skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of our projects, Meta, built out (and beyond) many of the ideas mentioned in this post: http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2016/ethan/meta.pdf

We found that auto-documentation via these kinds of run-time traces is really powerful. If you add in a bit of centralization (connecting traces across many users), this can also be a useful way to capture bugs or unforeseen behavior.
Sorry, I got a bit riled up there and my last line was probably unnecessary :-)

I liked your article but would have liked it more if you had left out the comparison to facebook part out. I have multiple friends at the big G and facebook and trust me if that's not a waste of good engineering talent & life, I don't know what is.
I'm not the kind of "works on my machine" developer so I'm sure that if this was your experience something actually happened. But what?

Firefox 28 is from March 2014. I don't remember sites suddenly stopping working at any time, so it could be that I'm not using some of the features you started missing. Which features did Firefox 28 remove or which missing ones in FF went mainstream on so many sites 3 years ago?

Firefox 28 release notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/28.0/releasenotes/

I really don't remember any "update your browser" prompt with Firefox since when web sites were insisting to support only Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox was starting to take off.
B-b-b-but I didn't know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ha, that's a broad statement.
I wouldn't trust the browsers handling of the cookies.
And I wouldn't trust the browsers "private" feature either... Ever heard of evercookie?
It is illegal for many government employees to express many political views in writing or in public (under certain circumstances), and those laws have been in place for some time. I believe that the stated intent of those laws are to ensure public and political confidence that the bureaucracy will enact the law in a non-partisan way. Whether the laws were a good idea or not, I cannot say, but it seems like government employees should either comply with their legal obligations, campaign for the law to be changed, or quit.

edit: here is a link to the official guidance on the Hatch Act - https://osc.gov/Pages/The-Hatch-Act-Frequently-Asked-Questio...
Heh. You don't often see articles on data design and normalization that start to edge into epistemology.
I think there might be something deeper going on than just "having their worldview validated" or "lust for vindication". It's also that the destructive and party-focused style of politics championed by Newt Gingrich has become deeply sown and has shaped how Congress functions. It used to be that if one's favored candidate didn't get elected, you'd still trust that the country's political leadership would take seriously their responsibility to govern and to do so in the best interests of everyone. Now it seems that the political leadership is most serious about party loyalty and appeasing the radical side of their base.
The managers of this hypothetical software company would surely complain if their cars were remotely disabled because the manufacturer wanted to sell a new model. Similarly their customers should complain (via the courts) when the product they bought is remotely disabled to force them to upgrade.

As a sibling poster points out, running a license server is a trivial expense and if you require it for your product you should budget to keep it running. It's roughly $400 for a perpetuity paying $20/y to run the server indefinitely.
Are you suggesting men don't seek medical treatment therefore it's their fault for getting sick?

Girls often don't want to become programmers, and, as I know it, we don't say "It's their fault". We just raise the issue and everyone is fighting to make them want to become programmers.

It's way past time we apply the same reasoning to men's problems as women's problems. Males not seeking medical treatment could be because they're not aware of it (i.e. not enough funding for male diseases as female preventive programs). Or it could be because males are more suicidal about life, because they get the short end of the stick in pretty much all countries, despite the way it is framed in statistics, and we should equally fight for that. In any case, any statistics which leads to 6-year-shorter life expectancy denotes a very acute problem, for which funding should be given in equal level as for women's equality.
They're including everything from traffic violations to felonies. I guess it wouldn't be as interesting of a statistic if they explained what it actually was.
I had the exact same interview when applying to be a barista at philz coffee.

The technical questions were my fault because I told the interviewer I was a researcher in number theory and enjoyed working with embedded systems.. to which they said, 'oh, can you talk a bit about that?'

Each comma denotes an email response explaining I was chosen to move on and to please fulfill the next request: Send resume with cover letter, fill out online application, make 90s video about why you should serve coffee, first video chat interview, come in to meet recruiter, come in to meet store manager.

I only made it through the first of the three interviews. Ultimately I think we both dodged a bullet there.

Honestly!

Ask an employee next time you get a coffee there what kind of interview process they had to go through.

PS- should have made a 90s '90s video about why I should serve coffee.. definitely would have gotten their minimum wage offering then.
Most crimes committed by minors in the US are expunged from their records when they come of age.
NYTimes is a news organization with a mandate to report on verifiable fact, not rumor or opinion. You're complaining that it's reported as a he-said-she-said type of story… but for now, that's exactly what it is. The claims are quite plausible and convincing (and likely true), but at this point they still are merely unsubstantiated claims. If I were to imagine the right way to report such a story at this point, it would go like this (1) summarize the claims made, (2) include the response from the accused, and (3) emphasize that this is a developing story. That's pretty much what the NYT did. However, until a court or investigation corroborates the report, they shouldn't be reported as irrefutable fact.

That said I agree that the comparison to the Ellen Pao case has no place in this report. Pao's case was quite different and much less convincing. In my distanced armchair opinion, she deserved to lose that case.
They were valid 'then' too.

'Yellow journalism' dates back to before the spanish-american war.
Building a simple timesheet app with SlashDB, Go and Vue
You're right in that specific case, I'd love to live 10 times longer, but it's very rare. As an example, here's a random graph showing longevity post-diagnosis from 1971 to 2007 for 9 types of cancer:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/22/article-2064659-0E...

(You can find these graphs with some simple google images searches)

Notice that most cancers, the longevity doesn't change much at all in that ~40 year period. Personally I was expecting some dramatic improvements like the one you allude to (going from 3 to 30 years). It doesn't happen.

I think generally we somehow assume that because there's lots of money being spent on cancer and fancy machines and so on that everything must be better, when in the graphs we only see these various marginal improvements in some specific cancers. I think probably the number one reason for this mismatch is nobody likes to talk about cancer.
No, this is not the key question. The entire point of democracy is to let the people choose their leaders and who they believe should have power. To accept unelected, unaccountable, and unofficial leaders as having power over that of the democratically elected branches is to welcome the death of democracy in America. The American people chose their leader, and now, for better or for worse, he has to be allowed to actually lead. To allow any other outcome is a complete subversion of the entire democratic process.
Thanks, fixed. I just got around to setting this up yesterday so the site itself isn't https yet and I just put // instead of the full path for the form POST.
That will only work if those thrown to the wolves get some serious hush-money, as in "I'll never have to work again" money. I assume those folk have some strong evidence that the protection of misogynist employees went further up the org chart.
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As you're using public transport might it be worth storing and using basic historical trends to bridge the gaps in data?
And SQL injection is dead because we have prepared statements!

Yeah, the headline is certainly exaggerating quite a bit.
The idea itself is great, but the quality of the result obviously depends highly on the type of hardware - namely the spectra of the display and camera.

An LCD has a totally different spectrum (broad) than an LED display (single wavelength). Cameras on the other hand always have a broad spectrum, but it varies depending on the color filters, the response curve of the pixels as well as the post processing (e.g. the demosaicing algorithm). Regarding response curve of the display: that's also something they have to calibrate for and it's not only a hardware parameter because it can be modified in software, for example by the iOS Night Shift feature.

Making this work with a single piece of hardware is hard enough and I wonder if they'll target the android market at all. My guess is they're going to release it only for iPhones because it's so homogeneous.

Also, the press release photo made me giggle, the front camera isn't even facing the object they are scanning :D

Edit: Saying LEDs have a single wavelength is probably not correct, but they have a very narrow band depending on the technology used.
>Just to confirm, is this a smart-phone based spectrometer? (Why don't they use that term?)

Spectrometers generally produce a single spectrum from a light source.

A hyperspectral imager produces a spectrum for each pixel in the image. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspectral_imaging
Yeah... it's tough..

Still, I'm sticking around. There's potential to do good here.
He's not wrong. 'hueving's comment history around here pushes an extreme-right-wing viewpoint that is cloaked in just enough civility to make the decent folks I know around here reconsider whether or not it's worth engaging with him. (Many don't, because it's exhausting to be alternative-facted to death.) I wouldn't expect a woman--or anyone--to tell me jack and/or shit if I was comfortable expressing worldviews that treat them the way 'hueving does. And it's not "hateful" to call out somebody whose hat is exactly that; 'DanBC (who is a fantastic poster around here) is not wrong to use the history of a poster to challenge his I-don't-see-it-so-it-doesn't-exist dismissals. As for "oddly specific," 'DanBC has been here longer than I have; you start recognizing names when the pattern of posts that make your gorge rise goes on as long as these have.

But then, I spent a minute browsing your latest work, too, so I am not particularly surprised that in your post you choose to, as with most modern conservatives, attempt to call citing a reactionary's record "hate" when it is that reactionary's behavior that exemplifies it.
'Healthy customer-focused anxiety' meaning they are focused on providing value to the customers with a sense of urgency and importance. I.e., the fate of the world relies on them providing true customer value. Thinking chicken and egg, the founders may have been successful thus far because of such a mindset, rather than developing that mindset because of poor performance. That is a purely speculative statement, but if I were in your position, I'd want to get a sense of which came first.

If I summarize the snapshot you've provided:

- Series C: VCs have bet on your management 3 times.

- Respected Investors

- Solid Management, in your opinion

- Significant revenue with + Cash flow

You most likely won't be dealt too many hands that strong. I'd stay with them at least another 12 months.

One last point. If you have options, I believe you're privy to their value at least annually. The Board of Directors should determine the company's value at least that often. (it's very subjective, but informative, a VC's job is all about company value). You might want to ask your HR representative for that information, going back as many years as they're willing. That info would provide insight into what they are thinking about the company's growth so far.

Good luck.
I'm taking this course, very excited to learn some erlang
I think that may have been added after the initial act.
I just came here to say that. I do not trust Uber and I do not trust her. And without evidence it is "he-said-she-said".

I really do not know what to say here.

Personally, I'm also worried that girlfriend of my wife working in Uber HR might be accused of "hiding sexual harassment" and subsequently just fired (because they are liability). In these cases kind of cases, "investigation by CEO" will cause low-level employees to be fired - even if they did nothing wrong. Just to satisfy blood thirsty "internet lynch crowd".
"How do you 'solve' fake news?" is a question fraught with peril.

What does "solve" mean?

What does "fake news" mean?

Is it possible that opinions may vary on what these two things mean?

On these points, reasonable people of good will can have differing points of view.

In my more cynical moments, however, I hear the echoes of the beginnings of the war on drugs. Except far more frightening -- because this is a war on thinking. By people who sincerely think they are doing a noble act.

If you want to do something about the problem, cut demand. Make smarter readers.
Yes, was just about to post, "Exact Routing in Large Road Networks Using Contraction Hierarchies" which, after a one-time pre-processing step returns an optimal route on a continent-scale network in milliseconds.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2351896
Is there a reason you dislike us?
Serious question: why does everyone love the hard, mathematical reductionism that currently prevails so much? It's plagued by serious explanatory difficulties and terribly limited philosophical support, and seems to really contribute nothing of great value -- what the hell is the appeal?
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography by Walt Whitman
Transcript:
https://github.com/ezyang/cusec2012-victor/blob/master/trans...
My apologies. You're totally right, dang. Thanks for keeping this site civil and all the other work done for HN.
Eh. Bloat is a real consideration especially for apps that I already have to give permission to run in the background (such as messaging apps).
I'm not really sure what the benefit of a rice cooker is over cooking it in a pan.
Then we'll find out who did have the power, and also find out if the board has the power to discipline those individuals.
What's wrong with off-chain transactions? Off-chain transactions have the same value/worth/weight of on-chain transactions. Both transactions are worthless before "settlement" (which is 1, 3 or 6 confirmations depending on how careful you are) but after settlement they are practically the same.
Had one of these for years, great mouse, it was in my office for all of my PhD, only downside was it got dirty easily. Since replaced with a Logitech M500.
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What does all those letters I see mean? I see only flags of France, Germany and the UK. Maybe it has to do something with fonts installed on my computer.
Are these personal observations, or empirically established facts? For example - would liver and kidneys actually shut down when they don't have any work to do?
Historical side note: tantric practices developed in India as one of the very late stages of its development before it faded away in that country. It was at this time that Buddhism spread from northern India, hotbed of tantra, to Tibet.

So it's a bit more accurate to say that tantric Buddhism went to Tibet (and merged with Bon's animism), and then hung on there while it died off in its country of origin.

(Tantric Buddhism also made its way from India, through China, and to Japan, where it survives as Shingon Buddhism)
evercookie isn't relevant here.

The feature is for site owners to put additional security/trust restrictions on their cookies.
That was also what I was thinking. But given that neither the LEDs nor the Bayer filters have an actual line spectrum it might be possible to obtain some more information than under the assumption that they are ideal line spectra. Could there also be some non-linearities? Does the spectrum of a LED change somewhat depending on the input power?
Indeed, Union-Find is the first subject the course covers, because it uses it as an example of an elementary algorithm.
Interesting that Arianna Huffington is taking a personal hand in this investigation, given that her former Chief of Staff and Managing Editor at HuffPost, Jimmy Soni, was dogged by similar allegations: http://gawker.com/top-huffington-post-editor-was-investigate....

This is a mess. They need a fully independent investigator.
Also something I learned recently: Pregnancy suppresses the immune system.
Any facts to back that up? The story I hear more often [1] is the other way around. More men in medical studies, more often male animals in studies etc.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761670/
Yes, AeroPress is great for the simplicity. Although the coffee is not the best in the world, it works out well per unit of effort.

In particular, the good thing about AeroPress is that if you get distracted at any stage of be process, it's not a disaster. Unlike, say, a Moka pot where you have to monitor it and take it off the stove during a small window of time between the coffee being done, and the whole thing getting way too hot and destroying the rubber seal.
The RDA for iodine is 150 micrograms. I treated my asthma (lungs use iodine too) with about 1mg of iodine daily and 250mg of magnesium - YMMV of course. I was taking kelp supplements but needed 6 a day to get the amount I wanted. Another source is Lugol's solution - a few drops in a cup of water is several mg. I also use Lugol's for healing cuts, scrapes, and scars.

Iodine has also been suggested as a cancer cure for many different types - some strains of breast cancer in particular. This is because there are a couple pathways leading to apoptosis that require iodine to function - turns out your mitochondria need iodine too.

The funniest thing I ran across in all this was an article about the link between kelp and reduced breast cancer risk. At the end they said this should be investigated further because the author knew kelp had high iodine content and thought that would be bad for people. In other words, we need to isolate the anti-cancer agent and commercialize it so you don't kill yourself with too much iodine. Funny because the iodine is likely the anti-cancer agent, and is not bad for you in the slightest.
"Also we found challenge near Kremlin where car appeared at airport." /s
My main concern when deciding to do this was not to lose weight. I haven't done so. Around 65kg, which I have been since I was in my 20s. I'm 48.

And your concern is noted graciously, but no, I'm pretty sure it's not a habit. It may of course be a waste of time. Time will tell.
It's when people buy for features rather than use. If given the choice most people are likely to buy the one with the longest spec sheet - don't want to miss out on that meat vs vegetable defrost difference! And it's the same price. And it has a few more buttons but I'm not stupid...

On the other side, there's probably a demand on the "designers"to keep inventing and adding new features while keeping it as cheap as possible to produce. And each version is just slightly different from the previous one, so best not to redesign the wiring/programming, just add the new feature in the technically easiest/cheapest way!
Doxing refers to identifying anonymous writers on the internet. So I'm not sure what you are referring to - Emil Michael was discussing reporting true but embarrassing personal facts about (public figure) Sarah Lacy.

Specifically, the idea was to write articles like these, but with Sarah Lacy (founder of Pando) as the subject:

https://pando.com/2014/02/27/we-call-that-boob-er-the-four-m...

https://pando.com/2014/10/06/venture-capital-and-the-great-b...

So yes, my concrete question is why it's wrong to write the 4 most awful true things about Sarah Lacy, but it's perfectly fine to write the 4 most awful true facts about Travis Kalanick?
My mom is a retired graphic design artist - she still uses a knife to sharpen her pencils. Does it nice and slow, like it's relaxing. I remember going to her office as a kid and her cut and paste was with a knife and spray adhesive too.
Would definitely recommend Discord, although it's aimed at gamers, it seems to be an amazing all-round chat service.

Rooms are of an unlimited size and have all the core functionality like file & image sharing, code highlighting, "reactions", which we've come to expect but also focuses more on getting people to speak to each other. It's built on electron and is both really quick & also require almost no resources when running in the background.
It's too bad SameSite wasn't built many, many years ago. It's good that we are moving there now. However, it'll be many years before browser adoption will allow us to make use of this.
Consider simply using matrix.org, no need for hosting anything yourself unless you want to
You should consider taking your issues with the story to the Public Editor [1], who is the point person for feedback on NYTimes' reporting.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-public-editor
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Heh, actually that's one of the few message on HN that wants me to start the message with 'LOL' because I actually did!

I'm french, I cook, I eat, and drink in pretty reasonable amount, and I'm a muscular 90Kg - with a flat belly, thanks to the fasting.

Last saturday I ate a 32 ounces steak in one sitting... Now that's some sort of Anorexia I had never heard of before! I do feel very bad for people who actually have anorexia, but please, don't insult them throwing these claims around.
For branching schemas, yes it gets complicated. But at least you get a nice conflict while merging the branches (at the right place) These conflicts help guide a rewrite of the schema history into something consistent. That's part of it: when a merge happens, you basically have to create a new migration that does the merge too.

and if you never merge the forks, there is no problem. they likely won't share a production database anyway, right?
> Our small island nation's culture is precious to us.

Peter Thiel...
Are linked lists even a difficult example of pointer use? You don't exactly have to do fancy pointer arithmetic with them. You just have to be a little bit careful when inserting or deleting nodes.
This is a handy defence-in-depth mechanism, somewhat like the other cookie flags (httpOnly and secure).

Once browser support gets a bit better, it would seem like a good idea to start making use of it on that basis, but I don't think I'd ever rely on it as the only form of CSRF protection on a site...
I Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, the mafia run pizza company used some that might be useful in such a race. The pizza delivery cars where specifically designed with a sensor suite (lidar, radar, optical camers, etc..) and some software to find two black dots about 3 or 4 inches apart that moved together.

Once found it determined if those pupils belonged to a driver of a vehicle, then determined if that vehicle was in the way or not. If those pupils did belong to a driver with a vehicle in the way of the pizza delivery, a quick blast of laser light would insure the vehicle couldn't react and the pizza delivery vehicle could pass on whichever side the vehicle didn't swerve.
Can you elaborate on your technology stack? How do I get the phone numbers you provide for your users?