skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't worry too much about trying to estimate a startups chances unless your a domain expert. The more literature you read the more likely it is you'll begin to be over/under-estimate their chances of success.

In my experience the challenge of working in any stage of organisation is fighting its disfunction. If you love your field of work, then this will be likely your only nemesis. A prime benefit of working in a startup is your relative power to do this. So embrace it and use it as a place to learn how to get stuff done. This will serve you well wherever you eventually end up and expose you to people and functions well outside your domain.

Given that:

1) Is what they are proposing reasonably sensible? Ask someone normal if unsure :P

2) Is it interesting to you?

3) Do they seem like intelligent, friendly people?

4) Challenge them on a product/architecture decision they have made and see how they respond.

5) Ask how much runway they have and be comfortable with it

Finally, you only live once, take a chance, really try to do something new. When your there, speak up. If your lucky you'll have a good experience with good people and learn a hell of a lot.
If you have to write an app to remind yourself not to use facebook, maybe you should delete your account.
Understandable, but I guess I was framing it in terms of "the way it used to be". Picking up a paper and reading yesterday's news was the method of delivery for years. If the shift is to put the best news behind a paywall, it seems preferable to read "real" news on paper than fake news.

But to answer your direct question, no, they cannot. Our local paper is fairly stubborn about its monitization (refusing to digitize back issues in major library databases such as Proquest), so I'm not optimistic.
This applies to more than just logos. So much design, when turned into a public matter, suffers.
And lack of money is a good way to definitely prove that you're not valued.
You mean holding it all together with duct tape and chewing gum?
allowing sub-penny executions by some effectively steals trades from risk takers on primary exchanges; it's horrible for market structure and depth. the sub-penny problem is a function of another insidious practice, payment for order flow. both should be banned.
Outplanr: Turn to-dos into work days
OMG Guinness record
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone knew a little queuing theory?
With functioning clocks, Galileo is accurate to within a metre, according to this article. That's crazy - I had no idea it was that accurate.
Definitely agree with that. Was looking for a page in the overview section, to drop a link, but that entire topic seems to be gone?
If I was the NSA, I'd certainly be looking to launch a VPN company or two - maybe even subsidising their offerings, to get them to the top of the performance and value for money charts.

After all, getting users to voluntarily direct their traffic through your network would be much easier than installing snooping hardware at every ISP, backdooring hardware in transit or snooping on undersea cables.
Webpack 2 Final Release
Looks nice! My own code is much messier (currently rewriting with akka-streams). Yes, I'm using WS client from akka-http.

Liked how you pattern match directly on JSON messages, I should di it more. :)
We won't know until we know what's the cause in the first place.
I might be wrong by I think you missed maybe the most important keyword: backup. You can't fix a missing/corrupted backup, at this point it's too late. So you need to get it right. It's not like, say, configuring nginx. If you get nginx wrong you just fix it. If you need a backup and it's not there you can't fix it, it's (likely) game over.

So outsourcing the database is a very logical thing to do: if you can trust a third party to have a reliable backup/recovery story, that's one thing that can kill your business that you don't have to worry about.
It sounds like a manufacturing issue to me, so I don't think so. The batch they ordered could have been faulty, but I'm assuming that ESA uses samples taken from multiple runs to minimize failures, so that's fairly unlikely.
Java isn't perfect but it's the defacto language for anything that doesn't need to be compiled.

I personally really like Java and I've used a ton of languages over the years. Not a perfect design but it's hard to think of any big downsides. The syntax is annoying at times but once you learn to use the IDE to poop out boilerplate it's not an issue
It's also seriously out-of-date. C has changed a lot since 1988, mostly for the better.
I'm fucked then. I eat shit and I'm depressed!
Apparently they wanted to make it even more accurate, but got pushback from USA before they feared it would be used by hostile forces.
1. In hindsight, I firmly believe that Persona's emphasis on browser integration was a red herring, and directly resulted in an architecture that was intractably centralized.

2. We committed massively to Firefox OS relative to our size and revenue.
You can iterate through all the documents by going to https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/search/site, going through each year, and within each year, going through all the result pages.
To all the people who are posting "if you are sad" answers, you're wrong, and woefully uninformed. Depression is not sadness. I'm going to repeat this, depression is not sadness. The article is describing a component of cognitive behavioral therapy. Your "opinions" are ignorant, please stop.
That's the problem with the quasi-legal stuff in Amsterdam. Weird place in regulation, where only part of the process has much of anything. Really it is the similar with weed and hash, and somewhat similar to the regular illegal drug market - with the exception of selling this stuff to residents and tourists in a completely legal manner. It seems the pushback for lacing such things would be pretty severe in this case. The unfortunate reality of this stuff is that unless we have some of that regulation and legality in place, this particular risk will be there.

Helpful, yes. Preferred? No - LSD and little forest mushrooms are my preference. But most folks have to contend with legality of things, including myself, and these are a legal option.

Being pretty introspective on them, I giggled at myself and found myself quite clever. I remembered what it was like to be happy with myself and my thoughts. The downside - with the truffles anyway - was that while sobering up, I could feel the everyday worries and anxieties coming back. They were gone for a bit, and I hadn't even noticed. It sucked the first time, but the combination of it all was such that I could start making changes in things the very next day - partially because I remembered.
> Eich wasn't fired, but he resigned because his own employees were calling for him to be fired.

There was also the issue of at least one major website soft-blocking Firefox users in protest.
I thought the same, but it could be worse. My team sits alongside one of the organization's helpdesks, and they're a hell of a lot less noisy than the open-plan web dev agency guys in the next suite over.
Nintendo+Switch,+Where+To+Buy?
>Apple workers were in actual offices with locks due in part to Apple's obsession with secrecy ( 1 or 2 to an office )

I don't have the cites handy but my recollection is that the specific iPhone teams (hardware and software) were working long hours in the open around conference tables. That subgroup was isolated from the rest of Apple employees because of the secrecy so yes in that sense, they weren't "open" on the gigantic scale of Facebook.
I think because it just returns a single value: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurre...
Cloudinary Angular Image SDK – more than meets the eye
In my state, marriage counselors have weaker licensure requirements than therapists, down to being licensable with a theology degree and a short practicum. Find out what licenses exist where you live and avoid anyone who hasn't completed the stricter license. Where I live the license to look for is Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
Or just cached...
Microsoftie in dev div, have to speak up here: (usual disclaimer, no secret info, only my own thoughts)

Many of the teams are not (or only recently) switched to open offices. I think it's quite unrealistic to try and attribute bing/mobile performance to something that wasn't even largely rolled out at the onset of those competitions, as opposed to the occams razor of well discussed strategy issues in those markets. As much as I'm a proponent of private offices, to attribute business success to one or the other (and not just as an added cost function that may move the needle slightly) seems to be focusing on the more minor of all the things that could lead to a product success/failure. In that vein I think employee satisfaction _is_ key, as a longterm trend of unhappiness (from ANY source) CAN lead to the sort of things that do disrupt key product delivery. (see sister posts on the cost of turnover discussion, etc)
Mossberg: Lousy ads are ruining the online experience
The primary problem is that DMARC is fundamentally flawed, and was not enacted using a standards process that respected all of the stakeholders. As a result, it fundamentally becomes a matter of power politics.

If there are a bunch of people who need to participate in a particular mailing list --- say, IETF mailing list or the Linux Kernel development lists --- more than they need to stick with a particular mail provider, it becomes possible to say to them, "you want to participate in our community"? Change mail providers.

In the cases where a mailing list community badly needs the Yahoo users, Yahoo can dictate to the mailing list --- change your mailing list software and inflict pain all on your mailing list users, or you don't get access to our e-mail user community. (And rewriting the from field has all sorts of bad effects, including corrupting contact databases that auto populate based on names and addresses in the from field, making the mail summary index useless, breaking reply-to sender, etc. So there is real pain involved here.)

Part of the issue was that DMARC was originally intended for domains that only sent official announcements (e.g. for credit card companies or banks) and where employee e-mails came from a different domain. For that original use case, DMARC worked perfectly well. Apparently Yahoo then decided it had a terrible SPAM problem, and decided DMARC was a blunt instrument to use, and inflicted on consumer e-mails. Other companies didn't think ahead, and used the same domain for official e-mails as their employee e-mails, and decided that protecting their users was more important than inconveniencing their employees.

This is why it's ultimately all about power politics. If you want to participate in Linux Kernel development, you need an e-mail address that won't arbitrarily cause your e-mails to be dropped (for example, so Linus Torvalds doesn't get your pull requests). Despite this, growth in Linux Kernel Development continues to be growing, which means that when choosing between the inconvenience of changing or using an alternate e-mail provider, versus participating in Linux development, developers choose the former. But that only work because Linux has the economic power and clout to get away with it.

Heck, over ten years ago, refusing to buckle in to crap e-mail systems forced IBM to allow its Linux Technology Center folks install a standards-complaint IMAP server instead of using that abomination caused Lotus Notes which the rest of the company was forced to use. (And this was probably a better demonstration of the power of Linux, given how much IBM was stubbornly attached to Blotus Goats.) But make no mistake. This is Trump style, power politics. It doesn't hurt those with a lot of economic power, but if you're some tiny, podunk church mailing list, or some other group lacking in economic power, you're screwed.

DMARC: making email "great" again.
Yes, Menv, for Modelling ENVironment, although it was a full animation package, not just a modeler. It has a new name now and has been extensively rewritten.
Default Java 8 Map implementation is merely: "get X. if X absent, compute for X, put X." These lines of code have been written over and over again for anyone using a Map in Java, no doubt. It is entirely trivial and almost impossible to get wrong writing it out on your own.

Whereas writing a performant concurrent "computeIfAbsent" is extremely non-trivial and if you try to do it yourself, you have a high chance of getting it wrong or slow.

Therefore, CHM "computeIfAbsent" is new and exciting, and Map "computeIfAbsent" is "could care less".
Not in the slightest.

I make maybe 1 market movement per quarter (divest/invest). Most my trading is re-enforcing the positions I already have monthly (to avoid per trade costs).

Most my investments boil down to

1. Mid-quarter purchasing if a silicon good ran into shortage issues (not triggered by supply chain but demand). Not dased on official outlets but on local stores/discussion boards.

2. Post announcement hype deflation bidding on products I feel will succeed, or will succeed for technical reasons.

3. Very high risk long duration options on things I dislike or companies losing a sense of direction/product.

4. Connecting the dots on inter-coprate deals. X company buys fab plant from Y company.. 2 years later X company announces data center with Z feature.. 1 year later Y company announces Z feature, no other company does.

5. Watch OSS commits, know the products/markets/technical details to the degree of people working on the products.

6. If its in a magazine/blog you already missed the market.

7. The only internet companies worth investing in are monopolies.
Fired IT worker changed password, wants $200K to fix it
I think there's a few things you can do.

1.) You should put everything in perspective. You have a job that pays well and a family. A lot of people would be envious.

2.) Working 60 hours a week doesn't do much if you're not productive. I would start coming in 5-10 minutes later or leaving 5-10 minutes earlier each day. See if anyone notices and then keep sliding it. I don't think the hours you put in matter if the productivity doesn't match it.

3.) Look into test suites if possible. Don't go crazy. Just design a few tests for some of the main functions for your software. Add 1 or 2 new tests each time you create a new bug or encounter an issue. It doesn't have to be a formal process with deployment, just something local on your machine to make you feel better.

4.) Leaving your job probably not an option because you need $$$ to keep coming in is my guess. It never hurts to look around. Email a few friends and see if they have openings at their offices.

5.) Smile. I know we've all been in work situations that we really didn't like or enjoy. We gritted our teeth and eventually, things got better. Either we moved on to different jobs or things changed in our current situation.
Facebook accepts slightly mis-typed passwords
This post makes what I think is a brilliant point and one that, if you apply the same thinking to any other situation, is extremely powerful - understand the why (of something performing poorly) to make an informed decision before binning it off entirely as not fit for purpose.
That's a good point. Actually I was in this situation. This is what happened: Team X requested a room for their department (4 person in total) because they need silence and quiet atmosphere to do their job, and open office was too noisy for them. Then other teams said that we need quiet atmosphere also, why they can get a room but our team can't.

Result: No team got any room (except heads and managers)

Bottomline: Equal opportunities should get offered to every team or drama happens. People don't mind if managers and heads have their own rooms (not even shared rooms) for some reason but if any other team have shared room but they don't have, then it causes drama.
What's it like to be in a community of remote self-managing teams?
>Are you saying you where talking metaphorically? Because the metaphor compares two similar things.

A metaphor compares two things similar from a certain aspect -- they could still differ in every other way. One could use a metaphor from agriculture to clarify their point on a political issue, for example.

>Also, why is a metaphor needed here?

For the same reasons that it's needed elsewhere. To get the point across in a simplified way, because people can understand a phenomenon better in one domain than they can in another (aka "domain dependence").
Wouldn't a VPN run off DO hosts quickly trigger their network abuse filters?
Why is "You must identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed." listed three times in your DMCA policy? Does the information actually need to be submitted in triplicate?
Would it be paranoid to contemplate sabotage?

After all, a global system has clear military value. In contrast the Indian system is limited in coverage to India and nearby nations.
I find Authority Nutrition a useful guide:

https://authoritynutrition.com/foods/butter/
JetBlue becomes first airline to roll out free Wi-Fi for entire fleet
I'm sure the Obama administration is just far too busy with finally getting around to the FEMA camps and gun confiscation to answer every little conservative conspiracy claim.
No, I'm being serious.
I regularly drive through them at more than 50 and have never received a ticket from one. The cameras are either not operational or the enforced limit is higher than 50.

And my point was nothing to do with the speed camera. My point was that you have no right to sit in the fast lane holding other people up, regardless of what the speed limit is. Get out of the way if you're not overtaking.

EDIT: This isn't directed at you, just a general rant.
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Actually, DMARC refines SPF to also apply to the header from. If you have only an SPF record on your domain then the old rule applies (only envelop from). If you also have the _dmarc.<domain> then SPF also applies to header from.
Well, if you run a SaaS company managing value is rather important. Only a small part of a customer's LTV occurs at the point of sale.

Especially if you have a more expensive product, Account or Customer Success managers are critical to reaching and extending your LTV.
I'm fine with people driving at 50, I just think they shouldn't be doing it in the fast lane. They should get out of the way except when overtaking.
A few other folks have mentioned this, but a (monthly?) dump of the database, offered as a torrent link on the site would be fantastic.

Not only would it enable offline searching, but when the inevitable take down shows up, folks can still continue to search the database.
I added both to my wish-list; Thanks!
No, I believe your reasoning is sound.
What is it about Java that gives us so many variants of each method instead of more composable primitives?

I'm thinking of:

forEach(long parallelismThreshold, BiConsumer<? super K,? super V> action)
forEach(long parallelismThreshold, BiFunction<? super K,? super V,? extends U> transformer, Consumer<? super U> action)

I get why we have function, bifunction, consumer, biconsumer, and all that. What I don't understand is why we have a special method for applying a function before passing to the consumer. It seems like the minor convenience in terms of syntax is outweighed by the proliferation of method signatures.
I'll believe it. But on the other hand, I remember when iCloud was an incredibly unreliable service, when iMessage went down... Apple needed to improve its operations. Preferably not at the expense of being an interesting company, though.
I never experienced cubicle environment (at least not like the ones at US offices), private space means like 4 tables placed like a square (one desk on each corner) and seperated with covers on desk. It's not ideal to work in cubicles which is slightly bigger than coffins.

Ping pong room, Nerf shooting ranges are all "fancy" rooms they use to give the modern, fun working environment message (or lie). If they need extra space, I am sure most companies would demolish even bathrooms but don't touch those "fun rooms". And I agree that it's bs.
Assuming the employee in question is an engineer of course... Not everyone has it that easy.
Sadly, this applies beyond just medical research. Most of the biology papers we discussed in Journal Club (a weekly meeting of grad students who go over a single paper in detail) turned out to have at least one invalidating error (one that makes the conclusion unsupported).

As for dose relationships- a lot of drug dose responses are linear over a range. But they tend to not be linear outside that range; the error is in not correcting for low-dose effects.
Maybe just Facebook's, though.
That's not a problem. Mailing lists have been doing that since long before DMARC. Having the mailing list name in the Subject is very handy. Footers are also more convenient that having to look in headers.
The article says that after some troubleshooting they were able to restart one of the hydrogen maser clocks, so it appears they do have some abilities on the software side.
Thank you for keeping the Persona dream alive. It turns out that being open source wasn't sufficient for Persona to be able to be continued by a third party: we accidentally baked in some intractable centralization, and the code was too much of a mess. Moreover, I'm not sure that Persona's proposed architecture makes sense outside of a browser vendor.

I just gave a keynote on this exact subject at linux.conf.au; video should be online in a few hours somewhere under https://www.youtube.com/user/linuxconfau2017/videos?shelf_id.... The title is "Designing for Failure."
The Green Scheme
There was no X and hitting Escape as instructed didn't do anything either. Was able to click outside to make it go away but still..
If it makes you feel better, Id bet on the future of cryptocurrencies, but against bitcoin in particular.

The bitcoin network decided to strip the VM of features that made it valuable in the future (eg, ability to make transaction claiming represent the solution to a computation) in favor of safety and simplicity now. I don't believe the behavior of the network in resolving blocksize issues indicates the kind of political will needed to fix that.

So my bet is that the next iteration (or two or three) on the ideas behind Etherium will eat their lunch. Because having tokens to reward contract execution or a computation has a fundamental longterm value (and is similar to how real currencies function, in that executing a contract or doing a computation earns you the ability to have that done for you). I don't believe that just securing the ledger has long term potential.
This is another case of bizarre false equivalency. On the one hand, I can see why you would quibble with the New York Times' wording here. B y saying that only a third agree, they imply (though weakly, I think, that two thirds disagree). But is this really in the same league as, e.g.,: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/03/dortmund-mob-atta...

I might be with you if your claim was just that the New York Times sometimes exhibits a liberal slant. And your citation would provide a perfectly defensible case in point. But to defend the claim that the New York Times is in the same league as Breitbart? Absurd.
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12 eyes judging doesn't mean judging and penalizing, it means judging in a social sense.

I think many people experience that where I work. When I walk past someone in our open office they tend to look at monitor with work on it even if they were just looking at something else on another one.

Our management is the kind that could care less if we watched Youtube all day if we were keeping up performance, and I'm not even management (or close!) and yet people still feel a little bit of stress knowing someone is looking over their shoulder inadvertently.