skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This handbook looks great! However my experience interviewing at Gitlab stands in stark contrast to what is outlined here. Is this a standard/process the company is working on achieving?
Have you ever had real wasabi? Probably not
It says that it's free.
The Founder of a $1.75B Company Who Still Writes Code
"Founder of quantum mechanics"? He just theorized the photoelectric effect and he opposed basic principles of quantum mechanics all his life! And you didn't even mention great minds like Placnk, Faraday, Tesla, Rutherford, Pauli, Heisenberg (I can literally keep going) in your original "list of only true scientists".

Moreover, saying newton "founded" calculus to mean that all theories that need "ability to mathematically describe natural observations" is same as crediting all theories to al-Khwarizmi because he "founded" algebra!
'Ecosystem' apps like this remind me of stuff like Neopets [1], where you spend time (and money) within a social gaming portal. Of course, these gaming portals of old started with gaming and later expanded into chat and social, whereas LINE (and Facebook) went the other way.

They're also vaguely similar to MMOs like Runescape, MapleStory, Second Life. The point is, these services all hinge on user participation, user-to-user interaction, and virtual economies, which sets them apart from your run-of-the-mill chat app that just mines your external link clicks for ads, or shows some display ads.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopets
Penetration Testing: Maintaining Access
> Had you plugged in a typical drugstore incandescent on January 1st of this year and left it on full time, it would likely have died by around February 12th. These bulbs commonly burn for about a thousand hours, or approximately half as long as the average bulb did in the early nineteen-twenties.

Are those "always on" hours, or "typical use" hours which include turning on and off? Lightbulbs are sensitive to thermal shock, and there's obviously a lot of that when you turn them on from cold.
Hackers steal millions from ATMs without using a card
The Windows Shutdown crapfest
> Those tasked with clearing it have a hard job, made harder by a serious dearth of training materials – often little more than textbooks and PowerPoint presentations.

The idea of having to learn how to disarm a landmine from a powerpoint presentation is terrifying.

Cambodia has a lot of landmines. Many of these are lost. People don't know where the mines are. So when a mine turns up after flooding it causes worry - is there a cache of mines somewhere that's now unearthed?

http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2013/10/21
sleepinginairports.net focuses on, well, sleeping in airports but it also has guides and amenity/facility lists for most airports world wide
Any time I read anything about legalizing all drugs I am struck by how that opinion would change if they tried to function with a heroin addiction.
No.

I mean, I know Tiobe isn't great, but the only ML-derivative I see on the top 50 is F#. ML and OCaml crack the top 100.
Building an Open Source Company: Interview with GitLab’s CEO
U.S. Government Publishes EDB Postgres Security Technical Implementation Guide
Misleading clickbait, and also dupe of:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12095670

and

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12095446
The chart breaks down marijuana in to "skunk" and "weed". Are these distinct terms that I am unaware of?
Concurrency in those languages is anything but easy and the reason Erlang/Elixir exist.
They're also (for now, at least) not replacing existing payment options, this is an alternative payment route.
the free version

EC2's t2.nano, at 0.6 cents per hour, is incredibly close to free. (And that's not even counting the 12 month 'free tier'.)
How do HTTP requests get sent to the right place?
If you look at the second chart in the article [1] you can see that marijuana is much cheaper online than on the street in the US. A lot of it is coming from legal states and California, where it's cheaper to produce. Street weed in most of the country is usually either grown locally or imported from Mexico, so online prices are often significantly better.

[1]: http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...
I have to agree with Sylos that this is a dumb argument.
Why would you want to move languages?

Do you dislike Java as a language (or feel it is technically inadequate in some way)?

Do you feel that it would be good for your career to know more languages?

If you've been out of college, and you're able to find work with what you know, I'd say your career priority is to get better at what you know. Become "master of one" before worrying about "jack of all trades". (I'm not saying "don't learn another language", but it's lower priority.)

But if you feel that Java is inadequate for the kinds of programs you want to write, or if you feel like you are on a career dead end without learning more, then make learning a new language your priority.
Danke :) Anything in particular that was not obvious/bad about the blog post? I guess I'm still trying to find my voice here to explain different ideas in simple way, so any feedback is very welcome!

Were you going to build another replica of Pablo or?..
^ This is a great point.

I've run into the use case while traveling abroad where I don't have a computer (out of paranoia / lack of security).

Internet cafés are everywhere but setting up the perfect dev environment takes so long... so far it's made development fairly impractical, especially because they're often very old Windows machines. I've had good experiences with C9 so far, though I'd like to see how it pans out under that use case.
Just to be clear, I didn't mean to discredit anything you said. I'm sure your papercuts aren't imaginary! And of course, I know nothing of embedded development, so I trust you're right in that space.

I was just pointing out that my experience (in a different problem space, admittedly!) is the exact opposite: I find Linux way better and more comfortable to work with than Windows.
Google Photos already has an incredibly lossy compression, right? Images organized under Dog, Cat, etc. :) Might take a bit more effort to get the extra 999 words.
A Framemeister isn't just for the option of emulating scaliness, it's for being able to satisfyingly play old consoles on a HDTV period.

The built in upscalers in these TVs aren't designed for consoles and will mangle the video output into garbage.
The Itch (2008)
having a remote company also means if you have a cold you're not going to come in and pass it to everybody, and often you can still work no problem (no coworkers getting grossed out/annoyed by constant sneezing, no getting cold on transit on the way etc.) which likely means you need to take less time off, and being remote also means being able to deal with random daytime appointments much more easily, making time off for that not necessary either
When people say "skunk" they mean much stronger, higher THC lower CBD strains.

Whether the stuff they're talking about actually has higher THC or lower CBD is another matter.
Cool, they maybe just added that. I command-f'ed for "free" and "pricing" (maybe I typod?).
You've been looking for something similar, discovered that this "something similar" exists, yet the Apple logo puts you off? A used iPad that can run this is probably a couple hundred dollars.

Now, perhaps I've misinterpreted your question, and you'd just like a list of alternatives to keep your options open. I've not looked really hard, not having any kids and all, but there seems to be a dearth of options that meet the (IMO) high bar Playgrounds has set. Me, I wonder if the 2nd-best alternative isn't an old machine with QBasic on it. I just don't see anything else out there that doesn't start with "Step 1: Let's learn about dependency trees!"
Facebook launches Swift SDK in beta
Great, and how do you quantify the value of the freedom to live your life the way you want to?

Soa decrease in deaths of cirrhosis is beneficial, presumably as it extends lives. Is the extension of life an inherent benefit? If you lived for 10,000 years in abject misery would that be better than dying in 6 months? Clearly, it's conditional.

Life is complex, every life is unique, so you can safely assume you aren't going to make things better when you try to violently protect people from themselves. If you were arguing about the drop in domestic abuse that'd be one thing, but cirrhosis from alcohol consumption is self-inflicted. Universally falls squarely in the "mind your own business, jack" space.
Essential Tools Your Startup Should Be Using
It's not a smoky room conspiracy. A quick google search turned up many articles about private prison companies funding lobbying[1], and I expect you will find similar results if you search for police union donations.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...
It's a trade-off. Closed offices make deep thinking easier; open floor plans make communication easier. Ideally, you want both, but how do you get it?
I searched for linux and got 13 results. None of them have anything to do with linux. How is this a sexy search engine?
I strongly doubt that is true, actually.

I'm a few years out from my PhD. The classmates who stayed in academia are neither much smarter nor harder working than those who have left. It does select for certain personality traits, like risk tolerance and willingness to self-promote, but I'm not sure that's really what we want.
Tali recursion should be equivalent to a loop, if the language compiler/implementation offers TCE/TCO. C does not guarantee this.

But I'll also point out, tail recursion could be statically analyzed in the same way that you would with a for loop (for the purpose of Rule 2). As long as it is structured in a way that demonstrates that:

1) Forward progress is always being made (that is, there's an iteration/index parameter that always increases/decreases monotonically) towards a bound:
void f(state,n)
{
if(n > MAX) return;
f(g(state),n+1);
}

2) There's a single entry point which initiates the recursion (loop) with 0 (or MAX if you're decrementing, or whatever):
void start(state)
{
f(state,0);
}

Both can be demonstrated (with code structured like the above) statically.
I started using Cloud9 a few weeks ago, and my productivity running an interactive visualization app has gone way up. Cloud9 has the best autocomplete ever, and it 'just works' after you do a little environment setup in your included ubuntu instance. Any concerns I had were not a problem, like every day or two the cloud9 window crashes, but when it reopens the cursor is in the exact same place and all state is maintained. I don't even get that locally across reboots!

If this service doesn't keep running I will chain myself naked to the front doors of amazon's offices and won't let anyone in until they agree to bring back cloud9. It would seem to have big potential with the rest of amazon's services.

My stack (if you're curious): JRuby / Sinatra, d3.js. Keeps it lean.

Oh, my one gripe! I keep the IDE window full size, so whenever I switch applications and tab back to Chrome... my full sized window is gone. I have to select window -> my tab, and this SUCKS. IT SUCKS. I wish this were wrapped in a little 'chrome as an app' application.
Probably longer than that:

>The length of time taken for the extinction to occur is a controversial issue, because some theories about the extinction's causes require a rapid extinction over a relatively short period (from a few years to a few thousand years) while others require longer periods.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...
Do you have numbers to back that up?
> operators (not named functions) are to programming
> languages as icon-only buttons are to web pages;
> they are completely unusable.

I see ( ) ; . you are using already. Latin letters are gibberish to people who don't use it.
> It is part of what is overall a very good thing.

Speak for yourself. I'd rather train and purchase from my neighbors. I guarantee people in China and India are not thinking about your welfare whatsoever.
I think you have a point in the sense that from the studies I've seen in the news, the average human being on earth is doing a lot better today than before in terms of income and health.

But that's not the whole story. Rapid income inequality is also happening and needs to be explained and judged in terms of whether it's a good or bad thing--most feeling it's the latter.
Not sure what you need an explanation for. By now a quite significant portion of internet traffic is delegated over Google and a quite significant portion of commerce depends on the internet.

Google could decide to suddenly stop displaying links to the webpages of companies in your country, which would severely damage your country's export.

They could filter the search results to only display negative search results for things in your country or even add in some faked articles bubbling up into the Google top results about some contagious disease in your country to wreck tourism.

Other great articles to fake would be about some financial instabilities in your country. Traders have to react quickly when something like that crops up, and so they would probably already try to sell assets in your country before anything is even vaguely confirmed.

Chances are that even some TV shows, newspapers etc. will report about it and give it more credibility, as even journalists today also often just google things and then report whatever sounds somewhat plausible, especially when it sounds like a good story.
I am actually -1 on this idea. They should be able to afford terminating SSL on the load balancer end. It doesn't change the architecture for as long as the load balancer terminates the traffic. Securing HTTPS internally is an expensive move. CPU wise has always been an argument (or more like an excuse). If your load balancer is doing computation other than forwarding requests and decryption SSL session, you should double check your architecture. If small startup will millions of views can sustain SSL traffic, why not NYT? Most their traffics are just serving static files and results are usually cached anyway.

Instead, the burdens are on testing and developing the migration. For example, they'd have to inventory and edit everywhere they use http:// (hardcoding the scheme in your front-end code) instead of //. Furthermore they have to support third-party ad networks deliver active scripts (like javascript) over HTTP. Having HTTP while on HTTPS will create mixed content warning and for active contents browsers will block these violations immediately, thus breaking the website.

To me, the decision of not migrating to HTTPS because of infrastructure capacity is always a myth. Someone has to prove that with data.
First off if it were legal how would there be an increase in illegal activity? There probably would be an increase in drug use if that is what you mean.

The government could still fight it, but it would be a health and human services problem at that point. Which means a lot less high stakes do anything to not get caught crime going on. It could be paid for by taxes on the drugs. There would be fewer deaths from drug overdoses because quality and purity could be regulated. Drugs with little to no long term side effects would probably become popular. Drugs that have harsher side effects and highly addictive properties would probably still be stigmatized because of their effects.

The line would get drawn the same place it does for gambling and alcohol. Occasional use by grownups is OK, if it becomes life impacting then rehab and abstinence is probably best for you.
> they only have terror control of the populace

Are you sure about that?

Most government-like institutions do some combination of threats of force and useful services. Hamas provides food and shelter for many.

Once a government-like institution gets powerful enough, it can reduce the amount of criminal/unsavory action it engages in, and create propaganda to help with its legitimacy narrative.
Side note: I have really wanted to get this _exact_ testing setup with aggressive parallelism running on a large Django app.

Lambda would be cool, but really any way to spin up several machines near instantly and for just a few minutes without paying for full hours would suffice. GitLab CI has helped lots.

If you're seriously pursuing it at all, we should talk more.
If your experience has been different, we'd like to hear what happened and how we can improve. I'm sorry if it has been unpleasant. Feel free to reach out to me (job at gitlab com) or our VP of Scaling Ernst (ernst at gitlab com), who is currently in charge of hiring.

We're always working on improving our hiring practices, which can be different for different positions. Anyone applying to GitLab should have a great experience, independent of the outcome.
Honestly most (if not all) retro gamers don't feel that way. We prefer to see the actual pixels. The XRGB Framemeister upscaler is the most popular way to play retro games on modern TVs, and it provides a visual experience about equivalent to an emulator on a PC. The other popular way is to use an RGB monitor. Both provide pretty darn close to pixel perfect rendering.

I've never met a single gamer into old games that prefers the artifacts the old, cruddy CRTs we used to use had. We're all quite relieved they're gone, to be honest.
Yup, just like Office 365, or even the new subscription model to effectively lease Surface tablets. This article takes a minor announcement of Windows Enterprise being offered the same way, then spins into full-time FUD about the notion that they'll do it to consumers. (Even if they did, people who got the free upgrade already have their license, they'd never need to subscribe.)
One striking chart shows why pharma companies are fighting legal marijuana
BBC used to be the organization that other broadcasters followed when it came to technology. Now it's the follower.
> 1) They don't ask for my consent, I'm not going to worry about theirs.

What's your take on this thought experiment:

Imagine a giant barrel of apples on the side of the road with a coffee can next to it. There's a sign that says "Take an Apple, Leave a Penny"

Now imagine you don't carry pennies for moral and/or pragmatic reasons. They're too heavy, or you don't want to support Big Copper, whatever. But you want an apple.

Do you take one?
Beam Olympics – our new game to test your Beam Skills
The article is about online marketplaces published as Tor Onion Services; the darknet/darkweb is something else entirely, but the name clearly appeals to sensation-seeking media editors.
I run a small industrial applied research lab (<100 researchers). The truth is that, except in fairly specific cases, we don't need PhD level staff either. Just like in a university lab, the bulk of the hard work is done by people with Graduate (or in some cases Undergraduate) degrees. Practical experience in the field is also about 50% of what we need (since we're ultimately figuring out things that can go into engineering and deployed operationally, knowing what the end-state environment looks and runs like is critical). The role of PI is more often filled in our case by the corporate leadership.

I honestly think that the lack of large industrial research labs and the drying up of good academic research positions is very much an issue of what would be R&D funding going to other things that provide better near term ROI: VC, stock market, etc.

R&D is very much an investment like anything else and for whatever reason (patents, existing IP portfolios, etc.), it's just not a place that gets much attention at the moment as the money handlers have found that they have more ROI opportunity elsewhere.

I think the modern substitute for old fashioned R&D is the modern tech startup. The siren call of these ridiculously inflated "valuations" is simply too much for investment managers and it locks up more and more money that could go towards other investments. There's more parallels there as well, R&D and Startup investment is a high-failure game. But the outcome of successful startups is likely to be much larger than the outcome of a successful R&D venture (which still has very long tails of IP capture, product development, marketing, etc.)

I think it's a shame in the sense that, while we end up with dozens of photo sharing sites and social network startups, there's very few actual world changing ones out there. Most of what we get are not "hard" technical areas and their value derives from their faddish popularity - they're kind of the Karashians of technology.

But I guess that's the way of the world.
Rising a country out of poverty is close to zero sum. When they rise out, those incomes are coming from people in developed countries.
There are fewer Pokemon Go locations in black neighborhoods, but why?
Another thing I've always wanted is when working on two feature branches, or a feature branch and separately a hotfix branch -- to leave my open files in the IDE, virtual environment, git untouched and have both co-exist.

Sublime doesn't handle this too well today.

Sure I can setup all of this manually a second time, but it takes too long to be practical.
I think it's clear to everybody here that you can integrate any type of functionality into emacs. But if most new programmers prefer browsers, then that's what they are going to use... Maybe they just prefer building tools on top of javascript/css (where they can create actual GUIs) rather than lisp. For most programmers this is kind of a moot discussion because usually you don't get to choose the tools yourself and have to make do with what's supported. On a side note: Your TRAMP teleporter appears to use rsync most of the time anyway ;)
On Pokemon GO
LMAO - yes, Dropbox, please run LenPEG compression on your production env!
What's with the Matlab hate?

Sure, it's closed source, expensive, and can be clunky, but it is not a horrible tool for many jobs that involve a mix of signal processing and other data analysis.

Scipy is often a viable altenrative, but if the company already has a bunch of Matlab code, rewriting things in Python probably wouldn't be worth it...
That does indeed fit, using the interpretation that introducing a pathogen in a controlled manner has its own risks, but may prevent the relatively severe effects of an infection. I'll add it as an example in the next push.
Ignoring the huge winners in this equation is missing something. Further, much of this progress had little to do with the west.
All true.

A modified C compiler could be built that would do TCO. But, for this kind of application, it would mean that you'd have to re-validate your compiler, so that's pretty much not going to happen.
It's a great process to have too. Hire personalities that fit and work well with teams, and train them to be the ideal candidate instead.
Personally I think Java in 2016 is better than ever. And if you are in the JVM you have a choice of languages like JRuby, Clojure, Scala, Kotlin, etc.
Employees buy Tesla for CEO who raised their minimum salaries to $70k
> Do you feel that it would be good for your career to know more languages?

This is basically what I am trying to ask. I know Java is popular in a lot of fintech companies but less so in startups. I don't want to cut myself off from certain types of jobs.
Are we sure that this is not influenced by Google's search result personalization?
About two years ago I purchased a number of Cree 60 watt LED bulbs. I was impressed by the build quality and light quality of the bulbs. These bulbs were touted as lasting 15-20 years. I write the current date on the bulb when I install one. In my experience these bulbs have been lasting about 2-3 years. I don't think the LED itself fails, I think it is the power supply integrated into the bulb. Cree customer service has been great, I can just return the bulbs for a replacement at any Home Depot.