skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The best insurance policy for your career is to be really good at your job, which means working on your job instead of networking.

This isn't true, in my experience. I have a few pretty good jobs on my resume (System Architect at a Fortune 50 company, Manager of Development at a big ad agency). Last year, when I was looking for work, those titles were pretty much entirely disregarded by the employers I applied to. Almost every one of them told me they never trusted titles from other companies and tried to get me to join as a mid-level engineer.

Every time I had a friend inside the company, however, I was routed to senior-level jobs that actually matched my experience. I've spent time keeping up those friendships with occasional notes and lunches. If I had just assumed that being really good at my job would be my best insurance, I would not have found the opportunities I did.
Streembit has great quality audio calls. It will be interesting to have a Skype type app that can be used with IoT.
What did you build?
If you're not trying to crack the 30m passwords, but focused on one, and especially if you might have some other clues about what that password might be, it could take a very short amount of time.
> ...you can almost never narrow them down...

That might be because the "antagonists" are motivated by something more complex than whatever bulletpoint you're focused on... like the concept of free software. Try to think of an elevator pitch for it, now imagine how that would hold up in an adversarial debate where your interlocutor likens you to a "conspiracy theorist" or "the religious".

> Its a pattern -> learn to recognise it.

Yes, you've perfectly demonstrated the association fallacy, learn to recognize it.
I wish these guys would focus on new small turbofans, like the Williams EJ22. Pairing one of those to something like a Cirrus/Piper/Mooney airframe would give fast, low fuel, reliable powerplant for existing airframes. Add in a sprinkling of new technology to simplify the flight controls and you'd be a lot closer than trying to boil the ocean with "flying cars"
Meh, supporting a couple of iOS versions and a couple of Android versions for a native app along with device specific quirks is as much of a pain as supporting Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE. Also, maintaining two code bases for native Android and iOS apps is a massive investment compared to a single web app code base.
Please don't use sexist language on HN.
BART board approves $3.5B bond
Three Roads to the Top of the Mountain
No it's not. Get better designers - ones who understand responsive design, and developers who speak modern javascript.
Well React Native is one of many strategies they could use to build their app and later on back port their components to the web, should they resurrect it. I would agree with your point that it's a no brainer.
Keurig axes unpopular Kold machine, offers customer refunds
I also don't see electoral fraud and exit poll discrepancies talked about as much anymore:

https://medium.com/@spencergundert/hillary-clinton-and-elect...

An interesting read from April which continues to be relevant and attributable to last Tuesday's primaries as well.
Great article, fun service. Still a part of me feels sad that we spend brain power on things like this.
This system only works if he also issues invoices for communally-consumed things that he paid for.
A lot of the issues here are with mobile Safari. I agree it completely sucks just due to how behind Safari are with ES6. On the upside the work is complete to fix this in dev releases, so there's a very good chance that we're 3 months or so away from a large step change. I'm not planning on releasing anything in the next 3 months, so that timetable is okay for me, YMMV
Not sure how I feel about this. The guy is an ass, without a doubt, and blocking him is the right move. However Bumble have taken the incident and publicly shamed the person, and used it as a marketing opportunity. I can't help but imagine Bumble PR staff being pretty happy when this came across their desk.
It's always encouraging to be reminded of how the giants in the history of science were also just people.
There are now more Americans working for online-only outlets than newspapers
>> it is not more anonymous than internet itself is

It's less anonymous than that. Not a 100% accurate analogy but this would be similar to having your browsing history stored in a public location mapped to your IPs.
I understand and empathize with the author's aggravation. But cheaper? Really?

So iOs and Android are more than 90% of the market. You are telling me that it is cheaper to build and maintain 2 separate apps and pass on the remaining part of the market than have one app that covers everything?

Android device support is supposed to be a nightmare - there are so many versions to contend with, each device manufacturer can customize things.

iOS is easier to support but fighting with Apple can be quite the ordeal.

Using the web means you bypass these other issues but have to contend with the ones cited in the article. It sounds like pick your poison.

I could conceive that after the initial cost of building 2 separate apps, for iOS and Android, that perhaps it is less aggravating and costly to maintain them, as opposed to dealing with the web. However how complicated is the UI for the web apps? Can't you keep it simple? Unless you can show numbers I cannot in my wildest dreams believe that building and maintain 1 web app is more than twice the cost of building and maintaining 2 separate native apps.

What are you building that requires building a 2016 Web app with every new feature? Maybe that is your problem.
This is probably your fault

That's the point of the article. Getting these things right on the web is non-trivial (and therefore expensive).
If your headline can be answered with "no" then you probably shouldn't post it.
Sorry, I meant in an Apache config file or something.
SQLite can’t handle a large number of documents; I have ~40M of them.
Indeed, the workers who already have safe jobs have protection and 36 hour work weeks while the 10.3% of the population who are unemployed are locked out.
> Honestly, at this point it's too late to start "preparing" for a pop. I'm dubious the city can come up with 6 years of money to ride out any kind of economic turmoil without great pain.

So cities and states should just give up? Just because they won't be able to protect against everything doesn't mean they shouldn't be working on sound budgeting plans to offset whatever amount of pain that they have. You're right that the regulatory structure of the city makes it very difficult to make the kind of infrastructure investments truly necessary to address the issues of the city, but building up cash reserves is simply sound planning.
No one would be suing. This would be criminal.

I was thinking that a simple way this would be illegal in the US would be

"[accessing] a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains information from any protected computer"

See a2C here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#C...

I'd assume you can make a decent case that the person only authorized the installation of a piece of software, not the gathering of identifying information.

IP addresses can be used as identifying information especially when paired with a timestamp.

Being an American citizen living in the US I would not want my name on this paper.
Easier, yes. The tools for web development are awesome and amazing, but there's so many restrictions and limitations that come with the web. Maybe the web is the way forward, but native will be kicking its ass (regarding experience) for a long time.
The answer is yes.
if web is future then future is now!
Selection bias by non-scientist who has "studied" a subject as a hobby for 30 years. Of course some people are born with special abilities. One of the dissenting commenters writes "Baloney. I started drawing recognizable human figures when I was two or three years old. At that age and with the parents I had, neither coaching nor practice was involved. At every step of the way, I was far, far ahead of my peers in attaining the typical developmental stages of an artist." The author must know nothing of Srinivasa Ramanujan or Carl Friedrich Gauss. He must have never heard of savant syndrome.

Yes, most people work hard to master their professions, but we don't all start off equal and pretending so is delusional.
There's at least 2 pieces of new information:

- that it's officially released
- slim builds
Oh, this is fantastic!

I've toyed with the idea of creating a browser-based version of the original Elite. Went as far as the galaxy generation, based on the C version. Then had trouble, because the algorithm is pretty much obfuscated (unintentionally) behind layers of bit manipulation. And you need to do it the exact same way, otherwise you won't get the iconic galaxy, starting on Lave and with Riedquat as the nearby anarchy.

From a quick glance, the elisp version is slightly more readable in some places. I guess I should try again.

Also, will dig up my Portal Ending recreated in Emacs, as I didn't know there were other crazy brains that found this sort of thing interesting. I wonder if I need to get Valve's permission first.
Free computational heating
Some other things you might think about excluding.
BioHazards, Waste, Industrial Materials

Could be argued that they fall under Dangerous items, but if you look at USPS, they've seen it all and get pretty specific.

https://www.usps.com/ship/shipping-restrictions.htm
https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-differen... This explains why
If they have data for the last 10 years they could use the model to predict thousands of games. That would start to be statistically significant for anybody.

However, I'm no statistician myself too but if the goal is to predict only 12 results how do we evaluate the predictions of the model? There should be a difference between 0 and 12 successes.
I know what the textbook says; I'm talking about the political realities of pursuing a policy that would cause a precipitous value in people's homes.

True, the Fed is nominally Independent, and Immune to Political Influences, not in practice it's not. The bankers that contribute to its policies also have to worry about mortgages going underwater from a return to historically normal rates.
In general, plausible explanations that don't require being a dick tend to be better.

Oops, guess we both failed. I wasn't "explaining" anything, as I clearly stated that I didn't understand it. One will assume what they assume when there is a lack of information, whether you find it insulting or not.
Did we read the same article? What is this condescending bullshit. Nobody is arguing these things CAN'T be done, just that it's too much effort on the web, and the only web devs that know the ins and outs of every browser enough to make it work are unaffordable and unavailable.
This is the one and single book that I'm sure helped my personal / career life.

I highly recommend. It gives you a powerful alternative and a beacon that you follow every time you have a conversation with someone. Although the book is old ( before the Internet ), it has pretty much summed up everything about people's nature and can teach you what your parents / teachers forgot.
Using the web means you bypass these other issues

Not really. If you are doing anything that relies on device hardware, camera, microphone etc... then device type absolutely matters - and it's even worse on mobile web because you can't get close to the metal.
Hi, I manage the data science team at Zymergen, and I can tell you we are working on these topics (and hiring). Shoot me an email if you'd like to chat -- dmitriy at zymergen.com
> and the ultimate goal of a company is to make money

It's not always like that, and it certainly doesn't have to be. Making more money than the company consumes is, of course, a good idea, but money is only a tool.
Thanks, on both points.
We call them Orders, and support them for all carriers including Uber.

https://www.easypost.com/docs/api#orders
"much easier" is very relative. Someone proficient in web dev technologies isn't necessarily going to find Objective C development or Android Development much easier. If you want to see an example of a nice web app try www.hoteltonight.com from your phone's browser.
Similar experience here using Meteor + Ionic, exported with Cordova. I also feel like the skills I'm developing in web development are much more widely applicable than learning a particular mobile OS.
"Giving up on total cross-browser compatibility" seems like it would entirely avoid "sites which needs to take into account all browsers".
Its hard to believe Google would do that. There is so much risk of being exposed. As an alternate hypothetical - A Google engineer who has knowledge of their internal systems could suggest a means of external manipulation, that would accomplish the same goal, without the risk.
How Penguin blended coding and design to revisit Richard Dawkins’ classic texts
>They mention browser password database in the article. If true at the scale of 32M people that would be an even bigger news. Twitter may just be the beginning.

No, it's not news at all. Anyone who's been running spyeye, zeus, whatever for a while ends up with a similar amount of logs. They don't tend to get posted publicly, but are regularly sold on various forums.

32M simultaneous installs would be a lot, 32M lifetime installs isn't.
He forgot to mention how web frameworks come and go, and then you've got this legacy code nightmare. Also breaking upgrades and dependency hell. I'm a front end web developer, and yeah. If your building something simple, the web is the way to go, but his complaints are totally on spot.
> You could even create a simple method to populate the data at app boot in your in the dev profile

I have ~40M documents, and it’s still a subset of what I’ll manage in production. It takes a few hours to load them in the database.
Problem is no one wants to download your native app.
Solving the Enigma: History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe [pdf]
This. +1 for PhoneGap, we are sharing a single codebase between a mobile web interface, iOS app, and android app and have managed to keep it fairly clean.
If you type just "hillary clinton", Benghazi is in the autocomplete, so this seems like cherry picking to serve a narrative to me.
I agree, I have some experience from doing medical research, and this seems like a given to me. My friends who work in the softer sciences like psychology have different opinions though, since they often work in degree's of correctness.
I'm only part way through the 1st chapter but the Don Libes book is quite good. Having been written in 1989 it's an interesting perspective of Unix before Linux.

Thanks for sharing!
Yes basically the concept of closed teams doesn't exist in Vector: you are a member of different chatrooms, public or private, with other people, each having its own focus, no matter what is the project scope or the topic.
NSA’s Curious Goal-Post Moving on Snowden’s Complaints
Sounds like a Monero pump to me
Click link to boot unikernel
Absolutely. But also, fair play to them that they are also acting in line with their principals (a hassle-free dating app for women).

As to public shaming anyone, I thought most people knew that anything you write on the internet you ought to at least consider the possibility it will be printed in the New York Times the next day...
According to the SF Chronicle[1], over 2 dozen tech companies moved from the Bay Area to Austin since 2014.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tech-pipeline-to...
Wooly Mammoths are back
How to Choose the Right Analytics Tools That Will Help Your Startup Grow
That's cool !
If the idea of the cost of an android app is will it work fine on a Samsung galaxy 1 behind the current gen then sure a napkin will work.

I feel like doing anything non trivial for Android with a wide target audience is not always any more reliable than the Web experience claimed in the article
It probably won’t get rewritten but the DB-specific code is in one module so it’s easy(-ish) to swap the underlying DB.
Cool tool to control YouTube via Facebook Messenger from anywhere
World's Largest Radio Telescope Faces a Troubling Future
I'm glad this guy knows so much about how search engines work. He should start one, it sounds easy! He just has to map each query to the single, unchanging answer that's the same for everybody!
How Silicon Valley Nails Silicon Valley
Pro-tip: You can make your article sound like it's been written by a grown-up if you find/replace all instances of the word "fucking" and "fuck" with "".
I'd say Linux is for those who have a job to do and are bored to death with OS wars.
Scientific Python Cheatsheet
Are these users or visitors? I'm not sure how this implementation would be able to distinguish between a user and a visitor of our site.
Substantive but not new and something that could have been said in much fewer words. If the baity title had been left alone I would have been saved a waste of time.
You are quite bad at understanding the point of an article.
They have completely different architectures and philosophies. Matrix is a decentralised conversation database - it's all about synchronising communication history between the different silos. It has a single monolithic spec, for better or worse, so you know that if your client and server supports the Matrix v0.1.0 spec, they will work with all the features available for the particular use case (e.g. mobile voip).

XMPP instead is federated messaging and presence (and a whole bunch of stuff on top). It's passing stanzas between servers rather than synchronising historical stanzas between servers. The specs are highly modular and extensible and built out of XEPs. It's just a totally different way of approaching the problem of open communications.

You could make the comparison that XMPP is a bit like SMTP, and Matrix is a bit like NNTP (Usenet). They both fulfil the same end goal - letting folks communicate openly over the internet. But they have totally different designs and there's room on the 'net for both.

After all, you can just bridge XMPP to Matrix and everyone wins! :)
And not being searchable or deep linkable or shareable.
> A reassuring story for those of us who feel we are strong in many areas but fear we have deep, dangerous holes in certain fundamentals.

Then you will likely enjoy The Man Who Knew Infinity. Hardy and his peers were often shocked at the gaps Ramanujan had on basic fundamentals given his brilliant findings--based on this lack, his discoveries seemed like magic. Wolfram reviewed the movie here: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/04/who-was-ramanujan/
the only web devs that know the ins and outs of every browser enough to make it work are unaffordable and unavailable.

The market has spoken. Doing those things is hard enough, people can charge lots for it.

That sucks. "Sucks" == suffering. Suffering == opportunity. (Deliberate Yodaism. Actually high market price == market opportunity.)
I would agree, the native interface with hardware would be easier with native than the web. But the testing issues across all android devices is still an issue that the web should not have to contend with. And the Apple store issue is hard to quantify. You just don't know if they are going to let you in. The web means you don't have to get the user to install the app.

Of course if you use cordova or phone gap you still have to do deal with those issues. I still cannot conceive when 2 separate apps are cheaper to maintain than one.
Re: https://highscore.money/

Just like the million dollar homepage guy - why didn't I think of that!?
We offer all three (Postmates, Deliv, and Uber) at EasyPost if you want to test them out with only one API integration.
If you miss Ted Dziuba's writing at Unvoc you will thoroughly enjoy this article
Feeling good about being benevolent is the least transgression for an altruist. I would argue that being fully consistent when it comes to living philosophically altruistic is only possible if you're prepared to die for it (quickly).

Think about it, every time you take a bite of food, you act selfishly. I guarantee you if you look hard enough you will find someone that is more starved than you are when you take that bite.... even if you, yourself are starving. How much more selfless and altruistic can you be than to give all the food you would otherwise eat for the benefit of your fellow man that otherwise would starve? (nevermind what it says about them to accept your sacrifice). How can you not be selfish when you choose to service your own need of nourishment, no matter how little you take, over choosing to feed those others that need it more.

Egoism on the other hand doesn't mean that you don't cooperate. It doesn't mean that you can't be benevolent. True, it doesn't demand any of that from you, but in the long view and all other things being equal, it's usually in your interest to cooperate and to be benevolent.
Wow, you're right. 27%. Versus 10% and 11% for DotCom and 90s recession respectively. That's a lot!

"typically lasting 4 years" but 6 for 08 to return to pre-downturn levels. Rough. Glad I'm mostly cash right now though we have been looking...

http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby
Hi Everybody!

For the last month I've been working on a Flask extension called Flask-Ask I want to plug. The "Ask" part stands for the "Alexa Skills Kit", which is the service behind the Amazon Echo family of devices.

https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask

I've used a lot of web frameworks, and I love Flask! The Alexa Skills Kit is based on its own Request/Response model built in JSON on top of REST, so it made sense to incorporate mitsuhiko's architectural patterns like decorator-based routing, context locals, and templates, and adapt them for Flask-Ask.

I put up a 5-min tutorial for Flask-Ask here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC2zi4WIFX0

You can develop without an Echo Device using Amazon's Echosim service: https://echosim.io/

Thanks!
I don't think that it's ES6 that's holding them back, there's Babel to fix that, I think it's all the browser vendors and the varying level of standards, different bugs and behaviors on every browser platform, plus there's features on Native platforms that are nearly impossible to replicate on the web. For instance `backdrop-filter`/iOS 7 like blurring wasn't possible on the web until Webkit implemented it, a year later only Safari has it and it's buggy in Chrome Canary (it blurs content under the box shadow). Another example ServiceWorkers, only in Firefox and Chrome, which cover most users on the Desktop, but on mobile you're screwed because half of your users use mobile Safari.
My clients have been having issues with their ISP on the West Coast for the past 2 hours or so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871712
Wow so this post has been 'reported' already? The hacker news justice squad is swift.
This may be helpful to other people, as I myself was a bit confused in the beginning.

Vector.im is a client to the protocol called "matrix.org".

This is equivalent to using XChat(client) on the IRC protocol.

In this case, matrix.org also runs their own servers (but you can host your own), so it is like IRC protocol (matrix protocol) + Freenode (matrix server).
The "HSM-ness" comes from the fact that there's a hardware RNG that can be used to generate keys. Firmware assurance comes from the fact that it's user-flashable.
China will not build L.A.-to-Vegas rail line
His "AdBlock is evil" rhetoric isn't going to sell a single Times subscription. I'm a NYT subscriber and their jumpy, slow-loading pages irritate the hell out of me. Fix your product, Mr. Thompson, not your customers.
Well, Native could also mean transitioning over to React Native, Cordova, Phone Gap, etc