skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law argues that disabled people were harmed when Berkeley used public resources to publish something not accessible to the disabled.

Again, you have to think more broadly than the specific parties in this incident. Just because the lawsuit was brought by this specific plaintiff doesn't mean that this content was effectively "hidden" from disabled folks that may have been interested in the past.

If this lawsuit hadn't raised attention, then it's possible Berkeley (and others in society) would continue to make inaccessible content. The law isn't very effective if it requires a disability advocate to file a lawsuit before it is enforced.
Do most compilers preserve enough metadata to report accurate stacks?
Really? I feel like every C++ compiler I've used has given very unreliable stacktraces with optimizations enabled.
>Absent additional state funding (lol), an enrollment cap would necessarily result in tuition increases. I really really hope it doesn't get passed.

Or, how about the UC system reduces spending per student?
I can confirm.

I co-wrote a book on "growth hacking" (https://secretsaucenow.com), which really serves as a hand-held, step-by-step guide to user acquisition. (I originally called it "user acquisition" but unfortunately "growth hacking" performed 4x better in A/B tests). It was really hard to do, but wow. Sometimes the self-promotional marketing feels kind of cheesy to me, but man, it's so worth it.

First there's the cash. We've sold over $120,000 worth in the past 9 months, and did it direct without any publisher, so that's all straight into our pockets (after fees). I now have 2-3 people reaching out per week asking me if I can work for them, including big/successful YC companies.

I'm turning all of those down, but I feel like if I ever needed a job again or wanted to go freelance I could do it 100x easier because of a book.

I'm pretty proud of the book; I think the book is really good, and so far as I've found it's the only actionable Internet marketing guide out there. I put a ton of thought, effort, and energy into it. But I had no idea that a book could have such an effect in a day and age that's seemingly flooded with this kind of information.
A great video on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and bumping the lamp is kaptainkristian's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWtt3Tmnij4 . Seeing this just the other day inspired me to re-watch the film last night, and I wasn't disappointed: it holds up well.
> Since we haven't raised money and aren't planning on a
> big exit, I want to continue to pay myself well through
> distributions so that offers to buy the company continue
> to be easy to decline.

That's my favorite line from the post. People in the middle stages of building a long-term business have this tendency to think it's somehow wrong to take some portion of the profit for yourself - most believe it should be reinvested or redistributed.

This doesn't take into account that claiming a portion as yours is an investment - it's an investment to secure your own continued long-term interest in the project.

Clearly you wouldn't do it to the point where the company is suffering - but to the point where maybe you're just not growing as fast? Or have to do to add some features? Often a worthwhile tradeoff.
I've been recently:

1) Segregating automated email to some @customdomain.com address (Yandex and Zoho host vanity domains for free)

2) Forward all email @ that domain to a common inbox

3) Sign-up with servicename@customdomain.com (e.g: facebook@customdomain.com)

You no-longer need to unsubscribe using dubious e-mail links, just automatically black-hole emails that come from spammer@customdomain.com

So, far, so good.

EDIT: List formatting
c++ is not considered safe for any RTOS system, in fact you won't find it used in Aviation embedded devices (referring to the big 3 )
Tools yes, you can higher level languages to your heart's content.
Controls jumping around when they windows between displays. Windows spawning on the laptop and not rescaling when brought to the low-DPI displays. It's just a stack of problems.
Good luck in your new venture
Mayor Landrieu Celebrates Opening of Newly-Renovated Nix Library
There are many of us techies who think it's rediculously over priced. It's cool with teens because their parents aren't there. Teens are fickle and will move on, especially if parents show up (or those teens stay around long enough to become the parents). I give it 10 years.
New materials could turn water into the fuel of the future
Why wouldn't it be? It's not like you are lying on tax forms.
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So... how do YOU plan on correctly predicting how popular or unpopular something is?

I'd pull numbers out of thin air.

Isn't this one of the major pain points for many small companies that put stuff up? Correctly gauging 1) how much it costs to mass produce something and 2) how many they actually will sell?

Sure.

> If you are in charge of Nintendo... and you put something out like the Wii, Nintendo Class, etc... how do you expect to get the amount sold right on the first shot?

by using some of the hundreds of millions in profits to do some fucking research. This isn't a small company.
Dontprint: arXiv to Kindle (and other journals to other e-readers)
Challenge: Establish a recognized country with a name chosen such that it gets assigned the .js TLD.
So, wait, anyone who writes an eBook and would like to sell it is a scumbag? Unless there is a clear association with a real publisher or university? Is this opinion specific to marketing or do you hold the same disdain to programming books as well?
The problem with Oxycontin is that it's supposed to have a twelve hour window of action and doesn't. Doctors prescribe larger doses rather than more frequent ones because that's what the label says. That's the language the FDA approved. Repeated cycles of high dosage wearing off a few hours too early is a bad thing, builds up more tolerance than consistency.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
It's a bit esoteric and perhaps adds unwanted levity to the proceedings, so I get it.

Worth the downvotes? Absolutely.
" … and here you go: your certificates are now stored in mongodb (for sharing of certs among instances)."

I _assume_ it's not just me who just went "Wait, you did WHAT??? With your SSL certs???" here?

s/instances/anyone with a shodan account/

;-)
I second that video recommendation. I thought it was interesting enough to submit here last week [1], but apparently no one else at the time agreed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736279
Thanks for the detailed reply! I learned something today.
Their finances look horrible; worse than Twitter. Unlike Twitter, however, they make almost 0 Gross Profit (not even counting admin expenses and R&D). It looks like they're counting entirely on growth but the revenue numbers still look very small. Twitter's revenue is $2 billion+, Facebook is $27 billion+. Snap's $400 million looks measly by comparison especially when you consider the expenses incurred.
How many more undergraduates would there be revenue for if UC stopped doing things like paying $1MM in renovation costs for the Chancellor's house?

http://www.dailycal.org/2016/06/29/campus-spends-1-million-c...
The Trouble with Magic
It's usually in the underlying option plan I believe. I think the challenge with changing the 90 day window is that you run the risk of the option not qualifying as an ISO. If that's the case, it would instead be classified as a non-qualified stock option and the holder would lose the capital gains benefits and be subject to ordinary income tax (IANAL though, so could be way off base).
Are any of these companies operating in Europe and/or with mostly European data?
can I ask why functional programming in particular I can see why you might want to avoid java for big data - but isn't the average ML algo more in the procedural mould?

Would not python with numpy be a better fit ? or fortran with some handwave interface code

Back (early 80;s) when I did map reduce we used PL1/G
The .ac one has Elbakayan in the whois entry. The .cc one does not, though, so it's merely a sufficient condition, not a necessary one.
I hadn't thought of that, but it would explain the runaway valuation more than any other theory I've heard.
> Application performance matters, that's why these data structures and algorithm questions still matter

I'm yet to have a problem where the particular data structure makes a huge difference on performance, I'm sure the exist but I don't come across them much personally. Most of the time an inefficient list search would not be noticeably different from a dictionary lookup, sometimes faster. What I have come across quite often is people who quibble about data structures but have n+1 queries everywhere and don't know what a join is.

Another thing that's critically missing in the field is experience with a profiler, someone that knows how to use a profiler will know more about performance than anyone thinking about algorithms. In fact, it's an approach I'd like to try in future for vetting candidates.
All decent hardware has ASIO drivers under Windows.

The problem there, being a closed environment where the manufacturer dictates when the product must die, is rather the drivers life. If they don't update the driver your pricey gear turns into a doorstop overnight.
Case in point: Tascam US122 audio interface. Under Linux I can still use it; far from being
the best around but it works. Under Windows it became unusable when they stopped supporting it years ago.
> But a loss for the investors that bought the stock on the open market.

It's a loss for speculators who gambled that it would go up. I'm lacking sympathy for people who snap up stock at IPO and assume it can't possibly drop.

> A 'drag down' is never a good thing for a stock.

It's a great thing for anyone who wants to buy at the lower price.
I find the hardest things for new programmers to understand are variable scope, and execution order.

One of the things I focus on when teaching is evaluating different example code snippets manually, as a "human computer" to double check that their mental model of the interpreter/compiler is correct. Understanding why a variable is shared with a child scope, but not necessarily with a parent in different circumstances is not intuitive, and takes some practice even for intermediate-level programmers.

Here's an example:

Code snippet:

int result = addNumbers(1, 3)
int final_result = addNumbers(result, addNumbers(4, 5))

To evaluate it, these are the steps the computer takes:

1. int result = addNumbers(1, 3)
2. int result = 4
3. int final_result = addNumbers(result, addNumbers(4, 5))
4. int final_result = addNumbers(4, addNumbers(4, 5))
5. int final_result = addNumbers(4, 9)
6. int final_result = 13
Not very 1337 of them
Second time in a week I've seen you post about this(not a dig). Not quite sure there is the same sort of market for 120k in eBook sales for programming books, but your success definitely helps me hold hope my pre-sale continues to gain traction.
They didn't. The price went up because dumb money got their first chance to buy the hype and it went down because there is only so much dumb money to go around.
Talk to the people who wrote the first book on Meteor.js. I know they pulled in over $500k.

That's probably a unique case because in the beginning the documentation was so bad, but especially in new and esoteric programming languages/methods $50 is no big deal, and there are lots of willing buyers. I'd bet the HaskellBook authors pulled in 100k+ too.
I completely agree. My example wasn't exactly the best, but relatively applicable to the US nevertheless.

You raise many good points about drug use being different geographically and culturally. It's very much about availability, local drug culture, etc.

For example, the speed paste. As you said, in the UK and in other European countries amphetamine is usually amphetamine in paste form, not crystal methylamphetamine like we usually see here in the states.

Culture and availability absolutely affects use massively, a point I didn't mean to gloss over, and one I'm glad you raised.
German institute successfully tests underwater energy storage sphere
Isn't it obvious that a personality that can become hyperfocused on one or a few hobbies or interests become hyperfocused on drugs, alcohol or sex?

The only reason I could think of that it WOULDN'T be as such would be people on the lower-functioning end of the spectrum who can't support themselves - if someone can't manage basic functions without help its unlikely they're going to be exposed to that lifestyle.
This looks great. One question: We're currently using Drone (the open-source self-hosted version), which allows us to define a number of parallel sidecar containers ("compose") as part of the build pipeline.

We start things like PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch like this because a lot of tests need to exercise the actual data storage instead of (or in addition to) mocking/emulating them. The container builder thus doubles as a CI server, since every build needs to be tested anyway, and tests need to go through very much the same steps (install dependencies, build source and so on). Tests benefit from being run on the exact same filesystem that the final code runs on, guaranteeing that dependencies are identical.

From what I can tell, such a setup is not supported by GCCB?
One can also argue similarly for works of art. I for one would not expect our cultural and artistic landscape to be any poorer if there were no copyright. It would certainly look different (there would probably be less big-budget movies, for example, but probably more remix art on the other hand).
You don't see it because it gives the candidates a chance to see what a companies code base is like and look elsewhere when they discover how bad it is.
How the market works is the only people whose opinions matter are those who put their money where their mouth is.
True, but that seemed like a really trending market. Anyway, do you know if there are any articles, etc about their experiences?
The states with medical cannabis don't have anywhere near this problem. They need to cover medical cannabis via medicaid that would seriously put a dent in the crisis or at least keep it from growing bigger.
Unless they morph into something different or maybe try to be everything for everyone which seems to be the strategy nowadays, e.g. FB, Amazon, at least Amazon completely dominated the book sector before morphing.
People are harming pets in attempts to get medicines they can use to satisfy their own addictions. http://theantimedia.org/dogs-prescription-drug-veterinarians...
Somewhat related to those that would like to know more...

Great efforts were made to extend the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella, to deal with the imperfections of CRT displays that games of yesteryear depended on. Ian Bogost, co-author of "Racing the Beam" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam), lead a team to make a code contribution to Stella that attempted to emulate the visual qualities that CRTs exhibited.

"...In Spring 2009, I tasked a Georgia Tech Computer Science capstone group to modify Stella, adding settings to simulate the CRT behaviors described above. The group consisted of five committed and talented CS seniors: Edward Booth, Michael Cook, Justin Dobbs, Will Rowland, and Prince Yang..."

http://bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator/
If the studio pushed back against Zemeckis's request, the lamp wouldn't have been bumped, Disney would have saved a massive amount of production time and production cost, and the viewers wouldn't have noticed the difference.

How many awful movies have similar lamp bumping stories that don't get told because the viewers don't care about those movies? It's not the lamp bumping that makes the movie. Don't make extra work for yourself.
I just started doing the wildcard domain thing last month, I'm happier knowing that I can shut the taps. I get annoyed just knowing that there's spam in my spam list.

First time I was on the phone with a customer service rep. after using the <website>@<domain>.com format I was asked if i was sure my email address was correct. I lol'ed and told them not to worry about it.
Node v7.7.1 Released
Is this legal?

IANAL

That said, fraud is usually defined as "An intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage."

So, in order for such misinformation to be illegal, the data broker needs only to demonstrate injury or damage. Unless the data broker makes assurances to their customer about the truth of the information and gets sued by one of their customers for providing false information, I find it hard to believe that the data broker will be able to demonstrate injury or damages.

I think the data broker knows better than to make such claims about their data but who really knows. And it isn't like the downstream customers are going to independently verify all the information.
Notable changes

Node.js 7.7.0 contains a bug that will prevent all native modules from building, this patch should fix the issue. Apologies to everyone who was affected by 7.7.0.
Agreed. Bootcamp grads have begun to fill but not saturate the market opportunities for entry-level positions. Mid- to senior-level opportunities are plentiful. I don't see that changing as it it requires a lot of work and experience and technical competence to reach the "advanced" level.
My observation has been that there's a strong correlation between "buy my ebook!" in a website sidebar and someone ticking boxes on some scumbag marketing process which they probably learned from someone using scumbag marketing processes to sell their ebook and lessons in the sidebar of their website about how to get rich quick selling ebooks and lessons. Apparently it works, but I'd prefer to avoid the whole mess, aside from using it as a strong signal to Beware everything else on the site.
Not that I'm aware of
problem with that is websites who think they're super smart and believe that + is not a valid character in an email... sometimes it's just the javascript though and you can submit it via manual POST request.
I've had a company bail on me when I asked about what their policy was on working on open source / side projects on weekends! You never know. Different companies get squirrelly about different things.
What is better – a happy life or a meaningful one? – Roy F Baumeister
They should be charging more than $50k a year.
I wonder if it's also a reference to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
Given the above numbers, a little less than 33 ($1MM / (30k/student)). Not that you shouldn't care about such things, but that particular instance doesn't appear to materially affect the undergraduate population.
Retail investors shouldn't be gambling on IPOs.
A lot people currently think it is a good investment to go UC for such amount of money. But the reality might be otherwise.

Few years later, UC might find it is hard to attract enough out-states students. so I do not think the limit matters.
Nathan, thanks for telling your story! I'd like to hear what your take is on something I thought when reading this article. One factor in ConvertKit's success is that RSS is still sort of broken.

My thinking is that a big benefit of the service is that I can sign up for my favorite blogger or YouTuber to email me when they post something new, rather than checking the page a couple times a week and finding nothing new half the time. I've never found an effect RSS service for myself and I suspect many, many others feel the same. If we had, the content providers we love would reply on that instead of being a potential customer for you.
I can't believe how these companies do not get busted ever ? Englang is really unfair country for small business owners. More bigger corporation, less they pay tax, less they care of customers, less they protect your data...
>Theoretically, you could sue each company with your data, and a court could tell each of those companies to remove your information. But it would have to be for each one, and the judgement is only binding on those companies.

I'd expect going after such companies to be the state prosecutor's job.
I can definitely see the aspect of returning to a familiar activity, which is apparently very soothing to many people on the spectrum. Heck, even in 'normal' people quitting cigarettes, it's pretty common to have trouble not just with the lack of nicotine, but also the lack of the comforting 'hand-to-mouth' motion.

But I'll bet that the isolation plays a big part too. I could be wrong about this, and the article only mentions a few cases where people found that alternative cultures were simply more accepting of their quirks, but it seems like people on the spectrum often think a little differently, are painfully aware of it, and feel the need to be constantly scrutinizing their words and actions around other people. Combine that with all of the constant pressures of modern life, between staying on top of bills, holding down a job/career, managing social events, keeping up on housework...it's like fingers on a chalkboard to a spectrum dweller's overarching craving for some quiet isolation every now and then. Life just feels so loud and hectic, with some days dominated by a desire to tuck your head between your knees and scream at the whole world to just hold up and calm down for a goddamned minute. And the aversion to sudden, unexpected changes doesn't help. How can you ever really relax when just the act of navigating day-to-day life feels like tap-dancing on an avalanche?

So would it really be surprising if it does turn out that many such people reach for the bottle at an early age? I don't think so, but I'm sure glad to see people putting more effort into finding an answer than my vague 'that makes sense' hand-waving.
I think there's a lot of value in routinizing breakfast.

Every weekday, I drink a Soylent Nectar for breakfast. It's my 80/20 attempt to optimize for speed and convenience at a reasonable price.

I also tried Coffiest, but I just didn't like it as much as having my Soylent and coffee separate. I'm a bit of a coffee snob and really enjoy my tasting notes, so I imagine there are plenty of people in the world that don't feel this way.

On the weekend, I usually go out for a nice brunch or two.
"Other people's work" that builds on their work, too.
Everything is a skill. Writing is a skill. Marketing is a skill. Some people will pay to read a book about the skill. Said writers would like to make money from writing said books.

I would think it would be fairly known if someone's books are snake oil. Just my opinion, though. Scumbag seems like a harsh judgement.
Ah, finally. A tool that will serve the needs of the common man. Just the other day I was talking to a bus driver at a bar and he was telling me that he wanted to be booking last-minute flights to ski at a day's notice, but that he wished there were a tool to help him out.
Google hiring a head of Republican political advertising
Yes it opened around this price, but the IPO price was $17. Another non-story about a stock dropping in price after it grew like crazy just before the drop.
Given the amount of pharmacetical money sloshing around every single congresspeople's coffers there will not be any meaningful reform or restrictions for a long while. The easiest path is to just go full-bore law and order against drug users.
nb. This only applies to undergraduate students.
I don't know, I see young people taking to each other about suicidal thoughts and making support groups do each other all the time. Teenagers making Discord chats where they can talk about how their families are abusive and they want to kill themselves, Skype chats where young adults discuss obscure chronic illnesses that the rest of the world can't empathize with them for.