skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original article is at http://www.businessinsider.com/why-cisco-showered-three-men-... (link currently points at a Yahoo copy).
Ask HN: Employee management system for your startup?
I had seen a lot of IT companies still use excel to manage timesheet, manual medical claim, etc.

What is your favored SaaS for your startup's Employee/HR management? Any recommendation?
Talking to people who think it's no big deal to run 200G heaps is damn cool. Zing gives you that.
Thanks—changed from https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/why-cisco-showered-three-....
Exploring the Feelings of Rackspace staying independent
Copyright holders want Netflix to ban VPN users
Thanks! It's easy to see a ten year old non-native English speaker make that mistake..
How big are the developer tools compared to the rest of Firefox? 5% of the total size? 10%?

Can't the more sophisticated tools be split into a separate extension, leaving only some basic things in the distributed package?
I can relate to this.

At 28 I had to deliver a project with a very tight schedule and ended up working 70 hours a week. It was fine for about two weeks, then started to have a permanent headache, then chest pain, then collapsed in the gym. After a doctor check up it turned out I had a 24h average blood pressure of 190.

It all went to normal again after taking forced holidays.

I swore to never put anything before my health.

Don't overwork guys, it's just not worth it. Screw the rat race. Your health comes first, it's your most valuable possession.

Stress is always there even if you don't see it, and by the time you do and symptoms arise it's almost always too late.
TL;DR version: https://roslyn.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Language%20Featur...
Probably because a lot of people use jquery and other frontend libraries hosted by google, and those (of course) have been blocked by some moron in China. And most sites don't properly handle cases when third party assets fail to load.
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Hmm, I never found them to be clunky. I prefer them over Chrome's, but perhaps that's just because I'm used to them? I guess if you used Chrome for months, then read about Firefox' features and try them, they will always feel off.
I think fear of dependency is overstated. I have sex with my wife almost every day, and when she's away I miss it like hell. Regular sex makes me happier and more emotionally stable. Could I be addicted? Should I be worried?

Just because you like something doesn't mean you're an addict
4 Things Alibaba’s IPO Tells Us About a Changing World Economy
This. I don't understand why people desperately need to categorize other people. Just yesterday i saw some guys being confused by someone on TV who was an electrician and enjoyed sewing.
> I'm going to mostly point out that although this is an appealing idea: that we only get out of ourselves what we put in/etc./etc. there's no reason for it to be true.

A) Meditation takes concerted effort (by definition).
B) Meditaiton has been shown to increase empathy: http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/spotlight/060608.htm
Conclusion) You can put effort into improving yourself and improve yourself (in this case: become more empathetic toward others).

> They're compounds which have debatable (and unresearched) longer term effects on those who imbibe them,

25 years is pretty long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment#Doblin...
But we do need more.

> and which have fairly established negative impact on people who take them and are at risk for developing a serious mental illness. (family history, etc.)

Yes. If you have a family history of schizophrenia (or other severe mental illnesses), you shouldn't try psychedelic drugs. They can precipitate schizophrenic episodes, psychotic breaks, and the like.

Other than that, I totally agree. I was just trying to clearly and succinctly discount the enlightenment-in-a-pill attitude.
As long as they don't impose any load while you're browsing without the tools opened, I see no reason to. And Chrome also includes them.
However, when people pigeonhole themselves, they are actively denying themselves the capability to become something more. And this is a problem worth commenting about...
I didn't say it was different. I used "also" to mean the same; sorry if my wording was ambiguous.
cat /var/log/syslog | grep -i 'problem'

is also a query on the `/var/log/syslog` "database".

What would be really cool is a RDBMS where the single pieces of data in the cells are related to each other. For example the user IDs in the authentication log could be matched with the IDs present in the request log.
> Nice site.

Thank you!

> He hasn't covered yet some well known ones, or at least I cannot find them using the search field in his site

I've posted about all the software you mention bar toxic but, as you discovered, Tumblr's built-in search doesn't work terribly well. I'll add a Duck Duck Go search box this afternoon. (It's been on my todo list for, er, just over two years now...)
What about firebug? Who long will firebug live with sight of the developer tools becomming better and better?
Since Microsoft doesn't care about WPF anymore people started pretending they like HTML5 and JS, kinda like "hey, dirt doesn't taste that bad if you give it some time!".
Checking Oracle VM VirtualBox. Part 2
Smartphone app recognizes stress and depression
The jQuery events inspector looks super useful.

I keep meaning to give Firefox another try - after ditching it for Safari, and then Chrome, some years ago - but I never quite find the motivation.
That is an interesting point, though not really applicable to my family as far as I know (yes, my father had it harder then my cousin or myself, as I think most parents do, but as for siblings, not really) My close and extended family were always middle class. We all went to public school/college (namely since around here it is usually better than private ones). Yes, we had a lot of advantages over other folks, but not really over other people in the family. We were also very close before the 'money starter to pour'. Christmas, new years, any family member birthday, we all gathered, we celebrated, etc. When the money difference became apparent, most of that stopped. The joyful times were pretty much replaced with small talk on the times we get together.

And I agree with most of your ideas, and while I don't know the lives of Gates, Page, etc, and I have no idea how they treated their family/friends, it seems you have an idea (maybe true, I don't know, but it isn't my experience) that as people go up the ladder, they change their attitudes ('develop a conceited attitude' and 'will often have a wife and kids with a vain attitude' or 'now better than the sacrificer'). Again, I'm talking about what I saw here, but it is usually the opposite (maybe cultural differences make it so), but you see a much more humble and giving attitude with people that have reached a good level of success than the ones that haven't. The ones that do reach, usually appreciate all the hard work their parents did to give them the opportunities they have (I do every day), but the ones that didn't usually blame everyone about their problems, but give no thanks/props to the ones that have helped them. Quick example, I've worked for a startup a while ago with one main investor (basically, he was footing the bill for everything until there were revenues). He is one of the richest guys in Portugal, and when I had some personal problems and I mentioned I needed 3-4 months unpaid leave due to that, the only thing he told me: "Go, go take care of things, don't worry about coming until things are good with you", and kept paying me the salary for those 4 months. Didn't ask for a single thing, nothing.

What I'm trying to say is that maybe I have had a different experience with successful people than you, but in this corner of the world, humbleness and a giving attitude are much more prevalent when you go up the ladder than when you don't, and it is hard to find people at the bottom (Even close friends) that don't resent you for that.
Dang, this is cool...

I love the idea of procedural music using live data sets. This works really well - a lot of ambient music I listen to already has radio samples in it. I wonder if you could add reverb to the radio? Maybe with the room size oscillating very slowly.

Might I recommend a lower default volume for the radio? I'm listening to it more for the sound quality and not the words themselves.
I am aware that different drugs have wildly different effects. I was just trying to point out that even alcohol - something considered "mundane" by most - should technically be considered a transformative, mind-altering drug.

Ate a tiny piece of space cake once and ended up jumping out of a window. Years I did MDMA once and did not notice much effects (and it wasn't a dud - I shared it with a friend and they definitely noticed its effects). Another anecdote suggesting that the effects of these drugs on people greatly depend on your state of mind when you take them. It's precisely there where we have little hard data on how the drugs work, I think.
Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349006
Before young people here start harlem shaking their brain, remember that if you're here, there's a high chance that your brain is your work tool. It's what you make your living with. So take good care of it, and be cautious.

I don't know a drug smart enough to recognize bad memories from good ones. Most of those Dr Frankenstein's pills effects have been found by random, and as this article shows research on effects is very much a work in progress.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bezier+game#!/story/forever/0/bezi...
For what it's worth, Apple do use a static analyser - they even wrote their own, and it's actually pretty good. If I remember correctly, it's even activated by default for new projects in XCode these days.

But static analysers are not perfect, and theirs is apparently not clever enough to catch this bug. Maybe they will patch the analyser in response to this bug, or maybe not - there is a trade off between speed and thouroughness with static analysers.
This could be the reason why iPhone 6 has not been approved in China. With heavy smuggling they will get plenty. A lot of arguments assume the (American) government is decent, but iPhone is a global device. Let's hope Apple products have the same security all over the world.
Having a single, unified, inefficient base code path that you later optimise at hot points is invaluable to validate non-performance (i.e most) parts of your game.
Clojure in Unity 3D: Functional Video Game Development
It's true that a datacenter network is slower than RAM, of course, but if you're already dealing with internet latencies, an extra roundtrip within the data center is hard to even measure - see "Latency numbers every programmer should know", http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_laten....

(I really don't like this fact, aesthetically, but it's usually good business to acknowledge it.)
JVM's garbage collector and JIT are better, they have benefited from several more years of development. But CLR offers so many other advantages (in particular interoperation with C, SIMD, and reified generics) that I lament that CLR is Windows only. Yes, I know Mono exists, my lament remains.

(I know, I should be using D, you say)
Looking at this from outside the US, the situation looks very different. Any argument that can be made that US law enforcement should have a right to require access to the contents of phones, and that it is immoral to foil lawful requests to access user data applies has to pass a simple test. Would you make exactly the same argument in favour of government access in China, Russia, Iran, etc?

Apple has customers and suers across the globe. Any portection or lack thereof they put into their OS affects all of them, not just the ones in the US. Their policy has to serve all of those people equally. User protections in iOS8 protect users in these countries just as much as they portect user data in the US. Weaknesses and gaps in that portection expose user data in those countries just as much as they expose them in the US.
The Secret of Steve
[ SomaFM SF 10-33]

http://somafm.com/sf1033/

Ambient music mixed with the sounds of San Francisco public safety radio traffic.

[ SomaFM Mission Control ]

http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/

A mix of ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.
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I use st. My .xsession launches "st -e tmux" which lives on its own workspace (in XMonad).

Check their FAQ for getting the Delete key to work! http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/FAQ
http://url2la.uservoice.com/forums/201637-general for

suggestions, it seems!
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I wonder if something like this could be used to automatically place components in an electrical circuit (PCB)
Embedded, low-power, passively cooled i386 (or compatible) have a pretty long lifetime, 30 years at least. So MSDOS, which is an operating system which can run on those should be supported for 60 years?
interesting - just got a pointer to this gesture arduino shield this morning https://www.tindie.com/products/ootsidebox/3dpad-touchless-g...
I played that on the BBC Micro/Master. It was impossible. I never completed it. The worst thing was getting stuck in that room where you had to do a puzzle on the chessboard, and stupidly trying to do as many as you can. Funny that this "ordering" game (where you had to remember the order of notes) also appears in games such as Wario World on the Gamecube.

I never had a Commodore but I do remember a bunch of good games on the Beeb: Repton, Elite, Chuckie Egg, Escape from Orion, Plan B, Dare Devil Dennis, Firetrack, Stryker's Run, Shark, Eddie Kid's Jump Challenge, Kung Fu, Tetrapod, Sentinel etc. etc. etc.
It has to do with wetware (biological computers).
Coming from a Beeb upbringing, I remember using the AMX Mouse and drawing packages on the BBC Master but my word was it slow.
Quite amazing what they achieved with such little RAM though. I am in awe.
Thanks gradestack.
Saving on data roaming without changing your SIM card
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This is a serious issue in the UK, particularly where local governments use taxpayer money to put free 'newspapers' in everyone's doors. It's actually reached a point where the national government has had to look into what one MP has called, "propaganda masquerading as independent newspapers"[1]

[1] - http://www.editorsweblog.org/2010/01/21/uk-government-to-inv...
Can someone elaborate please? Why listen to police radio while listening to ambient music?

I am genuinely curious and would like to understand this better.
This is the best piece I have read in a while. It is amazing how something so small could affect our life. We are so delicate. Do you actually see objects as shapes and colors (as in, was the part of the brain that translates the signal into images lost) or was that you can not figure out what it is that you are looking at?
Very nice!

Why not make the third component live -- and include a webcam feed in the background instead of the static image?
It is one thing to have a static analyzer in the compiler, which is quite good. Clang almost makes C feel like Pascal.

And another very distinct one, is having the respective coder use it
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> I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.

There are hundreds of posts about those sorts of applications in the archives[0], but the focus of the site tends to drift about a lot depending on what I'm up to/interested in at a given time.

> Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user.

That's definitely a problem, and after chatting with some readers on Twitter recently I'm making more of an effort to 'translate' jargon and buzzwords in software descriptions.

[0] See, e.g., http://onethingwell.org/tagged/todo
BambooHR appears to me to be the best, for SMBs. Are you looking for a HCM or a paycheck thingbob? ZenPayroll is also great.
Running the Applesoft BASIC Code from Knight Rider
Hoa\Mime, simply and easily get MIME types of files or streams
#HeForShe + Emma Thompson Speech at UN
Why don't developers make installation wizards on linux?
I remember when I first saw a picture of a Norwegian prison, all the comments were along the lines of "that has things my home doesn't". Obviously, people were so impressed they headed to Norway to get arrested.
absolutely love this, well done!
Let's say that upstream systemd adds further features to the core init code (eg. additional unit file syntax). Are you going to backport this code to uselessd? Or rewrite it? Or ignore new features?
apart from this, it would be nice to have an installation wizard for installing a new Linux laptop, would love to have FreeBSD/Ubuntu/Windows with a simple boot menu
Soma FM is one of my favourite things. Their stations are among my top listening while working. The lack of ads/interruption and excellently compiled playlists make for wonderful listening that truly augments my mood and ability to concentrate.
forgot the quotes:

LOAD "*",8,1
> what is a flat array?

In multidimensional arrays you do one single allocation instead of n times m time k times ... allocations.

You can fake this in Java by allocating one major block and doing the math for the respective cell yourself but it is cumbersome.

> What is the advantage of a static binary over just shipping the jvm

The same as doing coding in C and similar languages. Guess one of the reasons why Java lost the desktop.

> What do you mean it always jits?

There isn't any interpretation going on. On most JVMs you need to set execution threshold to zero to achieve similar behavior.

On most JVMs, it is a two step process as they start interpreting and only hot methods (this is customizable on most) get JITted.

> simd is beginning to make its way into java

It is still not clear if it will make it into Java 9 timeframe.

> Is this incorrect?

Yes, as C# as managed to place itself as "good enough C++" on the Windows world, for many use cases.
John Carmack is great technical speaker. His interesting thoughts flows in a continuous stream and as a listener its almost impossible to get distracted.

I wish Carmack does an interview like the one in "Coders at work" format where we can get some insight on

How he approaches debugging,

what tools he uses apart from visual studio.

How does he approaches already existing large code base?

What is the optimal duration to code without interruption.

What techniques does he use to get in to flow state e.t.c..
Ha. I like this.
Well, I don't think i can make you understand, but here's some discussion on the matter: http://redd.it/28zker

In short, it can be used to zone out and work, or just as background noise for your daily activities. if being immersed in a noir/cyberpunk/blade runner mindset like that works for you)
Yahoo and Alibaba aren't a good fit. Yahoo is a bottom-feeder online entertainment company (nobody still uses their search, do they?) and Alibaba is a global marketplace for manufacturers. This union doesn't make sense from a brand identity standpoint.
thanks! the software used to add a link to scribd for pdfs. A pdf label that was added separately from the title text like that (but not a link) would help.
Seconded. A great book (I've read 75% of it so far).

About the error you mention - I think you are right - but the author brings up the ~1% because he is talking about 'base rate fallacy' - he wants to say that the errors from the 99% of the population will swamp the true signal from the 1%. So his ~1% number is likely qualitatively ok for what he is using it for. It should still be reworded though - one wants 0 errors in a book about statistics mistakes :)
Isn't owning a smartphone a sign of depression by itself?
To do that fractal ying-yang in 36 lines is obscene.
Microsoft Believes It Is Going to Die
When I first read part 1, I was slightly annoyed that such a prominent lawyer would take such an approach.

I have to say I must now applaud Orin Kerr, for taking the time to take the opposing arguments into account, and for publishing those reflections in somewhat of an apology. It is rare that a lawyer is prepared to reconsider their position, especially so objectively and publicly.
I can understand wanting fast provisioning of new services if you adopt an architecture that requires lots of new services.

But why would this architecture require 'DevOps Culture' any more than any other architecture?
Including myself and no, SDL doesn't do assets.
Pauseless GC for immutable objects could be achieved easily without any patent encumbrance or OS level support. Given how widespread immutable state is, I do wonder why it's never been attempted.
If you're running the nightly channel, you already get a prompt introducing e10s and allowing you to enable it.
Meanwhile, in France, prisons are 20% over capacity and have the highest suicide rate in Europe. Maybe the EU should do something about that and impose EU-wide standards closer to the Norwegian model.
Importing air pollution from China
> OpenGL does not want to support cross platform File IO and in real world projects 100s of shaders are actually dynamically linked in different combinations into render pipelines to create desired effects, the effects themselves are often creates in some kind of flow-based programming environment that is translated into shaders behind the scenes.

Which other APIs support with effects, scene description files, ....

> Basic shader loading/compiling/linking on the other hand is trivial to implement.

Hence why every single OpenGL newbie keeps copy-pasting it from somewhere.

> Finally Window/Context creation is also platform specific and therefore can't really be specified.

So why did they get to the trouble of creating EGL?
Little girl
Although he's technically correct, I think he's missing the point.

> Neither the pauseless algorithm, nor more recent [generational] C4 algorithm impose any multi-core related performance overheads compared to the most efficient collectors out there. There are no added cross-thread synchronization of any kind compared to stop-the-world algorithms. In fact, the whole point of a concurrent algorithm like C4 is to dramatically reduce GC-related synchronization overhead [stop-the-world pauses are dramatic synchronization points between GC and mutator threads].

The main overhead of a concurrent, compacting collector is the need for read barrier. You simply cannot move data while the program is running without having a way of redirecting the read requests to the latest memory location. It's true that it's technically not multi-core related overhead (instead, it's a multi-threading related overhead), but the point is moot, since with a single core, you don't need multiple threads (in a managed language, you can simply use fibres (user-space threads), like Go or Haskell do). The only reason to use a multi-threaded (concurrent) GC is to support multiple cores.
Weavi is ready to design a web programming language
It will learn some ideas from Cweb and prolog.
I recently purchased an ev cert for one the my client in Netherland from https://www.cheapsslshop.com

they are good with price and service, you may give them a try.
What do you mean by installation wizard for installing a new laptop? Ubuntu has a nice wizard for OS installation. Bootloader is separate from the os. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question.
Parameterization Part 5: Two Common Mistakes
Improve the Visibility of Your Mobile App in 4 Simple Steps
The Amiga came with AmigaBASIC and then ARexx. They were decent programming environments for absolutely beginners for the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaBASIC