skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WordPress is a content management system. Content is where it shines. If your SaaS is mostly content presentation, WordPress will work just fine thanks to its wide array of plugins.

For my new book notification service app http://anynewbooks.com, I took a hybrid approach. The frontend is WordPress (in need of a makeover) while I wrote the backend in Rails since no plugin could replicate the functionalities I needed.

I took this approach because I wanted a proof of concept and threw it together in a matter of days. 7 years later is still standing. So I don't regret it and I think relying on WordPress is a valid option. Developers might frown upon your choice, but that should be the least of your concerns.

That said, when I finally manage to rewrite the app (I know, I know) I will likely go with an app from scratch (e.g., probably in something like Elixir/Phoenix or Clojure) in order to customize the app to my liking with no bloat from features I don't need.

Ultimately, you have this option too. You can start with WordPress, validate your idea, and if you run into limitations you can't live with, you can then switch to an app from scratch.
SEEKING WORK - Full stack engineer & startup founder

I'm a product engineer and startup founder, I am comfortable operating at any level of the stack (mobile, web, backend etc), I can weigh up trade offs between engineering, business and design requirements. Am very comfortable with with a high level of uncertainty / changing requirements, and move super fast.

Location: Paris or Remote

Technologies: JavaScript (React, React Native, Node.js), iOS (Objective C & Swift), Ruby, Postgres, Mongo, Linux etc

Website: https://barna.by

CV: https://barna.by/cv

E-mail: hello@barna.by
Bug Discovered on Tor Browser for Mac OS and Linux
Yeah, commute times are lost productivity. The stress factor can lead to health problems. Society will always pay a cost.
> Eric Lewald : The Hollywood normalcy is you provide a number one hit and the money starts flowing. What happened with us was we had a number one hit, but it was four or five companies working on this. One of them was Saban. What he did after the first season was cut $500 off the script fee for the writers.
>
> Julia Lewald: Me being one of the writers.
>
> Eric Lewald: His rationale was, "it's a hit. They want to be part of it, so they'll take less money."
>
> JuliaLewald: "And if not, there's a line out the door of people who will."

Brutal.
A coworker of mine mines ETH to heat his house and I am considering that too. I am not sure how much you can save money compared to electric heating when you account for the cost of GPUs, though.

Heat pumps have better energy efficiency than electric heaters but whether that translates to cheaper costs is another thing. Heat pumps are expensive (about $3000 per pump) and they require regular maintenance (a few hundred bucks per pump every few years). They're also big, bulky and noisy and installation requires poking holes in exterior walls.

I have 3 heat pumps and 2 fire places in my house but I still do need a bunch of electric heaters when it gets properly cold. The weather around here is right about freezing this time of year and so far no electric heaters are needed.

But soon it's time to turn on the heat and it's a consideration of money, not energy efficiency.
It seems reasonable to fear any activity that could damage your career. If I know companies will fire me (or not hire me) because I'm a Dodgers fan, I'd be right to be afraid of being outed as a Dodgers fan.
Interesting that both incidents caused by using the wrong tool (screwdriver here, socket there). Such a tiny thing, a hand tool in the wrong place...
Sorry for this metacomment, but how can you tell if someone is getting downvoted?
More so than just "blockchain" I'd say getting into distributed computing will pay dividends in the future. Understanding DC is plenty good for lots of current tech trends (big data, ML, etc), but also looks forward to the switch to trustless systems to be used in everyday life.
Baro – Lend. Rent. Earn. Save
It probably makes more business sense to do this mega merger/acquisition rather than continue to sue each other into oblivion over IP. The last settlement between QCOM and Broadcom was almost a billion dollar payment from QCOM to Broadcom... while that may not necessarily kill off Qualcomm, can't say it's not a major dent in their pocket after 4+ years of litigation.
Wow, Twitter is selectively enforcing it's rules? Shocking.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was my favorite cartoon at the time. Cartoons today are so lame.
Tracing Summit 2017 Videos
Go load and execute the Reddit Tron script - https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript/

It's not perfect but it fixes many of your complaints including disabling stupid MS Store Apps you'll never use, turning off tracking, disabling cortana and giving you better control over updates.
Well there’s no risk of it being used for diplomacy
Not a whiner at all. It sucks.

I'm on the job market now and the most feedback I get are from jobs that would be 45 min - 1 hr minimum (in the same city). I've done it before, it's terrible for my health and mental state.

Moving closer isn't an option because it's even more expensive than the already expensive area I live in now and the salaries won't compensate to offset that.
We - as manufacturers of HIPPI NICs and crossbar switches - we were technically just supplying OEM parts to a Canadian company. They were the people trying to sell a giant turn-key censorship solution to the Malaysian government. I believe we were simply trying to "help our biggest customer" with an IBM-style field service tech.

Also, this was a rush fix. Flying me on the next flight was supposedly faster than the usual shipping/courier services? At least that's what the boss believed? I never got the full explanation, but I suspect that the Canadian company was ~30-50 hours away from losing the entire deal, which was supposed to be our main (only?) source of revenue until we could ship an important new product[4] a few months later. With the benefit of hindsight, instead of a rational, sound plan, the whole situation smells more like a panic about losing VC funding.

[4] We had re-purposed 8 & 16 port crossbar switches where each port could be (mix-n-match): HIPPI, FC, ATM, 2xFDDI, 2xSCSI3 (!), 1000BASE-T, or 8x(100BASE-TX/FX) with arbitrary layer-3 routing and arbitrary tunneling. Two switches with SCSI and ATM ports did something similar to FCoE/iSCSI... in 1996. RAID 1 over 10km of fiber was awesome. Except it never shipped, because everyone was focused on our broken NIC. --sigh--
Twitter is just Twitter. Obviously he uses different channels to authorize military strikes.

I think that the lack of the media to provide "context" or lack there of and "fact checking" before hearing what he has to say first hand is what infuriates the media about Trump's Twitter. However, with Twitter, if you need any of this you can just read the replies to his tweets which is filled with the usual partisan brawling.
It will all depend on how the municipal broadband people run their service and at what true cost to the city administration.
The first comment on the page is interesting.
I believe if you have that kind of problem, you haven’t set up proper teamwork between techs and marketers to create such texts together. The one makes sure it’s great dor selling, the other that it doesn’t annoy developers and give them the information they want.
UNUBO makes it easy to track what you or your startup spends on subscriptions
I tried a link to some product in some ecommerce (http://www.lazada.com.my/samsung-galaxy-note-8-6gb-ram64gb-r...), and it does extract the content.. but am only care about the "hero" item. Is it safe to just always take the 1st item in mainEntity>offers>offers[0]?
Private property and personal property are distinct in socialist and communist thought.
> Lots of them run fine without Play Services (including Google Maps).

And there's also OsmAnd, which I think deserves a try.

I haven't used Google Maps in a few years, but I initially switched, because OsmAnd was much more reliable with offline maps. I've also heard people say that they've found OsmAnd's maps to be better, especially in more secluded areas.

https://f-droid.org/app/net.osmand.plus
The Apple STOCKS app on my iPhone is showing updates as I watch and says Yahoo! at the bottom. So, it seems Yahoo is still providing fairly real-time stock quotes via some means.
In the video they interview the guy who lives next to a hydro plant, so pretty green energy.
Location: Paris, France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript (React, React Native, Node.js), iOS (Objective C & Swift), Ruby, Postgres, Mongo, Linux etc

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Résumé/CV: https://barna.by/cv

Email: hello@barna.by

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I'm a product engineer and startup founder, I am comfortable operating at any level of the stack (mobile, web, backend etc), I can weigh up trade offs between engineering, business and design requirements. Am very comfortable with with a high level of uncertainty / changing requirements, and move super fast.
Reaching Out: 9 Reasons to Get a Coach
So actions justify the means?
No harm was done to anyone but the employee, which could even be prosecuted for that, so everything was pretty much useless.
And of course, if you're offering a service to someone, you're supposed to ensure that the person enjoys the full experience of that service, even if it is Donald Trump. There are right places and means for protests.
But I wouldn't call deep learning a "technology". DL is a branch of mathematics, technology (e.g programming language, ML framework) is secondary, and most important non-mathematical advancements in the field of DL are those in hardware, not in software.
The only reason I would want this to happen is if Qualcomm's obviously terrible and anti-competitive leadership would get the boot. And then the whole company's abusive culture needs to be cleaned-up.

Also, I wonder how serious Broadcom is about competing with Intel, and whether or not they would consider purchasing AMD, too, to aid in them in that effort. AMD's market cap is now only 1/10 of the price they intend to pay for Qualcomm, so it's almost a matter of "throwing some extra money on the table" at this point.

Broadcom could use Qualcomm primarily for mobile and IoT, and AMD for desktop, servers, machine learning, and automotive.
A million times yes!

So many times something is created to solve a particular problem, and for those who have experienced that problem the need for the solution is obvious. But for those of us who come along later it's not so obvious why I would want to use X.

I've thought many times that the number one thing that should be explained in any documentation, article about a technology, etc. is what problems this solves and give examples of the problems and how this is a solution to those problems.
One aspect of remote work that I feel is often missing from this discussion is the impact on mental health.

Some have alluded to it in posts here but unless you've worked from home for an extended period of time you can't really understand how strong of an impact isolation from your peers really can have.

I believe that everyone's individual need for human interaction varies but we all require it on some level. We take for granted just how much of our social requirements are met by being in an office. Face-to-Face interactions aren't important because they're a better mechanism for developing product... They're important for the individual, because without them your "social brain" will effectively atrophy. Interacting with people on a daily basis is the only way to stay sharp when it comes to social interaction. Slack can't replace that, unfortunately.
The hardest part of WP plugin/theme development is learning how hooks and filters work. Once you've got those down, you get can get wild.

Some great starter plugin resources (in order of my personal preferences for style and organization):

* https://github.com/DevinVinson/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate

* https://github.com/hlashbrooke/WordPress-Plugin-Template

* https://github.com/mattyza/starter-plugin
Complete schedule with abstracts and biographies available here:
http://tracingsummit.org/wiki/TracingSummit2017#Schedule
I remember thinking the same thing. I thought the costumes were from the older comics, though. I didn't know about the failed pilot. Good stuff, thanks.
tl;dr: deal is pending regulator approval of how many m's will be at end of combined company name
The author of this piece, Alex Wellerstein, is absolutely fantastic on the history of the Nuclear bomb, and I cannot recommend his blog enough: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com

His twitter is also worth a follow: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
What's actually gigantic and not just perceived as such though, also changes with the scale -- since we're talking about percentages.

If the earth had just 200 people, 20 of them killed is 10%, but it's nothing that a small determined fight between two tribes can't easily achieve, without even weapons.

Whereas the 3-4% of the 3 billion during WWII is a much bigger affair -- took tons of bombs, battles, war-caused famines, an extermination program, and even nuclear bombs...
> I do see where he's coming from though but I don't know how to counter those arguments as I don't know the history of how all the fiber got laid and who actually "owns" any of it. It seems like the phone lines or water that it's a public good at this point.

It depends on who laid the fiber. In the context of cable companies like Comcast, almost all of the fiber was built with private money. Cable companies were historically not regulated as telecommunications carriers, which means they didn't get whatever subsidies were available for deploying telephone service to various places. In fact, the opposite is true. Municipalities generally treat cable-company contracts as a way to get freebies. A standard contract will require the company to pay 5% of gross revenues to the municipality, plus various goodies (wiring up municipal buildings with fiber, lump-sum contributions, etc.) That is on top of the rental fees paid to the power or telephone company for space on the poles.

That is very different from how, for example, water and sewer lines are built. In almost every county, water and sewer lines are paid for by mandatory fees paid to the county when you build a house. Most people don't realize it because it gets rolled into the price of the house. But in the county where I live, for example, the builder pays about $25,000 to the county in fees to hook up to the public water/sewer system.
(4 Methods) Easily How to Bypass iCloud Activation Lock iOS 11.2, 11.2.1, 11.2.2
This wasn't really that big a deal. By the Minuteman era, warheads were safe against fires and crashes. Nuclear weapons from several B-52 bombers hit the ground hard in crashes without a nuclear explosion. (Sometimes the implosion charges did go off, but not symmetrically, as is needed to get implosion.) The Minuteman missile itself had a solid fuel engine. This was nowhere near as bad as the incident described in "Command and Control". That one was a liquid-fueled missile with hypergolic propellant.

See Wikipedia's list of nuclear accidents.[1] This wasn't one of the big ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...
"This was a very futile and stupid gesture on that employee's part."

I think thats how most non-violent activism / movements starts. As a futile effort. If his actions starts the dialog on how dangerous it is for the POTUS to tweet from unreliable communication medium than its not futile at all.
The ECommerce Entrepreneur's Guide to Behavioral Targeting
A collection of front end interview questions
Physical Science Go on Till You Come to the End; Then Stop
> DL is a branch of mathematics

Don't tell the mathematicians that. There's a lot of informal DL floating around.
Going to have to claim one of those available rather quickly...
Yeah I believe that's the problem, the work needs to be trivially verifiable. You also need to be able to modulate the difficulty easily so that the blockrate remains constant as more people enter the "contest". And of course the work itself must somehow reference the transaction data otherwise you could use the same proof of work for two different blocks.

Seems difficult to find an actually useful mathematical problems that fits all these prerequisites.
Actually answered that question already yesterday. For convenience here again:

It did actually just extract the data of the "hero" item. The thing is that it gets offered by multiple companies for different prices. So all the prices are valid and none is right or wrong. So really depends what you want. If you want simply "a" price, you can take the first. If you want the cheapest one you would have to itterate over them to find it.
Astroturfing is a different thing, yes, but it's still a thing nonetheless.
2 actually:

https://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/dissertation/wheeler...

But note you are now adding a lot of extra preconditions that are largely not available.

The counter argument is reverse engineering & black box audits are actually easier than getting the conditions right to trust code audits. As a bonus they work regardless of the code availability.
Video showing artist making the Space invaders:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mCT9qc_djSg

Skip to one minute in.
There is also a writeup on how to run OpenVMS on SIMH VAXserver 3900, a more obscure thing than older Unix installations: https://vanalboom.org/node/18
A stray dog became the world’s first cosmonaut 60 years ago today
Do you think that they should ban his account? I'm personally pretty pleased that the most powerful person in the world has an open channel that clearly nobody is able to control (otherwise half of the shit he writes wouldn't be approved, clearly).

Coalesced power is the greatest threat to those without it, and there is no greater than the executive branch of the US. As asinine as most of his posts are, I much prefer insight from my enemies than my friends.
Hi there, there's the 'see 1' thing in VIPS testing, it says the following: "Pillow is single-threaded, so the fairest comparison for raw processing speed would be against vips-1thread."
> They haven't been contracted by the government at all. The only have to operate by their own user agreement, which is wholly insufficient for the role they are playing.

That's probably not the case.

For instance, Twitter had special logic in place to handle the transition between @POTUS and @POTUS44 accounts:

http://fortune.com/2017/01/20/twitter-donald-trump-president...

It's quite likely they could have a special user agreement specifically set up for the White House, which predicted some sort of QoS and special security measures.
Well you're right about discarding java out of the equation, PlayFramework 2 support for java devs is getting worse and worse since 2.4. Seems like Play Framework 2 went all in on scala instead. Go with the one you personally are more comfortable with.
> He lived in a house like this? ...

Append a giant concrete warehouse to the side and move the tower into the back yard and, yes.

> Your description makes it sound like the most bizarre mixed use building.

Agreed on all points :) I should ask next time I see him about the zoning. I speculate it was some kind of employee/maintenance quarters. His job was to go into the transformer room once per day and make sure the green light was still blinking. (Kidding, not sure what the arrangement was :)

> Assuming the actual emitters were high above his head and fairly directional...

The tower was quite tall, and I was told perfectly safe to climb for most of the height, then suddenly fatal! I understood it to be more or less horizontally omnidirectional. I'm definitely not an expert in the tech. Also I think he could redirect the heat to the outside during warmer months.
I think you'll find the sarcophagus is there because it is too large to be stolen. As I recall, we've never even found human remains in the pyramids themselves.
President Trump's use of Twitter, a new communications technology, to communicate with the general public and world is no different than Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)'s use of the then new technology radio -- weekly addresses to the nation and press conferences -- to communicate with the nation and as it happens bypass the almost uniformly hostile newspapers of the 1930s.

Trump is no more using Twitter to communicate policy directives to US government agencies than FDR was using radio. He still has to formulate and sign executive orders and go through the legally proscribed channels as the successful legal challenges to the original Muslim ban show.

Rather than try to censor the President of the United States his critics should rationally and clearly critique his actual policies and actions.
I assume the comment used to appear grayed, which indicates a negative score.
The mere fact that an employee had the power to disable a politician's account is enough to argue for more regulation over social media. The timing is perfect too.
They made a statement of fact, but it wasn't really relevant to the comment it was replying to.
You've been WFH for a long time so I'm sure you've already done this, but...

Early on in my WFH career I had to make it VERY clear to my family (and friends) that when I'm working they need to consider it as being NO DIFFERENT from me being 30 minutes away in an office.

I refuse to structure any part of our life around the belief that I am more available or more flexible.

In practice, yes, I am more available and more flexible. So occasionally, I can do things like run an errand in the middle of the day. But my close group of family/friends understands that this is an exception to the rule. In general, they should consider my work as being no different from theirs.
Reificar is also a spanish word :) the Real Academia does not register it but you can see its use going at least as back as Marx translations through https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reificaci%C3%B3n
I've enjoyed Gemini

low fees, easy set up, has good member service (in my experience)

only real cons is that it only allows you to trade btc and eth, no ltc or other alt coins.
I fucking cried during her episode in Space Dandy.
When I first had heard about Go (golang) I was severely unimpressed. Good support for multi-threaded programming was nice, but the rest of the language seemed like a step (or two) backwards.

Then I ran across this talk by Rob Pike:

https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

What really impressed me about Go was the attention to detail on all the little things that are annoying in C and related languages. How they decided to re-order how variable declarations are done, things like that.

It was about paying attention to the "ergonomics" of programming that impressed me.
It won't work because people want to read stories that confirm their biases.

I haven't had a lot of disagreements with liberals, but I've had a fair number of discussions with republicans/conservatives who discount anything that opposes their worldview no matter how grounded in facts or science it is, and accept anything that reinforces it regardless of how unreliable or artificial the source is.

In fact, studies have shown that being shown facts that contradict our biases reinforces our biases rather than weaken them[1].

So bots that tweet facts that contradict the fake news people want to believe makes things worse and helps no one. It feels as though the only way to help someone overcome those biases is to prevent them from experiencing reinforcing information and to expose them to situations that contradict them.

[1] http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07...