skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how the article's closing remark is about releasing source-code, yet the entire rest of the article talks about a closed-source and proprietary program. ;)

Pretty cool idea, though. I reckon this is doable with something like mitmproxy[0], which is open-source, and it would certainly be interesting to poke around in some of these hidden APIs.
Will I still be able to get a job if I don't do TDD? [video]
I am not sure what the rated vehicle lifespans were at the time of building, but the design life was 100 missions per shuttle, and the most-flown shuttle (Discovery) only flew 39.
I think of lot of the solution to this problem is going to be make the random creation conditioned on user-provided examples of interesting content. You already see a lot of this happening in the most recent SIGGRAPH papers, such as http://people.cs.umass.edu/~kalo/papers/ShapeSynthesis/
It's more fair to say it's the best one for you.

I imagine there will be multiple general types of tablets that apply to different needs.

I have an iPad and a Dell XPS 12 hybrid and they're both great for different things.
I originally read that part as applying only to the 'display' part of the rights clause. Reading it again, I think you are right - perhaps Google really is getting zero licensing rights out of the contest.
RIP coke machines.
Possibly http://scribbleton.com/?
Descriptive names are not popular with existing businesses because they're hard to trademark.
The view of the piece's author is that there are things going on that women experience that some men are not aware of. She is trying to explain those things.

You feel this is being "condescendingly lectured", and I don't see a way around it. Being receptive to someone explaining something to you requires that you: 1. acknowledge you do not know or understand that thing; 2. acknowledge that the other person does; 3. are willing to receive that knowledge from the other person. If you are not willing to grant any one of those, you will feel the other person is being condescending.
Pretty nice, ouch on the $733M fine by the EU. This bit was what I'm watching:

> Bing search advertising revenue grew 40%, and U.S.
> search share grew to 19.2%.

40% growth on Search Advertising revenue against a 23% gain on 'sites revenue' for Google. I wish Microsoft would break out their CPC numbers but expect that is a bit much to ask.
Well that's a GUI thing, so it's still available via CSS. Annoying to get to, but configurable.
Steam seems to deprioritize it's foot stamp when it's not in focus which is why you might find the videos to get choppy if you happen to also be multi-tasking. If you focus the client they work just fine (at least this is my experience.)
Ask HN: Which OS do you use for hosting web apps?
I'm looking into options, so i wanna hear what other people use.I have the files for a web application, i only need the server now.
I've heard Ubuntu is good, but some say Xubuntu, others windows server. I never used Linux, so this is a good time for me to learn if neccesary. Ideas?
At least for the Moto X it's somewhat tied to your own voice. But Google didn't want to wait until all devices had such chips, so they implemented the hot word thing without any voice training.
Submission + references to 'your own servers' on the website and github.
I'm not sure what "systematic, political, active, public attack" means when the enemy are anonymous internet trolls.
"The tens of millions of planets that comprise the universe are all unique."

We will probably never know, but I wonder if the reality of our own universe is that any life on other habitable planets will look remarkably similar to that here on Earth; given the parameters within which a sustainable biosphere are possible quite narrow. There might be some local variation but nothing that would be particularly mind-boggling to biologists (e.g. non-carbon lifeforms).

I think Brian Greene suggested that in a sufficiently large (i.e. approaching infinite) universe, if you travel far enough you will eventually encounter a multitude of 'Earths' that are the same as our own but subtly different in various ways.

In which case, if its a criticism of procedurally-generated worlds that they tend to have a lot of repetition, then the models are probably quite accurate!
A twist on the previous question, would there be any way for me to deliberately choose to be completely ignorant of what I am serving, like running a Tor relay node (or like in Filecoin, if I understand that protocol correctly)? I would be a bit worried about the liability implications of having the ability to filter content I'm serving, but not having the time and resources to actually do any filtering.
65% on Metacritic. If that doesn't show what that site it, what does?
t.co is incredibly annoying IMO.

It allows twitter to easily track which links you're clicking on, which some might consider to be a violation of privacy.

On mobile, t.co makes it so that you end up always launching a browser before launching the appropriate application (i.e. YouTube)

When you copy and paste and send a link to someone, they have no (easy) way of knowing what you're sending them without description or visiting, and it gives Twitter a mechanism for tracking who you send the link to. (One could posit a "malicious" tracking twitter where they serve up t.co links to people which are dependent on the logged in user to track that user's social network... fortunately I don't think this has happened yet.)
Yes, that's the guy! At least I had his first name right. Such a huge vision of what he wanted to build.
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I would suspect SpaceX has the numbers. I don't think they're just guessing that what they want to do will work. Rocket engineers are big on numbers.

They intend to do a return to launch site--at least eventually. There will be several intermediate steps to prove the system. If it proves unworkable, always landing on a barge is better than not, I guess.

RTLS will certainly require a good deal of margin (by rocketry standards), but first stages usually have some margin already, and SpaceX will have a nice range of options once the F9H comes on line so that they don't have to fly a rocket "fully loaded" except for certain extra-large payloads.

I imagine they can also optimize most flight profiles for RTLS, by sending the first stage more than usually straight up--which is close to the case anyway. Lateral velocity is mostly the job of the second stage.

While it's never been done before, it's not an unheard-of concept. One of the potential evolutions for the STS was "fly-back boosters".
Good for them.

The Microsoft Mobile division (formerly Nokia Devices & Services) lost $700 million. How much of that is one-time charges related to the ownership change and how much is the continued decline of unit sales?
I used GifGrabber but it's very bad. I'm sure there is a place for someone, especially for a web-based alternative.

(I also have LiteCap, QuickCast, ... but there are all really bad)
Wow, that is some impressive tessellation :)
The FF Dev Tools team has been pretty active checking uservoice: https://ffdevtools.uservoice.com/forums/246087-firefox-devel...

You might want to leave feedback there.
Ask HN: Please suggest an Airfare API that is free to use
I am helping a friend with an idea in travel space and we need an API to get fare information between three or four airports. If you know any such one API that is free to use and doesn't require any deposit, please let me know.
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I think it is characteristic to the American entrepreneurship culture to "reuse" success stories. The public likes your blockbuster? Make a sequel or even a shameless copy. It will yield less profit than the original obviously, but may prove to be more profitable than some new untested experimental idea.

I don't think the logos in this article have anything specifically American in them, it's just the reuse culture. First time you see a logo of a real estate agnecy with a nice abstract roof you say "wow, this is cool". In the US it means it will be copied a thousand times until it starts annoying everyone. Then it's time for a new "wow" idea.
Looks cheaper than stripe
Keep in mind that all Apple mobile devices will support WebGL starting with the next version of iOS. "A few selected" won't be true for long :)
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The article mentions of evolution of creatures, which probably involves genetic algorithms. I suspect if you would procedurally generate planets and move the clock forward with genetic algorithms a few million years, both landscape and life would look pretty natural.

But since even our best RNG algorithms eventually converge, the resulting systems would start converging as well. So the issue of same-yness is an inherent issue of CS.
Extension methods have mostly the same drawbacks as implicits, but none of the advantages.

It's not like Scala developers didn't know extension methods before designing implicits.

Instead, they tried to come up with a more useful, principled way, which also covers a lot of the stuff which is hardcoded and implemented ad-hoc in other languages (like implicit conversions in Java).

In the end, I think they made the right call:

- Implicit parameters are the basis for abstractions which unify the "strategy pattern" of OO languages with FP's typeclasses,

- implicit classes provide extension methods, but are better in pretty much every regard (higher reusability, less error prone) and

- implicit conversions cover the ad-hoc conversions everyone takes for granted, without having to hard-code these hacks into the language (e. g. don't like Java's/C#'s/... implicit convert-everything-to-String conversion? Don't import it in Scala).
Stress. I'll take the 5k-15k less (while still making an enormous amount) for a fraction of the stress.
If we always applied best practices for CC data, there wouldn't be much fraud with that system either. Sadly, we live in the real world.
So if these are instances of a bad logo, what makes a good one?
>tab min width

That is a nightmare to set now if you want tabs to go below about 40 pixels, thanks to the Australis swoops. It used to be one line of CSS to set min width to 0-ish, now I have a giant blob of custom CSS on top of Classic Theme Restorer.
I'm curious about this too. All of the travel comparison sites that I've used popup with two different windows to show airfare, which tells me this data is closely guarded and/or there aren't many apis easily accessible.
This science research is very, very expensive costing many billions of $$$ on an ongoing basis. Regular charity is a "drop in the bucket" for this kind of research which should be paid for by governments anyway. For health, total spending was $3.8 trillion this past year. Spending more money on health research could have significant ROI in terms of reducing the growth rate of that bill.
I work on the desktop performance team and my job is to address performance issues. It is mistaken to suggest that we don't care about performance and responsiveness.
They also invented the concept of national flags. Might have something to do with that.
But you have to put your username and password for your bank into their site…

Also, what sort of bank works like that anyway - the banks I've used all mandate 2 factor auth, plus use various questions instead of a traditional password (e.g. 1st, 4th, 8th char of password + a memorable place).
The "Classic Theme Restorer" add-on works pretty well and has a lot of preference to tweak the UI to your liking:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...
LaTeX source code would be nice
MomAssembly – MOOC for expert parenting classes
I blogged about my process two years ago, here:

http://learnwithjeff.com/blog/2012/08/21/how-to-get-a-job-as...

TL;DR: Pushed code daily for about six months, had some awesome people helping me, read a lot of books and listened to smart people talk about code.
Yeah, I actually made that particular edit to Wikipedia about 20 minutes before seeing it cited as a _verification_ of that article, here. Funny to see one of those infamous internet self-confirmation loops get established in near-realtime...
Mozilla also hosts its own git server: http://git.mozilla.org/
In a very, very small sense that would be a bit like cheating.
He says that he will try to be a youtuber full-time now, but I don't think that it will last very long. He was definitely earning a lot more while he was working in Microsoft, and working on videos full-time while he only has <150k subscribers seems a bit low, especially considering his son's situation. He obviously has plans to make his channel grow and has to be earning a fair amount to make this decision, but I think that it would've been a better choice to just keep youtube as a hobby and apply for a different job in a company or become part of a start-up.

This particular guy's future aside, I wonder what exactly Microsoft's "future picture" is that they chose to lay off what seems like a large number of talented people. How will the company function without the people in key roles? I wonder how they will relocate the remaining manpower so that they will continue to be successful.
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Because of the motion of the Earth relative to the galaxy. Our Solar System is in orbit around the galaxy, and thus traveling at considerable speed (200 km/s or so) around the galactic center. The dark matter halo of the Milky Way, however, does not travel in the same way, so there is a persistent relative velocity between the Earth and dark matter (the WIMP cloud), this is called the "WIMP wind". However, the Earth itself orbits our Sun in a circular motion, which causes it's velocity relative to the Sun and the overall Solar System to change from about 30 km/s in one direction to 30 km/s in the opposite direction, a difference of about 60 km/s, which is significant compared to the 200 km/s galactic motion. Due to the orientation of the Solar System the relative speed of the "WIMP wind" is highest in June and lowest in December. This has nothing to due with Earth's orbital nodes or with the seasons, it merely has to do with the coincidental orientation of Earth's orbital plane relative to the galaxy. Because Earth's orbit is not aligned with the Sun's orbit through the galaxy (it's actually tilted at about 60 deg.) the difference is not the full 60 km/s, it's closer to just 30 km/s (cos(60 deg.) = 1/2), but that's still significant.

There are more details than you'd ever care to learn about here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3339
Ironic that the spreadsheet linked to on the Apple Press Info page (https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy14datasum.pdf) is a pdf created not by iWork/Numbers but by ...

...

Excel

doh!
A $500,000 raise pre-prototype is not a Series A. It's a seed round in a market in which lots of seed rounds (perhaps the majority) are being raised by companies that already have a prototype or launched product.

That means this company is going to be playing catch up. Instead of using $500,000 to improve an existing prototype or product, or scale a nascent business, the founders here need to use the $500,000 to build a product from scratch and get it to market successfully. If they don't, it is unlikely they will be able to raise a Series A because while the bar for raising seed funding is incredibly low today, the bar for raising a Series A is fairly high and only getting higher.

If you're intent on being this company's first engineering hire, responsible for building the first version of the company's product, you should consider that you are largely going to be responsible for getting the company to the point where it can raise a Series A, which is going to be a low seven-figure amount at a minimum.

In other words, if you deliver, you are going to put these founders in the best position possible to raise millions of dollars at a valuation meaningfully higher than the current valuation. From this perspective, you might want to consider that $140,000 and 2% of the company is not too much but rather too little.
Serious question to you - if the idea is 0% and the v1.0 is 5%, what's the other 95%?
> Can someone explain the first example?

I think the arc is the Earth.
Thank you for sharing that. I had NO IDEA that the Mozilla team had such diverse needs, and had always assumed that it was all over my head.
Most of the C code is in the venerable (Netscape) NSPR and NSS libraries and third-party libraries for media codecs and graphics.
mercifully, they didn't bring him into Enterprise

... right ? i don't know, i watched only a few episodes of enterprise
The iPad was a global product with an existing application base from launch. The first iPhones were geographically (and operator) limited and didn't even support 3rd party apps.
Increase the frequency, yes. That's what I thought as well.

But then you run into other issues. The higher the frequency, the less "neat" are the up/down transitions, so your power elements (MOS-FET or whatever) spend more time in that twilight zone, which is exactly where they dissipate most power. And you want to avoid that.

Anyway, it's worth investigating along these lines.
I believe Italy has a 30% tax due from the competition promoter.
This business about having to wait months for treatment is always an odd objection to me. Here in the U.S., under our existing system, I have many times had to wait months to see a specialist or begin a particular course of (non-emergency) medical treatment. It's hardly as though our current system somehow gets rid of the problem of waiting for appointments.
British MPs to sue government over fast-tracked DRIP surveillance law
The popup is so that they can set cookies in your browser..which will then be used for affiliate tracking.
Is SpaceX's long term plan to also have 2nd stage retrieval?

(I didn't know that)
Have you tried going to the special "about:support" URL and clicking the "Reset Firefox" button at the top right? This creates a new profile and imports all your existing bookmarks, history, saved passwords, etc. but resets preferences back to defaults and recreates all the databases from scratch. If there's any settings from old version of Firefox that are confusing the new version, or poorly-laid-out database files that can't be efficiently updated, this should clean them up.
Which says absolutely nothing about its eventual carrying capacity.
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I've read that CentOS is the best Linux distribution for public facing applications because they take security very seriously. If you choose Ubuntu, use the LTS version so its not moving so frequently but still maintained.
I use CentOS and Ubuntu for my web apps. I don't use Windows because my apps are all LAMP based and switching to Windows offers no benefit. If your Application is .Net based, you pretty much are required to use Windows (unless is Mono compatible)...
I'm not sure I agree with all your points. For programming languages hopefully Python and Ruby will not be going away anytime soon. Javascript mind share is also continually growing.

For databases, weren't there other reasons people got excited about NoSQL databases? Not having a schema was one aspect of it, but it mostly had to do with scaling. Now people realize SQL scales just fine for pretty much most of the use cases that were getting replaced with NoSQL. And also that most data(in webpages at least) is relational in nature.
I only see traffic when typing in the search bar, not when using the location bar as stated in the article. And only when I set my search engine to Google instead of DuckDuckGo.
Show HN: Another list app, just simpler and cleaner
But Frontier: Elite II did have seamless planet to space to planet flight, and procedurally generated planets. And accurate orbits (you could watch sunrise/sunset, and watch the right stars show up in the sky for example).

This game looks impressive in terms of generating fauna and flora etc. but the planet to space flight and procedural generation in itself is hardly new.
Coder livetweets sexist remarks by IBM execs
What does it mean to abuse a program of universal healthcare?
Its in fact a much larger issue than one might think at first and I think Athena Health is trying to do some of that.

For instance I had an early stage melanoma removed and because of various circumstances I had to deal with 5 different doctors and hospitals.

The US is system simply isn't made for this and so I spent a lot of time just understanding what I should follow up on who had what, how to get slides from A - B and so on.

If I ever want to solve something in healthcare this is the issue I wanna solve the most.
I wonder, if atoms, then molecules, then DNA, then viruses. We'll see if the dinosaurs get sick, and whether there will be players who choose to become doctors to heal, or at least understand the diseases.

Mmmmm, somehow, no.

There has to be some level of abstraction, otherwise they'd be recreating the actual universe, and I don't think the PS4 could handle that.
As a non-lawyer, I would guess that you would receive the same safe harbor as ISPs do today: they can filter the content they serve, but don't until it's specifically reported to them, and aren't liable for those transmissions.

Even if, say, someone published a list of known illegally-transmitted copyrighted files, you could still make a strong argument that you don't trust the source of the list and would need to receive and review a specific report of each instance of copyright violation that went through your service, like the current DMCA model. (Again, though, not a lawyer.)
I graduated from Cornell in 2008 and while I met people who where there for other people's expectations in was a small minority and people who were "... great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it" were even more rare. There could be a self selection bias at work here, but I still think that my experiences are not so unusual.
Yes it's very much a US problem but not isolated to that. Even in the superior one payer healthcare systems many mistakes are made because people don't follow up & through.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069466.
I didn't see anything in the TXT whitepaper about securing programs run by a hypervisor against attacks by the hypervisor. Seems more focused on making sure that managed VMs can't compromise their neighbors or do side-channely things.

If I provide your VM with a simulated "TPM" that actually emails me the private keys, how is that supposed to be secure?
After investigation, it turns out react has the potential to be faster than Om if it fixed its batched updates. Another huge performance issue is Function.prototype.bind which is called extensively.

The Om example does some kind of Event delegation using channels which is much faster.
Unlikely, WebGL has gained much more momentum in a very short time then any other 3D API. Other APIs may be more efficient (a bit more or a bit less, depending on the specific scenario), but no other 3D API runs on so many devices (including Flash). I think WebGL has a very bright future ahead, both on mobile and what we call 'desktop' today.
> If the rumours of Apple making a larger iPhone come true that could hurt iPad sales even more.

And when the iPad first came out, it hurt iPhone sales a lot. Apple call this "cannibalization" and they've stated many, many times they don't care one bit about it.
See “What Makes A Great Logo”, http://www.code-interactive.com/thinker/a112.html
Who is 'portraying it as if...'?
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It's a really subjective thing, sure. I spent a lot of time in Boston in the Harvard/MIT orbit and I remember getting exactly the impression this article is talking about in many cases.
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