skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They call this native advertising, where you think you're reading a piece of journalism, you're a few paragraphs in and suddenly it hits you that the article was written to conceal an advertisement, and you feel intellectually violated.

From http://adage.com/article/media/york-times-debuts-native-ad-u...

> Times staff pitched story ideas to Dell. One of Dell's first paid posts delves into the topic of millennials in the workplace. The author is a freelancer that the Times contracted, according to Ms. Losee. The millennial generation is among four topics Dell customers are interested in learning more about, she said. A Times editor -- not from its newsroom, but instead part of an internal "content studio" -- pitched ideas to Dell around these topics that weren't related to Dell products. Dell approved the story ideas, which the Times farmed out to freelancers.
Weird. I've been on MacBookPro since 2011 and have not experienced any crashes so far. What do you do to crash it?
The data pipeline architecture for five key science projects
Do you suggest the new government should be allowed to disrespect the obligations and commitments of the previous one, just because it's newly elected?

[Well, in a way, they are free to do so -- at the risk of losing every bit of credibility as a debtor... What Schäuble pointed out is: if you want more money, respect your obligations]
We (Credit Karma) hired two engineers from September's posting. One so far from October's (5 candidates are still in pipeline, more new grads).

We've hired front-end, data engineers, and eng lead roles. A bunch of full stack engineers are in the pipeline.

I personally respond to every candidate that reaches out (scott.shumaker at credit karma dot com), so that helps ensure they don't get lost in our HR pipeline.
Telegram supports non-phone-number IDs btw.
They are very anti-seller.

They lock accounts on a whim and require extensive, unnecessary documentation to get your own money back. They recently settled a class-action suit because of this: https://www.accountholdsettlement.com/

They nearly always side with purchasers and reverse charges despite ample evidence supporting the seller.
How could there be there be a NetFlix for porn??? Everything is already available for free.
On the company side, I've only gotten scripted applications which is a bit disheartening. Going to thumb through the "Who wants to be hired" post for November and see if I get any good leads in there.
Thanks - I see it in there now. For anyone else looking for it, it's under options/conversation settings when you are in conversation view. Thanks again.
Quarterly Comics: Curated graphic novels with limited edition postcard prints
Time to ban assault trucks.
I take the time to filter out jobs that I know I would be good at and then write a cover letter and customize my resume for the job, only to not hear any acknowledgement at all. I'm about to just blast my resume out with no filter and see what happens.
I'll believe it when I see it. 3D asset formats are such a shitshow. COLLADA is supposed to be an open standard already, although I've never much seen it used. FBX is probably the de facto standard. But there's a plethora of others, not mention all of the custom formats that are optimized and processed through an asset pipeline for a particular engine or individual application.
it means more accurate baseline calculation as well as median salary which will rule out things like "AngularJS developer making $250,000 in Cleveland"
Front end developer productivity
"New Shadow Brokers dump contains list of servers compromised by the NSA to use as exploit staging servers." -> https://twitter.com/musalbas/status/793001139310559232

Lots of .ru domains in that list. Attribution is hard if you care about being correct.
There's interest because of a recent, popular post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830761

As to how many people really are migrating, who knows. I'm an Apple user, but I'm not going to take the rabid fanboy position that these distro makers must be lying when they say they've noticed more interest, lately.
More time spent on ideas: YES! Besides time, it's also about mental energy and goodwill, for me. Less time wasted on trolls is more time spent loving, and trusting, the rest of humanity.
Meanwhile, people are accidentally leaking their phone numbers and their contacts' phone numbers because Signal replaced fingerprints that could safely be posted publicly with QR codes that can't, and didn't explain it: https://twitter.com/webster/status/793657469381713920
>As an OSS contributor, I _do_ begrudge him for it - and this is why.
If you were to email Elementary and ask for support with a non-working 'sg' kernel module, I would be highly surprised if they offered you any support. More likely, they would tell you to contact one of the authors, who did not receive one dime for our work. He takes your money, and shirks off supporting you to people that _didn't_ take your money.

By voluntarily contributing to an OSS-licensed project, you don't have the moral right to begrudge him for it. What they are doing is completely permitted by the license; RMS has spelled it out over and over. So, no sympathy from me.
How pure is the beer in Germany?
And it integrates many "vimisms" via evil-mode. I'd been a vim user for a long time but was increasingly dissatisfied as I got deeper into extending it. I've found the opposite of emacs (especially with spacemacs) almost a year into the "conversion".

One example that I've come around with was an initial extreme distaste of dynamic binding/non-lexical scope, from a PL standpoint of writing robust software.

But it's also super nice for incremental, interactive development.
Encryption is only really useful when everybody participates. Otherwise you just have to arrest the people using it. So dumbing it down is actually pretty important.
The content filter APIs most definitely support it[0][1]. uMatrix puts websocket requests in the "other" category on FF.

uBlock is less powerful than umatrix in some areas, so that might be an issue with the addon, not the browser.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/...
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...
No they are not able.

Lawyers are the ones who have all the power on this aspect.
Just like TV shows..
Congratulations on the instant derail!

The "assault weapon" ban was a stupid compromise; the UK and Australia responded to mass shootings with near-total gun bans and thereby ended the phenomenon.

America is simply not serious about gun violence, because it has a substantial pro-violence constituency. The acquittal of the Malheur occupiers is just the latest sign of that.
Although a few high-level languages existed at the time, compilers back then were not capable of code optimization. The only way to write code tight enough to operate a spacecraft would have been Assembly language.
The hardest part of an open source poll would be anonymization. Demographic information in some areas could be enough to come pretty close to uniquely identifying an individual.

The rest of it: Likely Voter Models, Demographic Weighting, etc would be pretty easy to have open source and reproducible once you've solved the issues.
Optimor Ltd | Oxford,UK | Full-time | ONSITE | www.billmonitor.com/business

We are disrupting how people and businesses make purchasing decisions. Our Billmonitor service for mobile phone contracts has analysed over 1 million bills so far, helping people make informed choices based on their data.

You will be involved in the design, building and maintenance of all facets of our web-based bill analytics software; whether writing core data input code, improving our deployment and scaling processes, performing research or developing front-end code to improve our UX.

We're primarily looking for a Python developer, but experience in the following is also highly valued:

* Linux/Docker/AWS

* Data analysis

* Frontend (Angular)

The interview process involves a short coding task (1 hour), technical interview (on-site/Skype, as convenient) and an on-site interview to meet the whole team.

Full spec at https://business.billmonitor.com/join-the-team or feel free to email with any questions you have/if the position sounds interesting (jobs@billmonitor.com).
A lot of people are thinking to move out because of the steps backwards in all fronts such as law enforcement, health and social care quality, education quality etc. Everyday life gets worse for everybody more or less. Economy does not collapse without collateral damage.
Take just one teeny-tiny little month off
When I saw the limit on battery size my head screamed "citation needed", so I went out and found it for myself: https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/hazmat_safety/more_inf...

Is this something new? Have laptop batteries always been less than 100Wh?
GENIUS!!!!
> military, video games or porn.

If only we could get them to all combine their powers. Sort of a DARPA-Psyonix-PornHub merger. I'll bring it up at the next G8.
I hope this censoring was applied to a limited demo dataset and not to whole dataset. Otherwise I can't really trust such a "research".

In the end, it's our digital world that reflect our minds. And we should have courage to look into the mirror.
It'll super useful when/if it supports XCode + Mac Developer Tools for iOS development. I think that's the main thing keeping app developers on their Macs.
Yes, the occurrence of these was so slim that I do distinctly remember seeing that on the GitLab jobs page! Thank you for taking a realistic approach to hiring - I will see if I can find anything that excites me @GitLab!
I worked for a porn company for 2 years. I can say that the engineers and ad people there are probably some of the best I've worked with in my career. The company I worked for several years ago was eventually acquired by MindGeek (formerly Manwin) after I left.

It was one of the only companies where I truly felt that they would let their engineers experiment and grow. If an idea sounded like it could bring more traffic or increase the quality of traffic, they'd let you do it. If that idea didn't pan out in a short period of time (~3 months), then it was canned and they tried something new.

I work at a very large global corporation now and I'm shocked (and bored) at how drawn out their development cycles are, and at how little license they give their engineers to be creative. The risk averseness makes it almost impossible to bring anything into production.

I'd go back to porn if it weren't for the fact the industry as a whole seems to be very secretive and mafia-like.
Waterloo wows with demo of first working Hyperloop air levitation system
You call it 'dumb down', I call "useful way of communication". Gifs are a form of communication. You might not use it, but most people do.

Signal will not get traction because people want to have their PC problems fixed by Nerd friends. My IT club group chat are all nerds, yet we still do not use Signal, because things like gifs were missing.

The Strategy of Signal is to make a mass market chat client that is save. Not a nerd utopia chat client.

> EVERYTHING

Everything? Really?

I don't remember my mother asking for reproducible APK compilation. I don't remember her asking about the the forward security properties of the communication protocol.
Gnome does that nowadays too. Unfortunately not so useful for remote shells or tmux
We should do something to get those people in front of Toronto startups. Mind posting about this in the StartupNorth group on Facebook? https://www.facebook.com/groups/startupnorth/
I don't know how widely it's used, but it seems like LinkedIn could some how use Work Number [1] to allow people to verify their salary.

[1] https://www.theworknumber.com/
Looks like another case of the old myth about porn innovating or "pushing" technology, as usual with nothing to back it up.
> either because they have some kind of proof (unlikely) or because it serves their global interests (likely)

Is it just me or is Trump making conspiracy theories great again? There's always a fringe that is happy to see a conspiracy in everything (and sometimes they're actually true), but it seems that this sort of thinking is everywhere at the moment.
What about XMPP / Jabber?
They still had 10 years to do that. complaining about the lack of tooling they didn't develop is idiotic, they are in charge of the language themselves.
Second Life was just the beginning. Philip Rosedale is delving into VR
I currently use a huge Ikea Galant wrap-around desk. So I can run my 3 24" displays and just swivel my chair to move to writing space. To get the equivalent standing space is beyond my budget, so at least for me, it impacts my current setup more than just being able to stand.
I switched from Ubuntu to Elementary OS several months ago and have never looked back. It's a lot faster and smoother, the UI is less orange, the file browser looks better, and I still get the entire Ubuntu package ecosystem.
Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 11
From the screenshots I've seen it looks a lot like ChromeOS. Also the fonts looked hideous but that might be the particular set-up I saw.
Every time you see Euro prices in the context of Greece, multiply by 3 and you can get a "sense" of the amount in pounds.
Not at all. Nothing is available in full HD. Torrent are hard to find and die quickly.

But everything for movie and TV show is available for free easily but still everything is working great for Netflix.
Wouldn't it be better to port emacs to includeOS?
At the time I hadn't started commenting :). So didn't have a HN account to mention.
"Very thin" is not a professional criterion. There is no context in which an extra millimetre of bulk means that you're unable to get the job done.

Apple no longer has a truly professional mobile workstation. By focussing obsessively on size and weight, the whole product line has shifted downwards in relative performance, leaving a gaping void at the top end. The most powerful machine in the Apple lineup competes with mid-range PC laptops.

A Windows user can choose from some extraordinarily powerful mobile workstations. If you need it, you can have 64gb of RAM, a desktop-class CPU, two desktop-class GPUs and quad M.2 RAID. You have the choice of ultimate performance or light weight. Apple offers no such choice.

It may be a perfectly rational business decision, but Apple has decided to abandon the high-end. It has been nearly three years since the Mac Pro was updated; even on their supposedly high-end desktop workstation, Apple have traded performance for compactness.

As we have seen on HN, Apple is risking an exodus of professional users. This exodus has already happened in many fields; I know a great many people in video and audio post-production who could not tolerate Apple's indifference towards the needs of media professionals. The abandonment of Final Cut Pro 7 and the inadequacies of FCPX were the icing on the cake. These users were Apple's mainstay in the difficult pre-iPhone years, but Apple seem happy to let them go.
> I also can't count the times apt-get update replaced my proprietary Nvidia driver with an much worse, open source one.

I don't think it's fair to compare OS X (with runs on a very limited set of hardware) with a Linux distribution running on a random not-well-supported system. If you want an apples-to-apples comparison I'd suggest to test Ubuntu on one of the officially supported systems - see https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/ for a list.
Those have never kept me engaged.

What does is playing a sport. Playing pick up soccer gives me a far better workout than lifting heavy objects and grinding on a treadmill, even at high intensity levels.

It's easy to say do these exercises, but to people who have minds that jump around a lot, mundane, boring exercises are not enticing.
I'm not sure if it's still possible or not but at one time you could "bounce" port scans and such off of networked HP printers (due to an "IP ID" bug in their IP stack, IIRC).

I did this to a very security-conscious co-worker who freaked out when he noticed his workstation being "attacked" by a printer in a computer lab.
we are going to be rolling out search by city soon
This is something I've discussed with my teams on a few occasions. Performing updates to applications usually ends up consisting of a hacky "down for maintenance, back in 10..." page put up by hand.
In the larger cities, prices have surged over the past 15 years, in more remote areas, they have fallen slightly. There are plans on the table ATM to bring taxation in better line with valuation. As one may predict, this is not popular with city folks who imagined the tax rebate to be a perpetual thing.
Nah. TV shows can be hard to find (especially right after release) and of variable quality, plus the sites can be very shady with worse ads/adware than all porn sites combined [not to mention that they tend to be closed or ISP blocked fairly often].

Porn is reliably served by many _respectable_ sites.
I thank everyone for everything they do for me - not because I should but because I'm genuinely grateful whenever someone does what was requested of them.

I've not found that it's something that's repaid. If anything, folks are more motivated by the guy who shouts at them and never thanks them, because they want his impossible to win approval. The thankful person gets ignored.

There's probably a happy medium to be had somewhere.
Private ad exchange launches service to remove ad GET for paying subscribers
> 2. States that only laptops with 32GB is as heavy as 17 pounds and bulky. But Dell XPS 15 comes with 32 GB and weighs only 4.5 pounds.

That point blew my mind, too. I have 32 GB RAM in a 6 pound laptop (a third of that 8 kg beast presented by the author)... and it's from 2011! If somebody rewrite some BIOS parts, it would even take 64 GB (4x16 GB modules). Yes, not many laptops have four slots, and certainly not the ultrathin ones, but even with two slots, 32 GB is easily possible as 2x16 GB (available both in DDR3 and DDR4) and no 17 pound gaming monster is needed at all.

The battery capacity also seems moot. More memory modules draw more power, that is sure, but in terms of laptops with 74 Wh batteries, it is a negligible decrease of battery life, especially if people who need and would order 32 GB RAM would easily sacrifice some battery life (at load) if they can get more of their work done significantly faster without swapping.

Also, does the new MacBook Pro actually use only a single module? Because you get the power consumption increases when you add modules. If it internally uses two modules of 8 GB to get 16 GB, then using two 16 GB modules instead would use the same power, unless I'm missing something (the memory is soldered on, so the entire thing may work differently than typical SO-DIMMs).
Intel does not start manufacturing the CPU on release day either. Partners can have access to the 'final' product well before the official release day.

The vast majority of companies don't qualify for this, but MS and Apple are not most companies.
Also, any cable that penetrates the "shielding" can make a great antenna unless it's specifically designed not to.
If the tax is more than the sale price, clearly the tax system. Tax should be limited to a fraction of the sale price, say no more than a third. That seems like a common-sense reform to do.
LinkedIn launches Salary, a tool that taps into user data to chart earnings
really sorry about your past experience with hertz, but it sounds like you ended up with a better deal.

your post piqued my interest because i've been a long time business user of hertz (not by choice i can assure you), and i can't say that i'm at all impressed with any of their services. probably not your team's doing, but about a year ago, i got off a 12 hour flight in sfo to stand in line at hertz only to be ushered to a kiosk where i had to do a video conference with some remote teller. this was the biggest garbage service in the world, i cannot believe they actually spent money on this solution, i ended up getting ushered back to a teller at the desk where i was already standing in line. perhaps you were in the twilight zone at hertz doing wonderful things, but i think that company is rotten and should rot in hell.
This seems like a really good reminder that while actual immigration may not hurt domestic workers, poorly-executed foreigner worker programs definitely do.

Adding new employees to the primary labor pool by immigration isn't a huge deal, if you can handle population growth you can probably handle immigration. But I constantly see governments "address" fears about that with limited visa programs, which is hilariously counterproductive.

It really ought to be obvious that employees who face deportation if they leave their jobs aren't part of a competitive, efficient labor market. They're not free to ask for raises, they're not free to object to working conditions or unreasonable hours, they certainly can't leave a bad company to join a competitor or start a new business. All of which makes them great candidates for an employer looking to avoid paying market rates or treating employees decently.

It's crappy for the visa workers and domestic workers alike, and I honestly think the situation could be greatly improved by just expanding real immigration - maybe maintaining initial sponsor requirements if people are worried about unemployed immigrants, but abandoning the ongoing-sponsorship rules in favor of real green-card/citizenship status.
You are losing chunks of your life
Google Pixel review: 8 things everyone should know
Yeah, site under-delivers somewhat.

There are some screens in this pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Ymf8oYXx-PSXU2eFlsR0NvY1E...
There is a desktop client. Even if you don't use chrome/chromium, keeping it open somewhere is not impossible task.
What about Apple's hardware quality really makes that much of a difference? Is it really that important for a tool which is meant to be replaced in 3 years to be made from machined aluminum and beautifully designed (sometimes even at expense of usability)? Up until 5 years ago we were perfectly happy and productive using laptops with 3-4 hours battery life. Did our habits and requirements changed that much that anything below, what, 12 hours of battery life is scandalous and unacceptable?
That doesn't use the request filtering APIs, it adds a blocking shim around the objects in each context. It's a workaround.
Understanding 4K and HDR
alt. title -- "apple and microsoft choose not to rush products to market"
Processors will march forward getting better each year, the tick-tock of intel's design process is a staple in the tech industry, so today's best is tomorrows garbage. but unless the plan was to dump your computer after 6 months usage, this shouldn't bother you much. And instead you get a system that is thoroughly tested and thoughtfully designed. I'd take a well designed 2 year old laptop over a flimsy garbage box with the freshest processor any day.
Election Update: Yes, Donald Trump Has a Path to Victory
This is a really clever way to effect this result, but still presents the two classic issues with anti-adblock methods:

1) distorts the ad marketplace, resulting in impressions that may be paid and not seen, or seen and not paid, and;

2) anti-consumer experience, as the consumer expects no ads.

Disclosure: Years ago I cofounded a company that offers a private ad exchange to large sites, and recently released a Subscriptions service that is able to blank out ads with good technical hygiene for paying subscribers. [1]

[1] http://subscriptions.publir.com/
He literally gave a case (from memory) about the industry being an early adopter of technology. Not every anecdote needs a citation. Where's your citation about it being a myth?

Man, posts like this are so prevalent on HN. Why can't people stop and think about whether their words are useful to the conversation?
Believe me, it is not. All Android and WP developers I know also used Macs. :)