skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks cool, wish it were available for Android (and used by everyone, heh).

I'm not in a major city (newyork/sf/seattle/etc), so these radius chats don't tend to work well for me.

I fear that the only way a PoGo chat will work for me, is if Niantic adds it to PoGo directly. That way the user chat base is 100% of the gaming base.
Design Patterns: Strategy
I'm telling them that cost-of-living is a valuable consideration when deciding on a job offer in a different city. They suggested that it wasn't (or maybe misunderstood what I was saying).

I'm not disrespecting their particular experience; it's awesome that their move worked in their favor. But I have interviewed for jobs in cities like SF and I have crunched the numbers on their salaries and so I have direct experience, too. Neither of our stories on their own are proof, they're just anecdotes; cost-of-living calculations are the result of lots of hard data.
AOL was notorious for almost being impossible to cancel. I remember when I had Netflix for a while and decided to cancel it was really easy to do so. Although I canceled that alone gave me a positive impression of Netflix.
Do Yahoo employees really call themselves "Yahoos"?
Yeah, the SMB SaaS ERP area is pretty small currently. There are some of us (I work for Plex Systems[0], which caters more to manufacturing customers), but we don't see as many headlines as the big names.

[0]: http://www.plex.com/
It still has the integer ID in the URL, so if you're willing to drop $20 a week on getting your own pizza, you can still see how many online orders Dominoes gets - it could be valuable information for competitors, or investors, as you say.
To support your point:

For many companies, having a defined degree of confidence in estimates is a requirement of doing business. Any DoD contract in excess of $25 million USD, for example, must be performed by a company with a DoD certified Earned Value Management plan. You had better get your estimate process right there, because you're held accountable for it.
> I'm glad to hear that Amazon kept the textbook-style questions light -- it's not what you usually hear about happening in interviews with big tech companies.

Yeah, this was a pleasant surprise about the process for me.
Stamps.com is so scammy. You sign up for a free trial, then get enrolled without asking you into their payment plan. Then when you go to cancel, you can't. You have to call. But guess what? It has weird hours. When you finally do call during their hours it's a machine that you're talking to, not a person.

Ok, so you have hours of when I can cancel...clearly not because you have shift hours, since I'm talking to a machine. So why do you have specified hours?

Stamps.com billed me for 8 months before I noticed they were billing me. I only noticed it because I was doing my taxes. The billing size was just small enough to fly under my radar, but just big enough to hurt a bit. I feel that chose that pricing for that reason.

Anyhow, I saw they were in this story, so I felt I would expand upon their "dark patterns."
They may use lot's of cash, they may be plowing, they may be relentless but their track record is decidedly mixed. Building franchises from smaller seedlings is hard and risky. Not comparable with Berkshire Hathaway that focuses on low risk investments. They are more acting like venture funds.

Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have managed to build some new profitable businesses over time with Amazon having done the greatest leap. The advertisement giants seem to struggle to gain traction - lots of projects but revenue streams less impressive.
Neither does Texas.
The examples from Muhammad's hair and the other mentioned actually have their roots from this more ancient example in the Bible:

"And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet." 2 Kings 13:21
> This is exactly the main problem with Haskell.
> A stunning language with a lousy standard library.

I dream of the day where we can say that the main problem of Haskell is which libraries are included in the standard library. To me, we would already have reached programming nirvana at that point.
this is by far the most thoughtful mic-drop i've read today
See, for example, Mark Rosenfelder's attempt to algorithmically describe the pronunciation of English [0]. In his introduction, he takes ghoti to task:

> Whenever the subject comes up, someone is sure to bring up all the words in -ough, or George Bernard Shaw's ghoti-- a word which illustrates only Shaw's wiseacre ignorance. English spelling may be a nightmare, but it does have rules, and by those rules, ghoti can only be pronounced like goatee.

[0] http://zompist.com/spell.html
Even without the DoS issue, it's hard to keep carrying on a project alone year after year. A more resilient organizational pattern would be a group of people sharing the burden of managing all the issues and nuisances (obviously people can fight and break up.)

Wouldn't the Internet Archive be interested in archiving all those mailing lists?
Exactly, "preventing its discovery" as in preventing the discovery of the device.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12176837 is another HN thread that is highly relevant. 2 + 2 = UAE wants national MITM enforcement techniques and do not want VPNs ruining it.
> In IT 10% of the staff can often keep the bare bones systems operating.

I don't think that's really true in any meaningful sense:

In a growth company (e.g., a VC-funded startup), where most of the technical staff is focused on new development, a substantially reduced skeleton crew can keep the lights on, but "keeping the lights on" isn't going to keep such a company a going concern.

In a software company (mature or otherwise), the technical staff (other than internal IT support) are "factory workers", with the same situation as you describe for an iron factory.

In a mature, non-software company, a very large portion of the IT staff resources are devoted to just keeping the existing systems running; if they could do that with 10% of the staff, they'd already have cut the staff down so that was no longer true.
Can't we have any non-partisan media nowadays?

I'm really sick of this position that if you don't agree with my political views, you are a crazy lunatic racist and are not worth of that opinion (So much so, you will be silenced and ignored).

It's the reason our nation is so divided. Do you think when a group of people are ignored, ridiculed, silenced, and in many cases fired from their job for merely having an opinion, that they are just going to sit there and do nothing when the group primarily doing the oppressing is going to get even more power over their lives?

The DNC email leaks made it even worse. It proves that the DNC has been colluding with the mainstream media to attack all of their political opponents, which now just happens to be Bernie Sanders. People are outraged, but were not outraged when it happened to someone they dislike (I seriously doubt this is the first time this happened). We need to protect the freedoms of all, not just the people we like..or we will eventually have no freedom at all.

I've been watching as much of the Democratic convention as I can stomach. My problem is that instead of spending time explaining to me why I need to vote for Hillary, it's a cavalcade of panderers, terrible comedians, and people making fun of Trump. Not my idea of intelligent discourse.

Don't get me wrong, Trump is just as bad. But the group that claims to be more intelligent seems to be putting on a show for the lowest common denominator.
How Smart Brands Give Customers What They Want
There's at least a market of one, the person to whom I replied. Thanks for the snark though.

And none of my banks offer this that I know of? If they do, the UX certainly isn't anything like this.
SMB do not have well defined processes, if I can enter whatever that I am doing and if it can be converted to process which other can follow without come up with one themselves, effectively I'm transferring the intellectuals or experience down the line, which will enable me to grow organically instead of thinking out all of business growth and processes beforehand. Another advantage is the existing process can be improved organically. May be I should make a demo to explain it better....
Intacct
For existing advertising networks there would be one more competitor. I wouldn't expect any business that caters to the auction model to replace that model with this.

Traditionally, good advertising has been a way of "extending the content." A magazine about computers would have ads related to computing. A magazine about fashion would have advertising related to appearing stylish.

For publishers who don't care about extending the content, nothing would change. For publishers who care about it, there would be one less available slot on the toolbelt.
Especially considering how this started under Bill Clinton's administration (see Title IV) [1]. I remember watching how proud he was of it [2][3]. Maybe the intentions were good but coupled with the repeal of Glass-Steagall and rise sub-prime mortgage crisis makes me wonder.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/2264...
[2] https://youtu.be/b1TdC9g4XBQ?t=32m28s
[3] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics-july-dec96-clinton_0...
On a slight, but related side note, is there a way to stop Chrome from auto playing audio when you first open a web page?

I'm supposed to be working here - not surfing Hacker News!
This is basically what any discussion on dark patterns i have ever seen devolves into: "a service i use has an interaction i don't like. it's a dark pattern." the whole term is basically a meaningless buzzword now.

requiring an email address to access a service is no more of a dark pattern than requiring payment to access a service. they're taking something of value in exchange for providing something of value. it's only a "dark pattern" if they trick you into providing your email address somehow.
I'm much happier for being in possession of the technologies of human experience that the humanities gave me.

I think for people with good rational abilities it's tempting to think that we can logic our way through all of our internal (meaning, emotion, relationships) problems the way we can with external (business, financial, engineering) problems. It doesn't work, and the tools provided by both the humanities and spiritual traditions[1] do work, marvelously.

[1] When approached pragmatically, rather than dogmatically. Dogmatically religious people seem to suffer from as much or more angst than anyone.
Crazy guys launched “fair” social network
Recently a couple of totally crazy guys launched http://socialwhisper.net network which allows users to fill their facebook friends and celebrities profiles. Moreover you cannot edit your own profile so if somebody wrote that you are a jackass - others will see it.
The thing that unstuck the negotiation was conceding to the disputed term (agreeing to pay the credit card fees). The "steak dinner" trick seems to have little to do with it.

Basically this boils down to "if you're stuck in negotiations but really want to wrap up the deal, consider just conceding on the final, minor points in contention. Maybe try to get something small in exchange for your larger concession(s)."

Not exactly earth-shattering and the hubris in even glancingly comparing this to the brilliance of Nash's work is astounding.

On top of that, this counter-concession doesn't even scale up with increasing revenue. But Hootsuite's fees do increase as revenue increases.

I think it'd be more interesting to read a negotiation tip from the vendor in this situation. Something like "if you've already worked out the major terms in a deal and you are fairly confident the counterparty wants the deal done, but you are stuck on a final point that affects you more than them... consider standing firm, even to the point of obstinance. Test the limits and see if you can get them to concede. If they're holding out, see if you can offer something trivial in exchange for their concession or if you can get them to make an offer to concede in exchange for some trivial ancillary benefit. Sometimes this works as people are irrational and just want to feel they 'gotcha', even if what they're conceding is of greater value -- and has the potential to be of far greater value-- than the exchange. All the better if you can make them feel like they're oh-so-clever in the proposal. We once had a partner we were negotiating with agree to cover credit card fees which would've hurt our net revenue share substantially, simply in exchange for agreeing to buy them a steak dinner once a quarter, which we likely would've done anyway to keep this important partner relationship moving forward and growing over time. Ha! We made sure to cap the price of the steak dinner and merrily signed, having won the business concession we needed."

Besides not even being a great or meaningful technique in practice and certainly not defining any new theoretical work of import (unlike Nash), this is also mildly unethical and would reflect poorly and/or get the practitioner in trouble in many, if not most, situations.

It is sad to see the comments on Medium cheering "brilliant, man!" and "love this."
I lived in Hungary from age 0 to age 33 (ok, age 31, mostly nomad for two years) and I stand my ground: you will not find anyone who doesn't break the law regularly. Tax fraud at the least.
Some of these people have learned to hide it pretty well.
Smolin actually singles out Markopoulou as one of the great modern Seers (in the same chapter):

"It is easy to list those whose thinking has led to papers and even books addressing foundational issues: Roger Penrose is perhaps the best known to the public, but one can name many others including John Baez, Louis Crane, Bryce DeWitt, Fay Dowker, Christopher Isham, Fotini Markopoulou, Carlo Rovelli, Rafael Sorkin, and Gerard ’t Hooft."
I always assume that any "free trial" where they have my payment information is going to automatically roll over into a paid subscription, and avoid the whole thing unless I already want to pay for the service.
yes agreed everyone should cater to you specifically in life.
Except GP doesn't have a SaaS offering...it's just a hosted version by MS partners.
And this is why remote work for tech people is the future.

Timezones are still an issue, but if you're willing to adapt your work hours to meet the majority, being remote allows you to work for fantastic companies without sacrificing your way of life.
My experience was the complete opposite. I interviewed for them when they came to Sydney.

The recruiter on LinkedIn said that it was for a senior Java developer role. We even spoke over the phone to go through some of what the role involved.

The actual interviewing process was half a day of being interviewed by various people from different departments, some asking sysops questions, some asking general BA questions, some asking network/IP related questions, and 2 (if I remember correctly) actually asking programming/developer questions.

One was shocked that I didn't have a laptop with me, which was not at all part of the instructions.

The process was nowhere near as organised as what's mentioned in this blog, and this was somewhat recent (late 2015 I think?)

Perhaps their overseas recruitment arm seriously needs better coordination?
> Steak dinner is a benefit to an individual

I wouldn't be so harsh, so quickly. "Company will eat certain fees if davidu gets free steak," would be a problem. But "Company will eat said fees if employees of Company, nominated by Company, get steak dinners" passes muster. It's not uncommon for travel expenses to be covered in contracts. With periodic sign-off from an officer not party to the dinners, I could see it flying at even the most conservative of companies.

> should be treated separately and unrelated to contract negotiations and deal terms

A contract is a memorialisation of a relationship between two parties. Creative drafting often involves bringing in factors one hadn't considered to mediate a disagreement.
I don't know, it's just an argument I've heard from systemd and launchd proponents. I've had hardware events via udev for a long time before systemd.
>Side note, I'm surprised that Oracle is still running with Safra Catz and Mark Hurd as co-CEO's. I figured that that setup along with a very strong willed founder in Ellison, would cause some spectacular implosion at some point:)

It's because Safra Catz is a master operator while Hurd is a good IR and market-facing leader. Of course, Ellison is the visionary.

I read this as Oracle realizing that cloud is real and that they need to buy as many sources of cloud data silos as possible to build up their fortress of customer data.
George Kennan's “Long Telegram” (1946)
Show HN: Certificate Transparency Log Monitor
Hey - I wrote this! =D
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I don't think it is a good idea to post the actual questions one is asked. As an interviewer, I like to use the same question so I can calibrate across candidates.
No, you aren't wrong. That recruiter did not do a good job. The salary range talk is always up front to ensure that candidates and the company aren't wasting one anothers time. If the process gets to the offer stage, it needs to be in the range discussed up front. It costs me money (in terms of PTO) to come out and interview, and it costs the company thousands in time and expenses to conduct it. That recruiter essentially pissed away a couple grand without any real prospect of hiring. As a hiring manager, I'd be upset about that if it happened in my company.

I had this happen early in my career. Recruiter and I talked about a range, went through 3 rounds of interviews, and I got an offer below what I was currently making. Absolutely not in the discussed range. The offer came via email and I was insulted - I declined without negotiation. I still have the email, and I was apparently pretty polite. A week later they pinged me back to ask if I had considered it, if I was dissatisfied and that they could go up. I just politely restated my decline. They'd already wasted my time, and as junior as I was, my time was still valuable - I took time out of work, traveled, etc. That was almost 10 years ago and I'm still salty about it. That should tell you what kind of impression this behavior leaves behind. Looking back at the emails now, I am very surprised at how professional and polite I was about it - my memories of 20-something me are apparently overblown :)
Okay so a deploy to prod should be able to require a stockholder voter? This sounds like a Utopian paradise not the realities of IT in 2016.
Things were pretty cool until 1994. Then Canter and Siegel unleashed one of the first commercial dark patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...

It's been a race to the bottom ever since. Dave Egger's fine and breezy novel "The Circle" illustrates the ethical issues quite nicely.
Certainly it blends multiple genres, but to me it's the "X-files" genre.

My complaint is not that it doesn't get better it's that it shouldn't have to get better. That's a pacing issue and when a show has enough solid material in it I theorize most pacing issues can be solved with editing and usually by removing extraneous material.

I think the impact that editing can have on how you perceive a story is profound.
Appears to type the word in one by one:

http://puu.sh/qhzvS/c615e55f61.png
Ever wanted to recursively search a linked list by hand? Here's your chance!
One thing that really surprised me was when I first started watching Top Gear: they pronounced "Mazda" and "Bugatti" with flat As (that is, they used IPA [æ] for the first occurrences of 'a' in both words). I was really taken aback by how aggressively anglicized those names.
so effectively thin air. this will surely end well. /sarcasm
Under the Supreme Court's decision in Myriad (which held you can't patent naturally-occurring gene sequences by themselves), you probably can't patent a naturally-occurring biological compound.
I watched the entire Stranger Things season all in one sitting. Sadly, the opening title and musical score was the best part of it. I was completely pumped when I heard a show based in 80's nostalgia was coming to Netflix. Unfortunately that was about all it offered. It ticked off every 80's cliche; Stephen King fonts, Spielbergesque characters and settings, tired cop given a second chance to do something meaningful, single mom raising boys away from a deadbeat dad, group of nerdy young kids solving issues on their BMX bikes, alien hiding in a shed (ET), and a secret megacorp coverup. The story was completely uninspiring, that even some exceptional acting couldn't rescue. The actress playing Eleven was fantastic! But Winona Ryder was WAS over dramatic.
Totally agree. The title sequence and music taps into some primitive nostalgic core parts of my history I can't even accurately articulate. As soon as it came on, it's like a light in my childhood blinked on. Wonderful.

But the show itself is just meh.

The acting is uniformly bad. Given that it applies to all of the actors, I assume it says more about the directors than the cast. Everyone is too loud and too over the top, all the time, which has the effect of making everything boring. There's no dynamic range in the emotion (except for the mysterious girl, who is pretty great).

I like the story mainly because I enjoy the all the tropes it rehashes. But the dialogue is pedestrian, the pacing is semi-random, and the episodes I've seen so far feel like more of a pastiche of scenes than something tightly polished.

The cinematography is everything I hate about digital film production. It's so easy to color correct every frame that now you're obligated too and everyone does it the exact same way: Crank up the shadows so 90% of the frame is pure solid black (with none of the subtle detail that would still be just perceptible in there if it were film). Get the that's left and kill every color that isn't orange or blue [1].

Cinematographers! You can do amazing things with color today. Stop always doing the same thing!

Still, having said all that, I do enjoy watching it. I think a more experience hand could tighten it into something more spectacular, but it scratches a nostalgic itch that not many other things do.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=stranger+things&espv=2&biw=1...
or upload it to google big query or a self pay amazon s3 bucket... public datasets get free storage iirc. would be a nice complement to the reddit / hn datasets.
I don't think it's snark, it's just a factual statement that this isn't new. They were pretty common about ten years ago, but I haven't seen any recently.

I used to use them a lot. My favorite feature was that you not only got a one-time number, but you could set a limit for it so you couldn't be overcharged. Great for ordering stuff from shady web sites.

Well, it was my favorite feature until I did that with a shady web site and got overcharged. I called my bank to ask WTF, and they said they automatically padded the limit by 10% because people are idiots and forget to account for shipping charges and such.

I did get my money back after fighting with the scammers for a while. Threatening them with a chargeback tends to bring them to their senses.
"Worcester" makes more sense if you split it up and pronounce it as "Worce ster". And remember that RP is non-rhotic; that'll help too (so "Worce" ends up being pronounced like "wuss").
Ask HN: Trade School's Online Portal Hacked – Legal Recourse?
My girlfriend attends a trade school for veterinary technicians in the US.

She just called to tell me that their online portal has been compromised. Nobody can log in, and this system is linked to all other systems including financial and personal information.

Are there any statues that allow for legal recourse in this situation? One would hope there are stringent regulations in place for schools, much like medical data.