skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, I would be most afraid of not having the resources to compete, but at this point I began thinking, why not contact a Google competitor?

I mean, if he can prove that Google is way behind his work, then he has an advantage that may provide more value to a company that is interested in competing with Google and has the resources to justify competing at a bigger scale.
Drew said the same thing at TC Disrupt in SF this year. Reading between the lines: All the acquisitions and ability to pay 300+ staff without needing to touch a massive $250 million pot of money is basically telling the market (eg: Box): "We can play the enterprise game very well and have the revenue to prove it"
I love your feedback, I do agree that there is a lot of competition in the online dating market but still I believe that the way it is done currently will be disrupted. People are just used to the current way of browsing a catalogue of images and brute forcing their way to get some one reply to their messages.
Thanks for sharing. This is inspiring. Hope to grab a copy of the book!
Yes, when you have a large amount of storage, it is well worth doing it yourself. The cost of redundant storage devices with replication ends up being paid for in like 3 months of S3 bills.
A guide to writing a perfectly satirical Onion article from co-founder Tim Keck
Certainly possible but remember that "contractor" and "employee" have legal definitions. You can't "just" call an employee (by the legal definition) a contractor.

(Edit: I see ljoshua beat me to the possibility for issues here but it's important to emphasize that it can be done, just play by the rules to avoid trouble down the line.)
Totally agree with the first point in particular. The only reason I started using git is because it's required for github. Otherwise I'd use Mercurial exclusively.
And here's another fine example:

You love Macs, open source software and tools, and cringe when you hear the words .NET
Ahhhh, now we begin to glimpse that asking for published information over first person information leads down the path of wikipedia becoming a reference of published works rather that an encyclopedia. Not everything that is useful knowledge for mankind is published, and not everything that is published is useful for mankind. I think I can finally word what's been nagging me. Thank you.
It just launched. They likely reached out to companies they've worked with to fill out the database.
The difference in worldview between prosecutors and laypeople is striking. Rasch rejects the "head on a pike" school of prosecution, which he sort of alludes was applied in Swartz's case. But Rasch signed his name to a recommendation of an eighteen month(!) custodial sentence for Morris after the worm. And he sounds comfortable with that now, in 2013, like that would have been a reasonable outcome to the Morris Worm case. But anyone can go look at Morris' PDOS publications and see how stupid prison time would have been for him.
But code-slingers are world-changers.
Not to mention the danger of the probe breaking through the intestinal walls; per Wikipedia:

"The most serious complication generally is the gastrointestinal perforation, which is life-threatening and requires immediate major surgery for repair."

Besides the critical damage to the intestines, it dumps all sorts of bacteria into a nominally sterile area. And if you read further, don't just score the resultant deaths, there's a lot of pain, recuperation, I'm sure adhesions are a possibility, etc. etc.

I can't imagine the hospital's administrators would be happy with what happened ... who's on the hook for complications?

ADDED: consent is in my experience a big think in the world of medicine; I have to wonder how many insurance companies, that is for doctors and hospitals, would not exclude coverage for this sort of thing.
It's not a gaffe. I didn't call it a fallacy because it's not a fallacy. I pointed out that you engaged him in debate and crowned yourself winner, and that I attempted to restart the debate by providing better arguments.

It's interesting, however, that you invented a new context for my words that has no basis in the words themselves, and then used that as your reply instead of engaging on merits.

In fact, I believe there is some Latin name for that particular brand of rhetorical gaffe.
Assuming you meant plain old POP/IMAP, then yes, I think that's the root problem.
I assumed that was common practice.
Right, but an attacker needs access to the DOM first. If everything is packaged, this is just as difficult as being able to inject random python code.

Sure, you can set up your app to stupidly do evals everywhere, but you can program a bad app in any language.

> XSS isn't the only way either

That's very, very vague. I asked what the attack vectors are. Saying "others" doesn't really work for me.
But why can't people differentiate between "big company serving their regular audience" and "big company trying something new"? The something-new ventures, no matter how hard they fail, never affect the ability of the company to deliver on their something-safe ventures. For example, no matter how much of a flop a new version of Ubuntu is, it won't stop them from supporting the LTS versions.
Cut the guy some slack.. Imagine you just woke up to see Google is now your biggest competitor... I imagine this was written off the cuff and during a state of panic. Entrepreneurship is already a tremendous roller coaster of emotions and this I am sure was not helpful. The founder of LiveNinja doesn't seem immature to me. He built a great product and I am sure very passionate.
That's a really good point, and one that I will be bringing up with my manager immediately after re:Invent (I am part of the AWS team).
That's not their old job board, this is: https://jobs.37signals.com/
I've been using Xfce on everything since about 2010. It's my default on my Ubuntu and OpenBSD VMs/workstations.

Xfce promotes a good deal of minimalist motifs, which is nice. I found Gnome 2 and Unity quickly excessive with clutter.
There might be, but I don't see a court being involved here. Looks like the cops shopped around for compliant doctors.
That brings up the interesting topic that the "natural" design progression seems to be making a fancy mobile home, but I'd think you can start from a fancy RV just as well.

The RV part would help when you're out in the wilderness instead of in a utility provided mobile home park. Some RV features like batteries for DC power, extensive ventilation instead of relying on AC powered air conditioning, etc.

Of course on the other hand RVs aren't as energy efficient as mobile homes because of a desire to minimize the tow vehicle gas/diesel consumption rather than propane heating consumption.

As a specific criticism I am fairly unimpressed with the size and features of this $30K "rv". Its not that much better than an elaborate $5K or so teardrop trailer. On the other hand its a little bigger than a $90K conversion van. (And when exactly in my lifetime did conversion vans change from middle class machines in my youth, to the current mid level sports car prices?)
Is "All of them" an acceptable answer?

In particular, http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xls/ and http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xlsx/ (which really should have been one; due to licensing concerns, they started as two projects and I hope to merge them at one point)
Force me to sign in with my LinkedIn account? LOL die now.
That is a very classy response. No blame, no deflection. My respect for this author just went up a notch.
I'd somehow mistakenly dismissed XFCE as being "too fiddly" years ago, but I've recently switched to it and I love it. It's like a saner, more configurable GNOME 2.6 with pleasant defaults.
Ugh.

Just people you disagree with someone doesn't make them negative.

It's critique. HN is a place of dissenting opinions.

It's ok to have an opinion different than yours.
Yes thanks, I recall this works, but I don't like the mindset of having this stuff on a server-edition of your OS to begin with.
Why? Do you want anybody but Google to hack your site? Why would Google spend resources on unnecessary detection of SQL injection(which probably will not be perfect anyway and may break legit requests) when anybody can hack your website?

I just can't justify why do you expect Google to spend resources on not running bogus HTTP GET request when anybody can run those? What is different about being hacked by Google bot and being hacked by an unsuspected user who clicks on a bogus link that was put on the same page where Google found that link to your server? Just doesn't makes sense.
Very nice, hopefully this platform will get more attention!
Thank you, these sorts of timing attacks are very interesting. I was asking for clarification because I am curious about vectors such as these; vulnerabilities in JS runtime or in HTML/CSS. This thinking was spurred by an article posted here not to long ago[1] about timing attacks on CSS and SVG shaders through requestAnimationFrame.

[1] http://www.contextis.com/files/Browser_Timing_Attacks.pdf
This.
Let's pray this doesn't happen.
Luckily if someone feels Angular starts to become neglected someone can fork it and actively contribute.

Also, since dart compiles to JS, it could be no back-porting will be necessary.
Note that in a normal cancer screening one, the probe is used to snip off suspect pre- or cancerous polyps.

I'd keep surgery in the title.
It all depends on how the phone is used. In my case, with a Nexus 4, the battery life is an issue. When traveling, I will often take multiple photospheres (computationally expensive). I will use it to do research on where I am visiting (lots of screen use). I use it for general browsing (more screen use). And in those scenarios, I rarely can go a full day without charging.

That said, it seems the portable chargers are the preferred way now. They often hold enough charge for 4-5 phone charges, so that is nicer than carrying around 4-5 batteries. And, I can charge lots of other things with it as well.
The kernel isn't actually that large. It should be sub-GB for the foreseeable future iirc.

Single git repos get stretched to their limits when companies try to put 10-20 years worth of sourcecode from every single project they ever had (often with large binary files for testing or whatever) into a single repo because they are trying to use it like they used perforce. We're talking anything from several gigabytes up to the unimaginably large.
Thanks for the feedback. I am the Engineering Manager for Cloud Block Storage and I'd love to get a few details of the tests you ran.

What region were you running the tests in and when did you conduct your testing? We very recently made some networking changes that should have dramatically improved the cloud block storage IOPS capabilities.

Thanks for your time and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, comments or concerns.

Thanks!

don.skalak@rackspace.com
Toronto's Mayor hired a "hacker" to delete an incriminating video file
Yes I'm sure, during installation it's all ncurses/text, but when boot, it does use some high-res graphics mode showing the ubuntu logo. I like the high-res console, very spiffy, but it often causes troubles on the hardware I used.
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But isn't that more the role of traditional sources of capital (banks, &c.) than a SV VC?
That makes sense.

However, there's one problem.

> these people are not "being who they are," because someone else has caused them to "conform to [their] taste/style."

This is assumption based on cultural hints. There have been quite a few times on HN where hackers have proven to indeed not be aesthetes, because hacking marketing requires aesthetic. This goes down to whether or not you appreciate aesthetics of your own appearance, as well.

I don't see anyone making the claim that this is "objectively fashionable". What I see is a bunch of people who rage against a marketing decision because it bastardizes their seemingly misguided need for aesthetic "purity" (whatever that means).

The criticism I'm offering isn't to stop liking your aesthetic preferences. If you don't like beards, don't grow one.

But someone posts a link on HN, and people bitch and moan because the primary subject of marketing is sporting a beard. It really misses the point of HN discussion. Again, I understand if the conversation is centered around the marketing (or other) implications of the decisions made by those who created the product and the site. But the conversation doesn't revolve around that at all. Instead, it's a bunch of "get off my lawn" and raging against trends without any particularly discernible purpose.
This is so outrageous that for a second I thought the article may be an Onion-type hoax. I hope that man sues the county and the police force. They need to be taken to task.
Did you learn this in high school?

Im curious because kids starting to get by using C is such a nice thing.. cause its a very thin layer for how machines works..

Alienation from the machine inner working(if learning by JS or Python for instance) is such a bad thing, and can take years to the grown up to recover from it :)

Im not against learning the "relaxed" languages, but its better when you do not start with them.. when you only learn them as more tools to do all sort of jobs we have to face

I was lucky to be a teenager at the nineties when programming were more sane and would make us learn how the real machine works.. (before the java madness)

Programmers cannot be lazy, they need to know everything in deep detail, to make the best decisions.. Lazy programmers, very weak programs..

The kids from where you grow up, should be very good when they are adults and decide to work with technology ?! :)
I think it depends a lot on the company. I'm currently trying to get into an IT Ops position at Tesla Motors in Europe. I put my app through their HR workflow on their website, but I also found the hiring manager and other people I'd be working with on LinkedIn. Sent a personal message to them, etc, and was told I'd hear back from someone shortly. That was a week ago.

Researching the company, the people around the position, these are extremely helpful ways to get into an org. Its not always going to work though.
Will Scala ever be enterprise-ready?
I'm a big Android fan and have to agree with 'pearjuice'. I have yet to see an Android device without the extra lag compared to iOS. Maybe you're confusing low lag with smoothness? Android can be smoother than iOS, i.e. you slide the finger and get a perfectly smooth animation where iOS shows a small stutter. But this smooth animation doesn't start immediately, and that is the lag we're talking about.

On iOS, putting the finger on an icon and moving it feels more "real" because the icon stays under the finger. On Android, a quick motion of the finger lets the icon trail behind... Perfectly smoothly, but behind. I hope Google fixes this at some point but I suspect the low latency we see on iOS is possible thanks to a tight integration between hardware and software that would be difficult to achieve on Android.
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The complication rate for colonoscopies seems to be lower when they aren't in there to cauterize/cut stuff, but you are right, there are still inherent risks with the procedure itself. It is absolutely mind-boggling that anybody thought this was acceptable.
Not really on the guitar one. The main guy who does guitar lessons on Helpouts also did so on Google+ since nearly the beginning.
https://jobs.37signals.com/ has been around for years - if I re-call it was not cheap to post jobs there.

Looks like their new one is free but you can only list remote jobs - which is kind of awesome
"Misdemeanors are generally considered to be minor or trivial offenses." - did I understood correctly that fellonies are things that warrant >2y in prison? So everything non-trivial warrants >2y in prison. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
One small quibble: ONLY declare which screen sizes your app supports if it really does not support some screen sizes. You should usually consider that a bug. You need not declare non-support of an obscure size or configuration if not having size-specific resources is the only issue. Scaled images are not ideal, but it's better for the app to work and look a little fuzzy than to try to specify exactly where it does not look perfect.
I hope so! I really want to help developers get the attention their apps deserve!
I was thinking more in terms of total lines of code.

Is the "best practice" to archive code after a while? Would make some sense, but I'm not sure how that would work. Everyone has to make the switch at once, right?
I think much of the NSA's recent subversion comes from the amount of muscle they put on the telcos. The fact that technologists are concerned about the policy effects of PRISM and everything else revealed by Edward Snowden, the NSA hasn't had much luck with technology companies outside of their NSLs.
First of all, this was already announced months ago, so it already happened.

Secondly, Google is a big company and some teams within it wanted to use Dart, whereas otheres want to use vanila javascript and Angular, so now you have both.

Thirdly, Angular is in the process of being broken apart to modular components for 2.0, it also now cross-pollinates with another Google-y called Web Components.

In future, the equivelent of directives (Your own <x-thingy> tags) will be a native web standard, Mozilla is also working on it.

This all amounts to a sort of polyfill to the future and most of the core of Angular will be thrown away if things work out. You won't need it.

These are all good things. I don't understand your need for FUD.
Tesco to tailor adverts in petrol stations by using face-scanning screens
I saw the previous developer of the CCBN (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network) pop up on in the HN comments last time this was mentioned to explain its stagnation and mishandling after being bought by Thomson-Reuters. Can't find it now myself; anyone else have the link?
Hm, I guess the invasiveness makes sense. It doesn't matter, an admin will probably change the title anyway.
So the POP client is being built on top of an HTTP server? And I access it via a web browser pointed at localhost?

Does that sound crazy to anyone else? It makes me think the authors have a hammer (i.e. web development skills) and therefore think everything is a nail (i.e. a webpage).

If I have to install software anyway, I'd much rather it be a full fledged native client. One that looks, feels, installs, uninstalls, and is configured just like all the other native programs on my machine. I had such a program in the late 90s/early 2000s. It even had support for SMIME and PGP.
How bout:

If you want to or have to do it - do it. If you don't want to do it & absolutely don't have to do it - then outsource it.
It's free once.
"The shear magnitude of the irrational fear of drugs is dumfounding"

Who says it has anything to do with that at this point?

The police-judicial system have a good thing going, now that real violent crime rates have overall precipitously dropped. Without pulling this sort of shit, if you'll pardon the topical expression, there would have to be layoffs in many police departments and courthouses, and that wouldn't do.

(For more on this theme, about how the police-judicial system (my words of art) need a steady diet of "the clueless", read Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face (http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-A...)
When is AngularJs 1.2 stable release coming out anyway?
They apparently got a warrant, but the "searches" were performed in the wrong jurisdiction and after the warrant was expired.

That a warrant could be issued for such a thing is a problem in itself; the judge that saw fit to sign that should be thrown out and any law that might permit such a thing needs to be rectified.
MetaMed, as far as I know, does basically just customized literature reviews; it isn't doing anything I'd recognize as 'meta-level analysis' like the work done by the Cochrane Collaboration or using meta-analytic techniques to directly estimate the reliability of existing medical treatments or beliefs.
Sure, but nothing stops you from having long-term "contractor"-s.
>I'm just wondering how a different system would deal with greedy people. If the system discourages greed, doesn't that increase the incentive for greedy people to corrupt the system?

Of course it does. In fact, if you want an even better line: if it's a greed motivated system and we work against greed, we're directly disincentivizing economic activity.

It's absolutely a fine line to draw. History has examples of the economic noose of overregulation just as surely as it does the industrial dystopia of underregulation.

It's a lot like medicinal drugs (medicine). The difference between a poison and a cure is dosage. Too much or too little and you can hurt someone instead of helping them. Or the interaction of multiple different treatments create new and possibly terrible outcomes.

Regulation (greed control) to me is very similar. The difference between good regulation and bad regulation is very minor, it's dosage. A good policy applied the wrong way is just as bad as a bad policy. Multiple policies of regulation may interact in new and crazy ways.

So to me the proper regulation of Capitalism is like trying to dose a new drug. It's extremely difficult and nuanced to do well. And even if done well, as you pointed out, there is always the incentive to cheat, and always the fallout of the disincentivization our actions cause.
Oh, shoot. So I sent myself a test email from a different account, and it still hasn't shown up, either, so I imagine YC has sent me something and it is waiting to get through.

Outgoing mail is fine...
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It'd be nice if remote working opportunities didn't come with national borders. The border-less nature of the Internet and knowledge-based work doesn't seem to require geographic location and yet due to complex logistical restrictions most of these job postings are US-only.

Kind of a weird place to be.

I wonder if there's some kind of hack that could allow small companies and startups to get around the policy issues without getting various regional governments upset with them.
There's a difference in theory. In practice it's equivalent to an unpaid internship + lottery tickets.
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Facebook tried to use git but ran into some scalability limits due to gits design (frequent index updates), whereas mercurial is append-only and doesn't have this problem.
Hence, facebook has some legitimate technical reasons to not use git -- contrary to the common opinion that git is always "fast".
It's difficult to hack around a state's desire for tax revenue
Nope, and to make matters worse -- IBM xlC doesn't optimize at the include sites. So adding include-site guards actually speeds up compilation times in a non-insignificant way. e.g.,

#ifndef FOO_H
#include <foo.h>
#endif
> > I had virtually zero budget

> at this moment I strongly suspected that I knew how it would turn out

I was sure the app would never get as far as the app store. but it did, and all for $800. he got very lucky.
I respect your well-considered opinions most of the time, but here, you seem to not really be presenting anything constructive. "Javascript doesn't have the features needed to be secure" Which features? Enlighten us.

As for the chrome extension thing, the project clearly states that it is currently a proof of concept and is missing this crucial part which is currently being built. Somehow you try to turn this into an ad-hominem attack on the developer's supposed laziness.