skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the first groups that came to mind. They may not all seem applicable all of the time but I would argue that making your site accessible to as many of these people as possible would improve the experience of all of your users.

- Partially sighted users that are not technically literate enough to use assistive technologies.

- People with physical impairments that affect their ability to use input devices and may also dictate the types of device they can use.

- People with low levels of technical literacy.

- People with poor literacy in the language of the site.

- People with dyslexia, not forgetting those with poor working memory or slow processing speed.

- People with dementia.

- People with a host of other mental and cognitive disorders.
R vs. Python for Data Science: Summary of Modern Advances
This is pseudo-scientific crap. There is a small echo chamber of LENR researchers, egged on by outright swindlers and dreamers whose desire to believe outweighs whatever scientific ability they had. Mainstream physics mostly ignores this sideshow. But articles like this keep popping up, selling the fringe crap to the public as reality.
Ask HN: How much you make at Facebook?
Hey HN crowd,
I am planning to apply to Facebook (Menlo Park) as a software engineer and I wonder how much engineers make there.

Thank you in advance for sharing!
Because that isn't true?

Looking at the first thing (GANs): developed by Ian Goodfellow, who is now at OpenAI. The first linked paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.05396v2.pdf) is out of University of Michigan and Max Planck Institute.

The second (https://phillipi.github.io/pix2pix/) is out of Berkeley, the third (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04802v3.pdf) is out of Twitter (which I guess counts as a rich American tech company).

Google Brain/DeepMind/FAIR/MS Research do great work, but there is plenty of great work elsewhere too.

For example, just yesterday an implementation[1] of Fast Layer Normalization for TensorFlow was posted on Reddit[2] but someone, who says they don't really do C++ ("I am really new to CUDA and C++"). This can speed up training (sometimes) by 5-10X (!). That's democratization.

[1] https://github.com/MycChiu/fast-LayerNorm-TF

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5gt0wm/p_f...
Inside the Thiel Fellowship reboot
I thought dinosaurs were an allegory for Islamic Jihadism in Jurassic Park
Building a Company on a budget
Boston Dynamics Demos Spot Mini Robot at NIPS 2016
ForgeRock has a pretty comprehensive suite of open source IAM software [1] but you have to buy a subscription before you can put it into production.

There's also the open source KeyCloak project from RedHat. [2]

Also I believe Connect2ID is FOSS. [3]

[1] https://www.forgerock.com/

[2] http://www.keycloak.org/

[3] http://connect2id.com/
Very cool - I've had ideas for a few sites, but when the time came to create the site and get a half decent design going, I found myself running out of time to work on the actual content. Best of luck to your idea/service
That's terrible -- I agreed to sleep with the prospective investor and the startup's value jumped by $133M lol
damn.. i felt bad about this
> Regardless of where your password database is, the attacker only needs to compromise 1 password on the website to access your account.

What are you talking about? The whole point of TOTP is if the attacker compromises your password, they still can't log in because they don't have the TOTP code.
Never said they were. I was commenting on how it would be a poor idea to implement such a support plan.
T-Mobile Exposes Accounts with “DIGITS” Sign Up Security Failure
dpeg is probably the original author of the manifesto. Some of it is undoubtedly formed by accretion. He is also one of the originators of the contentious [Berlin Interpretation](http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Berlin_Interpretat...) of roguelikes.
Well said. As far as I could see the whole thing was a huge scandal and black eye on the scientific community. The way Robert Park of the American Physical Society acted was particularly bad (he outright accused scientists of fraud without any evidence to back it up). Much of it probably came from competition for funding, as quite a few people got their feathers ruffled once the Dept. of Energy announced it would put funding into Cold Fusion research, thus diverting it from their own projects. Without absolving them of any responsibility for overstating their claims (which they absolutely should shoulder), it is truly a shame Pons & Fleischmann's findings could not be processed more rationally than they were at the time.
Ask HN: How is it determined whether or not you can downvote a comment?
Take this example

https://postimg.org/image/kxdt7vpbr/

Why can I upvote the more recent comment, but not the parent?
Most yubikeys = only the Neo
Update - so...my bad. My brother actually uses http://www.zebrapals.com/ which is a logistics company but NOT a fulfillment center. They take your shipment, inspect, label etc. and send to the fulfillment center.

He has had great success with them, if you need those services.
Ask HN: What would you do if you had 2 hrs free time on daily basis?
I've had a great experience with Bluebuds + iphone 6. The quality isn't perfect compared to wired but they are fantastic for the gym and such.
Personally I ended up sticking with gulp, but writing a small helper that turns the tasks into command line commands (search up gulp-run-command and my username if you care to look, I really only published it for ease of use though so don't rely on it not changing), so it basically feels like an easier cross-platform make with a fancier dependency system.

99% of tools have a CLI and it's generally pretty damn good.

If you don't have many "tasks" or they are pretty simple, just use npm's built in "npm run scripts" which works fantastically for smaller projects IMO.

I agree though about the lack of ability to pass flags. I wanted something that lets me make command line commands as tasks, build a dependency tree ala gulp, and pass in optional flags to trip things like prod vs dev builds.

But at the end of the day getting make to cooperate on all platforms was a mess, and it sure as shit didn't scale well or do stuff in parallel at all. So a simple if somewhat inelegant gulp file seems the best bet for us.

(I imagine this is how new build systems are born!)
If you have no intension of every going public or selling the company do you still fall inside the current definition of a startup?

It seems unfair, if the founders are able to sell their equity privately.

Overall, in a startup my view is that equity offsets the risk that the company might just disappear. You're taking on that risk, you should get to keep that equity compensation (even if you leave).

From the employers point of view, equity should help motivate staff so they don't just consider their own job security, but overall company success.

If you're never going to IPO, perhaps do that via dividends? Or other profit sharing mechanism.
Oh... oh ok... yeah that makes more sense. i get it now. Super derp moment.
Tracking when I workout, notifications (I carry two phones and during the day my personal phone is in my bag most of the time). And just using it as a watch. I hated that most of the "smart watches" out there would either run out of battery in 8 hours, or have the screen off by default (with a wrist action or a button to enable it).

I don't use the sleep tracking at all, hate having a watch on at night, but the step tracker is fairly accurate and useful.

It's one of those things where I initially bought it for the notifications and the (supposed) battery life. And every now and again I'll find some random new cool use.
You were right; this was sincere. Any article about Literally Vladimir Nabokov is going to be a questionable choice for workplace reading; if the author's cheering on his and Wilson's promiscuity, it's definitely not something you want open when a co-worker comes over.
Why does MIT have a /8 IPv4 block?
You think it's because you're blind? I'm sighted and I have the same problem! I can't design anything worth a damn...
I may be thinking about this wrong, but think of a boat being propelled by a motor. When you turn off the motor the boat doesn't just stop. Inertia continues carrying it forward as the friction of water absorbs its momentum until it comes to a rest.

You could get similar charts between the EM drive cooling off as a boat slows down.
In this case, the wheel started off with an impractical oval shape and the reinventions are usually making it rounder.

If you'd stopped the churn two years ago, people would be using Bower for front-end package management in addition to NPM, and Gulp or Grunt for task automation. Now a few churns later, NPM is the only package manager you need since you can use Webpack to automatically cut out your duplicated front-end packages. And now NPM provides all the task scripting most devs would need, so no more Gulp or Grunt.

Things are getting simpler and easier, but if you're looking from the outside you'll just see a long list of names of tools.
Why would the US military be pressuring Intel to remove obscure instructions in ancient CPU designs?
yup, the question is just asking you what you are currently consciously working on improving, thats all.
I've seen a lot of these threads and without fail the comparison between DCSS and NetHack comes up. I can't remember the last time somebody said they loved NetHack in one of these threads, so kudos to you!

Personally, I am one of the rare birds that loves NetHack and just can't stand DCSS. NetHack feels far closer to a proper role-playing game with an actual dungeon master who will listen to your crazy ideas and give you back a result that actually makes sense. DCSS, on the other hand, feels more like an arcade beat-em-up style game to me. I guess it doesn't help that my favourite combo (fulsome distillation and evaporate) was removed from the game a few years ago.

Beyond that, I find DCSS really dry. Most of the time you're just mashing the auto-explore key and then bumping into a few enemies or repeatedly casting your best spell at them. For the style of game it is (beat-em-up Roguelike with zero role-playing) I'd much rather play TOME[0], a game that has far more intricate and involved character classes.

[0] http://te4.org/
> This entry was posted in archeology, trivia, whines on July 2, 2010 by Michael Steil.

So I guess (2010) is appropriate for the title.
Any advice you can give me on how to find these companies?
are there any 'touchable' monitor that renders pixel-as-depth yet?
I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned
They probably aren't describing them very succinctly, because there isn't really a benefit to dropping information in the complete instruction set reference. If you don't want all of the information, look at the instruction set summary instead (~40 pages in volume 1).

These things aren't written to be brief, they are written to be complete.
Is it worth what? The one minute you spend dropping a Stripe Checkout button on your site? Yes, yes it is.
Silicon Valley Is Trying to Reinvent Health Care, Starting in New Jersey
You mean suffering more in his later years. He always suffered from it.
The only one that supports it appears to be an outdated model that isn't undergoing the latest certifications and lacks other features (like ECC p384)
I guess they are the two oneliners in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13122834

You can't downvote the top level comments in your submissions. Also, you can't downvote the replies to your comments. (You can't downvote comments after 12 hours.)(Perhaps there are also other cases, I'm not sure.)
A great roguelike on android is Pixel Dungeon https://f-droid.org/app/com.watabou.pixeldungeon
> although I took it off to reduce the number of recruiters calling me.

Why? If it was in demand due to scarcity, couldn't you have done freelance work at a ridiculously high hourly rate? I've come across another ol Indian dude (my Pop's age, we called him 'uncle') who was making a killing programming in some mainframe language called COBOL.

Answer this and I'll get off your lawn LOL.

( He also made fun of my node.js and react.js and said "You young kids are always moving on to the next shiny thing")
I'm guessing you meant to comment on the vm thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13124198
How can I use U2F for Windows sign-on? Windows 10 "Hello" stuff is apparently in the pipeline, but I need U2F domain authentication for Windows 7+.

Also curious if I can use a U2F for anything PGP-related, signing or encrypting regular stuff.

All this to save $20/piece!
Qualcomm ARM Snapdragon 835 can be designed to support x86 Win32
This. I would love to see this open sourced.
Any reason why they haven't replaced it / migrated it off to something else, like say, Contentful CMS API?
The keyword to search on is statement of work, or SOW.

Here's a nice start:
http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/fix-price-vs-tim...
Ask HN: What are some successful products that had a disappointing Show HN?
Anything from low traffic and upvotes to a weak product.
Yes Prime Now does restaurants in SF
Is there a reason to implement decode logic in a PLA as opposed to ROM?
https://identityserver.github.io/

You would need to host it somewhere, but does full OIDC if you so choose and can integrate with your AD (or multiple).
For non-profitable companies, option/equity/eventual-bonus like this one are good ways to dingle the carrot to motivate people. For profitable companies that have no plan to get liquidated, an annual dividend or bonus is fairer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence_detection_in_neuro...
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10
nitpick: please enable HTTPS

I just had some issues on airline wifi because they man-in-the-middle the connection to inject their crappy "flight tracker" menubar and it covered some of the builder controls. That wouldn't happen with SSL and your visitors would be more secure.
Question: How close is Flow coming within VS Code to parity with the features available to TypeScript?
It's just more candid in its unreliable narrator aspect than other films.

The Wolf of Wall Street employs a similar trick for part of the film to great effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZhGPH83ZHE
I still use coldfusion and thought there would be more comments here about the language!

It has evolved to be a Java Framework, essentially, but I love it still.

Once you get into practice of using coldfusion components, which compile into java beans, it becomes the best of all worlds. Stable, easy to read and write, highly reusable, lots of functionality and expandability, fast, compiled, etc.
Perhaps it's this one: http://www.crackle.com/startup
Hey! This is an absolutely amazing project. I'm curious what your background and "day job" (if you have one) is.
No kidding, it's barely got a parser.

C4[1] on the other hand, is still tiny enough to comprehend, does have a pretty complete parser, and probably wouldn't be too difficult to modify to generate code for this VM.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822
Windows 10 to Support ARM Chips with X86 Emulation Next Year; Qualcomm Chips
This is a cute system and I'm not going to be against a company having a secret bonus that might give employees free money. But c'mon, don't write a blog post about how this is great. This system is much worse than equity. This is basically like a lottery that might give extra money to employees lucky enough to be presently employed in case the magic numbers hit.

The whole point of equity is to incentivize people to create value for the company and give them upside in case the company does grow a lot (how people personally value equity is another story, but the incentive is the same). This plan doesn't do that at all...

1) The company says it has no plans to exit so there really isn't an incentive for an employee to think their contributions might return them upside.

2) The 5% figure for all employees is tiny. A growing startup might give away 5-10% in equity, per year, to employees via stock grants. This is 5% total. Every year that goes by employees should own more of the company because they are doing more of the work, a fixed number makes no sense.

3) Past employees who might have made significant contributions and created tons of value get nothing. Do you think if any founders leave they are giving up their real equity?

> it’s a great alternative to the organizational complexity of option grants, acceleration, strike prices, conversion into shares, private markets vs. public markets, dilution by outside parties, partial vesting, etc.

So no, it isn't a great alternative to equity, it does completely different things. It is a random bonus that nobody can expect which is loosely correlated with whatever value they may have contributed. This is certainly better than no bonus, but maybe is worse than a good bonus (though they might also have other bonuses, I have no idea).
Fiction: “The Story of Kao Yu” by Peter S. Beagle
Huge, potentially error-prone transfers, thanks to the image-based approach of CZ.

Over ten years old (like Clonezilla) SystemImager does it better with rsync and file-based imaging. No support for Windows, so maybe that's the 'killer feature' of CZ.
Used-car marketplace Beepi shuts down outside of CA
The site is down for me, here's a mirror:

https://www.pastery.net/skwyyr/
I've always been curious about trying a system that rewarded people for the value they created now, instead of owning shares/options and waiting for a liquidity event. Bonuses are the traditional option I guess, but is there anything else? How else might you distribute a portion of funds earned by the company in a meaningful manner to employees?
Sure, and pay for egress.

Data Transfer OUT From Amazon RDS To Internet
First 1 GB / month	$0.000 per GB
Up to 10 TB / month	$0.090 per GB
Next 40 TB / month	$0.085 per GB
Thanks! Where did you find that information? It's not in the Guidelines or the FAQs.
Not Germany.
The even more relevant comparison is to TOTP. Many places support 2Fa over TOTP, far viewer support 2Fa over U2F.

The big problem with TOTP is that real time attacks can still get you when you get MITM.

Edit: I now understand you were talking about the article, not the technology itself
Ask HN: How many devs open Terminal vs. Browser when you start your comp?
> The process of Baking is what makes a Bread a bread.

Says who? The dictionary? It can change. You forget that language is a social construct, and like it or not, India is a country of a billion people with a different cultural context and we're going to make words up, or overload new meanings to existing words. And there is nothing you can do about it. That's how language works. You could claim ownership over it and try to dictate and browbeat alternate usages, but come to India, and try telling them that Appam is not a Bread, they'll tell you "of course not, Appam is an Indian Bread".
It's not worth anyone's time to mess with it. I never thought it would take all that long to just redo it, especially considering all the time wasted trying to tweak it and get Salesforce forms embedded, for instance, but I don't make those kind of marketing decisions...

We have in large part just superseded it with some small static html+js sites dedicated to each of our products that we stuck on Azure webapps. So much easier, so much better, and, so much cheaper. But the main site limps along.
> Uber is particularly vulnerable because their latest capital infusion of $1.5Bn is high-interest debt, not equity

Pardon my ignorance, can someone explain this? What is high-interest debt and what is equity and how do they determine risk?

Also I would expect that Uber is profitable since they take a cut per ride, and their overheads should be low (just a bunch of super smart software engineers and cloud hosting, right?). What am I missing? I am young, might be stupid. Bear with me.
Salary?
Played for another hour+ and was able to make it to wave 22. A few more comments:

* On the grid line make every other line double width. As all of the turrets are 2 spaces it is really annoying when you screw up counting.

* When a game ends it has some odd '_____' in the dialogs. Guessing some indenting gone wrong?

* If I drag a tower inside of the tower browser on the right the green box appears and seems to be stuck on the map if I release my finger not on the map.

* Other than getting a high score or getting to further wave achievements are a way to encourage players to try out different techniques. This is somewhat difficult with only 1 challenge, but as you add more challenges with different wave configurations it opens up a number of different achievements that can be obtained. This goes back to finding the fun. When a game ends why should I play another game?

* I can't think of a good method off the top of my head but it would be good to show off different level designs players have come up with. Maybe at the game over screen to give ideas for how other players solved the level to try? At least I know what I will try the same design over and over before switching to something else.

* Different challenges with different maps would be interesting. Maps with multiple entrances and exits. Maps where some spots on the map are already blocked off and can't be built on. The ability to build 1x1 'walls' that do nothing, but force bugs in certain directions and all of the various maps you can make that have pre-existing walls and players can either use and destroy and go for something else. You could also make Turrets be damaged and need to be repaired back to the lowest level. If there was a challenge where it already had turrets in a horizontal/vertical/diagonal pattern I would be really temping to keep that up to play it out and not destroy it.

I know Tower Defense games have typically used some path finding algorithm such as A* or whatnot and the instant bugs know about a better path they change direction. Something worth pondering would be to instead use a diffusion map. Here is a tech demo I tossed together entirly in plain old JavaScript showing just such a technique: http://meyerhome.net/~ben/towerdefense/ (Zoom in your browser to make it bigger) The bugs react, but not instantly and allows for much more emergant behavior such as bugs moving away from the most efficient path if all of its friends keep dieing on that path (at least for a little while until they forget) or the bugs seem to cluster for a second or two until they all charge forward. Anyway that is a very different direction to take a TD game and outside the scope of the feedback your looking for but I figure you would get a kick out of it.
I agree that Mr Robot was above standard. But already in the first episode in the first few minutes he talks bullshit about Tor :/
avg time spent 8-9hrs (weekly avg below)

- coding 5hrs

- emails 1hr

- discussions, huddles, meetings 1hr

- lunch, coffee , walking around 1hr

- reading, browsing, hacker news 1hr
Well-put. I'll only add that even with options,

3) Past employees who might have made significant contributions and created tons of value get nothing

is an issue because ISO options expire at most 90 days after termination. Some companies have begun to provide terms that allow employees to exercise their options for much longer (7 years in Pinterest's case I believe), but this is far from a universally accepted practice.
He is making a observation. Many people saw the October as a disappointing 'bump' to the Macbook lineup.
Terminator then Chrome.
Average sales per order, I am guessing
So every sub is vote manipulating by nature of being a group that votes together on specific posts? I see. Don't break the site from the sidebar would have been a better option.
Some companies have a profit-share program where they pay a percentage of the profit earned that year to employees in addition to salaries.