skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we were more trusted to do the right thing

Is that trust justified? Not on the scale of you, but on the scale of everyone working the helpdesk in your company.

While I will concede that many management tasks could be optimized away, or just plainly removed without replacement without impacting performance negatively, these tasks do exist for a reason.
Lightning Network is much much closer to going live now. That would be a federated (email/XMPP like) system to drastically boost the number of transactions per second that it can handle with retained security (a malicious LN server can at worst temporarily freeze funds and reverse only unsettled payments).

You don't need to trust third parties even with mobile devices, the Bitcoin Wallet app on Android uses the SPV protocol where a malicious miner has to outpace the rest of the miners to fool you. It uses the code library bitcoinj. Headers-first sync only made this easier to do with minimal resources.
TiVo agrees to $1.1B acquisition by Rovi
This looks like analysis; did they break anything new here?

Also -- were they right on the analysis? The stock chart is inconclusive.
Regarding the "huge following"... Yes, lots of people read it, send links to friends, etc. But, most of the time those links are sent for comedy or shock value, not because people think it's serious news. To use an analogy, zerohedge is like the 4chan of the finance world.
There is no such thing as EQ
Good point. Also, they have a facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sci.hub.org/

.org was their original domain which was pulled a while ago.

They are still posting updates there. Hopefully they don't get that pulled too.
It's also probably easier to add a parallel track and mass units than it is to add a penstock and double the size of your reservoir. So there's no need to develop a site to the optimum size up front.
This is really interesting for my growing photo archive where syncing isn't important (and even potentially problematic) but where covenience is! I need to take a look at this, thanks.
That's not the definition of predatory pricing. Predatory pricing is setting prices low in the short term, in order to drive out competitors, so as to increase prices through market power. It has nothing to do with the level of overall profits. Profitable businesses can engage in predatory pricing, and unprofitable businesses can charge high and uncompetitive prices.

Your other point about AWS profits allowing losses in the retail business is incorrect. Profit is an accounting measure. A business with positive (even large) profits can run out of cash. A business with negative profits (losses) can operate for a long time, e.g. if it has raised cash by issuing equity or bonds, or if it is generating cash by selling off capital assets.
Firefox OS TV User Interface and Animation Design
And I said that raising nominal rates causes inflation to fall, so I think we're agreeing there.

Sorry, fixed it. Ugh.
Litter book?
I'd like to point out that a journal is not purely a proxy or even an aggregator - I've gotten more detailed peer review with the bigger journals, because the reviewers are more critical and the editors more selective. I didn't start out as a fan of peer review, but now I say the more the better; it has markedly increased the quality of all of my papers which have undergone it.
What do you mean? It was explained on part 2 that the code for TrueCrypt was built on top of E4M.

"I asked him what he meant, and Hafner told me that in the middle of the development work for DriveCrypt, he discovered that Le Roux was still working on E4M and had incorporated some of his work for SecurStar into his personal project.
(...)
In 2004, a group of anonymous developers did exactly what Hafner had feared: They released a new and powerful, free file-encryption program, called TrueCrypt, built on the code for E4M. “TrueCrypt is based on (and might be considered a sequel to)” E4M, a release announcement stated."

In: https://mastermind.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side
Every bit of complexity you add makes it more difficult and expensive to manufacture.
I am a technical recruiter in Zurich. We have a tiny Rackspace dev team here and from what I've heard from the guys here Rackspace has a very reasonable recruiting strategy.

The take-home assignment is a set of tasks that the candidate can choose from, which I believe is a smarter way to gauge tech-talent than giving an arbitrary algorithmic coding task and forcing the candidate to solve it on the spot like Google / Facebook does.
It is abundant, so we're not going to "run out", but it may reach a point where it's impractical to recover.

As the second most abundant element, a lot of it is found diffuse in the interstellar medium and in stars. It's not useful to us there.

Right now, it's easily and cheaply available by extracting it from certain deposits of natural gas. We should price it based on long-term need and long-term availability, which doesn't include the helium found in distant stars.
LEAPTEST how automation works
Investments do usually diminish profits in the year in which they're incurred. If Amazon buys a $1000 laptop for one of their engineers, in the middle of the year, and they depreciate it over 2 years, then $250 will be charged to the depreciation account in the current year, reducing profits by that amount.
Ask HN: Is an interview now equivalent to a first date?
A question based on a recent experience: I just interviewed at 2 different places. On-site interviews for half a day, met with 4 to 5 people and parting words from the HR ladies: "Thanks for coming, I'll gather feedback from the team and get back to you in 2 to 3 days.".

3 days later nothing. After 5 days I drop a quick note to both HR reps and get a reply "You were great but not exactly what we are looking for right now".

Now, in both cases I had decided at the end of the interview that it wasn't a good fit, and they probably realized the same thing. But I found it incredibly rude that they didn't just send a quick email to let me know about it.

Then, I checked with HR at my current place: "When we interview someone and tell you that they are not a good fit, do you get back to them to let them know?" "Not always."

I brought this issue to my CTO, pointing out that it was a terrible way to manage relationship with the dev community in our area. Am I the one out of touch here? Is this behavior wide-spread? Is interviewing now similar to dating? We throw nice parting words "It was great seeing you, I'll be in touch" while we are both supposed to know that none of us will call the other?
It appears that there is a crowd sourced component to the website. I'm not saying crowd sourcing makes it better, I am just pointing out a difference in the model for determining what is important.
Actually, it is a favor.

The employee is effectively being asked to leave and they're doing a controlled transition. In many cases, this is the best way to go.

This is _similar_ to firing people by putting them on a "performance plan"-- which as almost everyone knows is the "nice way" to fire someone in a corporate environment. Anyone who is put on a "performance plan" had better start searching for a new job immediately. It is definitely better than being fired outright, but there's a phony aspect to calling it a "performance plan".

The approach in the article, I think, is more honest and instead of beating around the bush, gives an opportunity for the employer and employee to transition. For example, the employee would then be free to get out of work and go to interviews and the employer could have the employee train their replacement, all with minimal hard-feelings.
The 3-sigma that you're quoting may not account for the "look elsewhere" effect: the possibility that a comparable fluctuation might have occurred in any number of other energy levels or other decay channels. It's really hard to correct for that properly, and particle theory has a long history of promising signals melting away with more data. That's why the folks involved are being pretty cautious.

Meanwhile, I'm not sure how well the observed decay mode fits with the most common supersymmetric models: I have the strong impression that it's not one that SUSY phenomenologists were expecting going in.

It's going to be fun to see where this takes us! Maybe a surprise would be the best outcome of all.
agreed. And and the subscription nudge was done quite well.
There's no scenario in which this reference would be anything better than "He/she worked here from date A to date B."

The backchannel reference check is already blown, make no mistake.

It's a firing. You're now, instead of being entitled to benefits (in most areas) or being able to negotiate for them, being given absolutely nothing.

Also, a mutual non-disparagement agreement and severance is extremely easy to negotiate for.

And then guess what? Instead of being fucked in that backchannel reference check, _everyone_ takes pause due to the potential consequences.

Sure, a backchannel reference check might still happen, but if and when you find out about it: good night.
Thanks, will you be open sourcing your FUSE and Dokany bindings?

Are you getting any blue screens of death with Dokany? Is it stable enough?
Google CEO: 'Devices' will be things of the past
(this is not meant to me inflammatory, but rather an honest rumination)

Keeping the feminism/SJW/manosphere shenanigans in my peripheral vision, there's been a huge backlash rallying against single mothers in recent years. There's even some anecdotal evidence in dating sites/posts that single mothers are increasingly more open of their demanding that men "man up" and accept another's child/children as part of the package.

Shaming single mothers for being on state assistance or child support only seemed to increase feminist resolve, but a tangible impact in reduced desirability in the larger dating pool may be pushing women to be more responsible.
I love the potential conflict of interest statement in the article: "Bloomberg LP competes with Zero Hedge in providing financial news and information."
Xamarin is a company, not a product. Mono is a Microsoft-sponsored project. If you can't be bothered to get that right it makes it even harder to accept you speaking on behalf of the entire industry.

> "this open sourcing has been met with a universal yawn"

It happened 18 hours ago! Do you think the kinds of companies that code in C# even noticed yet?
If you mean french for the infinit.one founders, it's actually spelled "Infini".
That is not a break on an import story. It would have been if they would have posted this before Moody downgraded Zohars.
This is nothing else then some collections of freely available news mixed together with some pubertal slang.
And their included predictions have a bad hit rate, even for ZH standards.
How WebSockets Work – With Socket.io Demo
The C++ Hightlights and more of GCC 6.1
The negative PR for you and your company when it's found out and publicly exposed that you're out making disparaging remarks about former employees? No matter how true, good luck.
This is really cool I just wish the images were clickable for higher resolution versions.
Title: Spike in Cost of Certain Oral Cancer Drugs Puts Squeeze on Patients, Study Finds
Haxe is still an excellent hedge. Js doesn't offer the same breadth of deployment targets.
Easy solution, turn off Cortana. Problem solved.
The jerk store called, they're all out of you.
Perhaps I used the term incorrectly. I don't mean "distance" to require someone to "flee" nor not admit its connection, nor do I regard naïvety as a failure.

In my field, the main journal used to be "Journal of Computer Documentation". It spun off from "American Documentation" in the early 1960s. The JCD title changed in the 1970s to "Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences" because "documentation" - a 1920s term - was considered already old-fashioned by the 1960s, and the title didn't capture the new focus on computers, and the underlying principles of information science.

It then became "Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling" in 2005 because the 1990s showed how to apply those information techniques to make predictive models.

Each name change is a form of distancing itself from its previous focus as part of a shift to a new focus.

Or is "distance oneself" not applicable for that situation?
We throw nice parting words "It was great seeing you, I'll be in touch" while we are both supposed to know that none of us will call the other?

This isn't a recent development. It has always been that way. It's called being 'polite'.
That's a good question. I don't know if there has been an attempt to IPFS/Torrent the files, but it would be good. They are referenced by DOI on sci-hub so they are easily searched. It would probably be helpful to have a DOI -> IPFS/Torrent name. For IPFS a doi like 10.1037/rmh0000008 would probably work but I don't know if the '/' character will work as a torrent name.

I don't know that the sci-hub underlying database is available outside of the site. I expect with growth they will need to move to torrents or similar to minimize their bandwidth requirements.
2016 Pulitzer Winner Denounces Globo and the “Coup” in Brazil
Sci-hub is nice, but it would be nicer if these papers were available in torrent form, so we wouldn't have to depend on a single source (which can fail at some point).
Honest question: Should I care? This sounds to me less like a genuine thing to worry about and more like unresolved angst from 20 years ago.

IE is too deeply embedded in the OS to remove, sure. That doesn't mean that I ever use it, or need it for the things it does. I just leave it there, mostly ignored, and go use another browser for my Web surfing needs.

Or if we're talking mobile devices, there they do have a bit more control over their garden. But still, meh. Microsoft has no power in the mobile space.
I wonder what is the motivation behind such thing ?
We're planning on open sourcing our implementation for the FS. We want to do it responsibly (i.e.: not a giant code dump) so it's going to take a little time. You can see our build system here: https://github.com/infinit/drake

We haven't publicly released our Windows client yet but our internal build hasn't had stability issues.
I always went through a recruiter which always followed up and got decent feedback for me.

My favorite feedback was we thought he could do the job we just felt he stumbled on the interview.

The another company was what's the minimum he's willing to take?
Plus it competes in the sense that an elephant competes with a squirrel for food.
I read the first lines and thought immediately of all those e-mails marked IMPORTANT coming from "my bank" that request I immediately enter my username and password somewhere for "security".

Teaching blind compliance with any (unauthenticated) request based on "security" is the one way we could make the situation even worse.
Some firms use the principal of making life at work downright unpleasant, in the hope the member(s) of staff will take the hint and jump before being pushed.
A classic example is the usage of 'PIP's - most of the time unrelated to actual performance, just an HR approved tool to effect removal of staff.

A lot of the time conflicts arise due personality clashes rather than technical differences, basically your face no longer fits/the manager wants someone else in your place.

Best advice on those circumstances is to be polite, absolutely do the work asked, keep records of everything, look for a new job, but also retain an employment lawyer, so if they move onto stage two - aka "really fucking over the staff", you have options.

I have a colleague who followed this process in the UK, took them to tribunal, they bottled it, and settled when it became apparent how much evidence the staff had collected to support their position.
That compilers may behave differently is exactly the point of UB, if they all had to behave the same it wouldn't be undefined, after all!
Pistahx.io: Design-First Type-Safe Haxe API Framework
With my company it depends on how well the interview went.

If you didn't do well - we tell you with-in a few days.

If you did well enough to continue to be in the running, it could be awhile that you hear something until we're done our interviewing, but this is made clear to the folks in the interview.

Our HR department is pretty aggressive at ensuring people don't wait to long for an answer. I really think more companies should do that.
No problem! Thanks for the great post.
Credit card chargeback fraud isn't that rare, and the merchants usually take the hit.
Here is the advertisement sheet for scripts, by Herman Strepel.

http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:PTP:DenHaag:KB:76D45_d...
http://chrometana.theo.li/ did it
If there is shock value, it is because ZH focuses on facts (yes, they are usually well documented facts), which the so called mainstream media chooses to ignore, because the narrative does not suit their corporate owners.

Most of ZH's reporting is backed by numbers coming from other sources. They also report rumors ahead of everyone else, which seem implausible, but later turn out to be facts and reported by other outlets.

Yes, they have topic selection bias, but so does everyone else.
Tongue in cheek
get trold matey

i upvoted ur post
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I can also conjecture about the plausible couple who, having had their beloved son and daughter leave the nest, and with visits and calls growing less frequent, decide to go for round two.
Only if they refer to something non-generic in their domain of application. Microsoft nearly lost the "Windows" trademark with the Lindows lawsuit, because a window was a generic term for the kind of UI that Windows does (when they realised that they might lose the trademark, they decided to settle out of court with Lindows instead). You can't sell produce under the name Apple, but you can sell computers under that name. "Dropbox" is a more generic term than "Infinite", so I can see how it could run into trouble if someone came up with a similar file sharing service and also called it a drop box.
Which may be what this is actually about; having the words 'litter' and 'gram' together. Speculating that 'keep-britain-tidygram' might not have attracted attention.
> CloudFlare's firewall system uses LuaJIT to analyse approximately 4 million GET requests per second.

While I agree with your premise (LuaJIT is a pretty awesome project), this example means nothing in terms of performance.

— "analyse" doesn't give an indication of the workload -- it could vary from "matching against a precompiled regexp" to running advanced statistical models.

— 4 millions requests per second does not mean anything without knowing the size of the deployment. You can always throw more hardware at a "trivially" parallelizable problem.

— Throughput is only one dimension on the "speed" continuum, latency (and especially tail latency) is also very important. Some languages have very good throughput and fail hard at tail latency (Java, Go until recently). Some others have lower throughput but more predictable latency.
* Design Mockup Tools

In the past I used Keynote for its simplicity, now I prefer Sketch. It's nice to be able to preview your designs on your mobile devices. These apps are for Mac only though.

* Books

One book I would recommend on design is "The Design of Everyday Things". You'll learn a few useful things about design in general.

Another book I'm reading right now is "The Process of Creating Life". I cannot recommend it yet as I haven't finished it, so I'm just mentioning it. This book might seem like an odd choice at first since it's from the architecture shelf, but it has some interesting ideas nonetheless.

One thing to mention is that the topic for both of these books is not digital design, yet I would argue that the knowledge learned from them is transferable to the digital realm.
Q&A: Tracy Hinds on Bringing Node.js to the People
My kids get abstinence-only sex ed and it makes me laugh. If abstinence-based education was effective, they could eliminate the problem with childhood obesity by just telling kids to ignore their urges to overeat.

To avoid dealing with bullshit from parents, the school hires an outside company to teach sex ed. Sometimes they failed in funny ways. In my daughter's class, they handed out a few Skittles and told kids to pass them around as the class went on. After a while they stopped to talk about the candy that had been handled by everybody and asked who would want to eat the now sticky, gross candy. They underestimated how picky kids are when it comes to Skittles - all were eaten.
Because MS violated Google's TOS.
You can build a pretty damn good simulation of a Boeing 737-300 with it. (http://ixeg.net/)
My thoughts exactly. I was a daily reader of ZH going back to its very beginning. The tone of it's articles and comments became unbearable ~2011 so now I only go there a couple times a year out of nostalgia.
Try -> https://realpython.com/blog/python/deploying-a-django-app-to...
Big examples:

Grandparent childcare.

Eldercare.
Interesting article. Not sure if it meets the of the "Show HN" guidelines -- there is nothing for users to try out or play with. If it is still withing the window, maybe change the title. If not, maybe email the moderators.
There are some demo videos here http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11524958/energy-storage-rail
Are those trains going to be driven by humans?

2000 feet are 609.6 m, thus according to supahfly_remix max. 12000 kWh can be stored per train, 5.5 miles are going to take about 4 minutes to climb and another 4 minutes to descend, let's assume (from thin air) the usage is 3 times below its max, then a train will buy and sell (0.05 also taken mostly from thin air) 2.5/h * 12000 kWh * 0.05 USD/kWh = 1500 USD, which means that salary for the driver is going to be perhaps 2-4% (depending on whether fully driving, or just observing for safety).
University
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Yes, though you don't have access to the GUI toolkit stuff, so it's most suitable for stuff like games.
SS7 Protocol: How Hackers Might Find You
That's a good point. I usually avoid recruiters since I think they had noise to the process and don't really add any value, but in this case they would have helped.

But they probably would have done what I did, pinged the companies to know what was going on. They may have done it sooner and not waited like I did, but the companies probably wouldn't have spontaneously provided the information.
Well...this just succeeded in adding more readership to ZH. Their "anti-article" to the Bloomberg piece is fascinating reading.
FaceTrash - because he's trying to get people to face up to trash.
Futhark – High performance functional programming
I typically don't go past the point of jotting down the structs. If we're just talking about getting ideas out, it only needs to include what's necessary for selling the idea.

Edit: by which I mean a fairly simplified bullet-point list of, say, ThingFoo with attrs fizz, buzz, bar, and baz.
At this point I have to assume you're trolling. No one is this obtuse.

Xamarin is a company, not a product

Xamarin the company has a primary anchor product that is a tooling and SDK to build cross platform apps (indeed, on Xamarin.com it is literally the only non-service product. There is zero ambiguity). To anyone not autistic, that is clearly the focus on this entire discussion. Your bizarre incantation of Unity using a very old version of Mono as a citation in support of Xamarin set the bar pretty low for this conversation.

It happened 18 hours ago!

Microsoft made it completely free. Yawn.. Microsoft open sources the entire SDK. Yawn.

Clearly you work either for Microsoft, or you hitched your wagon entirely to Xamarin or Microsoft. Your emotions on this are bizarre and completely out of touch with the reality.
HN doesn't take kindly to editorializing titles unless the original title is either misleading or linkbait.