skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Maybe it's me, but the flavors often ranged from weird to inedible (like rose flavored candy)

Rose flavored as in flavored with rose water[1]?

That's a fairly normal flavor in deserts and candies. Common as a primary flavor in Turkish Delight. Alton Brown demonstrates how to make your own in the episode where he makes baklava—one of the ones currently on Netflix in the US, I think. It's pretty much what you'd expect from the name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_water
That's your source? Pathetic.
Anyone who buys something from someone else, but especially a professional like a pawnbroker, has a duty to make sure the goods they're buying aren't stolen. Failing to do that is a crime in many countries ("handling stolen goods" in UK parlance). The very least the pawnbroker should pay is the cost of whatever they're out of pocket for, but really they ought to be facing criminal charges. People being willing to profit from stolen goods is what keeps people stealing. If no one was willing to buy something that had been stolen then people would stop taking things (or at most they'd steal what they need themselves).

Perpetuating criminality is in no way a good thing.
While it is quite lucky that he was able to recover his laptop, I feel that he is still being punished for being a victim.

It doesn't really sit right with my sense of justice.
I wonder whether there is any legal basis for idea that technologies should be circumventable by law enforcement. I'm not talking about particular laws but rationales - something in judicial decision or common law.

I also wonder whether safe manufacturers ever were obligated to make safes that were accessible by law enforcement.
12 were killed in the end and the attackers are still pursued. It is really sad news even if it was suspected an attack of this kind would happen in France (one of the last drawings of one of the killed, Charb, was a sad premonition).
Subjects have to wear full body motion capture suits.
This is why I have high hopes for integration with the Microsoft store in Windows 10. I'd be pretty happy giving the Filezilla people .99 cents, assuming no 3rd party installer tricks. MS would store my credit card, it would be a one-click process, take the onus of hosting from Sourceforge/Filezilla, and pay a nice little chunk of change on the side directly to the Filezilla people.

Of course, anyone is free to fork it and host it for free. There are a lot of little things that drive me crazy about Filezilla. I imagine others have the same issues. I could see a fork with good management being very successful.
As well as commit messages, he said it's fine as a mirror
Oh, it's this guy again? He already stirs up a bunch of outrage (and zero useful contribution) every year like clockwork by ranting about build systems. Is he "entitled" to a rant? Sure. But he should surely have realised by now that nothing positive will come of it, and there are better ways to actually improve things.
In production you would bundle all into one file, while in development most/all of your files will be cached by the browser. But to be honest I've never worked with 500+ in the browser.
Who says you have to use gulp? Just use make.

https://github.com/williamcotton/makeify
It works really well unfortunately. I would prefer my installations without the potential for malware, but I don't see another sftp client as mature as filezilla. There used to be a ton and then it emerged as the best. fwiw it seems the auto updates are malware free.
Test Latest MATE on Arch Linux
Very nice analysis of the "boom." Anyone who regularly buys single malt Scotch has observed the strong upward movement of bottle prices in the last few years. With the growing visibility of world whisk(e)y, I'll be interested to see if the Japanese and other producers help moderate the price of Scotch or if they join in the upward trend.

On a somewhat related note, it's interesting to see how small and simple some of these world-famous distilleries are. I visited Islay last summer and toured Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Kilchoman, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, and a few others. Bowmore is definitely the Walmart of the bunch, while Kilchoman was more like a mom-and-pop operation.
I'm surprised that one of the disruptive groups has not written a couple of bots that do mass DMCA takedown across a wide range of providers and content. Sure, it's illegal but that hasn't stopped them before. It feels like an easy way to create havoc.
Milk VR
Thanks for your response.

"We" = the MotoMiner team. We wanted to create a real web search engine (like Google) but for cars. Other sites let you search on their listings which are acquired through manual import/export processes. Some of these sites also require dealerships to pay them money to be listed on them. MotoMiner has no entry barriers. Its automated processes to monitor/mine the web for vehicle classifieds are free and yield a more comprehensive dataset to search on.

Other listing sites will not let the buyer/visitor navigate to the original vehicle classified page on the auto dealership's website. They do this so they can capture the buyers information and resell it to the seller/dealer or make dealers subscribe to their services. This process frustrates both buyers and sellers. MotoMiner's visitors are able to search on the data and navigate directly to the original page to which the vehicle was found. The process is more transparent and the buyer can deal directly with the seller.

Yes, there are over 100,000 car dealership websites. Some of them are inactive, some redirect, some sellers have multiple websites with the same cars. MotoMiner indexes data from all of them and we run de-dupe & cleaning processes on it.

MotoMiner's objective is to help buyers find cars more efficiently. MotoMiner also helps the sellers (often car dealerships) by getting them more exposure for free. We index a handful of data points per page (we don't scrape the page and reshow it as our own). These indexed data points are used so visitors can search on them and find the vehicle detail page they'd want to go to.

As to how we identify what websites, what pages to index, how we extract data points... those are trade secrets.

Our business model is like other search engines. MotoMiner presents a new and improved way that buyers want to search for cars. We will allow for sellers to be able to promote their vehicles in an unobtrusive way. When you search Google, the first 1-3 results may be an Ad that is pertinent for what you searched on. MotoMiner can do the same. For instance, if you searched on a Ford F-150 near zip code 12345, a local Ford dealership may be paying to promote their vehicles and so their Ford F-150's may show up in the first 1-3 results.

The "About" page on MotoMiner's website may help shed light on what we are all about. https://motominer.com/About

Hope this helps. Thanks for the feedback.
He could have done just that, but the police would have held on to it until they'd finished their investigation and the court case was over. I suppose it's a question of waiting or paying for speedy delivery.
How is this surprising? Young people are graduating with a crushing amount of debt so now they're faced with a choice between entrepreneurship versus a steady paycheck at zombie corp. It seems most are choosing the job at zombie corp in order to pay a huge pile of bills staring them in the face.
This is an interesting problem. There are so many ways to perform A/B testing incorrectly that I expect most A/B tests performed in the wild yield questionable results.

I think there is a lot of pseudo-scientific talk around A/B testing that leads people to either put too much credence in their results, or, paradoxically, avoid advanced techniques due to fear their results will be inaccurate.

I'm coming to the conclusion that one should treat A/B testing from more of an economic point-of-view. You have so many views this month -- how are you going to spend them on tests? I think one should look at A/B tests as a source of information, not of truth, and thus avoid chasing after statistical rigor that won't, in fact, be realised in most cases.
It was like drinking rose water. Very intense. Sticks in your mouth for a long while.
I prefer to put it on my skin rather than in my mouth :)
We are interviewed and vetted by clients before starting. It varies by client, but usually the interview process is pretty similar to what the clients do when they hire employees.
One of the people quoted in the article says "Of course that’s a good thing, because the traffic officers just want your money," he said on Tuesday morning in Queens. "Now I have the right to park a bit more."

I suppose he still understands that he is not really supposed to park where he is parking, but it says something about his outlook.
A friend of mine uses this: http://portableapps.com/ (I use Linux.)
One reason might be that MIDI clock is just a repeating, identical message. It does not contain any position information (like where the next bar starts). To get positional information relating to beats and bars, you need to use MIDI Song Position Pointers, however these use a 14 bit counter which will typically overflow after about 10 minutes. In short, long-running musical clock sync over MIDI is problematic.

For syncing sound recorders, MIDI Time Code (MTC) is usually used, which works fine for up to 24 hours, but doesn't contain information about bars and beats, so unless the system receiving the MTC has a-priori knowledge of what time locations will correspond to bars and beats (which it typically wouldn't have in the context of a live performance), MTC can't be used for this purpose.
There are no benefits. That data is not meant for public research. The only benefit I see is the birth of a new giant monopoly business centered on genomic therapies.
hhvm is still far faster and generally uses less memory. The development pace is also much faster. Zend is on the outs, and that's a good thing.
I completely share your experience. It almost always takes me two complete drafts before getting an architecture right anyway. This probably looks awful to people who like to "ship" more than they like to "build". I like to build.

Converging towards the simplest representation of a problem's solution takes a strong ability to let loose on your mental pictures in order to escape local maxima, and time. What we do is essentially rewiring our brains around a problem. In this respect we are bound by biological processes. There is no shortcut. Every path that looks like a shortcut will lead to conceptual pollution that will only grow like the square of the team size and seed what we use to call technical debt.
Thank you for the reply,

The main thing in my idea was the website project. I'm not thinking of a particular open source project right now but I'm thinking of a way through which one could find partners in developing one. More so, I'm looking for a way through which people that contribute to open source projects get rewarded in the long run(material reward and not the rewards you already get when contributing to open source projects).

Maybe one approach would be create such a project by myself and go through all the steps alone and then like you suggested document my experience.

Again, thank you for your reply, and if I need any help with Kickstarter I will reach out...
But what about employees that aren't assholes per se (in the sense that they are evil or egocentric), but just socially awkward?

To give one example: A intellectually brillant employee wants to explain some complicated programming or math concepts so that the other people at the company can become better - a very noble plan. But because of their social inaptness this is considered to be rude and arrogant by the other team members.
i m an idiot but does this impact the linux version ? I use Filezilla on my ubuntu that I downloaded around September'2014 and not sure if I downloaded from Sourceforge. I am guessing this issue is only for Windows, right ?
It's a good thing I mastered Frontpage. Please pm me with your 200/hr gigs.
Have you tried WinSCP? Since I found it, I haven't touched FileZilla.
Wow man, you remember how to do all that. That stuff bring back so many fun memories.

I was younger at the time (13-14) but I got to play with assembly. Remember typing up my own assembly interpreter for fun.

You obviously got into it a lot deeper. I wonder how many kids turned to liking computers because of ZX Spectrum philosophy of dropping the user straight into a programming shell. Other game consoles drop you in some kind of greeting loader screen, so you never see a programming prompt.

I recapture some of the thrill of working closer to hardware, I got a Beaglebone Black. But could never quite get excited about it. I find it more interesting now to learn a new programming language or build a small game or hack on an open source project.

> I would've killed for tools like this!

Exactly. I remember doing POKEs and messing the game up then having to load everything again. Having an emulator and debugger would have been a lot more fun.
I don't believe they think "young" equals "better investment", I think their process expects "young" to equal "controllable".
The new spec wouldn't get adopted it if didn't offer anything better. See: IPv6
Walmart processes 200 million transactions per day. That's a problem I would like.
That's not really my position to represent though. As an engineer you have to be firm if the issue is worthwhile. Just because the tech industry is a largely a vertical oligopoly doesn't mean we should support it. Technology would be a better place if the parties opposing security, robustness, privacy etc. would have to take an active stand against it rather than being able to hide behind vague design decisions. I do also think there are things that aren't worthwhile to be fighting for though.
This is how lifestyle inflation snuck up on me
Why use containers for scientific software?
You don't have to try to learn everything. I know HR throws the kitchen sink into job listings, but it's okay to specialize in only one copy of a particular tool.
She doesn't have to pay to get the laptop back. She only has to pay if she wants the laptop back immediately, otherwise she'll have to wait for the police to use the laptop as evidence at trial (or hope the theif takes a plea deal and avoids trial).
The business model of a pawnbroker includes the risk of handling stolen goods. Even if you pay for stolen goods, they don't belong to you.

This is recognised in any basic assessment of the business domain of pawnbroking, e.g. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnbrokers
So it's not really correct to say the pawnbrokers were out of pocket - dealing with this problem is an expected part of their business.

Like other commenter, I'm quite surprised by the requirement for the author to pay in this regard - she seems to have chosen to pay rather than wait out a police seizure. Since she's a writer, I'd guess her income is quite dependent on having a computer.
The author, Philip Guo, is part of the HN community as pgbovine.
If the police seized it, it would be considered evidence and I wouldn’t get it back until after the trial, which could take months to resolve.

She wanted her stuff back sooner rather than later. What's unclear to me is the bit about the trial -- was the thief caught and brought to trial? Or is she talking about a proceeding based around seizing the property?

Sounds to me like she might have been coached by the detective into resolving this outside of the law, and I'm not sure who that benefits.
What is so bad about boring? Boring means low stress, and easy work. As long as your life outside of work is fulfilling, there is nothing wrong with doing a boring job for good money.
I have seen anywhere from 100% to 50% faster, with lower memory usage overall.
Oddly, I never once had a failure of a Mini cable or receptacle. Micro is a horrid design though.
Slightly off topic, and sorry if it seems obvious, but his coding workflow looks really neat. He must be using a Chrome extension to live-reload the changes? Did anyone recognize the editor?
Except for immutability. It's still nowhere near the norm.
They are still handling serious crimes normally. What they aren't doing is enforcing arrest, ticket, and summons quotas. I think this whole thing is going to backfire on the NYPD and demonstrate that the way they were doing things before was not in the best interest of the people living in NYC.
> SSL can easily be MITMed if you control the host

How is it MITM if you control the host? If you don't trust the host then you are hosed, period- there is no protocol that will save you.
> ... you can't trivially support something like JSON via reader macros.

Isn't that what the article shows how to do?
Maybe that's too short sighted. Constantly rewriting code has a big cost. A huge cost actually. I see it at my work everyday: there is a pervasive (fashionable?) attitude that no code lives more than 3 years, and we have incessant "migrations" to new and better systems. You wouldn't believe how costly those migrations are, including through losing good people who don't want to suffer through them (and I am sympathetic to their plight, it's really horrible)...
Shameless self-plug: Me and a friend developed a Java debugger [1] that visualizes (Java) programs with UML class and sequence diagrams [2]. It isn't actively developed anymore, but the demo version [3] (along with Help -> Tutorial) can still be used to give it a try.

It was quite an involved & fun project as we used Java VM Tool Interface directly instead of using JDI and the layout algorithms for the diagrams are quite fancy too :)

[1] http://www.jbixbe.com
[2] http://www.jbixbe.com/VisualTour.html
[3] http://www.jbixbe.com/download/jar/jbixbe.jar
Several distilleries have hit points where supply exceeded demand, so they closed for years to let the market stabilize, only to start producing just shy of too late to have enough product to continue selling. The end result was you couldn't find label X or Y for a few years because they ran out and couldn't churn out the old label in time, so they would issue a new label using younger whiskey as an intermediate gimmick.

Aside from consumer demand, other production issues come up, like the fact that white oak casks/barrels are actually in such high demand that America is having a hard time keeping up the supply (basically everyone gets their high quality barrels from us).

And in general, the global market continues to increase due to new markets [developing countries], which is going to at least marginally drive the price up (because there aren't a flurry of new distilleries popping up).
Boring is where the money is, because no one will do the boring work for free.
Editor is Webstorm: https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
How $50 Oil Changes Almost Everything
This did not pass my bullshit test... does that make me an asshole?
The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Beyond Perimeter Defense
HHVM is a completely new interpreter, so it has nothing to do with the Zend interpreter's performance.

That said, PHP is (and has been) faster than both Ruby and Python and does some things faster than Perl. It shouldn't be expected to compete with Java or Go.
I have some shitty Udemy courses that net me just over that much:

https://www.udemy.com/u/andrewvega/
Trade startup idea feedback with other entrepreneurs
> ask them to provide how they arrived at $168.00 as economic value of the image?

It occurs to me this is a brilliant price point for a nuisance fee shake down. A crummy $168 makes this time-suck go away. What's your time worth? Of course there's nothing more gratifying than winning a principled fight. Even if you have to debate ad nauseam.
There should be one.
No, it produces NaN (Not-a-Number), and then repeats it in a string 16 times. The WTF is that NaN can be concatenated to strings as "NaN".
If Apple's software is getting buggier, it's no wonder
The effectiveness of cost-cutting in the NYPD would be multiplied if they started with the shiny toys first. Cut the number of SWAT teams, sell off the armored division's tanks, to Ukraine perhaps, and cut the spies and surveillance gear first, and you'll be able to keep a lot more of the useful police who might then be able to focus on boosting their solution rates for crimes people care about.
USB + DP + Ethernet + USB-PD?

I haven't seen that mentioned. Do you have a link?

Do you just mean that you could have an attached USB <-> Ethernet adapter while DP alt mode is active?

I've read that DP mode is possible in conjunction with USB-PD and USB 3.1 but have seen nothing about Ethernet in particular.
Conway's Truth
Indeed not and there're also other concerns in that sphere (baseband and the underlying network/protocols, SS7 etc).

But there's some movement in the right direction (Cyanogen, F-droid and the various open phone hardware projects)
Sounds like a job for a userscript.

...and someone has already made one for SF and a few other sites: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/417459
Theory lags practice
> Maximizing genericity complicates use

Not exactly. Maximizing genericity leads to a turing-complete language. An API is a set of restrictions you place over a language, completely generalyzing it leads to no API at all.
Zano's tiny drone wants to make aerial photography cheaper
> The proponents of HTTP/2.0 are also trying to use it as a lever for the "SSL anywhere" agenda, despite the fact that many HTTP applications have no need for, no desire for, or may even be legally banned from using encryption.

What is the basis of this claim? ISTR that SPDY and the first drafts of HTTP/2 were TLS-only, and that some later drafts had provisions which either required or recommended TLS on public connections but supported unencrypted TCP for internal networks, but the current version seems to support TLS and unencrypted TCP equally.
thanks for the suggestions. I actually spent some time as an "intern" (hang out making art & doing whatever) at Harvestworks [http://www.harvestworks.org/], which is very similar to EyeBeam. I just decided it wasn't for me when I saw that artists spent so much time on grant-writing just for a chance at a sum of money most of them (they were pretty tech-savvy) could make through a few days of freelance if they sharpened their coding skills a bit.

I didn't mean to come off as a spoiled brat chastising hard-working people. I definitely understand that folks have to take jobs and make a wage, not always doing what they want. My criticism is much more directed toward those who have reached the intermediate level but then choose to excel at mediocrity. I work with some devs who are shining examples of this. They use a rapid dev tool that encourages awful programming practices, and they jump from shop to shop leaving piles of code-dung behind. They are slightly jealous as I refine my Java skills to becoming increasingly more powerful & effective, but not to the point where they would actually commit to learning. Instead, they are content knowing they have a niche skill and will be consistently overpaid for poor quality implementations.

Anyway I digress.... your breakdown seems pretty deadon. I wish I had the stomach for #1 but didn't, so I thought it would be easier to do #3 to pave the way for #2 (I had this idea that working corporate gigs was the only true test of and exercise for my coding skills)....

I guess I need to find a better #3 or jump ship to 1 or maybe even 2 if I can handle a startup run... it's just hard to leave because the current gig actually doesn't work us very hard its just too much politicking within a very dull talent pool, kinda lulls me to sleep (though trust me I would take a more challenging job in an instant, its not about being lazy just lack of opportunities thus far).
Agreed on there being too many tools. Thankfully most of them are starting to embrace the same core feature: writing npm modules. Small bits of code that you publish once to npm, and then reuse across many projects and potentially many build/workflow systems.
Is there a fork without the malware?