skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is contrary to the stereotype I have of organizations like that.

Hiring managers need to filter out somehow. I know a guy who gives explicit - but not difficult - instructions for applicants. Anything not following the instructions gets circular filed. Another silicon valley exec was famous here, recently, for trashing applicants who like country music.
This completely ignores everyone considerate enough to car pool. One of the major advantages is being able to read emails, check news, etc. If you can't do anything on your phone, it kind of wrecks one of the major perks.
Rethinking "Mobile First"
> the main motivation was simply cost. Google doesn’t publish its enterprise maps pricing, but it’s orders of magnitude more expensive than MapBox.

hmm, something is weird there. It doesn't say how often the 600k hit their site, but presumably that's per month ("We have hundreds of thousands of hits per month"). Google Maps allows 25k map loads per day for free, which is already 750k for a 30 day month.

Even if you allow for overages that would cost money, it still doesn't add up. If you double that to 1.2 million per month, that's $12.50 a day, or $375 a month, which is still under the $499 a month Mapbox "Premium" Plan[2] (which only gets you 1 million loads per month).

And that's not even touching enterprise pricing, which presumably has a discount for volume (it's really dumb that gogole doesn't publish those enterprise prices though).

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/usagelimits/

[2] https://www.mapbox.com/plans/
That's true for pretty much all significant news. And it's not like we are helpless, it's still possible to invest in new antibiotics and strictly control the ones that still work.
when this was posted on metafilter last year someone posted a truly excellent comment: https://www.metafilter.com/134210/Imagining-the-Post-Antibio...
"and the 'sploit can be mitigated before bringing it online to the outside world"

You should read more carefully.

Also, keeping people waiting without an ETA for a down service because you're learning isn't going to result in happy customers.

Furthermore, whomever is running these boxes needs to deploy NIDS and HIDS and properly secure their boxes, because clearly they don't understand what an attack surface is.
Your example is nice because:

- Your functions are coupled and cooperate on shared mutable state (you can't pushNine and then pushTen). In large projects coupling like that starts to hurt a lot, so you need more isolated functions and store intermediate state somewhere - and closures are convenient for that, but don't nest too gracefully.

- You don't have error handling. Promises don't make it bulletproof, but at least allow handling most errors in one place (so you don't need `if (err) return callback(err)` in every callback).

But IMHO the `.then()` syntax is just a temporary solution. Promises become really awesomene with ES6 generators or ES7 async/await:

async function doSomething(){
showResults([await getEight(), await getNine()])
}
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I don't find this site to be a fundamentally good example of usability.

It's not TERRIBLE, but given that they're speaking from a position of high-authority, it should be better.

Three examples:

(1) https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/documentation... - What am I supposed to click? The "2 guides" thingy looks like a button. No. Not clickable. But then just below are two identically colored "Create Amazing Forms" and "Add Touch to Your Site". Easily solvable with (a) buttons (b) underlined links (c) consistent navigation colors

(2) Click on "Getting Started" in the top navigation section. Would you expect that the text should now be bold, as it was on the home screen indicating which page / section I'm on?

(3) Back to this page "https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/documentation... - why is there a cookie-crumb nav element in Documentation that's not present on other subs like https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/resources/sty...

In their defense, I understand that their audience is "developers" who are going to be able to solve poor UX and find what they want.

But still feels like a moment to eat your own dogfood . . .
Here is my guess: debuggers aren't the answer. We need to look somewhere else.
A couple of years ago, I would have agreed with this.

But at this point, if you're not active on GitHub and/or StackOverflow (assuming you're hiring for open source technologies), I likely am not interested in wasting my time vetting out your resume.

Meanwhile, I'm not sure if I see tons of benefit in keeping a personal website up to date. Designs go out of style so quickly, one would have to re-do their site every 2-3 years or get caught looking stale. It's not worth the effort to a hardcore coder when there's more "fun" projects to play with. Most great coders don't want to whore themselves.

Your comment is a very good one... in 2009.
nice idea, but unfortunately that then doesn't work in the patent trolling case.

the troll has a clear incentive to minimise their own costs (filing hundreds of carbon-copy suits must have huge economies of scale, each one has to be cheap or their model doesn't work), but the defendant still has to spend lots to defend, with only the upside of 2 * a small amount to collect when they win.
Do people still take GRC seriously?

Back in 2001-2002 people dedicated a lot of time to debunking his every statement, but he just sort of faded into the nether after TechTV blew up. He still however maintains his charlatan listing: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/
> who calls antibiotic resistance as serious a threat as terrorism

What an unbelievably stupid comparison. Terrorism is mass murder turned into the sort of spectacle that causes us to massively overestimate a threat to our individual lives. If antibiotic resistance is that sort of threat, then it isn't much of a threat at all, and we can all go back to worrying about normal things such as dying from regular homicide, heart disease, crossing the road, and choking on food.
why not just eat better sourced high quality meat?

Because it's more expensive. Most people can't afford to eat large amounts of high quality meat.
>[...] people using our real-time bus tracking to find out where there bus is.

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I think this person gave themselves away by being extremely regular about their behavior. If he was causing disruption on the commute every day for two years then they had plenty of time to work through the bureaucracy of getting the equipment out there and tracking it down.
Yep you're right, that's a markdown misinterpretation. But I really like markdown, it's so much easier to use than most other such things.
That doesn't offer any clear explanation of why they would charge extra for early deletion of that data, though.
You are asking the wrong questions. Samsung isn't being accused of "knocking off" an iphone. They are accused of copying SOME of the functionality of the iphone. Also, this isn't about consumers (directly) AS you are right, if Samsung decided to stop making phones, users would have fewer phones to choose from. It is indirectly about consumers though, as Apple may have never ventured down the path to creating the iPhone if they couldn't patent some of it.
And to follow up on what TallGuyShort says, they most likely triangulate just as for amateur radio when looking for transmissions that violate regulations.

Or, come to think of it, if you know the transmitter goes down I-4 everyday, just sit by the side of the road with a receiver and watch signal strength. I-4 can be pretty crowded, but it shouldn't be hard to narrow it down as the signal gets stronger then starts to tail off.
Looks nice, but it doesn't retrieve results for many of the DOIs I tried, e.g. 10.1155/2014/863625 and 10.4103/0970-2113.129901, and gave an incorrect result for this one: 10.1073/pnas.1324197111

Feature suggestions: would be nice if it accepted PubMed ids, and supported other popular citation styles like Hardvard and Vancouver (or alternatively, permitted some customisation of the citation format).
Correct any vitamin deficiencies, rather than take vitamins generally. The most likely is probably vitamin D deficiency. Indoor office worker in a northern latitude? Even if you do spend some time outside you are likely deficient during the winter.

And eating nutrient dense food is the best way to get vitamins.
Best answer I've seen so far. The takeaway from the guys on the front lines is usually that a full server compromise is rare and that FTP creds were stolen from a client via malware. The result is a simple drive-by that is relatively easy to clean up.
Where's your pessimism? Climate change can no doubt be considered a factor in stoking conflicts over resources. It's quite possible we'll start seeing larger and more dangerous conflicts being fought over water, going into the future. This is true regardless of climate change, but climate change and food shortages aren't going to help.

It really only takes one war to escalate too far to bring about a nuclear conflict, which could clearly have significant effects on the viability of civilization.
Hiding a pregnancy from big data
Yes, but the free market will invent time machines and we can go back 50 years and warn ourselves. The free market will save us.
@livestyle Would love to talk. I'm at joe (at sign) publir.com. Let me know that you came through YC.
Not to mention that this does nothing for having the same login for phone and browser.
Bloomberg Now Listing Bitcoin Prices on Financial Terminals
You're making an argument about callback aggregation. That is just one of the features that promises enable. The seminal article on the topic is Domenic Denicola's "You're Missing the Point of Promises." http://domenic.me/2012/10/14/youre-missing-the-point-of-prom...
Here's another non-obvious solution to the problem:

Start making sure that insurance companies have no payouts if the driver's phone was on X amount of time before the accident. That way they pay for their own damage, and the damage done to everyone around them. Regardless if they were "at fault" using conventional reasoning.

How about another one:
Require all vehicles to install cell phone tethers that have the driver's registered sim card in it. Disable it during the drive. Mandate it's installation, and penalize people that break it, even more so if they were in an accident.

Almost ALL problems have a technical/legislative solution for them. The only real problem is that no one has either the resolve, balls, lawyers, political backing, or money to implement/require those technical/legislative solutions. So all we get are half-asses solutions with selective (and sometimes biased) enforcement by the police/courts.
Doesn't every school have a landline somewhere in the building?
Lets not forget about the companies who create incredibly lengthy "tests" to test their potential hires.

I don't mind short coding examples. Thats cool. However when a company asks for web applications... come on. Not everyone is jobless and has time to jump through that many hoops.

What am I asking for? Learn how to identify talent... have people master that skill. The insecurity about "would this guy be good?" lets make him/her jump through a billion hoops just to work here is irritating.
There's also a lot of room for improvement on the UI-side of things. Ideally, drivers shouldn't need to touch their phones to access the data or service they want; everything I want to do in the car ought to be voice-accessible.
I disagree with the reasoning.

The article makes it clear these subs were very advanced, and after the expected teething problems expected with any new design, they worked well. Of course they were expensive (time and resources) because they were new and advanced. They were vastly superior to other subs at the time. Had the war continued for another few years, I think it's safe to say these subs would have been extremely successful in their missions. You can't go into a project like "design the future of submarines" under the limitation that your side might lose the war any day.

Obviously when undertaking any task it's important to have a balance of "do what we've always done" and "innovate to find better ways". They would be equally criticized if they didn't try to advance anything and just kept building old tanks and bullets. The headline would be "The Third Reich's Failure to Innovate"

Did they aim for too much innovation with these subs? Maybe, but you can't blame the sub for that.
That's marginally profitable, but if it never pays back the capex it's not actually profitable.
You're and idiot if you can't see that this gives you a lot more than the device token gives you.
Certainly! Good call. We soft launched the site today and are still very actively improving things. I like your suggestions though. I broke the menu and a fix is heading out soon. I'll file the others so we can get them addressed. [EDITED.]
More Keywords = More Downloads iOS App Store
Can you tell me of any currencies or commodities, from antiquity to 1971, that had any price or value associated with them due to "value as a remittance network"?

Bitcoin's market cap was $13.9 billion four months ago. Now it is less than $6 billion. Bitcoin has only grown as a remittance network over the past four months, so if it derives its value from being a remittance network, why is its price sinking?

You say my argument is "trivially invalid", but people realizing Bitcoins are worthless has made Bitcoins worth half what they were four months ago.
The way to combat this is with arithmetic. Calculate out "if Bitcoin reaches $2000, what would its market cap be? How many people are actually using it? Can it possibly be worth that much per user?"

It paints a pretty grim picture for Bitcoin achieving even a 5x boost over the past peak, at least for years to come.
Apparently founding a start up is the worst possible decision you can make
a major problem preventing further adoption of mass-transit usage in my city is that it is so spread out. the Phoenix Metro area is huge and not overly dense. taking a bus or the "light-rail" would take 2 or 3 times longer than driving my truck.. Carpooling is still an option though, and a big help...
Java Enterprise, Spring, JMS, Messaging and a couple of large Java based ecommerce platforms although I spend more time actually leading projects than I do writing code now.

Most good Java guys that I know take around £500 - 700 per day in the enterprise, telco, banking and ecommerce space.
There are lots and lots of hash functions lacking widespread adoption or standardization. I don't remember the exact timeframe, but djb once told me he came up with CubeHash in some number of days.
This may not be important, but just to clarify my thoughts above: if we had unlimited land then things like maximum height regulations would no longer be a problem. In my mind it's the combination of limited land and regulation, not just the regulation, that raises house prices. (Not meaning to disagree with you, just to clarify.)
That's good to know, appreciate the insight!
Guess the "pigs"# are indeed more equal than the rest of us. #And no, I don't mean pigs as in the derogatory term for the police.
> A good analogy for the importance of getting to market with what works, not what is perfect.

I would argue they were already "at market" with what works - older subs, bullets, torpedoes and tanks, and while doing that, they were trying to innovate something better. They obviously weren't aiming for perfect, because they did get it finished - it would never have been done if the goal was "perfect".

Had they not tried to innovate something better, we'd be criticizing them now saying "this is a good analogy for the importance of continual improvement of your product that's in the market"
TL;DR For random-seek block encryption, don't use XTS, use CTR.

It's simple. I like simple maths and code, it's less to screw up and less for implementations to screw up. For example, I don't trust EC or GCM, even if some people thinks they're the new hotness, because complexity creates more opportunities for obfuscation and puts the code further out of reach of the already few eyeballs actually (or not) looking at it.

Maybe 'cpervica explain why
I think you'll find that without a data import, address data tends to be forgotten by many mappers. Compare Chicago, which did have a bulk data import, with San Francisco, which did not. In Chicago, every house number and building is mapped, but in SF you'd have to interpolate the numbers.
If Apple is saying "you violated patent XYZ by copying the iPhone" but the iPhone doesn't implement anything to do with patent XYZ, it might be hard to convince a jury that any actual patent infringement happened. Of course reading some of the comments here, few people seem to understand this, so it might be easy to convince a jury.
You are really amazing and you are my hero
Looks like Ruby. Why use a Hash instead of the built-in Set class?
New  NBA clippers owners
It is being said that, multi billionaire, Evon Latrail may be interested in buying the Clippers.
I'm surprised SHA2 is labelled as "weakened" since there's no real reason to believe so.
If you want to do something that isn't covered in the free usage license, you have to pay before you are hitting the usage limits.
Luckily people don't need large amounts of meat.
> Dukes believes, though he has no evidence, that the bacteria in his gut became drug-resistant because he ate meat from animals raised with routine antibiotic use. That would not be difficult: most meat in the United States is grown that way. To varying degrees depending on their size and age, cattle, pigs, and chickens — and, in other countries, fish and shrimp — receive regular doses to speed their growth, increase their weight, and protect them from disease. Out of all the antibiotics sold in the United States each year, 80 percent by weight are used in agriculture, primarily to fatten animals and protect them from the conditions in which they are raised.

I really don't like to generalise in this way, but this sort of stuff makes me, as a European, pretty angry at the general laissez-faire attitude of the United States towards such things.

You may say "The US is allowed to govern itself as it wishes, no one's forcing you to live there" - but with its heavy use of antibiotics in cattle-raising (banned in the EU - even though the US has tried to use its muscle to get the EU to un-ban it), the US is basically doing a fantastic job of fucking up antibiotics for everyone. So yes, I'm angry at the United States and its corrupt political system that means that there's almost zero chance that any of this will be fixed until it's far too late.
Maybe they meant it in the sense that we should be spending the same amount of resources on antibiotic resistance as terrorism. Or maybe it's just a ridiculous comparison.
So that no one can use their cell to call 911 if there is another movie theater shooting? That would be very bad.
One day, I'm going to reimplement Markdown, and call that Rightdown.

No more misinterpretation, and no more uncaught syntax error.
Would you mind expounding? It sounds very interesting, but I'm having trouble figuring out how an evil maid attack might be employed against Dropbox-based Truecrypt volumes, since people can't boot from those.
Added bugs https://github.com/google/WebFundamentals/issues 9,10,11
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7676514
> It doesn't matter how many lawyers they've got.

I said that as evidence that their contracts are likely written to be enforceable.

> Are you familiar with the case of Aaron Greenspan?

To summarize, the contract was entirely enforceable and Mr. Greenspan suffered further losses to bring and defend on appeal a fruitless case. He also proved that Google is not willing to walk away from even small losses.

The answer to "if your AdSense account is terminated, who not just sue?" has little to do with plaintiff/defendant cost ratios, or who looks worse in the media. Most AdSense account holders are just trying to earn a living, not personally finance a negative PR campaign. Few have the resources or inclination for that kind of thing.
I see the performance stuff as the most useful. Otherwise, the general layout/responsive design pointers are pretty much common knowledge at this point (or so I think).

Great starting point, would be nice to integrate with Pagespeed.
Why reinstall database from old backup?

Can trojan be hiding in the database?
When I say improbable, I don't mean that it can happen but is rare. I mean it's improbable (or impossible) for it to ever happen at all, because that's just not how the body works. Allergies aren't developed by ingesting the item responsible for the reaction. The body doesn't see penicillin for the first time and arbitrarily decide to say "screw it, I'm out."

If you have a noticeable reaction, it's because your immune system mistakenly (or properly) identifies the ingested substance as harmful and is being overzealous about fighting it. But how your immune system will react to any particular foreign body is already established prior to ingestion.

So, could someone develop a more severe reaction after such prolonged exposure and stress being put on their immune system? No doubt. But the over exposure did not create the intolerance, it just temporarily exacerbated it.

All that said, I just looked up whether antibiotics from the penicillin family are used in livestock. It seems that regulations require any poisons, drugs or other contaminants with the potential to be passed to the consumer through ingestion, must both be a relatively low dosage and completely out of the animal's system prior to slaughter.
Microsoft used this in recruiting advertising, back when there were glossy magazines developers read. The one I remember just showed an closed door, with the text explaining how you could go in your office, close your door, and get work that needs concentration done.
The underlying technology here is CrowdProcess (https://crowdprocess.com/). Their business model is to use CPU time of visitors of websites to make money, by selling access to that CPU power to people who want to run parallel jobs, like mine bitcoins.

I think they should consider the possibility of legal action against them, considering what happened to the guys doing this with a bitcoin miner:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140205/17512926103/new-je...
And perhaps transit mode off the road needs to be seriously invested, too. (Trains, etc.)

Even as current state, buses are far from usable, unless perhaps you are living in the heart of the city...
Dear Investors, My Company Failed and We Lost All Your Money.
I agree, and almost pointed this out myself. But the article isn't really calling the XXI itself a failure, but instead the whole strategy to design, build, and rely on the Type XXI to prosecute a commerce interdiction war that Germany couldn't actually win even with the Type XXI in service. The title would have been better as "The Failure of the Type XXI Strategy" I think.
This probably won't change your religion, but malaria is worse than global warming [0]. The author is a democrat btw.

[0] http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2014-03-20-1.html
Here's what makes me sad about this. There are probably useful bits of information collected by social scientists all the time that will never see the light of day because there is no requirement to publish the data. But more than that, it simply doesn't matter what format the data is in, or if its well presented. It just has to be accessible. As the ability and scope of data mining methods grows, every piece of scientific data will be fodder, not for humans, but for machines looking back over the entirety of scientific output to draw new conclusions from information we simply ignore today. I would go as far as to say that if you feel your work has any value at all, you have a duty to make your data available, so that it can be mined at a later date.