skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point you stop caring about whether people on the Internet care whether you've "won" and just want a high probability of a good life. Finance will get you there, the engineer position at the typical VC-funded startup won't. Most of these startups won't even introduce you to investors these days! So what is the point if you're not being set up to found later on?
Blackphone--a "secure" cell phone--has been released
By "real", I mean native and multi-core. Does that exist now? I think it exists in JRuby, but in MRI?
No need for "I can't", even. They probably have solutions in mind (the target market may be bigger than you think, or has deeper pockets); you're asking to hear them. Put in a bit of thought before the interview, and charitably assume they've put in more. (If they haven't, that's a bad sign, of course.)

"Tell me more about your target market -- how many pro wedding planners are there out there who might be actively seeking out something like this? Are you also targeting self-planners?"
The Future of Mapping Is Inside Your Home and Office
Using CocoaPods without Going to Court
... and that's the crux of the problem.

TCP is good enough for the large majority of not-too-demanding use cases. But in some corner cases it becomes more of a problem than a solution, because it is more or less a black box; one has very little control over the number of repetitions (sometimes it's even advantageous not to repeat), the repetition timings, the window sizes, etc.

In these corner-case situations you prefer UDP because you have better control on what happens. Also if you work with some obscure TCP/IP stack implementations you wouldn't bet your life on (that happens in the embedded world), and that you don't feel like debugging, or if datagrams are more convenient than streams for your app(sometimes new programmers are surprised to receive one packet when they sent two - or the other way round), UDP doesn't look that bad at all.

I read once a rant that argued half-jokingly that TCP is useless, because in the end the services it offers are redone at application level. Repetition? most applications do retry a failed operation? Acknowledgement? Ditto. Encryption? Same.
Which languages would you say are competitors to Go?
At one point I had it as a required part of the protocol, but later decided that it added a lot of complexity so moved it to an extension.

I'm currently working on a minor reorganization of the protocol in the protocol_cleanup branch. I'll see if I can fold untrusted mode back into the core protocol.
making normal communications between normal people less embarrassingly mass-snoopable is a very worthy goal.

Too bad an unsubsidized special-purpose phone will only address a tiny fraction of normal people.
I've heard good things about the blackberry Q10.
Relating Happiness and Money
What Linux can learn from Solaris performance and vice-versa
Thank you @mattgreenrocks
Ada, 1980.
Web API Design Cookbook
Don't be so juvenile. Should we ban all axes from the private sector because someone could use it as a murder weapon?

What about torrenting? How about we ban vehicles because they can be used as getaway cars for bank robberies?

Obviously the economic of inevitability of marijuana was stopped by the drug war.

>Better to focus on safety than on prevention.
How to bootstrap your way to launching a satellite
Thanks :D

This was just a quick hack a year or so ago, am open to enhancing it though - feel free to post any suggestions over at https://github.com/lorenzo-stoakes/Rainbow-Sort/issues :)
Lopsided income growth in the United States
High res: http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/all-scifi-spaceshi...
IPv6 is such a minor win for the Internet now. I'm more excited for a new protocol all together, maybe something like Open Libernet: http://www.openlibernet.org
My original intent was that you could have it running on a linode or other virtual machine where you don't trust the hardware.
Hmm if Mt. Gox doesn't plan to get back it will be a huge backside for bitcoins :(
> Common carrier means multiple things, but one of them is that it sets a floor on the price for peering agreements.

TL;DR for the following: [citation needed]

Designating broadband service as common carrier service, enabling the FCC to issue regulations of the type defined for common carriers to broadband providers would no doubt permit the FCC to set a non-zero price floor for peering, but I'd like to see what law would require the FCC to set a non-zero price floor if it designated broadband service as common carrier service.
I've pushed the "I really don't see the market for this" question pretty hard when interviewing last time. It showed that I was trying to really understand what the offering was about.

I got the job offer, it was a lowball offer, so I passed, whatever. It does show that some employers like it when people really engage (in a constructive way) with the big picture of what people are trying to do.
All ISPs need to do is provide IPv6 connectivity, a router with IPv6 support - and the traffic will flow.

It really should be as simple as that! Windows Vista supports IPv6, modern versions of OS X supports IPv6, etc. You don't have to configure it - just like you don't have to figure IPv4 with DHCP. Typical end users don't question their IPv4 connectivity, they just plug in their router and things work. The exact same thing should happen with IPv6.

The only issue is going to be old customer routers which can't be upgraded with new firmware.
Gmail data visualization with D3.js
> But when is that sort of stability going to be achieved by Rust?

This year.

You can see the issues here: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues?milestone=20&page=1&s...

> It may mean that this initial version of the language has some flaws, but at least it may also be usable for serious development at that point.

Right now those "flaws" include "not memory safe", and we can't fix that without breaking existing code. We are hard at work on fixing that, but we can't freeze a language that's designed for safety that isn't safe.
I think you're overanalyzing it. 23,000 tons is hard to visualize. Eiffel Tower is easy to visualize.
"I really enjoyed having to learn a different interface"

"It was great that all the directions about how to do stuff, that I found on the internet, didn't apply to my phone"

"I enjoyed having stock features removed from my phone so my carrier could charge me for them"
Hubspot’s Mark Roberge On Startups, Growing Sales Teams and The Future of Software
Hubspot’s SVP of Sales Mark Roberge & Base CEO Uzi Shmilovici talk startups, growing sales teams & the future of sales in the first of this three-part interview.
Curious as to how your state is doing? This page allows you to choose a state and see what has happened to the top 1% vs. the other 99% over the past years
Ethiopia is after all, one could argue, the most influential country in all of Africa.
Indeed, AGPL v3 would have been way better.
... a /96? Come on, it's bad enough that my dedicated provider only gives me a /64

You're better off getting an IPv4 only box and getting a /48 tunnel from HE.net
To me the most interesting thing in this article were the urls of the inlined images, <img src="data:image/png;base64,...> I had no idea you could do that.
I have a really hard time taking this seriously from Fast Company of all places.
A google search suggests he no longer works in video games.
At the same time the real concern for legitimate businesses is the potential for adversaries to use massive spam backlinking to destroy your online presence. Are Google algo's smart enough to not ding you for what you did not do? Probably not. It would almost be trivially easy to destroy a domain this way.
I wonder if they could offer a less accurate version of this test over the internet (touch displays, graphic tablets).
The closer you can get to talking about risk honestly, the better.

> 2. some will not hire you just for asking because they prefer employees who can take the risk

You can tell them the level of risk you can take. If you have a new baby and only 1 month of savings, maybe it's for the best they don't hire you if they're in a weak position.

On the other hand, if you're single and have a ton of savings from a successful exit, you may be ready for a hail mary job. Make sure they know you the risk isn't a concern for you.
We're changing to LGPLv3. See https://github.com/jewel/clearskies/blob/master/license-chan....

The C++ implementation is also LGPL.
That's not ad hoc querying of a tabular text file.
Jasmine did this too! http://pivotal.github.io/jasmine/

... todos.js' did it better though.
Firstly, the last mile company still has QoS agreements with the companies that buy from it, and they can plausibly choose to simply go elsewhere if the last mile company does not give them good enough QoS terms; whether that means building their own network, or simply pulling out of that area. Basically, a small group of companies can more plausibly apply joint pressure to a single company than many millions of people can, purely because of coordination costs.

Secondly, part of the common carrier model is that if the government is not convinced that the common carrier is acting in the public's best interest - for example, if they are delaying needed upgrades - then the government can simply confiscate the common carrier's assets, and sell them to a company that will actually meet its QoS and upgrade obligations, or spin the whole thing off as a SoE.
It is funny this kind of came full circle. Damien Katz, the original CouchDB author was working on Lotus Notes as some point in his life

It's definitely interesting. I can remember people in the Notes community wondering why IBM didn't either take CouchDB and use it as a new Notes backend, or alternatively push the existing Notes bits as a mature document-based database.

The end quote from Katz's "Formula Engine Rewrite" post[1] is interesting:

"But ultimately IBM killed Iris. In late 2001 IBM folded Iris Associates and converted all the employees to IBM. All the energy the Iris building had was seeping out. Really it was more pushed out by the BS that IBM management kept trying to sell us..."

[1] http://damienkatz.net/2005/01/formula-engine-rewrite.html
Girl raps No Love Eminem verse
Technology's Mindfulness Racket
Nicely done.

1. What did you use to generate the graphs?

2. While analyzing JavaScript, were submissions of posts related to Angular, Bootstrap, Require, etc classified as JavaScript?
I was hoping for nokia + android + 41 megapixel camera.
But no they have 3 megapixel ones? what?
Show HN: Focus: Make Today Count (iPhone)
If you'd prefer not to go straight to the app store: http://labs.accompl.sh.
Watch the First Trailer for HBO's New Silicon Valley Comedy
Are you really sure you want it? I tried running 2.0 in Windows for a while, and found enough gem compatibility issues that I don't think it's worth the trouble. I switched to 1.9.3, and almost every gem that was broken in Windows on 2.0 started working again.
I think about my death a lot
Synopsys Acquires Coverity for $375M
The argument being that the state's only function is to enforce property rights (and needs physical force to do so).
Been there, done that. That's what the USS Jimmy Carter is for:

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/07/18/the-navys-u...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_(SSN-23)
ghc -fdefer-type-errors
I guess he meant "they reported it first, instead of any other major US news outlet"

This is exactly what I meant. In hindsight, I hadn't checked other news outlets (it's clearly evident that they had already reported on the topic), and I suppose it's not all that strange because there may well be BBC representatives in California, or at least in touch with people in California. It was a very poorly thought out comment, and I apologize.
Young people are one segment. Those hitting a wall in their late 30's/40's are another. Just need folks with an itch to scratch young or old(er)
These two particularly resonate:

> 1) Academia - Potentially interesting work. However, grad students are underpaid, overworked indentured servant in a vicious dictatorial status hierarchy (do what the PI says or you're out). Very poor career prospects, guaranteed negative return on time invested. The road to PI is guaranteed to destroy your love of research.

Potentially interesting work, massive opportunity cost, and starting at the bottom of a ruthlessly competitive advancement pyramid. I love academia, and very much intend to stay in it, but it's not exactly a rational choice.

> 3) Professions (Law, Med) - Enter at your own risk. Savagely competitive and draconian entrance requirements, incredibly expensive education, inhuman hours, constant stress at every milestone, and a never-ending barrage of standardized tests. However, if you endure, you can start your own practice and potentially have a comfortable life.

Bimodal incomes that mean mainly these jobs come with a huge amount of debt for what is, for many people, a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle, but no more than that. You're not going to get rich doing either of these, because your income is capped by the hours you can work. A hedge fund on the other hand, if you're doing your job, is making money all the time.
You clearly have very little understanding of the technologies you're discussing. HTML/CSS is a presentation layer which describes a way of drawing things on a screen. Nothing more. To compare it to Windows is tenuous, and to suggest that "Linux" even has a standard "app runtime" suggests a clear misunderstanding of the Linux ecosystem.

Web technologies are a layer below what Android or other mobile platforms expose to developers. They're a platform upon which frameworks can build. I agree that a few frameworks providing UI widgets and allowing easy layout will emerge (as they have in, for example, Bootstrap). I disagree that you can in any way generalise by saying "the web is for desktops" simply because of the history it has.
I think it doesn't belong here, especially since you also submitted it a few hours ago.
Peer discovery is the same as with btsync. It uses a central tracker, but you can also add peers manually. We're planning on adding DHT support.
I want to see Comcast try to throttle Google, Facebook, et al. and see how it ends up in court.
Maybe older people don't fit into the rockstar image as well.
Very nicely designed project page. I think this deserves to be noted.
Not a great day to be a Libertarian

Cherry-picking one high-profile catastrophic failure isn't exactly an intellectually honest indictment of Libertarianism.
It's not like there's a shortage of better indictments to use.

It is a good day for schadenfreude, though.
I recently had an interview with a pretty high-profile company and I asked them why they thought their product was better, or at least how it was different, than its primary competitor. The interviewer seemed pretty pissed that I asked that, and in my opinion the answer was essentially that "Our product has fewer features" (she said that it was simpler, which isn't really true).
Really nice. The examples suggest to me that a lot of algorithms would be more accessible to people if they could be visually represented in some way. The timing is important -- the slowness of the bubble sort compared to the quickness of the quick sort gives one an immediate sense of why one would generally want the latter over the former.
> he knew that gaming carried with it a risk; but that risk was exasperated [sic] by someone wanting a strobe effect here or a flashing explosion there.

No, not exasperated, but extended or increased.
It's probably very quirky of me, but I like the slide-to-answer feature, and I like holding it in one hand and being able to type without watching.

I basically like my N86 because it allows for one-handed operation without looking at it - I can even fast-dial some numbers just pressing the .

I also like the physical camera button A LOT, if high end Nokias come with Android and camera buttons, I might consider them for that alone :)

TL-DR I love physical buttons.

I also don't use predictive text - I should get to the 21st century someday :) , but I switch languages and contexts too often and it gets in the way.
Remarkable effort on your part :D
Helium exists in 2 parts of this plant. In the plasma toroid (the hot part) hydrogen will be converted into helium but in incredibly small quantities (X grams/hour).

In the electromagnets, there will be liquid helium. This is to keep the wires in the electromagnets cold enough to be superconducting. This liquid helium is mined from the earth and then cooled to a liquid in the cryogenics plant.

So overall, they are "manufacturing" cryogenically-cooled-helium by taking helium from the ground and cooling it. They are also "manufacturing" helium atoms at a very small quantities by fusing hydrogen atoms together.
Blimey! Which pubs do you go to?
Sencha had some great results, with their FastBook project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCn3R3-XxBU
Is anyone here actually using IPv6 with US cable modem providers (e.g. TWC)? Even though the device connected to the modem gets an IPv6 address, it is completely unclear as to a) what the assigned IPv6 block is or b) how to go about requesting one. It feels like they're in a limbo state of deployment where the edges work but they don't have the workflow/infrastructure set up to dole out address blocks to customers.
Because internet spying is Brazil's biggest issue at the moment. Talk about priorities, Eh?1
Great to see that there is (almost) always a great open source alternative to expensive proprietary IP products! Splunk can become very expensive very quickly if you have a lot of data, so this is great news. Wish they would have shorter release cycles though...
Show HN: Simple translation by email
Give me one good reason to disclose responsible.
A guide to converting a Mercurial repository to Git on Windows
Ruby v2.1 have a improved GC which helps a LOT with performace. You can know about Performance changes in these posts:

http://tmm1.net/ruby21-rgengc/
http://tmm1.net/ruby21-oobgc/

And 2.1.1 is point release, so only contains bug fixes. It doesn't contain new features.
Why Companies Need a Chief Learning Architect
To balance it out, mb is the worst vps I have tried. I found the vps unstable and their status page constantly out of date.
I came here to mention that the NSA/Navy could already tap undersea fiber ... and to implore everyone to encrypt their traffic.
For those curious, the Three Gorges Dam in China is the largest powerplant in the world and has a maximum power rating of 22,500 MW (22.5 GW).
WhatsApp to add voice to messaging service
It's crazy that the US blew over 4 Trillion and countless lives for oil in Iraq. Yet, we spend practically nothing on technology that could offer clean, safe, energy independence.

I'm happy to see any money going into fusion research, but it does seem that Focus Fusion has a much better chance of delivering in the near term. If you're unfamiliar with the technology, check out the Google tech talk below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhKB-VxJWpg
That technique is really useful when serving a site via web sockets.
Nokia is clearly aiming the low end market in emerging country. I am not sure that market needs the play store as much as you seem to insinuate. Most of the services offered by the play store apps dont even work in a lot of developping countries.
I'd rather steal from Tcl/Lua/Go: coroutines+channels
More socialist propaganda.

The Economic Policy Institute was founded in 1986 by Jeff Faux, who was previously the co-director of the National Center for Economic Alternatives (NCEA). As its name suggests, the NCEA specialized in offering “alternatives”—alternatives characterized as “radical” in The New York Times—to mainstream U.S. domestic policy.

NCEA‘s co-director was Gar Alperovitz, now a University of Maryland professor and author of America Beyond Capitalism. Prior to working at the NCEA, Alperovitz co-authored the essay collection Strategy and Program: Two Essays Toward a New American Socialism, where he advocated using socialist ideas to make the United States a “fairer” nation.
>The sad thing is Android is essentially a dead platform at this point because Google recognise investment in the core system is helping their enemies, and they hold a veto over what counts as a fork and what doesn't. The only thing that can save Android would be Google letting go completely, which is simply not in their interests.

Still trying to grasp if it is just a parody or it is said seriously
New site, old content. Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7215196

Also flagged. This guy's practically spamming us to get pageviews.
In my opinion, once equity is on the table then reluctance to answer any financial question is a bad sign. That's not to say that hesitation is a bad sign - a founder may not have thought it all through yet. But once it is put in terms of "I cannot evaluate your offer without knowing these things" then it is reasonable to expect forthright answers.

However, before there is an offer on the table, then this sort of question might be considered premature without the interviewer turning to the subject on their own which if they are pumped about the company they are likely to do anyway.

Realize that these questions can come across as mercenary. That is, if you are evaluating the job solely as an accountant then it would be prudent for an employer to assume that you will only stick until something better comes along. That's not always a good impression to leave at an interview.

Consider that the interviewer for a technical position may not really be focused on the business side. In a startup a technical interviewer who has detailed financial models in their forebrain may be a sign they are already looking at an exit rather than growth.

In the end, everything comes down to a matter of trust. You're betting the future on whether or not you can trust the company to take your interests into account.

Good luck.
'HED', 'LEDE', 'GRAF', 'DEK' and a number of other specialized spellings are often used for placeholders because they (theoretically) stand out for copy editors and spell checkers.
This is an interesting article, but I question hiring people that you fire after 4-6 weeks - to me, the whole hiring process at this company is way off.

Out of 19 hires, 6 were bad hires, and had to be let go or quit on their own after 4-6 weeks. For some reason, the company thought they were good enough to hire, possibly leaving stable jobs with other companies for better opportunities, and this turned out to not work. Now they have a pretty big stain on their resumes - a 6 week (full-time) job doesn't look good.

With respects to the 1 hour commute - did the company consider remote working at all?
One-liner to install docker on a Mac including all dependencies.
Flappy Bird Ported to C64
My thoughts were along the exact same lines. I would like to see results on meta-critic/IMDB cut off when the sites actually started and movies that came out after that date.

I also wonder about the people who spend a lot of time rating old movies that they've seen and how much of their score is influenced by 'bulk' ratings of movies.

Does your score of certain movies go up because you've just rated 15 terrible movies or even just alright movies?

example:
Batman 1
Batman 2
Batman 3
Batman 4
then rating the new batmans? How does the score change?
You're not going to get rich doing either of these, because your income is capped by the hours you can work.

This is true for a while, but if you're smart about it you could expand your business and hire others in the same profession, and eventually become rich.
Speed isn't actually too much of an issue with the ruby client, since all the CPU time is spent in the GnuTLS and Digest::SHA256 code, which is already written in C.

The problem is portability to android and iOS. We additionally want to make the core easy to embed in other applications.