skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My employer and I have an agreement that we came to ahead of time. It's not like I showed up, started working, and then demanded money. I have no idea what argument you think I'm making that would be comparable to being employed.
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That's probably a pretty good guess for what happened early on when designing microwave doors. And 99% of what's happened since is "the existing design is effective and cheap, so I'm not gonna try to fix what ain't broken."
With all the praise and hype postgresql gets, you wonder why all this awesome services are mysql first, RDS? mysql first, aurora? mysql compatible, google cloud sql? mysql, netflix? mysql, github? mysql.

I think mysql users are just there quietly making money while postgres users are bashing mysql ;)

I also think services like aurora are strong selling point for starting new tech businesses with mysql.
The End of the $60M Scam
Straight to the point. My colleague clearly and succinctly explained why an inappropriate behavior occurred and what motivated him to respond.

If this happens visibly to the team it is likely that the person behind the behavior will take this as an attack, especially if he/she is a true asshole. Not good for long-term working climate. Also, it has a flavor of "white-knighting" oneself if it's done in front of the team.

A more diplomatic and expedient approach would be

a) Approaching the person behind the behavior in private and letting him/her know that such behavior isn't tolerated. And

b) approaching the targeted person in private and assuring him/her of your support in case it happens again.
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is this cert in the update the reason apps like pokevision stopped working?
Nope, I'm not. Good luck finding him — maybe you could open an issue? Bit of an abuse of the system, but it would work.
Theranos Elizabeth Holmes at AACC [PERISCOPE]
> So if this were anyone else with any other media organization, I would totally be on their side and agree that this is a travesty of justice that Theil was able to fund this lawsuit.

There are two different things here, and I'm not sure I understand all the issues.

1. The personal vendetta. I understand this. (At least, probably)

2. The posting -- without permission -- of a sex tape made without Hogan's knowledge and in a private location. This seems morally indefensible to me. This is where I get a bit lost as to people defending Gawker. Shouldn't posting such a video be illegal?
" I was personally harmed by them when they decided to make their hobby doxxing controversial reddit users"

That would be violentacrez, right?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/what-w...
The article is using the term "private equity" to refer to private equity firms, so the more relevant wiki article is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity_firm
I noticed that as well. It's been well-known that Thiel has been funding anti-aging research for some time now. It's not until very recently that it's being published sensationally as 'Peter Thiel Wants Your Young Blood!'.
Disregarding the kind of payment, it does currently rely on NFC in terminals to work, and there are a lot of developed countries, e.g. South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, that don't have that technology or don't support it. For example, South Korea does have the infrastructure for Apple Pay in many places (e.g. NFC enabled terminals) but their infrastructure isn't set up for it. Even beyond this, there's a lot of countries that support contactless card payment unlike the US, which makes using Apple Pay even less useful and limits its acceptance.

From what I've read the vast majority of Apple Pay payments are done in the US, so it's not unfair to call it "America-centric".
It definitely complements TPP. For me, Pragmatic Programmer was a better bed time book.
How to Get Rid of Books and Thin the Herd
Spark 2.0 was released last week and submitted about 10 times, but the only time it hit the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171026) it received zero discussion. The behavior of data science HN submissions is always weird. :p

I spent the weekend playing around with Spark/PySpark 2.0 for a blog post which will be released in a couple days. PySpark is almost on the parity of scikit-learn in terms of available data structures and algorithms. (Although some Spark design decisions are more enterprise-friendly than personal user-friendly. For example,Spark 2.0 is the first update with the ability to natively read CSVs. And let's not get started on exporting CSVs: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/759830773893509125)
The worst is when you hit bandwidth caps and they cut you off. Gotta love background downloads...
> I don't see it as more and more people becoming jerks, I see it as more and more people becoming thin skinned.

People claim to be "thin skinned" because it works as far as effecting an overall narrative. You can limit the conversation to what you want to talk about by declaring anything you don't want to talk about as 'triggering'. It's unreasonably effective, as is the jerk approach. People aren't overly harsh on online communities because they're all jerks. People respond more strongly to harsh or negative rhetoric than they do calmly stated facts or figures.

The phenomenon we're seeing are people identifying what tactics work and applying them. It's the weaponization of social media.
MA Becomes First State Ever to Ban Employers from Asking for Salary Histories
Show HN: Humancrypto – obviously up-to-date Python crypto library
Curious, what are you using it for? Would you say it is well suited for writing operating system helper tools (working with files, pipes, kernel api, calling other programs)? I like bash expressiveness a lot but sometimes I feel I could use a more powerful scripting language.
But these features don't send your browsing history anywhere. The Firefox safe browsing service downloads a list of bad URLs in form of hashed prefixes from the Google service. Then every page you visit is compared against the downloaded list (offline). If there's a match, Firefox sends the hashed prefix up to Google and downloads a list of all full URLs that match that hashed prefix. There's another offline comparison and if the web page you are visiting still matches, then the page is blocked and the phishing/malware warning is shown. At no point is an actual URL sent to Google or anyone else.

https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/update-api
Would it be possible to do any real harm (to humans, pets, etc) by increasing this power setting or would this only cause interference with other electronics?

Also, which models is this for?
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What in the world is "ONSITE REMOTE INTERNS VISA"? Are you trying to hire foreign students as cheaper interns?
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Just because something is non-intuitive doesn't mean it's "out-of-touch-with-reality".

Imagine if you go to a bus stop in a completely foreign city/country, and the bus shows up within 1 minute. There are 2 possibilities. Either

A) The bus usually takes a very long time to come (30+ minutes) and you just happened to get very lucky, or

B) The bus runs at a very frequent interval, so your 1-minute-wait is somewhat normal

Statistically, B is much more likely to be true than A. Which is pretty much what the author is alluding to.
So first of all this isn't a new thing. The statistical methods vs human judgement debate goes back decades. Long before computers, people were training simple linear models with pencil and paper. The earliest paper I found is from 1928, on a similar issue as in the article. Where a very crude statistical algorithm was better at predicting recidivism of inmates, than three prison psychologists. This isn't a new thing at all.

Second the models in question aren't as complicated as you imagine. These are just decision trees with a few hundred inputs at most. Even with more complicated models, you can train simpler models to mimic them, and then inspect at those. There are other ways to make algorithms more transparent, but my point is these aren't complicated image recognition deep neural nets. They don't need to be either.

Third I don't think these algorithms are "dumb". By all accounts they significantly outperform humans. Humans, even experts, are terrible at doing even basic statistics in their head. Often our decisions aren't much better than random chance. Even when humans are allowed to see the results of an algorithm, and tweak it's output when they think it's making a mistake, they do worse than just the algorithm alone.

There's now evidence to suggest humans are irrationally biased against algorithms. Search for "algorithm aversion". A study shows that even after watching a statistical algorithm do better, people still prefer worse human judgement.
> the best structure is probably a regulated private monopoly

I think that needs to be changed to "well regulated private monopoly". When the monopoly starts to unduly influence the regulators then it's no better than an unregulated one.
>front-end features like form generation and HTML templating were really important, but now they're arguably better to avoid.

Why is that?
"At least they will do everything possible to maximize profits"

Including cutting corners and reducing service. That is why I do not believe they are a good idea.
You might be interested to read "Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and Their Solution", a 1939 (!) book by Helen Fouché Gaines. It covers a lot of these kinds of variants.
Ha, and I thought Papert deserved more than a 5-pixel tall black line :-)
Drag and drop layout management is really a nice addition, you can have the same result on any text editor but doing a drag and drop feels natural.

Atom is still taking too much time to start compared to Sublime but I now use it for everything except large files, the overall UX is better and new features are added regularly.
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Looks great!

Oh, wait. It doesn't actually exist.
T-shirt link is relevant to discussion. So i'll leave this here.

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How to Find a Job at a Tech Startup
I consider your argument misinformed.

Technology moves fast. Very fast. If a piece of tech gets old enough to be called a dinosaur, and is still run at brand-new companies, it's doing something right, even if it's not for your usecase.

And the fact is, not all of us have 3-5TB time seriesdatabases. And time series data can cause a lot of DBs to choke.

The point is, I'm glad Cassandra and Hbase, or a dedicated TSDB, or whatever, work for you. Your usecase is not the same as the rest of us, and assuming that it is is causing you to come to some incorrect conclusions.
A normal user wouldn't do this, someone who cared more about examining the network traffic than in app purchases would do this.
I started doing Ashtanga Mysore style yoga a month and a half ago, and I'm bursting with energy throughout the day. I'm saying this as someone who is 41, has spinal degeneration and is a cancer survivor, and I feel years younger after practicing. It's a more traditional style that is done very early in the morning, and has an exact sequence which is great for those who like structure. The expectation is that you practice every day except Saturday. It's pretty demanding physically, but can be adapted for those who are less fit and flexible. A lot of thought has been put into the design of the sequence, in that each posture and movement is preparation for another movement later in the sequence, so it leads you step by step to do things with your body you wouldn't have guessed you were capable of. The sequence emphasizes both strength and flexibility, and my body is already taking a much nicer shape after only a short period.
Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M
There is an industry that directly prices information, but it's not music or Wikipedia. In fact it's not very popular. It's the finance industry. Financial instruments are made of information, and their value changes directly in response to new information.

Also, can I just point out that a library of all the world's music is definitely not available for $10 a month? For $10 a month you get access mostly to the western popular music whose labels have done deals with that particular streaming service. Big difference, usually.
What's wrong with exporting to csv? Seems like it's supported: https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/core/src/mai...
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CEO of Pokémon Go’s Niantic Labs Hacked on Twitter
GPGTools (MailGPG etc) and rustc / cargo stable are broken with macOS Sierra.

Moreover there seem to be a few memory leaks. Finder eats up more and more RAM until it requires a force-relaunch. Unfortunately the same seems to be true for the kernel, which therefore requires a sporadic reboot. I also encountered the calendar notification service using 100% of the CPU a few times.

I'd wait for a later beta release or the final version.
Yep. And if an intern of yours came to you and said "I think I found a bug in the JDK", you'd probably say "What's really wrong with your code?", wouldn't you?
My spotless mind
Interesting to see the other side. I've always used the iOS betas and they've always had the usual expected bugs before say the last pre-release version, but with iOS 10, for the very first time I've found it to be really very usable. It does destroy your battery life like all betas - but it'll have so much debugging turned on and it is... well... beta! But yeah I'm loving iOS 10 (dev) beta as are my coworkers so much that we've put it on our personal phones and are really happy with everything but the battery life and the odd springboard crash every few days or so.
I believe this can't be understated. I keep bouncing out to Chrome and Firefox, and then back to Safari. Chrome burns CPU (and batteries) like it's going out of style, and Firefox just can't keep up in the performance space.

It's telling when hangouts in Safari takes up less CPU (and performs better) than in Chrome.

Regarding WebRTC: I've not run across any usecase which requires WebRTC to this day - everything I do with web-based communication is one to many, necessitating something like Google hangouts or Skype for video or audio, and Slack/Hipchat/IRC for IM.
Salesforce acquires Quip
Maybe you could just use your car as the battery charged by your solar panels, instead of buying a Powerwall? And then run your house off of it. At least on the weekends. Or maybe more often if you don't have to drive every day.

Because the Tesla battery is 60 kW, so its basically like 10 Powerwalls that you can drive around. Instead of storing it on the wall in your garage, it is lying horizontal in the car.

Sort of amazing that people are not making this connection.
> Note that, socialist Paul Krugman is columnist for NYT.

Socialist Paul Krugman is a columnist for the NYT? They must have two Paul Krugmans, then, as the better-known one [0] is not even close to a socialist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Economic_views
According to CrunchBase, they've only raised $45M. 16x return after 4 years in business. Well done!

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quip#/entity
Each time there's an Atom release announcement, I check if they've finally fixed AltGr.

They didn't. Most non-US keyboard layouts are still broken.
I suppose if the framework, community and ecosystem are on par with each other, then the deciding factor would be the language.
I've been using iOS 10 beta since Public Beta 1. Like others have said: mostly stable, with terrible battery life.

One thing particularly annoying for me is HTTP Proxy: it seems that as of Public Beta 2 setting it will cause the device flood the server with many requests. I'm using GlimmerBlocker and on the server side it'd get 1k+ threads almost instantly after I turned on the proxy setting on the iOS side.

Other annoying bug is WebKit View would lose width setting randomly in 3rd party apps (e.g., Reeder).
http://quipqiup.com/howwork.php
Thought the most important point was the massive security failing here.

He got hacked because his password for Twitter was literally 'nopass'. If you're a company CEO (or have any interest in not being hacked in general), please use a password manager or at least choose a password that's not trivially easy to crack like this one supposedly was.
Do you have a link to a discussion around this? A quick search of their GH issues as well as mailing lists didn't turn up anything.
Meh. A bunch of silly gimmicks. Meanwhile, drag & drop still randomly breaks in Finder, using certain USB 3.0 devices on my mid 2012 MBP causes reproducible kernel panics and Mail.app occasionally crashes while downloading emails.

Maybe have some of the gimmick crew look at all those crash reports I keep sending instead?
I have participated a bit in the Atom.io open source repository, but now I am back to Sublime. It's so fast and reliable compared to Atom.io.
Let me shift the conversation, and say that by the time you are trying to save an industry by arguing about morals, it is effectively doomed. A simple technical fix (installing an adblocker), a fix which is not illegal and in fact hundreds of millions of people do, renders the whole discussion moot.

I think what many adtech companies have done is immoral. Excessive data use, tracking, distraction, and so on. But that's my opinion. Whose really in the "right" here? Does it matter? A new model will have to emerge, or at least a tweaked one. The adtech industry destroyed trust and angered people, thus motivating people to find a solution. Now businesses are springing up, like Brave, to solve the issue.

Can you outlaw ad blocking? No. Can you force me to use a certain web browser? No. So what are you going to do about it? Whine on HN about unethical assholes like me? I think innovation and creativity will have to crack the nut.
Nice! Thanks! This might be exactly what I needed.
>"When I see a company describe its “no assholes” rule, I see a company inclined toward calling people assholes."

I've seen variations of this pop-up more-and-more over the last few years and from my experience it usually hides the insecurities/bad behavior of the founder(s) and management team. Too often the "no asshole/jerk" rule is really code for "anyone who doesn't agree with us" and results in very vanilla organizations with little diversity.
That the efficacy of this approach is repeatable suggests that the problem exists primarily b/c sites are willing to put up with bad behavior.

Many people, even people running discussion forums with years of experience, simply do not know how to fix it and often believe it cannot be fixed. It is also common for them to "put out the fire with gasoline." On an email list, I used to say "fighting against the fighting is still fighting." Many people do not know how to address bad behavior that doesn't involve some form of fighting, punishment, etc and this tends to deepen the problem rather than resolve it.

You may have figured it out and HN may be doing pretty well with it, but that is not evidence that the problem continues elsewhere merely because people are willing to put up with it. It is far more complicated than that. One of the problems is that absence of a problem does not, by itself, point to effectiveness of a particular approach. In fact, what you will often see is that outsiders will assume you were merely lucky to not have had X thing occur rather than that you did something elegant to kill the problem without overt drama. The lack of overt drama gets read by most people as evidence of lack of a problem, not smoothness in handling it.
What about VSCode? It feels less laggy than Atom, at least for me.