skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm consistently surprised to hear people saying positive things about "Ready Player One" - to me it was one of the most hackneyed and silly books I've read in a long time. My review at the time of reading (originally for private consumption only):

Terrible modern sci-fi about easter egg MMO quest for game creator’s fortune. Childish plot/dialog, cliches everywhere (e.g. ‘L337 Hax0r Warezhouse’), absolutely atrocious, really simple puzzles. The only positive thing I can say about it is that I didn’t give up on it immediately - although I was tempted, the main plot line was at least interesting enough that I wanted to hear the end. Unfortunately the ending itself was disappointing - the final puzzle was just a rehash of the first two. My main takeaways were: I hope the ‘MMO-scifi’ subgenre is finally dead, I should wait at least 10 years for more recent sci-fi to go through quality assurance, and that it seems like based on this, anyone with a half-baked idea and enough pop-culture-nerd knowledge to sprinkle throughout 300 or so pages should be able to write a best-seller. Meanwhile, the politics/worldview it espouses is basically boingboing distilled - big corporation bad, internet is free, knowledge is free, american culture and society is dead, cyber-elite should run world, pop-media is simultaneously in control of world and source of inspiration and true creativity.
Could this be market supply/demand? That banks in NYC are paying more for developers and less for site-ops (similar reasons mentioned elsewhere on cost vs profit center) and to hire and retain these folks, they need to pay accordingly. In this sense, it's the career interest in Siteops that lowers their pay, despite the skills.

This happens in the real world a lot. Two people major in Mathematics. One has an additional education certification and goes to teach in a school. The other gets an IT job at the same school. The guy with the IT job gets paid more. (You could insert social work, music, or any of a dozen other underpaid fields)
You guys should include more tech books too.
unnecessarily using the might of the military for nebulous gains

I would say those actions were 'half-hearted' due to the risk of angering the public.

But if we're going to use the military, I would like it to be in a decisive and overwhelming manner with a well defined objective.

To do that, we must be willing to accept casualty.

If we aren't willing to commit to our goal, whatever that may be, with all the necessary resources, why are we fighting there?

Let just stay home.
Besides the actual sequencing this is what LifeGene http://lifegene.ki.se/ does. I.e. long study with check ups every 10 years, lots of tests and lots of data about person's environment, living conditions, etc.
Getting your algorithm a seat at the big boy table, and attracting enough capital to turn a high percentage return into a high dollar amount return, are serious tasks.
Heh, I didn't actually think an actual MS developer would respond to my comment.

As it stands, I can appreciate what MS is doing; you guys aren't probably going to compete with or replace V8 or SpiderMonkey on Linux overnight, hence why getting a working Node port is a good first step of presumably many.

Regardless, this is definitely an interesting step; it would be really trippy if I end up using an entire MS stack on my Linux desktop, but it appears that might be a legit possibility.
So is it fair to say a large part of what separates the top placers in these competitions is feature engineering?
The Shopify for local delivery businesses, spread the word?
Hello guys,

We have created http://www.orderingpages.com and we would like people to spread the word.

What is exactly what OrderingPages does?

You can create a online store for a pizza place or any other store, like laundry or even clothes in less than 3 minutes.

We have templates, integrations with Paypal, Stripe, etc. Even with Bringg.com

We do not charge commissions or anything to use it, it is 100% FREE.

Can you help us spread the word? Or at least try it :D

Thank you

Alonso
Cofounder
Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code (2011)
Sure, but the damage has been dealt. Unless he wins his libel case and the subsequent media coverage has as much or more reach as the media coverage over the acusations.
Is it still an independent third party if they chose her and are paying her? This is normally enough to say that she has a conflict of interest.
Changes to CV:

> First up put an objective of what your objective in 1-2 lines. (eg: System/Web/Mobile developer looking for beginner level role - something in this line)

> Next pull your fluent skill levels from second page sidebar to first page on main-side. By this, reviewer will quickly be able to see your tech skills first up (right in viewing zone).

> Show some code in your github profile - as you can program - write some neat code for problems in codejam, topcoder, careercup etc. If you have already 've some code - push it to a github.

> Put your SAT scores and college education in viewing zone - 1st page.

> Divide your tech skills by [ system, web, mobile ]. Skill with highest proficiency cam come at beginning.

Cut down on what you want to do ahead (but let that burn within you till reach the goal) in resume as it will not help now. Also search for sample programmer CVs and see if anything helps you organise content in a better way in FIRST PAGE.

Then in second page - rest of the things can come.

Left hand section of cv - content looks dense with paragraphs of texts. See if you can put it in less words.

Apply through as many webportals as possible. Search career section of companies if you have any in mind.

Push hard and trudge on - do not stop.
I think that OPs point was that previously reports like this would have been met with a "Well duh. Of course that is what happens. Primaries aren't fair elections."

Where as now we are starting to see reports like this be taken seriously because there is a background expectation that primaries are conducted fairly. There is certainly acknowledgement that the current system isn't entirely fair. The change is that an strong desire for fairness now exists where previously it did not.
Sometimes faster, better ES6 support (to hopefully spur V8 to complete theirs), etc. Nothing big, but a little competition is nice.
Yes - they also miss bonuses, equity, and "I think we can pay less to get someone from overseas".
Audiobooks are also a good way to blast through content at the expense of a retention cost.
Selling on Amazon has costs and benefits. This sort of scheme and Amazon's relative lack of merchant support are a few of the costs, but the benefits are that you get an incredibly stable, reliable, visible, trusted platform with a built-in audience.

I worked for a few years helping build a community around an arbitrage app (scan barcodes at Walmart, calculate your Amazon profit). There's really no end to people's ingenuity when it comes to identifying market inefficiencies. There's always going to be someone willing to take a risk and profit from it.
Hi there!

If you have any questions that we might be able to answer, please shoot me an email. kyle at agilebits.com, or support at agilebits.com. I work on our Mac/iOS teams and security teams. I can probably answer most of your questions and at least get them in front of people who can answer them.

I really hope you're not making this work with AgileKeychain, we've put that one out to pasture. :)

Kyle

AgileBits
I've been looking into doing something similar for an offsite backup for my extensive photo collection- how much storage do you have and how much did it cost you?
How to Remain Calm with People
R and openMP: boosting compiled code on multi-core cpu-s
Easy: embrace, extend, and extinguish.

If Microsoft behaves as they have done in the past, this is what will happen:

1. Make Node run on top of Chakra [x]

2. Give Chakra non-standard features and sell communities on them while pointing out to dissenters that the extensions are open source []

3. Gradually allow open source work on the product to die and commercialize it []

Microsoft has lost a lot of people's trust. My grandfather used to tell me that trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. Once trust is lost, it's even tougher to earn back. It's going to take some convincing on their end if they want developers to trust them. It doesn't __matter__ if they appear to act more ethically than their competitors, that's not how trust works, and it won't convince a lot of people that have watched Microsoft for a while that they've suddenly changed their ways.

EDIT: funny this is being downvoted considering eee was an actual strategy Microsoft has historically employed according to the US Justice Department. This isn't even conspiracy theory stuff -- this is real life. Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
I'm sympathetic, but without a parliamentary system the US cannot have an effective market of political parties. And without such a market, primaries need to be democratic.
Viewpoint: The waste mountain of coffee cups
Stardog Raises a Seed Round
> So you kind of get a catch 22 where V8 won't spend time to fix it because it's not worth it, and it won't be worth it because V8 doesn't support it.

That's an easy fix though: introduce one or more performance tests that stress try/catch (i.e. don't employ the workaround). Obviously Google won't be doing it, but there's nothing to stop Microsoft or Mozilla for lobbying for it.
YC's Summer Reading
Interesting. My take on it is that most people have never paid much attention to the details how candidates are chosen and know they're going to vote with their party anyway or will wait until November to decide on their 'lesser of two evils'. They just never knew how it worked, and probably never expected a voice in the matter. I certainly never paid much attention to this stuff. I would sometimes follow primary candidates and maybe watch a debate or two, but all this stuff about delegates and super delegates etc. was not a thing until this year. This feels like it is quite possibly the longest span a presidential election has held the attention of the voting public. And we've still got quite some time to go.
As someone who is dealing with personality politics at work I found this video very insightful. Hope it helps.
I do complain about the different browsers... not picking on Linux again, but the way Chrome behaves in Linux is completely unreasonable. I prefer when I click on a URL bar, it highlights the whole thing by default. Firefox on Linux lets me change the default behavior, Chrome does not. When I filed a feature request, they closed it saying this is the native behavior of Linux and everyone expects it. But it's completely different from the behavior on Windows using the same software, so it breaks my workflow. End result is, I stopped using Chrome. Not to mention I can install Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on my Mac and pick between them at will. It's a lot harder to do that with a package manager.

There's value in diversity and competition, but does yum's new features make apt better? Does yum have any new features? Or is it literally just duplicating the exact same thing just for the sake of NIH? Browsers get updated constantly, it's a quickly changing market. Package managers are pretty much done. If apt or yum have implemented a new feature in the last 5 years that made the other maintainer say "oh my god we need that, how did we not think of that?" I will eat my hat (I don't actually own a hat).

You know what's really nice? Interoperability. Predictable behavior. It's the same damn OS. EXEs that run on Windows 10 Pro run on Windows 10 Home Premium, too, you don't have to switch to MSI just because you changed the distribution.
Ethics and morals with Facebook? They have a long troubled history of dealing with both. It's a company, and companies want to make money, that's the bottom line. Of course it's censored in their best interests.
I have a CS friend who just recently got hired for walmart (not sure on terminology, but he does some analytics stuff). Your account sounds pretty accurate to what he described, but add in a dollop of basically every technology that's ever existed and was ever popular at any point. He's been there a short time and already had to look into systems running on cobol, hadoop, oracle database, SQL Server, MySQL, Firebase, C, C++... Pretty much they hire contractors to implement any new project, and then hire H1-Bs to maintain it afterwards. He said his job is mostly managing H1-Bs, rather than actually writing code.
Crowdfunding and crowdsourcing are often social network based, are they not?
Why is having lots of names on the ballot a bad thing?

I'd rather have some system of arbitrarily limiting the number of names on the ballot than a system that privileges parties. For instance, for statewide elections you could choose the 5 (or 10!) names that had satisfied the ballot requirements in the most voting districts (so it doesn't matter that Uncle Larry likes to "run" for state senate in his home county, he doesn't kick someone with a better/actual shot at winning off).
> You're cutting in the line.

Is it really cutting in line if I can get to 30mph in the time it takes the leading car to move his foot to the gas pedal? Nobody is being delayed.

> You're creating a traffic jam because now there are 3 vehicles and 2 lanes.

That's not how you filter. You go to the front between the lanes and then move over in front of one of the leading cars. This also allows others to filter behind you.
Hover is dead. Long live hover
Funding should be left to wherever it can come from. If you try to get a single X to fund everything, X will quickly become bankrupt.

If that's not your point, that funding should only come from a certain X, then is your point the even more absurd remark analogous to saying after the discovery of Penicillin by Fleming "should such critical advances be left to serendipity and solo poor communicators who may never discover anything"?
I think Microsoft knows how bad of a rap they got back in the days of IE6, and they know that people don't really change their opinions very easily. So they're hoping to change the minds of devs (which is why they've open sourced so much - they're trying to look better and nicer, and now they're taking it further by putting in a lot of work into languages/ecosystems that aren't their own).

Through their charitable work, they look like the "good guys". The great thing about getting devs to like MS is that those devs might praise MS when talking to their non-developer friends, and their non-developer friends might ascribe a lot of value to that praise simply because they know that devs probably know more about tech companies.

In other words, by getting devs to like/trust MS more, non-devs will also like/trust MS more
Here's a recommendation for some female authored sci-fi at least:

The "Newsflesh Trilogy" by Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire). I'm not usually into zombie fiction, but this was a great series. Not your typical zombie fare... more like a political / conspiracy thriller where zombies are just part of the trappings of the story, not the focus of the story. Hard to explain, but worth reading.
WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
'An action that intentionally hurts other people' sufficed for me. Why do so many HN commenters have trouble reading this simple idea?
Netbooks were actually great. I loved mine. It had 11 hours of battery life (this was around 2007 or 2008 when typical pc laptops were getting 2-4 hours). A lot of my classmates liked their netbooks too. The ultrabook is also fantastic, but much more expensive (I'm typing this on a $2000 ultrabook, my netbook was $200).
> it would take several compromises (and a weirdly dedicated attacker) to work out my algorithm.

Use that algorithm widely enough and several compromises are guaranteed. The only thing protecting your password is that url manipulation.
I wonder if if that person just emailed them vulnerability, then it would just get patched within a day and he got only $1000.
Less than a day for Ready Player One ;(
Not focus for me as much as how much fun I'm having
100% agree. Disclaimer I own a data center and have dealt with customer collocated equipment breaches. In addition to the above steps:

-> disable root being able to login inside your sshd_config file. Make sure PermitRootLogin no

-> rename the root account too so if they are using an exploit based on user authentication then perhaps they won't be able to elevate to root.

-> disable password based logins and go to cert based auth. This will shutdown brute force attacks.

-> lower MaxAuthTries in sshd_config to something like 1 or 2 to help slow down attackers.

-> change the port you listen on. A little security through obscurity while not very effective might slow future casual port scanners that are testing a single port. In practice I've seen this really eliminate a lot of reconnaissance or farming type activities.

-> Make sure you're openssl and openssh are at the latest stable releases.

-> If the perp is coming from the same IP, you can use an iptables rule to block the netblock. Again, not perfect but may help slow things down.

-> grab shell history of all the user accounts on the box. Example ~/.bash_history. This is more reconnaissance but may be helpful if they are sloppy - you might see what they were doing on the box.

-> look for any modified files or new ones. Obviously logs will show up in the list but you're looking for things that should not be there.
Example: find / * -mtime -60 -print
where 60 is how many days ago you want to go back.

-> look at chron file to see if any timed delay bombs exist.

-> look at ps -aux output for any running processes that don't make sense

-> look at iptraf for any suspicious traffic to IPs you can't reconcile.

Good luck!
I agree - I really wanted to like Ready Player One but the writing was just so difficult to enjoy. In the same way I remember thinking "wow this is really well written" when reading George R R Martin, I spent most of RP1 thinking, "I will get through this for the concept but this is not a good book."

Instead of Ready Player One, I recommend the Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam. The action is a little overdone, but it's so much better than Ready Player One and it does a really good job of exploring very interesting technology questions!
How long have you been using Dokku?
Total data loss isn't the worst case scenario, in my opinion. Quietly interacting with your site, contacting your customers to abuse their trust in you, etc.
Not always. I was one of the only devops/linux admin at a past job and was in one of the first rounds of layoffs. It's a bit dangerous to think that just because you're critical, you're immune - on paper, you're probably also one of the most costly.
As tempting as the "profit motive explains all behavior" argument is, their policy against promoting terrorism explains this adequately.
You have neatly sidestepped answering both my question and your rephrasing of my question. Would you care to answer either of them?
> 1-2hrs

So 12.5-25% of an 8hr shift. I would guess that would be unacceptably long for a large number of transport operators.
That's interesting, because when I've got my Xiaomi Mi3 I've compared it with my Samsung Galaxy Tab. Mi3 was rooted, had almost no crapware and allowed me to pick what permissions app gets. On the other hand Tab required Samsung Account and rooting it voided guarantee.

Mi Band vibrates on incoming connection, sms and apps so maybe that's why it requires permissions to phone, sms and notifications.
Sorry, but no. This isn't acceptable. The value in their product is the people. Cutting them off, without discussion means they are selecting their product choice. If a human did this, based on a complaint (perhaps), they can talk to both sides - not just the complainant.
Milo was not the kind of agent that could change people's minds, except maybe those that already agreed with him.
Linux isn't really a desktop OS. Nearly all of the installations of Linux are in non-desktop-OS contexts. But nearly all installations of OS X are as a desktop OS.
Regarding Chinese capital coming in, there's a sense that they're not doing it to invest for a profit. They're doing it protect funds from the Chinese government access and potential future instability. So it might not matter to many of these "investors" if they houses are profitable or not; they're just funds being held in something perceived as more real/secure than what they can get in China.
> The XSS attack is just an example of a vulnerability that wouldn't be addressed by hardening SSH. There are plenty of other vulnerabilities that wouldn't be addressed by hardening SSH.

Well durr! We could be here all night listing things that SSH hardening wouldn't secure against. I never suggested it was a silver bullet to fix all security needs (which seems to be the faux argument you're accusing me off).

I'm loving all the personal attacks too. You cannot compete on an intellectual level so you make baseless accusations about my professional capabilities instead. God bless Internet message boards....
That's only true if there's no corroborating evidence of anything, or if you can't catch people contradicting themselves.

Source: I actually did that to prove that a certain guy sexually harassed me. He was fired.
Because algorithms and risk/portfolio management are totally different spheres. You don't want to complect your trading algorithm with your risk management, portfolio allocation or order/execution management systems.

And that is my point. Quantopian is aimed at inexperienced individuals who have never heard of Black-Litterman and won't notice what they're missing.
Or not having to pay all the R&D costs for the original development.
https://flink.apache.org/
Yeah, that's a good point: if force absolutely needs to be done, let it be swift and to the point. Drawing out a foreign war, and then griping about casualties, is no way to keep the peace. Let alone the unknown intentions of said war.
Finally a way to get your script read and get your movie made
The pedigree of the founders probably factors into it. Many VCs take the "we invest in people first" idea very seriously. For them a super-impressive team sells itself, while a less impressive team could only get funded with a ton of traction and proof. It's just reality.

That being said, it's not a terrible idea for a certain customer base. I am disappointed at the apparent lack of first class security features though. That would be a differentiator. But I haven't looked hard... maybe they are below the fold. They talk about securing their platform but not about how I might secure my data.

Edit: why do none of the big cloud drive and sync providers offer basic symmetric local encryption of data? This is easier to implement by far than sync and I for one would pay for this.
SO is based in NYC, right? Do you not have trouble retaining local devs there on these salaries? Or do you just have no one who actually lives and works in NYC?
> Does Google call it Java? No, and you clearly know this.

Surely it does

https://developer.android.com/index.html#q=Java

I see tons of references to it.

> I'd love to see the performance and resource usage of the JVM on a mobile device. You see, there's a reason Oracle failed miserably trying to build their Java phone.

I'd love to see Google fanboys accept the fact that Google has ripped off Sun of their work and brought fragmentation to the Java world with libraries that don't work on Android.

Of course Oracle and Sun failed, Google gave their work for free to OEMs.
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This makes no sense at all when Chakra core is open source.

If MS creates a closed source branch, then the most likely result will be for someone to fork the ChakraCore code and continue NodeJS dev based on the open source fork.
Valley of No Dolls – Silicon Valley has 10 zillion nerds to every 1 woman (2000)