skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js
Worked at amazon for 4 years in late 90s and early 2000s. I think there are two distinct employment experiences: If the company (that is, your team and hierarchy) found you promising, the rewards were usually good, at that time that meant incentive stock options. More importantly, you were given significant managerial responsibility and opportunity to drive strategic initiatives. If you fell into this group, you could be reasonably well off in in 4-5 years, and wealthy in 10. Your job, while demanding, was generally fulfilling. For those that didn't fall into this group (by my guess about 80% didn't make the cut,) life was more brutish. Significant stress, poor rewards, and no possibility of advancement. The company didn't really care if you stayed or not, and actively managed you for maximum output. My guess was it usually took about a year for management to make decision as to which group you fell in. So my advice, join Amazon if you feel you can really be good (both technically, as well as in your ability to manage the politics of a large organization) The politics itself was not anymore than you would find in any org that size. One just had to make a point to understand and work the system.
> A lot of techies, especially young guys, are hyper-competitive from very early on.

I think it is only "a lot" when you only look at the relatively small sample who frequent sites like HN. I used to work for a large defense contractor, where out of hundreds of engineers of all disciplines I could count on one hand the number of HN readers, and only 20% or so of engineers fit the hyper-competitive mold. Obviously there was some level of self-selection (part of the reason I am not there anymore), but places like this represent the bulk of engineering jobs.
ClojureScript sounds like it's already doing this; I think most people simply prefer writing JS to writing Clojure.
The tinfoil hat crowd was having a field day with this murder before Assange did this, single-handedly moving the "DNC assassination" meme from infowars to outlets like the WaPo.

Assange is an anarchist who wants to burn down the system, and he's really smart. I don't know why Seth Rich was killed, but the only thing Assange's actions say to me is that Assange saw an opportunity to pour gasoline on a fire and he took it. In other words, all the Wikileaks offer brings to this story is a reminder that Assange is really good at stirring stuff up.
That's the things seen and unseen fallacy. Suppose some parts were buried, you wouldn't know of them.
Yep. Already tried that, but i found too many disadvantages on the "flexible" environment (still in beta, bad documentation, much slower deploys, minimum of one instance always running, etc) that i preferred to stay out of that for the time being.
I am not against mathematics. It is the most powerful representation tool mankind has ever developed. What I feel weird about is that idea that we can come up with few simple and so called fundamental equations that can explain all of the universe. I think this idea is more like the axioms idea in mathematics i.e a set of basic truths from which every other possible truth can be discovered through inference. It feels like getting infatuated with a tool rather than focusing on the problems.
Funny because I haven't seen this level "bitching" from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other companies.

We are not talking about a single person here. There is a systemic issue it seems.
Wikileaks is the new Fourth Estate. They're doing a job which the old media seems no longer interested in taking on.

It's not responsible to let conspiracy theories about this bubble under the surface without any evidence. Hopefully we will all get some clarity on whether this relates to the DNC leaks or the murders were just coincidental.
Ask HN: Am I obligated to transfer my domain?
Back when I was learning to program, I made a clone of popular SaSS website I wished to work at. I picked a name that was "startup-y" and I've now received a Cease and Desist letter from a startup that had that name.

I don't mind taking the site down as I don't really need it anymore, but the letter says I must transfer the domain to them as well.

Is this something I have to do? It seems weird that the domain must be transferred if nothing is on it.
Consumer retail deposit banking is a highly regulated, poorly profitable business. Where do banks make their money? Not on checking accounts; usually it's on debt issuing and investment activities. Holding deposits is just a way to build capital to do the things that actually make money.

So, I don't know why Apple would suddenly decide to take deposits, unless they also decided to get into capital-intensive businesses like lending or investing.

But here's the thing: Apple has an enormous pile of capital already. If they wanted to get into capital-intensive businesses, they could do it tomorrow, without taking deposits.

If they did that, their stock would tank, though. It's much better for them to stick to consumer technology and try to take a slice of the payments business.
And anecdotal evidence of what never happened to you, still works best, to ridiculise other peoples experience, right?
I can't get over how bad this is.
>There is proof that the RNC did not rig the elections against Trump, he won. That's impossible if it was rigged.

And yet Trump has accused the RNC process of being rigged many times. Strange how the current narrative seems to be that only the DNC is exceptionally corrupt, to the point of rigging an election, and possibly having Seth Rich killed as if the Democratic party was literally a crime syndicate.

There really isn't proof of anything, either way, other than "rigged elections" being the current political accusation du jour.
> it's not too difficult to get hired

Well, that makes me fell better about being rejected. :/
Cert on the site expired today, ironically.
“To confirm that a service is present, simply attempt to use it.”

Isn't the inverse of that true as well? If you don't want someone using a port, close it.
Looks like these changes in design will make older MacBook Pros more expensive and desirable commodity. "Oh dude - that familiar keyboard for Vi, they are not making those anymore, and look how many ports". Buy the old one while you can, these new changes are unwelcome from many perspectives.
Plus, there are probably a few people around here who have never seen a scene loader. Blast from the past, and nice to see it revived via the web!

Feel free to edit out if there's actual crack content on these, but most look either too old or just the intros:
http://www.intros.c64.org/
http://defacto2.net/file/list?output=mixed&platform=-&sectio...
http://amp.dascene.net/
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When I clicked on the link, I expected to see something like "Flash is an abomination and shouldn't exist, that's why we are killing it". I was wrong and happy to be. Today "Flash" means "problems", but I remember the time where it meant "modernity" and "Improved user experience": I'm glad to witness that Google discards Flash while honoring its legacy!
Letter of Resignation from the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission
The article describes a "secondary display" that is a "touch screen strip for function keys"

No indication that the main display is going to be touch-enabled, at least not that I can see.
Is there a name for this type of graph?
You might find this interesting:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/this-man...
On both Firefox and Chromium on Linux the true place of the real cursor stay visible (Firefox displays a thin cross, and chromium a light blue star).
The menu position of course doesn't make sense in Firefox :)
I hear the exact opposite is true, that in some large US chains earlier in its lifetime an Apple Pay competitor paid the retailers to not provide Apple Pay facilities in favour of theirs. In UK the same object takes chip+pin and NFC of any kind (iPhone, Android, contactless).

http://daringfireball.net/2014/10/nfc_apple_pay
As a former student of Chinese history, this comment is right on target.

"Let a hundred schools of thought contend"

Ah, how history repeats itself.
What3Words, for example, would be a great help to all the Deliveroo drivers that can't find my house because it opens onto an alleyway instead of a road. This is in the UK, mind you, not Mongolia.
People still play Star Craft:Brood War as a profession. And I still like to play Master of Magic or Doom 2 from time to time. GOG.com made business on these kinds of games, so I'm not alone.

DRMs and always-online requirements are sad and I hope they go away.
If I had this as a kid I would have buried myself in the basement playing D&D for the rest of my life.
How about allowing us to pay to not see ads? I still enjoy using Facebook but I hate seeing ads. I'd pay a couple bucks a month to avoid them.
It isn't though. This merely changes the display of the cursor. Go to windowed mode (not fullscreen) and pull the cursor down into the address bar and tabs area to see that this does not prevent access to the address bar. It only changes how you perceive the position of the cursor.
On the other hand I question the "wisdom" of saying anything negative about a past employer, no matter how deserved it may be. It's just a big "never do it!".
Oh god. That function keys replacement has the potential to be SO BAD. Please don't force something down our throats unless it's actually more useful and usable Apple, we're trusting you. Please don't make software development a non-starter on Macbooks.
Or on Netscape Navigator
http://www.iammoving.com/ :)

This is for the UK. Dunno about elsewhere. Dunno about competitors in the UK.

I remember having this idea in the late 90s (while in London, moving around frequently) and did a net search and found that there was a provider of such a service even back then. Do not know if it the same crowd since way back then.
Wow in all these years using Linux I never thought of looking for the man page for /proc. Lots of info there...
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The http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest link given above explains why you can incentivise useful processing but it won't stop the 'waste' issue.

You also have the problem of regulating the difficulty if you want consistent rewards. Non-pure math problems aren't going to allow that.
The motivation for moving to chip and pin is that the banks take this kind of risk away from the merchant.
>Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

You'll excuse me wanting a slightly better source.
An open-source webapp for collecting and playing music from streaming platforms
Not in this case, but if it turns out Seth Rich was the source, then I imagine future sources will be wary about leaking to an organisation who carelessly gives away their identities in media interviews.

Also compare it to Assange's previous statements about the importance of protecting the anonymity of their sources and that creating ambiguity and uncertainty is one way of doing that.
Just use `go install`.

I rarely use `go build`. `go install` always faster.

`goinstall` predates the entire `go` tool.
If anyone would like to try to get the "original" binary to run, it's available at http://www.liflg.org/?catid=6&gameid=51.

I'd read the write up on what's broken, even if the entire thing is a failure.
That's not what this is though.
I suggest taking another guess at why you were downvoted.
As a sidenote, Australia moves about 7cm north annually [1], so any encoding of GPS location is not flexible enough in the long term.

Also only encoding lat/long makes it so you would not be able to address a single floor in a large building.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36912700
from what I understand, he's happy working there.

I have heard stories from other employees, claiming that entire teams were fired, and workloads were transferred to the remaining employees - however they have been just that - unverified rumors.
"The Security Advisory did not contain information on the theoretical implications of the vulnerability. A more explicit paragraph in the 'Impact' statement may have been warranted."

I may be overreacting on this, but this sounds like "you who found bugs in our code: document them better next time". I think the reporter does not owe freebsd anything. If someone owes someone else something, freebsd developers should thank the reporter for finding those vulnerabilities, and not ask for even more of him.
If your comment is true, then the title is misleading. It's not just Linux that is vulnerable, right?
I don't know that person at all, but I've noticed that she writes good posts that are worth reading.
Well, I don't think a grocery store is not a place to meet women, but you could try night clubs.
>It only proves that no evidence has come to light that it was rigged.

That is all that anyone is really arguing here, contrary to this assertion:

>..just when Wikileaks released info that the DNC primaries were rigged
A really large company also has trouble _consistently_ enforcing said policies. Different organizations interpret them in different ways.
Very cool! This reminds me of Amit P's polygonal map generation project, which you should look at if you're interested in this kind of stuff. http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...
This is still work-in-progress, and will be maintained as a living document forever. Your contributions are most welcome.
Sounds like parts of this saga are missing. Amazon doesn't just dump customers, they are happy to take everyone's money.
Conspiracy theories aren't by their nature idiotic. Many coverups, lies etc have happened in the past, and will happen in the future.

Moon landing conspiracy theories are dumb not because they are conspiracy theories, but because all the evidence is against them.

The evidence on whether this was a conspiracy or not seems inconclusive. Just by probability, probably more likely a random act than an assassination. But the conspiracy theory certainly isn't moon landing level crazy. I don't believe anyone can claim to be certain about this case (besides notorious HRC 1).

1-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hBnwPycFUQ
Manipulate an election? What? Firstly, Clinton straight out won more votes then Sanders, secondly, it's absolutely legitimate for leadership of a political party to try to influence who that party nominates as its candidate. It's an organization. Sanders could have run for president as a socialist and nothing was stopping him from doing so.
The driver that ships with Ubuntu is almost certainly old and even though the chip has enough raw computation power to run games the actual support may not be there.

For what it's worth, I've only ever run across one game that didn't work properly in Linux. Eador has badly fubared graphics and apparently the developer doesn't even care. He only did the Linux port to get on a Humble Bundle I think. It's a shame too because it is an interesting game, even if the developer has a somewhat insane notion of how long people are going to want to keep playing a single campaign.
Why do you think Flash was so bad? Surely Adobe isn't a company filled with incompetent developers (not being sarcastic).
I'm beginning to think that a possible solution is to use an email account entirely different from your primary email for all website registrations.

Which leads me to another idea. If websites supported separate email accounts for messaging and authentiaction/resets and kept the second account name hidden from general public it would (somewhat) help in a lot of cases.

Also, I would be much more likely to do 2FA on more accounts if websites gave me the option to use printed lists of tokens instead of my phone number.
He gives you his source on github. I think that's enough right there.

EDIT -

Oooo and it's MIT...
Thanks pingec, it seems to be something with the Google Api, I will check that, in the meanwhile you can try the CLI if you know ruby or try it by hand https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/tree/master/by_hand
It happened at 4am in Bloomingdale, a recently gentrifying and possibly the robberiest neighborhood in DC right now, during a wave of robberies. The police said there was sign of a struggle, the guy was almost certainly shot in a botched robbery attempt. The conspiracy theories are offensive.
That's interesting. I wonder what an strace of the crashing Wasteland 2 would show. I'm guessing Chrome tries to take control of some GPU feature for some reason.
Of major operating systems Linux is the only one that implements that part of the RFC
Wrestling's removal as a 'core' Olympic sport was pushed by the Chinese, who wanted to get wushu in.
Regardless of whether my own experience agrees with the author (some of the games he had trouble with I could run more or less trouble-free), I definitely approve independent reviews of playability/ease of installation.

I mostly only buy games on Humble Bundle, GOG or Steam now, with emphasis on the first two because they are less invasive than Steam. I sometimes have to deal with 32 bit libraries or problems with the default installation; it's no big deal for me, but I can see it's a problem for non-power users (then again, some drivers used to cause problems for Windows games a few years ago, I don't know what the situation is now. Didn't console gamers use to argue that they were better than Windows games because of this?).

The positive side is that I can play hundreds of games, some AAA, on Linux. The situation is not dire anymore, in my experience. The downside is that sometimes the games require some tweaking to install or play. Occasionally there's a game I cannot play at all (e.g. I bought but cannot play the Linux remaster of Day of the Tentacle: my dedicated GPU is fried, and the game simply doesn't run on Ubuntu 14.04 with integrated Intel graphics. Go figure).

Again, I approve of this effort to review the difficulties involved. It's helpful to Linux gamers!
"I am here to steal your CA private key" ;-)

Then probably ask them how they like their job or such.
I don't believe so. It's also guilty unless proven innocent.
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Ah, uh, sorry ;)
Also if you want to stream BBC radio in browser it still insists on using Flash to do it. My concern is with the way Google tend to do things in Chrome (Aunty Google knows best, please do as I say) I might not even be able to continue to use flash for the very few sites I'd like to, or have to.

e.g. I tried to download an mp3 of a radio show from bbc.co.uk earlier today and "download blocked" with no option to override. I have all the protect me from myself settings firmly off. chrome help says it's Internet Settings. Internet settings says it's fine to download, and I've downloaded dozens of other mp3s flawlessly. mp3 actually downloads if you paste the button url in a new tab rather than click the button. I've had similar issues with other, innocent and harmless, files in the past. Well, since they brought in their cleverness and download "protections".

I forsee similar issues with flash as it goes through its deprecation.
Building a heater isn't as easy as it sounds
This is true, but a smart (and moral) manager will still try to not make bad hiring decisions. If the team sees a constant rotation of new faces they may get scared off.
Not a hardcore gamer (obviously being a Mac owner) I just want something that at least in Bootcamp is reasonable for the few games I want to play. WOT is one that works OK running under Crossover. But the really cutting edge games require a bigass video card you need a custom PC rig to play. If I bought one of those I'd get too little done :-)
"Why is this here" questions are very boring and always get downvotes.

"I suspect vote rigging" accusations aren't nice. You should send them to mods at the email address rather than post them to the thread.
Or in lynx
Nice find! I'd love to see something like this in the US. You can get the usps to forward your mail for a year but the thing that would really win me over would be to update my address on the usps, go buy a thing on, say, Amazon, and see at the checkout page that my delivery address AND billing address have been automatically updated.

Of course all of this automated centralization will result in security holes, so that'll suck, especially if the federal government's fallback is the woefully insecure social security number.
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Right the USPS should provide a layer of indirection. Give everyone a virtual mailing address, and then they could automatically route your mail to wherever you actually happen to live at the moment.
understood. But what matters to me when I am in the hospital with a lung infection is how to treat it so that it goes away, not what it's called
If you by “close it” mean “don’t have something listening on it”, then yes.
Already fixed, 10 minutes after I noticed myself.

Yay for Let's Encrypt.
Nice writeup! I've done some work with libdwarf and I agree that it isn't very pleasant. Do you have any suggestions for better interfaces that support writing?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35288250/google-maps-java...
The glibc issue is a sticky one though. This is why your typical gamer system on Windows has hundreds of copies of the msvc runtime installed.
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Plus, AMD isn't as good for Linux, if you end up putting that on the machine instead of (or alongside) OS X.
PuDB is really good IMO. But I suppose it may not qualify as out-of-process. In practice, I don't end up needing it anywhere near as often as I need gdb for c/c++, but it's handy to have just in case.
It's not "functionally equivalent" at all
Note: If you have the home button always visible in chrome, or the bookmarks bar hidden, you'll notice that the demo doesn't work properly.
>Tech lacks a real officer class that commands respect.

This is spot on. Most of the currently big tech companies were founded by people who got where they are by means of their technical skill. The general disdain for "old order" businesses carries over into a disdain for management practices that were developed and refined at those "old" businesses, sometimes to the point that such things don't matter at all.

So big companies end up being run by goofballs who live out some juvenile fantasy by appearing in Star Trek. Makes Richard Branson look like Thomas Watson in comparison.
I am going to replace my laptop this year. I mentioned it in a last gasp hope that it will be an Apple one. I suspect it will be something else though.

It's a pity, but I can't justify spending that sort of money on a professional tool that feels more like it was designed for the consumer market.
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We have been getting lots of traction partnering with employers to provide We Roam as a recruitment, retainment and development tool. While we are working on several different partnerships, our first official one is Hostmaker (hostmaker.co). Any opinions on how else a program like this could benefit a company? Specifically toward millennial talent.
I like it. If we assume that schlock fiction is objectively worse in some measurable way, then that suggests it should be easier to generate than works of high literature. I bet with some concerted effort, it would be possible to build an algorithm which digests a bunch of generic fantasy books and produces a tale of an unlikely group of heroes questing for the $object to turn the tide of $conflict.
You know, I actually never noticed that. Is that another cool whizbang feature on the site? Somewhere along the line I got it into my head that upvotes were just how you favorited things.

Well. Time to start indexing my upvotes... (later...)