skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(vonnik's cofounder here)

We don't have a careers page on purpose. Right now the best hires either come from very strong referrals or fall in to our lap via the oss community. People who ask us about hiring: we just tell them to join the oss community.

It saves us a lot of time.
I have a hard time reconciling the "don't break the Web" attitude that has painted HTML and JS standards into a corner so many times with the intentional eradication of Flash from the Web.
At least one CP group managed well: https://web.archive.org/web/20130119025623/http://dee.su/upl... "PGP & alt.anonymous maildrops, rotating keys regularly, where the bust only happened because a member was busted for non-ring-related problems and the only busted members were violating the Hushmail lesson by using a third-party service."
Than I may look at that: I have long since learned the truism that it's better to know how to think than what to think.
> a whole class of issues that men don't face.

Raise your hand if you're a man and you've been sexually harassed at work!

raises hand

I worked somewhere where I was the only man and was constantly harassed and my work belittled by my bosses and coworkers. I was outperforming my coworkers but put under extra scrutiny and was groped by my colleagues on several occasions.

At another job where I was in a minority of males, my coworkers were excessively flirtatious to the detriment of my performance at work.

I worked somewhere else where my male boss made me stay several hours late to help him with his work while he would praise me while trying to rub my leg and tell me how good looking I was.

Heck, I've worked at other places where because I wasn't macho enough for the rest of my coworkers, I was called a pussy and my sexual orientation was called into question constantly and they thought it was an okay running gag. That's sexual harassment too!

I'm sorry but sexual harassment at work isn't a gender-exclusive thing. Not by a long shot.

Aside: I'm kind of glad that I got fat and this all stopped happening. I'm somewhat more inclined to think that this is something that happens pretty universally to any reasonably-attractive people. I see these same things playing out with good-looking male coworkers constantly. I'm also totally ashamed of myself for letting these happen because I'm generally a very passive person. My choice in my personality and demeanor allowed other people to hurt me.
Yeah, testing what you expect in regexes is super easy. Edge case testing is not though. Just like exactly what happened in the post this discussion is about..
Map provides detailed picture of how the brain is organized
It's irrelevant to the digital 'you'. It's incredibly relevant to current 'you'!
>>Multiple equivalent instances is a separate concept from identity

Which is precisely the question your parent commenter asked here. What do you exactly mean by the term 'you' or 'identity'?
Most likely your speed will decrease to something like 128kbps after a cap.
Do you support freedom of speech?
We found a JavaScript UI library that performs great on Android mobile web
Our company reviewed many of the options available based of suggestions from our Reddit posts. In the end we made a constructive attempt at trying all the libraries/frameworks that our team could attempt in a single sprint. In the end, we tried React, Ember, Angular 2, Vue, Mithril, Cycle, Preact and Inferno.

We tried the latest Vue 2.0 (https://github.com/vuejs/vue/tree/next) and Mithril 1.0 (https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js) betas and we had some great results from both. We also tried Preact but we had issues with some SVG namespaces not properly being rendered so we gave up. Vue and Mithril enabled us to finally use our example app on our legacy Android testing devices. The experience with Cycle and Angular 2 was about the same as React (unusable) and the latest Ember was better but the initial page load times were still terrible.

We thought we found our library (Vue 2) until someone found a benchmark recently that showed that there was a library out there like Preact and React called Inferno. I highly recommend reading their readme (https://github.com/trueadm/inferno). It makes sense. We ran all our benchmarks and it not only came up quite a bit faster than both Vue 2 and Mithril 1.0, it also had a much more modular breakdown that allowed us to use our own state and router library without being tied to a framework – which was a massive win for the team.
I have to say though, the amount of choices out there is insane. We're just lucky we found the right library for us and our needs. We highly recommend checking out Vue 2 though for ex-Angular codebases (which some of our team came from).

I hope this helped!
All this forking made me wonder about the legal aspects of cryptocurrencies.

Suppose we have guys D and C, and D owes C some amount in X-coin - complete with a written contract.

Now, if X-coin is forked, and one of the forks has a blockchain recording a transaction from D to C in that amount, but the other one does not, which one is considered authoritative? If C sues D, because they are on the other fork, and that fork doesn't have the debt settled, how would it go in court?

This gets especially interesting if the forks are roughly equal in size...

I guess it would all depend on the interpretation of the meaning of the term "X-coin" in the contract, but that's just a different way of asking the same question.
But now that they are generally "equal", it's detrimental
to them. I.e. It's entirely plausible that society is self-
correcting against the unfairly-claimed bias by...being
biased

To say women and men are generally "equal" right now is failing to recognize ways they continue to struggle and the pervasive ways sexism continues to affect women. There's a lot of unconscious bias in society + strong evidence of it. And I'd find it dubious to claim tech is some exception.

I think "overcorrection" is a valid concern (if people begin devaluing women's opinions thinking they're diversity hires or somehow hired at a lower bar), but I for one haven't observed us being there yet. There's still this yawning divide between being a man vs a woman in both society and in the smaller sphere of tech. There are many things we take for granted as men: e.g people don't assume I, a man, work in marketing despite sitting with other engineers -- these sorts of things negatively affect women who are otherwise fully / more than qualified to do their jobs.

Anecdotally, a number of women in my life who worked in tech have since left the industry citing aggressions of varying levels. This is concerning :(
Deciding how to enforce and execute the law is the job of the Executive branch. That, by necessity, requires prioritizing. The only exception is if the law actually prioritizes itself.

If we the people don't like how the law is executed, we can try to get the Legislature to pass a law that forces the Executive branch to do it our way. Or we can elect a President or Governor who agrees with us.
Robopill against stomach pain
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It's a social problem that is caused, though, by the technical constraints of relying only on BitTorrent, rather than adding other technologies to the mix.

I started to write out an example of what it would look like to fix the problem by adding some more layers around the BitTorrent layer, but it got a bit long; sort of turned into a feature spec:

https://gist.github.com/tsutsu/0441fffa6b989121018b5f970d1f4...
Enforcement priorities are never equal. There are a lot of laws still on the books that no one cares about, so they haven't bothered to repeal them. It's naive to think that all laws are always enforced equally all the time. It's an impossible ideal.
I'm happy to give feedback on any of the projects we tested. A note also: we found Cycle the hardest to build, simply because it was a big departure from what we were used to in the past. We found both Angular and Vue the most familiar and easy to get started with.
For bizarre non-fiction I peruse the DI archives.

damninteresting.com
Not a HAM - but are their broadcasting devices that would fit in a car/motorcycle/bicycle that could be timed to switch between broadcasts on different devices in a random order for x amount of time (i.e. Radio A sends for 30 seconds, fades out as Radio B fades in with same message from a different, moving location)?
For some. Where's my cut?
What a strange, strange straw man to knock down, especially since they were just asking for more data and explaining why they were curious.
A reason to dislike computer-generated proofs:

The point of mathematics is not just to know whether some proposition is true, it's to understand the mathematical objects under study. A beautiful proof sheds light, it explains why.
They keep their 3D models of individual Pokemon including their animations on a CDN and don't perform any caching on the models. I suspect these change infrequently enough that they could be built into the app itself and save a significant amount of data.

Another user has already mentioned they don't attempt to cache image or textual information about Pokestops. Pokestops for most people are pretty recurring. This probably consume less information than the models but is also likely to be pretty static information.
I'm losing sleep thinking of Puting attacking Turkey, playing his cards. NATO won't start WWIII for this wacko. But the consequenses could be huge.
Can I ask for an example entry / site that you actually do this?
Agreed on this which frightens me more because now it is an actual probability that Turkey will be another country which US thinks "needs to be corrected". Scenario which has been done already on Afgh. & Iraq and the results are all clear.
I agree with you, but I can't help but feel that this position isn't defensible. Don't they have the democratic right to move to a more religious society if the majority want it?
Everything I've seen based on previous outages, and rumours, seems to indicate it's probably a player data/authentication problem rather than the parts that are easily distributed (pokemon generation, image serving for pokestops, etc.). During a number of outages you'd be able to keep playing for a time iff you were already online and playing, at least according to some reports.

I'd love to see actual postmortems from them but I doubt we will since they've said nothing at all so far. But the authentication could easily be a problem that they're using both their own service and google for providing authentication. Since they go down each time a new region is released it would make sense that they're getting hit with lots of account creation and google API hits, the things that are likely to be the worst for scaling, since google will rate limit most clients (though I'd think they could get something worked out since it's all real traffic). Along with that, their own authentication server has gone down near release (pokemon trainer accounts) while the google one was working, so they probably have had to throw servers at that and weren't expecting to.

I'd also expect a lot of the load to be related to doing lots of geospatial queries, but I doubt they planned that badly since they had experience with ingress. I think it'd be related to the nearby pokemon feature that they've had broken since shortly after launch.

There's definitely questions (e.g. why did nearby pokemon break the way it has?) about the particular bugs that people see that make me wonder how they've handled things but i suspect we'll never know since the answers are going to whatever secret sauce they've done to handle this kind of game.
Scientists unearth two rocky planets in 'habitable zone' of their star
The plugin system itself is very dangerous to the web. It prevents browser vendors from ensuring that the same content is available on all platforms. That's why it's being removed.

Already, many widely used devices can't access Flash content. Browser vendors are doing the responsible thing here by preventing any future situation like what has happened with Flash on mobile.
No you can't, all the content there is DRM'ed. I believe many people care about running their videos where they like. For example, Amazon video does not work at all on Linux because there is no DRM support there.
Jeron Lanier has an interesting essay. He started with MIDI files, they are digital representation of music, which is mostly good enough for our ears, but not identical to the real music. Even HD audio can only sample at some KHz, so it is still discrete and not analog. How will computer representations of the brain be the same as the human brain, and how will it differ?
The assumption that democracy is an undeniable good, that democratic government suits all nations, needs to be revisited.
I don't remember Robin Hood being poor in the first place.
SmartHires (YC S14) shutting down
There's been quite a few people exploring logitech gaming keyboards with LCD (G19 etc), adding pidgin plugins, games widgits etc. Maybe you can get enough from github to figure out what you need?

Or there's Roccat's power grid which interfaces games to a phone app. No idea how open or investigated that is though.
Maybe it was just the way you said it. Keep posting facts and maintain a reasonable disposition and I think you'll find that the debates on HN are informative and positive. It certainly beats most of the other sites I can think of.
> Are you an uninterrupted process of consciousness that evolves from one state to another?

Yes.

> If so, you die and are reborn every time you fall asleep.

No. That's a silly claim; the brain doesn't literally shut off during sleep, and I am not composed of only conscious processes.
Car ownership seems to be on the decline anyway. I'm end-20ies and socialize in a group where everyone could afford a car, yet almost none of them do.

Granted it's Berlin which has a somewhat peculiar culture but even in the US it seems to be catching on, at least in the large cities.

It seems like the car has lost its cultural appeal as a symbol of freedom & wealth. Now it's just one of many options for transportation.

I cannot wait to see how this could transform cities. Car sharing together with self-driving cars means we need far fewer and they can disappear into a depot when unused. A typical road has four lanes (two for parking, two for driving). You could cut that in half by eliminating parked cars, possibly also eliminate one of the remaining lanes if automation allows for more efficient usage. Suddenly the space available for pedestrians / green / street life has more than doubled, noise and pollutants almost eliminated by electric cars... For dense cities, it could dramatically improve the quality of life.
Virus, backdoor, what's the difference really?
I login @ live.com, and then type "hotmail.com" in the address bar (now I probably can say goodbye to my very old email address)
I have been keeping a journal and taking a picture every day since my first year of college. Before I moved out of my parents' house I looked at a few family photo albums. There were countless times where I thought, "I would have never remembered that without seeing this photo." That thought both scared and excited me. I don't what significant memories I have lost throughout my life, but I can make sure to write down every future one I deem important.

Writing down my thoughts also forces me to reflect on my conversations with other people. I often find myself seeing someone's point of view more clearly and better understanding their thought process. I thought I was open-minded before, but dissecting someone else's seemingly convoluted opinion makes you accept almost any possibility.

I also make sure to write as honest as possible. When I look back at my journals in the future, I want to think, "This is exactly how I perceived the event given my knowledge at the time." I write what happened, my thoughts on what happened, and how I reacted.
Yes Chordify has time information - it's pretty accurate too, and works for folk, rock, classical, whatever.

It's just a matter of timing the lights with the audio output. My setup is a Raspberry Pi as a master, and an Arduino to talk to the lights (which is necessary because the RPi's pins are too slow to send signals to an addressable LED strip). The RPi sends chord and beats in real time as they happen, over USB. Every few seconds it syncs the light show clock with the audio player clock.
Proof of work burns money and I guess users won't pay for some content's reputation score, there are no incentives to do it other than altruism. POW-based currencies work well because you can exchange the points for stuff or services, not because you can spend them within the system (proof of stack does exactly this indeed and its long-term reliability has been questioned many times).
I don't buy this line of reasoning. The primary method of advertising vehicles is by representing them as some sort of extension of the purchasers identity. With a huge fleet of rentals around, how many people will want to buy a car that will make them seem so ordinary?
Well, if you're naïve enough to think it would work, you COULD re-enact that bit in Cryptonomicon... And by that bit, I mean the bit about the sultanate, and its associated laws, obviously. Even as a dictator, you can't arrange for a networks expert to be in a prison cell adjacent to an immortal alchemist, trying to crack a WWII era code that will lead him to a secret cache of gold. :-D
I don't think the founder of Zipcar or VMWare got to their success by going to conferences and talking about "women in tech". They built stuff that people want. Period.
Would you also say that less profit is less value creation? I think that is almost self-refuting.

What about for-profit companies that convert some of their software over to open source? Does that stop generating value when it goes free?

And what about Comcast? They "earn" great profits, and they aren't dependent on state granted monopoly, regulated as a common carrier etc. But they'd create a lot more value as a utility with much lower profits.
Hangouts is an easy goto, but it uses a ton of system resources.

Zoom is amazing for video chat, even with hundreds of people on a call. The screen sharing works well too, and even offers remote control. It uses a lot less resources to run too.

If you only need voice, Discord is quite nice, and they have a web client so you can just send a link and the other party can just start chatting with you.
> What's the point of being a dictator?

Being able to do anything you want.

> if you consider the negative consequences of a dictatorship

Being a dictator generally involves not caring about the negative consequences for anyone else, while assuming that you can effectively mitigate any negative consequences for yourself.
Unlikely.

KAT apparently had a Facebook page, so step one was serving Facebook with a search warrant demanding the list of IP addresses used to administrate that page.

They likely then went to major companies like Apple, Google, etc. with search warrants for any billing activity (valuable as it comes with a cardholder name and address, usually) matching those IP addresses.
I have Windows Hello enabled on my phone (a 950) and it scans my iris with an infra-red camera/light. This means it still works in the dark and cant be fooled by a photo (or a 3d model I guess!)
They apparently didn't take away all of the licenses.
You should watch the TV show Narcos [0], which is about Pablo Escobar and Columbia. He has all the money and power that he could ever need, but still tries to amass more & more. It's intoxicating viewing and provides some insight into the mind of people who feel the need to rule absolutely.
[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2707408/
I felt the same way about the Congressional hearings about steroids in baseball. Congresspeople are welcome to discuss such matters, but I'd prefer they do it off taxpayer time.
Whether majority rights override individual rights is a matter of some debate.
As an alternative, in Java, there is FindBugs plugin "find-sec-bugs" that flags potentially-long-running regexes.

In my current project, it found two of those in Google Zxing library.
Two instances where this isn't practical:

• "Abandonware" — IP held by a company that wants to just sit on it and never release it again, and probably forgets it exists. Probably the company that produced the IP was acquired and shut down by the company currently holding it. It's nearly impossible to find a physical copy of most of this kind of stuff. I'm not a collector; I don't want to pay $1000 for the only surviving copy of some old book or NES cartridge or whatever. (Or, rather, I would, but only as part of a group-buy with the goal of giving the thing to a digital archivist who will properly preserve it and publish the results to everyone.)

• "Isolationism-ware" – IP that only legally exists in some particular markets. Usually meaning "some Asian country, and no English-speaking countries." To acquire such, I'd—at the easiest—have to convince the iTunes Store that I have a credit card with an address in that country; for the more indie stuff, I'd have to find someone physically in the country willing to go be my proxy, searching used book-stores/record-stores for the item and then sending it to me. Either way, I'd then have to work pretty hard to consume the thing, given that I don't fully understand the languages involved. Translated release groups handle all these steps. (I wouldn't mind if I could donate money to them in a way that would in turn give money to the original IP owner; I've just never heard of such a setup.)
Yes, but you seem to be arguing that that cruft is good. If not, than I really don't see where we disagree.
I think Iran is a better comparison. They keep up the pretense and ceremony of democratic legitimacy, have a sizable and somewhat-tolerated liberal civil society, and rose to power by calling the faithful to the streets.

Saudi Arabia is a tough situation. The House of Saud is the only thing standing between the radical imams and total power.

The future of the Middle East looks very dark right now. Egypt is the only large power where the forces of order and civilization are winning.
There is a distinct separation between the people who made the country as it is now and the people who couldn't prevent them. As for your concern; the lacking prevention of the now felt almost-dictatorship is a strong evidence of the lack of politics involvement of the group which is against this kind of Turkey now.

So your concern is right, if the people who made this country this way gets to flee; it's not if the people who couldn't stop this country be this way gets to flee.
I wonder if there would be a way to integrate Let's Encrypt with router admin interfaces. It would be really cool if consumer routers used a valid https certificate on their web ui
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I think the potential for a game to provoke some new legislation is very real. The quantity of people changing their use of time, space and infrastructure so suddenly is unprecedented, and even if it fades over time, the chances of more like this one are high.
I actually chose it to target vulkan on it.
> Meanwhile, there's no single country that could shut down e.g. Wikipedia.

You don't have to shut it down, you can simply prevent access to it, like in China. Problem solved, if that's something you considered a problem in the first place.
Summary: use jsonb unless you need non-json. Then use Hstore.
That seems like more of a comment on the poor quality of Internet access in your area than the nature of multimedia content.
These numbers are flat out wrong, there's no way that the game uses '10 to 20 megabytes of data per hour' jpmorgan must have fucked that up somehow. I can't be bothered typing out the whole url referenced in (5) but that's just wrong.
Wouldn't help much once the bitcoin is exchanged for another currency, thus linking the bitcoin address to his personal information if the authorities compel the exchange to provide the info.
Hmm, which NLP request did you run it as?

It seemed to run better when I ran it through analyzeEntities: http://pastebin.com/raw/AfXvKAzw