skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is much lower level than those. This is all about the TCP stack.

This is the OSI model, from the top down:

7) Application
6) Presentation
5) Session
4) Transport
3) Network
2) Data link
1) Physical

ZeroMQ fits in neatly at the top, layer 7 (arguably it is the presentation layer too because it uses its own protocol).

What this is talking about relates to network sockets which is around layers 4 and 5 (you can find lots of debate around the subject). Any speed improvements at lower levels in the stack would be seen by stuff on layers above it.
We need YA fiction of dubious literary value in the same way that we need minor league baseball.

This really hit me, because while I believe that most of the YA fiction is crap that at least adults should try to move on from, I also firmly believe that this country (USA) could use more exercise and reading. Even if it's just pulpy YA fiction, or going for a walk, hey, at least that's better than vegging out on the couch to some reality TV. Thirty minutes of reading and thirty minutes of exercise every day would probably be a good idea for just about everyone.
You should look at node, its back end javascript and its popularity is booming.
Back in 2000, I was working at a startup, and one of our rabbit trails was an IF interpreter for z-machine games on mobile phones. At that time, you could count on about 4 to 6 lines of text to be visible on a phone at any one time, and text input was horrendously tedious. Our founder approached Andrew Plotkin about licensing his games, and he was reportedly "kind of a dick" about it. Considering the source, that might have been projection.

I shudder to think of what might have happened if that company actually turned a profit from something, and this thing in particular.
Where though? At the end we're really talking about arbitrage. Places with jobs are expensive to live in, places that are cheap to live in don't have jobs.

There's no way to win, except maybe temporarily exploiting an arbitrage opportunity (i.e., a place with jobs but the cost of living hasn't caught up yet). Expecting people to do this is unreliable at an individual level, and disastrous as public policy.

Ultimately the only mid- to long-term solution is to help make job centers cheaper to live in.
I won't touch any OS made by a company that thinks installing a program that I wrote, on a computer that I bought, is a chargeable service. I suspect many hackers feel the same. It's the principle.
Should companies be forced to employ people indefinitely?
Google authenticator?

https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
They just text you a code. Totally works with feature phones etc.
Avoid tech companies that don't have vesting. Vesting is not optional. Everyone vests.
Gmail on mobile (both Android and iOS) both handle multiple Gmail accounts gracefully (personal, google apps, etc). To merge them seamlessly in the interface would be trivial.
>It's not a viable solution to just "go somewhere more affordable" when you don't have the money to leave and there are no jobs where housing is more affordable. What you save in housing costs would be eaten up or exceeded by the cost of just getting to a job.

This just doesn't make any sense to me.

So, you're homeless and jobless. You're saying I shouldn't somewhere else because 'it's too expensive to find a job'?

These people have an emotional attachment to SF, I get that and absolutely sympathize. The reality is there are many, many jobs in the Bay Area and plenty of them are close to affordable housing. Additionally, if they want to spend time downtown, most places in the bay are no more than an hour via public transport.
Yeah Carlin's WW1 series has been outstanding. I really had no idea just how hellacious things were in the trenches during WW1. History lessons in school really didn't get across the shear terror of being shelled by gigantic artillery for hours and days on end.
when i was young, the same people were railing against enid blyton. there seems to be this unspoken belief that reading should be "difficult" or "challenging" to have any merit, and that reading for pure pleasure was somehow not just suspect but bad for you. a popular phrase was "rotting the mind", by analogy with sugary foods rotting the teeth. even as a kid i thought that was deeply misguided, and nothing has changed my opinion since.
Animal Deception Illustrates the Human Variety
I think it's important to cultivate a skillset that makes you valuable in the market, not just to rely on the security of your current position.
I don't know if you can be sure, but almost certainly MS can.
Indonesian Marketplace Tokopedia Raises $100M from SoftBank and Sequoia
Interesting ... what's the logic in that?

Can you use it to get money (ATM or cashback)? I assume so, in which case this restriction makes it extra stupid.
Looks like it: http://www.silabs.com/products/interface/usbtouart/Pages/usb...

USB 2.0 compliant, full-speed (12 Mbps)

No external crystal required

Up to 1024 Bytes of EEPROM or OTP ROM

User-programmable custom Baud rates

Supports all modem interface signals

Baud Rates: up to 2 Mbps

Industrial temperature –40 to +85 °C

Datasheet:

http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/CP21...

UPDATE: On this PDF (page 18) it talks about how to set the baud rates. I think it defaults to "normal" serial baud rates but there's a way to modify the baud rate choices. At least that's how it reads to me.

http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/AN14...
To those people who believe this is the fault of tech - I have a question.

What is the ethical way to move to San Francisco? Or anywhere in the Bay? What do you think is a good solution to this, beyond some variant on tech people owing undefined amounts of money to everyone else?
Great idea. I liked the tutorial too.

I have some questions:
Are you planning to release a firefox extension version? Is this going to be free? I wasn't able to find anything about pricing on the site.

Nice job!
Anyone who is still interested in Interactive Fiction in the Bay Area, there is a once-a-month meetup for enthusiasts: http://www.meetup.com/sf-bay-area-interactive-fiction/events...

It's free, there's often pizza, and the group usually plays a few games together on the projector, or hear artists discuss their work in-person. Come down and play some games!
I understand that, but my point is that the only way to make this project succeed (out of your business of course) is to push to upstream (LKML).

Stick with 2.6 and backported patches are not near of newer kernels distributed as part of RHEL 7 (3.10.x).
Chicago Uses Data Mining Technology to Encourage Mammography
Which probably has more to do with him keeping active throughout his life, taking care of himself and a dose of good genetics.

We already know that exercise and a good diet can slow down the effects of ageing.
Well … I don’t think you can underestimate the threat of throwing Hungary out of the EU. But it’s also a politically risky move (there are large groups of people – maybe not majorities, but large groups – in many EU countries who do want out and any indication that that’s a realistic option politically, even if it’s throwing a member out, would provide lots of political cover for those groups), so ultimately unlikely to happen. Also, Russia would be more than happy to pick up any stragglers, and that can’t be good for anyone.

Honestly, I have no idea how the EU should deal with Hungary (or, if we generalise the problem, any member state getting an authoritarian government). I’m deeply, deeply uncomfortable with anything involving actual violence. That’s the Europe of that past and that Europe was a horrific place I never ever want to return to. The EU should be able to solve internal conflicts politically. That’s the issue here. And the EU can’t (and shouldn’t) force radical change inside countries – but it should be a vigilant watchdog for human rights. I’m just not sure exactly how to implement that in practice – but I’m certain I don’t want violence.
Did not expect my country to be mentioned in there.
I would agree with the training part, I would have no issue at having training be a requirement.

The rest I have to disagree on simply because I don't view nuclear weapons, and other primarily military-based weapons (air-to-air missiles being one), as "arms". Like I said, it all matters on how you define that particular term. Obviously you have your definition and I have mine. Thus, the eternal debate.
Please list some. I can easily think of books which follow the plot you outlined; I have a much harder time thinking of books which follow the plot you outlined where the main character remains normal through the duration (as opposed to finding some innate quality within themselves which helps them triumph over hardship).

edit: I mean, Harry Potter fits the bill you outlined, but is explicitly called out by the parent post as a half wizard.
My favorite feature of weather.gov is more or less stable deep linking. So I can deep link to my local weather and by local forecast discussion.

This would be a disaster for a clickbait supplier but is awesome for end users.
Twenty Things to do with a Computer (1971) [pdf]
Honestly, the workaround I always used for this is starring the e-mail or Boomerang it if it's really important. Also, mailing lists and social coupons get filtered immediately.

Boomerang is pretty similar to some features of Inbox.
University Beyond Allows Brands to Manage and Deploy Ambassador Programs
Let's say we can the glibertarian nonsense, because anything is possible (under your metric of oh, it may not happen... but it's possible). Why, we should pay the executive $10m/year -- because otherwise, the quality of the executives will go down, to the point that the Red Cross is less effective at its mission. I'm not saying this is necessarily what will happen, but it's certainly possible.
Huge props for the beautiful layout and format.

I'm excited that publishers/authors are taking more time into the design of articles they roll out.
This is the PR move of the century. This video will go SO viral in China. Faith in Zuck restored.
Sure, checkout Chapter 2 (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-13.html...). It shows how you can define data structures such as lists or trees from a simple pair concept and then define generic operations over them, such as map.

For me that's been one of the great things about the book, it shows how you can build higher and higher levels of abstraction from relatively simple structures.
To add to that in United States even if an employee is laid-off they are given severance package and on top of that they can apply for unemployement benefit and the government happily gives them a pay to survive on for about 6 months. Considering all of this I feel a salary man is in a good position and can find another job in 6 months.
Do you have more information about how you replaced LastPass? I currently use it, but anything better is nice. :)
I didn't realize that. I guess I need to change weather providers again. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Channel

The Weather Company (TWCC Holdings:[1] consortium owned by NBCUniversal (25%),[2][3] The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital,[4] exact Bain and Blackstone percentages unknown)

NBCUniversal being Comcast of course.

Thank you for the information.
I am a premium subscriber and happy to see this.
If that would disqualify then so would feeling good about it without telling people, it's the same kind of compensation.
And he could even tell people the same thing without really donating, so the act itself is actually altruistic after all.
The Ellis Act is kind of fucked up, dude. It's _not_ standard in every other part of the country. It pegs the buyout price of a unit by law, and hasn't been increased in quite a while.

Compare to how it works in Brooklyn:

If your landlord wants to evict you without cause, they must purchase your lease from you at a price which you can negotiate. It's much more difficult (and can be costlier) to evict you _for_ cause here. In a gentrifying area, tenants have been known to negotiate lease buyouts at upwards of six figures - and there have been some lease buyouts in the $MM range.

> never evict people and decide to stop being landlords

This is a pretty huge misconception. It's evicting people _in order to_ stop being landlords. E.g., converting a rental building to condos or single-family housing. It's a cheap way to cash in on skyrocketing real estate: the most you'll ever pay to evict someone is $18,000 a unit.

In most sane places, if a landlord wants to go out of business / quit being a landlord, they must sell the property to another landlord. They can't just say "oops, you guys need to all leave now!" For good reasons.

Even red states like NC have pretty strict restrictions on when you can evict a tenant, and "'Cause I'm shutting down the LLC" is never one of them.
I agree that the phrase "non-specialized" is a bit tricky. Ants are mostly non-specialized in structure (there are only a handful of forms within the colony), but individuals take on specialized behavior based on the conditions that their put in. I think stem cells could be a better metaphor.
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I tried it and found I constantly was sending email from the wrong account. While that's on me, it was evident I was never going to get it right either, so I went back to separate accounts.
That's probably what I should do. I bought a book on usb and started learning a bit about the protocol. Are there any good Libusb projects that would be a good example? Most I was were for using libusb to talk to an existing device class. I'd like a sample that contains both device and host?
his wife can speak chinese
It is not really all that hard to create all of the combinations for various ads. You can cache the optical flow[1] analysis of the source video. The optical flow won't change since it is determined by the source video. Then you layer in your ad projection, render with final result with the ad and the source video together and finally concatenate the rest of the video that didn't require projection.

Being that the screen time for these ads is quite short in comparison to the entire video, and the start and end times of visibility would be known for each ad placement you can just splice together the actual targeted video and not worry about the other parts of the video that don't have placements. Of course Mirriad may not be so heavily optimized yet in the workflow, but hey, they'll get there and it is only a few perl scripts with calls to ffmpeg anyways.

As for the servers needing to store different versions of the video a few points:

1. Storage is cheap, bandwidth or CPU is expensive. And we're billing the advertiser. Re-rendering videos for adaptive streaming is a cheap cost and there isn't generally a real time requirement.
2. If you don't want to store multiple versions and are using HLS for streaming delivery, you can just splice together the playlist of multiple optical flow rendered segments with EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY.

The problem is delivery via Youtube and being able to do fine grained consumer targeting. It would be better to be self hosted so you can use the various consumer targeting services like BlueKai and not have to build an entire segmentation platform.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_flow
>The underlying problem is that Word tries to be smart and tries to guess what you are trying to achieve.

The same could be said about most Microsoft products.
People are concerned about "Manhattanization". That SF will become a "big city" and lose its "cultural charm", if zoning rules are relaxed and taller buildings are built outside the main valley that runs from FiDi to the Misdion.

Well, you know what's worse than Manhattan? Miami Beach. That's where SF is headed, if this jingoism keeps up. You can't fight a mass of rich people who want to live in your town: you can only contain them.

Build, baby, build.
No and yes.

It's not asking too much that someone familiarize themself with your app.

It is asking a bit much that they care about it in the same way you do, though. As a dev, their job is to ensure it functions the way you want it to. As sales and marketing, their job is to create and sell the idea that your app will have value.

Anything beyond that is optional and goes beyond what you can reasonably expect to hire someone for. If you find someone willing to go above and beyond, that's great. Encourage it by sharing your idea and enthusiasm for it.

But don't expect it right off the bat.

I've been willing to take jobs because the tech stack was interesting, but the overall market was something I didn't really care about at all (sports).
Import your lastpass passwords to pass http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/contrib/importers/l... and learn the pass commands

Then get a backup solution (tarsnap or BTSync).
The attitude is little different. How dare those outgroup people challenge the way things are done!
It does happen to some people.

There is plenty of collateral damage when technology disrupts markets and jobs appear and disappear. But being possessing a stale skill set with no plan (or willingness) to retrain is simply irresponsible.

If you've sent out 800 resumes for a type of position and haven't gotten so much as a callback, you are in denial.
Regardless of his technical achievements, learning a second language ( and such disconnected one ) is super impressive. Great job.
>hackers who likely won't be publishing to the store or looking to make a profit

These people matter to the ecosystem. A lot. Today's tinkerer, tomorrow's app developer.

>The developer fee for iOS doesn't put a damper on the number of people who develop there.

Oh really? Not a lot of Free Software on iOS (or 'free' with a little 'f' for that matter).
> it would be nice if Redfin could be more open as a brokerage

https://www.redfin.com/
"WHY USE A REDFIN AGENT?"
"When your agent and your website work together you..."
"We’re full-service, local agents."

> Both Zillow and Redfin put consumers in touch with brokers.
That's a weird way of looking at it.

Would you say that BestBuy is just like Google Shopping Search -- it puts you in touch with electonics sellers. But BestBuy tries to connect you with its own internal sellers?

Anyway, Zillow has no incentive to provide high quality data / shopping experience -- they do better advertising busines when users get interested but then confused and need an agent's help. Redfin uses the website to automate as much of the agent's work as possible, freeing up the agents for the necessarily high-touch work. The better Redfin's website is, the more profit they make on a sale (lower cost to close a deal)
We are doing something similar at work, specifying exact few dependencies needed on the host and their versions (mostly docker, tar etc), then we make a chroot environment using debootstrap from known few packages and versions, from this we make a docker image (tar cf - chroot | docker import) and use this as base for build environment. We could use pacstrap or whatever too, the initial selection of packages is important.

For any package which we need to build, we have many packages with dependencies between them, are specified in a Makefile - because make is good at dependency tracking, but when make needs to (re)-build a package, it does so using the docker build-container-base image, whatever that package does is committed for later analysis under the name of the package built and timestamp, for traceability.

For every package built, the resulting docker image, with build-environment-and-package-plus-timestamp name, is run but now, trying to install the package and commit that image as well with 'install' tag. - so we also verify the install step basically.

Btw, this is for openstack, many components, packages and dependencies all over the place.
Can somebody give me the background here? What is a FTDI FT232s?

It appears to be a fairly low level USB controller chip? Is this chip (or its ilk) in every kind of usb device? What is the impact of this?

Most of this article dives in with a fair bit of preexisting knowledge - can somebody fill me in?
Try "The Stars my Destination". A quick, enjoyable (IMHO) read, where the protagonist starts off unlikable and quite literally "The stereotype Common Man", but transforms into interesting. Many Great books have characters like this (just look to some of Dickens' stories). I guess some people's biggest complaints against a lot of popular bad writing is that it is indeed badly written: apart from having ridiculous (or no) plot, there's also no character development, or sometimes not even any character (what does it say about someone if their defining trait is not a part of their personality?). Some of us aren't just bored by unexceptional characters, we are bored by characters that don't change, even if they are "special".
Then the manufacturer is responsible for using junk parts to save money.
One of the big hurdles that FTTP faces is getting the fibre into the customer's house. Perfectly doable, but expensive to achieve. G.Fast enables the upgrade to ~gigabit speeds without needing to drill through brick walls and/or ensure that the customer is at home.
They're pretty easy environments to make at home. The key ingredients are dry ice and alcohol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber
Mark Zuckerberg Doing a 30 Minute Q&A in Fluent Mandarin
Eventual consistency / Lost Updates at play? I have tried sweeping the "Low Priority" emails; whenever I clicked the tick that group entry was gone. So far so good. However, whenever a new email popped up and was classified in that group, the whole group appeared again.

Or am I just misunderstanding the feature and do I just have to mark individual email as done one by one?
Mp3s of the 'How to Start a Startup' Lectures
The content belongs to and was created by Stanford and Y Combinator
I would second this. It seems to use roots.io underneath. I'd head straight to that, which is what I use for WP theme dev work. Roots was my first exposure to Grunt. Thanks Roots.io!
His wife is American.
That logic applies to this too, unless it was the first thing called Fabric.
Seems to me most people are waaay too paranoid about this kind of thing. Refrigerators are a recent innovation.
There are many affordable and large and fast growing cities with great pay. Dallas, Houston, Boise, and SLC to name a few.
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No, people can just starve on the streets, that's fine.

Edit: this is a flippant response to a thoughtless question. The short answer is "no" and the long answer is: I'm really interested to hear what ideas you come up with when you think about it for more than 5 seconds.
“Meritocracy” and the Tyranny of Structurelessness
Open Sourced LastPass Command Line Application Now Available
SIEGE 2014 Investment Conference Lessons and Feedback
NC has a restriction on evicting a tenant at the end of a lease term? It has mandatory lease renewal?
Thanks, so true. If you're not immersed, as in a traditional program, you're stuck with catch-as-catch-can, which can be very inefficient. Things like learn Python the hard way are wonderful.
Did you know that Redfin is a very popular website with real estate agents who compete against Redfin agents for customers? And this violates the redfin.com EULA (real estate data is for provided for prospective home buyers and potential customers), but is not enforced at all?