skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every year Amazon looks uglier and uglier and I feel worse and worse about buying from them. I've already backed off and it's probably a matter of time before I stop altogether.
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Bank of Canada mulling ‘potential merits’ of issuing e-money
Valid concern
Wouldn't the air have been cold?
As a pilot, I have some doubts about the impact severity of these weaknesses. Portable devices of these types are not certified for IFR (bad-weather/instrument conditions) use. Of course that doesn't mean pilots don't use them in that way, but that the devices are not claiming to be sufficiently secure and stable for critical purposes. They are designed for advisory/supplement only.

Additionally, it appears that you have to intercept the tablet/device communication (either WiFi or Bluetooth). These attacks don't appear to involve falsifying or disrupting the ground-based or satellite-based XM, GPS, or ADS-B signals. Therefore, the attacker would have to be physically in the airplane with the pilot. A casual pilot using these devices is going to have probably at most 4-6 seats in the airplane, and probably won't be flying commercially. In other words, the attacker would be a personal friend or family member who then also perish in the crash.

I appreciate research of this type, but I think the impact is overstated, and I certainly don't want the FAA to regulate these devices any more than they already do! We have a clear distinction between "certified" flight electronics and non-certified. The non-certified are much cheaper precisely because they don't have to show that they are secure against all attacks or failure modes.
good, simple, basically identical to the code I've written myself when messing around with 3d stuff. nice to see a library that solves one problem well and doesn't carry around a lot of extra baggage.
"In the grand scheme of things office locations aren't that big a deal"

Office locations are a huge deal for me as it directly relates to how much of my time per day I'm expected to waste (twice) performing a mind-numbing activity while not even being paid for it (not to mention cost of fuel, etc).

I don't know the specific distance they were talking about in this case, Daly City isn't very far from SF proper, but as someone who lives in "San Diego" an office in "San Diego" could be across the street from me or it could be 45 miles away... and there's no way I'm driving 90 miles a day for work.
The UX of mobile settings (iOS, Android and Windows compared)
Google Wallet Shutting Down for Sites. Affects Chrome Web Store Developers
"I'm not a she".
"I'm not a he".

Guess how much I care?
Thanks for the advice! I'll keep it in mind
Google is a public company, and I think the average Wall Street investor is even more 'short-term' than VCs. In fact, it should be a surprise that investors are not questioning such spending. What insulates these moonshot projects from investor ire is that as an expense, they are only a very small part of the total revenue of Google.
http://www.launchnik.com/weaponio

This would do well in Texas. Except for the whole having to put in personal information to get a weapon bit.
They have made a lot of user-facing changes though, verified phone number, map search and map views for listings, search by distance, and contact info masking are a few that come to mind.
I just moved up from DC to NJ. It definitely modified by behavior. Down there, I didn't want to pay the five cent tax. (IIRC, I think the five cents went to Chesapeake Bay cleanup or something like that. It wasn't more money for the store.) Now that I am in NJ -- where there is no tax -- I still instinctually say, "no bag, thanks."
Warning: link plays loud video shortly after opening.
From the previous thread here[1]...

From what I gather Yishan went to Sama after closing the 50m round and asked for advice on company structure and whether or not to consolidate workers into one location. How/why that was even a consideration hasn't been mentioned to my knowledge.

...anyway, Sama suggested that they do phase out remote workers and consolidate everyone in San Francisco.

> to state what should be obvious, this was a decision by the company not the investors (also, the company made the decision before the round.)
i'm skeptical of remote work for early-stage startups. i'm not religious about it for larger companies; i think it works for some and doesn't work for others. if it works, great. if it doesn't, that's fine too.
the only thing i felt really strongly about (when yishan explained the challenges they were facing and asked for my advice as a friend and not an investor) was that reddit needed to be super generous to people that were unwilling or unable to move, and i think they have been.

To me this seems like it was clearly a requirement of the investors. (honestly has getting rid of remote workers ever worked out for the employee?) and you'd be naive to believe otherwise.

This time around the dispute seems to be over where the new HQ should be located. Reddit is currently in SF and Sama states Yishan wanted to move to Daly City...

So we are expected to believe that the CEO of reddit resigns after not getting approval to move the office < 50 miles away? I'm very skeptical. My guess is that Yishan was being ousted so that Alexis could eventually be CEO again. Pure conjecture but that's my gut feeling.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8398127
ESR's post provides a link to a long but worthwhile article by Jelmer Vernooij on the history of Bazaar and why it lost to Git.

The key paragraph:

We lost sight of what mattered for our users, focusing on features that were nice but perhaps not as necessary as we thought. We overengineered. We didn't get rid of the crufty unnecessary features. It's harder to comprehend, contribute to or fix performance issues in a large layered codebase. And the larger a codebase becomes, the larger the surface for bugs, the harder it is to refactor.

https://www.stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospectiv...
My knowledge of history shows no such correlation.

Russia and China developed through central planning, and free markets do a terrible job helping other countries develop.

The best outcomes seem to rise through some combination of both central coordination and market-base approaches.
It would be interesting to see a comparison to /r/startups
Yes, bzr is a DVCS. And when a DVCS is a good fit, you might as well use git! Which is what they're doing. My point wasn't that switching to git isn't a good idea, just that my guess would be that out of all the reasons why people might not contribute to emacs development the VCS in use is not a huge factor.

But, I myself used the git mirror rather than bother with bzr. And this certainly is giving emacs some publicity, which (as I understand it) is always a good thing. And if it's being spun as some kind of a push to be friendlier to new developers, mabye the whole exercise will indeed prove more significant than I expect?

Anyway, fortunately we are now in a position to test my theory, one way or the other ;)
If that was the case though, that it was completely upfront, I don't see why discussing this with Discover would be such a big issue.

I seems at very least Amazon were scared that Discover could insist that it has been implemented wrong if all the facts were laid out on the table.
I'd take a premature generalisation over a false dichotomy.
reddit employee here. there were no signs to justify your speculative argument.
Do they provide Load Balancers akin to what AWS does?
That's the official Vim repository, yes. There are a lot of contributors to Vim, but for consistency with the way Vim patches were handled before it had an SCM, changes are sent as diffs to the mailing-list and manually committed by Bram, rather than just being slurped into the repository with the original author information intact.
It has been a very busy 8 days.
Raspberry Pi RFID Door Lock
Since this is USA then misreporting of the number of bags you used is most likely a felony punishable by prison if you're black.

Recently I learned that you can get arrested when you switch subway cars, as it is a felony, not sure where, I guess NY. Perpetrator was black in that case.
FCT UNL (Portugal) should probably be in the list.

Back in the mid-90's they were teaching Caml Light. Most likely they are on OCaml nowadays.

The CS department is very strong in FP and LP languages and theory.
No. Go away. Nerd culture needs to be cultivated and rewarded. Full stop.

We, at least in the US and in Western Europe are no longer making anything. We are no longer makers. Sure, a few places make stuff, but the risk/reward idealism from being a nerd is now discouraged in favour of simply accepting what is by people who "know better than us". Sorry, most of what I know in life is because I cared enough to learn and grok stuff. I'm curious by nature and so are most nerds/geeks. If the sheeple want it easy, let them subscribe to those ideas, but never ever discourage those of us who want to be nerds/geeks to give that up.

I use *nix precisely because I don't want it to just "work". That's boring. This is why my kids are getting Raspberry Pi sets and Lego Mindstorm sets. They need to think it out and do something. Make mistakes. Learn along the way. Who knows. Maybe one of my kids will invent the warp drive or cure cancer. The nerd culture is what encourages the risk takers and the outliers with the ability to think for themselves. This is a gift and should be cultivated to the highest extent possible. Education today, sadly is delivered to the lowest common denominator in the class. This is why the West is losing... kids that cannot hang need to go to remedial learning like they used to, not drag the smart kids down. Damned liberals running the education the West.
Seeing as how Sam Altman is president of Y Combinator, and there's a reason Hacker News' URL is news.ycombinator.com... yes, yes Sam Altman was definitely intending to insult Hacker News and everyone involved with it.
I can't imagine anyone walking away from the position of CEO of Reddit over something like that.
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* Rents less extortionate. ($2? vs. $4-5?)

* Big floor plates available.

* Better accessibility (280 and BART) vs. a lot of SF.

* Less dysfunctional city government.

* No city-specific taxes.

I don't know the specifics of the deal. Reddit's current office space is rather...compact.

So, I'll accept that "Reddit must move" is a must. Where they move, and how it's done, seems like a fun challenge for whoever comes in as CEO and for the COO. Very glad this isn't my problem -- immigration is the #1 problem, housing and housing costs #2 problem, office space maybe tied as #3 with general cost inflation, transit, and traffic.
He could be talking about Quickmeme?

Here is a terrible overview from a quick google search: http://www.themarysue.com/reddit-bans-quickmeme/
Generally such a resignation is about being-overruled (board no-confidence), rather than just the particulars of one decision.

With ~sama's revelation that Wong preferred a Daly City HQ, the battle-lines could have been:

Pro-Daly-City: "more space, cheaper, less-cool, longer-runway, more employees who've self-selected for willingness to do Reddit muckwork vs. glamorous SoMa networking, outsider perspective"

Pro-SF: "continuity with current employees, top talent prefers SF, worth the extra cost/cost-of-living, more transit links, closer to other media/advertising"
The vast majority of UN nations are ruled by undemocratic and corrupt regimes. Why should they have any say over who runs my DNS?
This is very confusing to me. I'd say that maybe that's typical for other situations, but resigning effective immediately because the offices wouldn't be moved sounds very, very odd.

I would be really disappointed if a CEO left day-of rather than at least allow a transition period where a lead investor didn't have to step in. (Unless it was the board that wanted him gone asap?)
Samsung spotlights eHealth, VR and the smarthome at its developer conference
All told, Samsung’s approach to these potentially disruptive markets — IoT, VR and wearables — is more like Google’s. The company is completely comfortable delivering early products, innovating with its developer community as hardware and software improve with iteration. One can’t imagine Apple introducing something like the Simband, telling the audience that it’s not sure exactly what it will be used for, and then giving away all the intellectual property to innovators.
Because the whole point of being in SF is that you can attract talent that wants to live in the heart of the city. To put this in perspective, it's like a company moving out of SoHo and going to New Jersey. It's technically not that far away but once you're out there, you're not within walking distance to everything the city has to offer (food, culture, etc.).
It strongly affects behavior but also perception of shopping, making it even more miserable.
While I'm speculating, I'd imagine the advantage is simply that you can get more space for less money. Daly City is (in a very relative sense) inexpensive, especially given its proximity to SF.

The downside is that Daly City doesn't really have anything to offer but cheaper rents; I suspect it'd be a terrible place to be stuck in for lunchtime and after-work options, nor from what I've seen would it be a terribly pleasant place to live. (That's subjective, of course.) Being in SoMa is a job perk in and of itself, given how many interesting things are within walking distance. If you're going to move out of SF there are considerably more interesting places to target that would still be within relatively quick BART or Caltrain commuting distance.
Do you still limit line length in code?
> Visual Studio needs the Resharper plugin by IntelliJ, to be able to call it a modern IDE

You didn't say what Resharper does, and why other IDE's need it to be called modern. Is this an advert for Resharper?

> like Scala, Python, Ruby, Javascript, PHP, Clojure and Groovy

You listed one middling language among 6 top languages. Is this another advert, trying to promote a language by associating it with the oft used ones?
Also use "hashknownhosts yes" in your user ssh config file. Makes it another level harder to see where you went, though a compromised root would see all of the logs.
Is anyone else seeing a blank confirmation page when trying to sign up? http://i.imgur.com/faztegP.png
Yes.

It is quite common to cache methods (selectors) or just re-write them in the C subset, when optimizing code.
Musk wants to colonize and live in Mars and Page is the most ambitious CEO of the universe?
they just launched http://www.reddit.com/live

UX changes are the reason Digg died.
Really douche to use a computer science term as your product name, are they going to trade mark that or are the just happy with the confusion it will cause.
This was wise, thank you. People who revise their ambitions are interesting... What proximate cause led to your admission to yourself that you didn't like fiction-writing?

Did you know that Winston Churchill wanted to be an adventure author? 'Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania is the only fictional work of Sir Winston Churchill... Savrola is in many respects a conventional example of the "Ruritanian" genre, being published just four years after the classic The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope...' Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savrola
OP here. I'm considering the following. 45% of revenue while I'm with the company and maintaining the site. If I leave, I get 20% of profits for 3 years or while my code base is being used, whichever is shorter. How does that sound?
> she is pretty pissed off about the problem

The problem she was pissed off about was lack of visibility into the performance data of the program, not its structure. There is no mention of a problem with how it is structured; in fact, there is a reference to another promotion, "free holiday shipping", which very conceivably would be structured the same way. Offer a promo to Discover card users, promote Discover card without going so far as to tie it exclusively to conversions.

The Amazon's subsequent email, cited by BI, notes that they resolved this visibility problem with Discover and they approved continuing the program within its original budget. That really goes against the notion that Discover had a different impression about how it was supposed to operate.
Mark Udall to consider all options to reveal CIA torture report
[I'm with Iron.io]

Similar, yes. We're excited that developers are seeing the power of the task/worker/lambda being the scalable unit of work rather than server or VM or even container.

Haven't used Lambda much yet but off hand we see many IronWorker advantages:

- Supports all languages
- Easily scale to thousands of parallel workers
- Integrated logging, error reporting, alerts, auto-retries on failure
- Integration with IronMQ our queue service to achieve stream processing and pipelining
- A great dashboard to manage your workers/tasks

And many innovations/announcements coming soon that'll make using IronWorker a great choice for developers both on AWS and inside the enterprise firewall.
Not to mention half of the user accounts at reddit are just stupid novelty accounts...

I'm exaggerating of course, but there are still a ton of novelty/alt accounts that people create on reddit.
It is not your responsibility to touch their code in any way.

The POS that we integrate with makes changes all the time. Sometimes, these affect our product & we have to fix them. It not a single circumstance have we ever asked them to fix the errors, nor would we.

I would stop doing any maintenance work for your customers immediately. I don't know if the examples you mentioned are just edge-cases, but to help them, you can just communicate what you have changed, why etc, so at least they are aware before their issues begin.
Why are you down-voting this person? They are not trolling. They're only advising a little restraint.

Honestly, calling this doxing is pretty accurate. Before that user posted her LinkedIn profile, she was an anonymous figure in this dispute which, frankly, was all that was relevant to HN. Now, through LinkedIn, she will potentially receive hate mail and, with an identifying image, is more likely to be pinpointed on other platforms which may reveal more personal information about her.

People should remember that there is a lot about this situation that they don't know. This man who was fired from Amazon may have a legitimate grievance and he may not. Things might look one way when described on paper, but could have seemed quite different in real life. We could be (and probably are) missing out on a lot of important details that only eye-witnesses could be aware of.
Please delete some of your dashes, they are breaking layout.
Design education is "tragic" says Jonathan Ive
> HN could stand to borrow some of these improvements

Which ones, besides comment collapsing (which we definitely intend to do)?
> It’s interesting to note that during my very brief tenure [8 days], reddit added more users than Hacker News has in total.

Interesting, indeed.
CL isn't successful because of its terrible UI- it is simply a social network that happened to have capture the largest slice of the market.
I was wondering if they can apply the same concept to recyclable materials? Charge around 50 cents for each bottle extra, but then get refunded 50 cents when you recycle the bottle so it causes the customer to recycle more and if not, someone else will pick up the bottle themselves
Well paul graham did say "You could parachute [Sam] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king."
Probably not. This appears to be the Mark 3 "Fat Man" fission bomb developed by the U.S. during WWII and represents one of the few actual nuclear weapons whose designs are known in reasonable detail (due to the age of the design and some impressive historical detective work[1]).

The detailed layout of components in a real hydrogen bomb is still officially secret and a matter of much speculation. Journalist and activist Howard Morland pieced together a rough outline from unclassified sources and the government sued to block publication of his article.[2]

That suit had the practical effect of confirming at least some of Morland's deductions, and much additional information has come to light since then including at least one alleged cutaway of a real weapon[3].

[1] e.g. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john

[2]http://fas.org/sgp/eprint/cardozo.html

[3] http://rafaelminuesa.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/morland_ima...
Each subreddit needs a good set of mods, especially when there are thousands of subscribers.

Once a subreddit hits some magic number, it devolves into a stream of image links to "hey I made a cake/painting/object with [subject of subreddit] on it".

Mods can very easily guide users toward discussion. r/atheism infamously banned images altogether, and aside from the "REVOLT I WANT MEMES IN MY R/ATHEISM" posts, people actually started talking again. r/twoxchromosomes has a no-images-unless-it's-Friday rule.
Thanks for your feedback! We'll keep iterating on the onboarding process. I'd love to hear more about your feedback using the app.
He replied on reddit :

Splitting time! There's a small reddit office in NY.

edit: The team is moving to SF and I'll get a cot in the office.

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2m7pf5/coming_home/cm1...
I assumed he was just poking fun at the home team, but it's nice to see HN users arise passionately in its defense.
I agree 100% that the correct course of action for Reddit is to remain the same so far as growth keeps moving forward and no alternative threats pop up. My point is that the growth credit should go to those who built the machine that is still being used almost exactly as they left it.

What I can say is that Yishan was successful leading the reddit team in keeping up with reddit's growth from an infrastructure standpoint. No small task, especially since Reddit was crashing and burning all the time before he came on board but you don't see reddit go down due to load nearly as much these days (even at 5x usage). Bottom line, praise him for that -- keeping up with the growth, not driving growth that probably would have occurred regardless of who was in the captain's chair.
It's amazing to me how much easier the process is for this nowadays. We really live in an exciting time.
> I don't have the source handy, but in the US workplace legal disputes is the number one costs to companies.

You're really going to have to qualify that somehow. It can't possibly be close to true in that form.
Surely you can afford more than $450/mo ??
> This isn't really true. Most businesses don't do thorough background checks and the frequency of people claiming fake degrees w/o getting caught is proof of that.

That depends more on how well the hiring decision makers at the companies you apply to network. Even in a large metro area like Los Angeles chances are that if you are in management at a software company you will have a second degree connection with someone at an applicant's previous employer. You might not get blacklisted from "software," but you might be blacklisted from companies funded by a particular VC firm, or where managers attend the same CTO meetups, etc.

Answering unsolicited reference requests is supposed to be an invitation to defamation lawsuits, but in my experience it's the norm and not the exception.
"putting someone in their place" and "wise public statement from company executive" rarely go together.
You are mixing the point here, the speculation is true.
Most states in the USA do exactly this already.
Now that you say it, I'm sure we'll see wrappers to support this type of thing. For instance, I could imagine a django library that provides a declarative way to wire Django signals to AWS Lambda functions.

lambda_signal(Model, signal_name, lambda_fn_name)

When that signal fired on the model, the model would get serialized to JSON and sent to the lambda function. It'd be fun to whip this up if no one beats me to the punch.

lambda_signal(User, 'post_save', 'sync_to_mailchimp')