skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just starting my sixth year at UCSB (undergrad + MS), and I never knew about this, but apparently there is an MSR office inside of UCSB's campus! http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/stationq/

That said, I wasn't sure if your comment was saying they were just confused at to where Santa Barbara is located, or if there was only labs in Santa Clara, not in Santa Barbara. That said, I find it very strange to close the SV MSR office. Lot's of California-only folks who don't want to move to the tourist-city of SB/don't fit into the MSR-StationQ at UCSB now are off the market.
> An object can respond to a message even though it doesn't have a method with that name.

Sure, by using a different method (method_missing); its still all method calls.
There is also google. But we use them in a way or not.

There are some nut-jobs or bad-ass people out there not using google, going with security enhanced phones and ddg. This does not make average or the 95percentile bad behaved.

This makes us only low security sensitive and targets.
Speeding up your website with new HTML picture magic
If you look at labs distributed world-wide then a 5 hour drive is really not that much.
*ExUnit http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/ex_unit/
Good lord, Yes. Disconnect, AdBlock, NoScript & a pretty hefty hosts file. I'll happily whitelist any site that:

1) Doesn't try and track the crap out of me.
2) Doesn't shove ads in my face.
3) Doesn't autoplay video/sound ads.

It doesn't seem like a huge amount to ask really, but the tracking is out of control in particular and just an enormous threat to privacy.
Well deserved! Looking forward to what's next!
Ellison, Hurd and Catz. It does sound like Groucho Marx should be playing at least one of them.
We use Jira Agile (formerly GreenHopper), so sticky notes aren't a problem for us.
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I think there's something intangible though, about having some research presence in the middle of Silicon Valley.
Problematic Case for Startups Seeking to Enforce Trade Secret Protections
Sapient?
Girls Get Better Grades Than Boys
And the best part (for AirBnB) is that it doesn't affect their profitability at all -- the money comes right out of the pockets of the renters and owners.
"There's no guarantee that change will be a good thing"

It's worth noting that there is likely to be a lot of change in the UK/rUK political landscape over the next few years regardless of the result tonight (e.g. leaving the EU). A lot of people are voting "Yes" because they are worried about the direction of change in the UK.
Actually, it compiles to Core Erlang, which compiles to BEAM bytecode.

Core Erlang is pretty unreadable though, so I do think it's a bit more complex than CoffeeScript.
Also look at "github flow" which is a slight modification of the original git flow design: https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/index.html
I recommend uBlock (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock). Really lightweight, does the job perfectly.
Santa Barbara is a whole other cultural world than Silicon Valley. Its like comparing LA with the Bay Area. Maybe on a global scale they are close, but I think Silicon Valley is too important to really abandon like that. We all mock and make fun of the Valley but I don't think MSFT can really abandon Valley mindshare.
I definitely would not say that most people agree to this. Otherwise it would be very surprising to see Google, Facebook, Apple, Samsung and many others growing their presence in Silicon Valley.
No no, you can stay.
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I'm not going to get into the pros and cons of "should you hire a sysadmin", but I think the priorities of a lot of these businesses are really screwed up.

Fixed costs like an employee are scary even though services cost more and security isn't even a real concern.
I usually just spoof mac addresses of people who already paid in most of those cases, the caveat usually being somebody had to pay.
Yep. I'm kind of disappointed that the article isn't "How to run a business and succeed", but instead is just more prep work for applying to this generations silicon ivy.

More people want to be in a startup than, you know, make a startup it seems.
Harvard Business Review Survey: IT responsiveness predicts business success
Larry Ellison Steps Down as Oracle CEO
Bonaverde coffeemaker to use DRM with single-use RFID chip
I have used Aptible and can confirm that Chas & Frank follow through with "Step 0: Make something people want." Deployment on their platform is based on git and a Dockerfile in your project directory. For me, it's definitely an improvement over Ansible and its hacked-on AWS support.

I wish them the best!
PagerDuty goes beyond alerting to advanced analytics of incident resolution
The guarantee is with the No vote.
More of the same right wing policies, growing inequity and non-representative politicians.

Its interesting to note the high turn out for this referendum, where a simple yes / no vote means no pandering to swing voters, or tactical voting. Politicians have always claimed low turn out was due to voter apathy.
Landlords and city governments all across the country are getting wise to illegal sublets which is naturally contracting the supply of apartments from folks like myself. (I foolishly rented out my S.F. apt, got caught and politely asked to leave) Between the crack down and the coming tax wave, I think AirBnb for the single traveler becomes less attractive both on price and selection. I already see this happening in New York when I travel there. I'd rather stay in a hotel for the same price and less hassle. Certainly for a family or group Airbnb makes more sense. But I can't help thinking the AirBnb growth slows as it becomes more of a niche option.
Something I hacked together during the weekend. The purpose is to provide a mechanism to easily link to arbitrary positions like

http://webchess-cygx.rhcloud.com/?n_rb5_p3_p_p_p7_R5_K8_p3_p_PN_2P_R3_N6_k-w--

As a bonus, you can see what others have done in a given situation.

In principle, you could use it to play cooperatively against any- (or rather every-) one.
Do you have a full numpad? I can't type it on my laptop so I can't verify.

But pasting the js snippet into the console works.
Small world— I've just started this exact assignment at CU. Kind of a neat coincidence seeing it discussed here.
I imagine AirBnB will end up paying hotel tax in every locale. That will complicate their software a bit, but that's not overly burdensome. AirBnB actually wins in that it removes one of the most quantitative anti-AirBnB arguments. The other anti-AirBnB arguments are a lot more anecdotal (terrible renter destroyed our apartment building) and speculative (AirBnB increases rental property prices for everyone).
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Larry Ellison Steps Down from CEO Role at Oracle
Innovation means different things to different people. To you, it seems to mean a mathematical or algorithmic breakthrough. To me, it also means getting an existing idea or technology, and deploying it in a new, real-world context, solving the UX / scalability / security / policy issues that arise in the new context, and make it commercially viable.

The fact that Cloudflare is the first global-level CDN to implement this kind of keyless SSL termination to me is innovation, even though it's based on pulling PKCS11 at the IP level. It's solving a real-world problem in their context, which nobody has solved before, and customers pay for it.
The guarantee is with the No vote. More of the same right wing policies

Well, not really, given that Labour were in power for a very long time before the Conservatives took it back. And the question is whether an independent Scotland would be better equipped to fight inequality than a Scotland that is part of the UK.

But these are arguments that have been played out over and over again in the last few months. Everyone has their opinion and I don't think anyone's mind is going to be changed 15 minutes before the polls close.
It's a terrible link. It shows an outlier, not the normal situation.

If that's the best you can do then you have proved his point, not yours.
This really isn't limited to manual labor or any class of jobs. It affects high-tech workers as well. I have done quite a lot of programming work as a contractor. And I know the companies I was working for were doing it that way to control costs, regardless of whether they were large or small companies.

I think the economy is being squeezed at all levels. Even companies that have cash often are hard pressed to turn a profit. The employment situation is such that there are plenty of highly skilled workers available. So companies don't have to offer "full time" work or benefits in order to find good candidates. And even if they wanted to, most of them can't.
How to write a custom Sharing extension on iOS 8
What is it about Ellison that makes people say Bond villain, beyond the yacht and such? You're not the first person I've heard say that. (I'm not critiquing, I think it's amusing.)
Oracle – Oracle Board Appoints Larry Ellison Executive Chairman and CTO
Does this apply to all Twilio numbers, or just short codes?
Pyrosomes
Handling errors in IcedCoffeeScript
Basic economics, AirBnB suffers too: http://i.investopedia.com/inv/articles/site/micro3.7.gif
:-) Thanks for this
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Skips Keynote for America's Cup Races
Microsoft lays off 2100 employees
That's not really how tax incidence works, though. Effects of the tax will be felt by all three at some level.
There are different levels of "accessing a machine", and some of them might not give you access to the memory area where the key is stored.
Thoughts on Music Formats
Microsoft still has a big office in silicon valley to do product R&D. This refers to a research lab.
Apple probably didn’t get new secret government orders to hand over data
A while ago I experimented with adding stuff to the version.bind field in bind. Just updated it:

mike@glue:~$ dig +short chaos txt version.bind @198.211.125.252

"<iframe width='420' height='315' src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ?autoplay=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>"

I put this in my named.conf:

version "<iframe width='420' height='315' src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ?autoplay=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>";

This site is vulnerable:

http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=grepular.com

Although takes a minute before it kicks in. I did report it to them at the time, but never got a response.
The emails don't show that. Yelp sent a boilerplate letter that they presumably send to everyone caught incentivizing customers to leave specific feedback on Yelp, and they replied with an immature parody. Where do you see (in the two emails in that news article) that they asked to be removed from the site?
His face looks great. I think you can see his age in his arm skin.
Labour, Conservative, Lib Dems. All the same basically.
Now if there is a device that can detect my kid's ear infections without a trip to the doctor, that would be something.
BuySellAds.com Acquires LaunchBit Email Ad Platform for Undisclosed Amount
Healthcare Opportunities for Entrepreneurs
Free 500MB/day Splunk instance.
Not open source, but ready for prime time.
If those people have a download limit that's rather unscrupulous.
If the interviewer is truly confrontational (as in, you're being asked something like "why did you do stupid thing A when thing B is clearly better"), then you're better off not working there.

However, I'll often ask questions similar to those you posed (without thinking/telling the candidate he's useless, of course).

Let's take the "why not Java 1.8" example. If I asked you that, and you were prone to being defensive, you might think I'm attacking you. In reality, though, I'm just probing for more information. Are you familiar with Java 1.8? What would be the benefits/drawbacks of using it? If you can explain why Java 1.7 is fine for your project (I don't know Java, but I assume there are good reasons not to use the latest version), then I'm satisfied.

Basically, my goal is to learn as much as I can about you. This often involves direct questions. When I'm asking direct questions, I'm not attacking, and I suspect it's the same for many interviewers.
Umm -- "profitability" (per sale) perhaps not, but sales volume most definitely.
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Oracle has been run by the three of them for awhile now. This is most likely a reduction in the responsibilities for Larry (ie. not getting flak for skipping out on earnings calls/keynotes when he wants to watch his boat race) and thus mostly a change in title without significant change to operations (other than messaging to the Street what the succession plan is).
We tap our helmets to warn of cops. We wave (or nod in countries that drive on the left) just to say hi. Absence of a signal would be useless on a bike as we're generally pretty bad about giving the signals we intend to give, let alone not giving the ones we don't intend to. It would be chaos.
Wow, that article is a total bummer. But it seems to me he's cherry picking all of the things that haven't worked out so well, or progressed as fast as we'd like and pronouncing us a failure.... What about all the things that we didn't predict, that we DO have? We are remarkably close to self driving cars... that is awesome... Some recent breakthroughs in AI I suspect will be rippling through our civilization for quite a while to come...
Yelp is pointing out to the restaurant that they're asking customers to violate the customers' TOS with Yelp. Nowhere is it insinuated that they themselves have an agreement with yelp.

It is not being done behind the restaurant's back. The restaurant is paying the customers (in free pizza) to leave the feedback.
He doesn't seem to like free software and Oracle charges a lot for their software.

Literally Hitler
Rolling restarts behind load balancer anyone?
He owns an island. The beard.
All US Twilio numbers.
Have you read The Bridge - it even mentions a knife missile!
"I sort-of date the end of rapid technological progress to the late-60s or early-70s. At that point something more or less broke in this country and in the western world more generally which has put us into a zone where there’s much slower technological progress."

I've believed for years that we entered something like a minor dark age (dim age?) on or about 1970, and that computers have become synonymous with "technology" because it was the only sector that didn't get the memo. Everything else basically stopped cold around 1970, and some fields (e.g. aerospace) have actually gone into reverse.

I am very heartened to see people with the fame and fortune of Peter Thiel et. al. raising this issue and basically agreeing, but I have yet to see an explanation that truly seems to work.

Peter I think oversells libertarianism when he blames regulation-- while regulation slows progress by increasing costs and making experimentation hard, free markets' reluctance to invest in "zero to one" ideas also slows progress. Nearly all the "zero to one" stories I am familiar with were government funded, usually in a time of war or threat of war. VCs and other investors normally want to fund "one to N" ideas because there is at least a provable market there and the hard stuff is mostly done already.

I've got some other ideas but I'm curious about what HN thinks.
Well he looks like one ...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gwillis/archive/2009/10/14/separated...

Although Hank was supposed to be something of a nice guy.
There's also this extensive blog post on the topic: http://blog.golang.org/playground
Love the off ramp metaphor :-) thank you
Here are a few similar solutions from April and May, 2014:

Privilege Separated Key Handling added to relayd(8) and smtpd(8)

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140430155940

OpenSSL private key in separate process

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/protecting_the_openssl_priva...
Aren't the IPs of the load balancers more or less fixed, though?
Samsung is one of the most complex companies around. Check out their ownership structure: http://qz.com/223755/samsungs-bizarre-byzantine-ownership-st...
Everything you cite is in or closely related to the IT sector, which is the exception. Every other sector has gone cold or even backwards since ~1970.
> The lack of generics is definitely a problem.

Not to me. Not to the author of this article.

> I expect Go will eventually follow Java's lead and bolt on generics awkwardly.

Nope. They'll either be done right or not at all. We're not ignoring Java's mistakes.
He hasn't made an impact in the company for a while. Safra is running things for the most part, with Marky Mark in the passenger seat building a monstrous sales force.
This tournament was amazing! I was lucky because I decided to analyse the tournament through twitter, so every day I was capturing tweets from #sinqcup hastag and sending to elasticsearch + kibana and monitoring the tweets in real time.
If anyone is interested I can provide the tweets in json raw for sentiment analyse.
So no standing at a physical table every morning?
This is dumb - really, really, really dumb. What an idiotic policy. This would absolutely stop me from publishing anything on the Play Store as an individual developer.
I think that's actually a perverse case of survivor bias. You don't really get to be a significant oil or finance company without intimately knowing how to work with / play the regulatory system, so the ones you see still standing are the ones who really know how to capture the regulators. If you have an oil company worth $5 billion, you have figured out how to make regulators work for you.

Luckily, in the US at least, it's possible for a few nerds to build a company (say, Dropbox) that's as financially valuable as some long-established government schmoozers but has never thought about regulatory issues. So the "young" tech companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. are less capable lobbyists on average.
I wonder about the fate of the Microsoft New England R&D Center in Cambridge, MA.
Harlem Shake XSS style
I'm not sure which country has it, but I'll generalize some criteria:

* Able to make rational decisions for one's self.
* Successful co-operation with already existing 'adults'.
* Able to produce surplus survival resources to enable successful raising of offspring.

By the above requirements I would suspect that if you removed an automatic assumption of truth based on chronological age, that a majority of American 'adults' would fail at lease one item on the above list. In some cases it really isn't their fault, but a fault of society failing to correct it's own conditions.
It makes MSFT look some combination of bad/inept/stupid in Silicon Valley. Its obviously not quantifiable in the MBA fashion, but especially in Silicon Valley MSFT needs as much of a good presence as it can get, I think.
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Obviously the most convenient interface (voice, I mean) should come to all apps and devices.
What's your definition of "the US government"? Does it include the hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of oil, minerals, land, etc?
The e-mail addresses are at guerrilamail.com, provider of temporary addresses - and blocked from my current location. Are those addresses checked for availablility?
Scottish Indyref Propaganda
What is with the capitalization on the headline on Recode? I read it and thought, who is "Will Remain"?

It should be:
Larry Ellison will step down as CEO of Oracle, will remain as CTO

Headline capitalization is pretty easy: Capitalize the first word, then any proper nouns. That's it.
Safra has been the driver of this car for a long time now anyway. Larry is more of a figure. Hurd is an asshole.
Thanks for the honest response.
The email address is based off the randomly generated name, with extra characters added. The possibility of a conflict is extremely low.
Graydon Hoare joins Stellar.org
I looked at erlang for a while and I really liked it, even if I never used it. Now I'd like to learn Elixir. However,I ask myself why should one prefers Elixir over scala+akka
Why Is Wikipedia Deleting All References to Neil Tyson’s Fabrication?
I imagine the UK Computer Misuse Act (eg at Section 3, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18) probably covers it if the person who altered the TXT field does so to cause websites to load code on purpose, that purpose being for example to impair (Section 3(2)(a)) the running of the computer [causing Rick Astley to play, defo counts!] - but it can be read to cover pretty much anything.

Similarly I imagine something like the CFAA (18 USC 1030) probably has broad enough clauses to make this sort of action technically illegal, at least in some cases? But I'm out of my depth on that one.
Andrew Weinreich doing an /r/iama on reddit
The 'intangibles' you speak of are housing and money.
All this advice looks excellent for running a startup, succeeding at it, and pitching to investors. However, Y-combinator's partners in particular have a habit of advertising "we don't care as much about your idea as about your team because the idea usually gets overhauled drastically anyway". This advice seems a bit contrary to that; at best, it's proof that you can go through the thought exercise of imagining what all of this looks like. But being able to do plan out a killer business with one idea doesn't necessarily translate to being able to do it with another.

Has YC changed its standards about people vs. ideas now that they can afford to be so selective? Or is planning a business a skill that's generic enough that proof of doing it in one instance is good enough to prove that a person can do it generally?
The researcher in question is smart and an engaging speaker. I've had the privilege of hearing her speak about spreadsheets, which was surprisingly interesting.

Every day is a chance to learn something new.
Red Hat Buys FeedHenry for $82M to Add Mobile App Development to Its Platform
Async-profile: A CPU Profiler for Node.js
Insane or Just Evil? A Psychiatrist Takes a New Look at Hitler (1998)
All I see is three slides that tell you nothing. Either this site is broken or has one of the worst designs I've ever seen.
Full stack engineer? Comprehend (YC W11) is fixing how patients get treatments
Fun fact: decimal time was the official timekeeping system of France for about 6 months during the revolution, but was abolished because it never caught on. However, there are still some decimal watches and clocks in existence from that time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time