skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, but under "systems" I meant systems programming, not sysadmin stuff. At the moment I'm working on a great gig, I just shared my experience of finding good remote gigs in general.
if you like this, you might like one of these

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I think a drone strike is pretty fucking messy. What a drone strike does is move the mess to a place that's easy to conceal from American citizens.
Do you mean a 40 hour 4 day work week or a 32 hour 4 day work week? I'm all for the latter.
A related TechCrunch story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8727842.

We're probably going to build a way to group related stories more explicitly, but manually posted comments will have to do for now.
no, it really is super unreasonable.
Hormesis as a general concept reeks of me of the "like cures like" of Homeopathy. This is mentioned in the article even. "A little snake venom is a cure to snake venom" is commonly used when explaining homeopathy. There may be some scenarios that exhibit this behavior but it still means your relaying on a fallacy of composition to turn it into something that can be sold as a life style.

Why do we have to simplify things and try to apply sweeping generalizations? The universe is complex. Things that apply one way to somethings do not apply that way to others.
That may be true, but unfortunately research is showing plasticizers of many varieties (including those used in "BPA Free" plastics), are endocrine disruptors.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016648014...
Good idea, I will make it available on github right away.

(until then you could check the source/.crx file, it's safe)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8727858
Look for "Android Platform Development" jobs.

That is, as opposed to "Android App Development".

Besides the kernel, there is userspace stuff like the OpenGL ES libraries, audio and video codecs and the Dalvik JVM.

You could also work for Apple, doing all that stuff for iOS or Mac OS X. (OS X drivers, and the driver architecture of the kernel are written in a greatly simplified subset of C++, but the rest of the kernel is C, a massive fork of *BSD on top of Mach, but not as a microkernel, rather Mach is statically linked.)

To be an Android Platform Developer, you need to work for a handset manufacturer, such as Sony Mobile, or Sharp Labs in Camas, Washington, or someone who makes the components, like Intel, which has development shops all over the world but is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.

There are a few Android Platform Development consulting firms, but not many that I know about. Most is done in-house, or like Intel, they provided reference implementations so as to move their chips.

Work for anyone who makes the chips that go into mobile, like ARM Holdings - mostly dev tools - or QualComm, mostly they do wireless I/O.
In reality it's the other way around: Antifragile sounds like a lot of principles in nature, or rather: observations about nature that have been made a long time ago. However, this article sounds scientific but really isn't, as others in this thread have already pointed out.
Might be a bit on the heavyweight side, but TikiWiki ( http://tiki.org ) might be a good fit for this.
[site] cosmo quiz for drones, cameras, activity trackers and running watches
Other then search engines what type of sites gain any benefit from this?

For external links, if you aren't a search engine, you don't know what resources need to be prefetched and even if you did you will have no way of knowing when it changes (other then manually).
For internal links, in most cases the resources are already cached and http 2.0 server push is going to fix the rest.

Beyond that, the API looks clunky - instead of having a "prefetch" attribute on a link, you need to add more links with special syntax to the header dynamically.

What's the point in adding this functionality to a browser? this looks like an implementation specifically designed to make only google search faster.
To quote Dobzhansky, this is all becomes obvious in the light of evolution. A challenging environment removes those cells that accumulate mutations. (i) In challenging or resource constrained environments mutated cells tend to behave more aberrantly and our immune system responds by attacking them (this is why radiation therapy works). (ii) Mutated cells will be more prone to pathogenic infection. In either case, we use the external world as a kind of extended immune system or to police our bodies against cellular mutiny.
I would say that this X hello world is needlessly complicated by things that are not strictly needed like WM hints and font selection.
Get some Hypem.com integration next :)
Yes, exactly. And not even 'a certain kind of food' but rather which food that you had already ordered.

The metaphor is spot-on. "Did you enjoy your meal"? "Oh so you can get me fired, steal my identity, or otherwise affect my life without my knowledge because I happen to enjoy a certain kind of food my boss doesn't like? No comment."

The reason it's a good analogy is because you already 'ordered' (the search terms are the meaningful data) and a statistical sampling of which of the top 10 results for "octopus hentai videos" a random sampling of users who entered that search term clicked on, is not in practice used for anything other than improving ranking quality.

it's exactly the same as "did you enjoy your meal" or what you liked about it - you've already given up most of the info by ordering in the first place.

so your analogy is a good one. it's just completely innocent.
Here it is: https://github.com/Exhibits/exhibits-chrome-extension
A lot of competitive games have uneven playfields. For example, in League of Legends, you have to play a gimpy fake version of your hero forever to unlock the real version.

In practice the high level players who you see on tournaments on Twitch are all playing with all cards (or max level heroes) available. In Magic: The Gathering this costs $xx,xxx (for modern) or $x,xxx (for standard). In League of Legends, this costs an unskippable grind, but you can pay to make the grind shorter. In Hearthstone, this costs about $800.

Notably, some competitive games do not have this property. In DotA, you can play every hero at full power without paying money or doing a forced grind. In Ultra Street Fighter 4, you can play every character at full power after buying the game for $40 or something.

Edit: anyway, the original comment was about "purely intellectual" esports. I think this means "0 execution" esports? Like, turn-based games where whenever you try to do something, you succeed in doing it, or at least succeed with a known probability instead of a probability based on a test of dexterity. So Hearthstone is definitely that, and "but Hearthstone has cards with rarities" is a red herring.
I heard on npr radio that the purpose of torture is to intimidate, not extract information. Which makes it all clear.

Incentives for information:
1.) Extract information.
2.) The information should be useful.

Incentives for intimidation:
1.) Information extraction is of no concern.
2.) The torture should be so shocking, and awesome, that George Carlin style many extra syllables need to be added to the word "tor-ture" like when Diane Feinstein says the supersized Orwellian phrase that "tor-ture" has become.
3.) The details of the torture should be made public.
Thank you for sharing such an informative article!
A less useless title might help (though "Unencrypted Data Lets Thieves 'Charge Anywhere'" is the article's title).

tl;dr, the first paragraph in the article:

>Charge Anywhere LLC, a mobile payments provider, today disclosed that malicious software planted on its networks may have jeopardized credit card data from transactions the company handled between November 2009 and September 2014.
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I'll donate $5 to the EFF in honor of the first person to spend that half hour to put something together on GitHub.
I applaud the fact that they don't seem worried about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that makes it illegal to create devices that bypass DRM. DMCA is supposed to apply only to protecting copyrighted works, but prosecutors and lawyers in general try to extend the laws in all sort of crafty ways, and usually companies are too fearful to try anything proactive.
Wow! Just amazing! I can't believe the amount of confusing science this video dispelled for me. This should be seen by everybody who think they know what a digital signal is.
Seems to just be a browser-native <video> tag with an overlay that pretty simply controls the quality/time/subtitles. The logic for the controls is at video.js[1] and the logic for the subtitles is at subtitles.js[2] (check the `playSubtitles` function for VTT[3] decoding). All of the sources (the videos for each quality, and the VTT files for each subtitles track) are specified as HTML attributes in vid2.shtml, the linked page.

In short, it was seemingly made in-house.

[1] http://xiph.org/video/video.js

[2] http://xiph.org/video/subtitles.js

[3] http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/
FreeBSD still uses this declaration style liberally (keep in mind FreeBSD is a fork of BSD which has been around for some decades, and it makes sense that there's some old code floating around in the kernel)
What is (was?) WF?
San Francisco and L.A. sue Uber
Installed it right away. Great extension, thanks for making it!
No, it's Cafestol, which unlike dietary cholesterol does substantially increase serum cholesterol. Whether it's the harmful kind (LDL pattern B), I've been unable to figure out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafestol
Incidentally, anyone who's hiked will tell you that the best position for heavy weight is at the very top of the pack. The reason is that this puts most of the weight on your hips rather than your back.
This is true. I haven't checked out the podcasts - will definitely do that!

The only other idea I've been tinkering with is an 'Elance for hardware' type of gig where hardware and software developers join forces to work on someone else's project. (Say John Smith posts a project to have two arduinos communicate using WiFi Direct and he is seeking help and willing to pay $350 to have someone work with him in parallel and speed up the project.

So we'd help teams find resources, talent, and example projects to help with products or concepts that they're trying to create. Still playing around with ideas. Thanks again for the podcasts!
- Vagrant is a given, wonderful.

- Packer is for syncing VirtualBox, AWS AMIs, and what not for quick and stable starting points, also wonderful.

- Consul is great for monitoring and running a services oriented architecture, haven't pushed it to its full potential though.

- Serf: n/a, haven't tried yet.

- Terraform: n/a.

We are still using Ansible as the provisioner.

Overall, good ecosystem, would recommend.
That depends. Does Keurig even consider this to be DRM and protected under the DMCA? Or is that just what we call it because that is what we talk about on HN.
The standard 5 day week in Australia is 37.5 hours. Our organisation has many people that work only 4 days at 30 hours.
At FastMail we do quite a lot of work on the Cyrus IMAP server. That's all in C! Plenty of C out there still.
You're welcome! Any feedback you want to share ? Do you like the idea of "everybody vote for tomorrow's everybody's artwork" ?
People, please don't show a continuous variable with a rainbow gradient. Two colors will do - red/green, green/black, red/blue. Too many colors and you lose reference. You see green and have to think about what part of the distribution it maps to; this defeats the whole purpose. Rainbows are pretty, but not the best choice.
oh man the feels, stay strong friend. mental illness history myself. gotta remember to stay safe and make sure others don't see you as a threat. try to do things that make your life calmer and more stress free. it's the only way to counter the mood swings.
Fun story, I literally cried in class when my elementary teacher insistently spent a whole lesson teaching BEDMAS wrong.
You can also convert to vmdk (for VMware):

qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk ubuntu-core-alpha-01.img ubuntu-core-alpha-01.vmdk
Wouldn't it be deliciously funny if the adapter was engineered such that all third-party k-cups worked, but Keurig's own k-cups ceased working. It should be possible; I thought of ways using electronics or a prism, but nothing simple yet.
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How to Plan a Great Map Event (with JavaScript)
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> Crimes aren't suddenly legal just because you do them for reasons besides profit.

Man, wouldn't that be a better world? But in the world we live in right now, lots and lots of actions are illegal for profit and legal otherwise.
We have people working on everything from firmware, network devices, kernel and virtualization development, up to applications doing millions of tps and serving billions of bits per second. Sounds like it's too late for internship but we're always hiring. I didn't see contact information in your profile, but get in touch if you're interested. I'll make sure you talk to someone relevant to your interests.

edit: as general advice know your basic algorithms and data structures in your choice of language. Focusing on C is fine, but I'd suggest familiarity with something like python to make some of the interview questions faster. Outside of that it would be good to have familiarity with fundamental tasks; word counts, graph traversal, streaming sorts, approximate counts, type conversions, etc. Oh, ask questions. Clarify and verify your tasks and implementation. Bonus points for sketching out some quick tests. Practice on a whiteboard, not your desktop, not paper. A whiteboard.
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Haven't used their full stack, but their "support" leaves a lot to be desired.
What do you use to do that? Thanks.
In general I want more politicians to be engineers or math/science types. Right now they're 95% lawyers, so they don't really represent the rest of society. I'm an engineer-type so I want to be better represented, I guess.

I think it could happen. If Aaron Swartz had lived, I think he may have eventually run for office. We still have some in the HN community who could enter politics.
There were some crazy conventional technologies also. One scientist, as a joke, did a calculation about the effects of adding mercury to rocket fuel. It wouldn't react with the fuel, but it would add a lot of weight which would make the thrust more efficiently move the rocket forward.

This was tested, found to be true, and thankfully never put to use in any actual rockets.

(For confirmation, track down Ignition!.)
Our support has been strained and historically been slow, but for the past couple months, our average support time has dropped down to less than a day! We recognized the issue there and hopefully you'll have a much better experience from here on out. "Bad support" is not the company we want to be. Sorry for the poor experience you had.
Aside from the fact that it would be more efficient to just give people money or food, a significant part of farm subsidy comes in the form of import tariffs and minimum guaranteed prices that force food prices up, not down. Furthermore these barriers have the insidious effect of keeping developing economies from participating in the global economy because their farm goods are untradeable. If you think farmers have it tough here, check out rural Guatemala.

I understand your emotional attachment to farming as a lifestyle. The farm lobby trades on this heavily ("my family has been growing sugar beets for eight generations, we need the subsidies!"). Change happens. The sooner we get the kinds of changes that stop farmers from growing rice growing in California, the better.
The damage done: Sony Pictures hack reveals more embarrassing details
My previous employer was. Getting Wednesday in addition to the weekend off was the best schedule I've had in my life.
I Will Not Work for Alcoholics
Let's make a deal: Amazon introduces haggling for 150,000 items
This is awesome and I like it. Thanks :)
If you are looking for an example of this, check out the PBS show Peg + Cat.
Protocol Buffers is great. Thrift generates much nicer C++ code but performs slower and wants you to do everything inside their networking world. I'm excited for Cap'n Proto. It's a good time to be doing binary IPC.

I'm still uncertain about melding the message format and RPC mechanics though. Part of me feels like network communications is just too big of a deal to abstract away into something that looks like a normal procedure call. But hey, even if that's always true for big systems, it probably won't be for smaller apps.
Why are they supposedly vulnerable? If you register your custom CA as trustworthy + keep the important files offline, then you're just as well (or badly) off as with a regular certificate.
I think the GP is basically saying, how would you propose to run an internet survey asking anonymous audiophiles to blindly A/B (no peeking at the bits) full and truncated files? The dithering is probably the least questionable part of the methodology.
Lining.js – JavaScript library that gives you nth-line styling control
A lot of this makes sense in the new deterministic model of aging.

It argues that aging is not a collection of mutations, the old/popular model, but instead a programmed outcome of our genes that never experienced selective pressure.

We are like a building, but the builders never know when they are done and eventually start doing counterproductive work that destroys us.

Kicking in a response to injury or pathogen may cause cells to run programs that are less detrimental to our continued survival.

Edit: Let me clarify that this in no way should be taken as an endorsement of the author's claims. I have proposed a possible model that would make the claims reasonable, but haven't examined them closely. There is a lot of quackery out there.
The only issue I've had with OVH and Kimsufi servers was that any incoming or outgoing SSH connections would also terminate on the first connection attempt. Always. Mac, Linux, Windows - it didn't matter. I've never had this issue with any other host.

I got so annoyed with it that I created a simple bash script that would attempt to connect, pipe the results to /dev/null and then connect again. Always failed on the first attempt, always worked the second. Their support weren't able to help me either.

The only upside was that it forced me to add decent connection error-handling to my scripts.
Hahaha. A 6-8 hour drive is short.

It takes a 12 hour drive for me to get to a city bigger than the one I'm in, and it's in another country :)

The closest next-biggest one in the same country is something like 18 hours drive.
I think the difference is that with a PR it's public knowledge if the government responds/acknowledges/denies the request. It's also easier to type a bill and email it rather than use snail mail (I'm assuming that's what you meant).
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Vagrant has so many bugs in development (network issues, file syncing issues) that I switched to manually building my own VMs to save time. I would never use it or any tech built on top of it in development, let alone production.
Can you imagine the bashing the internet would give him? Or the comments on how he should have written it in language x instead of y.
Lots of crypto is done in C, with assembly code optimization for common platforms.
I agree with you that the way we teach school is completely ridiculous, but 58 seconds for _preschool_ on math is probably fine. Ages 3-5 are really about learning how to socialize, play and interact with the world, and it isn't until about age 6-7 when many kids even develop an aptitude for mathematics. Scandinavian countries use a concept called "Readiness to Learn" and don't teach reading or mathematics until age 7. Your children will likely be much better off playing and being kids in pre-school and learning things like how to sit still as well as fine motor control.

That said, yes, public schooling is insane. We pile children into classrooms and then expect them to all learn the same subjects at the same rate. We grade them based on arbitrary deadlines and we force them to learn more complex topics without making sure that they have mastered basic concepts. How someone can get an 'A' and not know 10% of subject matter is beyond me. Oh, and in the US we force all children into the schizophrenic "No Child Left Behind" program which encourages teachers to only teach to tests administered at arbitrary times.

In any kind of reasonable system, children would be able to learn at their own pace, and wouldn't advance to more difficult subject matter until they had achieved 100% mastery. Montessori teaching has elements of this, but I think it will really take new tools like Khan Academy and "flipping the classroom" to make it practicable.
The difference is that Haskell has gotten way more popular in the last few years, but you can take for example Scala or F#.
CALeague?
Unfortunately, such a system would be very difficult for U.S. law. See this previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3968653
They really need to rewrite it in go. Ruby has been a disaster for this particular project. Don't even get me started on the Nokogiri issues. Everything they've written in go has functioned better IMHO.
Interesting. I haven't experienced any such issues personally.
Great job, Hashicorp!

Exciting to see the shift from clunky, heavy-weight versioned Chef cookbooks/Puppet modules that attempt to prevent 'server drift' by walking the directed graph for all dependencies with server convergence to true service registries like Consul and build images.

Amazon CloudFormation is pretty clunky when it comes to updating user data in the CF stack template that is passed to the resources. Sometimes it even thinks you didn't update anything. Having the file-based template update itself via consul-template seems like a more sane approach.

I am curious how the 'Maintain' part of the autoscaling works given that Amazon AWS has pretty crude autoscaling mechanisms available if you use only what CloudWatch offers. Hoping that 'Maintain' can be given a set of inputs on server health/application responsiveness and decide whether to scale up or scale down.

Also, integration with some kind of historical/real-time cost engine would be a great feature to figure out future/past billing for cloud services.
decent rant; makes sense.

My biggest gripe of visiting TPB in the past 6 or so years is just this: the inane, mostly porno, sometimes gamer-centric adverts. I don't use adbblock or whatever because I don't need to in 99.999% of my yearly transactions. But seriously wtf is up with the ads on tpb? I can only assume these are the only ad providers that are willing to work with them, which kinda makes sense but also sucks for legit users.

I wonder about the passive implication the writer presents here, that the persistent targeting and raids are related to their public relations and advert content.