skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many people in IT, generally not the Hacker News crowd, but the guys in the trenches of [insert corporation name here] with ops in many countries, The Money is NOT really the important thing. Risk mitigation by having a passthrough to the big IT vendors is what they are paying for specifically. I work in the IT consulting / business research space. In our surveys, "vendor viability" is a frequent concern, and the more critical the workload, the more weight is given to wondering whether the vendor will be around, unchanged, in the next 3 years.

The risk mitigation factor from large vendors comes not from performance but from reliability. You can trust that old mainframe code will continue to be supported for many years. You can trust that your COBOL workload will be continue to run, and that the 20 years of updates, patches, and tweaks have made it reliable and predictable in a way that precludes rip and replace in all but the most extenuating circumstances.

IT budgets tend to be governed by an 80/20 rule - maintenance vs innovation. Sometimes, its more of a 95/5 in practicality due to shrinking budgets. My experience says that the innovation side is drastically shifting away from these big vendors, but that the maintenance side has a lot more riding on it still.
A genuine question: If you have worked with any fortune 500/1000 companies (Lets pick non software based companies) either directly or if they are your customers, how many of them use Oracle database or SQL Server?

Some of the reasons why this trend WILL continue:

1. Critical software like databases needs support. To the point where there should be someone who can come on premise to fix things.

2. We need to use X because X is used by other big corporations and you never get fired for choosing X.

3. The products (Oracle,MS SQL) are not that bad. (Not sure if there is a better way to put this)

I could be wrong, but I can't think of any other important reason. Can anyone pitch in their experience?
My favorite new feature:

> Settings now open in a new window, with the default and user settings side-by-side
Is this the same bug? https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150142
Love this idea
>"Servers using OpenSSL versions prior to 1.0.1g are not vulnerable in a default configuration [..]"

In case anyone is using older versions, like we do in our production environment.
I'm a non-technical recruiter.

I get triggered when people confuse Entry & Junior developers:

Entry - Cant be trusted on their own - need hand holding.

Junior - Can be trusted on their own - like a slow mid-level developer - might need to check their code a bit after but generally know what they are doing with a little input from more senior developers in the team.
I don't see a mention of the concept of "seed AI", which I believe came first from Turing himself.

High-level (even superhuman) artificial intelligence could come from AI that specializes in creating other, stronger AIs.

Those AIs in turn create slightly stronger AIs again, and so on ad infinitum. It could lead to sudden exponential growth of intelligence level, aka intelligence explosion

This approach is discussed in detail in Nick Bostrom's "Superintelligence..."
This is not an article: why René Magritte is a timeless genius
I think that's fair, but I remember the stump piece that was trying to paint the FDA as obstructionist, it felt very dishonest.
I am sure that will work well if your home burns down.
> Every flag still gets reviewed by a human at YouTube

Blizzard claimed something similar recently. Long story short, they weren't actually reviewing every report, and there were a number of people who were wrongly penalized or banned.

If Blizzard, a company with a lot of consumer good will and a stellar customer service group, can't get flagging right, why do we think that Google will, with a user base exponentially larger than Blizzard's?
A reasonable boundary on excess deaths can be identified by taking the number of cancers and adjust for pre-fukushima cancer rates.

There's no reason to under-estimate it - even with absolute worst case estimates based on past experience from Chernobyl etc., nuclear comes favourably out in terms of health effects / deaths per unit of energy.

The biggest harm that Fukushima might do would be to reduce investment in nuclear vs. more harmful power plants like coal (which incidentally releases more radioactive material every few years than every nuclear accident combined), or hydro (dam accidents have killed shocking numbers of people). Even rooftop solar (people fall off roofs, and since each installation on average produces so little, the numbers add up; larger purpose built solar installations are as far as I know far safer)
Glad to see undergrads are still being taught how to build up a Forth system from scratch in asm. Back in 1983 I ported an 8080 FIG Forth [1] impl to the Camputers Lynx. The Lynx was Z80 based, but Z80 is a superset of 8080. I had to rip out all the CP/M IO and replace with INT calls into the Lynx ROM. I had no assembler, so had to hand assemble all my IO code. Getting the JMPs right was the trickiest bit! It was a great learning experience.

[1] http://www.forth.org/fig-forth/fig-forth_8080_ver_11.pdf
I don't think they're being investigated for that, but they did buy there own product off store shelfs to create the illusion of high demand, helping them get in more stores http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/food-start...
Business managers will get charged with making tech decisions for projects and they will choose brands they trust.
"Nothing in the standard cosmological model predicts this, and it is almost impossible to imagine how that model could be modified to explain it, without discarding the dark matter hypothesis completely."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-09-spiral-irregular-galaxies-curre...
The way their questions are worded makes it feel like they're making a list of all of the renters/owners that have no alarms and have jewelry > $1000.. lol
This is the only claim that i've found saying that throttling (or disabling, for that matter) renegotiation would prevent the issue: https://twitter.com/Unreal_IRCd/status/778975019829489664

The advisory makes it sound like that would be the case, but it would have been great if that was explicitly stated.
"Joe's podcast is actually incredibly informative and dense with good information."

If you want to be informed with what ever the latest pseudoscience/conspiracy fad is. Rogan has a reputation for his lack of critical thinking. Fake moon landing, 9-11 "truther" BS, chemtrails... all things he has pushed on his show. Oh yeah don't forget to buy stuff from his line of supplements too! Imo, he is nothing more than a meathead snake oil salesman that happens to be funny too.
Why not Tutanota?
What typically happens is that after a few hundred years, people realize that the questions that prior generations were asking were laughably wrong.
From what I see in Seattle, young people are moving in to the city, but middle-aged people are moving out. Just try buying a mean house in the suburbs around here. The competition is crazy.

Sure, the ratio of IN:OUT probably leans toward IN, but I wouldn't say (at least around Seattle) that the desire to live in the bubs has died out.
I consider myself one who does care, but environment doesn't make the top 10 of important issues for the masses. In truth, I can fully understand the apathy.

It's especially hard to care when the masses are taxed, compelled to recycle and told that high wattage appliances will be banned for environmental reasons (the stupidest bit of legislation to come out the EU for years). Then inconvenienced with other regulations and trivia. The big things are ignored. Insulation, combined heat and power schemes, transport, carbon and full lifecycle taxes on everyone even the large users, their premises and packaging, ending the hidden subsidies of roads.

The kids "care", but they care as well-programmed 21st C consumers. Emphasis on consume, despite our efforts.

Commerce is going the wrong way at ever increasing rate. Shortening the buying cycles for everything possible, ideally disposable everything. Packaging is increasing exponentially - for little gain, except for the manufacturer. The environmental credentials of nearly every business are an exercise in tokenism.

We get half a dozen bins and containers to pre-sort waste, a lot of which was exported as "recycling", a regulation to reduce wattage of appliances, giving us kettles that uses the exact same electric to make coffee, it just takes longer. Tesco and Amazon ensure those bins are always full.

The tory majority ensured the death of alternative energy subsidies and wrecked a nicely growing sector, and immediately increased fossil fuel subsidies months before the Paris summit.

So I fully understand why most individuals, including me, might look and think "what's the bloody point? You just OK'd fracking and more oil subsidies".
There's so much truth in this. I think it is very hard to hire actually senior developers which fit your definition, because most people who work a couple of years in the industry tend to over-emphasize their seniority.

If they did not work with exactly the tools and programming languages / libraries of the job that is described in the job offer at hand, their performance ends up more in the junior part of the scale and it will cost you dearly. I really had to learn that the hard way with several hires.
I assume transflective displays hit a limit on density and color reproduction. But I really wish they hadn't. A tablet would be perfectly readable indoors and outdoors with it. My Dell Axim was great in sunlight and still had a backlight for indoors.
Perhaps humans are not a good tool to teach a computer how to be intelligent, there is too much chaos in our society and our dreams are many time irrational. We want machines to be intelligent following the human way and this may be a bad approach. Perhaps we should need to focus in a two step approach: first, what is needed for a system to evolve, and second: how that system can be used to interact with human intelligence.
If you prefer, the investigation follows a much more staid article[1] from early August that reveals the company hired a network of contractors to secretly buy back their own product from stores.

[1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/food-start...
What on earth is it with oil related foodstuffs that seems to always inspire such fraud? Remember http://www.businessinsider.com/the-great-salad-oil-scandal-o... ?
That strikes me as when an author writes a story and then years later an interviewer asks her how she came up with such an amazing subtle metaphor. To which the author replies... they didn't, the reviewer is reading something into it that wasn't intended.
They choose a celebrity because they think that the little people are more likely to listen to them.

But when the messenger has the whiff of hyprocisy about them, it's natural to be cynical.
No one likes being patronised.
Yahoo's login experience has been horrible lately. This must be a contributing factor.
When I visited New York with some people who had friends there, I heard multiple times each day how expensive it was. They talk about it plenty amongst themselves.

And the only people I've heard about Toronto expenses from are my relatives living there, and a few people on the internet.

Whenever I heard about jobs in the big cities, I always hear someone remind people that living expenses in general are higher there, and to be careful of the salaries and what they're really worth.
I don't know if they prefer urban areas but you have to go where the jobs are. It still sort of sucks that, as a developer, I can literally work remotely anywhere but in reality I have a downtown job and try to live less than an hour commute away.
"Do you have ten years of experience, or do you have one year of experience ten times?"

A junior programmer is someone who has never learned from a serious mistake they've made while programming professionally. A junior programmer is someone who thinks they should be senior thanks to the Dunning-Kruger Effect ("Hey, I was an honors student at this great college!"). A junior programmer is someone who can't usefully mentor anyone else. A junior programmer is someone who is not aware of the downstream impacts of their decisions, and is not aware that they're not aware of it.
There are so many good podcasts I can never get into, because they are often multiple hours per episode. Joe Rogan often on the 3 hour mark. How do people find time to listen/watch all the good content out there?

TL;DR is the zeitgeist, and I want to fight it. I want to read long form articles, books and listen to these great podcasts, but the number of hours in my day don't seem to allow it.

Do people set aside time? Am I just inherently bad at managing my time?
FastMail has working tech but customer service leaves a lot to be desired. Google is leagues ahead of them there.

It's better than Office365 support though.
Geography alone makes Fukushima less bad for human health.

Beyond the immediate vicinity, most of Fukushima's contamination is going into the Pacific. We have very good data on how diluted that radiation is once it gets to places people actually live, and the answer is "extremely diluted". The prevailing weather all moves to the east, directly out to sea.

Whereas Chernobyl spread its contamination across a populated continent.

If you had to pick a place in the world to release radioactive contamination, you couldn't do much better than the Pacific ocean. Which is exactly why nuclear weapons testing was done in places like Bikini Atoll.
I think your definition is perfect!
But in some cases senior is considered the guy who have 5+ years of experience in certain field/language.
If you want to know the history of Oracle, "Softwar" is an excellent book. It includes Ellison's notes too, wherever he felt he needed to add them.
Ask HN: Who is going to the office hours and/or fireside chat in Buenos Aires?
This seems like lots of fun - mind sharing the books that you alluded to?
The way your (brief) sentence is written it sounds as though the government is given a good deal of credit for imposing the moratorium, whereas there's a good deal of evidence to suggest that they consistenly mis-managed it. It looks as though a combination of poor ecological models, concentration on simple resource production statistics, consulting only with large capital holders instead of small, local stakeholders led to this avoidable collapse.

Over-fishing in the maritimes was mostly as a result of "free-trade" liberalisation including transferable/sellable fishing licenses which led to a decrease in small, family operations and an increase in massive, mortgaged industrial fishing operations.

The small family business typically engaged in long-lining (single lines with multiple hooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longline_fishing ) which did not require great capitalization/debt. These business became non-viable as larger operations flooded the market with fish caught by dragging -- a method which leads to the destruction of the seabed ecosystems which in turn decreases the catchable population.

This is one of the good references on the topic, pretty readable (Dean Bavington, _Managed Annihilation_, 2010 UBC Press):
http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/2010/ManagedAnnihi...
Interesting! Thanks for the link.
Stop trying to jump to the sexy stuff first
If that's what you mean by 'mere' then it doesn't matter that he was 'merely' communicating. Clearly it's possible to be 'merely' communicating in your sense and yet also committing a crime. The Nigerian scammer is 'merely' sending emails and yet also committing fraud. The idea that freedom of speech somehow makes hacking, fraud, or other such crimes permissible is simply silly.

You're also misunderstanding how dual criminality works. The requirement is that the offence for which the individual is being extradited must be a crime in both countries. That requirement is met in Love's case but not in your hypothetical Holocaust denial case.

I don't see why people should have to assent to being under any given jurisdiction. I didn't assent to being under British jurisdiction, but since I live in Britain, I am. You seem to be suggesting that the physical location of a person should impose hard-and-fast restrictions on which country's laws they may be subject to, but see no reason why that should be so.
Well...not really. Although the radiation damage at/from Chernobyl was more significant, the damage from fear was higher yet. So in that sense: yes, a second Chernobyl.
> If they did not work with exactly the tools and programming languages / libraries of the job that is described in the job offer at hand, their performance ends up more in the junior part of the scale and it will cost you dearly.

This seems to be the exact opposite of what the OP said, is it not?

Clarifying edit: It seems like you're saying that you need to have worked with a certain tech-stack for 10 years to be considered a senior developer, whereas the OP seems to be advocating that a "senior developer" will be able to handle any tech stack you throw at them in a reasonable amount of time. Their knowledge of the tech stack may impact their speed at first, but not the quality of the result.
If "we can't measure" is true, that's extremely strong evidence that the effect is not very large.
The antidote to overprescription of antibiotics is to be able to get accurate test results to determine what to treat rather than throwing antibiotics at every problem. This company is working on products which dramatically decrease testing times to the degree that you can have actionable information before prescribing antibiotics:

Among some of the advancements:

* Group B Strep results under one hour (traditionally 48-72 hours)

* Salmonella results in 30 minutes (traditionally 24 hours)

* Listeria results in 5 hours	(traditionally 18 - 24 hours)

http://nanologix.com/test_results.html
Thank you both for the clarifications!

I see your point and I agree that side projects could help increasing your skills and/or knowledge. However, I'm not sure they're an effective way of doing that or if we [tend to use mostly the skills we have / tend to learn skills that are so different than our daily jobs that can't be applied or aren't useful for professional development]
You're getting down voted for expressing the reality as opposed to the the platonic ideal. Ideally junior/senior implies something about ability to work independently, but there are plenty of crappy places where job titles bear no relation to actual abilities. Acknowledging that the meritocracy doesn't work perfectly seems to piss people off around here.
OP here. "How it happens" is not "why it happens". The svg renderer is switching the values of R and B, that's why it turns blue instead of some other color. Why the renderer does that, I have no idea :)
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Media embargos are bog standard, and have been for ages.
SSL Is Now Included on All Paid Dynos
I'm using the latest Safari Tech Preview, and the example works fine for me. Maybe this is already fixed.
This is well-written and I applaud any step toward demystifying the sometimes scary sounding concepts that drive much of the ML algorithms.

Knowing you can pretty quickly whip up a KNN or ANN in a few hundred lines of code or fewer is one of the more eye-opening parts of the delving in. For the most part, supervised learning follows a pretty reliable path and each algorithm obviously varies in approach, but I know I originally thought "deep learning? ugh, sounds abstract and complicated" before realizing it was all just a deep ANN.

Long story short: dig in. It's unlikely to be as complex as you think. And if you've ever had an algorithms class (or worked as a professional software dev) none of it should be too daunting. Your only problem will be keeping up the charade if people around you think ML/AI is some sort of magic.
Updated to Safari 10.0 (10602.1.50.0.10) last night, but I'm still on OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), and there's no color change for me. I feel left out. :(
To add to this: show some of the banner features of the language - what makes it different to X or Y, and why would I want to use it or look into it more.
Why Europeans care more about data privacy than Americans
Do you like it more than Vegenaise? To me Vegenaise tastes almost exactly like regular mayo, whereas Hampton Creek tastes distinctly... different.
> What you are doing is claiming types into and out of functions decide if they are functioning correctly. This is not the case at all.

When I say proof, I mean it in the mathematical sense. The Curry–Howard isomorphism [0] formalizes the relationship between (mathematical) logic and type theory. Unless you are saying mathematical logic is inconsistent (and thus every mathematical proof is invalid) this is absolutely the case.

The same way you can construct a mathematical proof that e.g. n is prime, you can can construct a type Prime n that proves that n is prime [1].

> I think that most bugs aren't because the type you were expecting was wrong but the data produced by a function was wrong.

This is where your misunderstanding stems from. Continuing with the example from above, if you have a function:

makePrime :: n -> Prime n

the function can not construct (Prime n) if n is not a prime.

> If I call `get_lottery_number` by your logic it will always provide me with the real winning lottery number since the types check out. That is absolutely incorrect. Types can't prove functionality.

If you give me a specification that constructs predicted lottery numbers I could absolutely turn it into a type :)

> They do provide protection from a set of bugs but those bugs are also avoided easily by handling every case

But you don't have proof that you are handling every case :)

> You can't say a program will have no bugs because the types check out. Is that what you are saying?

Yes, if the types correspond to the specification then there are no bugs. The specification can still have bugs though, but that's unavoidable. The thing is that you've proven the program does what you told it to do.

Once you stop thinking about types in the Java sense and start thinking about them as logical propositions it will all make sense. I provided you with a couple of links in the other comments and here if you are still interested.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...

[1] https://github.com/agda/agda-stdlib/blob/master/src/Data/Nat...
TensorFlow tutorial with kaggle competition
Vets urge revision of breed standards to protect animal welfare
Angular 3 milestone is already being developed (but it's not what you think)
It's definitely the largest tragedy of the commons in our species' history thus far.
The world is getting more proprietary ... sadly.
No, it doesn't work on all builds of 10. I have Safari 11602.1.50.0.10, which is WebKit 602.1.50, it happens there at least.
It's funny, as a young'un I felt the draw to the city and have worked in some of the greatest cities in the world. Now I'm still not old, but I find myself drawn to places like this. I feel like they could turn their slump into a booming tourism trade. There's nothing like the ocean and the large majority of people only ever get to see it on vacation. I grew up next to the ocean and even in a city where we have easy access to the great lakes, it's not the same. With a remote-work job and the ability to provide your own food year round, it could be a beautiful place to live, and could even thrive on tourism during peak season meaning you're not so reliant on remote-work in the off-season.
Fails for me pretty early on:

ng set defaults.styleExt scss

Could not start watchman; falling back to NodeWatcher for file system events.
Visit http://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman for more info.
Cannot read property 'serialize' of undefined
TypeError: Cannot read property 'serialize' of undefined

I installed watchman and received the same error

Looks like this has been reported elsewhere: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/1905