skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know they need it because a lot of the info-searching sites that they "opt" you "out" from require it. I feel like I read that some need SSN too but I'm not sure about that one.

Also note that SafeShepherd has this fine clause right at the end [1]:

"You agree that Safe Shepherd isn't liable for any failure to comply with these Terms."

What is this supposed to mean? Would you accept it?

[1] https://www.safeshepherd.com/tos
Why We Use Buzzwords
I'm assuming most of them aren't doing it intentionally.
No, we are unlikely to do that.
Some of those things that you loved are actually still there. They have just been moved or disabled by default.

- Dashboard is still there and can be enabled as a space or an overlay (System Preferences > Mission Control).

- You still can zoom in on anything. I use ctrl+scroll (System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom).

- The invert colors shortcut (cmd-opt-ctrl-8) is still there. (System Preferences > Keyboard > Accessibility).

Another feature I love that used to be easy to find but got buried in settings is the three-finger drag (now found in System Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad Options...).

I question some of the changes in default settings too, but then I realize the defaults are most important for the non-power-users who can't or won't change them. I would also never want to store my Documents or Desktop contents in iCloud, but I can see why someone who doesn't understand the file system might.
Ask HN: Are we giving up on the web for digital content?
Obviously we are not _completely_ giving up on using the web for publishing, but in working with a variety of customers (e.g. major brands with millions of visitors), I am seeing a shift toward social not just for distribution, but as the entire content experience. With Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP, and all of the native video features of social apps, a number of publishers are finding that a big portion of their audience never even hits their website: they simply watch and/or read the content in Facebook, google search results, on youtube, etc.

I don't mean to pretend the idea of Facebook-as-browser is a brilliant new one. I ask this more as a service provider. If I could only pick one area for deepening our analytics tooling, which one would you choose?

A. Analytics tools for on-site content. Some examples of newer challenges here are tracking for native and interactive ads, embedded video tracking, audience analysis, etc. An example of recent investment in this area is a guide I wrote on native ad tracking. An example investment I'm considering is an analytics extension for prebid.js that allows you to track header bidding results.

B. Analytics tools for off-site content. Extensions for FB Instant Articles, Google Amp, that allow you to grab custom events off your content engagement in those channels. An example of an investment I'm considering here is adding our service as a built-in analytics option for FBIA and Google Amp.

Which would you pick?

Refs

Example custom ad guide: https://keen.io/docs/compute/custom-ad-performance/?s=ahn

Prebid.js header bidding: http://prebid.org/

FB IA Analytics extenstions: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/analytics

AMP Analytics extensions: https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/components/ads/amp-analytics
Storing Data in DNA [pdf]
On Galápagos, Revealing the Blue-Footed Booby’s True Colors
The first time I heard of HeatStreet was as a claimed source by the Trump administration that Obama had wiretapped him. Is HeatStreet a credible source? Given its association with Breitbart in the wiretapping allegations and others comments that parts of the story are fabricated I have to wonder.
I am planning to cover both of those!
It's effective, cheap but non innovative and a me too product. I bet it won't exist in 10 years in DAW business. It's feature set is a "me too" set of everything which exists with minimal innovative features on top.

please don't misunderstand. I have no horse in this race.
I like Reaper as much as I liked WinZip , winamp or Notepad++. But I wouldn't say it's enough to keep Windows installed on a private computer.
That may no longer be true. Using mortgage backed securities in the way that triggered the financial crisis of 2007 effectively allows banks to bypass the fractional reserve mechanism.

With this process, the bank lends $1 creating a new $1 new deposit from thin air as they always have, but then start using the mortgage certificate as money to by selling it. This allows a $1 loan to create an extra $2 in new money instead of an extra $1.

If we only allow a fractional reserve of 80%, then $1 would previously have created an 80c new deposit, which in turn would create a 64c deposit on the next cycle and keeps diminishing. However, with the mortgage certificate thrown in too, $1 becomes $1.60 (80c of new deposit and 80c of sellable mortgage certificate), which becomes $2.56, which becomes $4.10 etc.

This process is detailed by Greg Pytel here: https://gregpytel.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/largest-heist-in-hi...
Yes it's Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha top level domain. Interesting fact: If it's a two-letter top-level domain it belongs to a country. Generic top-level domains have 3 or more characters.
Does anybody know if the devices are spread-spectrum radios, or are they trackable with a simple HT or scanner?

Encrypting the data would do very little if basic direction finding was sufficient.
Ah, the old "but it's not a programming degree, it's about theory". I thought we were past that these days.

Notice how it took you just one sentence to summarise the few hundred words he wrote.

We've a fairly big problem in this industry that "qualified" CS graduates don't actually signal anything about their suitability for the profession. A significant chunk can't even fizzbuzz.

I'd suggest teaching mathematical models instead of showing loops and recursion in practical code is a large chunk of the problem.
Introducing Stormcrow: Dropbox's feature gating / population management system
Not a great one either. Trespassing has the additional aspect of physical space invasion that infringes on privacy and causes liability in a way that copyright can not. Digital copyright infringement is sharing data without a license which hasn't conclusively been shown to have a negative financial outcome for the holder of the copyright.
Having been in your position, I understand that having built a product from the ground up makes you feel like you are qualified to do anything. I was lucky enough to get hired at a late-stage startup after my endeavor failed, and am constantly reminded that time in the industry matters. Two years of intense coding is worth a lot, but you've only been exposed to a limited set of problems, both technical and business. 6+ years sounds reasonable to me if they are looking for someone with well-rounded experience.

Mind you, as someone else mentioned, some folks spend 6 years in the industry and don't gain the knowledge and experience you already have, but that doesn't mean you've attained 6 years worth of knowledge and experience.
Do you use ssh as a socks proxy?
Also http://dk.
How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source
I must admit I can not really relate. What about somebody who can not FizzBuzz, but claims they can code? Most whiteboard interviews I had were not much harder than FizzBuzz. I was asked to implement Quicksort once, but they gave me the specification, some time and a sheet of paper.

Why would somebody for whom it is easy consider to hire somebody who can not do a seemingly simple thing?

I can understand if somebody has anxiety issues. Then maybe you can negotiate something else, homework project or coding on site for 30 minutes. But odds are you'll discuss stuff with your colleagues on a whiteboard, too.
It comes with hundreds of effects, supports scripting, and has a huge library of user add-ons: http://stash.reaper.fm/

You must have a different definition of basic. I've never felt limited by Reaper.
Museums to try ancestors’ sail from Taiwan to Okinawa
That was about JIT, i.e. generating native code.
Damn. Thanks for the head's up!

I've exported it as a pdf here instead: https://dropfile.to/UbjJsvX
I got through 5 years of Engineering without buying a book. Between a bunch of copies of newer versions, some of older ones, some in English (this was in a Portuguese-speaking country) and some that couldn't be checked out from the library, there was always a copy available.

That was one of the high points of the college I went to, and I sure as hell did not take it for granted.
I was going to say something similar. We could do a lot of good just by shoveling more money to NSF and other established programs, like Obama did in the stimulus. It's a tiny fraction of the federal budget.
What do you think of my app
Hi I made an app to let people interact as they want...what do you think about it?
What is stupid about the CGAL licenses?

If I understand it correctly - If you are using it academically or in free software you can use it. If you are using it commercially you can pay a reasonable license fee and use it.

Sounds like a better solution than most; what am I missing?
"Networking is still king"

My takeaway from it.
Interesting. You have 15", based on resolution?

It might be different but my 2013 13" is definitely laggy on max resolution.
This Reddit comment suggests DeleteMe doesn't work so well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3q0cfz/thinking_ab...
You can't take this out of the context that France had many North African colonies, and has had a large underclass of people from those countries for many decades. Poverty is highly correlated with imprisonment.

I can't find a non-paywalled link ATM (the ridiculous politicization of this issue has made it nearly impossible to get signal out of the noise), but I've seen studies that show that if you control for poverty, the link essentially disappears.
several different ways. I'll try to keep it brief, though each of these could be a whole essay unto itself

1. a presentation of many archetypal themes, characters, monsters, gods, and demons pulling from a wide variety of sources and mythologies that I had not previously been exposed to. this was horizon expanding. encouragement to go out and actually learn about the source cultures that the D&D material was inspired by.

2. a fascinating system for dealing with moral and ethical judgments. the "alignment system" with its two orthogonal axes of Good<->Evil and Law<-->Chaos, and the interesting distinction between various kinds of neutrality (apathetic/passive vs. actively balanced, for example).

3. introducing me to the premise that play and socialization are primarily _creative_ and _imaginative_ activities. being raised on a diet of television and video games made this part particularly important as a counter-balance to all the passive entertainment that was being done to me.
After sleeping on it... I am not sure it would work with managers. They work with outside council on a day2day basis and they use attachments for that. I wonder why gmail hasn't made phishing attachments obsolete.
Artificial Intelligence and Humanless Sports
I had to share this, there have been a couple of news stories about storing information in DNA and personally I find the topic really fascinating. I suspect however that it is impractical to store data in a medium which requires DNA sequencing to extract, (very long 'time to recover' in the disaster management parlance) but its a fascinating idea in general.

But there are lots of natural techniques to copy dna and repair it when it fails to copy properly so durability should be solid.
Depends on the industry. The auto insurance industry had facilitated this, but was then reprimanded for using generic parts to repair damaged cars. There was some irony in that US parts manufacturers claimed 3rd parties were importing "foreign" parts, but many of the US manufactures also subcontracted overseas. Thorny issue.
Theft: A History of Music
You might want to indicate somewhere that this is for Windows only. I downloaded the source on my Linux machine and took a while figuring out that it's a MS Visual Studio project.
Agreed, except for the survey answers. The data presented there is essentially impenetrable, and I am extremely suspicious of the methodology.
There is no way in hell they cannot know what they are doing. They know they're not from Microsoft. And given this scam has been in the news for a while now, they don't get to plead ignorance.
I played with this one a bit and enjoyed it, as a novice: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mikrosonic... I also got G-Stomper during an Amazon sale although I haven't really played with it at all.

If you search the app store for "808" you'll find a lot of apps. The benefit is the original "real" 808 was relatively simple to use.
I don't care for your Donald-Trump style evidence-free arguments. Perhaps if you backed them up with a) statistics and b) an acknowledgement of European countries' record as colonial powers, which gives people of the former colonies an overwhelming moral right to move to the country that disrupted the development of their country of origin.
Of course. People do that already. If you can reverse engineer it (or get it close), isn't that okay?

I don't think anyone would condone a manufacturer like Foxcon ln selling parts independently, but that stuff is handled contractually anyways.
I don't think I'm being unfair.

Newton's handwriting recognition worked "100%" of the time by that measure. I assume we are comparing quality of outcomes not whether the API accepts the arguments it says it does and produces data in the format it promises.
Given the "coal rolling" trucks, those big fines still have yet to hit their target?
This is called phase shifting(1) adding a large enough inductor to all of your resistive loads will cause your power factor(2) to drop. Unfortunately for you the power company bills you for your apparent power useage which takes into account both the real and imaginary parts of your power consumption, it measures your shifted loads.

1. http://www.learnabout-electronics.org/ac_theory/ac_ccts_51.p...
2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor
This is why I can't take any of the "personal responsibility" people seriously. This salesman is not taking any responsibility for their actions.
Hmm good point, I will add it to the landing page
Maybe a music-oriented programming language like Chuck, Supercollider, or Pd?

I would recommend looking at Pd (Pure Data), which, imho, is the open source version of Max/MSP, a very popular graphical programming language used for music composition as well as the creation of audio applications.
Do you mean that you use it as bastion host?
When Side Projects Become Brownfields
The move was ethically challenged and morally bankrupt, but you have to admit it was a pretty clever hack.
OK, but I got this question:

http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/given-n-appointments-find-confl...

It requires the simple comparison you mentioned, but is far more complex to come up with an efficient algorithm. Needless to say, I totally failed that one. Never heard of an interval tree until I looked it up after the interview. It took me just a moment to look it up with my awesome google skills and if I had to actually use that, I could copy paste that code in an instant :-) Even better, I could find a library and not even have to copy paste.

One time I was working on a language translator at my actual job. I was storing formulas for excel columns in a database and they had to be translated from their representation in the database to the excel formula language. It turns out that the columns had dependencies on one another and they had to be processed in dependency order. This required something called a topological sort. Again, something I had never heard of before I encountered this problem at work (I do have a CS degree). But I found the solution by a quick google search and employed a library that was already in use in my client's software that contained that algorithm.

That's the actual skill that's valuable: translating your requirements into a bunch of search terms that will quickly give you the name of the algorithm you need. (and obviously building the inputs / working with the outputs of that algorithm). Yeah, I guess if you already have all of those in your in your brain already you might save some time, but what about when you encounter a problem you don't know how to solve?
In Anathem, there was a global catastrophe of an unspecified nature caused (or at least blamed on) science. Physicists, mathematicians, etc. are segregated from broader society (and high technology) to prevent future reoccurrences of this because their disciplines are viewed as being too dangerous to allow in the "saecular"(sic) world.

A mountain retreat for "useless" science is a nice idea, but Anathem's "Maths" were something else entirely. They were actually quite dystopian.
> There is no such public list. Most of these companies are privately held, their methods are trade secrets, and there is no real form of legal recourse.

How can there not be a public list of these data miners? When e.g. a court needs to control someone's information surely they know who these people are and they can let them know? Is there a secret list in every courthouse or something?

Or when someone wants to start another one of the higher-level companies -- how do they know which core aggregators to buy from? If that's a secret then how would they find out? Surely someone's gotta be willing to tell?
Tried to sign up for notifications, and just see an endless spinner.
My strategy is to hit FI before turning 50 (Financial Independence)

Then you can build startups. Raise goats. Whatever!

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
Cloudflare is really failing to inspire confidence here. Between them downplaying the issue, refusing to work with the Google engineer who found it, blaming the proxy owners (such as google) for not cleaning up their mess quickly enough, and attempting to dump the blame on groups like Ragel- I just have a hard time believing that Cloudflare will ever handle a security incident properly after this mess.
You can selectively download individual files though
Maybe You have never asked anything beyond basic DAW features. It lacks a live ecosystem and community too.
Discontinuing Support for Clef
I can't speak about any of the programming language experts you've seen, but:

> To implement this feature, the C# language designers had to modify the underlying runtime itself and add special bytecode instructions for the feature

I think this argument is misconstrued. This is inherent to the way the CLR was designed. It is not meant to be something that is kept as-is in terms of the bytecode it accepts. It is constantly being improved upon. Most new language features to C#, F#, or other CLR languages mean an update to the CLR if they're related to a new feature in the abstract.

While there's an argument to be made on whether this better than a more generic runtime, the point is that requiring a change to the CLR is not a big deal; that's part of their plan.
I honestly had no idea what you were talking about. The terms are near-opposite in meaning and usage.
Malformed cookie handling with document.cookie – who's responsible?
Thank you for the detailed information, Cogito.
This is awesome! I think I missed it but is there a link to the JavaScript in the article?
We need more resources, so that we could dedicate more to open-ended research without expecting it to pay off in any predictable way. You literally never know what can come out of a particular purely theoretical piece of research.

Well, would be great! It would be great to have such a surplus, and spend it on esoteric things that will pay off in a century or two, or mere 30 years maybe.

Are you personally happy to fund it? I'm sure a number of donation programs exist.

Otherwise, I'd concentrate on minimizing resource waste, especially in institutions like government, to obtain that resource surplus in the first place.
This website seems to post articles about what happened 100 years earlier, and the URL says 2015/7/20, so I'd assume it's talking about July 1915.
There was a paper recently about delta state CRDTs with the relevant code. C++ code for reference https://github.com/CBaquero/delta-enabled-crdts
Are you aware of "Compiling with Continuations?

https://www.amazon.com/Compiling-Continuations-Andrew-W-Appe...
Audi A6 Quattro vs. BMW in a Swimming Lesson Video
Maybe smart autos are being dominated by non-startup large players. Google, Apple, Uber, GM, etc.
20% time isn't dead, but it's also not useful for what you want it for. 20% time rarely works for projects that stretch much beyond a quarter. The amount of attention you can devote to them prevents you from finishing them in a timely-enough manner that the initial conditions which made you think of the idea still hold.

(Trust me, I spent 3 years of 20% time writing an HTML5 parser that was largely obsolete by the time it was released. It was desperately needed when I started it in 2010 and the only options were validator.nu and html5lib. It wasn't so needed by the time it was released in 2013 and you also had JSoup, Hubbub, html5ever, and probably others to choose from.)

Same reason part-time startups usually go nowhere.

I think that the system that actually does work is something like Silicon Valley, where if in the course of your job, you see an idea, you can just quit and try it. If it doesn't work out, there's always another job out there waiting, which won't hold the work you spent on that idea against you. Anyone with a modicum of financial discipline should also be able to save enough money off a Silicon Valley engineer salary that they have the option to go a year or two without income, too.
Maybe it's geofenced unless you're subscribed. "Freeofenced?" ;)
Can you clarify what you mean by "creaking"?
You a) may want to include a link to your app and b) provide more context about what problem you have solved.

Even with a) you are unlikely to generate much interest from readers (this isn't a free UX resource). ;)
Those are pretty awesome. Thanks for the links. I could certainly see how they would be hard on roads.
Sure, but when you take out all the parts they don't want, what they want to commercialize is "a database".
> Your business-nosed attitude needs a reality check. Developers are human capital, not robots.

You're being unnecessarily defensive. Just because people are people does not change the fact that it costs companies money to onboard them. This whole subthread is "why is it expensive to hire people?" and one part of the answer is "because you have to pay them money while you train them, and pay their colleagues while they do it". It's not a reflection of any unrealistic expectations--it's the opposite.

> Sorry, WHAT?

Computer, desk, office space: $5k

Job ads: $500-3k per hire is not unrealistic

Time spent sifting through applications: Easily 5 hours per week. If the posting is up for a month, that's 20 hours. That translates to about $1.5k in fully loaded costs for an employee with a $100k salary.

Time spent conducting phone screens: Assume 50 phones screens for one position. 30 min per person (20 minute conversation, 10 minute notes/break). 25 hours. Approximately $1.8k for the same $100k employee.

Further interview rounds: Assume about 10 candidates per position. Assume at least 4 person-hours per candidate, plus at least 8 hours devising evaluations (programming tests or what-not). 48 hours = ~$3.6k. Add in $1k of travel costs per candidate = $10k.

Draw up an employment offer. Assume you've got a stock one, but the new hire would like to make an amendment. Run it by a lawyer. $500.

We're at about $25k. It's not $40k, but it's not free, either. It would be easy to spend more time on any of those steps. If you use a recruiter, it will be higher. If you calculate based on SV salaries and costs, it will be higher.