skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Official title: "Does the worsening galactic cosmic radiation environment observed by CRaTER preclude future manned deep-space exploration?"

Interesting quote from summary: "Galactic cosmic radiation presents a more significant challenge: the time to 3% Risk of Exposure Induced Death (REID) in interplanetary space was less than 400 days for a 30 year old male and less than 300 days for a 30 year old female in the last cycle 23–24 minimum. The time to 3% REID is estimated to be ~20% lower in the coming cycle 24–25 minimum. If the heliospheric magnetic field continues to weaken over time, as is likely, then allowable mission durations will decrease correspondingly."

Fun version of the story: "The SUN has CHANGED in a way we've NEVER SEEN: Trips to Mars may be OFF"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/22/the_sun_has_changed_...
Would be great to see Pivotal Web Services (powered by open source Cloud Foundry - http://run.pivotal.io) added to Paasifier. We have excellent support for all of the runtimes you consider (minus .NET currently), and quite a few of the data stores.
Me and my buddy were going to work on a couple of projects last weekend and got bit by this.

The workaround once your chip has been flashed by the new driver is modifying the driver to communicate with devices that have a PID of 0.
Love it! I used it a lot.
Because they're intentionally breaking your property. Sure it can be fixed, but it's the intent that's worrying.

Simply refusing to work - perhaps logging something to the event log about counterfeit products - would be fine.
To counter your single anecdotal data point, I'll give my own: in a house of 3, we routinely reach 80 Mbps with video down and upload streaming, torrents, and game downloads/game play.
You are not the only one. People tend to share the negative stuff first though. No company like Telerik can reach this state without a value given to their customers.
You're damaging someone's hardware without their consent? Its essentially vandalism.
can you explain to me the advantage of archiving a message over just letting it rest in a read state in your inbox? I've never been able to see an added value to it.
It's reasonable in the individual case, but the effect is still forcing someone out of the industry for making blasphemous, err, offensive jokes. (not, as far as we know, being an ass at work) This seems uncomfortably similar to blacklisting someone for being a Communist, even if it's an emergent blacklisting and not a top-down edict.
Ah yeah, it could definitely be refactored. There's some repetitive code in there.
It really depends on the company and your role.

If you are entry level, I can see testing you on this since it should be fresh in your mind from school and you probably know nothing anyway.

If you have been coding for 5-6 years doing annotations and configuration heavy java code. Chances are you remember nothing and will need to study up. To me, this is completely useless and if your job doesnt entail doing this, I have no idea why they ask these questions.

I think what would be a far better option would be to ask you a few algorithm questions, give you a packet to study, then invite you back to test again. Because in my mind the biggest indicator of success as a programmer is the ability to learn new things in a short period of time.

I think this is why companies like google still ask these questions (in addition to being a remnant from the times when every developer at google worked intimately with complex data structures) is that they want to see if you can learn it. I don't think anyone there has delusions that anywhere close to 100 percent of their accepted applicants knew this stuff before the interview process, but again I think they want to know if they can learn it quickly
Yahoo: Tumblr to Make Over $100M in Revenue Next Year
Startup Marketing Advice from Denver Startup Week
Stress-testing basics with JMeter at Droplet
It's all stock video except the shots with the ad in it. Note how the fun cool skateboarding people are never looking at Inbox.
I'm sorry but some Zune ads were awesome.

http://vimeo.com/14784213
If you are on Google Apps, you can (as an administrator) disable Google+ completely. In that way, you won't get any Google+ stuff in Gmail.
Just finished a PR... I need that one!
Amazon Bars Googlers from AWS Re:invent
It's RedHat's 2.6.32 kernel, which is not the vanilla Linux 2.6.32 kernel. It's been getting backported fixes since the tree began. RedHat does not release what patches they include in their kernels, but luckily for us, Oracle maintains a project called RedPatch which publicly documents the patches going into the RHEL kernels.

As an example of how this kernel is not the 2.6 tree: On April 14, 2014, in RedHat's 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6 kernel tree [1] , there was recently a patch included [2] that affects the ipv4 subsystem. You can find that same patch [3] was originally applied to the Linux kernel on April 14, 2014. This is common practice, and so RedHat kernels more closely resemble modern kernels like 3.12 than anything else.

[1] https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git;a=shortlog;h=rhel...
[2] https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git;a=commitdiff;h=c0...
[3] http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?12,912195
What is LinkedIn?
It seems to take strengths from Google's email aggregation prowess + Mailbox-like functionality + Google Now integration. A smart play but yeah it's going to look very derivative in light of how awesome Mailbox already is at tackling the majority of the issues with email maintenance.
Today, we’re introducing something new. It’s called Exfil. Years in the making, Exfil is by the same people who brought you Gmail, but it’s not Gmail: it’s a completely different type of inbox, designed to focus on what really matters.

Email started simply as a way to send digital notes around the office. But fast-forward 30 years and with just the phone in your pocket, you can use email to send your most intimate thoughts, feelings and sexual fantasies to an undisclosed warehouse in Utah where our expert systems will analyse it for signs of emerging criminality, non-normative behaviour or just any juicy information that we can sell to some dude who's willing to pay.

With this evolution comes new challenges: we get more email now than ever, important information is buried inside messages, and our most important tasks can slip through the cracks—especially when you use encryption. For many of us, dealing with encryption has become a daily chore that distracts from what we really need to do - so we decided not to use it and to make sure that your email is always stored in plain text so that we can read it easily and hand out copies in bulk to all our friends, associates and subcontractors.
Search is hilariously bad in all email clients, including gmail. Google managed to solve searching on the web by just throwing enough information in it until you kinda always got what you wanted to know. But that doesn't work for email, because there just isn't more info to throw at it than what's in your mailbox. You need to actually have decent search algorithms. And those are apparently too difficult to write, since not a single mail client out there does it right. Grep does a better job.
I filter all messages with the word "unsubscribe" in the body into a "Bulk Mail" folder that I check once a week, works beautifully.

As for the per-category addressing, you can add "+flights" to your username when subscribing to flight notifications and then filter on that however you like...
It's a fair representation of quite a few of us though. The comment isn't a gross generalization. It's just a way of demonstrating the shared culture of the MIT Lab during that time. Which as it happens is also part of the point of the article.
The FTDI OSX drivers will still randomly cause kernel panics when the device is unplugged and a program still holds an open file descriptor for the serial port. While working with a company which was developing and selling products with FTDI chips in them, we made FTDI aware of this issue and attached many panic logs.

It's been about 5 years and they've still yet to actually fix it.
I dumped the Social and Promotions tabs because they're always there to bother me. I have a "subscriptions" tag that any vaguely noisy mailing lists go into and I rarely bother to look at it, but it's there if I want to. Rarely = once a month, maybe.
I think they understand the needs of normal consumers and made a better product than hotmail/yahoo. But I don't think they have a serious offering for business. A well administered Outlook setup works brilliantly and does not sacrifice speed or features just so it can be a web app.
You really don't have to become a psychopath to start a company. Many people do it all the time while going to school, raising a family, working other jobs... Now they may just be opening up a restaurant or dry cleaner rather than a high-tech CRUD mobile app which makes their "startup" less sexy than one run by Ivy Leaguers who swear by not-sleeping, setting dogs on fire for fun and mainlining Thai crank as their secret to success.

Those people advocating for crazy off-the-wall "one weird secret" cargo-cult schemes succeeded in spite of themselves, and not because of.

So really, becoming a psychopath is probably the last thing any aspiring business person should become. It won't help you balance the books. It won't bring in new business. And it won't help form and maintain lasting personal relationships that are the real secret to business success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SuTGoFYjZs

Linked is an excellent video talking about bloom filters. Done is a slightly comical style. Very informative, slightly funny.

Author's Site is Cube-drone.com a rather amusing comic about the day-to-day life of a java developer form the perspective of a java developer.
I could sort of understand it if the driver refused to work and popped up some dialog that said "You're using a counterfeit FTDI device, here's how to get an official device. Sorry this driver is not compatible with unofficial devices." However if it just silently bricks the chip then consumers will have no idea what's wrong. They'll think their Arduino clone is broken or they can't talk to their Raspberry Pi for some reason. I doubt they'll make the connection that the FTDI chip in their device is a clone and understand what to do to fix it.
Have you considered using Mailbox[0]?

I also do the Inbox Zero thing, and absolutely love the overview it gives me of what I need to do. With Mailbox, you'll "snooze" mails and it'll be like they get delivered to you at the later specified time.

I recently sat my parents down, installed mailbox on their devices, and instructed them how to use the app. Amazingly enough, they now constantly use it, and aim for the zero inbox (they are people that would have to write down what ctrl-c does, and didn't know about ctrl-z...).

[0] http://www.mailboxapp.com

EDIT: If it wasn't clear; I'm also very satisfied my with mail flow :)
...and I really hope that Google isn't going to force me to upgrade to Inbox.

If I had to wager on it, I'd say it's going to happen. User adoption is a powerful metric.
"Our passion is building tools that make developers’ lives easier." Who is "Our" referring to?? Since when did Twitter become Atlassian?
They appear to be libraries for iOS and android.
These bundles, categories, etc. that are being introduced really just seem like re-hashed labels. Why did they need to introduce these other methods of grouping e-mails together?
You can't really compare the different chip revs apples-to-apples. P6 was a completely different chip architecture with much higher clock speeds that IBM abandoned because it didn't perform well. They make a lot of changes in each chip rev.
PokeCall: Faced a problem and Found a solution in the form of App
The byline - "On the trail of the successful psychopath Sarah Francis Smith, Ashley Watts and Scott Lilienfeld" - is a good, short example of the importance of punctuation.
Huh, indeed they are not. Was able to pull a file off my desktop through Safari. Was not aware of that.
Video often gives you a better idea of how the product will feel to use, not emotionally, but dynamically.

Take for example Google's "Material Design" in Android L, you can read all the articles you want, but the concept won't make sense until you watch a video of the animation/transitions/etc. There are a lot of products/ideas like that. They say an image is a thousand words, and this isn't a sixty thousand word article.

I think it is silly to suggest that people who prefer video content over an article are "less intelligent." Instead those people want to get an idea of how the product would actually work in reality rather than just eating up all the carefully crafted marketing language within the article.

This is why unboxing videos and amateur product demos are so damn popular on YouTube: They actually give you a true-to-life idea of how a product would be. Articles are too carefully crafted, and seeing the product without the person interacting with the product is only 1/2 the message or less.
I hope this causes a major and publicly visible malfunction in some important device/installation/machinery, of course with no harm done to any persons, but enough of an embarrasment to really set an example, so no vendor will think of pulling tricks like these in the future.

Takeaway lesson: End users should never touch anything remotely FTDI-like, since it's probably impossible to verify if the device is genuine or not. Wonder if FTDI thought this through.
Comment on 3D design in real-time
Every large number sounds impressive, don't get yourself caught in that mind-trap.
Divide the number by their employees, check earnings/winnings, subtract investments, compare to other companies and draw your conclusions again.

If I make $1000000/year, that's great. But if it takes me 1000 people to do it, that's less than $100 per person per month.
To those who think inbox-0 is a waste of time, because you can just search for email, so why spend even a second organizing it: what causes you to remember to reply to an email sent to you 3 days ago, which is now the 119th email in your inbox?

I subscribe to inbox-0 because emails in my inbox need attention of some kind. I'm not advocating spending an inordinate amount of time organizing every email with labels and filters. Just "inbox == needs attention, not-inbox == I can safely forget about it".
Sumo Logic Launches Transaction Analytics
Just because its a decentralized system, does not mean the problem is best solved with a blockchain. It is but one tool in the toolbox.
Sending an email to inbox@google.com fails with the error :
"the user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that prevents additional messages from being delivered."
Everything you create in Broadsheet is yours! There's an export option that will create a .ZIP file containing the raw HTML, CSS and images without any link back to Broadsheet itself.
Does the $19 (not $99) fee to get an app running on a phone really hurt that much? Maybe for hackers who likely won't be publishing to the store or looking to make a profit, but for people making money off other stores, it's negligible. You'll make that back in publicity alone, since you'll make news just by being on the store. The developer fee for iOS doesn't put a damper on the number of people who develop there.

I'm not sure what you mean by lack of familiarity with the MS development stack. Javascript is pretty ubiquitous. C++ isn't uncommon either. And as I mentioned, Microsoft puts a lot of effort into helping devs get their apps running on Windows Phone.

It would help your argument a lot if you didn't spread misinformation.
I love Google Now, so I will probably like this as well. However, one thing I start worrying about more as I come to rely more on such tools is: what is the chance to miss something important? What is relevant is picked based on heuristics and statistical models, and it might miss things that I consider to be very important.

Obviously, human errors occur in a more traditional approach where you use an e-mail client, calendar, and todo application. However, it would be interesting to see how accurate such machine-learned approaches are, compared to manual methods for information management.
I'm not able to spin up an instance to test with this week .. but if my linux hosts -inside- my network can auth to my corporate AD (and they can!) I don't know why an AWS EC2 instance would be different.

Add the software, configure, and presto?
Peter says again and again how he did it might not have been the safest way, that perhaps he was lucky it worked out, that there could have been a better approach. He does recognize it’s all water under the bridge, that in the end, he got success. But just keep this in mind — the way they did it is probably not the best way.

Edit: Read Blog Entry 2, Part 1: http://www.peteradkison.com/blog-entry-2-wizards-of-the-coas...
The Securities Act has existed since 1933.
POWER architecture can switch between BE/LE via a special purpose register (SPR). This can even be done to support mixing BE/LE threads on the core. The software complexity of managing that, though, has made them decide to enable the entire OS as BE or LE. One cool thing is that the support will be extended so that the chips can support running either BE or LE guest VMs natively.

edit: Straight from IBM https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-...
"News" articles like these are really just pretty thin publicity for TV shows. The intent is to fill some space but mainly to get you interested enough that when you get to the end of the article and realise that it was all an advert, you're invested enough to make plans to watch the programme.
That was probably said by the head of the Crashlytics team at Twitter.
Cultures and times are based on the people we know.

edit: This is a silly discussion. Find a story in a magazine extolling the appearance of some athlete (for example) that has a photograph or physical description. Then look for the same thing from the 1950s, 1920s, or 1880s. Then look for the same thing in China, then in China in the 1950s. Look at the images of motherhood in advertisements. Look at images of respectability before and after impositions of colonial rule. Appearance-based decisionmaking is almost entirely culturally bound.
Kamcord is looking for iOS App and SDK engineers
In addition to the other posted replies, it's bad software engineering. You really can't be confident enough in your logic to ever start issuing DESTROY_HARDWARE() commands of any kind, short of the small set of very specialized programs that may be deliberately used for such things (FPGA programmers, etc). Any error whatsoever and you may end up nuking your real customer's hardware. Bad plan. Same reason why programs that think they are pirated shouldn't run around being actively destructive... some real customer will find some way to tickle that code, if only through bad hardware, and now you're in trouble.

To a first approximation, all code eventually runs. Relatedly, never put an error message into your product you wouldn't want customers to see, because they will.
Seems like it's a collection of independent SDKs for iOS and Android. Some of the back-end services that you can use with these SDKs are new, such as "Digits".

For Android, they also have an IDE plugin for configuring the libraries, which is nice... But does not quite make this a "platform" IMO.
They luckily did fix this in a relatively recent version -- try updating your driver. Still crazy that it shipped in the first place like that.

EDIT: just realized that I was thinking of the PL2303, which had a similar issue, not FTDI.
All they have to say is "We write our drivers to support our chips, if it messes with other chips that incorrectly identify as ours, that's just the way it went, it'd cost us extra to support them and why should we help our competitors". Practically impossible to prove otherwise.
Twitter's blog post on Fabric is much clearer than the linked page: https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-fabric.

Fabric seems to be a brand under which Twitter offers modular 'kits', or SDKs for two of its major acquisitions (Crashlytics, MoPub) and the Sign-in with Twitter product. It's unclear if this is a new wrapper around existing SDKs/APIs, or a new, simplified SDK/API for these products.
can you go into why this wasn't "the best" or "safest" way or the alternatives?
Why #Gamergaters Piss Me the F*** Off
I feel like both 'sides' are talking around each other here. Both have points, both are overstated.

Personally, I'd worry less about the headiness of these books than what seem to be common themes of characters whose defining characteristics are innate - birth as a demigod, half-wizard or having a high midichlorian count.

Does anyone still write about 'normal' people doing great things?
Here's what I got in response to my invite request:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

inbox@inbox.gmrservice.ext.google.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the relay gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com by gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400e:c04::e].

We recommend contacting the other email provider at postmaster@gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com for further information about the cause of this error.

The error that the other server returned was:
550-5.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that
550-5.2.1 prevents additional messages from being delivered. For more
550-5.2.1 information, please visit
550 5.2.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6592 j1si1502294pdb.1 - gsmtp

Nice one, Google.
And of the four SpaceX engine names, only Dragon is unambiguously a fantasy or mythological name at all. 'Merlin' is the name of a bird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(bird) just as 'Falcon' and 'Kestrel' are. It's also the name of one of the most famous aero engines ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin .
I didn't see anything about it in the article, but it also looks like it will either be impossible or highly discouraged to close the laptop lid with this plugged in.