skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback jareds, we've heard from a few folks that weekly is too much for them and will definitely consider changing it in the future, for now we've optimized the service for simplicity rather than trying to address every possible use case.

Slightly different question, was the website accessible to you as a blind person?
I wouldn't go so far as to say no long term value -- a fly-by would be good preparation for an asteroid mission or a Mars/Phobos orbital mission. In fact it might be possible to do the follow-on mission with the same ship.

NASA clearly needs an intermediate step between LEO and putting a man on Mars. Venus flyby plus teleoperated rovers is the easiest mission I can think of that might also be useful.
Same here one of the reason i like mongodb and other NoSQL it's the schemaless approach
Since learning programming isn't only about reading, but more about execution, I find it better to just read them on the computer I am using at that moment. A Kindle is fine, I don't see why it wouldn't be acceptable for tech books.
Actually, EasyFridge sound perfect for you. You don't actually have to add stuff to your shopping list if you don't want to. It's designed to be a "laid back" experience kind of like Pandora.
I've seen https and scp as well. I'm not sure I've seen plain vanilla ftp in years, and certainly not without pgp encrypting the files first.
My team at eBay is. Interested? Tdziuba@ebay.com
Technically... You cant initiate an ACH transaction. You request it from a member institution, who authorize and initiate it. Many large institutions have their own APIs... But cybersource http://www.cybersource.com/developers/ has most of what you'd need
Not my experience in Canada. L/100km
You still need to think about what you want to watch, and deliberately make it happen. A very large market segment wants no more than a half-dozen choices, pick one, and let it run indefinitely.

For the same reason, the 90 page channel listing, dominated by "your not subscribed to this but we're going to show it to you anyway in hopes you might upgrade to include it" and "here's 37 duplicate channels all showing the same movie at slightly offset timeslots", has got to be driving people away - many staying only because there isn't a brain-dead-easy option hearkening to the days of 4 channels.
My experience with renewing my Internet subscription recently is that cable providers are offering significant incentives to customers to add subscriptions to at least some form of TV service in addition to Internet service.

I'm a Comcast customer in the SF Bay Area. Six months ago I only had Internet service; no TV. I called customer service in search of a better deal, and it turned out I could lower my total bill by adding TV service! In other words, Internet alone is now more expensive than Internet + TV. So they're now /subsidizing/ TV service (or at least discounting Internet service) to inflate their TV subscriber count.

Are others having similar experiences?
People learning to code would be best advised to find a volunteer group who need code writing (even if they don't know they need code writing), or an open-source project. I agree learning to write code is only half the challenge, dealing with constraints like capacity, users, deadlines, hosting, stubborn colleagues, unsolvable problems it's easy to work-round or ignore with theoretical exercises. You only get those in a real-world job or real-world volunteer effort. The student may also find a mentor there.
Just "write some software and get it certified"? Sounds so simple, why doesn't everyone do it?

Because it isn't just getting a body of code certified once.

Someone has to maintain that specific code and either upstream or backport important changes which require a re-certification, neither of which LibreSSL is interested in helping with.
So they use FTP and files as an RPC mechanism. What happens when you accidentally overwrite files? How does sequencing happen? Do they use timestamps on the files?

It sorta, kinda makes sense and I can't really deny the simplicity of the whole scheme.
Is $120k going to be enough to even make a dent in a biotech startup?! It's years and years and years of hard work before you may even get denied by the FDA. With all this funny money flying around who has the patience to wait 10 years to maybe see a return?!
Right. 94 character, fixed width. What could go wrong there?

What's that, you want line endings?

I've seen \r, \n, and \r+\n. Nothing like 96 characters in a 94 character format.
yerp, fixed width nacha files exchanged periodically over sftp. Built for/by cobol based banking systems back in the day and continues to live on.
Has anyone else noticed they spelled pidgin as pidgeon? It's a really weird typo especially when you consider the link points to the right site and it can't be a spelling correction as both pidgin and pigeon are words but pidgeon is not [1]. It's also weird that a news outlet such as wired would make such a mistake.

[1] Though you might say it's a meta-pidgin borne out of the hybridization of pidgin and pigeon.
The Internet of Things meets Dropbox
To be explicit: younger workers are much easier to exploit.

If all younger workers realized this and acted collectively, the impact would be immense. Instead, SV is overrun with temporarily-embarrassed entrepreneurs.
No, but following the disruption innovation theory, ARM should soon work its way up, while it will cannibalize Intel and force it to move increasingly upmarket (servers, etc) to chase profits. Intel is already losing billions subsidizing Atom chips [1], their "real" competitors to ARM chips, to make them at least semi-attractive to OEMs (which will really get the short end of the stick, if they go with Intel anyway, because if they do help Intel succeed, Intel is going to immediately increase prices on them, to turn the division profitable again).

ARM chips don't have to "beat" Intel. They just have to become good enough for desktop performance, while costing much less.

[1] - http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/intel-lose-1b...
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Intel has dominated for quite some time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Market_share

In all honesty, beyond the cheap CPU market, most people have gone with Intel for a decade(s).
I think your conclusion, "end for world-beating SPARC performance", is perhaps based on out of date information:

http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/performance-scalability/s...

Also, if you look at the roadmap, you'll see there's even more performance improvements scheduled in the near future:

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sp...
I for one, am still sticking with qMail, qMail-toaster to be precise. Over the years it is proven to be very reliable even when it takes beatings like no other.
I find it quite a bit easier to reach across the width of the iPhone's screen than the Moto X. It's the difference between comfortable and not comfortable for me. I wish there was a high-spec Android phone with the screen size and dimensions of the iPhone.
I'm sure she'd be very reassured by the fact that, after a drawn out battle and legal fees she can ill-afford, she'd probably defeat the lawsuit in the end. Maybe. Assuming she can both prove her claims to the satisfaction of the courts and afford the lawyers to do so.
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There isn't a "too old". Having experience outside of the coding world provides value as you turn ideas into software. I do think ageism is real in the software world, but it is easily countered by building cool stuff. Open source and personal projects provide great resumes.
Fallout Classic Revisited [video]
Men can (and should be!) feminists too.
I get the impression that you can buy 1,000 OCP servers but you can't buy one; I wouldn't be surprised if OpenPower is the same way. But if you want one Power8 maybe you can just buy a server from IBM.
I wasn't trying to be pedantic. I probably should've been more direct but what I mean is that it's a disservice to the article to distinguish alcohol from all other recreational drugs like that. The way it's worded makes it sound like alcohol is not a drug at all, which opens up people's minds into treating the two differently even though one literally IS the other.
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This have been an ongoing project for many years and a lot of really nice articles have come out over the years. I remember once seeing a lot of nice photographs from the old McDonalds restaurant that showed some nice details about their setup.

The guys even have their own Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_Image_Recovery_Pr...
Set up RetroPi on it, ordered some SNES USB controllers for like $7 each.

https://github.com/petrockblog/RetroPie-Setup

I realized all the games are a lot harder than they felt when I was a child. Can't get past the second person on Mortal Kombat 3... but Super Mario World is a lot of fun.
One of those company blogs you cannot go to company's website by clicking any visible link from the blog. It's like blog is a separate company on its own.
not sure how reliable. but 'less than 10m'

http://recode.net/2014/04/23/etsy-paid-less-than-10-million-...
Yes, this is correct. Most self-reporting relies on having the same question asked in different ways and places to catch people whose inconsistent answers suggest they should be removed from the sample.

However, my objection is that I don't believe language can be easily classified in terms of the response it'll elicit. Obviously, one can (usually) correctly guess the response that'll be received if one were to run up to a stranger and yell "You're a [swearword of choice here]", yet the fact that I've had to preface this with the modifier 'usually' betrays my point; some people will get aggressive if you swear at them, some will laugh, some will respond in kind, and so on. My concern is that if we can't even predict the effect of language in its most obvious state, we probably can't predict its effect in subtler states.

This unpredictability of language leaves us in a tricky position when it comes to asking questions on a self-reporting study. In order to solve that one objection, we'd have to come up with a method of using language which manages to communicate its point, without causing that point to make people feel emotion. This is further complicated by the fact that people are complex beasts with internal and external factors playing in to how they behave, such that a question formed neutrally for one person would probably not be so neutral with others. This also makes avoiding 'fear of reprisal' for one's response to a question impossible, as we can only remove external reprisal. It would not be possible for us to, for instance, removal the internal upheaval of a conflicted homosexual admitting to a survey that they were gay.
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I'm not saying anything one way or another about what GitHub did or didn't do. It's my general observation that "arbitration" is often other than what it says on the tin. This comes from personal experience, and I think it's a valuable general observation. I hope that you are not coming at this from some kind of "you're either for us or against us" standpoint.
Some possible historical role playing class analogies that aren't totally ridiculous:

The academic, which is kind of a non-theistic monk. Tenure is impossible to get considering we produce about 10 PHDs for every tenure job opening, but adjunct work is no big deal. An acquaintance of mine got into teaching once he semi-retired.

The gentleman farmer, at least WRT not needing to do the work for the money, but doing it for fun. I had an uncle like that.

The aristocrat amateur scientist, basically the academic without an institution behind him. This is quite a challenge for a ChemENG but pretty easy for a CS guy or an amateur astronomer. I had another uncle like that, although his variety of landed gentry was more along the lines of "owned several gas stations" rather than owning a barony or dutchy.

The monk, modern version would be that psuedo-homeless guy who hangs out at the local makerspace all day. Basically a techie with a vow of poverty. This vaguely resembles my 20s.
You're skipping over the whole part where you have to download and configure a torrent client, and get a video player that reads MKVs and other containers encoded with x264... and probably a few other steps. Compared with hitting the power button a TV and clicking up and down until you find something, the torrenting process is labyrinthine. (Popcorn Time and others, of course, fix this somewhat)
Fragmentions – linking to any text with URLs
I think you're being biased here. Netflix's device interface is ho-hum (eg on the playstation entering text for search strings is painful) and they only have a 1-2 sentence description as well. They do try to sort things by relevance but they frequently get it wrong and I can 't depend on the same genres being there from session to session or having the same names. For example, I used to have a genre called 'horror movies'; after I watched a few different cartoon shows in a row one weekend that went away and instead I got a new genre called 'Scary Movies' with mostly PG-13 rather than R-rated content. Now I wasn't so into horror movies to begin with, but if I was this would be quite annoying. I do like Sci-Fi movies but but my options for curating my own genre selections are very limited, so I wind up thorwing everything into 'my list' in case I can't find again later.

The cable interface is also bad, but things are broken out by genre and broadcast station (eg some people prefer HBO stuff). It's a bit annoying because it's slower and I have to use a remote control, but that hasn't prevented my finding things I want to watch. Neither side is going to win by interface, but on selection; Netflix has fewer hits but more depth, Cable offers more populist and newer stuff.
Believe me: absolutely nobody uses km/l, ever.
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I often feel the same about how centralized the 'net has become. Two issues that seem to make it worse:

1. ISPs providing asymmetric service (and it's been getting worse, it used to be 10:1 dl:ul, but when I upgraded speed last year it grew to 20:1).

2. Why do we have a plethora of centralized services, when ideally a smart firmware in your home router can handle pages like about.me or simple blogs.
eh, they are aware of the problem, but their solutions are still centralized ones; either preventing de-aggregation altogether, or making the end-user justify the usage, presumably to some central authority.

I mean, it might work out okay; that's pretty much what ARIN does now. I'm just saying, it's not exactly a market-based solution; that document proposes a market in IP addresses, but it largely leaves the routing table as a commons, even if it does propose to regulate that commons in ways that are similar to the way it is being regulated now.
You need to buy a package of stuff that you don't want and then pay extra for HBO. That is not reasonable.
I could read the information on the site and find out that I'm not in the delivery area. If it is possible to sign up and use most of the site without actually getting a delivery I will gift it a try in the next couple days. If that isn't possible but you have a test version I could look at I'd be willing to do that. Feel free to email me at joesmth766 at gmail period com.
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Took me a bit to figure out, but you can click on 'store' in the upper right. I would think that 'home' would/should take you there, though.
Every X acquites Y post should have an HN disclaimer!

Show HN> Who was Y?

The story of Y is never told in these shut-down notices...
Yeah, I definitely use hazelcast for the variety of data structures.

I personally use it for a variety of tasks including distributed locks, a task tracker (think like hadoop) and for phases. If you're curious, here's the impl I'm talking about:

https://github.com/agibsonccc/java-deeplearning/blob/master/...

This is to augment an akka clustering distributed run time.
That's a quip, not a statistic.
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Agreed, I'm not in a startup or working in tech; I am self-employed, but burnout has hit me. I thought I would be endlessly motivated as my own boss. I actually felt the exact moment of its onset, it was at the conclusion of a two month period of being very busy. It was euphoric to be very busy and having people knocking down your door to give you money. But then I entered a slow period, and had to start doing the work, and I've lost so much motivation. I want to pack up shop and start something new; I'm rationalizing this by telling myself "that's what serial entrepreneurs do."

Does anyone have strategies on how to deal with this? I took a vacation but came back surprisingly still lacking motivation. I exercise and enjoy it, but after the exercise high I'm back to the same mental state. It's a complete 180-degree shift in mindset from where I was just 40 days ago.
Generally I prefer to read from a book. While they are bulky, heavy, not as fashionable as an E-Reader, I like books. I spent a lot of my childhood in the library, I like their smell, texture, the feeling of turning pages.

Also I've never understood the 'carry around' problem. But then I don't do my reading in public, or outside my home. I have a comfortable chair, or my bed.

:.:.:

If I have to read something related to my programming work (I.E.: Reference Material, papers, manuals), second monitor and it better be in a simple text or pdf format.
That's the only reason I have cable TV, yes. If you wrangle with them, you can get a deal where they just relay you the broadcast channels, otherwise they give you a cheap starter deal and jack the price up after 6 months. The trick is to call the customer retention department and make them talk you out of unsubscribing.

Interestingly, I saw the other day that AT&T is proposing to offer fibre in SF and Oakland/Berkeley, which would be a game changer.
In this situation, you are the one who gets the national security letter or warrant. Also, it requires a warrant because it's on your personal property. They don't need a warrant to search your ISP.
The precipitous decline in AIDS deaths (not HIV infection) after 1995 was due to the introduction of protease inhibitor drugs like Crixivan.
Why would anyone choose the on-screen keys if you've already sacrificed the space for dedicated keys?
I ran in to the same thing.

I just downloaded freeboard and I'm running it locally on http, no problem.
I'll gladly purchase an epub for this, looks wonderful.
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File-system encryption with something like encfs would be a great addition.
Keybase – a public directory of publicly auditable public keys.
> Could you "accidentally" make a FIPS compliant library?

Let's differentiate between "FIPS compliant" and "FIPS certified".

FIPS complaint: you could get a FIPS certified product if you wanted, without changing your product.

FIPS certified: you paid NIST and a FIPS test lab some money, the lab tested your module, submitted a test report to NIST, and NIST published certificates saying that a certain version of your product (running on a particular OS and CPU architecture, for software modules) is FIPS certified.

So, yes, you could accidentally come up with a FIPS compliant crypto module. But getting certified costs actual money (last time I did it, as I recall just shy of $100k).

> the issue with FIPS is that you would have to be able to disable
> all but a subset of the features, regardless of these feature
> being worse or better than what is defined in the FIPS documents?

To some extent it depends what you mean by 'feature' here. If it's a crypto algorithm offered by your module for external use, there is quite little leeway. If it's a fundamental feature of your product that internally uses exotic crypto, you can often convince your test lab to gloss over it.
It might be worth mentioning your new RFS article http://blog.samaltman.com/new-rfs-breakthrough-technologies
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Seems very logical, not much to learn in part 1! Does the ACH still hit the federal reserve if the two accounts are at the same bank?
Good start. Would love to see what an actual ACH file looks like. Googling returns some specs and the like, but not sure if any contain the exact doc that gets FTP'd to the Fed.
I get the impression that you can buy 1,000 OCP servers but you can't buy one;

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, that's kind of a bummer if that is actually the case. I haven't really looked into buying any OCP servers, so I wasn't aware of that situation.
just stumbled on it :D
How do you keep track of your job applications/interviews?
When applying to jobs, do you use any websites or software to keep track of when you applied for a job, did an interview, and when to follow up?

Thanks!
I haven't dug into the details, but here's how Scala went about adding string interpolation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NdxNxZYodPA-c4MLr33KzwzK...
Just wondering, is there a reason flickr doesn't bother alerting users on IE7 and below that their browser is out of date? This page degrades down to IE8 (where it just seems to drop all scrolling effects and animations), but is entirely broken in IE7.

I know Twitter does this and goes as far as showing the mobile version of their site instead.
Something that really surprises me, as a new researcher in CS Education, is that people aren't doing much research on CodeAcademy. I hope that people within CodeAcademy start publishing any findings that they get.
If you want to get into the nitty gritty of the format of ACH/NACHA files you can buy the spec here:

https://www.nacha.org/nacha-estore-rules

But you can find parts of the book online at various places. Many financial institutions support NACHA files, but you'll also find many that violate the spec. I happen to have implemented a C# NACHA implementation recently and it wasn't a lot of fun. And there is a huge difference between ACH receipt and ACH origination.
I loved Another World ( 1991 Amiga game ) and was amazed that the whole thing was done by one guy: Éric Chahi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_%28video_game%29
What financial crises/trends do aggregate models predict? Unfortunately, current economic theory resides in a grey area of ideology because of how poorly it explains and predicts such things. Assumptions can often be made in any ideological direction.

I also don't claim that the entire Wikipedia article is useful, I just wanted to expose you to some of the ways economists are using biological system (ecology) to model an economy.
I don't think that either smell nor "non-water compounds" are reasons to regulate e-cigarettes tighter than we regulate perfumes, colognes, or spray deodorants.

Similar regulation for all four seems reasonable to me.
Our bank uses SFTP, which is really just SSH (nothing to do with FTP).
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this is really cool. thanks for putting this up! design is hard :'(
Its actually quite secure, just a folder where a job picks up a file for processing... It doesn't have access to the ACH or banking network. The transaction still needs approval which will come from an another method, usually with strong encryption.

The author probably had it this way because they did want to spend the money for a 3rd party integrator which would process the transaction via a web service.

Hey I can't believe EDI is still alive but it is....
"Home" is also a link to the blog, sadly.