skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This continuous Google worshiping is really tiring. When you talk to Googlers nowadays, they seem to be pretty depressed as interesting projects dried up, and demoralized by seeing people spending 90% of their time playing office politics and backstabbing getting promotions. Compare Google in 2006 with the one in 2016 - would you really like to work there these days? If you are smart, you can build a core of your business and then let yourself be acquihired by the big players if you wish to, why bother with employment at Google unless it's your first job outside university?
If it is write access but not delete access (nor overwrite access) then there is no issue.

It is sometimes more secure to push because it requires no inbound connections or authorizations the live machine.
CHATBOTS- Beginning of a New Internet
Inspite of making so many mistakes, Yahoo is still one of the top 10 most visited sites. What is working for them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites
Open source and IoT: A match made for the enterprise
> Faster and more flexible submodules

I have a big, monolithic repository which I'm looking to break up in a migration to Git.

If I run;

git submodule split -P <path_to_sm> -b <name_of_branch> --jobs=4

Will I see the same improvements, as documented?
I did not like the feature and did not use it.

That doesn't make it OK to remove a feature that people did use and like.

That feels like a bit of a slap - what if they decide to remove some other feature I like but other people don't use (e.g. the always allow zoom feature which I would not like to go without)
Marc Benioff deleted his Facebook account because it was getting 'overwhelming'
That first anecdote in the article is relevant, and the article does eventually get to talking about Google. This is the nature of long-form, it doesn't have to dive straight in.
They could have built an API to integrate broker/dealer systems and become a very nice plugin for equity trading. Or in reverse, they could offer you your existing brokerage right on the same page as the news.

Go social like InvestingNote. Track user models against the markets and host competitions.
Burnout: How to Manage and Avoid It
> If someone did this in the US, can they get in trouble?

No, not really.*

> What about people doing it for research

§ 1201 has lots of exceptions including "Nonprofit library, archive and educational institution exception (section 1201(d))."

* Yes, technically the laws here in the US are broad enough that if you did something that the US DOJ or local LE became very concerned about, they could at the very least arrest, detain, and charge you with a crime if not convict you of it.
"3 billion devices run Java" indeed.
This is just based on my experience, so feel free to disagree! I'd be interested to hear others experiences and what worked for them.
"We" think you should try a build and see. Windows 10 choked on an onboard NIC and a 7970 GPU on "our" most recent build.
I really liked the feature. Is there a performance reason because of which it was removed or is it only related to ux ?
Cactomain – Domain registering made easy
I tried their Flickr app once. Not bad, but I didn't find anything innovative there (back then).
Google accused of stealing balloon network tech behind Project Loon
What things do you code?
In a phrase, I want to increase the density of my personal computing platforms: as small, powerful, and self-contained as feasible.

I fear I am radically out of date with the Toughbook series if they now include i7 processors and 2K resolution screens. Do you have a model in mind to which I could compare my project?
Test Anything Protocol specification (2006)
its not just about the data. academia doesnt pay the other workers well and have high turnover. If your a professor trying to run a research lab, your stellar employees wont stay for very long and you'll have high turnover.
Panama papers
<a href="http://www.thereportertimes.com/panama-papers-icij-offshore-leaks-database-documents/23489/">thereportertimes</a> download here
http://androidcentral.com/list-devices-stagefright-patches
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe Zuckerberg is just evil?

After-all, just about everything he does in his life includes deception, dishonesty, and theft, right down to the part where he stole Facebook from his business partners.
You're never going to get "free" EV Certs. The validation and paperwork hassle is too much.

I mean, theoretically "it's possible" but someone would have to be pumping a LOT of money into that org
It's not targeting Jews.

It's letting you know that a possible Zionist is communicating with you... or do you think that the crack team of KKK coders developed this for middle-of-the-night kidnappings?
I'd guess the main reason is low tax on salaries, and less competition from finance than e.g. London.
There's a trade-off here: You have to do things that have immediate value to the company (which, at Amazon, corresponds exactly to things that have value to your customers), but you pretty much have the power of the entire internet to do this (AWS). Not to mention more data than most researchers could ever dream of. It's not just monetary.

Since research at Amazon is new, I have no idea how well they're going to handle giving back to the community long-term. But I'm interning with a verification group there and the gist seems to be that if the group wants to give back and there's at least one person who's influential enough to get what they ask for, the group will give back.

I think it's actually problematic that research and industry concerns don't correspond more often. Yeah, it's not our job to be engineers and ship products, but it seems like there are important questions we ought to be answering as researchers that we consider industry ground, but that engineers don't actually have the background to solve. Some of these are totally arbitrary, chosen by the community, deemed "uninteresting" if you want to get published anywhere decent, even though there's plenty of interesting work left.
It's ridiculous, the comment is even flagged. I watched it in fascination yesterday as it oscillated between 0 and -2 points.
I haven't been following releases for a while, it's nice to see that submodules can now (2.8) be actually used.

Just curious, were there any changes to sparse-checkout? It had abysmal performance in pre-2.x if you threw more elaborate paths at it, or more paths in general.
How to Collect Valuable Feedback from Your Solution Interviews
What's worse is that in spite of the ridiculous sums that Yahoo paid, the technical talent that they bought in was of pretty average quality.

She just bought over-hyped companies run by a bunch of kids. These kids were better at self-promotion (and perhaps business) than at producing great software.

Really good software engineers are not in the public view - They are too busy learning and writing code to waste their time fundraising, blogging about their technical achievements or chatting up journalists.

Marissa Mayer turned Yahoo into a startup lottery. What's left of Yahoo is just a freakshow of capitalist excess.

I don't see how this acquisition spree was ever going to 'attract talent'. Seriously; would any talented, hard working, self-respecting engineer want to have some entitled multimillionaire lucky startup brat as their boss?
I buy all their bundles. The PDF quality is usually good but that could also mean that the files are too big to be read on a tablet or a phone. The mobi & epub versions are sometimes just a dump of the PDF file.

Speaking of quality, their Android bundles are unfortunately pure garbage. They used to be great but now they are just garbage. If someone from the humblebundle team is reading this: what the hell is going on there?
Laser technology reveals huge medieval cities hidden in the Cambodian jungle
Or it could be just because they want distributed teams with multicultural talent in different timezones.
I'm sorry, I don't think I made myself clear enough: I'm not accusing him of anything, just listing reasons WHY people would think that way.

You might disagree with the reasons and defend him endlessly, that still doesn't mean the reasons don't exist.

Some sources:
http://boingboing.net/2015/12/27/facebooks-fuddy-full-page-a...
http://www.zdnet.com/article/insane-iphone-battery-drain-dis...

Also, we're not talking about the domain, we're talking about the name of the subsidiary: it's called "internet.org".

And non-profit isn't just about taxes. You can't take money out of a non-profit into your own pocket. Got it?

Oh, and people don't like when owners of foreign companies try to use them as fodder cannon to promote their own objectives, as in Brazil, no matter what's the upside.

And you don't see Elon Musk using FUD against activists, or doing any of the above.

About the movie, you're still not understanding my post. It doesn't matter if it was fiction or not, people still believe it.
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This article is not worshiping Google and talks about timeless issues in every org/team. It's a long read but worth the time.
My guess is that all affected accounts are those that had multiple successful and/or unsuccessful login attempts coming from the same source.
> This would break e.g. mouseover events.

Not if these are generated only from the DOM seen by the browser.
Chatbots on Facebook and Telegram: the good and the bad
TypeScript 2.0 Pre boilerplate for node and the browser
Europe has a ton of rural places. If you think the US south is conservative, you should try living on an island where everyone's last name corresponds to 200+ year old farms on the same island ;)
I am well-connected in the tech-scene in Zurich and if you're thinking of moving here and getting an IT job, feel free to contact me - you find my email address in my HN profile. Also you can read my blogpost "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...
Gatwick does a similar thing, but has opted to use 'anonymous' face recognition with a whole array of cameras [1]. By all accounts it's worked reasonably well, but this is coming from the manufacturer and/or Gatwick itself, so, to take with a large pinch of salt...

1. https://www.hrsid.com/case-study-gatwick-mflow-passenger-ver...
What is the algorithm of heuristics diff? Is it comparing longest-match?

So, if i originally have
x
b
n
then adding x a n on top of it, it will become
x
a
n
x
b
n

How can i know that i add x-a-n? Basically, isn't it comparing x-b-n and detect it has changes on 'b' block, so the 'b' block become a-n-x-b?

Edit: My bad, didn't see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11915351. It has been explained there.
Thanks for a detailed explanation! I really appreciate it.

You are right in saying that I have not tried my hands at startups. I do have side projects that worked for some time and then were put on GitHub as open source (they were not particularly earth shattering ideas).

My inclination has been towards Physics and computational biology. I have been a science fan since childhood, always wondering about the intricacies of human body and the humbling vastness of space.

I am keeping a low profile for now and will focus on the bare minimum necessary and will take further decisions from thereon.
AI robot hired by London council for customer service
Yes I regret every day leaving science as I love it. In an ideal world I would still be a professional scientist, but we don't live in an ideal world so you have to make the best of what opportunities you have - I certainly can't complain about my life.

My only advice is seize the chances that come your way and make the most of them. It is all too easy to stay in the warm cocoon of academia even when you know you should leave.
Chip implants
Ask HN: Any experience with codementor?
I'm thinking about signing up for a class with codementor. I like the idea of having a live class and the ability to ask the instructor questions. Does anyone have any experience with it?
JIT for declarative markup? Has that even been done before?
Andela raises $24M Series B (led by Zuckerberg) to train African developers
In those countries, corruption and the resource curse have already more than decimated local economies, creating a very lopsided distribution of wealth. It is difficult to conceive of an orthogonal infusion of wealth generation as worsening their already horrid state of affairs.

With corruption having bled those countries dry, there remains little by way of local engineering opportunities and those able to, leave. A local training hub as Andela is difficult to see as worsening that situation.
You missed "wire in the brain that makes you feel sure you've just seen something printed".

But seriously, I think someone who's casting movable type in their baking sheets probably isn't interested in virtualizing the end product.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kCICUPc9_8 seems to be basically the same talk given at Montreal rather than Melbourne
This article is missing an important point:

"Another big problem with banner ads in the past was that they weren’t targeted at all until relatively recently."

I use adblockers BECAUSE you are targeting me. In order to target me, you need to track me as good as you can and you need to get as much information about me as possible. That is my only reason why I use adblock and disable all kind of social sharing buttons as well.

I'm totally fine with ads that fit the content of the website. There are a couple of forums I've whitelisted that use simple images as ads. No javascript, just a plain image and a link that matches the content of the forum.
Seems like this has already been patched
Does this offer stand for Europeans as well?
The fact that Stanford University creates patents from publicly funded research then turns around and sells them to non manufacturing entities makes me wary of pumping any new public money into research at universities. They're clearly corrupt to the core now.
I guess Ukraine is quite fine, Syria perhaps not. I have always wanted to live in a European country for a while. I have spent a few years in the US and liked it (Not an American). I feel Denmark, Germany or Norway are places I would love to stay and work. That's actually something I would be excited about.
> "consider your man card reissued"
> Our definition of what it means to be "a real man" needs a deep and thorough re-evaluation.

That's got to be a play on memes from the current presidential campaign, right? It might be more an appeal to people who consider themselves anti-Clinton or anti-democratic-party than an appeal to guys who want to feel more masculine.

I don't know, though.
Does this work the same as it does with waves on the ocean?

The waves on the ocean are also turbulent distortions by the wind which pack together was waves (a group of 14 waves with the 7th as the highest and all waves after the 7th barely noticeable).

It seems that the 7th spike measured at LIGO is also the highest. Maybe the grouping of turbulent distortions as waves is something universal?
I made this, it's a collection of network testing tools
In Germany for example that is not the case. Which is why Google had a number of problems getting street view started there.
He will probably be a principle or senior principle and will have a lot of freedom over what his group does, as long as he can justify that it helps the company in some way (which really shouldn't be any more difficult than justifying funding to ${government-organization}).
Yeah, this is sort of like blaming the fire department for burning down your house.
smartcards would be good for this.
Does anyone know what the best book is to start with? I'm kinda new to electronics, but know some ( to little to mention it actually) basics...
No.. they are obliged to provide the source... not contribute them back. (Although the cost of maintaining patches internally, makes it cheaper to contribute them back)
I have worked for Amazon (although not in AWS).

The compensation was ok at the time, but starting to lag their peers by the time I left (within a year of leaving my comp had a little more than doubled). My understanding is that they've made an effort to catch up there. Regardless, Pittsburgh is a staggeringly cheap place to live (I grew up there) while Seattle is decidedly not (I live there now). Unless he's tripled his comp, he'll be making effectively less. That wasn't my point, though, I assume he's not moving for the money.

I was actually talking about resources to dedicate to research.

What makes you think Amazon will be willing to supply compute (assuming they actually have substantial excess cycles to sell, particularly on GPUs, FPGAs, or ASICs) to internal development efforts? Simply having the resource doesn't mean making it available. Actually making appropriate resources available to people trying to solve problems would run completely counter to my experience there.
The quake sources are supposedly pretty good.
> This is the nature of long-form

Let's not confuse long-form "there's a lot to be said here" with long-form "we really like padding".
Most impressive. Yes, approximately that, running off motorcycle batteries, thus the compromise of no discrete GPU, which would (conservatively) triple the power budget.

Regarding the keyboard, on the roadmap is a hand-made "gull wing" (hinged thumb joint) split mechanical keyboard, in the style of AcidFire's design [0] but with only 44 keys total: four for each long finger, six for each thumb, 22 per hand.

[0] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44940.1300
I'd say there are exceptions, like Nestlé still having a bad name from the scandal that started the boycott in 1977 [1]. I don't think they are overly suffering from that, but it's still common for people to refuse buying anything from Nestlé.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

Edit: I found this part even a bit amusing: "As of 2013, the Nestlé boycott is coordinated by the International Nestlé Boycott Committee"
Good founders use rejection for information and motivation. I'm pretty sure the list will be large.
> I'm still of the opinion that it's probably better leaving things be the way they are now.

First off, I really appreciate your contribution to the topic!

In response though, I'm curious why you think things should be left as they are. Laws around patents and copyrights allow these sorts of things, and those laws are different or non-existent, depending on where you are in the world. It would seem to be anything but something that needs to be unchanged. While I think that status quo can help avoid further problems in many cases with law, patent and copyright reform needs to be happen and is inevitable, and this is purely a case of people working within existing laws, whether or not we agree with their course of action.
Xavier Niel explains 42: the coding university without teachers
> Fax machines remain more popular than email, for example.

This is a huge overstatement. Fax use is still common, but in no way is it more "popular" than email.
For Turnaround Experts, Business Is Booming Again
Bitbucket[1] also mentions a few other new cool stuff in 2.9, like making the `--verbose` flag to `git commit` default:

git config −−global commit.verbose true

[1] https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/06/13/git-2-9/
That thread doesn't seem that positive to me, besides the first post and a few comments about the Tumblr post itself.
It's been a while since I was there but as a lowly US Army Private stationed there and working closely with Koreans old and young as an ambulance driver, there are a few things I still remember clearly.

Basic courtesy and being polite are pretty much universal, so try to be humble and keep an open mind and observe. Older people often are more experienced and savvy about how to handle something so being deferential to them is a no-brainer. You'll spot the incompetent ones soon enough and so continue being polite but ignoring their guidance.

One thing that drove me nuts but took a little while to figure out was that people would almost never say no to a request. I would ask if something was possible and they would pretty much always say yes, not wanting to disappoint, but I would have been better off hearing a 'no, sorry'. I wanted a realistic answer and theirs were often far too optimistic.

Me: "Mr Son, can we make it to Osan in 30 minutes?"

Him: "Yes" (always yes)

An hour later we show up late to another hospital with a very impatient air crew idling and waiting for our patient transfer. We would have all been better off hearing a "No, it takes an hour". Just one small example but this scenario repeated frequently.

I learned that when speaking to a group or doing a presentation it was customary to apologize for your inexperience on the subject and promise to do your best. Tim Berners-Lee could start a talk with "I'm sorry I don't know much about the World Wide Web..." for example and Westerners would laugh but the locals would be like "He's off to a good start".

Understanding this helped me get more realistic answers though. Even if I thought I knew an answer I would keep the question more open-ended to solicit a better response.

Me: "Mr Son, I'm sorry but I forget how long it takes to get to Osan, can you remember?" (said even after making the trip solo dozens of times in often difficult and stressful conditions).

Him: "Ah yes, there is new road construction halfway there so I'll teach you an alternate route to bypass it. We'll be there in about 40 minutes".

Had I not learned to ask a better question, I never would have learned his faster alternate route.

Korea was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed hanging out with the older Koreans who worked on our base, they were a constant source of good info once learned how to talk to them. I also had a 'ration card' entitling me to buy the occasional bottle of Crown Royal on base and give them, which always helped!
I was unschooled K-6. Private school in 7, public middle school in 8, public high school 9-11 (did 4 years in 3), straight to work. My brother was public middle school 7-8, public high school 9-11 (4 years in 3), University. And my other brother was no school, GED at 16, start a business. We were far ahead academically when my brother and I joined. We mostly went to socialize, so that was the main goal. If I had to do it all again, I wish my parents pushed me harder to go to University first and skip high school. This is what I will encourage when I unschool my kids.
Just use BSD/MIT licensed things and you can stop worrying
Notes on 416 Days of Treadmill Desk Usage (2015)
I've done that several times in the past, never had to contact support. Just go through as a new user. It means you have to revalidate your domain ownership but that's not much of a hassle.
Can Passengers Access an Aircraft’s Safety Critical Systems via the IFE?
There's also this https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
Good one :)

Acceptance is quite difficult while our entire culture primes us to be uber successful in all our pursuits. But humility and doing one's best is a virtue to achieve.
Ah the last operating system I feel comfortable installing on my iphone 6 without risking (designed?) obsolescence crushing the performance.

The features look really good. I use siri daily, but with 3rd party integrations that could be hourly.
DNA is software so all the rules that apply to software should apply to DNA.
Spotted a few typos on the landing page.

- "We let you register domain"

- "we don’t stand on the way"

- "this awesome stickers"
and firefox supports add ons, so i can browse the web with an ad-blocker
Just as a random data point, I haven't had Flash for some years now and I think I haven't been missing anything. YouTube and other major video sites serve HTML5 video just fine.
There are varying levels of job security, and the loyalty part in technology especially just means that you have to voluntarily leave to another company to get treated better. I'd rather work somewhere that had little to no job security but where everyone was on the ball. Otherwise, the detritus starts to pile up when they aren't mobile within the market.