skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the skills are a part of the vocab too, so to speak. Accounting, for example, has definitions as well as methods. If your department uses MatLab then trying to get the other department that only uses Excel is going to be hard. It's not just 'software' issues either. The ethos, the rounding of fractions of a cent, knowing when to run an internal audit, how to deal with Janet's crappy way of writing 9 and 4, all those little tricks and 'common sense' things need to be sussed out in a huge bureaucracy. Multiply this over hundreds of different fields of work, states and nations and you see why a training course that is not just 1 weekend long is needed.

Glad to hear your company is well run though.
It's a 4chan-style raid/social media harassment op. There's not much to it. It's what they do.
Google Play Game Services
Have you tried Masonry? It might be right for you if you want easier programatic use than NSLayoutConstraints provide. https://github.com/Masonry/Masonry
Concerning 'numerical instability': with a sufficiently advanced type system you should be able to save yourself from something like numerical instability. You could e.g. ensure all numbers have an 'order of magnitude type' and define operations between 'order of magnitude' types to raise errors for certain (ranges of) combinations. However, there is (AFAIK) no convenient way to express this in any language, let alone without performance suffering greatly.
Not libswarm, docker proper.

See https://github.com/bfirsh/docker/tree/host-management

There's also a relevant thread on the docker-dev mailing list
WinAPI is stable.
Thanks for your overview. I had not done yet a deep analysis of the FFI myself, your summary clarified things.
I did recognise it - been a while since I read the book though! :-)
"that ends with you getting bought by Facebook or Google regardless of whether you actually deserve it"

..and this is because Facebook and Google are not independent companies with their own self-interest at heart, but stooges of YC remote controlled by a secret cabal of YC alumni?
No, you're right. We have password managers built into browsers. That just doesn't work the way we'd like it to. Because of this we have the extra kludge of requiring extensions like LassPass to keep passwords safe and sync'd between browsers/devices. We know that isn't an optimal solution (but it does work...)

Instead, what we really need is some kind of identity management built into the browser. We already have something similar to this in terms of private client certificates. You could setup your browser to authenticate you to supporting websites via a client certificate. The problem is, no one is going to do that... it just isn't practical from a workflow perspective.

Instead, what I'd like to see is some kind of portable identity solution (similar to a certificate) where you could authenticate with your browser, then pass off public keys to websites. When you'd like to login, then the website queries the browser, and the browser either authenticates you by signing a message back to the server (with your private key). It could be quick and easy... hell, the major OS's now have KeyStores specifically available for just such a use-case. It just needs a spec for browsers and servers to be able to implement... if only.

It could also be a federated system setup outside of the browser, but those are also hard to get people to use (although Mozilla has done a good job in trying). My last two jobs (research universities) both had single-sign on options for web applications to use. It was wonderful. Now we just need something that the browser itself can manage.

This is a real chicken vs the egg problem, but if we could get a system like this, where we don't need passwords, life would be so much easier.

Maybe someone needs to re-invent Kerberos, or at least re-brand it :)
Terraform 0.3
The Nexus 4 will be supported by Lollipop.

Galaxy Nexus was going to be supported by Android 4.2 (I was really annoyed that it wasn't!) but the fact that it's not has to do with TI refusing to update their closed-source drivers for their OMAP 4 chip to be compatible with the Linux kernel used in 4.2. By the time people figured out how to update them, Google had given up on providing support. I'm still pissed about that.
Your link is actually the original article that this post links to. (It does indeed contain the quoted sentence.)
I just did a bunch more reading here on the topic in this article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234435/

We removed the license restriction and changed it to CC BY-SA 4.0. Thank you for the feedback!
And you'd be wrong because resolution has gone up. I can ably read very small text on a 1080p screen which I wouldn't be able to on a lower res one. The larger form factor means I can take advantage of all that extra DPI ably.
According to his HN profile he's a Googler
Would it be possible to build an alternative to AutoLayout that works with AsyncDisplayKit? How could it this be done?
Will they include a free sandboxed database as they did for MongoDB?
Shared memory also means that any modifications are also shared, which is really not good in this case. We could mark the sections RO I suppose, but then we have them occasionally copying things out of the RO pages to modify them which just bloats the address space (though doesn't change the number of backing pages). It's also slightly more brittle because you have to be careful about marking everything shared RO.

> Better to only share memory that processes explicitly want to share, and make it clear which one owns any given region of memory.

We are only sharing memory that we explicitly want to share: we load only what we care about, then fork.
>How much dangerous are the neutrons from such device? Similar to radiation, worst?

Neutrons are radiation. Also It's the worst kind of radiation because unlike X-rays or Gamma, neutrons make other things radioactive.
Hey, this is Madhan from Azure team. Thanks for your comment.

All great ideas and we are currently thinking though exactly the same ideas as well. Which of these ideas would you like to see happen first, what would be most important to you?
Awesome, thanks! Don't forget the gh-pages branch.
This has voice search. And I assume it will support "free" Prime content: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/amazon-finally-lau...
Oh, wow, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much for doing this. About a year ago I went through websites to try and figure out what all this HIPPAA means for my website but it is very confusing. It is great to have a template to at least start with. Thank you!!!
I see a total lack of understanding of currencies in most of BTC-related startups.

For example a bitcoin based payroll is like giving away shares (less volatility of course, but you get the point). If someone would work for shares, he probably will (think about) accepting bitcoin as payment.

In Silicon Valley people takes risks easily, but in Europe I think no one in their right minds will wanna do this.

Payrol automation on the other hand, especially for software companies makes a lot of sense.
How Do You Want to Be Recruited?
I've noticed a certain (understandable) amount of ire towards recruiters around HN. There's the mass cookie cutter emails/inmails, the lack of understanding about what exactly you DO, and a host of other reasons why this distaste persists. So, how would YOU prefer to be recruited?
Screen size and battery capacity are not a tradeoff. The bigger the screen the bigger the case and the more room for a battery. From the long-lasting tablet batteries we've learned that battery capacity increases faster per increased quadratic[0] volume than the increased battery drain from the bigger screen area.

[0] Battery volume increases only quadratically because the manufactures insist on maintaining thinness. It would be interesting to understand how thickness could affect battery capacity.
I had no idea this option existed, and like you I'm surprised this isn't the default.

Thanks for posting this, you may have just improved my Android experience by quite a lot (just enabled this, need time to see how well it really works) since this is something I've been constantly annoyed by and didn't realize this existed as an option despite being a heavy Android user since Eclair.
The only solution is one that can't be applied here: LockMart shouldn't make extraordinary claims ("Check out this cool fusion reactor!") until they have extraordinary proof to go with them.

Right now, this entire story is just a waste of space on a hard drive somewhere in Palo Alto, and no comments pro or con are going to change that.
Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8436818
If you're ever in Asia, I highly recommend trying out real (fresh) wasabi. As the article mentions, the taste is much sweeter and more nuanced. And it doesn't look a neon green paste.
iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 with Touch ID and Burst Mode show up early in iTunes
It depends on what you're doing. For example, good luck creating a keyboard in IB (especially with all the spacer views you'll be needing).
If I had to start a new desktop app now I would also go for Qt. I am tired of MS rolling out new frameworks and abandoning them a few years later.
Misleading title - this isn't about how to validate an idea on HN, it's a single story about how one idea hot the front page on HN and lots of people signed up.

There's a difference.

It's an interesting story, it's an interesting project, but the title is definitely wrong.
The Skunk works has one heck of a good reputation.
So, I have to guess that the Lockheed suits
had this guy's work and PR reviewed with a
microscope from tip to tail, math, physics,
materials, software, experiments to date, etc.,
including reviews by people who would have
loved to have found something wrong.
A similar idea was discussed here (http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/simple-universal-authenticati...) in 2008.
Solid-state floppy disk
Rise of the Rest: The Growing Impact of Non-Elite Journals
Yeah, thanks, I can see that, I'm just curious in what capacity he or she is using it.
AMOLED helps a lot with the "blast a little less light" aspect. It's not a significant difference in a bright room, but the difference is huge in a dim or dark one.

It doesn't say whether the Nexus 6 is AMOLED or LCD. I'm hoping for AMOLED, but I suspect it's LCD.
In my experience bluetooth speakers require a lot of pairing/un pairing work and extra menu taps, while wifi speakers are one tap once you've set them up.
Could you please link the study you are citing from? I'd be curious how it'd look after being equity adjusted.

This article looks at only founding teams which get the vast majority of equity. The study found that while less than 1 percent of venture-capital-backed company founders were African American and 12 percent were Asian, 83 percent had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian.[1] The study mentioned was done by CB Insight from 2010.[2]

This lack of diversity in the founders that receive VC funding may not be that surprising given the lack of diversity of the investors making those choices.[3] And it's not too hard to find other sources that say there is a lack of diversity at the top.[4]

[1] http://elitedaily.com/money/venture-capitalists-still-overwh...

[2]http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/data-race-gender-silicon-vall...

[3] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/05/14/swisher-wadhw...

[4] http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/06/272646...
A better way to present it would be, "I don't agree with all the points that people identifying as feminists in these arguments are making, for example XYZ. However, I strongly condemn calls for violence against them and think that the violence and threats of violence discredits any argument the GamerGate people may be making and reinforces the fact that we live in a patriarchal society and a rape culture where violence against women is all too common and normalized. Arguments against the content of arguments and counter examples are fine and okay, however the word of someone claiming they personally are being marginalized and victimized should generally be given more weight than someone else claiming that that person isn't. We can have civil and even enthusiastic discussions about how sexism manifests itself in the videogame industry (or doesn't), but misogynist violence is never okay and de facto reinforces how big of a problem sexism is in tech culture, and the way that both covert and overt violence is used to silence women.
Aneutronic fusion would be lighter-weight, but it's good to see another concept we can learn something new from. There are two aneutronic fusion projects to look at. Polywell has become a Navy project last I heard and focus fusion (DPF) is working on an all-tungsten electrode, after which we might see the very first experiment without electrode contamination from arcing in the contacts vaporizing metal.
You mean like denying schizophrenics access to the best drugs?[1] Sure the article is from 10 years ago, but NICE does have the reputation for denying access to new drugs.

"Thousands of people with schizophrenia are being denied modern medicines on the NHS, according to campaigners."

[1]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2538621.stm
It will be interesting to see if the editor in Visual Studio is re-written again (it has been WPF based since VS 2012). If a hint of that comes out, then I think we can safely declare WPF as dead.
I'm casting my vote for "Screen Size Too Big!" I can't imagine using a device larger than the Nexus 5. I'll test out similar size phones in stores, but it looks like the size is a deal breaker.
WPF is another victim in ever changing technological landscape in Microsoft. Who uses or even remembers these days ATL/WTL, MFC, OLE DB, ADO, DAO, ODBC etc. etc.?
1. The Nexus line is supposed to be something like Google's Android reference device, and implements the minimum common set of features -- up-to-date computing hardware and screen, reasonable-resolution cameras, standard set of sensors (GPS, acceleration, etc.). An SD card slot doesn't really add any technical possibilities.

2. Google probably wants to push the idea that any storage beyond local apps should be to the cloud.

(which is comically unviable in Canada, where you're paying $25-50 per 1 GB of mobile data)

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I recently got a Nexus 5 after a long search for a replacement for my stalwart iPhone 3GS. The lack of SD card was the primary sticking point, and caused me days of choice-agony. In the end, price and "cleanliness" (stock android, lack of shitware, doesn't fight software customization very hard) won out.
I'm not sure whoever wrote the MS press release really understood this. It seems somewhat vague/misleading on the issue:

"Docker will be able to use either Windows Server or Linux with the same growing Docker ecosystem of users, applications and tools." (emphasis mine)

"bringing together Windows Server and Linux"

"making available some of the best images for Windows Server and Linux."

http://news.microsoft.com/2014/10/15/DockerPR/

Of course, it's hard to talk definitively about something that doesn't exist yet.

UPDATE: It makes more sense after reading this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8460164
Show HN: This ‪#‎POODLE‬ bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback
"If I could get a 6" phone that was as comfortable to read on as my Nook, I'd be all over it. The e-ink versions, not the Nook HD. Reading books is a great use case for a screen bigger than 3.5"."

My next phone is very likely to be a YotaPhone, which includes an e-ink screen. The first model was terrible but the second model is shaping up very nicely. Perhaps you might be interested too...
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/mobile-phone/3504276/yota...
Debian + dwm = Blazing fast experience
Silicon Valley may finally elect a real congressman to protect the Internet
What does this have to do with the confidentiality issues that come with sending your full meeting audio and transcripts into the hands of a third party?
Isn't it an option? I remember IE5 having TLS1.0 as an option. Just because it's default not enabled doesn't mean it's "effectively completely unsupported". Browser protocol support matrix here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Web_br...
That's definitely true, and it's nice to have another set of brilliant engineers working on this problem from a somewhat different angle than that taken by previous brilliant engineers. Personally, I've become somewhat disillusioned with ITER after reading so much about their bureaucratic hurdles... but maybe they have enough talent onboard to pull it off anyway.
Women carry handbags. There's very obviously a lot of men commenting on this issue who cannot imagine that pocket size has been nonexistent for one genders fashion for a long time now, and so was never a practical constraint on device sizes.

Male fashion will just up pocket sizes in response - my dad when he goes traveling has a jacket he can fit a 13" macbook air into.
There's also a difference for what seems like a good idea in the context of a retail showroom and what is a good idea over a year or two of real life usage.

The TV with the brightest, most overly saturated image might seem like the best choice when sitting on the shelves of Best Buy, but not the best choice overall.
When considering displays, it would be best to figure out the pixel density per angle of view, which depends on the expected distance between your eyes and the screen. So if a screen is 1800px wide and you position it such that it takes up 90 degrees of view, then it is 20px per degree, or 0.05 degrees per pixel.

So a phone may end up needing a higher resolution than a larger monitor because you hold it closer. Although I haven't run the actual numbers.
I would have cut my cable years ago if I could have gotten current episodes of True Blood and The Walking Dead through streaming services.

This is a step in the right direction. Comcast and Verizon must be quaking in their boots because as more networks decide to go the direct distribution route, the less necessary their TV distribution services will become.
... for now, and only until the next time.
> I'm an iphone 5s user and was eagerly awaiting the new Nexus to make the switch to Android

I highly recommend that you borrow an Android phone from a friend before making the switch and spending some time with it.

Also, check the permissions on most of the apps on Google Play[1] (scroll down and click view permissions) and ask yourself if they're justified[2].

Once an app is installed there's no controlling of the individual permissions. You do not get prompts asking you to authorize an app to access your contacts, location etc. It's an all or nothing approach.

Some people will tell you to root/flash the phone and install an app to allow you to do what should have been a default OS behavior.

I switched from Android to iOS about 2 years ago, and will never go back until Google fixes up the permissions system.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.k...

[2] http://inc42.com/buzz/facebook-wants-read-confidential-user-...
http://www.motorola.com/us/accessories-headphones-speakers/M...
I wanted an iPhone, and bought a 5s shortly after they announced the 6 and 6+. I am sure I am not alone in wanting a smaller phone. Just because the newest one has a big screen doesn't mean you have to buy a phone with a big screen. I will be interested to hear how the iPhone 5s/c and the Nexus 5 sell now that their larger replacements are out.
And what exactly would that "app gap" be? I'm genuinely curious.
Hey there! Just to give some context from a ZenPayroll engineer:

ZenPayroll does have splits between multiple bank accounts[1]. You can split your net pay by amount ($100 in Account1, $200 in Account2, the rest in Account3) or by percentage.

Employees can even chose to donate a portion of their paycheck to any 501c3 in the United States[2].

Regarding BTC payouts, that's an interesting area, though currently runs into a number of wage laws. Many states necessitate that employees be paid in cash or cash equivalent. Bitcoin is not a cash equivalent (nor are more traditional value stores like gold.) Even ACH direct deposit had to be carved out as an exemption, to give some context on how strict these laws are.

It's great to see others diving into the payroll space. There is a great opportunity to help millions of small businesses.

[1] http://help.zenpayroll.com/customer/portal/articles/972807-e...
[2] https://zenpayroll.com/blog/zenpayroll-giving/
[3] https://zenpayroll.com/api/v1/states
That's a pretty fair criticism. But once you've gotten it, it's very powerful (incredible data binding!). And I think we need to be sure to separate WPF from "XAML".

XAML, for certain, is here to stay for quite a while. I recall talking to Carl Franklin about how Windows 8's UI layer is written in XAML. Given that, I think it's fair to say that the time you invest in XAML won't be wasted if you're a Windows developer. WPF may fade into the background, but WinRT will continue to mature and broaden as a platform (esp. as Windows 10 opens the door to cross-device compatibility)
> I fear the release the this new Nexus Player portends we're not going to see an update to the Chromecast anytime soon, if ever. That makes me sad.

At least Chromecast had updates and worked. My Nexus Q never worked as expected.
It's easy to be a critic.

Dropbox is a prime example of this effect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Taming the Bark Beetle’s Attack on American Forests
Exploring Angular 1.3 – One-time bindings
Interesting! I didn't know that Intel had such a feature. Most vanilla apps will run fine on any Android JVM, but I was wondering how Intel was going to support apps that use the native interface.
I wonder, did they really...
One of the most corrupt government could easily control media.
Bigger screen allows me to sketch more easily on my iPhone 6 plus, and use iA Writer in a more satisfying way. Just two examples of what a bigger screen achieves (for me). A smartwatch coupled with this will perhaps fill the one-handed (and voice activated) use case rather well.
you've got that backwards, bigger phones with bigger screens also have longer battery life. The increase in battery capacity by using a larger case is more than the decrease due to the extra screen space which needs to be lit up.
after my initial bitch-post, I noticed this setting as well. I turned it on, and will be really happy if this resolves my problem.
weird that it's off by default.