skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the time I took my friend to play D&D up in Lake Geneva with the Gygax family whom I had been gaming with for a bit.

He ended up getting into an argument with Gary about why dwarven women would have beards (of all things). I remember having to kick him under the table and quickly whisper "This is Gary Gygax, he made the game. If he says they have beards they have beards!"
No need to be explicit. I understood your intended meaning just fine.
> June 2016

> Dart usage inside Google is cranking up

o_0
So evil!!!
Is Python call-by-value or call-by-reference? Neither
Credentials would remain about the same (Senior Developer -> Senior Software Engineer) I figure if I can negotiate them up to $85k it'd be worth the move. 4 weeks of vacation is worth something too I guess.
one benefits the consumer, the other fucks it over.
I'd just be happy if you can just move windows back on screen easily.
This has also been my experience of RST: it adds a huge headache of complexity. I've also found its documentation and tooling to be very poor. Tastes may vary, but my experience was that almost every feature ended up with an obtuse name that needed a tremendous amount of searching for, the docs had inexplicable & glaring lacunae, and that the error messages that the tools omitted were infuriatingly unhelpful. Writing RST was an exercise in pain for my team. For the problem domain it was built for, Markdown works, works well, and works with few enough moving parts that you can actually figure out where your errors are, should you drop any in. This is very much not true of RST: the tools hate you with a seething, brooding hatred that will make you waste an hour trying to track down the one line in file X that's making the compiler emit a cryptic error about file Y. RST has some good ideas, but as far as I can tell, no-one involved with it takes usability seriously at all, which in turn means that they produce software artifacts that express a shrieking, gleefully sadistic hatred for the user.
The performance is impacted, avoiding premature optimizations I haven't looked into that part yet though. Without any performance optimizations I'm experiencing performance better than HTML5 but not really on par with native. To me the value of sharing the logic and the crazy fast development speed is more valuable than a few milliseconds of delay. At least in this stage.
That site is hilarious.
Iterating user for users is also a common idiom. Additionally making others having to look at the context to know what a u is, multiplied by the amount of loops, is somewhat inconsiderate.
We devs look at UTC time all the time. I don't see a simple way for Mac OS to display UTC time so I created a simple UTC clock to see it. Hope you guys will find it useful.

- Kien
Cats may have a rudimentary grasp of physics, study finds
Interesting enough article, but:

> I was so horrified at the way in which [after Shipman was convicted], even in the world of so-called mental health, you suddenly had people coming out with all this quasi religious stuff. They talked about "pure evil". I wondered what had generated this kind of reaction, what problems there were in thinking about the case.

Dr. Shipman murdered at least 218 patients, most of them elderly woman in relatively good health (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman); he's the most-prolific serial killer in history. I wonder what problem of thinking there is which doesn't identify this behaviour as evil.
Bank of America still offered this last time I checked, but the stupid thing required Flash so I never bothered with it.
Yes, I understood he was referencing "at the time", that's why I included the word _was_. My point still stands. Although many people did accept it, it WAS not an acceptable answer, and IS still not an acceptable answer to justify segregation.
Introducing emoji targeting
StyLit Illumination-Guided Example-Based Stylization of 3D Renderings
A problem with this is that not everyone has a smart phone, and expecting someone to spend what can be a large sum of cell fees to make purchases is just not reasonable.
Writing an AWS lambda function with Go
> it is the chipped cards that need to be inserted into a POS device.

Weird. In Germany, it's usually very, very fast (recently, using my Number26 CC, payment in three seconds including PIN entry, and ten seconds later I got the push notification on my phone).

But that may also very well be because it's rare here to see outdated terminals. Most retail chains change their card terminals every two or three years, because they listen to their customers who actively demand speedy transactions. Oh, and because stores usually don't own the terminals but rent them (cheapest solutions are at < 20€/month and terminal). Downside: CC fees for merchants can range up to 4%, most of it goes to the CC providers.
Greed Is Good: Troubleshooting Kubernetes
Kudos for sharing an honest story about failure. We need those too.
I was thinking about this yesterday. Other than PGP keys, what about cell phone numbers? Everyone collects email, but for real transactional services, a phone is better and an email doesn't matter.
Do you own ethereum that will undoubtedly fall in value if the attacker is allowed to start dumping their earnings? It's within the network at larges interest to fork, so that is what will happen.
It seems to have already stopped growing.

With the explosion in smartphones and the web properties Yahoo had all along, it seems almost impossible to not make money off that. But no thanks to Yahoo, they didn't invent smartphones nor mobile ads after all.

(Also, of course, companies have large freedom what revenue they attribute where, shifting revenue from areas the market perceives as "stagnant" to those of "rapid growth" even if they have no actual presence. That's how IBM is the biggest cloud company in the world.)
This seems to be true, and if true, it is a key insight to the eventual demise of Apple. (Possibly a demise in all but name.)

Apple's foundational competitive advantages over anyone else in the West lie in unique manufacturing and supply chain capabilities that largely reside in China now. Those advantages enable the marketing strategies.
I agree that 15% may not be that extreme, but 15% is not all that's at stake. 100% of all ether existing has so far lost 20% of its value (relative to other currencies at the time of the article's writing). I wouldn't be surprised if it continued to drop further. This may cause enough panic among miners to actually get a majority to agree to a hard fork.

Edit: for the record, I don't own use Ethereum or own any ether, so I would also hope that a hard fork doesn't happen to bail out a single contract, but I have no financial incentive on the line.
The price of ETH just went from $20.45 to $14.01 in the last 24 hours... I just got out in time and am gonna wait this out a little bit :)

https://www.gdax.com/trade/ETH-USD
a man will have no friends
Detroit house demolition map
s/benefits the consumer/benefits the consumer in the short term, while fucking them over in the long term/
> The world has changed.

The nature of people has not.
Android bug bounty program now paying extra for PoC, patches
He is perhaps referring to what the court's ruling said - http://www.bjipo.gov.cn/zlzf/zfjggg/201605/P0201606093729650...
Hi, founder at Ponticlaro here.

We have a white label enterprise product's REST API built in Go + PostgreSQL + Heroku. It powers a watchOS+iOS app, React-based web app, and native push notifications / messaging.

We are a distributed team, but certainly a part of the Austin tech community, although a majority of our clients are not based there. Let me know if you would like to discuss further, since we do a mix of consulting and product management.
>They do have the nifty portable readers, though.

Canada has them, too, and they're great at restaurants. Great for tipping since they just hand you the device at that point with common percentage options on screen (or the option to customize it).

The American experience of server collects your card, comes back with two receipts, mental arithmetic to figure out the tip, write it down on the receipt, hand the receipt back, and server types in the tip amount just seems clunky in comparison.

In general, though, I carry cash for tips since I know those probably won't be taxed.
The immigrant part would make it appealing for me. The amount of outsiders is one thing that makes New York City and Silicon Valley more culturally interesting than Cincinnati or Iowa City.

As for being cold - I have several Swiss friends in Zurich. They are warm and decent people, but they are more reserved than most Americans.
I'm pretty sure his implementation works on empty strings because `str[0].nil?`. So the comparison is false, giving the right (?) answer.
So you want the compiler to automatically generate alias types for every un-typed variable and parameter? I assume you would also want the compiler to (somehow?) infer types that should be the same type and merge them, since otherwise the first step is kind of silly. I'd argue that that's a pretty difficult task, tantamount to inferring programmer intent.
I sincerely hope that you're wrong, but I suspect that you are not. I would love to be able to outsource the task of searching for new work and to stay focused on the needs of my clients and learning new skills. Perhaps I'm dreaming. :-)
> Sensible?! Hahahaha! This has to be comedy. They are bigint-encoding identifiers? There is no sane reason to do this.

This fixed machine-width type of character encoding isn't unheard of. For example, Windows uses tags of this size to identify chunks of memory associated with drivers: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...
"text messaging ravens" LOL
As per John Paczkowski's AllThingsD blog post dated April 8, 2011 [0], six of them were:

* Sundar Pichai, SVP of Chrome

* Vic Gundotra, SVP of social

* Andy Rubin, SVP of mobile

* Salar Kamangar, SVP of YouTube and video

* Alan Eustace, SVP of search

* Susan Wojcicki, SVP of ads.

Nicholas Carlson's article Sex and Politics at Google: It's a Game of Thrones in Mountain View [1] goes into details about the rivalry and jockeying within Google's top ranks.

[0] http://allthingsd.com/20110408/pageyank-as-a-new-svps-are-bo...

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/09/20/sex_a...
I am running http://provulo.com all by my lonesome (at the arse end of Africa to boot) and it provides a very comfortable income
That's funny; it was on hold when I saw it last, a few hours ago. Apparently whoever happens to be around with mod powers decided to hate fun a little less than usual. I'm sure it won't last.
> with minimal core competencies

Sorry - do you mean Mayer or Yahoo?
I don't think they've ever been bypassed on custom roms that aren't based on an official rom. Basically it checks all the files in /system to ensure they match with one that's undergone certification. If you have a good rom but just rooted it, there are some tricks although I haven't tested them, but nothing has been done for cyanogenmod or anything else not based on a certified one.

http://www.howtogeek.com/241012/safetynet-explained-why-andr... has an explainer, and a link to more technical information.
Does FairPoint?
Which seems to add evidence to the case: you care about IP when you have much to lose through copying, you disregard IP when you have much to gain by copying: https://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130228/0...
Consider the fact that many who bought ETH did so with BTC, and that these BTC might have been acquired for a lot less than what the equivalent ETH are now worth.
I noticed some bugs in the demo. If you go to the date picker example, the "disabled days" dropdown does not close if you click away from it after opening it. Also, if you choose some disabled days and then clear them out, the days remain disabled in the date picker.
That doesn't make sense, adding the contactless facility mustn't cost more than pennies. As a store owner contactless saves a lot of friction and time at check out. Once the transaction is processed on the terminal surely the whole system upstream is identical.
This is funny, because for many of the critical cryptowar years, encryption had to be non-US.
US developed encryption was forbidden to be exported, so everybody resorted to european encryption.
Most of the devs are still european, not US.

And about speaking backdoors: Does he know where most of the hardware is manufactured? And most of the devices are designed? Not in the US.
you are going to see an anti-pattern where a bunch of people who have no business trying to play Machiavellian games, attempt to do so.

We aren't going to see it, we already see it every day. The books are poison.
Nomadlist looks awesome. I'm actually going to do some traveling soon to Stockholm Sweden and then Romania. Can you shoot me an email (in my profile)? I'd love to chat more.
I'd imagine the simplest answer would be "because Tolkien said so".
Well, the Pi blob can be replaced… almost… soon…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11703842 / https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware

Not a ready drop-in replacement yet, but running ARM code with access to the SD card and the UART console is possible!

edit: By the way! The Pi loads all the firmware from the SD card — no reflashable memory on the board AFAIK – which would make it excellent from the "State considered harmful" perspective http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/12/23/state_harmful.htm...
Borges has been my favorite author ever since I first read El Aleph. His work is amazing, and it sometimes surprises me how few of the "non literary scholar" crowd have read his works, since so many of his stories are crazy enjoyable poeticly written mind trips.

If you haven't read anything of his I can only say read la biblioteca de Babel :)
I disagree in part with (b). A hard fork could split the community and cause the price of ether to crash further. While miners who fork may not actually lose ether in the process, they may actively cause it to lose whatever value it has left.

Of course, miners not associated with the DAO would never normally consider risking such a thing, but the rapidly falling price of their ether may convince them that it's the safest move.
Seerslab (YC S16) makes creating fun videos super easy
I don't know if they exist. I sure have not met one yet. However, you have an option that might be worthwhile to you. Good technical content will usually draw programmers. They will sign up to your newsletter if you consistently publish quality content. You don't need to blog every day, but something like once every three weeks works fairly well. People will then come to you because you have proved to them that you know your stuff (hopefully you do). :)
I have never heard of a US credit card using a PIN. May I ask what kind of card you have?
Has anyone written on the relation between Haskell and similar language and APL, J and related languages?
For what it's worth, the few good recruiters I've seen aren't professional recruiters. They are ex-bankers recruiting bankers, ex-consultants recruiting consultants, and ex-salespeople recruiting salespeople.

Very few developers go into recruiting (hint: market opportunity) which is one reason so many tech recruiters are garbage. (90+% of non-tech recruiters are garbage too)
I don't know how much of an impediment it is, but doesn't the link itself say you have to already have an ipv6 block?

https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-622#51

Anyway, I think I started all of this with a semantic quibble.
Unrelated: Any idea why this submission is flagged? I don't think it's against the guidelines.
I foresee an opportunity in the electric vehicle industry a giant quick charge truck for stranded or absentminded EV drivers.
I really like this. Will you be including other shows as well? Is there a way to set a time for when the text should be sent? Because, I'd like to witness the reaction live when the text is received:).
I don't think any MacBooks ever had built-in cellular modems…
Campaigns for office are a subset of all political campaigns.

Post-Citizens United, corporations can engage in or financially support any political campaigning they like in whatever form, as long as they don't make financial or in-kind contributions to the electoral campaigns of individual candidates. They don't need to form a PAC to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Super_P...
its too bad the people of this city have to pay for these damages and not the actual police involved.
Great news! I hope DO and Vultr double the RAM too
*Its
"I'm a direction, not jerking off!" - real classy.
Would love to see how this story unfolds going forward
It was pretty close. It had 4 close votes earlier in the day which seem to have disappeared now.
What does "invert a binary tree" mean?
> The original pitch for the RFIDs was that they'd just be able to scan your whole cart.
I'm sure the limiting factor at the moment is the incremental cost to the product. If an RFID tag costs 25¢ would you be willing to spend $1 instead of 50¢ for a can of corn, just for the privilege of not interacting with anyone? You might, but the average customer won't.

RFID is primarily used in application where the tag can be reused. I haven't seen many disposable RFID tags.
http://www.fairpoint.com/document/Residential_HSI_Terms_of_S...

This document, found via a quick search, doesn't seem to contain the word "arbitration".
Well you'd think it's not really necessary to run Android in a VM. The Android x86 project should make it easy to run atop an existing Linux in a container.

Just as an aside: Docker doesn't seem very security-focused, I would not [yet] count on its containers being properly sandboxed. :>
Got in a shouting match with a cabbie once in Chicago for this same thing and when I opened the door to get out after he insisted repeatedly his machine wasn't working, he threatened to kill me if I didn't pay. Then, when I threatened to call the cops, his machine immediately started working.
In fact .zip file contains file header information twice: before every compressed file (local file header) and at the end of the .zip file (central directory). It's possible to omit file size in local file header, but most most compressing utilities doesn't use this option. So most .zip files could be extracted without seeking to the end.
Previous HN discussion here:

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-0429-tn-mar...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11600137
The practicality of designing and describing your APIs
https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur%20Conan%20Doyle%20and...

First result worked for me, and is the same URL as the article even though it's a different title.
Show HN: Calculation of Sales Lead Age
Well, you can get processors from before these features existed – 2007 Intel chips or 2012 AMD chips — definitely AMD, 2012 isn't that old yet.
One issue is that fan duel is basically illegal in the us, despite the legislation that seems to legalize it.. Now maybe as an overseas fan duel could work.
Though this could be said for literally anything you learn how to do. I spend my time learning the tools that will give me the biggest impact most of the time, and use the easiest tools for most other things, simply dealing with their deficiencies.
Do you have any examples? I completely believe you, but I'd love to know exactly which flavor of mass delusion we're dealing with.
I think this is very key. The one recruiting/consulting firm I thought was worth a damn and that I worked with at my 2nd big corporate job was started by an ex-developer who used his industry experience to vet a pool of quality developers. It was very specialized and niche, which made his value-add vetting even more valuable.

Later, I ended up working as a consultant for that firm. However, as the niche market dried up, the quality of this firm did seem to go downhill. (The market had spoken.)
What's most interesting is that the placebo was remarkably effective. That seems hard to believe and maybe it is a fluke.

Anyway the article said the study hasn't been published so maybe there are more details.
OK, I see the reference now.

It's not even the strongest bot on KGS.

It seems like an indication that either they haven't incorporated the advances of AlphaGo or that Alpha succeeded through the investment of a huge amount of tuning time and processing power rather than through specific advances.
You're correct that the business is only one person. But the twitter account is run by a team of 3 out of work comedy writers.
Yes, unenforceable clauses in a contract can be used as a game of chicken.

Customer: You can't enforce that clause.
Google: Yes we can.
Customer: Nuh uh!
Google: Want to go to court to find out?
Customer: ...
> Cmd-tab doesn't work properly with apps. It will bring up my browser window instead

try Cmd-`
Strange that Apple didn't publish it on https://github.com/apple (which holds all of their open Swift repos).

Also, to clarify, ANS is relatively new (2009) but arithmetic coding has been around for a long time. Historically it was avoided because of patents, many (all?) of which have now expired. Apparently ANS isn't going to be patented.
Nope, these recruiters don't exist, or if they do, are exceedingly rare. Time after time after time in dealing with them in the past few years, all I get the sense of is that they're looking for quick returns with little work.

Recruiters, PR Firms, and Event planning companies I've found to be complete waste of time in working with as a startup. Or an event company.
In my experience, recruiters, like salespeople or journalists, develop expertise for a few domains. That is, they're usually not good at recruiting, selling or writing about any old thing. So to really answer your question, people would need to know exactly what you do, which technologies you use, etc. Among firms, I've heard that Riviera Partners is good.
Google offers even more money for Android bugs
Drop out of school.
Ties to the Police
On the other hand he isn't making new zlib versions. There are a lot of patches posted on the mailing list going nowhere. Also there's a valgrind issue I reported that he ignored.
For starters, the "people lived shorter lives long ago" argument is based on high percentages of infant mortality. While quality of life wasn't always great, the idea that folks only lived to 30 or 40 is pretty easily demonstrated to be false.
Tweet me questions at @levelsio, I don't use email!
I think the best solution I've heard is the one where instead of taxpayers paying out for the misdeeds of the police, police are required to carry something like malpractice insurance. When these awards are given, they come out of the insurance pool and that officer's cost of carrying the insurance goes up. Repeated offenders are priced out of the market and can't be police without the insurance. Taxpayers don't have to foot this bill anymore.

Thoughts?
It's just a cute aphorism that describes one of the main challenges in science. The "is not" is meant to convey that there are two distinct conclusions that we can make from seeing a lack of something and that it's important not to make the wrong choice while evaluating the situation. We can't automatically say "absence of evidence" or "evidence of absence" as it suits our preconceptions but need to look deeper into why something is missing.
Maybe then the people will vote in a government that cleans up this mess then. In a democracy I think it's fair to hold the people liable when the government they elect does something wrong (however it should probably be based on a pattern of violations, not "one bad apple").
Delivery Hero CEO Niklas Östberg describes how his company creates value
I think that you are saying you need a salesperson, someone who sells your services to potential clients. That is not the same as a recruiter. A recruiter is paid by a company to find people to hire, whereas you pay a salesperson to find people to pay you.
That's true. What makes this case special is that there's almost no change in difficulty between the more and the less powerful tools.