skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like a mobile app is part of your solution. How are drivers' phones going to access your servers?

I'm really speculating here, but do they want to run the service in a private IP space (inaccessible from the Internet) and have their driver's phones VPN in? If so, maybe you could run a standalone instance of the app in AWS without public IPs, and bridge that to their corporate network using http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/
Is BULLRUN a conspiracy theory?
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That sounds interesting. Not sure the most effective way to implement something like that but i'll definitely think about it. Thanks!
Actually no. It's only available in some corner of my brain for now... But I recently redesigned by blog [1] and have been considering adding a "Bucket list" section, which would only include design-related challenges, both digital (like a complete phone OS) and physical (a car dashboard without touch controls, a kitchen layout...).

Obviously, most of these problems would be hard to tackle, considering they're usually out of my skills scope. It's just that I often think to myself "This could be improved".

[1]: http://jgthms.com/
Google has proven its ability to execute. Building your own network or trusting a no-name startup is much harder, not that its not possible. Google just seems to be the easier route.
Paradox of Choice on both sides could make it seem there are no options when there are millions of them (or at least thousands of viable ones).
you're not making any point at all... you appear to be an idiot.

if code can test a certificate, a certificate could trivially be created to test the code.

"wah wah wah... so many different tests... it's too hard... wah wah wah"

go suck a duck, lady. it's 2014. automated testing is a thing. it's dead simple. you're dumb.
Spontaneous clicking is more likely to happen if you meet a lot more people!
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I agree, the motto of 'we don't have a vacation policy, just take time off if you need it' creates usually the wrong sort of culture and dynamics, leading to guilt, etc. Lack of clarity around expectations is commonly a source of anxiety and stress. Whenever possible I encourage that people take 1 week off per quarter.
This is awesomely funny. Get some popcorn, I'll bet the filings will be really interesting on this one. I guess the Feds don't care that the lawsuit documents are public, thanks to Edward Snowden. Sprint is going to hire some Russian mobsters to take him out after this.
... you mean it wasn't because of rampant sexism? Damn, there goes my flamewar.
The proper name is "Man Jose."
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I have never thought of that as the meaning. In fact, how does this wording apply at all to bug discovery when it seems to me discussing bug resolution, which feels like a very different thing? However, I have never read The Cathedral and the Bazaar, so I just took the meaning that made the most sense.
Yeah, the functional programming side of PHP is ugly as sin.

Forgot to add your latest variable to the use block? No "closing over" for you.

What's that? All array function are prefixed with "array_"... except for the old ones which aren't, making it both verbose and confusing.
Go is advertised as a systems language but certain things like the lack of manual memory management say otherwise.
If moon = 1 px is your yardstick, then I can see not putting Voyager up there, but otherwise I'm with you. If you stick Pluto in at about 2/3 the size of the moon, no reason not to include Eris (about the same size as Pluto) and the half dozen or so other TNOs that are a half or more the size of Pluto.
> Can you imagine the Seattle City Council keeping a secret like this and then acting on it in just one day? Of course not. We’d need to have endless community meetings and hearings and public floggings of Google Executives.

Not to mention Kshama Sawant grandstanding about completely irrelevant topics. I can't understand how she got elected.
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Jupiter, yeah right... HN articles are received nearly 35 minutes late.
We are willing to pay for SaaS monthly because the nature of the service is that they have to keep providing it for us to get value. Is that true for fonts? If the foundry stopped working, would I not be able to derive value from the font.

Of course, I support the foundries making up any business model they want. But the argument is not the same as SaaS.
I haven't looked at the gnutls code in depth, but I looked at Apple's 'goto fail' code. I have a write-up here: http://pgcode.blogspot.de/2014/02/lots-has-been-said-about-a...

Cryptographic code introduces new concerns (e.g. is the code safe from timing attacks, or leaking information via cache usage,...). But it is also still code, and susceptible to common code errors. Both this bug and the Apple one are simple coding errors.

It is definitely possible to write unit tests that can help catch errors like this. I wrote some unit tests for the Apple code while refactoring it. Anyone trying to write unit tests to cover all execution paths in SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange would have caught that bug (since there was unreachable code). I suspect the same is the case here.

The bigger take-away for me was that the code could be improved a lot. If you have a look at the code after my refactoring, it is dramatically simpler, in my opinion.
Anyone have any knowledge of the particulars of the license that the broadcasters bought for the spectrum they use. Are they perpetual or for a limited time?

Just wondering if with the networks claim that most of their viewership comes from cable if their use of the spectrum would no longer be considered the best use for serving the public interest. Taking it further, would that allow the government to re-purpose the spectrum for other use.
Except J1 visas and waivers, both are easy enough to deal without a lawyer if you have some help from someone who has done it.
> I mean shit, I don't need to be an aeronautical engineer or work in the FAA to say that several people investigating an airliner crash will be more effective than one single dude sifting through a literal field of debris.

With zero people looking at airliner failures, nothing will be discovered, no matter how many inspectors the FAA has on its payroll. In the software world, there are almost no people doing code audits. Bugs and security holes are left in live code for years. Basically, Theo is saying "Shut up and audit."

How much open source code have you audited for bugs recently? How many subtle correctness issues have you found in projects you've looked at? For the sake of code quality, I certainly hope it's higher than the amount I've audited.
I only heard about this phenomenon with shroom, good to know.
Haywain, you have been hellbanned and nobody can see your post unless they are logged in and have "showdead" turned on.
We have 25 days holiday per year for everyone. You are expected to take them and I will be following up on that too.
If you're paying $173/mo for that internet and actual 'basic cable' - big 4 + pbs/shopping/church - you are being abused and should cancel immediately.

That sounds overpriced given any definition of basic cable I can think of.
Not a PHP fan, but I'm using Laravel at my current client, and it's pretty slick and well-thought out. Quite nice.
When this got posted before on HN the consensus was likely that the LSD got destroyed before he actually took any. I would really like to see that study done with more controlled dosing/storage.
The numbers represent - Student interest in working at the company (#1 - #48, 1 is most interesting in working at, and 48 is least)
> The other trick is to have women fly out to meet you, oh wait, that one has an API now.

curl -X POST https://thedatingring.com/api/v1/women -d '{"hair": "brown", "interests": ["me, duh", "froyo", "kale"]}'

=> {"flightNumber": 1525, "airline": "United", "departureTime": 201403051250, "arrivalTime": 201403051545}
I agree with this demonstration of why acceptance tests are not going to prevent bugs like this, but I'm not so sure about unit tests. I've seen good unit tests reveal a lot of similarly difficult-to-spot bugs. Granted, a really good type system like Haskell gives you more guarantees than a test suite in less rigorously typed languages ever can, but I think you're too quick to dismiss unit tests out of hand. It's a tool in the quiver, and the reason TLS stacks don't tend to have them is not because they are not valuable, but probably because the developers weren't any good at unit testing.
It's a miracle Felix Denis got rich off those considering it's a double-ended marketplace (ads, mag buyers) and that UK lads mags competition is brutality incarnate.
Well depending upon the experience, anywhere from 60k to 100k
This mostly due to slow support from the compiler people. 10 years after neither `clang` or `gcc` provide a complete C99 implementation [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99
Both H1b and O1 work in this case with the limitation that in H1b you can't own majority share of the company, i.e. someone needs to be able to kick you out. I'm not aware of all the details but you should consult an immigration lawyer about this.
You're right, the italic a is like from a completely different typeface, wow. I kind of like it better, and since it's under an open-source license, I might make a version with this version as the general one.
As justinreeves said, I choose to give that information to Facebook. It's absurd having to share all of this information to Tinkercoin so they can supposedly verify my identity to allow me to purchase $20 worth of BTC, without any indication of how they're going to use all this valuable information about me.

Stopped using Facebook auth a long time ago for this very reason and revoked access to all apps except those that I trust. There's no reason to share my entire Facebook account with everyone out there, and if that's the only way I can use their service, then I just won't use it. No big deal.
The 2.5 was also subject to inflation (we're talking ~15 years, in a developing nation; that's a lot of inflation). In real terms, it's a huge discount - far in excess of the benefits of keeping some fraction of that for the local economy.

In the meantime, I don't believe the wealthy are exercising a substantial form of control here.

Background: India was without effective sanitary pads for most of human history. Recently, in the past few hundred years or so, some people became fantastically wealthy. At some point, several sanitary pad manufacturers were set up that sold their products, mostly in developed nations and not rural India.

Are you saying wealthy people stopped the people of India from manufacturing their own sanitary pads before this guy came around to the scene? They certainly didn't stop these people after he came around. It looks to me more like there just wasn't anyone who bothered to bring the sanitary-pad manufacturing technology there yet: the wealthy who were interested in the pursuit of money were pursuing easier or more profitable opportunities, and the wealthy interested in making a difference in the world (including those who would just give money away) were unaware of this need.

There are plenty of things that plenty of wealthy people/businesses can/actually do that keep the little man down in plenty of situations. This just... doesn't look like one of them. Poverty is the natural state of Man.
I would like to see a startup sell the wiring equipment that allows you to perform the hovering tricks featured in this video. I bet it's really fun to fly around on one of those harnesses, even if it doesn't use magical anti-gravity technology.
Yep that occurred to me after I posted this, but I believe it should be possible to exclude variable variables from this at the cost of a runtime error if you try to use them in a closure. Someone else pointed out to me that PHP has other ways of messing with variables as well and that it would require full evaluation to determine all of them, so maybe it "makes sense", but only because of the extremely dynamic nature of variables in PHP.
What Aereo is trying to do is distribute NBC's content to customers without paying for it.

How far away from my TV am I allowed to place my VCR/DVR?

What should be the distance limit?

Can I stream my in-home DVR to my TV over WiFi or CAT5?

How far away can my DVR be when I stream it?

I'm guessing it's legal for me to have a DVR in my living-room and stream content acquired from over-the-air broadcasts from it to my garage over a network or wireless.

If so, what changes when my DVR is colocated?

This all seems like a "color of bits" issue.
From my brazilian perspective it's very strange to read this. In Brazil, vacation is mandatory by law. Any employee has 30 days of vacation by year. But the moment the employee goes on vacation and how he does it (30 days straight, 15-15 days, 20-10...) is still discussed previously with the employer.

I'm not judging which one is better, just acknowledging the culture difference.
This article makes it obvious how far behind technology NYC is compared to SF. Men in SF don't want women from NYC flown to see them. Men in SF want women delievered by Quadricopter drones.
At my current salt rationer, sorry salary slavemonger, sorry, employer of choice, they do give each employee a set number of days each year. The employee can request to use some/all of those days throughout the year, but, the manager has to approve, and can veto requests. Last year our team lost most of their holiday due to management ineptitude and gross fuckwittery in terms of project management and death-marched delivery plans.

This year, the team, collectively have told the dates and taken it, and basically told management to go swing. If they take action against us taking some holiday, we all resign. Has worked so far.
Regulating the sale and trade of goods is a thing that governments do, as is taxing the income and assets that an individual controls.
Most companies in Europe will do this (although with 5+ weeks). They tend to be mostly competitive. It is a bit hard to understand why US tech workers put up with not having this.
> Then read skrebbel's post I was replying to. He is under the mistaken assumption that because he was paying for Windows, he had any control over the direction it went in the last 10 years.

You sure like putting words into people's mouths.
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Link to the crowdtilt: https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/working-on-it/descriptio...
Pedantic point: A unit test would not have found these. Presumably in a unit test you would mock check_if_ca. Only an integration test would have found this.

Sorry for picking on your comment in particular. I could have replied to any number of comments in this thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341539
There's also http://www.safe2pee.org (now potentially defunct) and http://www.refugerestrooms.org/
I'm very curious how you'd enforce "no work email except customer facing stuff", is that just going to be self-enforced?
"If I had seven hours to cut down a tree, I would spend the first five sharpening my axe." - Abraham Lincoln

Many tech jobs are brain work. This is not like an assembly line. If you're not sharp, you're not very effective. Worse, you're making more mistakes, which are going to take time to find and fix. A tired engineer can be literally worse than useless.

So take vacation without feeling guilty. Encourage (force?) your employees to do so, too. But don't stop there. Go home at night when you're tired. Don't come in for the weekend. Come back with a brain that's ready to go.
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> "psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, DMT etc) were outlawed in responses to forms of massive, peaceful "movements" in which taking psychedelics was something the members of the movement were known to do"

I think that is true, but I think you have misidentified the actual rational behind the bans.

In Dan Baum's Smoke and Mirrors, Dan Baum has John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic policy advisor, admitting that heroin and weed were targeted because their use was [perceived to be] popular among black people and hippies, both groups that the 'silent majority' feared. Targeting these drugs appeased the fearful ignorant 'silent majority', and it allowed the government to actually go after and disrupt these groups.

"we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure."
Here come the patent holders...
What challenges does taxing Bitcoin have that are harder than e.g. taxing the exchange of dollars for license keys? Ogaki manages that every year, and I can guarantee you that most people at the office don't even understand what a license key is.
Because we pay for it with our taxes.
A company blog is not a sales pitch
They need to make this frictionless...much like Uber. Make an app where I push a button and a 'dateable' girl gets delivered as soon as possible to a bar of my choice for an instant date. She doesn't have to be from nyc.
Humor is all this is.

Open question: where do men here in SF try to meet women?

As a man, I have yet to see such a lack of single women in the city that would necessitate a project like this, even when I was dating around for 9 months.

Me thinks either standards are too high or don't go far enough out of your comfort zone. I could imagine being wrapped up in a startup, eat, breathing, sleeping it. And yes, not too many single women in the startup scene.

But startup != San Francisco, though it may seem that way from the news media.
Because the majority of the people that voted in her district were tired of having an insular rep on the council, so they voted for The Other Guy? Seattle politics is quite strange, coming from the midwest. Politics isn't blood sport out here.
It is not just about Google Fiber despite the article title. This article presents regulations that will prevent any real ISP competition, including Gigabit Squared, and is really quite depressing as a Seattle resident. Google Fiber just happens to be a significant national competitor that people know about.
I'm not sure. You can look at dynamic language libraries and see similar increases in complexity (batteries included began with python), while they cannot benefit from code completion very much given a lack of static type info. The increase in library complexity is probably more related to demands on what we need to write where tooling is just a supporter.
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Your concern about facebook login is totally justified. If you check out the verification processes used by bitcoin exchanges and brokers, you'll find that they collect far more sensitive data than anything Tinkercoin touches.
I believe this is not the first time this happened in San Francisco.

During the Gold Rush, the gender ratio was about 50 men per woman. It got better with the years, but party organisers kept doing their damnedest to get women to go to their balls, inviting (and arranging for travel for) women from as far as Missouri, over the Pony Express.
What assumptions / observations underpin your conclusion that "The dating situation is so bad for single men in their early to mid twenties on the west coast"?
I'm currently a student. I think it's easy to get us to drink the Kool-Aid about how much nicer life is at one of those big companies.

Myself included, it is easy to forget you have a lot of work to do at these places. I've heard these places described as "adult Disney land ", "just, better than the east coast " and "way better than Google " by recruiters.
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The problem with the argument against Aereo is that (regardless of the Justice Department's statement) it unravels rental services. Where is the line drawn? Can I not rent a hotel room and watch television in it? Can I not rent a hotel room, put a networked camera in it, and watch the television in the room while I am not physically in it? Can I not rent a hotel room that already has such a camera in it? Can I not rent a 1x1x1 hotel room with a miniature television and network camera in it? Can the television and camera not be one device? The "room" of Aereo is much smaller, but does size change legality?
Maybe the flight should arrive at night, to allow the cover of darkness to give them a chance to find a date!
Does anyone know if this affects any of the popular configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, etc?
"Also, not great, as pointed out by another TechCrunch writer: The implicit assumption that all dating is between women and men."

Another possibility is that there's no first-order[0] geographical arbitrage opportunity presented by gender imbalances when men seek men and women seek women.

[0] there may be "second-order" abritrage opportunity, in terms of sub-types of men or women.
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The companies are doing it to decrease liability on some accounting spreadsheets.

If you really care about staff you improve work life balance, pay competitive rates, spot and remove dumb managers and assholes.

Sorry but 2 weekss mandatory vacation is not going to help much, on the contrary it might make someone angry when forced to take time off when the company is slow, not when a poor dev wants to actually go somewhere for holidays.
If they were, would this change your mind? What if they acted as if they were a subcontractor? At a certain point the line isn't so clear anymore. I don't know the correct answer here, but I'm concerned about the precedent this could set.
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Will Web Components replace ReactJS?
As a guy with wickedly amazing success on OKCupid and Craigslist in New York and elsewhere, in SF alone for a month, I can confirm that the usual methods that smart, hardworking, tech-savvy dudes use for finding strangers to date are completely oversaturated in SF.

Offline is the way, obviously, but ain't nobody got time for that.
One of the things I've seen looking at many companies is the mandatory shutdown. Key maintenance staff stays on, but the place is a ghost town for, say 2 weeks in the summer and the last 2 weeks of the year. (The maintenance guys have a similar system, though staggered)

That way there's no excuse of "I have to stay on because $BIGPROJECTX needs my help." There's literally nothing going on. Go home. Get a life.

Such drastic measures are necessary, unfortunately, because just a few folks working 1.5x hours can end up sucking everybody else in. If you make it mandatory and set a designated date, it's much harder to have the game-playing.

Note that this is also a good way for people who work together to do things together. After all, you're all off during the same times :)
Have you implemented Mastercard Securecode/Verified by Visa? These offer you protection against chargebacks for "cardholder unauthorized" chargebacks, which account for roughly 60% of all chargebacks in card-not-present transactions.
As someone who uses tends to compile most things against openssl, I was wondering if someone could answer how widespread gnutls usage is?
I was really impressed by my current company's 60 vacation days per year until I realized that included weekends.
Jimmy Kimmel, this is getting old.
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That's what I'm thinking too. Soon I plan to dispute my bill before the annual increase, or threaten to cancel and switch to AT&T.
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People in the US may be paying more attention to cold hard cash and less to vacation promises.