skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lost confidence in both products when the founder of one abandoned the first to create the second, with a name so similar it may as well have been the same, resulting in the need to create blog posts explaining the difference.
Ask HN: What should I learn?
I am a professional with 15+ yrs experience. Unfortunately or fortunately, its not all sw dev exp. I dabbled in management, sw development, sys admin and pretty much anything that came along. I am also stuck in a very niche domain that deals with distributed systems. I know distributed systems are all the rage but I have no system sw dev experience. my sw dev exp is also very minimal.

I find myself unable to get jobs anywhere in the current tech world. I am not a hardcore developer, I have no firm grasp on any one language, I have no large scale projects as proof of my expertise. I know I am really good with programing if I were in a programing position. So I want to build some new skills and also develop a portfolio.

I find myself being pulled in different directions and keep dabbling with Ruby, Python, Go, Rust, Julia, JS and whatnot. I am a Linux guy, been using it for over 20 yrs.

I like systems dev, dist. systems, networks etc. What language should I focus on? What are some projects I can start contributing to in the dist systems space. Thank you for your time. I have C, C++ and Python experience. Most in Python, then C, then C++.
This isn't related to the MMS announcement, but I'd like to give Twilio big, big props for being one of the most developer and technology-friendly companies out there.

Not only is their API easy to use, constantly improved, and impeccably supported, but over the course of the last year, they've donated thousands of dollars worth of free credit to technology activists including the EFF, Taskforce.is, and Fight for the Future. They've even modified their privacy policy to make it possible for my team at EFF to use Twilio on campaigns we run.

Rob Spectre, who's replying to comments in this thread, has been amazing too - offering hands-on support when we run big campaigns like The Day We Fight Back and last week's Battle for the Net.

Thanks to all the Twilio team. You rock.
Dealing with an unpaid invoice at elance.com
Nowhere near half of all households have a Home Depot card. There were 56M "payment cards" compromised. That would be Visa, Mastercard, and whatever other cards they accept. "Payment card" sounds awkward to me, but with so many people using debit cards, they can't say "56M credit cards."
Men work more overtime than women. Men work more hours than women. Men work more dangerous jobs than women. Men work in more physically demanding jobs than women. Men are more likely to move for a job than women. Men are less likely to take career breaks than women.

You think maybe that might have something to do with it?
Java/Ruby/JS forget everything else.
I recently started with a group that uses gitflow. It is my first experience with it. Thus my experience with it is pretty ignorant.

That said, it seems to be way too heavy weight to me. Especially given modern DVCS abilities. I literally cannot figure out the advantages of having a master branch and a development mainline vs just using tags.

Basically it seems to be a workflow with the assumption that branching is hard, based on a version control system where branching is easy.

TLDR; Ignorant view == skip it.
I used to be very biased against self-taught engineers until one passed our very difficult hiring gauntlet and turned out to be one of the best developers I've ever worked with.

Edit: I think my takeaway is to primarily judge people on demonstrated knowledge rather than declared knowledge.

Edit 2: But having said that I still wouldn't draw attention to the self taught thing if I were you.
Google Voice numbers are powered by Bandwidth.com. Bandwidth announced that they were working on support a couple of months ago. So, at least its in the pipeline.
Whenever I see Wolfram/Mathematica stuff like this, I'm not entirely sure if it's incredibly brilliant and will replace all computing as we know it, or completely batshit insane and impenetrable unless you've spent 20 years learning it. Usually I lean towards the latter though, and this is supported by the fact that I've never seen anybody not employed by Wolfram do this kind of thing.

See also: http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/08/19/which-is-closer-local-bee...
Nvidia's new GPU proves moon landing truthers wrong
Which one is "they" to you?
Thanks for the articles.
Somebody more knowledgeable correct me if I'm wrong, but the append function being taken out of the reduce logic is intentional. It specifies how the results are put back together (in this case with arrays / Vector, append is used) in a data-structure agnostic way.
Does anyone have a valuation model spreadsheet that accounts for multiple rounds of convertible note financing, and purposed towards a Series A conversation ?

As a founder, I have tried searching for these but never managed to find one.

I'm not sure if it is an India thing, where investors actively discourage convertible notes because of the availability of several pounds of equity flesh in exchange for angel stage funding.
This is both a seriously awesome demonstration of how far GPUs have come, and an interesting explanation of the physics of global illumination as it pertains to simulated recreations of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Best article I've read today! (Even despite the thinly veiled advert...)
I'm in someone give me a $46Bn loan!
#14 Bingo! Hilarious. A bit harsh, but now that I got a good laugh you made the time I lost on the article worth it. Thank you.
SSL/TLS and Perfect Forward Secrecy
Use a general delivery address:

John Doe

General Delivery

Tampa, FL 33601-9999 (Note the 4 9's at the end)

https://www.usps.com/manage/forward-mail.htm#3

It'll Zip+4 verify, and its a physical address. The postal service will reject any mail you don't pick up within 30 days, but Google would never mail you something, no?
The 6.2 liter, normally aspirated diesel engine that powered old Suburbans as well as the military HMMWV made about that, even with its greater displacement. Even the modern turbo diesel HMMWV doesn't break 200hp, according to Wikipedia.

Torque, reliability, serviceability and maximizing defense contractor profits probably rank as much higher priorities for the military than pure horsepower.
The way OOP is taught often doesn't bring up object thinking. But if you believe it is not natural, try thinking mathematically (without nouns or names as unique aliasable identifiers). Or without isa or hasa relationships. Our minds have 50,000+ years of language expertise, and only a couple thousand for formal non linguistic equational reasoning (where things only have structure and are unnameable).
Sortie: Chevallier Et Laspalès À La Palestre
Yahoo can buy 30 tumblrs with the alibaba money. That's neat.
For me, reading is about thinking, enjoying what I read and learning. That's why it has never made sense why some people are so obsessed with speed reading.
Yeah the timing is crazy
This. Yet again, I learn to check the comments first or get trolled. I wonder if journalism schools have a class called "Professional trolling."
> "The operation was performed by a team of neurosurgeons at the University Medical Centre Utrecht and the university claims this is this first instance of a successful 3D printed cranium that has not been rejected by the patient."

Oh man... having a skull implant rejected is horrifying. Having an arm or something rejected is one thing (you probably just go back to how you were going to be otherwise, more or less), but are there any backup plans if your body rejects a skull implant?
Consumer Electronics (For People Crazy Enough to Think...) (2012)
There is a short paragraph that's actually quite good:

"Slow readers list numerous benefits to a regular reading habit, saying it improves their ability to concentrate, reduces stress levels and deepens their ability to think, listen and empathize. The movement echoes a resurgence in other old-fashioned, time-consuming pursuits that offset the ever-faster pace of life, such as cooking the "slow-food" way or knitting by hand."
That's correct. Archive Team was working on it but their crawlers got banned. TwitPic said something along the lines of them having a better solution, which I suppose was this.
Facebook warns drag queens they will delete every profile in two weeks
Seems like the problem size is small and persistence is not required, so I'm curious why you use a database at all. Is it more for the querying than the storage? If you don't mind being Windows-specific, LINQ over raw C# objects would be a (nice, simple) possibility. (I'm database-ignorant; trying to learn, not criticize.)
It's not really 'slow' reading the article is talking about, but uninterrupted reading.

From personal experience, I agree that reading long-form textual works, particularly fiction, is fundamentally different than perusing typical hypertext information. I love the web, certainly, but it's just a different thing, even though using the web does involve the act of reading words.

I also intuitively agree that uninterrupted reading is beneficial to human development, and it is interesting to see studies that support that. (This article, somewhat ironically, would have been better had it linked to the studies that it mentioned.)
Scottish referendum: Voters to reject independence
Really? That isn't obvious to me by what Oracle has done over the past 10-15 years.
QT's New Home
Will any of the bootcamps survive, do you think? It seems unlikely given the stories I've read here, lsc hiring a former coworker (his technical superior) out of a sandwich shop, or tptacek having to move from San Francisco to Ann Arbor because there were no jobs going in San Francisco for someone who co-founded a large ISP and had lots of security publications.

I'm sure it'll be bad enough in the US but I pity the graduates of General Assembly London or the Berlin bootcamp.
Yes, most Russians support military intervention in Ukraine. This would probably be less surprising if ordinary Americans and Russians engaged in political dialogue.
I would, but how would you dynamically create twitter bots? Just create a swarm a make them reprogramable?
I realized that it was very tough for me to read the whole article from start to beginning, sentence by sentence, without getting distracted or skipping sentences.
I've always been a skimmer. With most writing, a good portion of the words can be skipped without missing much content. The web hasn't changed this for me. I did it before with print books including fiction for entertainment.

Sometime when the subject matter is deep or densely packed I have to make myself slow down. Usually this isn't the case though.
Gov'ts 18f: getting to work for the American people
I'd say that is by design.
My parents could go on vacation, enjoy life and come back from work with a clear break.

I am to be a coder, whose dreams are constantly polluted by solving work problem, uncertain of my future, hardly going on vacations, and I should see a progress in the fact my parents could be important and it was normal they had a life and be "reasonably" reachable, and I am not important and have a sort of intrusive technology not leaving room for a life out of work.

I would gladly trade it for my parent's generation condition of life, all included.

Our societies priorities are really not well adjusted at my opinion. But I need to feed my loved one and myself, so I shut my mouth, and work in this mad system, like everyone...but it piss me off to be still young enough to love life with her, and can only tell her we can hope we will be able to do it later ... eventually.

I care not about iphone, because I am more likely than you to become poor. I want cheap food, cheap energy, and healthy time to enjoy life with the ones I care for.

My only wealth are my friends (and family) and my friends especially are being crushed by the exaggerated amount of work we push in industry like banking, advertisement, distraction industry and the media.
What do we do to save the world? We code awesome softwares to have the feeling we help humanity.

Yeah. We improve humanity for the better good. Pushing a rock hard because you are scared, does not make it go in the right direction if you never put an eye on the road.
Researchers use cell-phone data, to predict crime in London
I'm not sure if I'm even debating you here regarding their current legal obligations? I was refuting the OPs comment claimed they got fat off of purposeful negligence of the law which is a false claim.

So yes In 2012, two years ago, did the state start caring about the business. Not the 4 years prior during growth, as the OP comment tried to paint the picture. They were a well established by 2012.

Civil lawsuits in 2010 have nothing to do with tax obligations. There is significant risk of running a business without proper insurance. These are lessons and failures new businesses learn. Whether you're a homeowner or an SV startup.

What happens if AirBnB becomes decentralized? The distribution of hotels rooms to homeowners is the new reality. It is now convenient that a big company like AirBnB is here to take the hit but the legal system is in no better shape to tax or better enforce property rights or deal with externalities, when hotels are no longer simply hotels. Which is why it's important to reevaluate laws instead of trying to hammer existing ones onto new markets and pretending its fixed.
Towards Crime Prediction from Demographics and Mobile Data
Capital gains are 20%, not 40%. And these are most assuredly capital gains. On $8b they'll pay $1.6b in taxes.
The reason is that not all texts deliver an equal amount of information or enjoyment per word.
iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
Also notice on a different branch of the thread, where rms says, "Guile is the direction we should go, if at all possible." It sounds to me like Guile, at least as Emacs' elisp implementation, is one way Emacs could go, a way it should go, and the way rms says it should go; all that suggests strongly that it is the way it will go.
Thats like when Obama or Bush use the word Freedom....
i'd have thought running a government is a massive hassle..if they could have the english do it for them for free, why would they want to do it themselves?
I have a cousin who is a barrister. She studied Ancient Greek at Oxford. She was hired out of school on the grounds that anyone who can do well at ancient greek can learn to practice law. From a hiring perspective, this makes a large amount of sense.
That demo is still using our short code - we need to update that demo to use our new long code product. Thanks for the bug find!
I somehow hope it's gonna happen sooner than later, just because that way it could hurt a little less.
What's not clear here is that the impact on global economy will be not that big.
Anyway, if they're called venture capitalists, shouldn't they be able to look forward a little better than the market? That way they know what will happen if they keep going on like this. A quick deflation of the bubble, with some notable victims, would be better than a complete burst. Especially for VCs
- Yes, I will
Jake, you're being disingenuous. Back in April I gave a detailed explanation [1] as to why I hesitated to make the proposed change. When comments kept rolling in I followed up in June with a possible solution and a conclusion that "if somebody contributed this, we would love to merge it" [2] To my knowledge nobody has.

I know for a fact that you are aware of this since my comment was in direct response to you.

And since comments are still rolling in (even though there is already an open call for contribution, with a pre-approved design), I am focusing on it again this week [3].

There are definitely lots of growing pains in how we run the project, and having any participation at all from you is super appreciated. But the picture you pain here is unfair and inaccurate.

[1] https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/2112#issuecomment-39...

[2] https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/2112#issuecomment-47...

[3] https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/7284#issuecomment-55...
Flip – A ReactJS Game
Nice link baity title. I thought this was about the new Game of Thrones book being released soon.
They appear to be using the term "slow reading" to distinguish it from online reading:

"One 2006 study of the eye movements of 232 people looking at Web pages found they read in an "F" pattern... None of this is good for our ability to comprehend deeply, scientists say."

I personally have 3 styles of reading:

- Fiction, I read incredibly slowly, and always have done.

- Technical books, I absorb very quickly, often scanning through parts covering topics I already know well, and spending longer on anything that is new. In any case, there is no "narrative" to follow, but the structure still tends to be linear (one topic builds on the last).

- Online, I read in a "spiral" pattern, skipping between headlines, then reading the first and last parts to narrow in on what I think is most relevant.

Reading every word from start to finish is an inefficient way to extract information online. If I am interested in a particular topic, I don't have to read just one article on that subject. 90% of online content is badly written or factually incorrect in some way, so over-committing to one source typically results in a lot of wasted effort. The better strategy is to speed read 5 or 6 different sources and then return to whichever one gets its point across concisely. This also tends to reinforce a bias towards content that is presented in small chunks with diagrams.

Over the last 18 months I've been spending a lot more time than usual reading technical books and I have noticed that the amount of time I spend reading online has affected my ability to speed read technical books the way I normally do. I have to concentrate harder to avoid scanning in an F or spiral shaped pattern.

That strategy works online because the aim is to discard bad content as quickly as possible. It does not work when your aim is to follow the narrative of a book that is almost always linear and is often more information-dense than online content.

This linearity is amplified further in fiction because it is an intrinsic property of the narrative structure (except perhaps, in "choose your own adventure" books).

It therefore makes sense that reading fiction helps people avoid the habit of scanning content, skipping over the middle parts. Online, the middle parts often don't matter because the signal to noise ratio is low. In other formats, that is often not the case.
Good for Scotland
Is 3D printing really enabling this? If they can make the measurements, I have a hard time believing that an experienced machinist couldn't fabricate the parts necessary. This seems more like a victory of measurement technologies that allow the requirements for a replacement skull to be precisely mapped, than a triumph of 3d printing. (Though I do admit that 3d printing would probably be a lot cheaper than machining.)
But how much would the Yahoo Japan stock really be worth if the world knew somebody was liquidating the entire Yahoo company?

I think that's your $9B profit right there.
A very large proportion of Scotland would not agree.
An openstack tutorial on Cinder, learn how to install and use it
SMS works on toll-free numbers now?! That just made my day.
How to not buy a tank: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/paul-allen-paid-2-5m-historic-g...
I would not think people would simply quit. They'd basically start to look for a job to beat the effect of all those other people being in the water. Of course this is no great secret so it might already be as if those people were in the water.
A larger portion, 54%, would.
Mel Gibson is probably crying right now.
Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate
Regardless of how you define brand, most of us appear to agree that the world has changed and so branding itself needs re-branding. I think all the responses here address that with viable viewpoints. The mistake would be -- just as with implementing lean startup on the product side -- is to believe that there's a silver bullet or "one right way."

The key is to digest the principles and eventually 'make them your own', so that you develop products, services and yes, brand, that are true to your values and authentic.

There are a lot of variables at play here, not the least of which is, how "disruptive" is your startup endeavor? If you are truly disrupting a market or turning an existing market on its head, your methods around brand development differ versus re-segmenting [Steve Blank] an existing market, or merely re-branding an existing market, or creating new markets within the innovation efforts of existing large enterprises.

IMO, to think that a brand definition is owned by the consumer is as foolhardy as to think it's owned by the business. This is why it's a relationship: it's two sided; it encompasses both the promise of the product plus the emotional impact the customer hopes to achieve with her relationship to the organization.

This is pretty straightforward, actually. And, by the way, measurable. Customers don't share, endorse, show-off, or refer products they are satisfied with. And yet, products themselves most often can't achieve an emotional impact beyond 'satisfaction.' So what's the difference between brands that satisfy and those that generate passion?

This is what The Lean Brand tackles. How do you discover and create a lean value stream that purposefully creates "satisfaction" from the product utility and "passion" from the emotional impact the entire organization delivers.
It looks like good things will come out of this regardless of the result.
How does one get a license to drive an armored vehicle?
This election has been a nice display of democratic ethos by the UK. It is very possible that everybody won here both Scotland in particular and the UK as a whole.
A Conceptual Look at Om (ClojureScript for React.js)
No need to fire everyone. Yahoo made $38M net profit on operations last quarter. All they would have to do is maintain their current assets and employees and the owners get $160m/year in free cash. Then, using their effectively unlimited supply of capital in the form of Alibaba stock, they could make some very smart acquisitions (think for example of buying an instagram for $1b cash and growing it to what it is today) and they could pretty quickly be a $100b company.

I am not not sure if Marissa is up to the task, but they do have a legion of smart employees and an insane amount of capital. If they fail to build meaningful growth now, it's her fault.
When Fear Makes Us Superhuman
A larger portion of voters, at least.
Well, it does—Girard found one. It also has lots of troubles with equality.
It is strange you are forced to purchase obsolete Russian military vehicles before you could take a road trip! I don't think we have to in Australia, nor in many EU countries.
Ask HN: Can Asperger's run their own startups?
Given the fact that Aspies have hard time socializing, is it even possible for them to run their own startups? Have you ever seen any Aspie run a successful business? If yes, what were the major challenges and how did they manage them?
I think pushes to get people to read more have been continuously going on since I was a child in the 80's. Some people enjoy it more than others and I think more people find reading books more difficult than quick reads - I'm not sure if this is time, access, or ability.

I also question their stress relief. It seems it might be tied to people enjoying themselves for a little bit of time many times a week. I don't know if the research exists, but I will guess if everyone engaged in something selfish or something they actually thoroughly enjoy for 30 minutes many days a week, the person's stress levels would go down.
Somewhere in the middle: "Typically, they use a special type of cement, but those replacements often don't have a good fit because they had to be created by hand."