skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither the headline nor the article itself state whether this restriction is confined to just this one issuer, or is part of some industry-wide change. Some clarification of that would be useful.
It is actually likely as bad as you'd imagine. Think about how you could rationalize paying minimum wage, but then docking the pay. Give up? Read the comment by `pud in another thread a couple months back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665082

The shorter seems to be that they were always on commision, with a default of minimum wage. Should a return occur, the commision would be removed, even if that dropped them below minimum wage.

EDIT: Note further in the thread that a Canadian worker always got minimum wage. So it's possible the sleaze varied by region.
Convenience vs. security. It's incredibly convenient to be able to stream Netflix on a TV without having to purchase some other device, use multiple remotes, etc. I would say privacy-conscious consumers are likely the minority. I'd imagine most consumers would rather be able to watch movies with the push of a button than worry about the implications of letting their TV connect to the Internet.
My implementation in GWT lets you control how much is retained by using annotations to control the retention level. It even gives you the option to defer loading reflection until a future code split, such that you only download the extra bytes for reflection support when you will actually need it. See above for link.
Hence the new Apple campus? http://www.archdaily.com/434703/plans-approved-for-apple-s-c...
Bankruptcy doesn't necessarily mean close everything down. Perhaps that location is perceived as having a chance at profitability.
As soon as i saw the title i thought it was going to be your blog, it looks like both projects seem to overlap in ideas too?
Another fantastic MIPS resource is a book by David and Sarah Harris' book "Digital Design and Computer Architecture".

It is a great book that covers digital logic, computer architecture, HDL design (both Verilog and VHDL) and the MIPS architecture.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Design-Computer-Architecture...
iBeacon adding context to your mobile app
I think the internet would benefit from more competition in protocols, especially those to do with security, and especially those that have historically done a bad job (TLS, DNSSEC, PKIX).

These are obviously hard to design, with a bunch of trade-offs and decisions to make along the way. I'd argue that this makes practical research and competition more important, not less.
A personal favorite of my in the use of big-O where a short phrase involving the words "exponential", "linear" or "constant" would have sufficed, and been comprehensible to any humanities major who didn't sleep through math in junior high.
I'm most surprised by "Also thinking of having an annual student Hyperloop pod racer competition, like Formula SAE".

FSAE teams can run out of a spare room in an engineering dept's basement with a 5- to low-6-figure budget. I'm not intimately familiar with the hyperloop proposal, but hazarding a guess here, I can't really imagine a team putting together a hyperloop pod on less than a million dollar budget, and the facilities needs would be greatly increased as well. Getting any competitors would be really impressive and would require pretty heavy corporate sponsorship.
Saying Goodbye to Google
I would love if that was a desktop client. I don't want to mess with Mongo and Node for my own torrent index. Maybe I could persist the index on dropbox or something and point my client to it. NW.js seems like a good option for this!
Actually, it's not a "legal requirement" exactly. It's more of an industrial self-regulation among mobile phone manufacturers.

Most of standalone digital cameras have an option to mute it, too.
MongoDB CRUD the MVC Way with Passport Authentication
It is industry wide as mandated by the CA/Browser forum linked in the article.
So you agree with keeping your child indoors because of the risk of a neighbor filing a false complaint? That is sad.
I installed fireplace.vim when I set up Clojure for the first time (maybe 4, 5 years ago), but didn't really understand much else of Clojure at that point. I'll try it out again, thanks for the tip!
Open Your Mouth, Lose Your Money: PR and the Magic of Restraint
As far as I can tell, this tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555803747792609280 is the only thing he's said about it at the moment.

Looks like he's also planning on having an annual pod-racing competition: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555804403504918528
It is usually the loading of many resources (js etc) that takes time. If you just send some html (and css) to the browser it can show it quickly. But companies like Facebook and Airbnb are starting to send html first and then use javascript for everything. This makes the first pageview very fast while still keeping the flexibility and other good parts of a SPA system.
Well you really... saved the day!
Imho, they should have targeted athletes. Get it down to $200 and go after joggers and cyclists and other folks in the GoPro set.
Can the Joyent package repo be added to OmniOS?

http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/installing.html
My Notes on Amazon's ECS (EC2 Container Service), aka Docker on AWS
Your Web Host Doesn’t Want You to Read This: Benchmark Your VPS
But it's not the "thing we know about and can avoid" it's the thing we know about, and wish to push back on so that social norms don't change to find innocuous.
I don't know, if they were simply reorganizing it, stopping sales, period, seems like a very strange move. Not only does it look like killing to the rest of the world (which to some extent is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy), it also does a lot of damage to uptake since, well, you can't get one anymore.
The plugin is actually based on newer code than the current HSIMP site so it would, for example, detect that "correcthorsebatterystaple" is going to get cracked straight away.

It's also fully customisable how many calculations per second you want to assume a cracker can make. It's set to 10 billion by default, but you could set it to much higher if you wanted.

The boundaries of what counts as "ok" and "good" passwords can also be customised.
It might be worth turning your GitHub links in the article into permalinks (hit 'y' in the GH interface once you've targeted the file and line) so they don't fall out of date.

Nice work!
Maybe invest in some noise-cancelling headphones, and use a white noise generator. I like SimplyNoise for that. It does a great job at drowning out background noises.

And then if you can STILL hear them clearly, put in earplugs under the headphones and crank up the volume.
> ad blocking,

:))) i somehow suspect that the "full mediated reality" would be an exact opposite - a new ad medium where you'd have very hard time avoiding the ads. I mean compare placing an ad on real Golden Gate Bridge vs. placing it on the Bridge in your AR.
I speak for no one but myself - I'm sure many will pay those prices :)

On a separate note... Every so often (once every 3/4 months) I have occasion to use litmus.com to test an email template for a freelance gig. They only do monthly plans too - plans which I'll never be able to justify paying. I'd be happy to pay a one-off fee every time I needed it but they won't offer that pricing model, the end result being I cycle trial accounts through my many email addresses and they miss out on revenue.

It doesn't sit well with me because their sole factor of production (like yours, I imagine) is CPU time which is pretty well commoditised nowadays, so offering anything more complicated than a single unit of the product immediately tells me that artificial barriers have been created with the sole purpose of extracting "extra" money from me. It kinda grinds my gears.
It's the camera.

Google made a massive mistake by bundling the Glass with the camera. Camera is the reason for the backlash and the seriously tainted brand ("glassholes" and such). Of course they couldn't launch it as is. Though I wonder if they learned the lesson or if they will just hold a pause and relaunch it with no hardware changes.
I see what you're getting at. We open an old test that emphasizes the ability to absorb the wisdom and learning of the past (among its other properties). Then we read a Hacker News comment thread that dismisses the test in various tried-and-true ways: it's just classism, it's primitive, people were dumber then, and so on. The test is by no means serious evidence for academic or intellectual decline or otherwise, but one thing is clear: in yesteryear, educated people honored the yesteryear. Today, we don't.
A similar thing can be done with dependent types: https://github.com/timjb/quantities
Yeah but I still can't imagine why I'd want to know the Twitter bio of the people around me.

It's a bus/train/supermarket/DMV line, not a mixer. If it were a mixer I'd also be more interested in talking to the person than reading their profile and recent tweets.

I get how such technology would be impressive from a "oooooh cyberspace!" perspective, but that only reinforce's the point made earlier: Google Glass was very impressive tech that had a lot of technically interesting applications that were nonetheless mostly pointless.
Job Security, Stability/Employability for Startups
Glass should not have been pushed at the cellphone consumer-good fashion-accessory market until they had something swanky that actually looked tasteful on a set of glasses.

At the current price-point? Enterprise would be the only market that would pay $1000 in decent quantities for such a niche device. If they could get it down to $200? It could be great for the GoPro set.
Professional software engineers with years of experience get pay in that range. Guys just starting out want that kind of money. I see it all the time.

The employees might not give a damn about the juice bars once they get hired, but you better believe they're all sharing picture of Google's workplace and just glossing over their environment and culture and recruiting practices.
What are your top 5 most frequently used apps on your phone?
I came across an interesting article about how to better understand how much users are using your app (http://recode.net/2015/01/13/theres-an-app-for-that-but-how-much-are-you-actually-using-it/) but wanted to see what types of apps are getting daily usage from people.

Mine are: Gmail, Day One, Twitter, Starbucks and Dropcam.
Awk is also used a lot in Bioinformatics where you need one-liners to extract/format the data. Ofcourse, Perl/Python/R/Ruby can also be used but in some cases Awk is just simple and graceful.
Currently we have builtin abuse reports in the app, if either end of a call thinks something is odd. Hopefully we can catch abuse through this mechanism.

Please let us know if you hear about anything like this in relation to Be My Eyes – sounds horrible.
The analysis is right on. I once experimented with creating a single page website, literally a single page, by posting a listicle with photos. The webpage got over a million shares on Facebook.
> consider a hobbyist front end to Digi-Key and Mouser

Adafruit and SparkFun are that. SparkFun even explicitly mentions the Digikey part for boring stuff like capacitors. (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8375)
It's from this post: https://xato.net/passwords/more-top-worst-passwords/

Although that's probably a bit out of date now. I might see if there's a newer version.
At least it can be overridden with environment variables.
I'm a research scientist at a face recognition company. From my experience, we don't use internodal distances, we use information from all the pixels.
yep barristers don't have to stop being lawyers the more senior they get - unless of course the want to switch to being a judge
I'm sorry, are you hoping I provide an all encompassing answer that convinces you of its usefulness? I can't provide that. Like I said, its simply a matter of personal preference. You find types limiting, others find them helpful.
And at the conclusion, David disappears in a puff of logic.
There is a huge difference there. First of all, I don't have facebook, and I barely use my real name on the internet. So I can defend against that. And second, my name is absolutely not unique and if needed I can adopt other identities. My face is and i can't get a new one.
If I didn't read this line I would feel that it would be a dead product:

> She and the Glass team will report to Tony Fadell, the chief executive of the home automation business Nest

It sounds like they're just transitioning the responsibility to an Apple vet who has good taste.
There was, at their peak, around twenty Radio Shack stores in Toronto. They were one of the few retailers in the 1980s and 1990s that would sell you one of something. Larger distributors were harder to deal with, and were geared towards thousands.

Now there's about a dozen stores that sell components to the hobbyist community and university students that need parts for projects. They have a selection way better than Radio Shack ever did.

It's not how many people live in a town that's the factor: It's how many university students you have. The more universities, the more likely you are to have an electronics savvy population. Perhaps the unusually high concentration where you are is due to that factor.
n.b. https://archive.org/details/APatternLanguage
It's funny to think that the conversation fragment

- ... Né?

- Isso.

could happen in either Brazil or Germany with the same meaning. :-)
PlayStation CPU used inside NASA probe sent to study Pluto
While a good move, given how quickly SSL certificate requirements are changing; maximum validity should probably be even shorter.
Cool project! I haven't seen the idea of drag and drop for building regex's before. I could definitely see this being a helpful tool for people learning regex. Some feedback:

1. The railroad is the intended drag target but is really small, especially compared to the other icons (giant trash can!). This makes it difficult to drag onto, and it's not obvious that that's where you should drag the blocks.

2. Black on brown (ie: railroad and trash can icons) is really hard to see.

3. Highlighting of the matched word (where the "Write text here!" is) seems to be pretty sporadic. It looks like highlighting only changes when the regex changes. I expected to be able to change this field and have the highlight update as I type.

4. Doesn't seem like you can edit the middle of a string in the matching word field (Try editing "Write text here!" to "Write helpful text here!") The cursor keeps jumping to the end of the string.
I'm finding it hard to tell the difference between:

https://twitter.com/boredelonmusk

and

https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Thanks for opening my eyes. I didn't want kids before, and I knew if I had them I'd home-school them, not spank them, teach them negotiation skills and so on, but knowing anyone can call CPS, anonymously and without consequences, and put me through that traumatizing and exasperating ordeal, makes me think it's not a matter of desire but prudence.

I can totally understand your rage. I can't imagine another kind of reaction. It is very irresponsible and callous of CPS to act in that way. But then again what did I expect from the guvmint...

Thanks for relating your story.
If I was starting a company - Clojure. If I was looking for employment - Python. Clojure lends itself very well to data processing and data science, but the data science ecosystem still isn't nearly as strong as Python's is.
Using Golang Concurrency for FB Events
Here's a UNIX one-liner I wrote a while ago that uses awk, sed and grep for a real-life need:

UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process:
http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-han...

The comments on that post are also of interest.
Working as a software engineer at a startup
Can I blame auto-correct? Thanks for pointing this out!
AWS Lambda Preview is now open to all customers
It amazes me that people still worry about this when humans already walk around with two cameras connected to better resolution and light-level management hardware than the glass camera embedded in their skulls, and the input of those cameras, converted to audio, is generally admissible in all courts of law.
when travelling i just leave the DND sign up, as i prefer to sleep late, tidy my own room up, and not have someone going through my stuff.

i've never once had the hotel staff honor the sign. they ALWAYS try to come in around noon at least once during my stay. it's crazy.

maybe i should make my own sign that says "NO BUT SERIOUSLY." in whatever language and hang it under the real one.
Anyone interested in designing and deploying interactive, animated HTML5 creative
Finally !! Someone knows if it works fine ?
I liked the article very much. I don't believe that we know or are even near to explain consciousness for example. When working on the fundamentals of computing and mathematics, it is important to remember that these things are a part of life, but do not explain all of life (yet maybe). Any kind of religion is wrong. That does not mean that you cannot have beliefs, but you should be prepared to change them.
They have reduced gradually from 6 years. Generally long lengths meant less admin required. However in my experience it also meant many certificates expired because admins forgot to renew them or the person in charge had changed roles/left the company.

I would like to see a reduction to 2 years as is the maximum for EV certs.
I'm also experimenting with "isomorphic" apps. I wrote a router with an expressjs/hapijs like API (middlewares included). The main point is handling the state before choosing the view. The concept is general enough to avoid being tied to React although React makes things easier. Once you have such a router, handling nested views (a la react-router) is a trivial particular case.

Here's my lab https://github.com/gcanti/tom
Could this have been influenced by the Japanese colonists in the São Paulo region?
Yes, my best working experiences have been in a smallish area with space for 2-4 people. We all faced into a corner but were able to talk/collaborate easily by turning around. We also worked on the same thing so it was pretty easy to get into a groove.
Local storage with SSDs and maybe some file sync tools.
"Works best with IE 6.0 or higher, at 1024 x 768 resolution or better"

Does IE6 not load the background?
I am one of those people that can not comprehend how people work in coffee shops, I have tried it in the past, and have trouble even figuring out what I wanted to work on. Every time I see something move out the corner of my eye I need to look at what is going on. Every time a new sound starts or an existing sound stops I take notice. I am constantly afraid someone will sit down at the same table as me and try to take some of the precious little space I have sprawled with notes. This happened once and I tried to keep working but then there was a persons face like 3 feet away from mine over a tiny table and I lasted about 5 min before just leaving.

I can do crap like respond to emails, make todo lists, read documentation, write specifications, and google for the solutions to known problems. I am however fortunate enough to have a job where all that makes up a minuscule fraction of the work I do, most of my work is in solving new problems by developing and implementing algorithms. And that requires thinking on my part which is something I am completely unable to do with new thoughts about my changing surroundings constantly entering my head. My work provides two person offices with enough space to be comfortable. As well as common areas where you can work if you so choose to be out in that type of noisy environment. Only a handful of people make use of the common areas for anything besides eating lunch or having scrum.

I believe it is because nearly everyone's work involves either thinking or being in meetings all day. And while I will not be supporting it I believe if you give someone who needs to think the choice between a nice quiet office where it is accepted that if their door is closed you don't bother them, or a nice common area with the noises of people walking by and milk being frothed, they will eventually realize they are more productive where there are fewer distractions. (Not that everyone wants to be more productive)
Nobody seems to have a good answer for what RS should become to avoid shutting down. The most common answer is to go back to its roots and embrace the maker market and stock up on things like 3d printers, breadboards and arduinos. I think this is the wrong idea, since the market is nowhere near large enough to support the vast amounts of stores RS has.

I think if I was the CEO, I would focus on being a boutique shop for neat stuff. Kind of like a brookstone for electronics. They would have google glass, nest, wearables, smart home stuff. They would have things you cant buy at best buy like high end headphones and microphones. Not only that, but it would have knowledgeable staff who could tell me why I should go with the Denon headphones and the Fiio amplifier and skip the sonys. Broadly, alot of the type of stuff you see on kickstarter would feel like their inventory.

Yes, you would have 3d printers and filament in the store also, but the new RS store would not revolve around that- It would be there because it was 'cool'. I would much rather see way less capacitors and fuses and more fuut hammocks and 4th design titanium iphone cases.

But you would also see high end stuff you normally cant buy in best buy because its too expensive to have the inventory floated to all their stores. There is a surprising amount of laptops that are 'too high end' to ever show up in BB and only rarely appear in microsoft stores. That is also the case with audio equipment in spades.

Thats a store I would go to.

I write a bit more about this here : http://harknesslabs.com/post/108193041064/how-to-save-radio-...
If you read the article, it points out he has barely said a word about the Hyperloop since 2013. The pod-racing competition aspect was also covered in the article.

It will be pretty cool if he pulls it off, transportation hasn't really changed a whole lot in the last 100 years or so, the Hyperloop might be the next evolutionary step. Starting small for inner-city light rail type transport, then country to city type services and then eventually country-to-country. The test loop will determine the rough cost per metre for track, operational expenses, hazards and other factors a simulation cannot really accurately tell you.

Bring on the Hyperloop. I am tired of flying.
Wow. I love it when good syntax sugar is inherited by languages.
I stopped after the first paragraph, when the premise of the entire article seemed to suddenly base itself upon some random jump from lots of indicators of financial responsibility to race alone without any apparent connection. If the program was designed to base its decisions on financial responsibility indicators, then the only way for it to become "racist" is if race is also recorded as a financial responsibility indicator, which would thus indicate that the programmer, rather than the program, is racist.

Basically, the first paragraph effectively creates a strawman; I can only assume that the rest of the article seeks to defeat that particular strawman.
I think one of the key flaws with a lot of bullpen setups is this: They're too big, and they include hallway area where people from unrelated teams walk through having irrelevant conversations all day. A much better solution would be maybe a ~500 sq ft (~50 m^2) big shared office with a window, populated with people that work on the same project.
I was wondering about that too. Doesn't he always drown in that one level (I forget which one). Maybe that's the number of players who completed that level?