skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author believes that personal curation of ads is an essential part of his relationship with his readers. He believes in his own value as a voice for products that he finds useful or interesting to his readers. It is very difficult to productize the trust of a specialist community, because smart people value authenticity and despise shills.

If the author were to productize his model, which isn't impossible, it would require a great deal of effort to not lose trust, and his relationships with his customers would have to look a lot like his relationships with his sponsors (tightly coupled, personalized, most control left up to the consumer).
Ask HN: What was the best 2016 Startup idea to re-think the recruitment process?
Why do we still have head-hunters in 2017? I thought 2016 was the year of disruption for HR related processes. Here is a sample of an email I just received and I still get a lot of those!

"I'm working with a hot startup, they have a kick ass idea, series B, would you be interested?"

No company name, so I can look it up, no clue about what they're working on. I'm left with a third party asking me the following question: "Are you interested?". Interested in WHAT?
A 401k plan can offer low fee Vanguard funds. If your employee has crappy 401k fund options, you should take the issue up with your employer. They likely chose a inexpensive 401k administrator to run the plan to cut costs and left the employees with expensive funds to pick from. Alternatively, if you are self-employed you can open your own i401k through Vanguard. IRAs are great, but the contribution limits are not very high.
No word on switching back to open source. Their YubiKey NEO was open source; not sure why insist on proprietary code for the YubiKey 4. I'm frankly not comfortable with this kind of "security by obscurity".

https://github.com/Yubico/ykneo-openpgp/issues/2#issuecommen...

Edit: Never mind, there's actually a reasonable explanation for the change: https://www.yubico.com/2016/05/secure-hardware-vs-open-sourc...
You can--but AliExpress has a good reputation system. I mostly use that.

And if a vendor burns me, I remove their products and look elsewhere.
Cool Book: 26 Visual Basic Projects Analysis
Actually, to reduce input lag. You don't want vsync in multiplayer first person shooters, that's for sure.
I mean... He did lose the popular vote. So 'most' people didn't have an influence on the election. Or at least, the plurality of people.
E-drama aside, this is probably for the better, given the following:

- The developer has sole commit rights against the repo and hence no further would could be done on it without forking.

- The developer's continued trashing of the FSF poisoned the well for any number of people who might have wanted to work on Libreboot, GNU-version or otherwise. The fact is, no one wants to be part of a "contentious" fork.

It's a pity that it came to this, because I think the project would likely have received much more support as a GNU package. On the other hand, the lead developer made it very clear that she no longer wished for it to be a GNU package, and she seems to have devoted considerable time and resources (monetary included) to the project.

So it goes. I say good on Stallman for not using the GNU's muscle to maintain ownership of the project.
There is gain for the user, in the respect that they receive the service of their privacy being protected
SJW busybody trying to inflate their own PR bubble?

Why does it feel like this is becoming more and more prevalent in FOSS projects?
Elixir Type Checking
it is just a chat client
why does it need to support all those languages

i understand that Perl5, isn't really exciting anymore

but .. i think it's ok
Donald Trump wanted to be president so he could build resorts all around the world, using political clout to get favours.

Mark Zuckerberg would do the same thing, except he wants facebook everywhere instead of resorts. I could see him forcing ISPs to upgrade internet infrastructure, closing software patent loopholes, basically fixing all the stuff that makes technological development really annoying.
I run a 40" Philips 4k monitor as my primary desktop which sits 3 feet away from me, and I can guarantee you that I can see every single pixel still. It's nothing like a 5k iMac, for example, which at 40 inches, would basically be 8k. 4k is nowhere near the end of the game yet. Even for a TV 6 feet away. Until I can't distinguish my TV from my window, there is room for improvement.
Russian Intelligence vs. Napoleon
Not what we mean when we talk about basic income.

Basic income means "everyone gets a check for $1000 a month, regardless of how old or young they are, or whether or not they work."

Social Security means "everyone gets a check for $X a month, once they are old enough, variable based on how much they earned when they worked."
Props on them doing something new, I guess.

But also yeah, looks like a hinge can easily snap off... and knowing Razer's wildly fluctuating quality in its products, this thing is "Hingegate" in the making. Calling it right now.
FWIW "Billions of dollars" should be considered in the context that 1 million people * $1,000 = $1 billion. The US is ~300m people. So, this headline is something like "1/3 of 1% of the US is putting an extra $1,000 in their 401k recently" (really more like 1-2% of the _workforce_ but the point remains)
Totally agree. I find dedicated video conferencing equipment works really well for this case.

Although I guess I work in the industry so get a lot of good equipment.
I bought my girlfriend a subscription to Candy Japan about a year ago as a gift. It's been about a year now and I must say, it's really been a joy. We intend to keep our subscription going. My girlfriend and I are always so psyched when a new box comes in.

Thanks for the great work you do!
Now that iOS supports USB keyboards, it might work. Not sure why I haven't tried it since that came out, but I'll give it a shot and report back.
I wouldn't necessarily say that JS is easier to learn than those other languages, but I think it's easier to be productive in it.

If you use one of those other languages with the web, people are going to want you to use Javascript anyhow. So you have to learn both, unless you only do very, very basic things.

If you use one of those languages without doing web-stuff... Ugh. Maybe some phone apps line Swift or Java might be do-able, but I dunno about productivity for a long time.

On the other hand, it's not that hard to get good enough with Javascript to build some nice usable websites and get paid. IMO it's by far the shortest path to a programming career, and that will help get good enough to learn other languages and spread out while earning income.
Unrelated, but I find it funny how people used the name macOS instead of OS X for like 2 weeks after Apple changed the name, then just reverted back. I guess you can't make people stop using a name that's been around so long.
I saw your work on Reddit earlier today[1], nice.

I was thinking of building a mobile app to track movement and show this same data. Can't decide if its a passing fancy or not, so, maybe just a free idea for you. :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/5m5tj9/cou...
The One Thing You Need to Keep Your Fitness Resolution: Music
Japanese insurance firm replaces 34 staff with AI
Mentioned in the article, but not delved in to much, is the role that the pre-Greek Alphabet script Linear B played in our current understanding of the Mycenaeans, from the tablets found at Knossos and elsewhere. If you're interested in how this puzzle has come together over the decades, and enjoy stories about patient dedication to patterns and problem solving, John Chadwick's 'The Decipherment of Linear B' is an excellent read, documenting the work of Michael Ventris as he solved the SAT/constraint problem of mapping the Linear B script to the Greek language.
After a long career in public health, I began learning to code at age 50. I took a couple computer science courses at a local university and then attended a bootcamp focused on Rails. The bootcamp got me an internship, and after the internship, I was hired on a junior dev. Three years later, I am still at the same company (although it has been acquired) and have received one promotion. Most of what I learned, I learned on the job, and there was a long period where I just googled, cut and pasted, but with time, things began to make more sense. I really enjoy what I do today and can imagine doing it for many years to come.
Well, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you haven't navigated to a page that looks like that from an email you received from goggle.techsupport-E3Jk47@gmail.com.
My understanding was this had to do with a licensing issue with one of the chips they were using.
The 140ch thing was a gimmic that made twitter go viral. That's all it was. It wasn't even an innovation. Limiting text is certainly no innovation. Twitter is afraid to change it, because it's the very thing that made them different to the point where they did go viral. But it has become so widely used by now that the 140ch limit has become a massive pain in the ass for all of humanity (due to it's pervasiveness) and needs to be changed, BADLY. They are embarrassing themselves and making fools of humanity with everyone becoming expert at abbreviating, and living with the stupid morass.
I've never seen 1-3 days on AliExpress.

The absolute best (when the vendor has ePacket, which is like the FedEx of China) is 7-12 days.

But even then, you need to expect 2-5 days for the vendor to actually package and ship the item.

So you're much better off quoting customers 3-4 weeks. If 1-3 days is all that works for your niche, you probably need a new product, unfortunately.
True, selling "texts" is a busted model. I wasn't advocating that particularly; I think the revenue model is in the downstream rights management, not the actual text. Audio book rights. Film rights. Translation rights. I'm not the biggest fan of the Copyright system in the US as it stands now (specifically Term Length) but pointing out all the different avenues for compensation via multi-media exploitation is a forward-looking business model.
A big issue I have now is simply time; I think I could easily pick up new things (probably faster) but I no longer have the idle time to do it. You can learn anything but at some point you start prioritizing.
I guess I do not understand the manner in which you use "ad hoc" to refer to package management.

It seems as though you are now talking about cross-distribution package management. It is further confusing that you are contrasting all "Linux" to the single distribution macOS.

To me the term is "ad hoc" current w.r.t. NixOS , GNU Guix and other purely functional systems, and there the distinction is made between:

1) declarative -- in which a rebuild of the system will ensure the package is present and configured as expected; and

2) ad-hoc -- in which the user can affect all of the system with side effects and rebuilds will not result in the same state.

Why would you want to allow users to randomly and aribitrarily affect all of the system and end up in an unknown state? Isn't that exactly what curling shell scripts achieves? And what method does macOS implement in order to avoid this?

If all you're talking about is cross-distro package management then you and your users can either give up on this and standardize on one OS and just pony up the cash for RedHat (same as you do for macOS) or else start writing Flatpaks.
To pile on to this. Even is SS makes no changes whatsoever, they can still pay out ~75% of the benefits starting in the late 2020's or early 2030's and all the way through the 2080's or 2090's based on the SS Trustee report. SS is going to be around unless we choose to elect officials that dismantle it. The fear mongering and apathy needs to stop.
Not all 401(k)s are created equal. If you work for a large company it's entirely possible you have access to funds with lower fees in your 401(k) than in an IRA.
> I can't assume every site owner wants to deal with figuring out who's the sponsor each week

Here's where you've broken the model - long before you get around to re0implementing an ad network.
It's hosted by "freecodecamp.com". Yes, of course it's going to be an ad for their offerings, if only in the sense of making them look good.

This is kinda like objecting that Google blog posts are really ads for Google.

"News is something someone doesn't want you to learn about. All else is propaganda."
Popular vote has never meant anything in America in all it's existence. But the point is a person with zero political experience, completely outside the political echo chamber/insiders club just won the most powerful office on earth. Whether you are for him or against him I believe it does show that people can absolutely start a change.
What cultures and times peak your interest? It's a broad, deep, and wonderful rabbit hole to go down. I'd say, follow what you find interesting. Chase the subjects and times that interest you. Wikipedia's a great place to run wild. Other than that, try to find some definite books on the subject you want to learn about. Documentaries are also an excellent and fun way to learn. Maybe a history class at a local college.
I can't even figure out how to install a stable version of Chromium. I only spent two minutes trying, but installing Chrome consists of one web search and one button click, so the difference is pretty obvious to me.
No time like the present to learn! I taught a friend in high school. She learned in about a day.
Design 2.0: Minimalism, Transparency, and You (2006)
According to the website python,tcl, and javascript can be used https://irssi.org/modules/
The Rust module system is too confusing
Congratulations! This made my day.
Do you get to choose the bank that the account is with?
> OP is discussing a 30+ year time horizon, though. I can think of a few potential things that would precipitate not just a crash, but a long-term economic malaise

...

> Climate change

The climate change consequences big enough to cause a long-term economic malaise are far enough out to not affect most of today's workers. We'll mostly just get things that cause short term disruption, like more large storms, more weather variability, more record high tides, and similar things.

The big things, like sufficient sea level rise to require abandoning significant parts of many major cities, long term changes in water availability that significantly change agriculture for whole regions, and so on are usually forecast to be in the 100+ year timeframe.

This is one of the frustrating things about climate change. Over the long term it likely has disastrous consequences for humanity, but it can be largely averted or at least limited if action is taken early enough. But "early enough" puts you a time when the consequences are still localized and intermittent, and so it is easy for people to overlook it (especially when they can make more money by doing so).
Where this becomes very useful is 3D 360° video. 120 FPS allows two 60FPS streams, while transmitting the entire 360° at 10K allows reasonable resolution for the portion the user is actually looking at.
The Yubikey Nano is pretty great in this regard - doesn't stick out enough to really worry about breaking.
DJI Acquired Hasselblad
Great to hear. Seems like very fast turn around addressing the needs of USB-C. Looking forward to the snag free version.
"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The OP said, "I'm counting on basic income being a thing when I retire." -- He is counting on Social Security.
more near a 10th of the story

Neither side wants to put up any substantial verifiable information about it, so there is nothing to talk about on that front.
Can you cite any evidence that the "stated" intent of AdNauseam is to cost the target money? According to their video, the intent is to protect the user's privacy by preventing advertisers from building an accurate personal profile of the user. You may argue that this has the effect of costing the advertisers money, but just because that is a result, doesn't make it the primary goal. It's certainly not AdNauseam's fault if the advertiser's business model depends on violating user privacy.
The reports the US government have released aren't very compelling. But read these reports about the malware used from independent researchers:

http://www2.fireeye.com/rs/fireye/images/rpt-apt28.pdf
https://www2.fireeye.com/rs/848-DID-242/images/rpt-apt29-hammertoss.pdf

From the report:

> APT29 has been operating in its current form since at least late 2014. We suspect the Russian government sponsors the group because of the organizations it targets and the data it steals. Additionally, APT29 appeared to cease operations on Russian holidays, and their work hours seem to align with the UTC +3 time zone, which contains cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Just to clarify since the naming might be a little confusing - NetCoreStack is Gencebay's project. Looks very cool, I'll mention it on our next ASP.NET Community Standup (http://live.asp.net). The ASP.NET team recently released a WebSocket implementation (https://github.com/aspnet/WebSockets) but it's not very full featured yet. For instance, the NetCoreStack project has some proxy handling, whereas I don't think the ASP.NET team's implementation handles proxies yet.

SignalR for .NET Core is under active development (https://github.com/aspnet/signalr), but a release date hasn't been announced. SignalR brings in things like connection and group management, and the update can take advantage of some of the performance and architectural changes in .NET Core.

[Disclaimer: Microsoft employee, Nazgûl]
> Let's deep dive into diversity further. Why do we want diversity? Because apparently, we want people with different perspectives and experiences.

I don't think that's all of it. People have been pitching that as a politically-correct argument for diversity, since "There are actual racists and actual sexists among us and they have successfully biased the industry" is too offensive to say out loud. But diversity of perspective isn't the fundamental reason.

Absent a solid scientific reason to believe that one gender, one race, one country of origin, one level of income, etc. is truly better at the job than another (as opposed to better thanks to circumstance and existing systems of oppression), a non-diverse candidate pool is an arbitrary subset of a diverse candidate pool. This is both unprofitable for the industry, because you're skipping qualified candidates for no good reason, and unjust to the candidates whom you're skipping.

So, if these candidates truly are qualified and there's no scientific reason why they're statistically worse at the job, why are they being underrepresented? Because we have racists and sexists among us and they're in power.

Which is why it makes sense to look at race and sex and so forth more than other axes like viewpoint or country of origin: first, race and sex are particularly arbitrary, and second, that's what we know people have particularly discriminated on. There is discrimination on other axes, and it's absolutely also worth looking at, but it's a bit less egregious.
What Are the Five Signs It's Time to Sell Your Company?
I am not a lawyer. My understanding is that CA has different laws concerning IP then most states, where is you don't use any company resources or write it for the company, you effectively own the code. I tend to think you are overthinking it... your generic wrapper scripts are likely not valuable enough the company to care about, they probably aren't the secret sauce.
Would you really be wanting to keep something with that form-factor on your keyring?
There are a number of reasons.

- Clicking button is far easier and faster (it really does make a difference).

- Your smartphone is complex software and often attacked. Secrets can be stolen.

- Based on public-key crypto, no secret on the server.

- Built in phishing protection

- Your own private key is secure hardware that you can't read the key from

To be fair, a smartphone could also implement U2F and you would get some of the same benefits. Samsung phones for example already support UAF (the other FIDO) protocol.
Forgot to thank you for this! Not all heros wear capes!
No, DisplayPort is not "logically HDMI"! Where did you find that in the article?

You can transmit DVI or HDMI signal over a DP cable — which is used for passive adapters. If you plug the DP cable into your monitor, it's using the DP protocol.
Unless you are doing live video, there is no reason to transcode real-time. Do it all upfront. You need to decide on your requirements and transcode everything to your desired format.

I'd suggest https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/details/, its quite affordable and much easier than doing it yourself, assuming it does what you need.

From the research I've done, I'd suggest MPEG-DASH for reasonable cross-ish platform adaptive streaming without requiring fancy video servers. Your requirements and platforms might be different than mine though. Research is required.
Yes this is one reason why with large software development programs it's generally best to organize around feature teams instead of component teams. In other words, a single agile team should be able to build an entire feature on their own through the full stack instead of having one team for the database, one team for the back end, one team for the service layer, one team for the UI, etc.
Agree wholeheartedly with this. The "Social Security is Failing" headlines are all ginned up to support political ends, they don't have much to do with the reality of the program.

Large adjustments were already made to accommodate the baby boomer generation. That's why we have a $2.8 trillion-dollar trust fund. With current demographics, we should be able to pay 100% of promised benefits until the late 2030's. Afterwards, with a pure pay-go system, we'd only be able to pay ~80% of benefits.

There are simple fixes that could dramatically extend the reserve depletion date to sometime in the 2050s. Not doing so is purely a political question.

Trust fund stats: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4a3.html
Thanks for the encouragement. Money isn't the end-goal, I'm genuinely interested in the work, but it's at the back of my mind - I know there are a lot of opportunities out there. My problem is that I'm er, multi-talented and easily distracted...
Looked through first project from Boost, alphabetically ordered, and found Accumulators. Seems a nice project where templates are used extensively.
Thanks for ideas.
It's important to separate the distinction between legal and illegal, and right versus wrong (morality). the two are sometimes correlated but they do not necessarily have to be. It's much easier to prove something legal or illegal because you just look at the laws on the books. It's like a mathematical proof. It doesn't have to be morally correct but it can still be legal.

The holdup are people confusing this click fraud with immoral. It seems to be very clearly illegal by the books, but in my opinion a moral and right thing to do
https://getsupport.apple.com

make an appointment. they're replacing a lot of batteries these days. also, check with your credit card (if you bought it with one) as many cards extend the warranty by an additional 12 months. That might come in handy.
How Manual and Automatic Transmissions Really Work
Top 5 wellness tips for 2017: sleep, microbiome, movement, let go, connect
> as recently as 2014 it added $25 billion

Yes, but that is $25B out of total receipts of $884B[0]. For every $1.00 paid in over $.97 was paid back out to beneficiaries. In 2015 it was $.975 and 2016 will probably be higher still.

According to this page[1] the trust fund will be depleted by 2035. I know that is a projection and things can change, but to say there is no room for concern borders on hubris.

[0] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4a3.html
[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/