skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used the ffmpeg samples before:

https://samples.ffmpeg.org/

Not nearly complete, of course. I can't find a set of test images from the imagemagick project.

This would be a awesome github project; it wouldn't even need an associated web page. You'd be amazed at all the different varieties of "legal" JPEG images, for example.
Ottawa vows to cut wait times for foreign workers joining tech firms
I am the tech-recruiting agency and I only recommend jobs at companies I would work for myself (I am a software engineer with a master in CS from one of the top-3 schools in Europe).

Sorry that I appear spammy, my motivation is truly to add value to HN and provide actionable information to those who are interested. I will try to be more modest in the future.
You don't have much choice on the front end. There are better choices available on the back end.
This comment is just plain false. Pretty much every feature has been objectively improved since Yahoo acquisition.

- search is actually usable now, was completely useless before acquisition

- new messaging features are better than stuff they had before

- rich text editor better than the one they had before (except if you want to edit in HTML or Markdown in which case it completely sucks now, but very few people probably post in HTML or Markdown)

- replies, I have hardly ever seen them used before they were removed. in any case, the new implementation is much better

- should I even mention the freaking video player?

Of course the users will complain, but I mean this is Tumblr, the userbase will complain about everything.
Failure for whom?

If I'm the one cashing out, then I think it's a successful model.

It's also driven by past successes in this arena. Over the years products like Powerpoint, Android and YouTube have all been acquisitions that have gone on to be huge successes for the parent company (I can actually think of a few more Google purchases such as Waze and DoubleClick).

Of course, that means other companies see this as a successful strategy and attempt to replicate it. Now there's a rush to find the best acquisitions targets, more companies enter the market, and at least some will be acquired based on hype alone, causing some companies who focus more on their hype than their product. Bubble ensues.

I think the real failure is at companies like Yahoo who buy the hype and not the product.

EDIT: I should also note that for some companies, it seems unlikely that they could have scaled without an acquisition. Making phone hardware or hosting so many videos is expensive. In their case, acquisition was really the only viable strategy for success.
Gosh the writing is so biased I couldn't finish the article.

Stating something as fact (oh, a source disputed this), artful use of connotation ("a yahoo source played it off..."), and lastly (where I stopped reading), calling the founder of Tumblr s "20-something". You don't get to call a 29 year old a "20-something".

Feels overly sensationalized, even if yahoo is where start ups go to die.
As a user I don't understand how that can be a good idea. Having to install four, five, six, maybe more versions of GTK as dependencies of different software seems a pain. What about systems with limited disk space?
I don't quite grasp your logic. That comparison only means that PHP is faster than other slow languages. Being faster than slow doesn't mean you're fast.
Yes, it's still very much illegal federally. It's still a Schedule I controlled substance. The federal banking system / IRS refuses to interact with marijuana businesses, the postal service won't mail ads for it, the DEA continues to raid growers, etc, etc.

Edit: as others have pointed out, I was incorrect in lumping in the IRS with the rest of the federal banking system. The IRS does indeed accept money from marijuana businesses. There are other parts of the federal banking system that are not so "accepting", for instance: http://www.denverpost.com/2016/01/05/judge-tosses-denver-mar...
c'mon buddy, I hate MS as much as the next guy but this is a far cry from how bad things use to be, at the very least the patch can be removed.
I said "Elixir seems a good candidate" for backend development, not as a compilation target. The OP asked for suggestions regarding light, friendly FP languages for backend dev.
Beyond Compare is the best I've found (especially for complex merges): http://www.scootersoftware.com/
> Compare the cost of optimally, expertly built STM-using code to, say, just assigning some byte values in a *char array

This is comparing the wrong tasks. Apples and oranges.

STM is usable for this particular task, but will almost assuredly be far slower. If performing the exact same task in Haskell, you could use IO and mutable memory for comparison.

Where STM really shines, however, is in highly-concurrent environments. There's no great "C comparison" for hundreds of concurrent operations locklessly reading/writing to/from the same memory. STM makes this safe and performant without a change in semantics or additional mental overhead from the "non-concurrent" case.
What is the Ionic Framework?
It isn't like Canadian tech salaries are that great compared to US one already. Tech employers are the same all over.
As in, there's no circuit diagram accompanying the instruction or it's not enough or something? Could you be more detailed?
Hmm. I wonder how dispensaries are different than any other retail / pharmacy operation?

Can they treat the product like cold/allergy pills that have to be watched, or does there have to be legal information specific to each "SKU"/item-type???
[Disclaimer: Linode dev here]

I see a few people^W^Weveryone here talking about security. If you didn't read the whole blog post, you might not have noticed the new Linode manager that we're working on being mentioned. Check it out, it's open source: https://github.com/Linode/manager

If you haven't been present in other discussions about Linode security, one of the major factors (in my opinion) is the current manager. It's a large and old ColdFusion codebase, and it's hard to maintain. The new manager is backed by the new Python API and the whole system is significantly easier to reason about with respect to security. I think that the new manager should help ease some concerns, and it's going to be pretty great in other respects too. Hit me up with any questions you have, I'll do my best.

In other news, I run a bunch of Linodes myself and I'm stoked to see these upgrades, even though I get my Linodes for free ;)
I got out a little over a year ago. I was a BME PhD and did a lot of software engineering and signal analysis of brain signals for brain-computer interfaces. I was a neurology professor for a few years (after a 4 year neurosurgery postdoc), and decided academia wasn't for me. I now work at a trading firm as a quant researcher/trading system software engineer. I have never been happier, but definitely miss the science part of research (i.e., NOT grant writing, politics, etc). I have been doing part time consulting work on Upwork focusing primarily on helping with biomedical signal analysis and software/app design. I still get to be involved in that niche, but now I have money left to feed my kids after all my student loans have been paid. We are actually able to buy a house, which was going to be more than a decade away had I stayed in academia (and got NIH funding, and tenure, etc). I guess I value financial security and that of my kids too much to sacrifice my life for doing science.
Also, get on Meetup.com and find user groups surrounding your interests. Lots of free instruction from experienced people.
No, I'm talking about the heating elements.

'Our results demonstrate that overall electronic cigarettes seem to be less harmful than regular cigarettes, but their elevated content of toxic metals such as nickel and chromium do raise concerns," said Constantinos Sioutas, professor at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and corresponding author of the study, which was published online on August 22 by the Journal of Environmental Science, Processes and Impacts.

The metal particles likely come from the cartridge of the e-cigarette devices themselves - which opens up the possibility that better manufacturing standards for the devices could reduce the quantity of metals in the smoke," said Arian Saffari, a PhD student at USC Viterbi and lead author of the paper. "Studies of this kind are necessary for implementing effective regulatory measures. E-cigarettes are so new, there just isn't much research available on them yet.'

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-08/uosc-ses08281...

But now that you mention it, the vapor does emit alarming levels of formaldehyde when the devices are used at high voltage:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1413069
I suspect purchases such as whatsapp to Facebook were less about opening up new revenue streams, and more about locking in potential competitors.

Not everybody uses their Facebook account but they may be more prolific on Instagram. They might not like being constantly monitored by Facebook Messenger but even with WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption, Facebook is still provided with valuable metadata, and the more diverse data sources, the more metadata resembles regular, easily interpretable data.

It's like Microsoft buying LinkedIn: the market was clearly bearish on the company, but a tech Titan like Microsoft has a lot to gain by keeping its finger on the pulse of potential hires around the world - with a crucial head-start before headhunters can find star performers.
Explains what was going on when they bought LinkedIn.

/s
Incidentally, https://samples.ffmpeg.org/ and https://samples.mplayerhq.hu/ are actually mirrors of the same collection, it seems.
I would really like to believe you worked on this team at that time, and that's where you got your username from. :)
Sorry you got voted down. I thought it was funny, even if it is (or isn't?) complete fiction.
You're right, and the downtime was inexcusable. We've learned from what happened and are continuously working to upgrade and better protect our network, and periodically report on our progress on our blog: https://blog.linode.com/2016/05/02/network-status-updates-ap...
> I'm gun-shy of Linode's many security issues, but hopefully this further drives down RAM prices of competitors. I'd love a $10 2G DigitalOcean instance.

To be fair, unless you are running critical infrastructure and/or processing things involving money...Linode's quality of security is adequate. (i.e. For hobbyists and small businesses that don't touch take payments but rely on ad revenue )

Security is pretty terrible everywhere in the hosting business unless you colocate your own stuff in a locked cage or pay the tier-1 vendors who cost 100% more than Linode.
Not assassinated, murdered. Assassination would mean there was a plot. This guy will just be an idiot.
I'd think devs would be kin to have a macos computer but no iOS device (android devs would be the obvious pattern, but web devs would also easily be on android)

Out of that demographic, I don't see much people that care enough to buy a mac but choose an android or windows phone.
Yeah, the language is a bit excessive, but this is downright terrifying. Given the absurd security protections implemented in IPMI I can't imagine the successor being trustworthy enough to satisfy serious security requirements. Anyone remember the infamous cypher zero bug/feature in IPMI where you could specify an undocumented connection encryption mode which made authentication optional?
Everything we learned from Marissa Mayer on how not to run a company (2014)
Rather than single crystal diamond, nano-polycrystalline diamond[1](npd) is probably an all-round better structural material, as you don't have to worry about the cleavage planes of single crystals.

Unfortunately, it can only be made at high pressure and temperature, and it requires significantly higher P (>20 GPa vs <10 GPa) and T than typical HPHT diamonds. That means (1) current HPHT apparatus cannot be used to make nano-polycrystalline diamond, and (2) it is unlikely that we will ever be able to make large single pieces, as large volumes at high pressure require very large presses.

Synthetic industrial diamonds are typically made in China using hinge-type cubic anvil apparatus, whereas npd requires a Kawai-cell octahedral multi-anvil apparatus to reach higher pressure. Thus, the existing synthetic diamond infrastructre cant be used to make npd. The largest npd pieces reported in the literature are 15 x 15 mm cylinders, and they required a 6000 ton press.

I don't want soccer-ball sized npd, just npd big enough, (as well as cheap and readily available) to make typically-sized anvils for high pressure apparatus. It is stronger than tungsten carbide, so it can go to higher pressures, and it is relatively transparent to x-rays, so it is easy to make in situ measurements. Widespread availability of such material would significantly change high pressure research.

[1] http://www.grc.ehime-u.ac.jp/en/prius/facilities/himedia
Their DDOS was so bad that we had to migrate all of our servers from Linode to Google, which wasn't particularly fun during the weeks of intermittent connectivity. I think it was on the order of weeks, rather than days.
Low Cost Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Wow Microsoft is tickin' all the cool boxes under Nadella. Never seen such a radical, and it seems, effective, corpo image turnaround. Open source? Check. Ubuntu on Windows? Check. Contribute to BSD? Check. Progressive on pot? Check. Defeat the bots? Check. Gates on chickens? Check. This company is sick/dope/ice cold cool.
In London, Google was paying GBP 70-80K, same for Skype/Microsoft.
I think you overstate the ease with which you go about putting toothpaste back into the tube.
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Hilarious in the sense of an epic marketing pitch fail because he's the anti role model for practicing safe sex etc let alone other dark sides of him. That's my point.
Huh, sure downvotes.

Y'all should be cognizant that there's a human being with their own priorities writing articles liked this.

My point in showing how biased this article is so you can remember to take it with a huge grain of sale. Probably less story here than it makes it out to be:
And meanwhile in the United States the TSA clowns solution is to tell people to get to the airport two hours before you flight. Oh and they also congress for hundred of millions of dollars more in funding so they can pay workers overtime.

The head of the TSA's response last weekend to the problem was to say "We will not compromise on security." The translation of whch is- "tough shit American people, there will be no progress, ever, your travel experience will be maximally miserable and you just need to accept that."
Show HN: Lasergist Marketplace -Your designs in laser-cut s.steel make you money
"You are blaming the victim"

Odd way of phrasing it. It's more accurate to say "you're pointing out that they have put themselves at risk through a number of insecure practises". It's not so much blaming a girl for getting raped; more "don't walk around an area that suffers from high crime, at night, using an expensive phone and getting a laptop and flashy camera and act surprised if you get robbed".
Vultr.com seems to be the new guys coming after Linode.

Does any [Linode users] have any experience with them?

For a company so new they have a surprisingly amount of more features than Linode (eg BSD support, more data centers, dedicated instances, etc)

Note: I'm no way affiliated with either company.

Edit: adding clarity and intent. My edit is in brackets. I'm no shill :)
Their collateral murder video that claimed to show photographers being killed but ignored or edited out the frames showing someone with an RPG and an AK47 in the same group.
if the potential partner answers an open ended question alluding to sex with a short and vague "No" i think its pretty obvious that no sex is happening, and possibly whatever relationship was building is no longer.

saying nothing other than "No" to that question would be quite rude.
I questioned whether should edit part of that out. Somewhere it does mention over-expansion to near 1 atmosphere in its cycle. So the theory is quiet, the go kart audio not withstanding.
We typically do 5, in one day. 10 sounds like the rare case where the hiring committee was on the fence after those and asked for another interview day.
There is such a thing as a Hacker News t-shirt?!

Shut up and take my money!

Seriously tho, I'm game. How do I get one?
> IRS refuses to interact with marijuana businesses

What does that mean? Surely the IRS still wants their money? It would seem to put the IRS and marijuana businesses in an awkward position...
And yet this is still abysmal. Talk to me when my plane onboarding experience is exactly that of a train. A recent study showed something like 90% of threats are missed. So remove what we have installed now, switch to passive-only methods, and don't bother me. Let me walk straight in, check luggage if necessary, and go sit at my gate. And while we're at it let my friends and family join me. Well trained humans and dogs (and, sure, robots) can keep me safe in the background.
Linode were superb when I was a customer with them.
Interview with Hashicorp’s Seth Vargo on Managing Secrets Better
10 Small-Scale Startup Ideas
Since the launch of Lasergist users always wanted this. Now we are ultra-happy to eventually make the Lasergist Marketplace! And as always, we are making this based on user requests. Have an idea? Just shoot!
I've used them for about half a dozen instances. No problems at all, and they have very responsive support.
A lot of old IE things were pretty nice¹. The only real problem was the abysmal support for actual standards, along with a myriad of weird bugs.

¹ See: XMLHttpRequest, innerHTML, box model, CSS filters, CSS behaviors², VML, etc

² Well, behavior: was probably a terrible idea, but it did allow hacking oldIE to support an awful lot of CSS3.
If this is the case then we can make a prediction that there exists some polynomial time algorithm able to predict conformations of biologically encountered instances in reasonable time to high accuracy and that a program search such as deep learning will one day find this algorithm given sufficient data. That would be a huge deal.

People have been pursuing this path for a long time. See, for example, http://www.ef.uns.ac.rs/mis/archive-pdf/2011%20-%20No4/MIS20... for an algorithm for the traveling salesman problem based on how ants work.
Ok... Let's start on iojs 7!
I co-founded a legal startup, and a funded YC company pivoted into our exact space. We applied and never even received an interview. I once did a Show HN about it that made the front page and was immediately removed, upon an email to dang my post was reinstated and I even received a comment/review by a YC partner. The review was overall complimentary, included actionable critiques and even included reasons why he subjectively believe the YC company was ahead of mine.

While the YC company raised well over $1M, the last available data shows their annual income was $80k, my startup was bootstrapped making well over 6 figures and ultimately I achieved a liquidation event.
The TSA and state of travel in the US constantly reminds me - "America is not a Country, it's a business" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCEDUiqfO-w

From trying to make revenue by creating "premium security" (see also pre-check, are you kidding me with this?), to reducing their workforce after already hiring the most apathetic, underpaid, and undereducated people I've encountered running security for airports.

Flying to Japan several times this year via LAX, airports in the US are not only some of the worst run (security-wise), but also the most unwelcoming anywhere I've been.

Last time I arrived back into the States, the immigration officers checking passports were full on wearing bullet proof vests. What is that about? What kind of way is that to welcome anyone into the country?
people will burn out soon or later.
This is a complex feature to implement and they "don't have all the answers...yet, but hope to start uncovering some of them with user research and feedback." If customization is important to you, you can let them know: "We hope to gather feedback on this basic experience to see how we can iterate on the design to make it more convenient, elegant, and usable for our users. Try it out and share your feedback by filling out this quick form or writing to containers@mozilla.com."
Tumblr's founder is strongly involved in the product decisions there. Prior to the Yahoo! acquisition... there were still a ton of head-scratchers in product, marketing, and operations over there. Staffing rumors indicated the young founder built a very close team on the executive side & had a number of sympathetic early investors on the ownership side.

These are not inherently evil people, but they were allowed to impose terrible, deep mistakes on the staff and users for a very long time. No one was in a position to stop the unforced errors, not for years. Which is why Yahoo! was a fitting acquirer. (The sale to Yahoo! probably prevented the platform from foundering)

The core product is still extremely useful to the web (especially because it's free). The demand for such services, and a capital market that rewards any kind of operation as long as it's acquiring ~u s e r s i n t h e d e m o~ - it gives a very long runway to digital publishers like these.

But 9-10 years is a long time to be around without a stable business model. And, as a very worrisome problem, you would not be able to persist your user data or your established URLs if the platform foundered. A shutdown of Tumblr would be a terrible single-day source of Internet linkrot.

But, same for Flickr, which is a much more admirable (and longer-lasting) product run by capable people but faces the same existential threat. Sad, because Flickr should have been Facebook (eventually).
Yes, but Switzerland is a special case in general. Even post-docs (research assistants) at academic institutions have near six-figure salaries (CHF 85K, in quite theoretic field). A lot of non-hype tech companies provide six-figure salaries for engineers. I can't imagine any non-junior engineer to relocate to Zurich for anything below that.
:) I probably wouldn't know what to do with more then one or two hosts, but I am envious to know you can have as many as you want (within reason, I am sure)

Also... ColdFusion! Awesome.
Why do you insist that the only alternative is for newspapers to be: "more beholden to native advertising or shallow advertising-like content"?

There are other ways of generating revenue while still producing high-quality content. And it's not like the whole world is going to turn adblockers on overnight, the trend is visible but it's slow, newspapers and other related businesses have plenty of time to think this through and implement other ways of getting money. Also, the trend may well die out if there is a significant change in how intrusive ads are in general.

Another thing is that, in capitalism, this kind of thing is supposed to happen all the time, isn't it? Isn't it just that "the newspaper market is ready for disruption"? Is publishing industry that dependent on this single stream of revenue? It's like Saudi Arabia and the oil, then.

I can't help but think that publishers are lamenting because "free lunch is over". There was no Internet and everything was fine. Then the WWW (and AdWords) came and suddenly it was easier than ever to show your ads to thousands and later up to millions of users. Someone discovered that such advertising actually "works" (for some definition of "works"...), people started taking it seriously and publishers naturally expanded their businesses to the Internet. Their contribution to the Internet is mainly ads and DRM. Anyway, it worked for a long time and now it may be slowly dying out, some publishers may go bankrupt, but many will find ways to replace ads revenue on the Internet with something else.

Basically, what's the big deal? What am I missing here?