skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100 times this. What's the rule about frameworks? "Every system evolves towards supporting arbitrary programming|turing completeness". Something like that.
We're excited to be building our startup here in Phoenix. 8 months out of the year, the weather is fantastic. Burn rate is much lower than it would be in/around SF, our money goes much farther here. Great large public research institutions at ASU/UA is a great outlet for finding talent.
Aptonomy introduces the self-flying security guard
Calculating and Paying Your Quarterly Taxes
So use an ad blocker. Your profile says you are a "former VP of data @ Kickstarter", I'm sure you know what an ad blocker is, what's your excuse?
Sounds like a variation on one of DMX's hits back in the day
It's the delivery, not the message. You tried to use sarcasm in a forum where it can't be too subtle to work (also, Poe's law is alive and well here). I imagine you would have received multiple upvotes instead of downvotes if you had taken a different approach.
I was thinking of in the sense of model-based systems engineering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_systems_engineerin...)
I've looked into PDFs a little for a personal project of mine that worked with auto-generated PDFs, and I've found they can really vary wildly in the amount of bloat, and I've also found that much of the bloat seems to be from including fonts. If you actually look at the PDF file's binary, it's not that hard to understand, and the actual text is stored mainly as ASCII/utf8 I think. So, if I wanted to really efficiently store a bunch of PDFs that come from the same source, it seems like it should be possible to copy the "bloat" sections (likely embedded fonts) which are all completely identical, and use those in a dictionary in a custom compressor, and then just use zlib for the rest.

I've also noticed that some PDF generators include far, far more bloat than others, though I'm not sure why.
Otherwise everyone would have hired women if it really is cheaper ;)
The article explicitly says the "most dangerous man in the world" line is from a Rolling Stone article. If anyone did "garbage journalism", as you insinuate, was Rolling Stone, not Reuters or Bamford. Why are you trying to fool the other fools in here who haven't attentively read the article? Do you work for the US government, or do you have any other agenda? Maybe you have some grudge about Appelbaum itself?
Is it built using react / angular? haven't explored this properly but looks reasonable.
As I was reading I thought this was one of those pawn shop copypastas.
Wouldn't at all surprise me if Apple's treasury department already lend out to banks.
Show HN: Vehicle (car, truck, moto, bicycle) enthusiast event management tool
I don't understand why your comment is prefaced with "Yet". Did you misread my comment?

It seems like we're agreed that investing should not be done by reasoning like "Amazon's strategy for the next couple of years involves X, Y, and Z, so I think they will be successful/fail."

> For example, if as a tech person, you used your insights into the industry [...]

... then I would be radically under-diversified. If tech is doing well, my biggest asset (my career) is performing well. I'm most likely to need to draw on my stocks in an emergency precisely when they'll be doing poorest.
My name is Hadar and I wrote this, let me know if you have any question
SoftLayer sends out outage alerts for EVERYTHING
This reminds me of Tuft & Needle's pitch to set up shop in Phoenix rather than in Silicon Valley.[1]

[1] https://m.tuftandneedle.com/if-you-re-building-a-startup-you...
Absolutely. Reflect on yourself. Be conscious of yourself. Behave consciously. Own yourself.

What you eventually realize is that there's nothing weird about you and conforming with everyone else doesn't make you normal. What you end up doing is conforming with your perception of everyone else (which is largely a mask - the Facebook effect) and keep your weirdness hidden. Weird is normal. What appears to be normal (sadly) is that everyone hides their weirdness because they're so busy being afraid what other people will think of them (when in reality nobody gives anyone else much of a second thought), that they end up feeling isolated and alone.

The weirdness is part of the richness of life, you can't be wholly yourself by holding that back from the world around you.
What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning
Tooling and supported languages also play a big role in CUDA's adoption.
See also "elm" the language or framework or whatever it is that gets featured on HN occasionally. Me every time: "Wait, like the mail client?"

Probably will continue to happen as old names are reused by people who never knew the originals.
See my caution below about machine language translation Simp to Trad. TL/DR, it doesn't work reliably. My rough estimate is maybe an 20% error rate for characters with a 1 Traditional to many Simplified mapping. Even with Google Translate.
I think if you unpack "should", those wind up being more or less orthogonal.
Ask HN: Recommendations for “too-quiet” open office?
I work in an open office with about 30 people, all in the same room. We have (much to my chagrin) the stalwarts of open-office philosophy, the worst of which in my opinion: one big room that is library quiet.

This has produced lots of bad effects regarding sound:

-The office is library quiet, all you hear is clicking and typing

-There aren't enough people to generate a din,

-Taking a call is so awkward, making a call is too. You hear every word every person says in the office. Everyone takes calls in "phone booths".

-Any noise is distraction, any conversation is a distraction, however:

-It is inherently anti-social, as everyone either has headphones in or too scared to have a casual conversation because it is too quiet.

-We have these zones that are supposed to be loud/active, quieter, then the "actual library" area, which is supposed to be quiet, but the whole office ends up quiet.

Solutions I have thought of:

-Piping in white noise like www.coffitivity.com into certain areas of the office

-Creating natural sound barriers like temporary screen walls to make people more comfortable conversing without people worrying about distracting others.

That said, I need help. I want to be able to bring in some ideas to management that will help this situation.

Or is it a bad idea, and a loud office is much worse than a library quiet one?
My understanding is it works a bit like errno. errno is global that is set by the callee and then the caller can check it whenever, not necessarily right after the call or in the same function. But it's actually a thread-local, so it works fine in a threaded context, but is just a little odd to look at.
You've heard of The Checklist Manifesto?

Medicine features in it.
One of the things sandstorm.io does which makes a lot of sense, is that they regularly commit changes to their docs within the PRs that change the actual software. It's not integration tested, mind you, but the general practice means they do a pretty good job keeping their docs updated.
> align incentives

That's a good buzzphrase, but I've never seen anyone do it in earnest. I was once on a consulting project to help a "Director" pick appropriate KPIs as part of a company-wide effort to improve departmental performance measurement. They rejected my suggestions to measure their effect on profit. My manager, to rescue the project, told me to ask what they wanted to be measured on, write it down, and hand it back as the report. The Director loved that idea and rattled off a list of metrics that could be easily sandbagged and had no clear relationship with company profit. ... And yes, that company is very large and well-respected.
"If you picked Apple or Amazon, you hit a home run."

Well, sure you did. If you picked Yahoo in the late 90s, a home run hit you. If you picked Intel or Microsoft in the recent past, nothing happened to you.

A good article on using insights as a tech person is Phil G's piece on shorting Microsoft in the 80s. (Microsoft was much less appealing to a tech person in the 80s than it is now, and a much better investment.) http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/money

This is not to say that tech people can't make money banking on their instincts, just that I personally am not tremendously confident about my own instincts. I can certainly make a very compellingly sounding bull or bear case regarding any currently famous tech company.

A great example from recent history is LinkedIn's stock tanking hugely in one day and then Microsoft bringing it back to the original level in one day some time later. And I'll be damned if Microsoft ever makes that money back. But I totally should have bought the dip.
Yeah, Google tends to rely on machines too much for customer support for paid services. I understand the rationale, but it's just not good enough compared to real people handling customer support... yet
Who Is Verified on Twitter, and Why Does It Matter?
Chelsea Manning risked even more, was rewarded far less, and successfully liberated far more of the data belonging to the public. Very little of what she revealed passes any sort of common sense test about what is rightly held secret by a public entity, but rather showed that the government keeps secret anything that is politically dangerous for the narrative it tries to maintain.

I see nothing but good intentions. Forward-thinking? Maybe you're right there, at least in terms of her own well-being. Perhaps she was counting on us for more than we're willing to do in terms of rescuing her from a life of torture at the hands of the state.
> I don't want .Where() called on an array to return another array. I want a lazy IEnumerable<T> almost every time.

Yes, good point. There is a lot of space to explore in collections API designs, and the LINQ design is just one of them that makes its own tradeoffs (e.g., only have to implement "GetEnumerator()" to get a watered-down monadic experience). Contrast that with the well-meaning but convoluted and buggy Scala collections API (very difficult for novices to create a custom collection due to CanBuildFrom and other tricky stuff).

Paul Phillips came up with a pretty neat collections API [1, 2] that provides a nice feature set, including high-performance and typesafe views when you don't really want to wastefully create a temporary collection just to interact with the first 10 elements.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/extempore/a-scala-corrections-libr...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJycy6dFSQ
> All I want for retirement is the same lifestyle I have now.

So you are ultimately content with your current lifestyle?

You could always change it. There are people who lived for $5 a year if I recall correctly, for years[1].

What you feel and what you call "reality" is actually just an illusion. You can get away from it. Simply knowing that there are people who made it gave me enough hope and confidence to persevere through the shittiest times this society made me go through.

The way we live nowadays we have no time to really reflect on anything. Even if we feel the stereotypes and expectations of a society don't align with us very well and that we'd like to challenge them we have no time to come up with a plan. This is certainly a problem, but once you realize that there are totally different ways of living - that you can get away from it all - it becomes much easier to come up with and make small adjustments, which will make us happier over time.

[1] Ran Prieur, see http://www.ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html for a quick taste and please go read the rest of his essays later. I have tremendous respect for the guy; he offers a completely different perspective on our society and lives according to it. Oh, and also sometimes comments on HN.
I've had several companies ("data partners" they call themselves) approach us to add these scripts to our websites. All of the ones I've seen use MD5(email) for the "anonymous hashing". I mentioned our privacy policy doesn't allow us to give out user emails, and their marketing guys never seem to understand that MD5(email) is basically the same thing. I even made a video example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViCjzJpEaJw that failed to convince them.
Elaborately tattooed mummy brings archeologists to tears
I assert that, whether someone agrees or not, Snowden was doing something that was actually right.
Looks like fun. Tonight I might try seeing how the new Linux PowerShell fares with this.
Ladies Killing It in a Boys Club: Software Engineering
Without any science behind it or having first hand access to the source for the tools used to identify such words/phrases/idioms you're just amateurishly putting lipstick on a pig.

Its a racist idiot's idea of a joke.
Yup, its just you. That XML is one of the key advantages of SVG over other formats such as PNG for certain applications.
Dropbox is down
http://dropbox.com

any ideas?
I thought this was gong to be an article on hiring kind people and that the title was screwed up.
That second sentence is very insightful.
It already is:

From: The effects of safety checklists in medicine: a systematic review: [1]

Safety checklists appear to be effective tools for improving patient safety in various clinical settings by strengthening compliance with guidelines, improving human factors, reducing the incidence of adverse events, and decreasing mortality and morbidity. None of the included studies reported negative effects on safety.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24116973
This is why I own my own domain and have a catch-all email address. When I give a company my email address, I use (companyname)@domain.com.

They all forward to gmail; where it is very easy to filter out (companyname)@domain.com once shenanigans like this happen. It's also easy to track down and shame companies for doing this, too.
How ObamaCare is splitting in two
I don't want to sound disrespectful, and very much appreciate your posting. But realize that the audience here has seen the OP's story play out with Google's products over and over again. This is clearly a systemic issue with how Google handles support, and claiming "fell short this time" is more than a little disingenuous.

(I also get 'man bites dog' will also get more traction than the inverse, but regardless - this kind of complaint is a very common one about Google's products, from consumers and businesses alike).
"Sell those stocks you were gifted immediately, like you want. Holding them so as to not be rude (or some nonsense) will cost you half their value."

Other than that, eh, no real regrets.
This is why when it comes to web hosting, I only do business with companies that have 24/7 phone support. It limits my options a lot. GoDaddy and HostGator both provide this, most others I've seen don't.

But before I got my first HostGator account, I called their tech support line at 2 AM, and got a guy named Chris with a strong Texan accent. And I've had escalated issues at odd hours where I've actually spoken directly to sysadmins there. Ticket support only hosting simply can't compete with that service, no matter the cost.
Way too specific, it'd be very easy to identify me.
If early detection can make a big difference, then clearly that is the low hanging fruit of cancer research.
How does one reach someone at google in an emergency when you have no access* to any google services?

* locked out of your account
The article sort of makes fun of the hackers writing, then immediately writes "loosing" instead of "losing".
It does look like an interesting take on the problem.

Thanks for sharing.
This is why gmail has a big fat "REPORT SPAM" button. Shenanigans like this are SPAM, and should be reported accordingly.
Upton Sinclair once said “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
> Privacy & Security

> Direct boot: When restarting your device, Direct Boot helps it start up faster, and ensures that important communications still run. So before you even put in your password, you'll still get that important text message and hear your alarm clock ring.

Safety - We added a leprechaun with an axe and hopped him up on some uppers. He sure is fun to watch.
There is already a method that prevents such mutations: old age.
Don't misunderstand me: I use Windows at work too. But like you said, I don't do personal stuff on my work machine. My work machine belongs to my employer, and if it has any problems, that's their problem, not mine. I don't like using it much, but there's a reason it's called "work"; I get paid to put up with crap like using Windows. I'll happily recommend alternate solutions if asked, but it's not my company and not my call. Luckily much of my work involves Linux (thanks to a VM), but if Windows dies or doing updates takes up hours of my time, that's no problem, I get paid the same regardless, I just make sure to point out in my weekly reports that my time is being wasted by that stuff. All I care about is that I get paid the rate I was promised for doing the best I can with the tools I'm given. If I find a better job somewhere later that doesn't involve Windows, great, but for now this deal works OK for me.

For my personal machines, however, it's a different story: I'm not going to waste my time and money on an inferior OS which has no appreciable benefit to me, and many gigantic downsides. If other people choose to, that's on them, but I'm tired of hearing them bitch and complain about that OS's vendor mistreating them. They made their bed, now they need to lie in it.
Very cool. I wonder if they have anything from year one still in use.
This Is Not Your Typical Attack Ad
The MIT Lab That's Teaching Phones to Build Themselves
I've been telling people to use correct-horse-battery-staples for years. Glad to see I'm not the only professional thinking this.
> Why has eBay never implemented this behavior?

Because it discourages people from bidding the maximum price they are willing to bid up front, increases the sensitivity of the whole system to short-term communication problems, and denies both bidders and sellers a firm end-time.

It really only makes sense if you are running a system which is designed to make money off the number of bids, and which artificially restricts bidding to maximize the number of bids.
Point well taken. Imagining Edward Snowden as my playful pathetic little brachiocephalic puppy dog stinking up his pew and being swatted on the nose with NEWSPAPER just made me giggle. I'll keep my GAS-lighting jokes to myself. Especially when it comes to LEAKING sensitive material...
> [...] there may not be much you can do about this besides blocking cookies, ads, and opting out of Criteo’s entire system [...]

He knows, and nobody needs an excuse.
The email is just a symptom of the actual problem - tracking. Rather than hit the report spam button, I'd recommend installing a browser add-on that limits tracking.
If we asked your younger self the same question, would we have got the same answer? "I am not wise" ?

If no, then you're wiser than most commentators according to Socrates :-)
Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All…” (True story behind C++)
I know this is article is humor, but it's also pretty spot-on for me (maybe a lot of us here). Most of my friends don't seem to understand the extents to which I overthink everything.

"Just ask. The worst that can happen is they say 'No', and by not asking, you're already giving yourself a no."

I get this advice a lot and particularly hate it. Getting a "No" is not the worst that can happen. A meteor hitting the earth is the worst that can happen (or maybe snakes, or crossfit). Worst that's actually happened to me? You go up to say something to someone, stutter a few times, throw up in your mouth a little, and then run away.
Still it was a way to bring FP concepts into mainstream.

On my area of work, even alternative JVM and CLR languages are no go, so I really appreciate having at least the ability to use some FP concepts, even if the end solution isn't perfect.
Start a culture of talking. If you don't want mere office banter, holding occasional whiteboard sessions is a good pretext (and useful in its own right).

Find the most receptive sub-group to engage in this regularly. Within a few months, talking at the office will not be a foreign concept.

Tasteful partitions help because they break up the visual space, while letting sounds leak through. Consider some temporary partitions that you'd envision in a high-end loft, instead of ones that look sterile. Introduce plants -- real or fake.

Though I don't have a good visual model of your workspace, In my mind many open-plan offices end up looking like cafeterias, while nicer ones remind me of a children's play area at a library. By introducing some partitions and pleasant surroundings, the aesthetics will help make people more comfortable, and potentially more interactive.
It's possible that the new Nexus devices will have exclusive features and Google doesn't want people to be confused.
I didn't say 10k was total capital base, just deployment for a trade.

And leverage exists so you can get higher percentage returns on your capital.

I'm just saying it's possible, that's all.
This may be a case where your security industry experience works against you. I'm not sure the average US citizen doesn't believe that the NSA is so well guarded that the only threat with what they do is corruption and inside actors.

Do we have any polls on this? I don't trust people involved in the computer industry to necessarily have views that conform to the average person with regard to this, and the media all have narratives they would like to put forth, but none of them necessarily have to conform to reality.
I don't disagree, but I know that the issue is divisive; my point is that his intentions were clearly pure regardless.
Thanks for making a neat-o product!

/me wanders off to update
Interesting. I would've thought they wouldn't support it anymore, considering there's an even smaller chance that Apple and Microsoft would support it, too. I was thinking that maybe they're waiting on the NETVC/Daala/Thor/VP10 video codec standardization by the IETF, which would then be followed by a new standard for images on the web based on the same technology. But I guess they're going with webp for now. I wonder why they finally decided to support webp.
Brexit
You can make that claim, but you're just some guy on an internet message board (an "armchair quarterback", you could say), not the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar corporation.

Maybe you're right; if so, I'd be happy to see MS collapse. Or maybe you're wrong, and treating their customers terribly will turn out to be very profitable for them. Either way, I don't really see a downside.
I can access it. Also, Down For Everyone Or Just Me says it is up as well.
MIT built a self-assembling cell phone
What advantage does this have over a regular DAW (other than being free)? Wouldn't most artists not be familiar with all of the concepts inherent with using JSX, and find it easier using a more traditional DAW? (FL Studio, Cubase, Reason, Logic, etc.)

I get that this is a for fun project it seems, just seems a little low on the practical scale for an artist.
Ministry purge may be a lifeline for embattled Russian Academy of Sciences
Publish Your Project Documentation with GitHub Pages
New features look awesome.

Any idea of when we'll get global search? For a long time I've been wanting to search for a particular code snippet or file name across all projects.