skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember your site from when you first posted it to HN. I went through every hack and there were actually a few gems in there. But man, what a terrible mobile experience. A few weeks ago your site was almost completely broken on mobile, and now it's only marginally better. Anyone who lands on it wants to go immediately to the hacks, and click through them. This should be as simple as repeatedly clicking the infographic, and yet it requires a far more complicated process of moving the screen around, tapping in the corner, moving it back around, etc. It's incredibly painful.

I would recommend making the mobile optimized layout almost 100% the infographic, and make it clickable. Or add a thumbs up/down button to proceed to the next. Get rid of anything on the screen that's not content. But as of now, the mobile experience is one of the worst I've seen. It's as if you were actively trying to make it painful to use on mobile.
Correction, 2 college educated people with laptops and access to google.
It sounds like you're noticing important cultural differences and have had a history of heavy responsibility. Best tomorrow, and remember, any decision you make isn't the last or the defining one...those labels generally come after something has passed. You always have choices in front of you. They will likely never be what you have envisioned exactly but they are indeed the ones in front of you. Letting go of the image we've envisioned and embracing what's in front of us I think is one of the hardest things to do in life. Take good care.
I think HN at times seriously confuses the concepts of expecting privacy and wanting privacy. Everybody says "I expect this to be private" but if you ask why, it seems the answer is "because I would like it to be private".

That should be enough.

I think it would help to sit down and explain exactly why one would expect radio waves being broadcast into space not to be picked up by anyone with a radio.

There are already laws that prohibit listening to certain wireless transmissions (e.g. satellite TV), which I'll assume for the sake this of argument is an acceptable tradeoff to society. While technology should be designed to minimize data leakage, laws should be designed to take user expectations into account.

If, for example, cellphone UX provides every indication to the user that text messages are sent to a person (not to a network), then laws should treat those messages as private until a warrant is issued, even if they are sent in the clear.

...was the HN consensus not "if they're transmitting their data into space, anyone with an antenna can do anything they like with it"?

No, it was "If I can install a very long antenna cable, and/or buy a Slingbox, and watch TV from my home market on my own device, then why can't I pay someone else to run the very long antenna cable and host the Slingbox for me?"
Please note, that the solution from the post has O(n) space complexity (you modify the input and this counts as using the extra memory).
Major vendors, yes. But there are a lot of small run or custom accessories that would sell quite well if they had more exposure. The wiki in the sidebar is good, but what about when a company comes out with a new set of keycaps? Getting that information out can often be iffy, but ads in a major community would make it easy.
It was a federated protocol for real-time editing, one could layer various workflows (group editing, email, IM, wikis, comments, etc) on top of that protocol.
Ways to make a driver happy:

* Compliment their car or music
* Ask them about themselves (how are you doing, where are you from, how long have you been driving)
* Make small talk (how about this crazy weather/traffic/drunk people, do you have any weird stories, have you ever been to place xyz)
* Tell them a little about yourself or where you just came from/are going to
* Have the address of your destination or tell the driver how to get there
* Leave a tip for efficient service
* Don't throw up in the back seat
Do you have a solution to that?

It seems like an intractable problem. If you want moderated conversation, there is the potential for moderator abuse. The same is entirely possible on HN, 4chan, or any moderated forum.
Hi, I heard that CloudFlare is now blocked in China, do you have more information?
We're using CSW12.

It's stored in a single-table Sqlite database with some techniques to make word lookup really fast. I believe it could be faster still, but this is likely beyond my technical expertise.

Next problem is to scale the game to multiple languages without bloating the download size of the game too much. Haven't decided what's best yet for this: either compressing the dictionaries for distribution (and decompressing on first launch), or an in-game download (this seems like so much effort though and just adds more friction)
Solving the river crossing puzzle with TLA+
Scroll down further and read the comments to the article at instructables.com. Someone tried the suggestion to cover the stems in plastic wrap and found that it did NOT work.
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Goodbye Eclipse
How would you fix this? Would you want Apple to have to approve every review? Even if they did, people could just lie about their reasons.
Just remember to retract the probes delivering samples to external analyzers -before- pigging the line, or you may do 10's of thousands of dollars in damage.
That would be funny if protons were splittable
I did a similar hack in an app I wrote where I basically always wanted/needed a fresh copy of a user's account data. Literally halved the number of API calls necessary in early versions of the app. Now the gain is maybe 30% but the code is a lot cleaner regardless.
I wish someone imported Coconut water from India; the Thai ones are just so awful (or is this because of all the poking that they do to it ?).
> Asking them to "pony up" their own money would, with no doubt in my mind, drive them away and completely destroy Reddit.

He wrote nowhere that mods should pay. I as a user would certainly pay $10/yr to keep subreddits I care most about going on.
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People genuinely care about stories. A story about a wacky inventor is better than a story about their invention (see everything by Malcom Gladwell). Maybe a meme is better, since you already know the main character.

Or maybe there's a trade-off - a long story needs a new main character, but a short joke works best with a stock character. Compare War and Peace to "little Johnny" jokes.
Look at hash_password() at client.py :)

That's so... what? Is the API not https? If they wanted to avoid even knowing the password, then why not use something standard like SRP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...)?

That animated GIF with the CLI session is very cool, by the way.
Ask HN: Who's hiring contract/part-time sales/bd?
I'm currently a software engineer, more interested in the sales/business development side of start-ups. Who's interested in a contract/part-time sales/business development associate?
2x HP LP2475w. They are 1920x1200 / 16:10 IPS panels with pivot/tilt/rotate stands and a bunch of inputs.. They're a bit old, but look great and can find them used for ~$150.
Subreddits are key. I basically think of reddit as two separate products: the "front page of the Internet" which consists of the default and extremely popular subs, and the "power user" version where you manually whitelist subs. I now mostly use the latter version of reddit, and in the last 6 years or so I think my reddit usage has actually increased proportional to HN.
Known as "tickling the dragon's tail". Naturally Hollywood has it's own take on the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zg69OlFOac
Blue Monkey coconut water is the best IMO. Haven't had ONE though.
Post to /r/MechanicalKeyboards with "I run a Mechanical Keyboard company, AMA", and you'll get an epic thread. Post and ad and it might get 2 comments.
That sounds like a nightmare. I often enjoy chatting with a travel companion, but some days I want nothing more than silence.
Source Dump.
Baseball is business, heavily marketing dependent, and World Series wins are a big marketing deal. Metrics that don't measure what the customers are actually buying the product for are bad metrics.

World Series wins may in one sense be a very poor reflection of some abstract idea of "team quality", but at the same time be the most important single measure when it comes to the ability of a team to drive demand for its products (tickets, licensed goods, etc.)

Understanding statistics is one team, understanding what matters in a particular market is another.
Is there a term for that? Maybe something like "opportunistic delivery"?
What sort of daily install numbers are you seeing?
And here's a text-terminal version in a couple pages of Python: https://github.com/darius/sturm/blob/master/sokoban.py -- I'd like to see more small, readable game implementations to learn from.
The situation in North Korea is one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time, and perhaps even of the ages. As engineers, we have a lot of power to help the people of North Korea. Our goal should be a constant funnel of information from the outside world, just as this radio provides (albeit in a limited capacity). Free flow of information is not only incredibly powerful, but also relatively cheap to spread. It should be our job to find ways to spread it into North Korea.

With Google and Facebook's balloon/drone internet access programs, I suspect the availability of Internet -- and subsequently information -- in North Korea is only going to grow. In preparation for this, we should be developing solutions that enable cheap, surreptitious reception of information/internet for North Koreans. I would like to see organizations like LiNK (liberty in North Korea) get far more attention, and use that publicity to recruit engineering partnerships.

If we -- engineers, startups, big tech co's (the collective engineering community) -- pool together our knowledge and resources, partnering with organizations like LiNK, then we can drive real grassroots change within North Korea.

I don't know exactly what the immediate next steps are, but it's clear to me that from a humanitarian perspective, North Korea is an open field where tech can generate far more progress than it can in developed countries, where solving first world problems adds comparatively little to general well-being. One thing I know for sure, is that leadership on this front needs to come from the big tech companies. Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft all have thousands of talented engineers, billions of dollars, and incredible resources at their disposal. Yet not one of them has done a single thing to advance the cause of liberty in North Korea. Why not?

While Western governments are busy sitting on their hands, too scared of China to make any aggressive moves in North Korea, it should be the tech companies -- those at the forefront of engineering and human progress -- who are leading the charge.

Who's going to step up?
I would guess controlling what people other than his/her friends see.
It's easy to find TLA+ specifications which pass the model checker, but rare (and much more useful!) to see one which fails, in an informative way. In this case, the author adds the assertion right /= CREATURES to the spec, which evaluates to right != {Farmer, Fox, Chicken, Grain}. Basically, this asserts no state exists in which all entities have made it to the right side of the river (the goal state). If the TLC model checker makes it to the invalid (goal) state, it will appropriately register the failure and execution trace - the state path to the goal state. Very clever!
Do Americans realize their country works like a criminal gang?There's an innocent man still in prison today for trying to help the victim (Russia) detect being illegally spied on by America. Why is he still in prison? He did the right thing by exposing the spying. Why aren't the sailors of the American submarine in prison for their crimes?
The Waltons may only be worth 1/10-12th of that, but they sure as hell have control over a nearly half-trillion dollar revenue corporation. At that scale, what matters more is direct influence over the lives of the many,i.e. power, not fiat dollars that can be pressed up and dilute you arbitrarily if need be.

"You may have all the money Raymond, but I have all the men with guns." ~ Frank Underwood
Reddit seems to be doing well. I can tell, because I tried to advertise twice in the past 5 years or so and being from Europe, I had no way to pay for ads (US and UK customers only!). So they have still so much unrealized revenue potential that I wouldn't worry.
* Leave a tip for efficient service

I always thought part of the point of Uber was not having to deal with cash and tips. I've never left a tip for my driver, and never really had an opportunity to as it's all paid for by your credit card on file.

However, I do most of the rest (never really thought of complementing anyone's car, they pretty much all run together to me), and have a 4.9. I never even thought about making smalltalk as a way to get your driver to rate you better; it's just a nice thing to do when you're getting a ride from someone.

One of the interesting things I've noticed about Uber is how diverse the drivers are. I've gotten (at least) Russian, Kurdish, Moroccan, and Nigerian drivers, so that's led to some interesting conversations about where they're from and what it's like. From the conversations, Morocco sounds like the best place to go visit; the guy from Morocco waxes the most poetic about his homeland.
> However, in general, the comments that are upvoted are usually jokes/wit and references.

I dont understand why you would try to generalise a site with 110 million users and billions of pageviews. It's a very narrow point of view to hold.

If you go through the top 125 subreddits [0], I think you would find that a small number of them can be categorised as you say - but the vast majority would all hold their own nuances and generalisations

[0] - http://redditlist.com/
So the question is do they have it?
I was at W NY finishing my talk for HOPE X with my cospeaker; we were speaking at 2300h Friday so we took an Uber Black from the W to the Hotel Penn around 2100h. An Uber came within 2min of us calling it, approximately the right time, and we were a bit distracted. Walked over to the town car displaying the U logo, and I don't recall exactly, but somehow "You're Marc, right?" got exchanged, and we got in.

The driver was confused about "Hotel Pennsylvania", which was funny since it is a huge hotel, but he said there was a smaller Penn Hotel or something nearby which he thought we'd meant.

We got closer to the location, but still maybe halfway, and Marc got a call from the real Uber driver asking where the fuck he was. He pointed out we'd gotten into the Uber already, and it was clear it was the wrong Uber; we assumed it was just someone else's Uber by mistake. That's happened a few times before in high-volume locations, including one where the 2 cars were from the same livery company in SF and had off-by-one license plates (ours got stolen by someone else); Uber deals with this pretty gracefully for all concerned.

We pointed this out to the driver. Told him to start the meter now, as a new ride (which we'd request); this would be approximately the correct fare, and I was going to give the guy $5-10 extra in cash to be nice. (The whole trip was approximately minimum-uber-black fare distance anyway.)

He acted like he was trying, and failed; we then got to the location, and he demanded cash. We pushed back (the whole reason for using uber is not to deal with cash, and expense reimbursement), but said if he'd give us a receipt, that would be fine. He refused. This went on a little.

I got out of the car to go inside at this point, assuming Marc would deal with it; I was mostly trying to make sure we got our speaker badges before the desk closed. I wish I'd stayed to film the resulting interaction, in retrospect.

After this, the guy actually locked the doors, got out, and then went to my friend's door. He threatened to cut him. (I'm not sure on the details; this is secondhand.) He unlocked it, my friend got out. He's a ~350+ pound ex-bouncer from Manchester, and head of security for Defcon. The driver is a ~120 pound south asian gentleman. Words were exchanged very briefly; the driver gave up and left, unpaid.

I tweeted to @ubernyc, then per their request mailed support, and they replied, but proceeded to do fuck all, as far as I can tell.

We failed as security professionals for not getting dox on the car or driver, but we were pretty distracted. I would have been really upset had this happened to someone who could have felt physically threatened by the driver.

Uber needs some superior authentication system for drivers; btle or wifi or flashing indicators on the phones themselves would be nice. Ultrasonic tones on microphone/speaker might work.

I'm used to fearing kidnapping and extortion by drivers (Middle East, Thailand, etc.), but not so much in NYC.
Popular Android apps inherit bugs from recycled code
Are you sure? I just checked. The link works for me.
Sure, you could probably see if your cell tower signal is moving, and triangulate it. Probably with just a regular SDR-RTL. Ever better, if you can control your phones signal strength, you could ghost your location by boosting and reducing your signal if and when you detect the tower moving. Bonus points if you can fool the stringray that you are traveling at impossible speeds, like for example the speed of light, around town, ... going through mountains, under water bodies, underground, etc.
Actually, that is not true at all. When your property is seized you get a single-sided notification letter, which you must sign, that very clearly & briefly articulates the claims process.*

* at least at the city level this is true; I review all the civil forfeiture requests made by a city and every affidavit contains a copy of said notification.
I don't want to give out that kind of info just yet. We may do a debrief post in the coming weeks once we get a better idea of everything.

Having said that, as noted at the top of the post, at time of writing about 600,000 games of Hexiled had been played in the 3 days since the feature started, which has totally blown us away.
The VP of Devil’s Advocacy
Precisely what I don't like about Lyft and the competing services. They don't stop talking. It's almost like they're instructed to be overly chatty. Silence isn't always bad at 8 in the morning when I'm trying to check email and communicate with work.
Apparently it was a URL shortener a few years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974111
The question would then be - what is really meaningful?
Could you walk me through your thinking around this?

> Basically I'm thinking you try and get the subreddit owners to help foot the bill since they are generally the ones getting the most value from the community engine that is reddit.

From my own perspective, as a moderator of a subreddit of 40,000 subscribers, the community get the most value from the moderators. We work for nothing because we want to help the community. If there is a good, ethical way to profit off of this I am missing, please let me know.
Ask HN: Maximizing sick benefits in Silicon Valley
As a sedentary Silicon Valley guy with 25 years sitting in the damn chair and writing the damn software you're using right now I find myself facing having to take time to deal with newly diagnosed colon cancer. But I'm really not bitter, I'm just not sure how to proceed with maximizing the time that I've got on the corporate books.

This is a huge company with great benefits. I've got 228h vacation time (!!! Haven't taken any in some time and it's about to pin anyway !!!) and according to my time off page, 625 hours of sick time accrued.

The corporate hr page says that medical leave of absense may incorporate those times, but my question for my hacker brethren is how I can best approach hr and management to take best advantage of the corporate benefits.

I know that every company is different, but any advice is greatly appreciated.
Then why didn't Uber make it binary?
So. Many. Reasons. Just give it a try and you'll see.
STEM (engineers) shortage is not true
He is not really an academic but from a practical point of view Alex Viada explains how he programs his weekly training around his requirements in powerlifting and long distance running (which are on the opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of energy systems): http://www.atlargenutrition.com/blog/2012/11/hybrid-athlete-...
As someone who has worked with microbiologists, maybe you could start by spelling microbiologist right.
Aerospike guys were at a big data workshop at Bangalore last week. It's performance is pretty impressive. They claimed about >1M TPS with just 3 nodes and compared it with Couchdb which is claimed to achieve 1M TPS in 330 nodes. But unclear about their benchmarking method.
Or, alternatively, you can just ask your Uber driver when you get in the car. Much easier, and likely won't be "fixed" by uber for a long time.
Is tricky, there is massive bullshit on both sides. Ultimately, the Crimea situation is about the Black Sea Fleet. If Putin had lost control of that then he would have been finished. The eastern Ukrainian situation is trickier. Those guys are nuts, but giving them toys must have seemed like an opportunity too good to ignore, until the airliner came down.

Personally I think Putin is addicted to power rather than conquest, but will do conquest if he feels that not doing so endangers his power at home. He is very dangerous, but thankfully he doesn't appear to be an idiot.

Now if Gorbachev had been given proper support when he needed it...
Everyone is content to happy, well-fed, in one big climate-controlled mall.

Awesome utopia.
User pays is equally as ridiculous as mod pays.

No way as a user i would pay $10/yr when there are multiple sites that will do the same thing as Reddit for free.

Im not interested in paying any website for the privilege of expressing my opinion and reading others.
It's data about me, so I have a right to know and get it anyway – at least under European data privacy laws.
I have absolutely zero interest in my Uber passenger rating.

If they decide to start being ridiculous, I'll decide to start taking cabs again -- at least the cabbies generally have a clue about how to get to places, and don't bother with questions about "what route would you like me to take you on". The fastest route, thanks.
Worth just reviewing:

http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/

Item #4: a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his or her job;

It's also worth consulting with a lawyer to make sure you know what your rights are. The above rules have some tricky applications.
Is Amazon capitalizing or expensing their R&D?
Windows x64 used to emulate SAHF/LAHF and 3DNow! PREFETCH. This was eliminated in x64 Win8.1, ending support for all 90nm Prescott etc CPUs (the newer 65nm Cedar Mill etc are still supported).
4.9 here too. I've been using them on average at least once a week since June 2010.
The need for prosecutors to be literate in technical fields such as statistics, probability, and perhaps basic forensics is now necessary. Over-zealous prosecutors are some of the most dangerous individuals that seem to go unchecked.
We are on reddit!
http://www.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/2bx5dp/how_to_fin...
My startup is smack in the middle of this because we deliver snacks and beverages to silicon valley companies and buy direct from manufacturers (bbf.io/snacks) - indeed, there are crazy battles far beyond vita coco and zico, including easily a half dozen others, all offering deals.

Copra and Harmless indeed are awesome, but they're also 2-3x the cost, which is prohibitive for most people. They also have very short shelf-life, which makes it hard to scale. Shelf-stable coconut waters last 6+ months.

Coconut water isn't half as competitive as energy and protein bars. I have stories...
Deep link: https://github.com/tals/uber.py/blob/master/uber/client.py#L...