skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What?! You don't like click bait-y titles that point to POCs?!! You are totally right, it's a POC. <<slink away>> Just a project we put out really, really early but hope it's fun/interesting.

Indexing the entire web's videos and presenting results well is a big computational+UI problem that we are still working on. We mostly help businesses get value out of their audio/video with our API. Full scale search engine is a ways away.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r1b2CM1uTdST47IbWa7zlZYm...

referenced here: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=810282

Unfortunately the bigger the list, the less likely profitable info has been highlighted. I also didn't note where I found this info; bummer.
The Evolution of Mastercard's Brand Identity – Global Hub
I like mapping it to cmd-shift-alt-ctrl. Lets you add a whole new set of hotkeys that are a pain to press otherwise.
I'm not sure I agree with the claim that they make it easier to submit expense reports. They're not really any worse than any other expensing system I've used, but they're also not meaningfully better.
Glad you are having fun with it! That's why we put this version out. Have fun collecting flair ;P
Likewise. I enjoyed my time there (well, until this blog post wound up on my radar!), but after a year it was time for me to go, so I resigned without much in the way of hard feelings.

I'm not at all pleased to discover today that we (and many like us) are now being painted as "disruptive," "miserable," and ultimately crappy employees. Expensify has just taken themselves from "Not what I ultimately wanted, but a good experience that I'd recommend to most folks who fit their model" to "company I'll actively steer people away from if they asked me."

I struggle and fail to understand the point of this blog post; did someone think this would be well received? Do they think it makes them look better than the average company? Is there now an internal sense of "achievement unlocked" that thrills them when the rest of the industry sees this as abhorrent? Their GlassDoor reviews are starting to seem a lot more ominous lately as well.

If you take a look at NetFlix, another company whose culture speaks to "top performers or get out," there's always been a sense that people who've left are still great people / employees. When someone leaves (voluntarily or not), the consensus and messaging becomes that it just wasn't a good fit, and they stand behind their former employees as being fantastic hires elsewhere.

This entire blog series / ad campaign just comes across as either profoundly deluded, or a desperate cry for attention.
That's concerning. We use GitHub with a monorepo and have 462 open PRa without issue.
thanks to Let's Encrypt, it is easy for someone running their own server.

But I think for regular folk running on a hosted service, who aren't comfortable with command line and who won't even have the necessary permission, they are going to be stuck with what they have, and probably have their domain held hostage, so will be forced to pay for some crappy cert if they even wanted https.
Besides the nice Getting Started Guide and the API documentation there is also a Wiki with sample configs https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/wiki
My father's one(ish)-man business was a PC-based COBOL application that began with the launch of the IBM-PC until he retired in the earlymid 2000s. I worked on it for a few years in the 90s (SPF-PC!).
> Unfortunately, the block size limit was set too large and this created outsized returns for large consolidations.

Can you expand on this? What did the limit have to do with returns? Wouldn't a smaller limit increase returns (fees)?
I just wanted to thank you for making the Rails Tutorial. It was incredibly useful for learning Rails!
Oh what I was imagining was more like if I was watching a news broadcast and so all I care about was the news anchor person, and the main on screen grapic/text. If you Compress down other things like the table or the background or wrote an algorithm to selectively stream resolutions tied to the object streamed instead of the frame streamed. Is that a viable form of "compression" using existing computer vision tech?
Another premise: all drugs on the controlled substance list are entirely harmful.

Numerous well-regarded medical professionals & researchers
have been shown this to be false.

Here is an short article discussing David Nutt's (former chief drug adviser to the UK government) work in this area: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...
Not really, just looking for alternatives. Atlassian so far has been leaving a bad taste for us.
I think its strange that when theories about "What Killed the Dinosaurs" are presented, it's always framed as that theory was the only one in play. So far some of my favorites are:

1. Massive Firestorms caused by the impact

2. Dust causes Nuclear Winter scenario

3. Molten Glass Rain. Fine particles ejected into the upper atmosphere cool into glass beads, fall back down, superheat the atmosphere, and bake the surface.

And now oil soot cools the atmosphere. Why are these theories always exclusive. Multiple of these things could have happened, causing an initial massive die off from heat, and then a following slow die off caused by cooling.
You can maximize without going fullscreen by holding down option when you click the green button.
How to Win Friends and Influence People - The tips in this book do work magic.
Line isn't an app, it's a business. You think companies that don't make apps at all need zero employees?
> maximum salaries they can afford.

> bank

Uh, you would refuse to do mainframe programming for $1m/year? Seriously?
Expensify and the surprisingly difficult challenge of finding the right people
> Does that qualify me to talk about these things?

Yes, certainly. (Though I have been in embedded longer - 25 years. But you've been in safety-critical longer than me.) I must admit that I under-rated your experience.

What part of the stuff from that link was written in Lisp? Was it just the planner, or also the exec? That is, did it have to be real time?

And, in my previous reply, I asked a bunch of questions (besides the ones about whether you knew what you were talking about). Would you answer them?
Why was it forked?
The products were black, this one was grey to trial alternative materials processes. So it was even more infamous for being a one-off, and we tried to hide it as much as possible as it confounded our usability test variables. No one could adequately explain why it was rated the best, so we dubbed it The Phantom.
Email. A federated protocol that can send messages regardless of the other person's host.
Isn't that Pentile?
I honestly don't think I've ever seen or heard a legal analogy that was legally analogous at all.
There are places in the world where most drugs are fairly unkown. Japan and Korea come to mind as places where largely only prescription drugs, cigarettes and alcohol are used, it seems like some club drugs are becoming more popular, but many drugs are so hard to come by it's easy to write them off.

It is not as inevitable as you make it out to be, but in a country like the US it is basically impossible to get rid of drugs. So much of the population already has contact with it. There is so much space to produce them and the borders are so large it is near impossible to secure them.
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The last 10,000 years (hell, the last 100 years, or even the last 10 years) of societal change would beg to differ!
Expensify: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers
I"m curious about why it's written in sh, given that it's OS X only and OS X includes by default many languages significantly less crappy than Borne Shell.
I write fast code instead.
the snes emulator on retropie, last time i used it, didnt render music properly, in that every time there was a glissando or vibrato, it would get stuck on the flat tone, making final fantasy vi sound awful. i ended up using another setup for my playthrough but i was disappointed, i sill havent found a decent use case for my rpi. anyway hope they updated that emulator.
It is good to know which alternatives exist, "just in case".
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Links are not enough
Imagine that here I could drop a music player or video or google maps or a chess game or direct access to a dropbox folder, embedded in the sourcing webpage, and you control it directly. It's safe because the music player can only play music, and such things. It is sandboxed as will, but the website doesn't control. It is full information sharing. Like more powerful links.

I have worked on such extension but I'm limited by the capabilities and security of how it implements extensions. I find it slightly enraging. I say it should be more than an extension, but a feature of internet, to be able to share anything, anywhere, and to manipulate the content at will.

More power to the user, it means less wall-gardening, and more awesome stuff. Wherever we can submit text and have it displayed, I should be able to submit standardized information tokens, and have it translated correctly into arbitrary interactive content.

The browser doesn't translate token-to-HTML, because then it'll be boring widgets and never get done, it only detects the tokens, and loads the content. It's like a HTML tag which interpretation is peer-to-peer customized. The user controls how the translating is done. More power to the user. It's a standard for cross-site datastream links.

I'm a little confused about the details, but I say we should be able to share anything, anywhere.

That is all. Goodbye
Has anyone tried to implement a fully blown list of tests (TDS) for a production Mac app using this ? ( or mjolnir ). In one of my previous assignments, we had to build automation for our Desktop Mac App, We tried AppleScripts and a couple of other open source libraries , None of them worked out we had to settle for manual testing !
A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
_barbarians at the gate_ is a good read if you're into that sort of thing (business, banking, law, money)
privacy badger reports 22 possible trackers, 17 of which it blocked. Always funny reading these hypocritical webpages complain about privacy issues.
First ever 4K screen device in a smartphone history
Nice work - this solves a common problem.

You might consider adding a recommended ssh_config to ensure that host names are canonicalised. This allows FQDNs in certificates to match successfully when users only supply a hostname. More details at http://blog.djm.net.au/2014/01/hostname-canonicalisation-in-...
My grandmother who is in her 80s was one of the US military's first female programmers... and she was a widow... and she was German expatriate (as you can imagine the difficulty of that post WWII). They programmed in punch cards and drank a lot of coffee.

If it sounds like I am bragging.. I am.. I am very proud of her. What I'm not proud of is not spending enough time with her to extract more details. I did ask her a similar question about being a German widow working with predominately males and she basically had the same answer as the articles mother... "no problems what so ever".

This article is a great reminder that I need to call my grandmother more often :)
If you are more interested, Appendix C of "Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?" by Paul McKenney (http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/p...) provides a very detailed description as well. It really helped improve my understanding of how memory barriers and atomics work
The phrase "their offshore contracting firms" there should be enough to make any sensible 20 year old run screaming. Sure, spend a bunch of time learning a dead language, to get paid peanuts and be replaced by an offshore worker within a year, no problem!
The reign of Good King Asoka.

Also, all of human history (millions of years) before the invention of agriculture.

In any event, today it is clearly do or die.
This is great.
One of my biggest pain points when switching to OS X was finding a good replacement for autohotkey.
> Then there's hardware reliability. As an example: you can walk inside the mainframe, pull a CPU, and the thing keeps working. Replace that CPU, and the system makes use of it. None of the system's users ever know that it happened.

From what I understand, until Tandem came along and started to seriously eat away at the market in the late 1970s and forced all the other manufacturers to follow, mainframes were not known for reliability.
A very high-quality submission full of good visualizations of interesting data.

The narrative in the article describes the rationales for arriving at some of the visualization formats. This was as much of a 'making-of' article as a presentation of the end results; highly recommend.
> Thats your decision to put this costly housing in your basket.

That's true for a lot of people, so redefining "quality of life" to exclude housing and then claiming that everyone's quality of life is going up seems dishonest.
Nice attack: Wreckage, bodies, debris everywhere
1. I agree that Obama inherited the financial crisis, but he failed to implement unpopular financial decisions (balancing the budget, etc.), choosing instead to kick the can down the road. You may argue about the first year, etc. but he has been in office for 8 years now (he did nothing to prosecute people responsible for the crisis on Wall Street, either, despite fiery rhetoric). Also, for the first 2 years, his party controlled the House and the Senate, they could overturn any republican legislation they wanted.

2. The debt has never been higher during peace-time (shot higher during WW2 and came down quickly)

3. The widely accepted red-alarm level of debt is 60% of GDP (some countries have "circuit breakers" around that level). Crowing that there are worse offenders out there does not change the fact that we are (fast) approaching disaster. Financial engineering is not working for Japan, you can't force people to take on more debt, even if it is cheap.

4. As you can see from the graph referenced, the US debt stayed around 60% of GDP since 1955-ish until 2008. Only after 2008 it started ballooning.

5. I am not saying Republican legislatures were saintly, Bush clearly put us through a lot of financial pain due to unnecesssary wars, but the numbers are clear (see the link below)

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-deb...
I can only imagine the fat paycheck a 20-year old
mainframe programmer would get though, because your age
in this case would be invaluable.

As long as you're on the topic of compensation, how much does she make right now?
I read HN every day and this is the first time I've seen this submission...
try-with-resources helps a lot, it basically invokes AutoCloseable.close for RAII-style cleanup.
On a happier note, he's in Europe, and he's filing a lawsuit. If there's enough pressure on Google, they might be a little less trigger-happy with deletions (lock the blog and set it so only the owner can view it).

This may be wishful thinking, and it probably hurts more when your @gmail.com is disabled.
There are already laws covering DUI cases, but still some substances are legal and others not.
>> "If everything you do on your PC is web browsing, watching online videos and listening to online music, give Linux a try."

What??? A Linux install can do much more than a Windows install. Especially considering wine emulator.
So there's a little history behind this:

As we added feature after feature to Mjolnir, and it grew to a monolithic collection of barely-related modules (APIs), I realized that it didn't make a lot of sense for users to keep upgrading to "newer" versions of Mjolnir, when in reality it was just the modules bundled with Mjolnir that were new or changed, and Mjolnir itself wasn't changed at all.

So I made the decision to decentralize the APIs. Instead of being bundled into Mjolnir itself, users would be able to download Mjolnir and then download or upgrade modules independently of Mjolnir.

This was pretty unpopular, because it meant Mjolnir was no longer "batteries included", so Hammerspoon was forked by the portion of the community that preferred that batteries included approach. Honestly, I don't even know how much of the community (if any) continued to use Mjolnir.
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The only users of cobol left are large corporations - they can definitely pay more to programmers. Good software engineer can pick up Cobol skills in a couple of month, six month top. We are not talking about neuorsurgent.
strictly better than mjolnir, since it's a fork that never removed anything and only ever improved.
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But this is the point. There is no good rule for when you should use a library, and when you should build your own stuff in-house. It always depends on the specifics of your situation.

You need to think about things like the quality of existing third-party solutions, and how well they will fit into your codebase. You might find a third-party library that is 90% of what you need, but there just isn't a good way to get to the other 10%, and so sometimes even in those cases it makes sense to roll your own.

Other times I see people rolling their own versions of stuff, and it's clearly much worse than readily available libraries. You just have to look at the specific situation to determine the right thing to do.
I think it's helpful to hear about people who dropped out. If you only talk to successful pilots that's an obvious case of survivorship bias (in some cases literally).

For me I gave up on my lessons due to a combination of being a bit worried about my absent-mindedness and finding it not as much fun as I'd hoped, given the expense. (Not to mention meeting my girlfriend.)

I agree that like most things, it can be done if you put your mind to it. But everyone has to decide for themselves what their priorities are. I found that I'd rather be in the passenger's seat. Being the one with all the responsibility (particularly in a complicated airspace like the bay area) feels too much like work to me, and I think it would still feel like work with more experience.

I recommend taking a beginning lesson to anyone, though. You can do more than you'd expect.
Hendrix's music is not even nearly as technical and perfectionist as classical music. The former was not a perfect instrumentalist, but his overall singing, composition and style made him the figure he is, whereas the latter is valued on a mostly technical basis.
Well, the next 20 years are going to be really interesting. I predict automatic is going to make it so that manufacturing may well move back to the consuming countries (Foxconn that assembles iPhones recently replaced 60,000 employees with robots) and in fact some of that is already happening.
One thing I love about Hammerspoon is the flexibility and power some of the modules like drawing and event spoofing give you. It allows really neat things like the tabs and hints modules (which I wrote) and lately I hacked together a module that lets me scroll pages hands-free using mouth noises (see https://github.com/trishume/thume.popclick if you want to test it before I try and PR it to Hammerspoon).

It's useful both for general window management as well as system hackery. It's the closest OS X users can get to the power of Linux.
> Do you think the income stagnation is due to housing costs rather than globalization?

I'm not denying globalization's role. However, as bufordsharkley said in a sibling comment, housing costs often do prevent people from moving for work opportunities. They deprive the companies of potential hires and are a significant opportunity cost for the individual. In aggregate this might have an effect. Plus, long-term stagnating income is painful per se, but it's only disastrous when core expenses rise at the same time.

> with increasing urbanization the costs of housing was rising dramatically (as currently people prefer the dense urban areas of a city to its cheaper suburbia)

I'm not american so the phenomenon must be different to me. I think most people end up paying too much for housing, relative to their income. Fortunate and less fortunate people alike spend 35-50%, it's just that some end up in a dump far away from anything (incl. their workplace) while others have a proper flat in the city.

Also, it might be interesting to look at the problem from an age perspective. Retirees (except the wealthiest ones) probably don't expect to see their incomes rise much, and as a group they're more likely to live in cheap places in the countryside. Younger, working-age people feel the housing pressure, need income to relieve it, and are facing dwindling opportunities for upward mobility.
The first advice I ever give to anyone new to mountain biking: "Look at where you want to go, never lock up (focus or elbows), and always look further ahead than what feels natural."

You don't always need to be focusing on an object for this phenomenon to occur. Your bike generally follows where you're focusing, so if you're looking towards the exit of a turn you're more likely to reach that exit. If you focus too close to the trail you also end up increasing your center of gravity, making you more unstable.
Yes, good point. I think it's wise to be skeptical about any study that isn't placebo controlled.
The tools exist, and have for a long time. But unless you're the boss, there's little you can do to get people to use them.
This is indeed very depressing. A very excellent book about the scope of this problem is "The Sixth Extinction" [1]. One crazy anecdote from the book: the author explains how rare it should be to witness any extinction of a species within one's lifetime. The average "background" rate of extinction is something like one per one thousand years. During the course of writing the book, the author personally witnessed something like five species go extinct. It some ways this is an incredible time to be alive, but in many it's the most depressing time one could imagine... ever?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Extinction:_An_Unnat...
Who Is an Object?
> you're just debating what semantically constitutes a ‘drug’

No, I wasn't at all. I simply introduced a bit of specificity into the language used, but the point I sought to clarify was related to your lack of allowance for the importance of culture and for the ability of culture to change. There is an extensive list of human behaviors whose prevalence has changed dramatically over the last 1,000 years as cultural values have changed. There is no reason to assume that its impossible to have similarly changing cultural views (species wide) of drug use.

Its simply absurd to say that drug use will always be with us. It may, it may not. What do you know of our future culture? Especially if we start to more aggressively genetically engineer ourselves?

The semantic argument you've raised trivializes important issues. There are substances and behaviors which alter mood which no serious person has suggested be made illegal (such as aromatherapy, or going for a jog). Surely you aren't assuming that future experience altering technology would necessarily be illegal, physically addictive, or damaging to the body?
Direct remote privilege escalation exploits in kernels are relatively rare.

The usual attack path is exploiting an application bug for local user access, followed by a local privilege escalation.
Very cool! if anyone who comes across this particular thread knows about papers/research being written about this topic, I'd be very interested to learn more.
I try to setup a feedback loop as soon as possible. I spend time setting up so i can do some simple action (hit a button, run a command, or automatically watch some files) to see if I'm on target it.

I found this saves immense time and keeps me on task pretty well.

This is from:
- GOOS book https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Guid...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIonZ6-4nuU