skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is not a coincidence that she was neither able to negotiate a good deal but also failed to negotiate hiring competent advisors. There is a large overlaps there.

Though she did negotiate herself one hell of a contract. When it personally counts she finds competent people to negotiate!
What Is Ultra High Definition 8K 4K UHD? In Simple Words
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer
Everyone is glossing right over that fact.

No one is glossing over that fact. Some of us are saying that there might be more to the story, and/or that the facts might not be as reported. On the other hand, they might be. But a certain measured degree of skepticism seems prudent.
Reminds me a lot of Waterloo's co-op matching system, Jobmine.
Silicon Valley Investors Are Finally Getting Marijuana Religion
"Pays for itself in six months" with what value attached to the labor involved?
Why not test it and do a pull request?
Wow, this is incredible. Nice, succinct post, too.
Similar credentials and desires. If you figure this out, please let me know :) Maybe we can get a group together to collab on something new!
I'd love that! I couldn't find an email for you but if you want to ever get in touch my address is on my profile.
Controlling Philips Hue Lights with a Hololens
You're being downvoted, but you're right. According to the EMTL Act, both private and public emergency rooms can't turn away or delay care to patients that need it.
Dropbox etc.

Git integration would be awesome. I tried a few of the top Git iPad apps and none of them support sending a file to the app from Continuous.
Right, you need to be knowledgeable enough to delegate. It's genuinely a tall order to be able to figure who is a good product leader, who is a good CTO, who is a good CFO, who is a good litigator, head of HR, etc. Those fields are so disparate, and if you don't know enough about them, you won't be able to judge talent.

It's exactly the same reason that programmers need to be interviewed by programmers, and programmers prefer to work for managers that were programmers. You really do have to understand something about someone's job if you will manage them (and potentially fire them).

People with specialized knowledge will do all sorts of things to mislead you about their job performance -- doesn't matter if it's an engineer, lawyer, or finance person.
Do you mean the initial set up, or the ongoing maintenance?

Edit: I don't have an exact answer for you, but assuming you can get the system set up for less than $350 (either yourself, or by hiring an installer), that statement is true.

Also, the maintenance time is similar to what you would spend going to the store to buy the plants/fish.
The Apple-Samsung Rivalry, in Three Simple Charts
It if had said "connected to Reddit" nobody would blink.

But "the internet"? Straight hubris.
> You see this especially strongly in the Catholic community; abortion is almost universally condemned

This actually isn't true; while abortion (both the act and its legality) are condemned in strong terms by the Catholic hierarchy, opinion polling has consistently shown the US Catholic community has roughly the same distribution of views on abortion and its legality as the general public.
I recommend reading Digital Apollo[0] about the development of the computer, and actually the entire man-machine interface of early spaceflight. The machines were made in the milieu where computer mediated control was highly controversial. (e.g. "A machine might work when everything is fine, but will never work in an emergency.") Essentially there was huge argument between pilots and engineers, about how much automation should be done. It was so bad, that pilots even tried to insist on flying the rocket into orbit. (If I recall correctly, in simulations in a centrifuge, only Armstrong was able to successfully not crash the Saturn V in a manually controlled ascent.)

The other recurring theme in the book is the disturbingly short MTTF for flight computers during the mid 1960s. Statistically, NASA had to plan for a computer failure in route to the moon, and so repair-vs-replace became a serious issue. (Yeah, they seriously considered soldering in zero-g.)

[0] http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/
hmm.. a Ben Garney post and a TRIBES engine post.. is there a Dynamic/GarageGames data dump going on ? :-)
Budgeting Your Finances as a Freelancer
Do Not Disturb mode on iOS allows for favorites to break through, or multiple calls from the same number in a 3 minute window.
void (*fn)(int*) // fn takes a pointer-to-an-int and gives you void

Wouldn't this suggest that the type this function takes is `int*`?

I've always thought the pointer declaration syntax in C was just an oversight and I get around it's ambitiousness by always declaring variables on their own line.
Could that be her attempt at a poison pill? How the *7"( did the board approve that deal?
No worries, then. You like me enjoy stirring up to learn.

As I suggested, I slip everything up into different applications. I use mutt-kz and not much with isync to sync maildir, view it mutt, and do label/filtering like Gmail locally with notmuch on a Xapian FTS subsystem backend. It's fun.
>What they're really saying is that by not having children...

Maybe they're actually saying not to have children. I don't understand all the projection.
*Juche
Can you make playlists? I'm not even thinking of having an account and storing them there, but just to have a long URL that lists a bunch of videos to be played.
That's why I put "default" in quotes. I meant the browser you choose to download when you get a new laptop. Not everyone thinks Chrome is the best browser out there.
Sites may only track users if they got explicit approval.

And transmitting that data into another country – as done with Google Analytics – is even more of a problem.

If a site does that, either I write a filter to prevent it from running any JS, or I’ll stop using it.
Clearly you don't live in the Bay Area or you bought in before the house price jump.

Treading water financially is an accurate way to describe life in the Bay Area for families with a stay-at-home parent. The modest standard of living you describe about yourself significantly exceeds what could be expected for the median software developer in the Bay Area. Families with incomes below that would not be able to sustain their cash flow without a commute that exceeds 90 minutes or exposes them to unacceptably high levels of crime.
Simpler Azure Management Libraries for Java
Leadpages makes its first deal, adding e-mail automation provider Drip
API Alpha Upgrades Plan, Adds Labels, Improves Backups, UTC
Could you write up the differences? I'd really enjoy reading that.
Would it be possible to write some pseudocode on how you converted some of your code? I am trying to avoid some "magic" as well but not certain how to handle some of these dependencies.
What happens if the patent gets granted and then, suddenly, it become mandatory by law that all new phones have this tech? Would all other producers have to pay some sort of the patent fee to the patent owner or would the patent become invalid?
Why? I haven't seen a single alternative, ever, that comes close to providing the flexibility, versatility or openness of email. Despite the ability to be pretty much what ever you want it to be, it's still a remarkable simple protocol.

Really the only thing email is lacking is good end-to-end encryption.

People suck at writing emails though. I partially blame Outlook, but also the unwillingness to wanting to read and write well. So much of the hassle of email has to do with volume and the sender not re-reading their writing before hitting send.
What I don't understand is why any EMTs weren't called right then.. they might have been able to save his life if they hadn't waited so long (he died later in the hospital)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10289205
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I've often wondered if this response really means "I regret having children, it was a mistake" OR "I've now experienced the path of having children. Even though it was good, I'd like to experience that other path".

They should have asked people without kids "If you could do it all over again, would you have kids this time"?
Updates to Kubernetes 1.3 Performance and Scalability
I'd like to share that regardless of the officer's training for medical situations, they didn't get help in time. They just let him die.
No one takes four different benzos at once unless they've got a specific outcome in mind.
We've doubled our performance and scalability in Kubernetes 1.3, and we're not done yet. If you have any particular questions, please ask!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
Wall Street hot shot ‘trashes’ $20M Hamptons home in “Wolf of Wall Street” style
#2 may be outdated.
#3 can be debated, but there were brown-outs and black-outs during the summer.

Things have improved, but the pace is not something to write home about.
Are investors weighted by their fund's size? Or are founders told the ranking they were given by each interested investor?

I can imagine many firms go into demo day with the resources and willingness to fund 10-20 ventures, whereas others are looking for only one or two.

I would much rather be the fifth choice of the former than third choice of the latter. If I knew my position in the stack I could figure it out for myself, or it could be calculated for me if YC is trying to avoid the negative consequences of making that transparent.
I just saw that this system went on sale recently too:
https://farmbot.io/

It would be way cool to collab and create an AutoMicroFarmBot.

What features of the AMF are you planning for the next iteration/2.0?
That's a good point.

I guess a lot of people care about their browser being Firefox more than they care about the search engine? I once used Yahoo for a few months (also Bing and DDT). It's pretty good IMO. Not everyone would switch to Google immediately.
How the U.S. Tests Cellphones for Safety
Apple Released Public Betas of MacOS and iOS
Duckduckgo? Don't know how much cash they have to throw around, though. Certainly not as much as Yahoo or Google, but maybe it'd be enough? I hope so, anyways.
Can somebody test the binary that ships with Mac OS X and iOS? I'm asking because the GitHub page says

"This is a reference C implementation of the LZFSE compressor introduced in the Compression library with OS X 10.11 and iOS 9."

My guess is that the versions on Mac OS X and iOS are different, and aren't even written in C (they might have started as C programs, but would have been hand-optimized later)
I don't see how anything they said is incorrect. The type is int*, the name is p. C just has this weirdly optimized multiple value decl syntax that for some reason really wants to make it easy to declare an array of int, pointer to int, and function to int all at once instead of making it easy to declare multiple pointers to int.

It seems to be a perfectly rational reaction to say "oh this was a stupid idea, let's not take advantage of it". (which is honestly a great way to approach a lot of C's features)
IMHO, C's type system is quite orthogonal but is let down by the confusing declarator syntax. I designed my own experimental statically-typed language which basically inherits the C type system, but uses a "human-oriented" declaration syntax:

a: int; // int a
p: ptr(int); // int *p
q: ptr(ptr(long)); // long **q
arr: int[20]; // int arr[20]
arrp: ptr[20](int); // int *arrp[20]
parr: ptr(int[20]); // int (*parr)[20]
fp: fptr(a: int, b: int): long; // long (*fp)(int a, int b)

https://github.com/bbu/quaint-lang
Biologists have recreated life inside a computer
Part of why Tribes was such an incredible experience was it had 64 player servers. The maps were constant chaos. Haven't quite experienced anything like that since.
Zero-day flaw lets hackers tamper with your car through BMW portal
Why couldn't they have their voices heard on TV?
It's from a poll of employees on a job / recruitment site. I'm surprised it's only 88%.
Qualcomm says encryption flaw in Android went unpatched for over a year
https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi...

90M USD cash, 140M USD investments in 2014.
DevOps is Disintegrating, and that's OK
Serde [1] creator here. I think serde can do this out of the box. Is it missing something you need?

[1]: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde
Not only that, but one insight I took from a recent HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12039536) about leaving freelancing to take a full-time job is that many freelancers really don't want to run a business. They want to practice their craft and find the non-technical aspects to be unpleasant.

I was really surprised to see that (granted, it's my own conclusion) because while I want to run a tech business, I want the "business" part more than I want the "tech" part.
I need some money for a trip this summer, do you have advices on how to earn?
Nice, but I'd rather not be forced to use Firefox in full screen.
Google is working to safeguard Chrome from quantum computers
Do you really attach a dollar value to activities you do in your spare time?
I haven't been able to get a WebVR page to work on on Samsung Galaxy Gear so if it is ready... I can't figure it out.

In anyone who has a gear has it figured out and can point me to an instruction and demo that would be awesome.
Every GM vehicle made in the past few years has a killswitch via OnStar, it's an advertised feature that law enforcement can use it to remotely disable a vehicle (even in motion) if it reported stolen, nothing stopping them from using it for more nefarious purposes.
Best i can tell, most of the dev team and budget is dedicated to the art side of the game. Meaning maps, models, sound etc.

And 18 years of learning? Sorry but most of the people and companies from back then are long gone. Best i can tell there are very few game development courses out there, and fewer still focus on the network plumbing.
PlanetSide and PlanetSide 2. While hard to get into, when platoon level operations are at their best it's something I've yet to experience in another game. I expect Eve would be the other example, but with time dilation and combat mechanics, the game is more strategic than tactical in my understanding.
Ooh, Quaint looks very interesting. I think there's a lot of overlap with my Mu project, beyond these minor syntactic decisions. Lots of room for compare and contrast, and for sharing and stealing ideas :)
Yeah, Launchpad has not the greatest UX.

In the last comment [1] on the bug, it's mentioned the release in which the fix was released. From its page [2] you can see all the details of it, including its diffs.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.2/+bug/25679...

[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.2/4.2.4-1ubuntu3
Which plugin does that?
I've almost for 3 years already been planning to leave my current job (even got 3 offers during that time, though only 2 were plausible as the 3rd was from the very big well known SV company and for some reason they knowingly offered less than i was making at the time (why were to bother at all?)). In my experience the best a tech person can do for their professional growth, incl. enriching experience, exposure to more tech as well as higher salary is to change jobs. I just become too comfortable at my current place and it doesn't do good for me - hitting 5 years soon here - so current plans is by the very beginning of the next year (just to make sure to get this year bonus :)
https://youtu.be/Z1mlD3t2DV0?t=8m55s

"it's okay, I'm right here with you" most heart breaking words from a 4 year old.
I'm a new professor in the US so I'm happy for you but it looks like we'll have to wait for the NIH to do its job.

F1000 is entirely post-publication review where reviewers identities are known? If so, I love it!
Start in the winter.
C's comma operator syntax is also weird and, in my experience, many people don't really understand it that well.

edit: In reference to the last line: "oh this was a stupid idea, let's not take advantage of it".

It's a weird feature that generally makes the code more difficult to understand but people still use it a lot, similar to multiple declarations on a single line with pointers mixed in.
As of 2014: $212 million on software development (presumably mostly salaries?), another ~$100 million on marketing/administration/etc. They appear to put away from $10 to $70 million per year from 2010-2014, and had about $140 million in investment assets (again, 2014).

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/documents/
Yup, I'm in touch with Rory of FarmBot.

I would really like to solve the hassle of how heavy and inconvenient sand is, perhaps by replacing it with e.g. mushroom media: http://blog.automicrofarm.com/post/142436464771/mushroom-med.... But, first things first :)
Dependencies? On the host; they're ephemeral but they'll run multiple builds between coming into existence and disappearing.
A Few Honest Truths I’ve Learnt While Trying to Launch My Startup – so Far
I recall that macOS's memcpy does this for some cases. There's overhead for the syscalls and TLB invalidation, so it's not efficient for smaller copies, but it's a win for bigger ones. I think it considers the breakeven point to be 40kB. And of course the source and destination both must be page-aligned.
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> He was banging on their front door, admittedly hard, but that doesn't constitute breaking and entering anywhere,

Well, breaking and entering isn't actually a defined crime in Califorinia. Burglary is, and while Murdock certainly couldn't have been guilty of that based on the reports, he could potentially have been guilty of attempted burglary (which is also a crime, though iffy in this case), or trespass, or probably a number of other crimes.

> Also, if it were breaking and entering, they would have charged him with that.

Police don't really "charge" anyone of anything. That's the prosecutor's job.

> From the neighbour's account in the autopsy report, it sounds more like they were concerned for him than scared.

You are misreading the report. The incident reported to the coroner's office was not the banging that got Murdock arrested. The neighbor reported that Murdock came by to apologize on the day he hung himself. He was arrested on Dec 26 and Dec 27. The knock the neighbor reported was Dec 28. (I have no idea if this was the same neighbor or not.)
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Most of Reddit's problems are due to "double-dipping" what upvotes/downvotes mean. It is both used for like/dislike AND for marking things as spam/troll/off-topic/unconstructive.

So you get these incredibly articulate replies which move the conversation forward but people "dislike" so wind up hidden with -5. Which is treated no differently to pure trolling and nonsense.

I can name another website with that same issue...

A like/dislike system is fine. But you need three buttons, like/dislike, and "bad." No amount of dislikes should ever make a comment hidden or punish the account, that's what "bad" or "flag" should be for.

Heck even the karma total on Reddit encourages an echo chamber, effectively reinforcing the idea that downvotes are "bad" and you have less "worth" with less of them.
Activist Sues NYC After Cops Arrest Him for Filming Them
It's a system for producing food. How much does that food really cost?
Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism in action!
Most developers are underpaid. Here's what you can do about it
Ah ha! A usage case for Web Assembly!
> But anyway, y'all, if class A depends on class B, formalize the interface between the two (throw an error when expectations aren't met) and then inject the instance!

Do you have a simple example of this for something like https://mbasso.github.io/refraction/docs/basics/Publishing.h... in react? Would you hard code in the dependencies if you have "multiple" modules that respond to "onUserLogin" "event".
Yes, they're all connected through taking up each other's debt. See this 3 minutes video (both rather funny and sad really). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnuAh3esdpE
Oh, my. My spelling still leaves room for improvement. Sorry, I thought I know
how to write this word (now I know I don't know).
Improved prostate cancer test reduces need for biopsies
I use the Apple mini one. Good battery life and I'm happy enough with the feel.
LINQPad is really nice for this. You get intellisense and an integrated debugger if you pony up for the license.
Random but related: does anyone know of a good library (in C#, Javascript, or really anything higher-level than C preferably) that implements this? By "this" I mean a UDP-based system capable of sending both "it's stale when it's sent" data that can be dropped if it's lost and "this must be delivered" messages that will be re-sent if not delivered?

I would need it for a Unity project, so if it's Unity-ready already that would be great, but honestly at this point I'm willing to just take what's out there as a starting point and work with it.

I did find this: https://community.unity.com/t5/Asset-Store/Open-Source-UdpKi... but it's apparently unsupported now and the author has moved on to other things.

There are some other packages on the Unity Asset Store but most of them are focused around Unity-to-Unity communication, and I'm looking for something more generic (since my architecture is actually Unity-to-NodeJS currently).
The police are definitely racist. However, there is a reason beyond racism that police react differently. 40% of officer killings are by black suspects.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2014/tables/tabl...
This is probably the first time in my life that I read something not negative about North Korea.

Western propaganda is not what it used to be ;-)
Thanks for the link. That conversation was a bit disturbing as I read on. Least Moxie is allowing the code to be used.
i mean, sure, you have to be sharp to be the CEO. and she is sharp. she's earning millions and giving millions to her friends, is she not? i mean, are we looking at the same information here?

but giving someone a $58m bonus (severence... lol) for a year of work is not a consequence of 'sharp' vs. 'not sharp', it's a consequence of simply not giving a shit about the money because half (or more) of your motivation is probably pilfering the company coffers for you and your cronies to begin with.

none of the yahoo story seems like incompetence to me. it seems like a straight up robbery. everyone calling her incompetent, or dumb, or whatever, has got 'naive' stamped across their forehead.
We plan to in the near future.
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When they arrest people it tends to be because that state has dual-party consent laws for recording of private conversations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/filming-police-offi...

> A number of states do bar people from recording private conversations without consent. But as long as the recording is made “openly and not surreptitiously,” said Osterreicher, it’s fair game. According to Osterreicher, “assuming the position of holding up a camera or phone at arm’s length while looking at the viewing screen should be enough to put someone on notice that they are being photographed or recorded.”
Now shorebirds are declining because of overfed geese which we don't shoot enough of.

http://netnebraska.org/article/news/1028942/farmland-buffet-...
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India has only 2% electricity shortage.
Facebook is being investigated by the IRS
"This isn't unique to SF, you see this sort of continuous evaluation occur in the corporate world as well."

You're implying the Old Boy network effect doesn't exist. Whereas you discuss it in other posts. This is a concern to me even if I accept the arguments about what their views are likely to be on average walking out of the SF community. When the effect applies, they're often working for each other or previous groups as much as the current one.
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