skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back before cable companies gave everyone a DVR to try to kill Tivo (their plan was kill Tivo then kill the DVR but courts got in their way), I had a hacked Tivo with a network card. I could pull recorded shows off onto my PC. And then the PC would run a custom bit of software that would process the video and strip out the commercials (or you could have it just insert auto-jumps for the Tivo to follow). That was back in the very early 2000s... so I'd expect this would not be difficult at all now. The software back then did raw processing of the stream and, as I understood it, looked for stacks of I-frames and fade-to-black as well as volume differences. Those stats might be different for online ads, but a little experimentation would solve it.
GiveCampus hiring full-stack and front-end engineers in DC and SF
GiveCampus is a Y Combinator-backed company that builds fundraising software for educational institutions. We're tired of schools being stuck with crappy software that never changes, and we're working to bring actual innovation to the space, and solve the hair-on-fire problems fundraisers face. We're growing at an awesome pace, and now need more motivated engineers to help us build out the features and products schools want!

Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, expects us to be a household name in the next few years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896296. We were also covered by the Washington Post last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...), and have more than 5x the number of schools using us since it was published.

We're still a small team, so if you're looking to join a fast-growing startup and have an immediate impact, we're looking for both full-stack (Ruby on Rails, Postgres) and front-end engineers with at least 2 years of professional experience. Our current team was previously with Facebook, Amazon, and Intel.

Please no recruiters or dev shops.

Reach out to careers@givecampus.com with a bit about why you're passionate about education, and a project you've working on that you're particularly proud of.
Never going to happen. Corporate boards are all stacked with C-level execs of other companies. These people went to the same business schools, socialize together, serve on boards together.

It's a small world where everyone knows one another and I rub your back so you rub mine.
Advertising never works for me. Linux and Windows are worlds apart.
What the NRA Can Teach Us About Voter Empowerment
Not to be pessimistic, but I'm surprised that anyone even being considered for insider trading, it's legal for Congress to do it, why shouldn't rich people be able to do it? It will probably end up the same way as the credit default swaps, rich people trying to flip houses, banks selling shady packages to the middle class, and the US taxpayer providing a bailout and poor people getting the blame. The idea of justice or consumer protection in the US is a joke.
For now, yes, but it opens up the possibility of changing that down the line or for users to manually perform those updates.
This should be a business-ending lawsuit.
You have to pay for development and upkeep of the service. So it will never be as inexpensive.
Ray Dalio Says He's Ready to Give Away Bridgewater's Management Software
Ditto. Without the HDD or optical drive it's fairly light, and the battery lasts hours. Use a USB wifi dongle as needed. The keyboard and pointer nubbin work great.

To be clear I also have an MBP, but I usually use the junker. The MBP gets used for potatoshop and client side testing.

I also drive a '95 golf. Cost next to nothing to buy, parts laughably cheap. £500 for a convertible that goes like stink? Yes please. I could buy any car I wanted - but I prefer something cheap that I don't care too much about, that I can readily service myself.

Also, it's far more environmentally friendly to use old stuff 'til it dies than to buy new stuff.

Old doesn't mean bad - just old.
I guess Silicon Valley hates it because the research was done by a bunch of academics and government scientists, but they've been working on and successfully demoing a brain interface that can do control and feedback with arms: https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/08/25/prosthetic-arm-sensory-touch/
> I guess the time between "tech person discovers a security breach" and "top executives discover it's a huge embarrassing crisis" is more than a couple of days.

That's exactly right. I can imagine the gradual motion up the chain of command, with the progress actually slowing down as the size of the breach and potential exposure becomes more and more apparent, and each level trying to minimize the damage. I'd have hated to be the guy that had to tell the CEO...
It's also worth noting that the default installer for CCleaner automatically installs Chrome and sets it as the default browser with no notification in the default process. Unless you click "More..." from one of the screens, then it tells you. At least it was like this two weeks ago. Had to uninstall bundleware Chrome again from multiple family members' PCs.
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Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011)
We did. And had to "decaffeinate" everything a few months later because it is hell to work with implicit returns, objects without brackets, no spread operator, significant whitespace, no variable declaration keyword...

It really is a matter of taste, but the large majority of us didn't like it. It is pretty, but I felt like fighting against the language all the time (implicitly returning an bracketless object is not something that's easily readable)
Porsche's Mission E pricing might give Tesla buyers pause
Where is his list of rules? Sounds like a fun read but can't find anything on Google.
The article starts with a question which asks about the present very clearly, but then answers a different question of what philosophers did (i.e the past) without any reference to modern philosophers.

Modern philosophers analyse older philosophical work and reply to contemporaries; for example there is an ongoing debate about the difference between "letting die" and "killing", and if it is an ethical difference then what significance it holds. Other philosophy seeks to blend together with sociology and psychology to analyse our current life (for example, the work of Karl Marx and the Frankfurt School), for example to ask what is capitalism and to what extent it is desirable. Some other philosophy works with economics to examine classical and modern ideas of the value of commodoties and its ontology. Some philosophers concern themselves with the ethics of killing and eating animals and by extension humans. Other philosophy works through linguistics to formulate theories of what we mean when we speak and the limits of language to describe reality. And other philosophy involves itself with natural science to formulate theories of causation and being. Yet other philosophy does other things.

It's a broad field, and with advances in all related fields it's become a lot broader than it was since the enlightenment, even considering how natural science is no longer considered a philosophy.
Part of me keeps wishing there was a paid kindle edition of it or similar ... but then I remember that I mostly read the eye as a result of impulse purchases from railway news stands, and suspect that that's why there isn't.

Always funny when you see part of an eye page clipped from a photo to post on twitter - the one time that having an image instead of text seems actually suitable ;)
It didn't.

Although Geoffrey and folks considered a rewrite of the compiler along the lines of Michael Ficarra's CoffeeScriptRedux, they decided it was more pragmatic just to work with the existing compiler and get it to produce Modern JS instead of the Lowest-Common-Denominator JS it previously output.

A wise choice, especially given 2017 interest and energy levels.

Edit: To be clear, to the extent anything can or can not be considered official in open source, Michael's project was his project, and never made it in to the main repo. We encouraged it just as we'd encourage anyone to try and make an independent implementation — but CoffeeScript has never asked for financial support.
>What's to stop the company from finding a replacement who can be up to speed with the code in a short amount of time?

The fact that it's very, very hard and the competition is fierce?

Also, this is not a romantic relationship we're talking about. If you leave your place of work, no matter how irreplaceable you are the company is going to carry on as best they can. If a year later you are available again and they still need a person for this position that they know you would fit well, why would they not rehire you?
Already in progress =)
Pretty sure Chrome autofill will store CVV. I think for most people using Chrome autofill for CCs, Chrome is already the System of Truth for CC, to quite the same extent it would be under this new system. No banks or retailers seem to be complaining about it at present.

I don't see the difference between browser filling in these details with auto-fill, or browser filling in these details with a Payment Request API. Are you suggesting there is a significant one?
To your second statement I think the term you're looking for is scared. The more fringe will throw in race war as if the rest of humanity has a vendetta against your average white male.
>winning was not the point. Playing was.

Wise words, I hope you don't mind me pasting this on my monitor. This phrase resonated with me particularly while I'm trying to work out a particular intellectual tough spot.
2019 Aston Martin Vantage Spy Shots, Specds, Release Date
For me that is just plain wishful thinking until Google actually forces OEMs to update, or adopts the Microsoft way and pushes the updates itself.

Otherwise this will be yet another failed attempt.
Does this apply to anything other than PHP? Not saying it's not significant, just curious. Does mod_wsgi outperform uwsgi with uwsgi_pass for example?
Super slow, but pretty cool....

Finally I can play Solitaire without Ads again.
Thanks for posting this. It's unlikely to get much discussion due to the lack of detail and the poor English (and it is hard to know the context here)...but it's interesting to see this nonetheless.
Evolution of Data Structures in Yandex.Metrica
I never liked, nor used CCleaner. I always thought it was for lazy people or those who refused to do it the hard way.
> Why do such comically obvious insider trading if you're only selling a small percentage of your stock?

Because then it makes it look innocuous and fools those who would scrutinize the behavior, like it did may have for anyone expressing the above opinion. It would be so blindingly damning to sell-off all of one's holdings, but selling off a small portion could allow for partial benefit of your asset at peak value before it declines.

If it were me, I'd do it exactly this way. I'd be trying to find the perfect intersection of mitigating the upcoming asset value decline and maximizing perceived innocuousness. Selling everything? That'd be a sucker's move.
Warn of the ever present existential threat, smoke, drink and seduce undergrads.

;)
Is there over-investment in media because devs lack knowledge of better fields?
rt.com is a russian tv station funded by the government. It is a proganda outlet for Russia. one can assume kgb involvement and vetting of their stories.

so this story seems benign enough, but bear in mind the source and consider what their motivations might be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
> There's your problem.

That's certainly one of my problems. But I work on multiple projects and every one of them has its own Slack. So what exactly am I supposed to do about that?

I also don't think the situation would be much better if I were only on one Slack. One Slack with multiple channels is more or less equivalent to multiple Slacks (except for the multiple login annoyance).
I like how beautifully white are all the people in Tez ads. /s
> I have been told that praising a kid for effort vs. results is much more important.

And yet, our work is completely the opposite. Your boss doesn't care how much effort it took you to do that thing, only that it got done.

Parents inevitably take this approach at home as well. An A is an A is an A. Good marks are what we look for, and are a mental shortcut to know if your child is doing their work at school. But we see this can backfire, as children learn that getting all the answers right on a test are all that matters. Maybe instead our school system needs to instead evaluate relative performance, not absolute performance. A grade should say "Sally improved by 50% this term", and parents can praise that result. The tests that a child takes should adjust to take into account that child's proficiency, to ensure that child is always being challenged.

Aside: Getting all the answers right on a test is also a poor signal - you're essentially clipping the measurement of a child's performance. Kids should be used to failure, and learning how to take on new challenges. Why not give a test where the expected mark is 50%?
I envy your optimism. Consider me thoroughly carborundum'd by the illegetimi
Bubble is awesome!

https://forum.bubble.is/t/bubble-chess-anyone/8914

also, in case you are wondering, you CAN get under the hood:

https://manual.bubble.is/building-plugins.html
sounds like you're conflating the hardware with the software. I personally think that Windows lets down ThinkPads
Indeed, India is very concerned. I believe the current port leasing conditions say it isn't to be used as a military base.

But things change. China spends a lot of money and it isn't clear how this will play out.

Five years ago people thought it was impossible they would control the South China Sea. Now the it's close to the de-facto position, and the US only conducts an occasional freedom of navigation operation to pretend otherwise.
Working long hours is common in Asia, especially in Japan and Korea. My wife had worked as salaried accountant at Nike, Gap, Guess fashion, and other companies that have presence in Asia, and it was common for her to have to stay at work until 11pm, sometimes past midnight, and yet expected to report by 9am the next morning. Leaving work at 9pm would be ordinary, and leaving at 6pm would be like committing a career suicide. I have a friend who worked at Samsung in Korea and told me that the work hours were brutally long, but no one wanted to change jobs because the alternative was another job with less pay but still with long hours, as expected.
>Second I implore people not to use a language where the designers think breaking changes are OK

This is a big deal when you also have to use libraries written in the same language. Python 3 being a fundamentally different language (the underlying bytecode is not backwards compatible) from Python 2 made the transition very difficult.

However, this will never be a problem for a javascript transpiler.

And also, the list of breaking changes really isn't too incredible. I imagine it'll be fine for most coffeescript projects to take this update quite liberally, as it shouldn't be too hard to write CoffeeScript 1.x/2.x polyglot code to transition to the new version.
> There has been a number of cases of installers from trusted developers being infected lately.

Here a few other cases

* https://www.pcworld.com/article/3104180/software/pc-nuking-m...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6hvzzt/psa_my_ch...

* https://lifehacker.com/many-browser-extensions-have-become-a...

* http://www.zdnet.com/article/android-malware-in-google-play-...

* https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/google-kills-200-ad...

* https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/ciscos-webex-chrome...
The executives only way of staying out of jail is to claim that they suddenly have no idea what's going on

Hire a lawyer, no interviews with the FBI, but "me know nothing" might be a problem if they got memos on the breach, attended meetings, drew up plans on dealing with the fallout etc. It's hard to keep such a secret, especially from the top level execs.
If "securities violations" is the only legal jeopardy Equifax executives are subject, we are truly screwed.

The US needs a DPA, or at least its residents do. The government couldn't care less.
Congrats. Please allocate $1 million to build a native (i.e., non-electron) client application.
That goes against what throwaway284534 was implying.

If everyone is a "peer" and an enormous number of those peers make a succinct, persuasive argument that EME is incompatible with W3C's mission statement of "Web for All" and "Web for Rich Interaction"[1], one would think that would make a difference in the direction the W3C takes.

Instead I'm eating popcorn watching players with deep pockets choose tactics in their battle to control an industry. And that battle is what shapes this web API.

So the claim of, "your peers are listening and they value your feedback," is about as convincing as a hold message from Comcast.

[1] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission
Well this is the US :) You posted median US income. The median family in the US lives in a small town, perhaps 50k-250k people. Most of them have similarly affordable towns. We are not suburbs of anything.. 90 minute drive from Chicago, but far enough to not really count as a burb.
Silicon Valley did it best, and it's funny because it's true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTbNKWw7Zs
Founders with a major stake in a company can work as much as they like; if they expect regular folks to sacrifice their lives so that they can profit from it immensely, they can take a hike.
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What charges?
What would you expect the page to say if they were malicious?
Also, WikiTribune is in the works and has potential. It won't be funded by advertisers at all.
The point is you're still going to be investigated, and it's not going to be fun, and probably not going to be worth the relative small gain you'll make even on the off chance you manage to get away with it. [That said, if it's me, I'm making a point of disclosing all future stock sales well in advance just to make sure this kind of thing can't come back to bite me.]
Unless I've entirely misunderstood, he was fired, most of the rest of the team quit because they hated the clickbait-happy CEO, the publication was sold to somebody else, and then he got hired back again. There's more discussion on this upthread.
Companies with this type of leadership are the ones I'm interested in giving my money to, long-term, as a consumer. Not because of any sort of principled decision based on his skills, but because I feel these types of workers would stay sharp and be quicker to solve problems correctly should they appear.
If you're in the US, degree verification happens constantly but it's always in the back-end of HR. The folks that don't pass (or have a questionable degree from an institution that may or may not exist) are removed from the process without much fanfare.
Show HN: Topic modeling over Paul Graham's essays
They only push security fixes for flagship devices.

This brand new LG is stuck on June patch level.
CoffeeScript is still very relevant for me. I have two medium-sized Ember projects written in CoffeeScript (and Emblem and Sass--the original, indented variety, thank you very much).

I have been looking at React (will probably skip due to the patent license) and Vue, but cannot imagine going back to semicolons and (excessive) curly braces and parens.

If you married CoffeeScript just out of convenience (being able to avoid prototypes, bind, etc.), then it no longer serves much of a purpose. But if, like me, you fell in love with CoffeeScript's beauty, then no amount of ES6+ features will make it obsolete (as long as you can also keep using those features directly in CoffeeScript).
> When I see that yahoo paid 700 million for his company in 2007 it probably gave him enough fake credibility to hang himself.

Yahoo paid 300M, not 700M. It's in the article itself.

Of course, it's still 300M more than they should have.
which email address?
I think this is a neat little way to show people their privacy has value. "Free" isn't always free, and the only currency you have isn't necessarily legal tender.
See reply to child comment.

Re: theft, encrypted CF card, selinux, good passwords etc., and I rsync home dir over ssh nightly when I'm using it.
Perhaps they were just cashing in options that matured.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, but I am curious why you say this.
> the DoD did fund the research and development of several programming languages and tools that would have offered precisely the hygiene Dijkstra would like to see in software development.

No tool will force you to wash your hands.
Hygiene is a matter of knowledge, and discipline ; and it's mostly unrelated to the tools you're using.
> how hard would you say it would be to install a version of Linux that support 3 monitors (using an onboard ATI card and a PCIe card)?

As a data point, the development desktop I'm using runs 3 monitors on Linux (Fedora 25). They're hooked into a single AMD R9 390 graphics card (overkill, but it was hanging around spare when putting together the pc).

The monitors are 1x Dell 30" in the middle, with 2x ASUS 24" monitors (one each side). No HiDPI stuff, and everything works fairly well. Using the "Xfce" spin of Fedora.

Didn't need to do any complicated setup. The monitors were all detected fine without mucking around, and I just needed to drag them into position in the Xfce4 gui tool so it knew which one was on the left, middle, right.
Anyone got a link?
Facebook silences reports of ethnic cleansing
> booze, bribes, women

Kind of curious about the "bribes" part...
In the exact scenario you describe, Andorra would spend just as much as it does today, but the American public would benefit from that as well.

In the more likely scenario, Andorra will use the code funded by US citizens.
Never used CoffeeScript in anger, and I don't see it regaining the level of hype it once had, but despite its lack of dominance I think it emphatically suceeded in helping to push Javascript towards its modern (and much improved, IMO) incarnation. A good recent example of how a technology doesn't need to capture marketshare in order to have a positive impact on the market.
>> Reaching the level of mastery where one can sightread any of the Beethoven concerti or a Liszt etude requires a lifetime of years/decades of dedicated practice, but it is true that once you're at that level, you can find diminishing returns on hard work which encroach upon your creativity.

I would argue that looking at sheet music and playing it requires very little creativity, if any at all. It is in that arena that practice is important. Being able to play anything put down in front of you is only possible with mastery of your instrument. However - if you are creating music mastery can get in the way. Often the best ideas come from stumbling upon things. If you know everything or know how things 'should' be done coming up with original ideas is difficult. Personally I've seen this in guitarists. There are some who are clearly masters of their instrument. They can play anything, at any speed, with a wide array of techniques at their disposal. Most of the time they don't write anything interesting.
Taler is free in the sense of libre software, but it is not a free payment system. In their demo they added a small transaction fee. However, because it is not a crypto currency they can greatly reduce the transaction fees.
This 25-Year-Old Just Launched a University-Focused VC Firm Out of a Rental Car
I'd say "There's Slack's problem". Having different emails and password to each and every Slack account you have is tedious to work with. Would be cool to have a single account to manage all workspaces. Kind of like you can join multiple repos as a collaborator on Github with your personal account.
Good point. Fortunately he had the foresight to bring an attorney along to testify on his behalf. And an artfully worded statement that avoided a perjury charge, as he did not 'inject' anything -- the trainer's drug of choice was available as a tablet after all.