skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been happy with google's Chromebook Pixel LS running Linux with openbox (for minimal resource consumption) and running windows 8 inside a VM. The construction of this chromebook is at the same level of any Apple device, with the upside of having a better design (in my opinion).
> In that sense, a car is just a tool to get you from A to B. So buying a Porsche would be completely pointless.

A Porsche is a different class of car in quality of construction and maximum speed achievable. That's the only reason I'd buy one. My car is a Subaru Forester and I love it.

> Clothes are just tools for keeping you warm. It's pointless to take pride in how you present yourself.

Some clothes keep you warmer or cooler depending on the environment. I guess I'm a minimalist but all of my shirts and pants are either single colored or a line pattern on a button up. They work fine as shirts, the only upgrade they need is pockets.

>So many of my engineering friends think this way. Too many. In fact, most of Sweden thinks this way about cars, and most of Germany thinks this way about clothes.

I guess some people are just fine with presenting themselves as a person and don't want to look special. I personally thing my winning personality will keep people away if my cloths don't so I'm already set.
Ok, but how do you get the mindset of believing what you say in marketing?

For many technical people it's quite exhausting to preach what they think is nonsense.
> A clear need for you isn't a clear need for everyone.

This goes both ways.
My understanding (without trying this myself) is that it's potentially possible to recover a traveler's email and home address.
As a remote worker myself, I can definitely resonate with the dark sides of working remotely as described in this article. The lifestyle is mostly portrayed as living the dream, however the lack of social interaction and finding a proper work-life balance where you also set time aside for friends, exercise, or meditation for example, is pretty difficult. That's actually what gave me the idea to bring together a community of remote workers to work, live, and travel the world together where the hassle of accommodation, flights, work spaces, gym passes, and social activities are taken care of so remote workers can enjoy the remote lifestyle to the fullest. If anyone's interested you can find more info here http://www.theremotetrip.com
"Scrounging through other people’s trash for useable stuff is common in many countries, a spontaneous form of recycling that long predates blue bins."

UK: Birmingham. No deposit on bottles here but some recycling companies will pay very small amounts for aluminium drink cans. We have a bit of a hierarchy going on

Scavengers: people going through wheelie bins and making a mess looking for cans &c. Often homeless.

Collectors: cans and metal objects. I often see a couple out with prams early in the morning collecting stuff. Not obviously homeless.

Rag and bone men: flat lorries going around collecting old fridges and washing machines and other kinds of stuff, usually metal

In Digbeth there is a day centre and residential block for older Chinese people. Always a hot meal at lunchtime, looks popular. Perhaps one of the Churches should start a day centre and organise voluntary activities?
Is it consolas or something?
i'd consider myself pretty introvert and have been working remotely for 5-6 years and only realised on how much i missed out socially after getting a regular job at a startup again. I just enjoy working in a team of motivated people, talking to them randomly about non-work/non-tech stuff. I still feel more productive even though there are more interruptions, but at home i tended to create these interruptions myself and was never really satisfied with my productivity either.

Online socialization interactions/chats (even video) with friends/team members never gave me the same kind of feelings, and i still felt more lonely. I guess there is something about face to face that I like.
I have tried coworking in both co-rented offices and "office hotels" as well as work from home. For a long while I had a (pretty expensive) seat at a coworking space that I didn't use, but just knowing that I could leave my isolation at home and go there meant it felt less isolated.

I wish I could work in cafes, at friends etc, but I just can not bring myself to work without a proper big screen and keyboard, which means most nomadic coffee shop setups are off limits. One day working off my laoptop and my neck, eyes and and back hurts. I need a proper desk, which makes it a lot harder to move around.
I think the bar for real-life dystopias are considerably higher these days.
If we don't count the time needed to master their skills (which we don't for software development either), artists have often created profitable works in a couple of weeks or less.

Songs that were conceived and recorded in a few days have become big profitable hits (e.g. "Doctoring the Tardis"). And of course a napkin sketch from someone like Picasso can easily fetch like $1000 or $5000.
Happy New Year for Smalltalk
Contract...?
The Yellow JS (not sure about the ES6 one) logo was make by Chris Williams for the community and he has put up a repository for the same : https://github.com/voodootikigod/logo.js

As for the legal rights, Quoting: "We are releasing this under a MIT license so you can print it on anything, use it anywhere, and never have to worry about royalties, licenses, and other such things."
What's your ideal day-to-day and week-to-week? Directionally, what are your career goals? What impact do you want to have in the word and in business (without limiting thinking to a feature, product, etc.)? What's your work experience?

I'm hiring for customer-facing tech positions at Google (Bay Area) that don't require SWE level knowledge, but require strong practical coding knowledge and relationship management experience.

You can reach out to me at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentciaravino if you're interested. Good luck!
Salaried workers usually work more. Hourly workers typically don't. Firms that are required to buy health insurance for full-time workers often cap hourly workers at 39 hrs/week. When they run out of available worker-hours, "salaried" assistant managers etc. pick up the slack.
+1 I didn't notice it until your comment, but you're right.
It's Ubuntu Mono: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono
font-family: "Ubuntu Mono", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
I agree that readily available to the average person tends to be better than possibly available

In practice, aggregation services like this tend to have more benign results like enabling the bulk emailing of politicians. Others include the suspicion that the popularity of Theyworkforyou, a UK site run by the same people which parses open data on parliamentary speeches and votes, might have had the effect of encouraging MPs to make brief, inconsequential speeches in order to boost statistics on their relative activity in Parliament. Another area in which the effect of their data aggregation might be considered questionable is where it's used as an authoritative source that a particular MP is "strongly against" a particular "cause", when in actual fact they may simply have voted with the party line against a particular bill related to that cause purely due to concerns about one specific aspect of that bill.
I am waiting for Fog reek to write something as good as Trello, and I'm not sure this is it. Trello is a genius piece of clear thinking, and is loved by non tech people, but has a 'power user' features and a decent API.

I'm not sure about this Gomix thing. I might send my kids to have a play on it and see what they think. I can't imagine it is going to have the uptake of Trello though
Ask HN: Books to read in 2017?
Happy new year everyone. Which books would you recommend reading in 2017?
Is it really just because? I've seen this mentioned before, but there must be some reason right?

I've never owned an iPhone (or any i* devices), so I have no experience here, but aren't the folks at Apple likely to do stuff for a reason? Or are things really that bad?
To be fair, the document has been re-tagged July 2016, but it is there since 2006:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060914031400/http://www.cs.virg...

"Credits: This guide was originally created by Adam Ferrari many years ago,
and since updated by Alan Batson, Mike Lack, and Anita Jones.
It was revised for 216 Spring 2006 by David Evans."
Exactly, that's what I asked about. I didn't know about setl and thus couldn't figure out how to get around the conditional branch. Thanks for the explanation!
No actually, they kept to daylight hours and we're generally friendly and open to conversation. I had more issues from the town's construction. They wouldn't necessarily start construction at 6 am but they would certainly show up to the site and start yelling back and forth while noisily getting their equipment out of their cars
Sure, you can go ahead and file a FOIA request. But according to the NYT article you linked to, 'the forensic evidence was accompanied by “human and technical” sources in Russia, which appears to mean that the United States’ implants or taps in Russian computer and phone networks helped confirm the country’s role.' [0] CIA will not give you information about its secret agents in the Kremlin just because you ask nicely.

0: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-el...
body{font-size:100%;font-family:"Ubuntu Mono",
"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif}
.wc-container{width:90%;max-width:768px;margin:0 auto}

user below got there first.
As an aside, you can get pattern matching in clojure as a library[0], though I'm not familiar with erlang so I can't say if clojure's implementation is a complete match in terms of functionality.

[0] https://github.com/clojure/core.match
Customer and user research is critical. Can you provide more info on your initiative, market, incentives you're offering, and what you've already tried?
While typing up this post, did the thought of people reading nothing but the headline (and ignoring the content of the article itself) cross your mind at all?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/06...

>Doesn't make it right, but it's hardly 'fake news'.

>The article has been corrected to "Github coding study suggests gender bias" - while different, clearly it's the same underlying story.

Clearly, except the majority of "readers" aren't even going to read the underlying story. The "fake news" here is the misleading title of the story, which is going to be the only information/narrative evaluated by most readers.
Also, as a mac user for the past year and a half, I still can't figure out when the three coloured dots are useful. Just give me windows-style minimize/maximize/close buttons please...

Every long time Mac user I've asked says they just don't use those buttons. Maximising windows is a mess in mac. Multi monitor support is also rather poor.

Over all, I've had no real problems with OS X (at least after installing my own terminal program and own version of bash and such) and everything worked smoothly, which is great, but I certainly wouldn't hold OS X up as some example of perfect design because there are lots of things windows and Linux do better.
Because a large number of atheists believe that even acknowledging a religion is a slippery slope into accepting its ideas as having validity.

Even describing oneself as agnostic is enough to drag people over from /r/atheism on Reddit into insisting that such a thing is impossible and you must either be religious or atheist and if somebody should insist that no, they're quite open-minded but see no hard evidence for either World view, they will be shouted down and called a liar.

Some parts of modern atheism is so toxic, it hardly a surprise that so many people wish to reject it. This is a perfect example of the kind of interaction that makes some people think atheists are just inconsiderate dickheads lacking basic manners or empathy.
I've had problems connecting by MBP to the projector system in a company that uses predominantly macs... (but not using Apple TV - that's always worked flawlessly for me). So I definitely disagree with the no trouble connecting to peripherals like projectors.
"The second example works only because what is getting worn out during work in today’s businesses are cognitive resources. Coming home from a computerized workplace working on spreadsheets does not affect your ability to creatively wield a hammer and a saw."

I work in a Further Education college in the UK (like a community college in US). We are seeing a lot of people paying full cost for evening/weekend courses on dress making, hairdressing/barbering, welding, decorating &c. Might try a questionnaire to see where the students are coming from in new year. Hypothesis: a lot of badge folk.
Maybe the Gomix product should pivot to be more about Anil, less about that dry, boring code. They could put in some kind of interface to view all his tweets and blog posts in one place.
Shift Is a Desktop Email Client That Easily Switches Between Gmail Accounts
Page is down :/

Here's an image of the page: http://imgur.com/szPrPuN
Would it be kosher to resubmit with the correct title from the get-go?
No it's not. This is my first comment in this thread, I don't know the guy in question and I have no opinion.

But if it's true what people say: No one wants to get into a public fight with a professional talker, SJW, "technologist" and self-promoter.

Those fights are only for people who have the time and the money.
They don't take all the money, I'm showing you the absurd case so you can explain why would be moral any sub case of it. Can you explain that? So you first start talking that "spending other people's money" is not spending but "investing", I think spending is spending and not "investing" but trying to follow your reasoning I ask for its ROI, then you fail to show that its ROI is positive and then, "because is a city" not show any other alternative that shows that your "investing" has any chance to provide a positive ROI to the people you've taken that money from (at gunpoint). Explain how your immoral "investing" is "good"?
>But for me, it was the opposite: I’d gone from management (high social interaction) to software development (lower social interaction), and from working in an office (hundreds of people) to working from home (two cats), and expected that this would all be fine.

Could be the change from bossing people around (being a manager) to being bossed around (being a dev)? Because all the rest (interaction with friends, walks, going to the gym etc) one could still have from working remotely -- like the author says they did for the first months anyway.
2016 in web technology
Took me a while (after reading through the reply, to no avail) to figure out what this refers to. Here's the feature this is referring to:

$ apt-get moo
(__)
(oo)
/------\/
/ | ||
* /\---/\
~~ ~~
..."Have you mooed today?"...

Edit: maybe not actually! Just found this too:

$ aptitude moo
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.
$ aptitude -v moo
There really are no Easter Eggs in this program.
You'd be surprised. The worse office politics and hostility still happen to people who meet every day.
is that why there's so many videos these days, sounds plausible - I agree they make skimming very difficult. I think videos are cheaper to make to, just record a session and talk over it.
NASA’s NEOWISE Mission Spies One Comet, Maybe Two
It's native because it is not over USB. The "dongle" is only a cable to go from the "mini" RJ45 to the regular one.
New Exploit Breaks the iPhone's Messaging App with One Text
I think that unspoken idea in the book is that people in corporations work half of the time they spend there to do useful things and the other half they just sit or walk around, suffering, bored out of their minds. I think the author just sees opportunity in providing them with something exciting to do during that time.
How Much Porn Is on Tumblr?
> That's the gold standard to me, not the ugly. I WANT courts to issue warrants against individuals based on a real concrete criminal case.

Then you are not aware of the state of things. Most courts now issue warrants without fact checking, simply based on police reporting info from dubious informers. That's not how it's supposed to work yet they are doing little more than just stamping requests for warrants now.
The air traffic control issues are surely the easiest aspect of the whole thing. It's just a large 3D pathfinding problem, the kind of thing computers eat for breakfast. I don't think anyone imagines they'd be manually flown.
As long as you have internet and a laptop, what's crazy about ANY setting?
The New Adidas Are Made from Lab-Grown Spider Silk
How difficult would it be, technically or otherwise, to get these websites to agree to mirror their common content?
Life-changing conversations
I've changed my eating habits and started following ketogenic diet(keto)[0] 18 days ago, and I already had great results so far.

I wasn't terribly overweight, but always on the thin line between obesity and overweight.

At the beginning: 184cm/6" height, 104 kg/229 lbs weight, 30.7 BMI

Now: 95 kg/209 lbs, 28,1 BMI.

Although I only lost 9 kg/20 lbs, I started wearing my XL t-shirts again down from XXL, and all my jeans are too loose already.

The best part of keto is it's not just a diet for weight loss, but a balanced lifestyle diet that I can follow for the rest of my life, that I never feel hungry while doing so.

[0]: https://reddit.com/r/keto
Medical research don't suffer from lack of skeptism, instead it suffers from unscientific thinking, shamanism, cargo cults, and so on...

For example: for 30 years we had research blasting cholesterol and saturated fats as evil, because predecessors had that result, some arguments were completely circular (saturated fats are bad because they raise blood cholesterol, and blood cholesterol is bad because a bad thing raises it... with no research trying to find how much any of the two really affect health).

Another example is thyroid diagnosis, after discovery of TSH test, medics started to use it exclusively, and accuse patients with normal results but with severe and advanced symptoms of having psychological issues, also many thyroid doctors never bother in ever asking for other relevant tests, like t3 and antibodies, and the TSH tests frequently use outright dated target ranges, with medics skeptical of new research because the old way is mostly working in their experience (since by their definition, people with symptoms but normal values aren't sick, thus their treatment is 100% effective, since it helps all sick people, and the "non-sick" are delusional and thus it is failure of other medical fields that they are sick)

Other example is any medic that saw patients improve under certain treatment, and then start to always use that treatment in a cargo cult manner, without paying attention to any research that proves that it is misguided, like all those kids forced to take ADHD medicine in their early life.
Well sounds like instructions to modern slavery
That's why I'm still using netctl.. It's 2016: some one needs to rewrite that pile of crap..
I have a theory, and this commentary kind of backs it up. You ave so much mental energy to give and so much physical energy to give.

So you can either work staff really hard to get a project out and then accept an unproductive time to follow, or you can accept a more average effort over a longer period.

Personally the hardest mix is 9-5 of regular work and then having to come up with inspirational ideas and solutions. This keeps me up all night and burns me out.

This 150% nonsense sounds like trying screw an extra bit of work out of your staff in terms of innovation, without giving them the space to think.

Good blog OP
5 years remote. Personal bottom line:

-- negative: lost interest in having friends (and generally the patience needed to talk to people), no social life, no career, work-life balance completely broken

-- positive: sleeping 8 hours a night! (and more if I need to), making walks in the park/training at noon, never really sick, comfortable home office, can be efficient again (only my job doesn't require that). Started having ideas again and thinking about side projects.

Before going remote, during 15 years I was commuting 2+ hours in the morning (so 2 hours again in the evening), sleeping 4 hours a night by the end of the week, dozing off the entire weekend and generally feeling extremely exhausted, mentally and physically, easily catching flu etc.

Would I move back to office employment? I really hope I won't have to.
Working from Home (That Mitchell and Webb Look)
> Surely if you don't get the result, you try something else.

Results have many "dimensions" and it is often not clear what THE result is. You will usually get A result though.
The software component in question was implemented according to its specification, and never failed in the environment for which it was developed, the Ariane 4.

The decision to re-use the component as-is in the Ariane 5 without sufficiently investigating the consequences of the higher horizontal velocities that it is subject to compared to the Ariane 4 cannot so obviously be blamed on the programmer that implemented it years before in a different context.
I don't know which is funnier, the inaccessibility of the "anti-pattern" website in general which is bitching about inaccessibility of applications, or the fact that the 'constructor' (loosely) for serving you that page is clearly 'null'~
We're Living Through the First World Cyber War
I don't really understand what in this feature makes the build non-reproducible. Judging by the patch it's the call to time(NULL) that seems to be problematic, but I don't understand why.
Thankfully you can turn off voice control in iOS 10. Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Home Button.
Serious question: this is the third time a exploit of this kind is publicly revealed for this app. How comes we don't see a global hack outbreak?

I mean, script kiddies would love to break millions of phones. What has stopped them from doing that so far?
Ask HN: Why hasn't Edward Snowden been captured yet?
If the FBI CIA and NSA is so powerful how come they can't just snatch him up and bring to the US for the crime he allegedly committed?
I've grown up on the marketing side of the house, so if you want to exchange ideas and feedback feel free to reach out via james@craft.cx.
This is very cool! We used to have a similar one at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL (http://lis.epfl.ch/) How many people and how much time did it take to design and prototype it?
Show HN: CodeDrafts – an app to create, annotate and discuss code snippets
> They also made some pretty ridiculous suggestions that simply wont work, like the proposed scheme with adding your FF# to other peoples tickets. The name on the ticket has to match yours for you to get the miles, this is the worst imaginable way of stealing them.

You must have missed the bit in the Q&A session when they addressed this very issue. They suggested creating a new frequent flyer account in the name of the person travelling and transferring the stolen miles to your own account – or simply changing the name attached to your own account if the system permits. They also claimed to know of people who were doing this as they spoke, and their talk gives little reason to doubt them.

> I watched the entire talk days ago as it was happening and didn't see anything new or interesting in it. Record locators are short and you can scan bar codes on boarding passes was basically all of it.

I disagree. The (in)security of travel agency systems was something I suspected but had no evidence of, and they presented some novel, fairly clever and disturbingly feasible ways of exploiting the bruteforceability of sequential PNRs, like sending highly targetted credit card phishing emails to people with recent bookings.