skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> free-form

Yes! A thousand times yes!

Being free-form is also extremely important. I think that the best way to add another "stuff specific to some particular use-case" is just to add additional layers of UI over current form.

Look at how HTML mail is implemented - it's just using underlying text protocol. Ditto for images and other attachments.

I don't see any reason for people not to agree on Markdown formatting, folding Org-mode style headings, rendering [ ] as checkbox that will send a special "I'm ticked" e-mail as a reply when clicked (didn't GitHub start to do something similar with checkhoxes in readme files recently?), etc. Just keep the underlying format simple and gracefully degrading to plain-text for clients who don't support your new feature.
While it's not trivial it's not that hard to spin up a mail server on a VPS (which can run smtp, imap and/or webmail). For that matter you can run it off a static internet connection or even a dynamic IP from your home or office PC. (Running linux or Mac OSX never done it with windows although I'm sure you can).
Point taken :) We just didn't think of a better term at the moment of posting.
On the subject of CoffeeScript and React/JSX, our team uses something like this[1] to reduce the need for `React.DOM[...]` or lots of `requires` to components.

Our components end up looking like this. As a CoffeeScript/Jade fan, I obviously like it:

ReactElementBuilder = require './lib/react-element-builder'

# Example: add react-bootstrap components.
ReactElementBuilder.addMany require('react-bootstrap')

MyComponent = React.createClass
mixins: [ReactElementBuilder.mixin]

render: ->
@e 'div#main', null,

@e 'Navbar.fixed',
onClick: @handleNavbarClick
'Hello my name is Navbar'

[1]: https://gist.github.com/mikew/e737273e42ed704c6c54
Someone in this thread made a very good point - it is hard (I'd say impossible) to create usable, mainstream E-mail encryption system based on PGP and derivatives. PGP and Web Of Trust models have fundamental limitations that prevented any meaningful adoption during the years since it was invented.

It is possible to do better with NameCoin, which promises and somewhat delivered a solution to key management and practically working robust PKI.

There is another E-mail encryption Chrome extension, called SecureDolphin (http://www.securedolphin.com) that uses NameCoin for public key delivery. Check it out in the Crome Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/securedolphin/nefm...) if anyone is interested.
Another Fastmail endorsement--they really are fantastic. I confess to still using Gmail for some things but it's mostly just because I've been too lazy to switch over all of my accounts. Fastmail is truly a better service.

As for calendar, I've heard good things about https://fruux.com/ although I haven't tried that myself yet. (And apparently Fastmail does calendar too--again, haven't tried.)
Look at this one:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722726/is-the-scala-2-8-...

Scala has a lot of really clever stuff and the "isn't this all really clever" attitude is definitely there.

EDIT: Come on. I meant clever in a good way as well. I'm just a bit ambivalent, is all.
Drafts of Chapters 5–8 from the Rails Tutorial 3rd Ed.
This is what should be done, and I feel what will be done, in the future. The government will become your Certificate Authority.
Maybe they should be fixing that instead of providing raw data API? Or at least before.

Totally doable I should say.
Imagine a World Full of Entrepreneurs
The problem with this is that whatever you require() won't close over other variables/imports unless your preprocessor is straight up compiling JSX into JS and inserting into another JS file, which is kinda gross and eval-y.
No as I can try and guess your login credentials and that is a perfectly acceptable and valid workflow which isn't exploiting anything.

I think the issue is that the previously posted Find My Iphone code didn't rate limit invalid logins and this was used to bruteforce creds. This is probably the real underlying issue and not any type of buffer overflow / exploit etc.
Ubuntu loves developers
> I'm sure that Apple adding DDG to Safari is the reason for this thinly veiled reciprocity.

It seems unlikely that anyone other than Gabe could be sure of his intentions. At any rate, I assume he also uses Apple Maps for directions... if you know of any good non-Google/Apple competitors for that I would be very interested to hear about them.
Alcohol Does Not Kill Brain Cells
Answer: "Hack" was due to weak passwords and no 2-factor, not because of any weakness in Apple's systems.
Thank you! - yeah i see those.. what browser were you using?
Going to make some updates - that is very unclear. Probably time to just get my own hands dirty and stop relying on outsourcing. Appreciate you taking the time to give us some feedback.
Crowdsourcing Transcripts of talks?
It looks like August 28th was a much bigger day?
That's all fine and dandy - however most of the time when I'm working as a consultant, I'm created an email account on the company's domain. Typically hosted on, you guessed it, Google Apps.

For some people leaving Google is literally not an option, and that's a shame.
In Defense of Amazon
OK, there's some value in diversifying instead of using one provider for everything but mostly he just swapped Apple, Fastmail, or Clicky in place of Google. They can still track him, read his email, know his calendar... The benefit here is marginal.

And how do those companies stack up against Google when it comes to security? It's one thing to protect the data against snooping by the provider, it's anoter to protect it from everyone else. Google is pretty solid, often on the cutting edge (PFS, certificate pinning).
Would this be comparable to Sandboxie? (http://www.sandboxie.com/)
It's basically a large number of in-order P5- (or Atom-) derived cores with 4-way SMT and beefed up SIMD capabilities (two 512-bit units per core).
Thanks for the feedback - we're adding some more comprehensive onboarding screens over the next few days so will update you when that's in.
This is just the exceptional delays. People have given up reporting the "normal" delays we are now seeing every day due to overcrowding of the trains. The overcrowding slows down the onboarding/offboarding of trains by a lot.

Another crowdsourced caltrain twitter account is https://twitter.com/caltrain You can see some of the more granular delays there. All these crowdsourced status accounts should be proof that caltrain SHOULD publish the raw data for us to use.
Is their spam filtering good? That's the primary reason I'm sticking with Google Apps for now.
'Single-layer' is an easily overlooked and absolutely essential modifier. Very few networks these days are single layers. (Three is the minimum for infinite dimensional functional approximation, given nonlinear activations.) Deep Networks you see in new research papers these days have, at minimum, perhaps three layers. Some by LeCun et al. will go as high as nine or twelve layers, with four or sixteen layers in breadth.
Read this, then try to convince them not to re-build from scratch: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1235624&seqN...
I moved my calendar from iCloud to Fastmail and have been plenty happy with it. I'm finding it to be a bit snappier in updating as well, but nothing to really back that up than my own anecdotal experience.
ok, I think we are quite different but let me address just two things.

For (4), are you suggesting that a company first pays for the bandwidth, and then pays again, for essentially the privilege to use the bandwidth paid for? (Given the Verizon/Level3 debacle, it was clearly shown that the networks are at about 40% capacity - so the narrative of scarcity or oversubscription is false - can't be used, sorry.)

And for (6), I'm suggesting that conglomerate companies have industries they are good at, and those they aren't. I wouldn't expect to buy an automobile manufactured by starbucks - and furthermore if starbucks went out to manufacture automobiles, everything from the board of directors down would be poorly suited for the task - they are in the food services business - it's fundamentally different.

So the idea here is that perhaps some of these modern cable service providers should be entertainment companies and not distributing in-house hardware or laying out the internet infrastructure - they may be terribly structured for that job.
Mostly its using Apple stuff instead of Google stuff..

thanks but no thanks
I like the standard "epsilon/delta" approach better. In that approach the idea of "infinite" insofar as it applies to real numbers is introduced solely as a notational convenience, and is in no way necessary. All notions of limits can exist without infinity, and in this way I believe they are much more logically clear.
There's being nice, which -- you're right -- everyone should do, and then there's going beyond ordinary courtesy to outright generosity. I think onion2k's point is that startups should try to do the latter.
I used the trial of Edge Animate:

https://creative.adobe.com/products/animate

It's a really interesting tool. Here are the animation source files if you want to play around with them:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14282009/skyline.zip
Storage: BTSync -> syncthing (http://syncthing.net/)
Why "ugh"? Introducing a delay makes it much more difficult for an attacker to use 2FA to lock a user out of a compromised account. It's actually a really smart idea.
Denied for Spotify: Save your ears from accidental Nickelback and others
>> now featuring a massively updated DB cluster with SSDs and 10GBs networking!

Any further details on the DB servers, SSDs that were used, and the 10Gb networking infrastructure?
Yes, I think that he might not be familiar with how DMIPS works (or what it is).
What do your initial customers think. If they are continuing to work with you than won't their be more you'll be able to find to work with? Seems if they are going to a web based offering too you only lose one of your selling points.
A couple reasons off the top of my head:

* YT has been good enough

* Barriers to entry are high

* Video requires tons of bandwidth (expensive)

* Youtube is already integrated well with many devices

* It's difficult to make a profit (YT only recently became profitable)

Not saying it's impossible by any means. Just that it would be difficult to surpass YT to gain traction AND make a profit.
I'm not so sure about "strong work ethos" part. I believe Korean work culture is reasonably close to that of Japan, and one of the things most frequently mentioned by Koreans who emigrate to work in a western company is that people really concentrate on working (and nothing else) during work time.

I.e., there's no time for reading newspapers or surfing the web, and much less time for "spending time with your coworkers." Instead you do your work, and when your work is done (or if it's 5 pm), you go home. Which actually means you must work hard, because if you slack off and spend the evening in the workplace, your manager may start to wonder if you are fit for the job (unlike Korea, where your manager may question your competence if you leave on time).

Maybe Japanese work ethics is somewhat better (well, surely they have a much better economy...), but I'm skeptical. There's a limit on how much most people can work with concentration. Make them work longer, and they'll compensate by spending their time in distraction.

* On the other hand I'm working in a US company and writing comments in HN, so there's that...
Author, you should integrate your scraper into http://raildar.fr, they've already started to scratch that kind of itch for a similar problem.
Where I shop instead of Walmart: Sams Club
"5am beer" Is it normal to stay in the office all night? (CS undergraduate, never had full time job)
That was the first 64-bit RISC CPU, indeed. I think we can also claim first 64-bit CPU - but not 100% sure.
How in the world do you interpret "see their families" as "private time on the road"? This isn't a commuting fetish. It's the idea that there is lots of life — most of it, in fact — to enjoy outside the office. If you really enjoy hanging out with your colleagues, you could do it outside of work. But if you have other friends or family members you'd like to see, you can't do that at work, and it wouldn't be very high-quality time anyway if you're working.
> trivially discoverable personal details

Which are even more trivially discoverable for celebrities, since their lives are frequently so well-documented!
You are correct. This is Cover's Theorem.

"A complex pattern-classification problem, cast in a high-dimensional space nonlinearly, is more likely to be linearly separable than in a low-dimensional space, provided that the space is not densely populated." - Cover, Geometrical and Statistical properties of systems of linear inequalities with applications in pattern recognition., 1965
I always put in made-up or nonsense information for the answers to the security questions, and store it all in the same encrypted file with my passwords. Seems more secure than using correct information that would not be hard for an attacker to discover. ("Then how will you get password recovery?" "I will never need that.")
I loved reading that and interacting with the plots. It totally changes the dynamic of learning when you can interact and play with it in real time.
For legacy, native non-MIPS code, we rely on binary translation.
The damage has been done, surely?

Headlines around the world are "iCloud hacked", "Apple hacking scandal", "Are your photos safe on iCloud?" etc.

Meanwhile celebrities like Kirsten Dunst have described iCloud as a "piece of shit" (a tweet with emoticons).

Timing is not great for Apple since they are supposed to be launching health and payment related features for iOS in the next few days.

Question is, would Apple have responded so quickly if celebrities weren't involved?
Unlike the Persian Gulf states though, it doesn't spread the oil wealth to its citizens. So it's a country full of poor people, more than the Gulf oil monarchies.
The new coherency manager that we've designed allows us to build up to 64 clusters of 6 cores each.
I think all of us where at home during this. I certainly was.
Here by Nokia (the independent company, not the division sold to Microsoft):

http://here.com

Excellent maps and navigation in my experience.
See Grameen Bank, and micro-lending.
Your Safety
If your car is a lemon you have to act fast! Driving a lemon is really dangerous, that is why you must be ready to protect your rights and find a good lawyer until any accident happens. Serious defects can make it hard to drive a vehicle and lead to irreversible consequences.
Be responsible and do what you have to do!
More information on http://calemonlawinfo.com/
No, but it's also not normal to migrate your production database servers to new datacenters. And when you do, you want to do this in a way that will minimally impact your users (i.e. after hours).
https://builtwith.angularjs.org/

Mostly small projects and stuff. Angular definitely has a larger community, but from what I can gather on the internet Ember is used much more often as the entire basis for large applications.
Not at any decently functioning company, but during a huge operation like a data center migration or a core technology change, having all hands on deck during non-business hours is fairly normal.
Slight correction to the headline: the interview was conducted by Walt Hickey of fivethirtyeight.com, not Nate Silver.
> I wonder how Americans would feel if the U.S. government teamed up with Mastercard, devised a similar biometric ID card -- and required all U.S. citizens to obtain one to drive, pay taxes, get government benefits, vote, etc.? (I also wonder what "demographic data" referred to above means, and whether it means everyone's religion will be encoded on the ID...)

hopefully nauseous. a national ID is bad enough; a national ID ran by a private conglomerate is worse. The privacy implications are harrowing either way, from a personal standpoint.
Enchanted Labs - (San Francisco, CA) - Ex-Facebook co-founders.

ABOUT

Enchanted Labs is a funded, early stage, travel startup co-founded by two ex-Facebookers. We’re working on an innovative trip technology and looking for a few talented designers and engineers to join our small team on the ground level. We’re seeking allstars who want to make an impact, iterate quickly, and are passionate about travel.

Most importantly, you must be able to problem solve, learn rapidly, and be excited for a awesome, but also at times, challenging, startup journey with us that will revolutionize the travel industry.

ROLES

- Front End Engineer

- Back End/Fullstack Engineer

- UX/UI Designer

MORE INFO

- http://jobs.enchantedlabs.com or feel free to shoot me a line at Julia@EnchantedLabs.com.
Awesome! Get a gig with Carltrian and try to eliminate those unexpected delays.
This can be avoided by just not using JSX. The React DOM API is not really that hard to use.
The newly released chapters are substantial, and should be enough to keep readers busy for a while. I hope to release drafts of the final four chapters some time in the next week or so.

(Note to the curious: No, I can't write chapters this fast. It takes me two weeks to write a chapter from scratch, a few days for a major editing pass, and half a day to do the final edit. All the draft chapters had been through at least a major editing pass before the [main announcement](http://news.railstutorial.org/rails_tutorial_3rd_edition/) last week.)
Migrations like this don't happen often, and being on-site would be common when you are running in a physical data center rather than the cloud. When we switched backend DB systems we did it from home.
Not at a company worth working at, no.

That sort of thing should be the extreme exception--anything else is just burning out employees.
Seems like an ill conceived move to me in that it puts the game into a weird halfway mode where it has a few of the features of a "modern" shooter, but not enough. The Call of Duty crowd will still miss the meta-game aspects of real class loadouts and things like killstreaks, and the diehard players who still play Quake Live (because of it being a simple, pure arena FPS) will be pissed because of these attempts to "update" it for the "noobs".

Halo/Bungie made a mistake similar to this with Halo Reach that essentially killed Halo as a mainstream competitive console FPS game (though some are hopeful that the forthcoming Master Chief Collection for Xbox One might reignite Halo in that context).

I seriously doubt these changes will expand the player-base for Quake Live with new players more than it alienates existing players.
I think it‘s quite easy to argue that when accounts are compromised because of security questions whoever implemented those questions is at fault. They are a convenient, if crap way to secure accounts. Apple and everyone else have to do better.

(I suppose the good news is that you can actually protect yourself from this. However, how to protect themselves won’t reach most people, so in the big picture this is cold comfort. I do think it’s the job of the platform owner to make sure that users cannot easily leave themselves open to attacks. Most people don’t know about security, the platform owner does.)
> sitting in traffic for hours

Have you bothered to actually look at the statistics? Americans have some of the shortest commute times in the OECD, while the Japanese have some of the longest: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/world-of-commut...

> being very un-social

This is entirely subjective, but I've found that Americans are much more sociable, particularly with strangers, than the Japanese (or most Europeans) are.

> breathing in smog

Again, have you looked at the statistics? According to recent OECD data, America is less polluted than Japan: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/environment/
If you are on call/scheduled for the deployment you may be required from time to time to come online and deploy in off-peak times. This type of maintenance should be extremely rare - in that it requires making your service entirely unavailable, most deployments should be able to be done in a rolling manner and not affect ongoing service availability.

Also usually you are on call every so-often so if your team/company happens to do this often it's not always you performing the deployment.

In regards to "being in the office": most people will do this from home after sleeping most of the night and waking up to an alarm and then coming in a little later the next day. There are a few hardcore ones out there that prefer to pull an all-nighter and do so from the office, although my mileage has been those are quite few and far between.
> The distinction Apple is making is clear – certain iCloud accounts may have been accessed, but that didn’t happen as a result of any systematic flaw in Apple’s security systems or cloud services. Instead ... possibly running through multiple options until you find the right one.

Could someone confirm if iCloud had incremental delay to prevent dictionary attacts?
Spinning it up is easy. Maintaining it is arguably not.
I wonder whether concurrent write operations in a single data center or the load of achieving consistency between data centers caused more issues.
Does GitHub use Percona or MariaDB? We (https://commando.io) switched to Percona, mainly to use their Xtrabackup feature which can do streaming type backups without bringing MySQL to its knees. Also, Percona supports an awesome custom configuration option:

thread_handling=pool-of-threads

http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/performance/th...
I was doing Java in a very mainstream UK company in 1998; but we were leading edge and it became "standard" in 2000ish. By 2003 there were 100's of developers using it where I worked.
A screenshot would be helpful. It sounds like an alternative to Roundcube webmail.

Their recent twits (https://twitter.com/vmailme):

"Our project will become open source, stay tuned" -- 30. Aug.

"The reason why we temporarily closed the registration is that we have real difficulty fighting spam and get a good sender reputation" -- 26. Aug.
During massive migrations, yes. Doesn't count if you're working remote though, you're already at home.
Es6-module-boilerplate
DuckieTV – Helps You Track and Watch Your Favorite TV-Shows
Ye Olde Long vs Strong Password Debate – The Maths Behind It All
Certainly not in the deeper senses of the phrase.

If we take the phrase neural network to mean, "a series of deeply and widely interconnected elements which assist or inhibit the transmission of signals to one another, activated by the inputs exceeding a threshold," then I think there's a pretty good amount of overlap.

I understand there's a temporal signaling model (pulses at varying rates, not steady state signals) and stochastic information (like random firing and a bunch of noise), but once we abstract out the axons, dendrites, and neurochemicals, is there another piece of functional equipment which drastically effects things? How does our simplified view that small, individually stupid pieces, acting in concert to produce complex behavior differ from the real brain?
PostOps  DevOps
You can then get shotgunned by spam filters, too. =( Running your own mail is not for the timid.
I find them far superior to google maps (for cities in India)
Not sure why other commenters are jumping on the bandwagon to criticize your response. Frankly, OP made a tasteless move by posting a public rant/complaint about being fired. There are no substantive allegations of mistreatment or inappropriate behavior by Unbabel (other than vague assertions of "abuse"). In the light of that, I'm sure a lot of folks at Unbabel are annoyed. I appreciate that you avoided personal attacks on the former employee (because I'm sure you're angry at this distraction).

It sounds like exactly what you said: OP was a bad fit for this company. Rather than sour grapes and trying to publicly shame Unbabel (for what? Recognizing a bad fit and acting on it?), OP should take this as a lesson learned.