skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I suppose you're right -- I was hoping it'd be less clunky on mobile but I tried it and it's not much better. Scratch from MIT seems to be more promising but there is no mobile client unfortunately
> So what's to stop deeper "collaboration" with surrounding counties (San Jose, San Mateo) ...

San Jose is not a "surrounding county", since City of San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County.
I love articles like that, because they're so good at packing the maximum number of leftist dog whistles possible into the available physical space and rhetorical spectrum. Just to pull a typical quote:

Meanwhile, as the labor movement gained steam, corporate
leaders were struggling to prevent employees from
unionizing. “In the early 20th century, there was a
limited but influential set of companies engaging in
what is commonly referred to as ‘welfare capitalism,’”
Mozingo explains. “The idea was to prevent turnover
and control workers better by making factory sites that
were tidy, safe, and well-ventilated with good lighting
and all those things.

The entire premise of the article, as far as I can tell, is that the corporate pigs should be condemned because they kept their workers from unionizing by actually treating them like human beings. So, if the "welfare capitalists" hadn't tried to create "tidy, safe, and well-ventilated" factory sites, could we expect Ms. Mozingo's judgment, handed down on all history's behalf, to be more sympathetic? I'm guessing not.

For what it's worth, I actually agree with a lot of the criticism directed toward campuses like Apple's. It's hard to describe the renderings we've seen in any terms other than dystopian. A building designed to keep everyone looking inward is better suited to a religious cult than to a creative organization.
Shapeshift.io cyberattack post-mortem
Street-Fighting Mathematics
An investment is an expenditure of money. What part of money set aside for expansion will not go to an expense? Where does it go?
They fought but not with the degree of murderous violence that Europeans had, and native Americans were immediately enslaved, called subhuman, savaged etc and were deliberately exterminated without trying to hide the fact. Like I said I thought it was an exaggeration but having read the book, it changed my perspective on history.

When the first European explorers arrived in South America, there was a massive and advanced civilisation there. Far greater and larger than I ever thought. Massive cities were destroyed, some of them engineering marvels. The enslavement and murder of native Americans continued there for centuries.
They were taking the joke to its conclusion to see what happened. I think the warnings that its not really a good idea indicates they well understand it's a joke to begin with.
"Although this is the first beta version, we are happy to say that this version already passes all (~80300) Khronos Vulkan conformance tests (32 + 64 bit) when using a compliant driver on the host system. We also tested the windows version of the game "The Talos Principle" and various samples from the LunarG SDK and so far, we aren't aware of any bugs."
Don't really know Pieter.

But zmq really played a important role in my life. I was burned out with programming two years ago and took a long extended break. Then in the depth of my lull, I took a look at zmq and really took to its minimalism and the do-it-yourself philosophy.

I really liked reading the documentation too. Actually it is the most memorable experience, my interpretation was that the zmq User Guide ("Zen of Zero") has a particular attitude: that everything has a singular focused purpose, yet it is also unpretentious, knowing full well the limitations of its circumstances and limited scope; and once a particular role has been decided for a particular situation, one should try do one job simply and well and get out of the way of others.

Perhaps this attitude is already expressed well in philosophy books. But for me, it was applied and ingrained in grokking zmq and coding with it. I could go on and talk about building a zmq demo helped me in getting my next job or created a Github repo on an zmq adaptor for protobuf. But just technical details behind the "Zen of Zero".
I think your word choice is poor here.

He is a human being with a reasonable position, especially if they have a family to support. I don't think its good to "identify" and "combat" people like this. In fact it seems dehumanizing when what we need is more empathy and understanding to get to root issues.
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Looked into gobble which this article is about... $13.95 for each meal minimal 4 meal order??? I see limited revenue growth long term for them at those prices. The person that can afford that can also order take out any time they wish; or run into whole foods and buy a ready to cook meal for 30% cheaper.
This was getting some headlines a few years ago, but most engineers have known about it for years

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/critical/fall-...
It's a press release. They were probably sent a copy to publish.
At the same time, the DA that attempts to try that case would be crucified. Especially if the harassment was bad.
Many (but not all) types of sexual harassment in the workplace aren't go to the police illegal in and of themselves. I know someone who was fired from his job for saying something extremely inappropriate and sexual to a coworker. Did he deserve to get fired? Hell yeah. Does he deserve criminal charges? Hell no.
Bots offer a gateway between human language and API actions. The future (which VC's are very excited about) is one where the human language commands evolve into something non-syntax specific.
Google Books just won a decade-long copyright fight
Yes, I agree with you about people not liking the unfamiliar. My comment was tongue-in-cheek. Though, you must admit, badly played Bartok is gruesome. My daughter plays violin, and discovered his 44 violin duets and also the Hungarian Dances suite. Luckily she is good enough that it is fun to listen to. But my standard joke is: "All teenagers seek out music that will drive their parents crazy. Mine found Bartok."
I will definitely do so and will check it out in the near future. However at the time I couldn't experiment with it in my normal workflow as I don't use Illustrator or Photoshop, so the then-missing features were a non-starter for me.
will certificate pinning flag anything if the user installs a new root cert on their device?
Ah, good memory.

See also "The news is controlled" -- anchors from different stations using the same lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kip2w-DceV0
Bah accidentally downvoted you nick, sorry. Since I downvoted though, I might as well play the game as if I had a reason (because it annoys me when people dv without a reason): I think the request for some basic information without forcing the reader to google/duckduckgo/wikipedia some of the most basic info (such as full name, basic description) is not too much to ask from a journalistic perspective and using it as a barrier is not a good thing for encouraging education.

After all, there is a reason it's called the wikipedia rabbit hole, do you know how often I start with a quick search and suddenly it's an hour later and I've learned all about $something-other-than-originally-intended?
https://gist.github.com/jpswade/b5907dbb7210812d941040b3ebfb...
Hungry shark
"runtime" code still has to be downloaded
the author, and the reviewer, are both wrong on all counts.
> I think you may be underestimating how easy some old cars were to steal.

Or as a certain trio of Brits would say, in the olden days, this is how you stole a car:

https://youtu.be/VNdygguAMQA
$20 per month!?!
>> Alarms aren't perfect, but they're noisy and paranoia inducing.

One of my favorite jokes from a local comedian was this gem: "My neighbors car alarm went off last night. Scared me so bad I dropped all my tools."
And compared to the UK tax treatment of stock options for employees is brutal
If you look at this project: http://tombigel.github.io/detect-zoom/

You can't get zoom level directly anymore, but you can monitor the "Device Pixel Aspect Ratio".

This tells you enough to know if the user zooms in /out.
Much to the detriment of my grades, I beat the game in college.
Actually, yes. Damn them. They should be paying workers with money, instead of lottery tickets that will likely be worthless or diluted to worthlessness by the time it's vested. (Doesn't apply, I suppose, to already publicly traded companies).
While we're on the topic of ethics, I recently decided to completely abandon Vice and all of its sister sites (Noisey, Motherboard, Thump, Vice News, etc) because one of its subsidiaries is creating advertising content for Philip Morris. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/17/vice-media-atta...

I emailed Motherboard's editor about this and didn't get so much as a frowny face in response. I am bummed out about Vice Media's blatant hypocrisy. They're worth $4b, so they start tossing kids into the thresher to continue printing money.
My university partnered with Google to produce a digital collection where "full-text of works that are out of copyright or in the public domain are viewable, and patrons can search inside in-copyright works." http://www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project
It substantially raises the costs and risks of theft.
The great vowel shortage of the late 80s is finally behind us :)
I found it more worthwhile to move to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Brogue than beat my head against Nethack until I ascend. Something to be said for a game with a clear vision vs the kitchen sink.
I like it. Thanks for pointing this out.
> There isn't much incentive for TSA or OFAC agents to apply common sense or attempt to detect irony.

Right, because every incident that they have to report and log is additional work and justification for budgetary increase.
Yes. :)

Would you like to offer up another term for something that performs ranging with radio?
> People who read more are paying less to each author than those who read less

In flat fee unlimited subscription models there is no way to escape this. Some subscribers are going to consume more content than others but they all pay the same amount. The alternative is the pay per use model which Amazon has been offering since 96 or something and has existed in bookstores for decades.

If anything this makes it feasible for authors that have loyal fans but not widely popular content to be able to make a money.
That is a very nice list, so please don't take it the wrong way that it's not what I'm looking for.

It is increasingly apparent that the next generation is going to be using mobile - perhaps exclusively - so I'm looking for something mobile specific.

Edit: I should clarify by mobile specific that I mean the app itself runs on mobile, not just something that can target a mobile app.
My problem with Nethack was that it actually becomes too win-able, once you know the dominant strategy. There is very little variability in building a successful "ascension kit".

Early game strategies can vary and some can be quite fun (healer/pacifist run) but in my experience the "sameness" sets in once your strategy becomes "step 1: get wand of wishing".

Of course you don't HAVE to use that wand. But it's there.
That's a real rosy outlook you have there. Here's the real scenario: Boss walks to your cube with or without HR/Legal/Security/IT personnel and says "We need to look at your computer for a moment. Step aside."

Unless you're doing anything illegal enough to get the feds or local government on you, they're going to take a look right there.
Not with the degree of murderous violence?

You are aware of what the Aztecs (for instance) did with enslaved tribes?
Thanks to Wayne Larsen for writing hckr news and maintaining it for many years! I find the "top 50%" filter to be a great way to avoid missing popular Hacker News posts, especially if I haven't checked the front page for a day or two.
This is actually really cool!
It is pathetic slow. This trams should travel 70-100km/h not 40km/h. It is also almost empty between 10-16 when people are at work in banks (Gogarburn, Gyle). Ticket system is also ridiculous, you need to validate you card twice.
free download of the book (for the lazy):
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/free_dow...

Mahajan also offers paperback and ebook options.
True. I guess from the stats results or this article I'll be able to draw some conclusions on whether people actually try to learn how to ask questions in a smart way.
So like a Google search?
This is a very good book to refine tactical approaches to several classes of math problems. I read it last year and, at the time, I wished I had come upon it sooner.
> Car GPS trackers are expensive, hard to install, poorly designed and just plain bad.

I don't know about US market, by in my country an anti-theft GPS trackers sold for about $100 (and about $50 for installation). Not a lot compare to a vehicle cost.
Also your need a SIM card (to send/receive SMS by tracker). Even in the US it is not expensive (e. g. T-Mobile for $3/month).
You can link out. But one of the things I like about Kindles for reference books is the ability to use it where you are, and not have to have an internet connection in order for it to be useful. Also, Silk isn't that great of a browser.

A bit off-topic, but I couldn't get at all interested in Kindles until the Kindle Fire, because that was the first time it would render O'Reilly books correctly, or render something like a resistor color code correctly. I love having a programmer's reference library in my laptop bag.
running in the debugger is a lot of fun
Yes, I've ascended four times. I had read all the spoilers, though!
Why don't you compare Google's CDN to CloudFlare?
> If you're comfortable browsing the internet, this level of reporting on a Kindle seems almost quaint by comparison.

Yeah, I'm not okay with that other tracking either. In addition, I am paying for my Kindle and my Kindle books or KU subscription. It used to be only free services tracked you, but I guess that limitation is coming to an end.
Pls note that sharing is not endorsement. Just thought it was newsworthy.
See also Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory" [1], mentioned in one of the comments.

[1] https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
I have. I've ascended four times over about 18 years of (non-continuous) playing. And without resorting to the use of Elbereth. For those who don't know, you can engrave "Elbereth" on the ground, and most monsters will refrain from killing you. I considered it a cheat, so I never used it.

After a while, you tend to get really good at the game and it becomes much easier. The trick is not to do something stupid. If you can prevent yourself from doing that, all you need is a fair amount of luck and patience, and you'll make it to the end.

The problem is not doing anything stupid. For example, for me it was common to die while attacking an enemy, or usually multiple ones in a swarm, even though I had the items to escape them right there in my inventory. A simple zap with a wand of digging and you'll drop to the level below and make your escape.

After a while, if I got myself in a pickle, I'd just open the inventory screen, read through it a few times, go for a cup of tea or a good night's sleep. When I figured out a solution, I would continue the game. It is, after all, turn based so there is no hurry.

It's great fun.
There are alot "oh its wallstreet" comments here, but I'm not sure its warranted in this case.

Investors in this case are pension funds, hedge funds and in some cases ETF managers like BlackRock and Vanguard who are speaking up.

I can see how some tech employee's who get part of their compensation in the form of restricted shares or stock options may look at this as wall street attacking them, but in all honesty, run of hte mill employee stock rewards pale in comparison to C level executive compensation.

This is targeted squarely at the Marissa Mayer's of the world not the average Google employee.

This is a long running controversy. Below is a Harvard business review article from 2003 about the issue. I remember that at one point it was a contentious issue as to whether or not companies had to account for stock option/stock grants in their GAAP counting.

https://hbr.org/2003/03/for-the-last-time-stock-options-are-...
It says a lot about the progress of solar if the big worry is that it won't provide 100% of all energy by itself.

Even cheaper solar would be nice but I'm not sure why it would be better than a radical battery breakthrough or some cheap and cheerful fusion thing or some mix of different solutions.
Vigorous exercise linked to higher vitamin D levels, lower heart disease risk
Farmers Reap New Tools from Their Own High-Tech Tinkering
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/FAQ#Even_statically_linked...
Are you talking about wizard mode or actually in gdb?
> something non-syntax specific.

What do you mean by "non-syntax specific"?

- loose syntax, as in human language, which we can parse although it is loose (e.g. I went to the shop, I went to shop, I went to de shop - all are parseable by humans to get the same meaning [1])

OR

- something else?

[1] except that "I went to shop" could also mean "I went shopping" - but ignore that for now, it's just not a good an example.
Tell us about your approach.
The Israeli “art student” mystery (2002)
We are missing our chance to stop the sixth mass extinction
Not me.

In the 80's and 90's, I decided to do other silly things with my life, like becoming a professional guitarist and being a Dad.

I know I know...how irresponsible. :)
The roads did win, completely and utterly.

The rail system just helped mop up the unmet demand from the road network. Mostly it is young people without cars, or older people with ridiculous commutes and lots of money. Outside of big cities the country had restructured itself around the A roads, not the traditional town with a railway station.
You are, no doubt, right. But there seems to be no path forward without offending someone. Simply being a woman in a man's world with an opinion seems to set off plenty of people. I do my best to be respectful, but there comes a point past which I can choose to be so respectful of the delicate sensibilities of men that I never say anything ever or I can risk what is often a shitshow no matter how carefully I word it.

Hopefully, the article I linked to says it better. I am the author. It did make the front page of HN when someone other than me chose to post it here. I believe it to be one of the more even handed approaches to the problem space.
another one on the site:

http://www.animaclock.com/viewfont?font=mrcl_kk_ghost&clean=...
This is somewhat offtopic, but I've tried building crystal radios over and over again in my life, and have never gotten them to work. I've built them from kits. I've studied them online and built them from scratch, in various designs. I'm in a city so the signal should be strong enough. I wish I could figure out what went wrong. I am able to build any other type of circuit that I've attempted.
Follow that up with his slightly more advanced The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering [0].

I feel like these two books plus Art Benjamin's Secrets of Mental Math [1] would put your Fermi calculation abilities on another level.

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engin...
Python Prompt Toolkit
Ask HN: What are the best tools for dead code detection?
I work in some Java and Objective C code, and while the Android Studio/XCode don't complain, I suspect some ifs and else's are hit. Are there any tools that could instrument the code at runtime and say if certain code fragments are hit?
Plant Intelligence (2014)
If only there was some sort of machine that was good at making and aggregating records.
This begs the question: what about under-40s working more than 25 hours per week?
I've used one of these types of services - I think they're for people who want to cook, but have more money than time. They don't want to spend time shopping, or planning meals - but they still want to use their kitchen and the fancy knives and cookware they bought.

It's sort of like a lego kit for your kitchen. You buy a box that comes with instructions and you assemble your Ahoy Matey Pirate Ship™. Compare to just buying a bucket of random lego blocks, or buying a pre-built ship-in-a-bottle.

There's definitely a target audience there, I just dunno how big it is, and it's probably limited to large cities.
Yes, I remember Adlestrop ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10821831/Adlestrop-a-lost...
I think you intended for your writing to be punchy, but it ended up just being hard to follow. I'll pick a passage at random:

> Then she kept saying she was "looking for sex". Gee, those women were trying to harass me sexually? No, I didn't have any "nightmares"!

Is your second sentence actually a question? It sounds more like a statement that was accidentally punctuated with a question mark rather than a full stop or an exclamation point.

Your third sentence doesn't make sense. Who said anything about nightmares? And why is "nightmares" in quotation marks? Is it supposed to be a euphemism for something else?

Overall, I give your comment a 3/10 in terms of readability. Try tightening it up, and make sure that the sentences you're writing actually make sense and are contextually appropriate.
The real issue is as cars become more dependent on software, it plays right into the hands of the software hackers.

High tech car theft: 3 minutes to steal keyless BMWs: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2222742/microsoft-subnet...

High-tech thieves use laptops to steal cars: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13507939/ns/business-autos/t/high-...

Gone in 60 seconds--the high-tech version: http://www.cnet.com/news/gone-in-60-seconds-the-high-tech-ve...
So this is security? I'm confused.
> when things go wrong, you want to be prepared to patch source on a moment's notice,

That's a misunderstanding. What Debian, and every other mature Linux distribution, gives you are the tools to not only rebuild a package on a moments notice (try to build any non trivial third party package sometime, and compare that to rebuilding the Debian package) but also keep track of those patches over time (where did it originate? bug id? upstreamed yet?) and keep a bird's eye view over deployment (which nodes? when?). You need to ask yourself those questions, because your auditor will.

Good for you to implement SNMP, and using the f word in writing, but maintaining infrastructure is something else. Your reason to not use Debian for critical infrastructure should be because of contractual liabilities and/or support reasons, its build tools and associated policies are solid. It's not the only way to roll, but it's a perfectly valid one.
We at Microsoft think about bots as somewhat "intelligent", as in - they understand your intent. There's a little example chat with a pizza bot: It's a subtle difference, but being able to have a conversation vs navigating a flow chart is pretty powerful for a bunch of applications.

Hey pizza bot!

> Hey Jeremy! The usual tonight?

Nah, I'd like to try something new

> We have added three new items:

> 1) Hawaiian

> 2) BBQ

> 3) The Works

Option 3 please.

> Shall I send this to your home?
I only saw that they were tasked with creating general advertisements, not targetted ads for kids, though, I suppose kids are included if a country allows tobacco advertisements in public.

Still, the article implies that they are marketing directly towards children... which seems inaccurate.
Joking.
Supporting the gossip protocol is hard, but so is supporting everything else. A more interesting question here is: if there is a bug in the gossip protocol, Cassandra side, and the addition of a different implementation of the same protocol happens to trash your cluster, who do you blame? How long until you find out?

That sounds like a support nightmare. We're willing to revisit this in the future, but I think it is an unlikely development.
What would society look like with universal basic income?