skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is amazing. Kudos to the Segment team for putting in the effort to share and open source this. And also kudos for leveraging Terraform rather than CloudFormation. I may fork this to get it running with kubernetes on GCP
Really? This? Again? There's a reason tech companies don't drug test and I'd argue that flies in the face of the tired stereotype you're offering up.

edit: It's funny to watch HN's reactions to anything related to cannabis. You'd think people here watched Reefer Madness and haven't bothered to inform themselves about any actual facts or know any actual consumers of cannabis since then.

The implication that someone smoking pot in the evening would affect their ability to type a very basic mathematical expression the next day is absolutely farcical.
I'm not sure how this works. I submit random snippets of my own code, then others get paid for reading it? Then if enough people read it I can approve people for jobs? Very confusing landing page
Do citizens with guns ever stop mass shootings?
But it's manifold more dangerous than cannabis
Accidental or purposeful "weed" in the photo behind the knee of the guy on the main pic?
Sounds like a shill. RamNode consistently beats out Vultr on LowEndTalk.

I remember the first days of Vultr when everyone signed up and saw other VMs and other people's billing information. RamNode has a great infrastructure, while most of Vultr's locations are single-homed.

I'd check LowEndTalk and other sites, and ask Vultr about their disk RAID before choosing due to comments like this.
I've been running one of their dedicated instance plans (2 CPU / 8GB RAM) for nearly a year now as my play environment.

Overall I've been happy with it, the instance performs up to spec and has had only one downtime event over the year (was down for just over an hour).

Though I don't spend a ton of time using their interface or APIs, it does seem that they are continuously improving them and delivering helpful features.
If they thought that Brexit would have a big impact on their business, they could just wait a couple weeks to announce anything.
Getting ratchet with the times
I said it on the day of the acquisition and I'll say it again: Tumblr is the geocities of 2014. Tumblr wasn't even a good company before the acquisition.
I've been a sysadmin for over a decade now. Patches have never been this bad. Its incredible how there's a major problem pretty much every other month now.
Americans Are Not Abandoning the U.S
But what if it's not about punishment, but prevention?
Next step: build a plug in to automate the self vote up!
Licensing Resources Series: A Quick Guide to GPLv3
The cycle will be complete once there's an exclusive hiring site for people who work on hiring sites.

In other words: Many things about hiring are broken. It needs a cultural change, not more software.
As an observer I always assumed it was purposeful. MS was _not_ a company that conformed to other people's standards. After all, they're just now putting a POSIX compliant shell in their OS. They were playing a monopoly game not trying to offer an alternative.
Bluetooth 5 press release – Longer range, higher speeds
The latter case has worked out great for us at helme.io. Our computational forecast library is written in Clojurescipt, while the rest of the application is in JS + Angular.

A word of warning: with Clojurescript, at least, there is a big cost to converting between JS and CLJS types. This has been a big painpoint as our need for frequent calculations increases. Still, we wouldn't have it any other way.
One great thing about the EU law, is they are implying that "clicking the site" does not count as "unambiguous, informed consent".
Not only that, but other employees had to watch this after losing their work-from-home "privileges". Was in all the big papers, caused quite the kerfuffle.

http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-who-just-banned...
Oracle is also next door to Ericsson in Parque Tecnológico Andalucía (PTA) but I don't know if they do development there or just sales. It seems a lot of the tech stuff is done in conjunction with the local university. I'm relocating from Malaga back to Tokyo myself after enjoying 2 years here.
Adware and other "gimmicks" bundled with the pirated software.
What exactly do you want to do? A lot of the other answers assume that you want examples of different h.264 encodings, JPEG image varieties, etc.

In my own side projects, I'm often dealing with old, badly-documented formats with limited examples (like data files for games). I usually start with the "file" command to try to identify the filetype, then look on Wikipedia and filext.com to find links to format specifications. Usually, I can also find the name of any programs that create/edit/view that file type, and that's a jumping-off point to find examples (given the domain, it'll be anything from another game that uses the format to a 90s-era fan page with modified or fan-created data files).

I've used this site before too:
https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Main_Page

It provides links to a lot of format specifications, codec information, sometimes the mplayer samples that other comments here have linked to, etc.
Is this a pair programming site, or a hiring site? It's very unclear
Are you saying that you made money selling drugs, told the IRS that the money was made illegally and nothing happened? I've heard that the IRS definitely focuses on collecting tax money and not how it was made, but I thought that people technically never admitted to anything when declaring illegal income sources. It looks like the applicable part on a 1040 would be line 21, which just asks for "other sources of income".
Cocaine and its related metabolites have accepted medical use. Particularly by ENTs and such.

Schedule I drugs have no known medical use and high abuse potential, which marijuana currently falls under. Whether or not you agree with that classification is an entirely seperate issue.
>> Amateur hour.

Dude, when nobody wants to be affiliated with your business or be identified as someone who's supporting your business, you have to do what you have to do.

It's not like companies are clamoring to support this industry. Yes, people are falling over themselves to invest in these companies, but with federal issues hanging over these places, the cash only aspects and how society looks at these companies (yes, this is slowly changing too) they are in a tough spot to find good software support.
What's the incentive for giving rating to people?

It seems like I will be benefitting them financially with no guarantee what so ever that I will get rated positively as well.

If people start giving ratings out of reciprocity, then what's the point?

How do you guarantee that people's ratings of each other are relevant?
But why can't the interpreter/compiler implicitly add that argument to each instance method definition? There is no need for the programmer to type it. I understand that self plays also a role in the declaration of class methods but other languages found ways to do without method(self) and still have class methods. Java's static (coming from K&R) or Ruby's def self.method

Anyway, that is the way of Python. A lot of people is happy with that and will never be changed. It's beauty contest matter :-)
You use the customer support backdoor.
Python 101: Redirecting stdout
Hey, DevOps has discovered hazing rituals.

And keeping students on-call 24/7 is abuse, nothing less.
If this happened, I am sorry for this. I am not doing this full-time and I am sure that people fall through the cracks.

I refer people not only to companies that pay me but also to companies in Zurich that do not pay me, if I see that there is a great fit.

In Switzerland I learned to think longterm: If the candidate is happy, he will come back to me in 2-3 years.

Again, I am very sorry that I forgot you.
I knew I had already been "pwned" from adobe, but I just checked again and I was done in again from x-split.

I've since switched to using secure (60bit) passwords everywhere, but these are just the ones that have been made public, for every public release of info there are likely cases where the data has been kept privately.

Passwords suck, I wish everywhere had support for 2fa.

Here's a "did you know" about passwords: Did you know blizzard only uses the lower-case for passwords? You can enter any case of password and still match, so for blizzard always use a longer password because 'a' and 'A' are not unique.
The M2 50-calibre machine gun is still very heavily used by the US Army and the US Navy and is a WW II-era design. In fact, I think a lot of the M2 currently in use were manufactured during WW II.
This reminds me of how unions used to certify that their members were competent. Specifically, the Carpenters' Union in my area administers tests for different levels of skill, and rates union carpenters based on the results of these tests. To be rated a Journeyman, for instance, the test requires you to demonstrate competence at a variety of carpentry techniques that would be required in framing a house or concrete form, for instance. Then you pay your dues and can be added to the list of union members without a job. Then when you hire someone whose union represents that they are a Journeyman, you can be confident that they're competent.
Ask HN: Anyone Working on Chrome Apps?
I'm just wondering how the ecosystem for Chrome Apps looks like. I remember everyone was excited about the APIs Google was adding to Chrome Apps, but it seems the apps are now merely another marketing channel, and none of them are a first class citizen in the company offering them.

Is anyone working on Chrome Apps? Have you had a positive experience or made any profit?
The FBI found the same thing: http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/05/fbi-director-dont-le...
>Almost every coffee shop, restaurant, super market, you name it I got asked where I am from or where my accent is from.

Yea we have people here from all over the world. Why is that question offensive? You seem to be assuming that that question is being asked to point out that you don't belong here.

I love asking people where are they originally from and try to impress them with trivia about their country that I know , being a world history enthusiast.
Yes exactly. Waking someone up at 3:00AM as a training exercise is ridiculous. That prepares you for nothing. Is this really part of the curriculum for a school that charges 17% of your first 3 year's salary after completing the course? Terrible.
Alcohol and tobacco are several orders of magnitude more dangerous than anything currently scheduled.
It has a lot of bugs left. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=e10s-... And they haven't even started adding sandboxing between processes.
You can side load a snap with sudo snap install.
That's just hilarious! Are you saying drug dealers actually report their income and pay taxes off it?
This is a very common (in UK) scam.

The "distressed relative" scam is mentioned in passing here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zw9v34j

The FTC calls this "family emergency scam" https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0204-family-emergency-...

Here's Canadian advice:http://mpdc.dc.gov/page/relative-distress-scam

I don't know who AARP are, but they have information here: http://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-07-2012/grandpare...

There's some simplistic advice from the BBC here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zxq8frd

It's important to note that fraudsters don't just go after vulnerable people; they go after everyone. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35250678

What you can do to protect yourself: Let all your family know that these scams are happening; let your relatives know that if you do suddenly need large amounts of money that you will speak to them in person, or your spouse will.

Removing your information, especially your birthdate, is probably a good idea, but that's hard to do.
I assure you, I'm no shill. Like I said, RamNode does very well in benchmarks.

My problem with them is that after being hacked, exposing my personal information, they refused to remove it, citing nebulous "legal reasons" compelling them to retain it (which similar hosts had no issues with).

Frankly I haven't had another exchange with their support, so I can't comment on their service beyond good benchmarks, terrible privacy/security (they're still on SolusVM as far as I know).
The Surprisingly Complicated Fight About What Constitutes a Diamond
Returning a 503 for a "Code Review" site isn't exactly putting it into a good light...

Perhaps your own needs to have done so.
Any password managers you would recommend?

Anyone looking right now is stuck with the paradox of choice[1], it's easy to look at the list and say for any given manager, "yeah but <x> says that one is rubbish" and end up picking none and just using ~/password.txt.

[1] http://uk.pcmag.com/password-managers-products/4296/guide/th...
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I am a software engineer and I do recruiting in my free time.

I refer people not only to companies that pay me but also to companies that do not pay me, if I see that there is a fit.
Please don't call questions dumb. It discourages thoughtful conversation. There's a guideline somewhat related to this:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
My post was more of a mini-rant about how UX of otherwise useful/good features always seems to be an afterthought. The UX ends up being poor resulting in an underused and often later abandoned feature.

Although it is likely my social niche - I know more people with multiple personal or social accounts who will find this feature useful but have a terrible UX due to the container names.

"Hand me the long, blue screwdriver - by which I mean the short, red hammer." - terrible UX

I'll be providing concern this as feedback via email when I get home and have access to my personal email.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11917241
Absolutely. When making a "Barking" sound at a police dog can result in a charge of "Assault on a police officer", anything is possible.
Many state actors use contractors with lots of leeway; the NSA-GCHQ model of tight control is actually not the norm when it comes to APT. Just look at the Mandiant report on PLA Unit 61398.
Sorry, that should read:

"... with no communication coming in or out."
This is interesting. Knowing the online community, it will attract really strict graders (I'm using a euphemism, you should know what I mean) - so you can piggyback on this to just paste code that isn't working from a throwaway and have the pedants tell you exactly why and why you shouldn't be hired (for reviews that say the code is broken, it can be a requirement to say where) -- which I'm sure they'll be thrilled to do for like $5. "total idiot, didn't even cast to a float so the comparison is wrong. would not hire. keep away from real systems." Cheap alternative to debugging!
You'd think the outcome would be something like Soccer at the Farmers' Market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAsgOhQvvcE
The little things I do to stay sane as a startup founder
"It's a people problem"

The hardest 5 words for People Who Like To Build Stuff to grasp. Me included.

The amount of times I should've just hired some help instead of building myself out of the issue is ridiculous.
Good day everyone,

I'm Jonathan, CEO of Recruitly.co. https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jonathanfetienne

I would personally like to thank everyone for their interest. I recently wrote the following blog posts, and hopefully that may answer many questions you guys have. If not, let me know, and It would be my pleasure to address them. =)

http://www.recruitly.co/blog/brand/recruitly-bringing-educat...

http://www.recruitly.co/blog/community/improve-coding-skills...
great and real, thanks :)
> Wait, this seems to ignore the fact that with good change controls and sound code, products do not just fail at 3am.

Because network outages never happen, disks never fail or fill up, memory is never an issue, programs always deal with only the data they were expected to, products never do more traffic than expected, and all infrastructure software ships completely bug-free.

If you aren't occasionally up at 3 AM fixing unexpected outages, then either you haven't deployed a project that requires uptime or you're paying someone else to do it for you.
In the mid-80s, you reported income to the IRS as coming from a marijuana business?

Bold move.

Is there a statutory prohibition on the IRS sharing this info with other law enforcement agencies? Where is the line, i.e. would you expect confidentiality if you reported proceeds from your work as a hitman?
I sent it. Thanks for your interest.

Any questions?
Ask HN: Young children age -6 and screen-time before bed
What's the most conclusive scientific evidence that watching TV before bed is good/bad for children?
Isolation tank
I'm sorry. I wasn't expecting that many traffic.
That means we can expect a shut-down any moment now, given that that's what Yahoo! did to the original Geocities.
Los riesgos de caer fulminado al hacer deporte, evitar los lugares de riesgo
For understanding, for analysis, for education. It's typically a mistake to blow off systems based on compliance checkboxes. Policies can be changed, systems can come into compliance.
Full time engineer; part-time recruiter.
My gut is that this product will add more noise than signal to the process.
This is true. Because we're such a small country, dubbing isn't viable (adding subtitles is cheaper). And I'm glad for it, because I can't stand dubbed things, but that might just be because I'm not so used to it.
They didn't think that a one-button mouse was a problem for the longest time either. Apple can be wrong and they're certainly wrong here.

OS X window management is completely incoherent and not well thought out compared to Windows.
Dealing with the digital afterlife of a hacker
Going through my mails right now, trying to finding out who fell through the cracks.
Honeywell should have seen Nest coming years in advance
I had the same experience.

Although it wasn't $25K, it was closer to $18K. After grilling the person over email over basic information, they couldn't give me a clear strategy on how my money would be used, the ads constructed, or where the ads would be placed.

It just felt like they were extorted money from companies claiming we needed them not the other way around. It was eye opening they weren't interested in gaining some recurring revenue as opposed to try and get the most money possible in one fell swoop. It was really perplexing to me.
That is indeed where the luck begins.
Most helpful sentence:

"At the scale of "a few servers", Kubernetes doesn't help much. At the scale of dozens or hundreds, it definitely does."

So now I know I don't need to learn much about Kubernetes unless I have "dozens or hundreds" of servers to manage.
Seems like they already know how to intelligently strip off the "please" and "thank you" for most requests. I bet it'll be there by the end of the week
Purposeful. It's a play on the Hollywood, California sign. google "Hollyweed"
Encrypted CDMA Audio Network [pdf]
I personally told these numbskulls multiple times that width = x2 - x1 PLUS one. Maybe it was the weed, maybe they just sucked at coding, maybe you didn't notice that FAXes were blurry in Windows for 20 years either.

The real problem at late 90s Microsoft was cocaine. Didn't see much of that among the engineers though.
Well, RIP my 1 year of uptime: http://i.imgur.com/3PYrKtx.png

The migration took 2 minutes and 10 seconds, by the way.
Not sure why the snark. I think it's a fair question. Since you take issue with the phrasing, I'll enlarge it to "development & management of IE up to 2006."

They did give it regular updates throughout that period; those updates just never targeted web standards. I'm honestly wondering whether that was through explicit desire (it's a valid business strategy), willful misdirection (not prioritizing "the web"), or management incompetence (inability to deliver desired standards compliance). I've never read / heard anything definitive to explain which of those happened.
After rerunning the tests with docker host=net i see a small bump in the rate. ~1% across all the clients.

Msgs/s

confluent_kafka_consumer : 277573.293164 / 261407.908007 = 1.061%

pykafka_consumer : 33433.342585 / 33976.938217 = 0.984%

pykafka_consumer_rdkafka : 164311.503412 / 172008.742201 = 0.955%

python_kafka_consumer : 37667.971237 / 38622.727894 = 0.975%

So yes docker network magic adds overhead, but the bias is consistent across all clients.
I don't think it was purposeful. When IE6 was released, it won. It was so much better than the alternatives that MS simply didn't have to do anything, so they didn't. The antitrust thing was also in full swing, so bundling/unbundling was in question.

The web version of Outlook was one of the, if not the first AJAX application. IIRC, IE added XMLHttpRequest to support web Outlook.
Cost: 17% for 3 years isn't bad at all
> How incompetent can one be at interviewing to need 10 or 20 interviews

Yes, after a full day of interviewing and five interviews, presumably preceded by phone interviews, the people responsible for hiring should be capable of reaching a decision.

I've found that hiring managers who don't value your time lead to managers who don't value your time. They say they want to screen for the best and brightest, but maybe they really want people who are subservient and willing to jump through hoops.
The system Oregon (and Colorado) uses for recreational is called METRC and is made by a company called Franwell. When I was at training, the spokes person actually asked for hands raised if anyone knew what a REST API was. Their seed-to-sale tracking system (required by law in Oregon), if used for food (just for example) would be able to tell you what corn field, and what corn plant, in Iowa, when and what fertilizer used, in a hamburger you just ate. (to draw an analogy) -- might be a little overkill but it what the current recreational law. The METRC webui I think is bootstrap based and is very nice. I haven't looked at the REST API yet, but their system integrates with RFID tags on the plant and packages itself with chain of custody style controls. http://www.metrc.com/ I am user of their system.
Deep Submicron Backdoors [pdf]
I took that course and I really enjoyed it. That's why, I downloaded it and uploaded it to drive when I heard that coursera is gonna delete it. Here's the link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B64NfOIwa64BVFJXQzNhTDM3ND...
Keep looking up :D
There is no legal marijuana trade in the US, as all marijuana trade is criminal under federal law, and it's generally a crime to knowingly profit from a crime (and, since drug offenses are covered in RICO, it's another crime to use any profits tired to them in the operation of any business engaged in interstate commerce.)

Microsoft may be keeping distant enough not to worry (though perhaps not given their formal partnership with Kind, even if their own offering is only to governments), but Kind is basically betting it's business -- and the personal liberty of its decision makers -- on the willingness of the federal government to extend the informal prosecutorial tolerance of in-state activities related to marijuana that comply with state laws in states which have adopted some form of state legalization to larger interstate enterprises (and on that tolerance continuing at all, which it might well not under a different administration.)
I don't fully understand what you mean but if you're saying it will under-perform with this hardware I assure you that it will scale better then Node.js :)
someones been watching too much JRE.
I wonder, how did they get all these infos ? do you have profiles on many social networks like Facebook or Linkedn ? where did the call orignated from ? I guess they were trying to get money from your relative,how did they ask him to transfer the money ?
>But when you use a 27" iMac you kinda get why it works that way.

That is optimizing for the least common use case. It makes even less sense to do that, than to just have a maximize button.