab after a cup of coffee.
Is it Chicago? I used to hear it was Johnny Carson's Nebraska flat accent.

To my ear, the Chicago accent is represented but exaggerated in the "Bill Swerski's Superfans" sketches from SNL in the 1990s - "Da bearssss".

And it's "cur-muhl". :)
People do not think that accidental deaths are comparable to intentional killings. We have elaborate mechanisms to distinguish the two because our fundamental outlook is that one is much more serious than the other.

Besides that, it's almost certainly the case that terrorism has resulted in more deaths than has warrantless dragnet surveillance of cross-border traffic.
Tutorials, papers and code for computer graphics, fractals and demoscene
> Initially, we will be targeting new and expecting parents to promote preventive checkups throughout their children’s lives.

This strikes me as a particularly good first userbase. In my experience working at Counsyl, new parents are eager to do everything available to ensure their child is healthy. It's a great way to enter the healthcare market since there's lots of money and openness to new ideas.

What do you need to do to succeed? Do you need to build a network of doctors? Will that require a large sales staff (typical of healthcare related companies)? How are you going to use technology better than competitors?

Does zocdoc do something similar? I feel like I've gotten emails reminding me to make an appointment before.

I imagine many people are just going to ignore their appointment reminders. How will you incentivize them to follow through? Does your service actually schedule the appointment on their behalf, and the user just needs to be somewhere at a particular time? If so, do you know that people will actually be receptive to that or will they feel like it's an invasion into their personal time?

How will you make money?
R: Data Visualization by Hadley Wickham
"Let's table this discussion for later" is a pretty common phrase.
My current job seems to disagree with you and their point about QA. As far as I've been able to see, the market explicitly for QA Automation is actually growing. The idea of

>Developers are responsible for full test automation and making sure their code works.

Is laughable outside of [insert new sexy startup here], if only due to the difference in mindset.

Granted I'm totally biased as a QA Automation, but the analogy actually removed quite a bit of credence that this article might otherwise have held with me.
Hadley Wickham is the creator of ggplot2. His online book R for Data Science has a chapter on visualization which, besides being a good tutorial on using ggplot2, happens to be the most concise explanation of the theory that informs its design (the grammar of graphics).
Pfiasco
I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make here, because obviously both Bash and OpenSSL are poster children for the perils of legacy insecure software, and both are still in wide use --- far wider than Windows XP!
Why would the key be backed up to iCloud? Do you have a source for this?
If you want a button built into youtube's webpages in Chrome this will do too. I believe there are other projects that do similar things but many aim at doing much more (mine is solely for the little download button which offers all the video/audio formats that youtube-dl does).

https://github.com/bradlys/monochromatic-panda
Here on HN is a good bet, in the monthly "Who is hiring" posts.
Create-GitHub-repo
How does WhatsApp EE helps consumer?
I have a basic question.
Facebook bought WhatsApp for $22b. thats a LOT of money. and No Ads in it.
If they are not using all the chat history to know consumer behavior and sell ads on facebook and future WhatsApp where it becomes like WeChat, how does EE guarantees consumer privacy?!
I've been using Stylebot with great success. So much so that when I visit sites on other peoples machines it takes me a minute to figure out why certain sites are so hideous
Emojiz
Some specific things that I do in Haskell programs written for production:

1. Define a FutureProofing.hs module that anticipates changes to GHC that are, or now were, inevitable, such as Monad becoming a subclass of Applicative, and "fail" moving out of Monad. I redefine MonadIO to depend on Applicative so that I can use "pure" universally, hiding "return" from Prelude.

2. I have a longish list of things I hide from the Prelude, besides "return" (above). I haven't yet crossed the Rubicon of inhibiting the standard Prelude altogether, but I don't allow myself to use the bad parts.

3. I have a GenericIO.hs module that defines a typeclass that allows me to use any type of string for pathnames or data. This eliminates nearly all boilerplate conversions when dealing with the IO library and anticipates the changes that might eventually come to the standard Prelude.

In short, I expect and anticipate the standard library to improve, and will not have to do much work to exploit those improvements when they do arrive. I steer clear of the pitfalls. And unlike the OP, I try to avoid complicating the problem by adding new things to my universal imports; I don't mind having longish import lists at the heads of my modules (and I always enumerate all the names that I import).
Nice idea.

How would your service handle poor internet connectivity of the IOT devices? I've done network connected devices for companies in the past, and the trickiest technical part was always how the device/service behaved in the presence of network failure (was harder than making the devices pass IP69K testing).
You're totally right. I downloaded the latest release earlier and looked at the file size, and did it again right now, and you're correct.

I still can't figure out where the hell I saw the smaller numbers earlier. I must have been drunk.
You posted your "edit" about 20 minutes after 'sp332 correctly answered your question, and your edit is both flagrantly incorrect and rude.
As a matter of fact I am certain they will be dissassembled and examined. For the bounty, for the PR and noteriety if you can find a bug or be the one to star in the "<big company> screwed up or lied to us" story of the week. In general, for lots of reasons that seem to motivate a select crowd who have the skills to actually pull this off.

If you have the source code it makes the disassembly and examination of whatis distributed a lot easier, but it is not a necessary pre-requisite.
A stem-cell repair system that can regenerate any kind of human tissue
Could human reproduction count as one of those exponential factors? if P(t+dt) = 1.1*P(t)?
So, is the problem just that Yahoo doesn't have a good narrative about itself?
FOX is targeted at McMansion owners.
Does that still happen? I remember this being the case years ago, but in the last 3, especially since Firefox went "click to flash", I haven't encountered this.
Our academic partner at UCSF Cardiology hosts their study on their own domain (https://www.health-eheartstudy.org/). If you sign up through the links to Health eHeart provided at mRhythmStudy.org, you'll see a customized flow for the mRhythmStudy which lets you link your Cardiogram account.

Our principle investigator, Dr. Greg Marcus, also spoke briefly with with Fortune when the mRhythm study launched:

https://fortune.com/2016/03/16/apple-watch-cardiogram-stroke-study/

http://profiles.ucsf.edu/gregory.marcus
I must have the breakfast octopus

http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/m...
It really limits your ability to react when things DO go wrong. Not having direct access to hosts limits your options a crap ton
What is the difference, in principle?
Lazy Workers May Serve a Purpose
Exactly this. Even "Instant Run" has often been slower for me than an Eclipse run. Since I don't have a Core i7 with 16Gb of RAM, I stick with Eclipse for Android dev. I'm using Andmore (fork of Google's deprecated ADT plugin). I still use Gradle for the build configuration, but using the Gradle Eclipse AAR plugin (https://github.com/ksoichiro/gradle-eclipse-aar-plugin) I can simply edit the build.gradle file, run "gradle generateEclipseDependencies", and then import the generated Eclipse projects. Bonus being that I can "gradle assembleRelease" my app.
Meaning how you can select text across messages?
Hey, I want you to know that I read a few of your articles and clicked on the ads, because they were relevant to the content and theme of your site.

They weren't ads for Amazon products I looked at last week, or ads for jobs. Good job, it's a really well done site.
this is a joke right? Stop policing language. This isn't 1984.
Android app would be much appreciated!
Why is edit scare-quoted? It is, in actuality, an edit, and I quite clearly denote it. Is this yet another example of tptacek, warrior of HN, bullying and pretending that it's good manners (when actually you're just defending your own kneejerk strawman nonsense, trolling of the worst kind). You are quite the remarkable troll here, and somehow ply it unhindered.

your edit is both flagrantly incorrect and rude.

sp332 tells me to look myself. I followed their advice, and indeed, nothing has progressed. My edit is 100% correct.
Interesting, it looks like this is an app geared at accent reduction, which could be promising. I'll try it out.

Duolingo French elicits speech, but I fear that it is set so permissive as to hardly be helpful (I haven't dared to test feeding it nonsense or clearly incorrect pronunciations yet). There's a Czech-learning app I use that uses speech recognition to test the user's pronunciation, but the implementation is bad: it is fairly strict, and the speech recognition simply tries to interpret the speech (rather than gauging correctness), so it frequently misinterprets the user's utterance as another statement entirely. Which is frustrating and unhelpful.
The median of a trillion numbers
I first added Soundcloud support to youtube-dl when I was in college. Good times!
Forgive my ignorance, but does Dropbox for Business support client side encryption? Is this something you even care about, or are there some usability barriers that make it not worth your while?
Something like this is sorely needed.

Do all participants need to be using your software for anyone to benefit, or will I see the value by running it myself even if my coworkers aren't?

How will you prevent meetings from bouncing around my schedule multiple times a day? eg I thought I was meeting with Bob at 9am today, but as I'm driving to work your software rearranges my schedule to meet Bob at 4pm because he just got a slightly more optimal pairing with someone else at 9:15. So I arrive at work ready for a meeting and get annoyed that I didn't even need to be there yet, I could have made that stop at Starbucks after all. Too many days of this and people will stop using it.

How will you make money?

(aside: this business looks a lot like an interview question I got asked at Google!)
I'm really excited to see rust in more places. I think that the lack of a "runtime" and interoperability with C were great design choices.
That's a good idea to use speech recognition software to give feedback for foreign language leaners.
C# has non-nullable value types via the `struct` keyword. And C# in fact already has a defined optional type to handle this; it's called `Nullable`. [0]

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b3h38hb0%28v=vs.110...
Fair enough, sounds like we agree. Sorry for sounding combative; I get a little touchy about this stuff :) Have a good one internet stranger!
I'd be more concerned with soap and oil and hair plugging it off, or bacterial growth between showers than it's ability to filter pee.
Very interesting, thanks for posting this to be able to check it out. Now I get to find out how far I've fallen since passing the Paris Chamber of Commerce non-native business French test. Reminds me that I haven't listened to any streaming French radio in too long, which was a trick I used to re-up my comprehension and vocab from time to time. Super chouette app!
This was the first question that came to mind: what dialects does it support? I assume it is standard Parisian French.
How about if we put it in layman's terms: the man who is likely going to be President Hillary Clinton's chief of staff is being paid by the Russian government to lobby on behalf of the (nominally private) bank used most of the Russian intelligence services' operations abroad.

That doesn't bother you?
How does only wanting visitors who are willing to view ads recommend the use of a pay wall? Those hardly seem related.
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They keep switching courses, now the new thing is a Siri "competitor" apparently. Except Amazon and Apple aren't even trying to make money on that, they're adjuncts to actual products. There is definitely room to improve on Siri (haven't used Alexa) but it's nonetheless markedly better than when it started. It seems like not only a tough thing to get right, but again, there is the issue of monetizing it. Just seems like a weird thing to go after.
Lower your shields so we can fire our nuclear torpedos at you!
I just imagined an Acadian Cajun from Louisiana giving it some Creole and started giggling.
"executable comments are ok"? Where did you hear that?
Thank you, very detailed explanation.
There's some room.
This article is true, but it's from January. Why is it at the top of the heap now?
What is much, much better than the alternative, where dev sits on their own room, with their own teams, and their own hierarchy, ops do the same, and there's a feud between both.
That seems completely reasonable, and provides what a business would want...metrics to make decisions on where to spend money.

The tack of the article was "Estimates can't be done". Which is silly. It presents this analogy: "would it really have made sense to ask Einstein how long he would take to find a unified theory of physics?"

I'm sure there's some small amount of software work that might fit in that space. I would also guess that the vast majority of it doesn't.
Now that's a thought. In our Ad Limiter add-on (Firefox and Chrome), we have the ability to delete and reorder items in Google Search results. Right now, we only do that for Google's ads. Maybe we should be more aggressive.

Is there a list of sites with ad blocker detectors? We could easily move such sites to the bottom of search results.
Kid A could be the control group? It's done for a lot of other important research, and they could stop the trial and give Kid A the drug once they prove it makes a difference.
...which is very valuable. After all, we don't know when, if ever, a satisfactory explanation (by what criteria?) will derive. To defer all progress in the field until it should meet the standards of some other field would be a great loss, and might preclude any number of future further discoveries.
My point is more without explicitly saying so and explaining how, you shouldn't have been assuming it was any more secure.

Even when it was P2P, it was assumed it was hard to eavesdrop, it was never proven to be.
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What experience do you have building out a lab? Can you make this work by sending the samples to an outside lab until you have traction?

How much do you know about this industry? Are there regulations you need to meet? Who are the established big players, why aren't they doing this?

How are you going to do this better than anyone else?

How will you find customers?
You could also just block the site with your ad blocker. uBlock Origin shows a screen telling you are about to enter a blocked site and gives you the option to unblock it temporarily.
I think you taking the high road and aim for the "gain this startup as a Chinese subsidiary" route is the win-win situation here. Of course, I can only read so much from your description, and maybe some things don't apply in your case. Temper everything I say with your knowledge of your Chinese userbase (if any).

I mean sure, it might look like an affront on the work you've put in your site, but in the end, you've also found another group doing what you're also doing, probably just as dedicated as you are. Depending on the mutual language skills (maybe even consider using a telephone interpreter service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_interpreting), you might be able to find common ground and work together towards a collaboration agreement or outright acquisition -- whatever it is, just make sure to have it in writing that your company came up with the concept and design. Win-win for both sides, and that contract is then legally binding.

Even more, if you're in talks with a very large Chinese company, having Chinese collaborators might actually work in your favor.

TL;DR: You might have more to gain by working on a collaboration deal first. Just never lose sight of the fact that, in the end, they were stealing.
I was kind of hoping for a Pepe Le Pew[1] cartoon, at the very least. :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepé_Le_Pew
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