skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer a concise, short resume. I interview candidates over the phone so I keep the resume and a condensed job description on the displays in front of me. If the candidate lists something, I ask about it. Knowing what a potential hire did 10+ years ago may be interesting but it's rarely relevant. It provides color but I'm significantly more interested in what was done in the last 3-4 years. When a person hasn't exercised a technical skill for 3+ years, that skill may be obsolete and/or the candidate may prove unable to apply that skill.
Do any of the these from their website fit that profile?

> Various types of liquid polymers such as natural Latex, silicon, polyurethane and Teflon, as well as variety of textile fibres such as cotton, viscose and polyamide enable tailor-made fabrics for any need.

http://www.tamicare.com/#!technology/c1xu8
Interesting, but fairly unexciting. Most seem to be observations from afar, and notes on an interview they had with Asimov seemingly initiated by him.
This CMU professor's links are poisoned, should we tell him?
How to design a better open office
You're doing that math as-if 1x forward PE is a goal or something.

Why should the current years revenue have anything to do with market cap?
Also writing "Google" on the moon with a laser.
There is a new feature of Docker called Links which allows you to organize your stack in multiple containers and "link" them together so they can discover and connect to each other.

There's a great explanation here: http://blog.docker.io/2013/10/docker-0-6-5-links-container-n...
Thank you. They waited until the 2nd-to-last paragraph to mention criticisms of the agreement, and never mention the secrecy involved. Clearly a positive analysis, even if they didn't explicitly write "approve this trade agreement."
There isn't enough data to have meaningful statistics. No statistics is always better than bad statistics.
Rosa Labs
Funny, this is why I use a PC running Linux and an Android phone... and wait- so does my Grandma... And we have very different use cases.
> PS4 is just a PC stuck in one configuration, linked to a popular delivery system.

You've belied the true strength of video game consoles. A single configuration means less testing work and a streamlined experience for consumers. Not everyone is willing to deal with graphics drivers and endless installers.
> It seems bizarre to build a VM to build a container! Like too many levels of yak shaving.

Perhaps, but you just said:

> I have a 32 bit Linux desktop and a Mac and haven't gotten around to installing Docker. At work I have a 64 bit Linux desktop and it seemed to be extremely picky about the kernel version so I gave up.

Precisely. Hence VMs, because Vagrant makes it trivial to spin up an instance configured however you like.

You're basically saying "I have a problem installing Docker, but I don't need a VM because I don't have any problems a VM would solve", but this is nonsense because this is the precise problem development VMs are meant to solve.
My analysis of Instagram's decision to sell to Facebook
x86 - http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/slackware-14.1-i...

x86_64 - http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/slackware64-14.1...

> ask for money for CDs/DVDs before putting the ISO's up on the mirrors

Patrick Volkerding is The Man [0], he wouldn't do that.

[0] - http://www.slackware.com/about/
What does processor architecture even matter to a consumer? Is the Xbox 360 a pre-Intel Mac because it uses PowerPC archictecture? I don't see why so many people mention this. Consoles have always been about custom software, not unique hardware architecture.
I agree there's a grey line, but I'll take a stab at arguing that, yes, any time you rely on your parameter name for semantics it is an unforced error.

I'll argue in metaphor to documentation with similar caveats. Documentation is valuable and lack of it is confusing, but it's also impossible to ensure documentation is current (unless it's encoded in some kind of static verification system like a type system). This makes it so that your documentation can be a liability when describing your program semantics as it may simply be wrong.

Likewise, using semantically meaningful variables names can be misleading as there's no way to ensure that the name is correct (unless you augment your HN system with a static verifier, which I've heard of people doing). These names can aid understanding but also can desynch and become confusing.

I think of both like the colors of wires on a breadboard. They can be helpful, but fundamentally the value is in how the wires connect, not what their color is.
Successful for who? The existing insiders? The underwriter? The new investors? (subscribers).

The FB IPO certainly wasn't a failure in the capital raising sense. Fb raised a lot of capital than if they had IPO'd at $25 outright and the stock price had stayed there.
Third Tesla Fire in 6 Weeks Could Spark Federal Inquiry
I wrote this in response to an article a colleague wrote about our office. He really dislikes the open office layout and argues that everyone should have their own private office. I agree with him that our office isn't perfectly planned, but I don't agree we should all be in private offices -- I don't think that's the best solution, given the work we do. I sought out a lot of advice this week to find out what makes open offices work -- would really like to hear from any of you who have ideas about how to design these open layouts more intelligently.
The Twitter IPO Will Cost San Francisco Tens of Millions of Dollars
Slackware uses the 3.10.17 kernel bringing you advanced performance
features such as journaling filesystems, SCSI and ATA RAID volume
support, SATA support, Software RAID, LVM (the Logical Volume Manager),
and encrypted filesystems.

This product release has been brought to you from the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V* School of Marketing.

*(yy/p?)
Pg's built in full text search works amazingly well and has all the smarts. It's also faster than lucene.
Consistent vs Uniform
I miss the Thunderbird of old that looked like a version of Outlook Express. That was my favorite version and while I still use Thunderbird (and, these days, Outlook), I wish I had the old format back. Maybe it's nostalgia or well-worn habits but modern mail clients just don't "feel" right.
Is 12.04 pre-Unity and Amazon ads? These start when the ads started.
I prefer succinct plain-textish emails linking to HTML websites over HTML-heavy emails in most situations.

I've personally found plain-text often also converts better than most HTML-heavy newsletters.

Most HTML is pigeonholed into email where it doesn't fit well, for example the variety of unpredictable clients and devices. I'd rather serve that via the browser where full CSS/HTML is supported.

Mobile is helping by standardizing webkit but we're still far from it being a good delivery mechanism for a web experience.
That's not an endorsement, just a statement of fact. Trade deals often boost economic growth and lead to closer bi- or multilateral cooperation between nations.

An endorsement would be something like 'the agreement may not be perfect, but it would be in America's interests. President Obama should sign it and the Senate should ratify it.' I might also note that the NYT has quite recently featured op-eds highly critical of the TPP, a curious strategy for a newspaper that is supposed to be endorsing it, eg http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/opinion/obamas-covert-trad...

I'm pro-trade in general but haven't formed an opinion on the TPP so far because its outlines are unclear. The best summary that I've read on the subject suggests that negotiations are strongly motivated by strategic considerations: http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21583995-negotiations-sec...
Note I said "currently". There is no realistic talk or any reason for this to happen in the current state of the US economy.
Your Grandma uses a Linux PC? I'd love to hear about her experience with it.
The first rule about Arch linux is that we don't talk about Arch linux.
Another option would be to allow untrusted extensions like the Android setting for "Allow untrusted sources" for installing apps.

Of course the problem with that route is preventing any unwanted-extension installer from maliciously enabling that option itself.
The boring nature of the architecture is notable as it puts the focus back on software, which is what people care about. That devs this generation can just make shit without discovering the complexities of custom hardware is a good thing.
> how elite they were using slackware

Actually, before the Slackware 14.0 version there was the 13.37 version. So yes, that's elite.
Well you get a few benefits.

> stuck in one configuration

This is a massive benefit to development everywhere. Additionally to really being able to push the hardware to the limit. It's a lot easier to learn how to properly "abuse" a single configuration then thousands of different pieces of hardware in millions of different configurations.

And just in reliability and testing. You can be sure that your exact hardware, with a nearly identical software load has been tested countless times. This is why you can often find games run much smoother on a 5 year old machine, to a modern PC.

Additionally API's are significant the fact that I can allocate memory directly on the PS4, and know that it won't ever be paged to disk is pretty significant. Additionally, Sony's rendering API's are much closer to the actual hardware, which give you much more flexibility in usage.

Then there are a few differences in the particular set of hardware that give it a good advantages to current PCs notably all 8 gbs of memory is GDDR5, which is very fast. And additionally, it's all shared, and cache-coherent between the GPU and the CPU which is really quite significant.
Insurance probably cover the material loss.

But often not the time to rebuild, reconfigure, re-layout, re-do, set-up, test every new item you get back. You might even have custom built, one-off pieces which will take even more effort to replace with whatever replacement gadget you get.
I don't agree that everyone thinks that about everyone else. I agree that certainly there are people that will disagree with one another, but that doesn't mean accusations of insufferability, pedantry, or bias even make sense in context, let alone accurately describe the circumstance.

I chose my words intentionally with regard to the experience of editing Wikipedia. I contribute to many online fora, and am unpopular on many of those, but WP is a unique experience.
You can certainly gauge the potential benefits of a trade agreements by considering them in the context of historic trade agreements. The idea that lowering tariffs tends to promote trade and leads to net economic growth is hardly controversial in economics.
Huh, Xbox One and PS4 are very close architecturally, beyond both being x86 based. Xbox One is closer to a Windows 8 PC on the software side, assuming you have a DX11 based game that runs on WinRT, which could make lazy ports easier. In practice anyone that would benefit from a lazy port is probably an indie developer, and is using Unity, Monogame or another higher level framework (or OpenGL and C++ for a weird minority) and AAA developers can't do lazy ports because the performance just won't be competitive.

PS4 isn't really close to an existing set of APIs, although it's possible that Mantle (AMD's low level graphics API) is the same or very close to the PS4 graphics API. There are low level specifics like unified memory, asynchronous compute, and Xbox One ESRAM that make neither system look like current PCs, although future PCs might adopt them through new API specs or hardware configurations.

Steam Machine fits your description more accurately, but even it's a little weird in that a lot of games don't support Linux.
You can do short term trading (as well as long term, of course) if you get an account at an exchange (bitstamp is good from what I hear, it's in the EU). I just mentioned Coinbase as it is easier than getting a trading account. Local bitcoins allows for anonymous trading, as it is peer to peer. All the large exchanges have to follow anti-money laundering laws and other regulations.
The APU in the PS4 picks up many ideas from the Cell processor. You have some heavy cores for program logic and many small ones for graphics and computation tasks. Both on the same piece of silicon and attached to the same memory space.
It's not odd at all, because what they are coming out in favor of is having a good Pacific trade agreement. They are neither endorsing nor disapproving of whatever is actually in this particular agreement.

Analogy: suppose Monsanto has a new pesticide that increases crop yields, but causes some serious environmental damage.

I write an editorial coming out in favor of increasing crop yields.

If the EFF were reading my editorial the way they are reading the Times, they would claim that I have endorsed Monsanto's new pesticide.
Example page: http://myapppage.herokuapp.com/demo?appID=471966214
I feel the same way about plain text, but I can't help but wonder if I'm part of a nerdy minority. I know my mum finds her image heavy emails from eBay useful, for instance.
And they still haven't added anyone with nutritional science credentials to their team:

http://www.rosalabs.com/team/
The "parent company" is Rosa Labs but the product/brand remains Soylent.
It is commentary though, not imitation. You are allowed to comment on things by name. If Shell, for instance sued shelloutsounds.org for the domain, I do not think they would have much of a case and the same applies here. If fixubuntu is using the word 'ubuntu' to mean the company Ubuntu, then the other word is obviously 'fix' and you would be hard pressed to argue that it isn't simply a critical statement rather than an infringing brand.
I referenced places where the GP can find concrete examples, other posters have given links, and I've explained that I don't want to wake sleeping dogs and get into specific controversies that I was involved with, which are the primary source of my observations. I believe that is sufficient.
there will always be idiots.

there will always be people catching on to something, being loud, creating the first noise other people see.

Seriously. Fuck it. Ignore it. Ignore them.

I haven't followed Slackware dev for 10+ years (too old etc), but it was the awesome thing in the 90s (to me); at a time I was curious to learn about all the weird details, it gave me the opportunity,

I hope it still does give that opportunity, AND that young people take advantage of this.

Looking back, this is (part of) the magic and joy of computers. People doing a lot of cool shit, and then sending it off for free for other people to do other cool shit. No app store in sight.
Thanks for the suggestion - we are looking at more usage based billing - including per CPU cycle / RAM usage to be a 'true' utility.
That's probably true for Playstation, but I think developing for Xbox was already pretty much like developing for Windows, even with different hardware architectures. Most game devs don't looking too deeply at the hardware but just use the tools they're given. The ones who want to understand what's going on in hardware will still study the details of the CPU/GPU.
Agreed, and to their credit both are designed to solve the same problem which is to maximize the likelyhood that you're spending the money on the right thing. Long gone are the days when some decides to plop down a million dollars to make some random game, that will be first seen by customers when it is in the retail box.
Not quite. The DNAMA would quickly lose hard-won reputation once DNM was shown to be malware. Google not being the only CA doesn't mean everyone gets to be a CA.
The thing with Heisenbugs is that they usually don't happen when you attach a debugger.
It did, although not that well haha.
That's the sort of agreement they would like to see. Whether or not that's the sort of agreement that emerges from the TPP negotiations remains to be seen. One assumes they would be unenthusiastic about an agreement that did not include such elements.
where are the servers hosted? AWS? US or EU?
Is it just me, or is it suddenly the cool thing to slap "labs" on the back of a company's name to make it sound more professional?

They've turned away from an interesting name that describes and differentiates themselves into a bland and boring "Rosa Labs."

Hmmm. Soylent, vs Rosa Labs.

I damn well know which one I'd pick.
The hype is that games will be much easier to program, so that's why it's much closer to PC programming. the CELL processor was very hard to use, and that was a big drag because it slows down developers considerably.

The good thing is that games will be made faster and with less difficulty. That will obviously improve game quality since it will reduce game making costs, I guess it will take much less time to make an engine and maintain it.

As for your comparison with a PC, you should not compare those, because all console are the same, which allows programmers to target a single configuration and optimize as much as possible, while on PC, programmers have to adapt their code for different configurations and drivers, but also require to offer multiple options to adapt to each configuration because PCs never perform the same.

To sum it up, there are no "minimum configuration" when releasing a game on console. Console have a better performance/price ratio. The PS4 would really make an interesting platform now that's easier to make a game on it, especially if it's dedicated to games, not like PC where the OS can suck a lot of resources you might want to allocate on your game.
UW Professor Achieves Breakthrough in Understanding Superconductivity Properties
Hackernews traffic spike! You can signup and create a Dockerfile - we've just paused instance deployment for a couple of hours as we add more servers. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Worst case, they get money that they didn't need for the repairs. And they put it to good use doing one of the many other things this super valuable (IMO) non-profit does.

They are after all a non-profit.
Google's successful offerings in search, email, docs, desktop search, Android, and Chromebook suggest that the privacy worries of "a lot of people on HN" aren't very relevant to their bottom-line.

Also, the functionality – complete screen archiving and indexing – could be implemented locally. So, its value can be evaluated separately from the question of whether you'd want the screengrabs/indexes living at Google.
This was a good read, and the narrative between Sony's launch and Microsoft's launch has the feel of some pretty classic hero's journey stuff in it.

The interesting upstart this time seems to be the SteamBox.
Appreciate the feedback - thanks - point taken and we'll fix this.
Yes, there's definitely an element of speculation about it, but also of platform-building. I was depressed about it for awhile, but take it with a grain of salt now for the most part. It would nice to be financially independent, as some other friends of mine who were early adapters are, but hindsight is 20/20.
Looks like a problem on my side. Thanks anyway.
'Soylent' will forever be associated with 'Soylent Green is people' in my mind.
> we've established : 1) bacon's smell has nothing to do with bacon itself

That has been asserted, not established. I assert that if one is a regular meat-eater, they no longer notice the corpse smell.

> 2) humans can't survive without eating the components of meat... going entirely without meat leads to death

Oh lordy, where do I even begin with this broscience. Allow me to introduce some actual Science.

In 2003, 42% of Indian households were vegetarian and ate no fish, meat or eggs[1]. There are many cultures around the world who abstain from meat for religious reasons, eg Buddhists and Hindus. I'm afraid this directly contradicts the outlandish claim that a vegetarian diet leads inevitably to ill-health and death.

[1] http://www.fao.org/WAIRDOCS/LEAD/x6170e/x6170e09.htm
If I were the NSA, I would have sleeper "retired government contractors" (a.k.a. former employees / dual-employees) getting jobs in the private sector in critical infrastructure roles.

None of these NSA guys have "Senior Cryptoanalyst, NSA" on their resume, they are get manufactured titles and positions representing some remote office in the Department of Defense. People take jobs after being in government service, so it would be very plausible for a "former government contractor" to take a job with Google, Microsoft or any other major technology company to get proprietary access to critical infrastructure.

This would be much easier than the "brute force attack" method of hacking a network.
Yeah, tell that to Obama, who bypassed the Senate with ACTA, too.
To be honest - I think it's a timing thing - virtualization wasn't popular initially but VMWare did a great marketing job. Then any hyper-visor became acceptable. Now - VPS-style containers are becoming acceptable. IE: Docker.
I'm just waiting to see what kinds of invasive practices we're regularly subject[0] to when an attacker decides to pack their anal cavity with explosives and have a short copper or other non-ferric lead to the blasting charge hanging out their butt. Near as I can tell, such a tactic wouldn't show up on any body scanner or metal detector and the actual detonation device could be your standard battery. After all it only took one shoe bomber to make everyone everywhere have to take off their shoes before flying.

Up until now, we have not been able to have a rational discussion of cost we as a society are paying to reduce the risk of terrorism because all logic goes out the window when the words "terrorism" or "terrorist" are used. I would imagine that the likely threat of an uncomfortable anal probing would at least prompt even the most die hard supporters of all this security theatre to question if what we are doing makes any sense at all.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680266
Agree! HN embodies the startup culture. Unfortunately, the user experience here is of an abandoned startup web site.

There is little excuse for such a poor user experience here. At least give me a link back to the home page and don't be so cryptic with the message...
Just an observation: in my experience, everyone with an axe to grind against Wikipedia says basically "I thought the article was incorrect (wrong, biased, not neutral) and they wouldn't let me fix it." You can imagine how the problem looks from Wikipedia's point of view.
> which never had a decent package manager as far as I know

This is false. The package management tools work fine, they're just different from some others. Slackware users find the design decisions in the provided tools to be a strength, but opinions may differ.
I suspect his results are better than those of most people here.
This might be more surprising if the fonts on Google Web Fonts were somehow exclusive to them, but the news here seems to be that someone used a free typeface on a coin?
Slackware actually had, and still has, the best package manager I've ever used. http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php

The "elite"ness of Slackware was a bit valid. It it has no automatic dependencies system, which in itself is a powerful tool that you can do awesome things with. The second fantastic thing (which sort of ties into the first) is that packages are modified as little as possible from the original author, save some metadata. So if you know what you are doing, and an openssl vulnerability is found, you can have a package built in minutes without waiting for the upstream.
They say they are happy to have the commentary, but their policy states that you cannot use ubuntu in a domain name or the ubuntu logo without permission. This applies to everyone.
Ok, some people came back and did let us know that you're wrong. Now would please remove this post about wounded egoes of some Wikipedia editors from the top of the page and let us talk about the important issue of free access to knowledge in poor countries?
Blog and lots of Copper tools hosted on AWS. Stackdock on dedicated (not AWS or other IaaS) hardware.