skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My previous boss used to say that there are two types of engineers - ones that had caused a major outage and ones that never did - and he preferred working with the 1st group as they were naturally more careful.
These articles are essentially clickbait. The Angular docs themselves say "this is not a low-level framework, if you need that, use something such as jQuery"!
Looks nice and all, but what sets you apart from Rapha/ Castelli/ Assos/ Louis Garneau/ Primal/ all of the other companies that made mid-high range bibs?
Anyone else read that as "wessel" with a fake Russian accent?
>" I've seen worse conditions in both Costa Rica ... "

It depends on your definition of worse. In Cuba there was a general shortage of several basic items (toilet paper, eggs, meat... etc.) were most people (the only exception is the political class) have to face rationing and long lines. As far as I know that is inexistent in Costa Rica.
I started using iTerm2 some years ago. I tried the built-in Terminal.app again earlier this year, just to see if it would work for me, and couldn't figure out how to easily "fix" the keyboard input so that terminal-mode Emacs works as expected, with respect to key sequences involving meta. iTerm2's preferences panel makes the same "fix" quite simple, so I'll be sticking with it for the time being.
Unemployment is a feature of a regulated capitalist economy. The primary source of unemployment is the minimum wage. There are a nearly unlimited source of jobs available if you would accept $1/hour as payment, and if you have no other employment then at least it gets you experience/recommendations and enough to buy some food.

The minimum wage is a trade off. You create e.g. 10% unemployment so that the ~4.3% of people who make the minimum wage (and still have jobs) can make $7.25/hour instead of $5 or $3. There is a legitimate question as to whether this is the right trade off, but people seem to be in favor of it.
I was just about to switch over to Guile-WM on my desktop today, but it doesn't look like it has virtual desktop support, which kind of kills it for me for the time being. Otherwise it ticks pretty much all the right boxes.
Twin Peaking Crowdfunding
small, niche startups usually have poor uptime on their services. we commend them if they have a year up (hell, if they still exist after a year), but criticize Google for being down once every few years.

therefore, if you want to bring in the analogy of startups and Google, it should be even more impressive that small countries (viz. people in small countries, viz. Cuba) live longer than Google (viz. people in large countries, viz. United States).
Last ShiftIt release was in 2012. And it requires XQuartz for some reason.

On the other hand, Spectacle (also open source) is supported and it doesn't require XQuartz. That said, I don't like Spectacle default shortcuts (hard to remember for me and there's a conflict with Chrome switch-tab command). I now use http://spectacleapp.com, but with ShiftIt-inspired configuration:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt/develop/d...
They've put in payment sending -- I think FB does this too.

Also have advertised spots. They're definitely trying to expand.
Looks nice. But to chime in with all the other comments, why should I chose your product over the ones I currently buy?

I'm not sure on how custom printing stuff on this kind of fabric works, but I would be really interested in a service that allows me to pick colours. Or perhaps add my name or something to small quantities of bibs (like 1 or 2).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7382390
The practical difference is that any laws regulating the kinds of things that can be done on US soil do not apply to Guantanamo Bay.
> Broadly speaking, Marissa's big weakness is that she's a tad naive.

Is naiveté something a CEO (of a massive company) should be given a pass on?
Sentiment Analysis on Web-Scraped Data
> - Physicians per 10,000 people: Cuba has 67

2nd highest in the world, behind Monaco (70):
http://kff.org/global-indicator/physicians/

For comparison: Sweden (38), UK (27), Japan (21), Canada (20)

Makes you wonder if that number has any significance at all. Japan has 1/3rd the number of doctors, but the highest life expectancy in the world.
If you're serious about this idea, you should run it by some of your friends/ co-workers that you respect. If they seem excited by it, continue to develop the idea with them and bounce ideas off them. Once you gather a group of people that work well together and have a general understanding of the problem/solution, start building an MVP. Competing with Amazon, Ebay, Craigslist, etc is extremely difficult because of positive network effects. Building a product to compete with the bigs guys is going to require an enormous amount of effort and a team that seriously believes in the product. If this is something you're set on gather a small team and get to building and tweaking. You may find that your competitive advantage doesn't exist, but you may also find that you can deliver in a way/space that the big guys can't. The key, however, is to get to building and chasing down users like there's nothing else that matters. Like others on here have said ideas are a dime a dozen, so just get to building.
I really like that term. Is that your own?
This over-hyped crap again? Humbug!

Call me when someone solves the REAL problem, which is the energy budget needed to make the amount of light people actually want.

That'll probably involve some way to shunt externally-generated electrical power into the tree.
"For Snapchat to capitalize on market conditions in next 3 years, it is imperative that we become a revenue-generating company," .. no shit, sherlock.
I wouldn't say that's exclusive to Apple or something they came up with - sounds like sales 101 to me.
There's a free book available on the subject of semaphores:

The Little Book of Semaphores
by Allen Downey

http://greenteapress.com/semaphores/
That is a pretty strong accusation. What is your source?
> Were there enough code reviews? Did automated testing fail here?

I really do love tests and all but they only get you so far. In fact you're way more often bitten by things that are outside of your frame of reference and therefore these are not the ones you take into account when designing testing pipeline.
Flaw in your plan: what if the deal doesnt work out? who compensates the agent? The 6% fee is amortized over the 9 clients that didn't work out - each has phone calls, paperwork, organizing, travelling.

From the agents perspective: Its a much harder job than you imagine. You have no control over the quality of your product, or its pricing. Also you can do just a few visits per day.

From the landlords perspective: When you own several properties you will have better things to do with your time than do a real estate agents job.

Anyhow the issue isn't with real estate agents. Its with asset inflation vs wage stagnation. Start complaining about that instead !
I'm also not sure whether the flooding of subsidized US agricultural products will benefit the poorest in Cuba. Take Haiti for instance that went from self sufficiency to a net importer of rice when local producers can't compete with US subsidies.
Seriously. I saw a video from a major oil company (Exxon IIRC) sponsoring a demo day. "We want to power the cities of the future" it said. Those cities were dozens of skyscrapers filled with electricity -- people watching giant televisions, using giant iPads, every thing in their home, work and street just glowing.
That was at port, though. This ship is planned to spend 25 years at sea. Certainly a ship carrying divers would have to get close enough so as to be obvious.
The previous link just takes me to the FANG homepage frameset, which doesn't have any functions visible on it to me. This is a common problem with linking to framesets. Or is it some kind of problem in my browser, and other people see functions in UNIVAC assembly when they follow that link?

(FWIW, I think it's fairly normal for macro assemblers to be Turing-complete, although some of them carry it off more gracefully than others.)
Hey Cryptoz, thanks!

We do make use of weather and climate data in some of our models and visualizations. For instance, we use the gridded precip AHPS dataset from the National Weather Service to determine water accumulation at the field. We also use some large temperature datasets.

In the past, we experimented with using the DarkSky API to alert farmers (while in the field) that rain is coming. We've since dropped that feature.

In any case, we generally make use of remote sensed data and are not deploying sensors on farm.
Here's his response to the leak: https://twitter.com/evanspiegel/status/545308400829997056
I don't know much about anything and generally share his view of the market... That there is a correction coming, and it will hit tech.
How was that for people who buy food, though? You have to look at the whole system, not just at one group that might lose out.
Terminal.app doesn't quite have the right default set of bindings, but iTerm2 also has some wrong bindings around the meta key.

If you want to enable option-as-meta in Terminal.app, you select the Profile you want in preferences, go to the Keyboard tab, and there's a checkbox at the bottom. This is also where you can customize the bindings for various key sequences, if you think they're wrong.
This information makes a lot of sense, and should be on the landing page as (one of) the main selling point(s).
Indeed. Given that this research showed these particular studied effects were specific to particular muscles that were being exercised, it seems unlikely to transfer through entirely different set of cells and into offspring.

In fact, my uneducated first guess would be that the different methylation patterns are related to the actual buildup in strength, which itself would require some way of coding for the expression of certain genes differently in one set of muscle cells than in another.
because they can reduce their decision making to a spreadsheet.
Thanks for sharing, we've been looking for solutions to do this for a while. This looks like a good tool. Let me know how it goes if you try it out.
I checked out Optimal Layout. It seems possibly useful at first glance, but I already had to disable it, because there's no way to turn off the keyboard shortcuts while in specific apps, and I need to have the keyboard shortcuts disabled while in World of Warcraft.
1.	His views on the general tech market are somewhat banal (though impressive for someone who was only 23 at the time). It is your standard zerohedge analysis that fed is printing money and it is causing a tech bubble. Can anyone track and connect the dots from fed bond buying to increase in Facebook share price? I don’t think anyone knows.

2.	His comments on facebook are much more fascinating though. One thing I did not understand is where all the mobile money on facebook is coming from. Looks like it is from app installs (don’t think FB breaks it out) which in turn is created by VC funding bubble. The VC's fund because they see mobile on Facebook is taking off. Close the loop, classic bubble. So the whole scheme is likely to end pretty badly for facebook (sounds plausible). PG talked about the dot com bubble and the impact of VC funded ad buying that led to increasing market cap for yahoo until it burst

“By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!"”

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

Edit: I should have guessed, people are more interested in supplying ready made narratives from the past five years for point 1 (which is not that interesting) than point 2. SMH. Some cool narratives are being provided which I heard almost verbatim at various points in the past five years that “explained” how --

1.	We will have world wide inflation of epic proportions (reality: world is fighting deflation all over)

2.	ECB is doing a great job compared to the fed continuing with QE2 in 2011 (reality: recession in Europe vs the US)

3.	Gold will soar through the roof (reality: slump)

4.	Oil prices will rise forerver (until they collapsed)

5.	House prices in China will go to sky (until they stopped doing)

6.	Apple was up 100% in late 2012 (until it collapsed by half six months later)

Etc etc. I would have thought some humility would have set in the “FED is printing, things are inflated to sky crowd”. Nope, just doubling down. Always stay with the narrative explain something else until we get it right ☺. At least I admit I don't know how things work :-).

Consider, there are $20 Trillion dollars of SWF’s in the world investing all over. What is the impact of these as opposed to QE?
Frothy.com – the inflating tech bubble
The memo is ironic, due to Snapchat's infamous disregard for privacy measures. (E.g. SnapHack)
Maybe there's a cause-effect going on in Japan.

They just aren't unhealthy enough to demand more doctors?
I highly recommend reading "Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot" which explain how dictatorships can pick a handful of indicators and elevate them to first-world levels while still making everybody's life miserable.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Perfect-Latin-American-Idiot/pro...
And state actors would be declaring war by attacking this thing.

France didn't declare war on New Zealand with the Rainbow Warrior bombing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
At the very beginning of my career, I once made a very stupid and very costly mistake because of tight schedules and lack of proper QA process.

The first thing my boss said the next morning before even explaining what happened was that he was the one responsible and I was not to blame. Oh and he gave me a raise.
"Unfortunately, the configuration tooling did not have adequate enforcement of this policy of incrementally deploying the change across the infrastructure." They relied on tooling to do the review of the last step of the process? I would have thought there were a few layers of approval that goes along with that final push into mission critical infrastructure.
Has anyone studied if HuffPo, Buzzfeed, and Business Insider have bot rates dramatically higher than old media news websites (e.g. NY Times, WSJ, etc).

It seems to me these content optimized websites serve mostly to attract bots. My feeling is that you cannot optimize content to any great extent. Because, if you could, the movie and TV studios would have done this long ago, and you'd never see flops or shows cancelled very early in their first season.
That's disputed. Carbon storage might have stopped quickly wheen wood devouring fungi evolved.
http://news.clarku.edu/news/2012/06/28/findings-point-to-fun...
Yes, the CEO of your startup is an idiot
It would be easy to increase tourism which would bring in foreign currency in a similar manner to exports. Just dropping the restrictions on US tourists visiting and on Cuban locals being able to run shops, restaurants and lodgings would probably pretty much double GNP.
IE for Mac was actually fairly nice, especially in the early days of OSX. I kinda miss that candy blue icon in my dock.
Yeah, precisely because it is a library and can be used with many different frameworks.

Lately I was convinced that all frameworks should die and be rewritten as reusable and - important - interoperable libraries. jQuery is a good example of such a library.
Great job guys! Keep pushing the field forward.
Names are proper nouns and therefore capitalized, the edge case is resolved until you find a proper noun with capitalization in the middle of the word with the hyphen coming before the capital letter. This seems to be limited to foreign words(German in particular) and Company Names where the author inserted a hyphen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase#Current_usage_in_nat...
The web ecosystem in Rust is still very early. There have been some awesome efforts recently in pushing a full-featured http library [0] (Hyper is now powering Servo [1]). The web ecosystem can't expand fully without a strong http library and previously, an unmaintained rust-http was used.

The next issue, if we're talking about high-performance http is asynchronous I/O which Rust doesn't currently bundle with (now that Rust has dismantled it's green threading runtime and is now sticking with native threading). However, mio [2], a lower-level Rust library in providing proper I/O abstractions that support async apis and the like is progressing pretty well.

The awesome part about Rust is that you have full control over the system. This allows one to build something like mio even though Rust doesn't support async I/O or a more efficient threading model, etc...

[0]: https://github.com/hyperium/hyper
[1]: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/4198
[2]: https://github.com/carllerche/mio
Jobs at Rocketrip
> I think he was right too often to just call it a 'lucky guess'

Why not? With enough different people flipping coins there'll be somebody gets a hundred heads in a row.
Love this line from your site: "This is not cloud software, but grass software. You can touch it and shape it. The possibilities are endless."
Perhaps I'm missing your meaning: "It's just that you can wean off senior developers quicker"

Code reviews are just as necessary for senior devs, but it's more about helping everyone to understand what just happened and why: Here's the problem, here's what I did to resolve it, here are the pieces of the system it touches.

That way at least one other developer is in the loop. Two heads are always better than one. Someone else might spot something you've missed... and worst case scenario, if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, someone else knows what I did and there's less of a chance that someone will have to spend a week wading through my code trying to reverse engineer what I just did.
They will most likely value the vision and concept of Anand, otherwise he would not have agreed to sell. He's not actively running it anymore, so it makes sense. The guy worked on it for 15 years and brought it up from nothing, well deserved imo.
> This is likely to be easy to exploit for privilege escalation, except on systems with SMAP or UDEREF

Another reminder why everyone should be using https://grsecurity.net which provides these mitigations to the Linux kernel via patches. GRSecurity has had SMAP aka KERNEXEC for a long time as well as UDEREF https://grsecurity.net/~spender/uderef.txt

If you keep any sensitive data on a Linux server you should seriously consider grsec.

Even last week there was an ASLR bypass posted on OSS-security which of-course grsec already protected you against http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/908

There is a lot of drama around the fact Linux core devs don't adopt these patches by default. But regardless Linux is pretty insecure by default and grsec makes privesc via various classes of exploits significantly harder.
What does the heterogeneous populations of the US have to do with it? Maybe when it comes to life expectancy you're right, because genetics is a large factor in that. But when it comes to literacy rate and the proportion of physicians that's entirely down to government policy.

Do you really think the US couldn't beat Cuba on those metrics if they decided spending money on those topics was more important than spending money on the military?
If Cuba is such a success story, why do they have to force their people to stay and why do people risk their lives to escape and defect to the United States anyway?
What happened when Marissa Meyer tried to be Steve Jobs
you just need to create a client. Then you will have ID+secret. Most providers allow anyone to get them
Mashup: Darlene Love Singing “Christmas(Baby Please Come Home)” on the Late Show
Thank you for looking that up and providing the reference. The M-W argument is flawed when the bit that "literally" modifies already is hyperbole. "Abuse of language sends me through the roof" is hyperbole. "Abuse of language literally sends me through the roof" is just ridiculous.

(Edited to clarify)
He was the driving force behind the site's quality. If you listened to the podcasts he did, it was obvious that he wasn't satisfied with anything less than perfection (in product review analysis).

Without him, at least to me, the site's value has declined significantly.
Hardware Naughty or Nice – 2014 Edition
Programming a Bot to Play the “Sushi Go Round” Flash Game
New model airplanes always fly with miminum crew for their first test flights. This is classic risk reduction. Reduce the consequence of a problem when the probability of that problem occuring is greatest. Thats a better analogy than designing them to seat fewer passengers.
You make some good points. Many agents work a specific neighborhood, and lets also remember that open houses are typically on weekends and showings are clustered together.

Sure, the broker has some basic expenses, but there is really no cost of the good sold. A store owner pays the same fees, and also pays for cost of a good.

Exactly the point where in the old days, pre-internet - brokers needed to pay for marketing- classifieds in newspapers, signage, etc. Now the cost to advertise a listing is $0.
Should IBM Open-Source Watson?
From what I remember of Atlas Shrugged, Rand only creates fantasy worlds where bad guys can be tempted. Good guys are simply never put into the situation, because whatever law or principle they might break has already been recast as intrinsically evil.
Big Data scientists face ethical challenges after Facebook study
Didn't Google cut that out a long time ago? I didn't find any evidence that Ask was still doing this.
I guess this will partly depend on the sentiment of the public. If you look at retributions for damage in World War Two, one sees that even cases where people _sold_ items to German citizens (possibly under duress, but after decades, and with many archives destroyed in the war, that is hard to prove in some cases) that were settled in the fifties or sixties got reopened decades later.

And according to Wikipedia, Japanese Americans did get retributions under Reagan (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations#United_States) How much or for what, I wouldn't know.
TARP was a loan program and I believe many of the participants paid back their loans. It's unclear from a Wikipedia if Citi did.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
Thanks, I will look into it. But tomorrow at the earliest. Today I'm out to celebrate the last ever exam I just passed.
The sentence you quoted seems ambiguous to me, since (from what I understood reading the article) there are two separate storage mechanisms using the new feature. The two possible beliefs the engineer may have had are:

1. Since we tested the change on a subset of A for a few weeks, we can assume it will work for all of A.

2. Since we tested the change on a subset of A for a few weeks, we can assume it will work for all of A and all of B.

#1 seems reasonable, but #2 is what needed to hold true in order for there to be no problems, since the change was actually enabled for all of A and B.

But was the engineer actually advocating to enable the change in B, or was that an accident during the manual deployment?
Brazilian tobacco tastes good, but leaves are not spotless like in Cuba, so Brazilian cigar makers have to import them just for the "capa" layer (the external layer in cigars). Many countries do the same.
those are good points too