skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize Mithril was yours. Seems nice, though I haven't used it myself.

The stuff you wrote is valid. I'm just not sure that dev ability is the major factor making it harder to hire Angular devs. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm thankfully not hiring Angular devs.
The Impact of Mobile Apps Advertising – Ad Mobile Media
When my Chase card was compromised, Apply Pay updated automatically with the new card number.
AngularJS: How much has it grown and is it worth learning?
If you're just interesting in combing through the logs, you might want to look at loggly.com

Definitely give New Relic a try, they're pretty popular these days.

Splunk is also an option, but is geared more for the enterprise. Might be overkill here.

No matter what you choose, just remember to monitor your load closely, any of these kinds of additions can surprise you with the amount of processing-power they can take up.
BlackBerry Climbs on Report Samsung Made Acquisition Offer
Sam answers this in a different point in this thread -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8889333 (40% are born abroad)
Actually more stuff get's printed than ever before.
Don't Let Your Kids Go to Graduate School
Show HN: Android App: Google's material design concept. It is fun to work with
'Social companies' that completely disregard what their users want should fail imo. Digg v4 was a disaster, and the community let them know BEFORE it went live.
Generics aren't necessary at all, but they are a powerful addition to the means of expression a language offers and have use cases beyond collections. So while it's not a deal breaker, it's definitely sad and hard to understand why they left them out. Especially when you know Java's history and the pain they went through when they finally added generics.
For one, why can't we delete a domain directly from within the control panel? That's just tactics. Nooh, we have to let it expire.

On the marketplace, your display name is the same as the username. What a security risk.

And most of all: why charge at all for the domain name privacy option? As if this is such a costly tech thing to accomplish.
Except that trucks usually don't haul the same trailer day in and day out.
Also when a truck is loaded the driver has to check weight, balance and shift the pins around on the trailer and 5th. Who does that what the load shifts because the truck made an evasive maneuver out on the road in bfe middle of Utah? There's a lot of aspects to driving otr that people don't realize.
This industry already operates on tight margins so bringing in new tech which may be beneficially in the long run is hard to justify for most small companies and owner operator outfits.
It is really perfectible for French<->Mandarin at least.

You actually have to translate both sentences into English to understand how they somewhat mean the same thing when taken literally (but that's just the same problem as on translate.google.com)
thank you. So many are quick to demonize the companies that spent their money to expand high speed internet do not realize just what you won't get with municipal anything.

First is service, second is new technology, and third is support. They simply have to offer the baseline requirement and all responsibility after that is farmed off. Farmed off to companies which meet very politically correct setups.

Want to see corruption hit an all new level, mandate this. It will turn into the same mess many city airports have become. Home of political friends and family. Serving the places THEY live, you might get some if your in the right zip code.

This is the same national government which people blame for everything wrong but suddenly they think it will get this right?
Sorry for my naiveté but why does someone like Kevin Rose raise money at this point? Surely, he's cashed out enough that he could fund these sorts of projects on his own, at least at the seed stage. I would assume he has enough connections that he doesn't need to give up the equity for advice either. Can someone help me understand this? I often hear about people who I assume to be immensely successful raising seed rounds for their next projects and I'm often confused as to why. Wouldn't they want to keep as much equity as they can at this point?
Saw his code had a bunch of sleep() statements in it -- I wonder why that is?
Would be cool if you could show a screenshot or online list of the most recently added articles. Then I could see if I'm interested in them.

How many do you add a day? Does it use a certain tag in Pocket so that I can keep it separate from my other stuff?
> If all you want is a C dialect, with smart pointers (and nothing else from C++), you can easily program that way.

Really? Which dialect of c++ lets me use c99 structure initializers?

C++ is no longer a superset of C.
Interesting! From the FAQ: "OpenBSD is an amazing project and has some of the best code around but some of us are of the opinion that it could use a bit of modernization. OpenBSD is a very security conscious project and, correspondingly, has to be more conservative with features. We want to be less restrictive with the codebase when it comes to experimenting with features."

Sounds like it wants to be Ubuntu to OpenBSD's Debian. I hope we see some neat stuff from these folk.
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Why do some junior engineers struggle with starting a project?
Friendly reminder to people of HN. Please don't downvote to disagree. Is your objective to discourage dissenting opinion? Seriously? That's not healthy for a community.

ksk's comments were not out of place.
The Internet generally has fallen under inter-state regulations, which is governed by the federal government.
Google partners with auto suppliers on self-driving car
No, they're warning us about an AI which could outsmart or outperform us, and lead to our demise as it pursues the goals we've encoded into it without realizing they lead to a result we don't want.
12 minutes by bike, 40 min by bus at rush hour (yeah that's a case of terribly inefficient public transportation, an tge reason why 99% of the time i cycle).
The same could be said for the telephone, fax machine, or any technology that requires network effects.

It might not be bitcoin, but in 20 years do you think no cryptocurrency will be in widespread use?
BlackBerry plummets after hours. Still, they're up about 8% from where they started the day.
I agree with what you say about pesticides -- note I said BPA is not comparable with GMO, not that BPA is not comparable with pesticide. In this case, the genetically modified organism would be safe, but chemicals used to treat the organism could be harmful.

> If for no other reason than they can produce a lot of a completely unknown and unresearched chemical.

I don't think this is true. Metabolic engineering is really hard. In other words, getting an organism to produce a new small molecule is really hard. If it weren't, we would have large scale biosynthesis of lots of stuff, instead of relying on chemical synthesis or isolation. Most enzymes have very specific functions. E.g. an enzyme will add a carbon at a particular location on a very specific substrate molecule. There's not really the possibility for unforeseen byproducts.

What you describe isn't really plausible, which is why biologists agree GMOs are safe. A plausible hypothetical for how something bad could happen, and then not be noticed until the product is fed to millions of people, probably doesn't exist (based on the fact that one has yet to be proposed).

The only exception I know is allergenicity, but this is a general risk. People are allergic to stuff. Any new product is potentially allergenic. All of a sudden quinoa is in vogue.... people could be allergic to quinoa. No unique risk.

The toxicity of _Hedysarum alpinum_ is an evolved trait, like most toxicities, that confers some benefit to the host organism. It's hard to accidentally create a beneficial new trait in organisms. It's even an academic problem in the field--evolution of novelty. Most genetic changes you make either break stuff or if you're lucky do one specific thing.
> I'd just like to see more of the scenarios like we had at BCC back in the day. Some local rich millionaire type (a real estate tycoon) setup an endowment to provide free tuition at BCC for any graduate of any Brunswick County high-school. I'd love to see a concerted, nationwide effort to build a coalition of philanthropists of this nature to fund this "free college for everybody" thing, instead of taking it out of the federal govt. budget.

I don't understand the libertarian perspective. Why is it so important that people should have the freedom to not participate in "concerted, nationwide efforts" to fund services that benefit the whole society, while you're simultaneously acknowledging that those services should exist. Taxation seems like such a straightforward, simple way to achieve what you've described, at the cost of a freedom (the freedom to not participate), which is a freedom we don't want everyone to exercise anyway (as it means the collapse of the social service in question).
He's been working with this group for a while, he was talking about it a few months ago when I ran into him in Hayes Valley and drunkenly harassed him to say hi and talk to him about the startup I work for.

Highlight of the night, and was very gracious.
considering that 2.9%+30c is the payment processing fee, does youcaring not take any commissions at all?
This is really awesome! One minor question... aren't you making a rather large assumption that homeless youth have internet access to use the site?
Got a source for that? Almost nothing gets printed in my office.
They're not the only possibilities - for example they can refuse it but not police it, they can refuse it and police it, they can allow it but discourage it somehow (eg rate-limiting), I'm sure there are more if someone cared to thing about them for a minute.

Not sure what you're trying to say here?
I don't think so. I think a case can be made that he's talking less about SkyNet and more about the risks something like an automated trading algorithm (or planning system, or any case where we put too much trust in a system as infallible) ten years in the future causing major disruption due to too much trust in a fallible system as being infallible.

There's also the possibility that a true AI (not just a complex expert system as above) may be fallible just like a person in not being able to correctly account for the unknown unknowns.

In the end I think it's about the difference between automating positions to make them more efficient (meaning it's still possible to do manually but less efficiently) and relying on things that are essentially impossible to do manually, such as an economic planning AI which may outperform regular economists 95% of the time. The question is what happens in that 5%, and will it catch the problem, and if not, will we keep listening to it as it takes us down a dangerous path.
Why base the entire service on a browser plugin that the user may or may not have ?. Is the pocket browser plugin popular amongst the techie circle ?
> This idea that PCs would vanish is a straw man; that's never been part of the "post-PC" concept.

That's not what people were saying. Even as recently as December 2013.

> Even in a post-PC world PC sales would still be expected to go up over time, simply because of population growth.

That's certainly not what people were saying. There were even claims that low volumes would make the PC more expensive, and out of reach of entire groups.
I just started running the same thing a couple of months ago without issue. Go for it. It works great.
I wish phones still came with hardware keyboards. I would be ecstatic to have an iPhone with a hardware keyboard.
One thing I've learned from using standard CNC mills to do this sort of thing over the years is that the V bit has to be brutally sharp to avoid tearing up the fine traces as it cuts. A high quality cutting bit makes the difference.

Also be careful of the dust. Especially from the fiberglass substrates. Its nasty stuff.
Exactly. I'm a little hesitant to pollute my Pocket feed with a bunch of articles I haven't even seen an example of.
Systemd Gains IP Forwarding, IP Masquerading and Basic Firewall Controls
Knauff and Nejasmic recommend banning LaTeX
Yeah, we are considering that, but for now we just wanted to keep the concept really simple to test it out. We actually plan to do some other cool stuff such as shared lists, Pinterest integration, adding photos to the items and so on.

Thanks!
Social Engineering: The dangers of positive thinking
I'm sure user research would answer this quickly, but my guess is that many may still have smart phones or, if not, public library internet access.
> JavaScript Disabled — Canvas element is part of HTML5, but it also requires JavaScript

Victory! HA!

[enables javascript]

> General conclusion: Your system fingerprint appears to be unique, yet we don't collect signatures here, just check.

Interesting. That is really not the answer I'd like to see. Is there a "blend in more" plugin?
Relevant rebuttal: http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2015/01/14/knauff-and-nejasmi...
ABOUT TIME. Internet is a utility and time to break the verizon atnt monopoly.
I always figured the future will be a light weight device that you carry which automatically backs itself up to the cloud (like current phones) but with the extra ability to "hook" into simple docking stations for multiple monitors, keyboards, speakers, network, etc when it is needed. This way the little device can work without anything else, but also allow a full user experience of a desktop.

This way I could dock my phone at home or work and have full access to my work without carrying around a big, heavy laptop. Utilizing external docking power (possibly another computer) would be great until phones get all the horsepower we need. Chances are this is one of the goals of the casting devices (Chromecast, Amazon's device, etc).

Streaming and cloud infrastructure still need to get better because American ISPs just put the money in their pockets instead of creating a better product. Chances are this device will show up in foreign markets first. I'm not in EE so I haven't tried to build it yet...but maybe one day for fun.
I think it is a nice idea, but I do not agree about the way to implement it.

I would like to see more C extensions that work not only following C++'s ideas (dirty syntactic tricks) but are implemented using a proper C parser (like Cil) and principled program transformations (i.e. compilation).

Maybe we need a classier framework than Gnu C and macros to toy around with C extensions...
Yes, it should be funded, but not without consideration of alternatives for particular measures. There is a lot of bad, expensive neuroscience work - much of it yields no significant result - but there are also important results that are unavailable by other means. It's good to inject caution but the potential for great advances in understanding how the mind works is still there.
The experience of an 8 yr old in one of the best hacker cons in the US
I find the desire for personal encryption to be rather childish. B. Evans  a16z
I'm not sure that your first sentence follows from the second. It is (probably) true that precision work will always require precision input, but I think to equate 'precision input' with 'keyboard or mouse' ignores possible future revolutions. Who would have thought in the '90's that touch would really be a viable general-purpose input mechanism in the near future?
I'm not convinced. Here is my test run: "Big cats eat mice Noone knows why 100x improvement"

Your Headline's EMV Score:

33.33%

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And for comparison, most professional copywriters' headlines will have 30%-40% EMV Words in their headlines, while the most gifted copywriters will have 50%-75% EMV words in headlines.

A perfect score would be 100%, but that is rare unless your headline is less than five words.

While the overall EMV score for your headline is 33.33%, your headline also has the following predominant emotion classification:

Spiritual

Your headline carries words that have a predominantly Spiritual appeal. Words that resonate with Spiritual impact are the smallest number of words in the language. AMI research has found that Spiritual impact words carry the strongest potential for influence and often appeal to people at a very deep emotional level.

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How can you put a value on an intangible good that is backed by nothing?
If you just want to play with something that uses a genetic algo, there is this: http://boxcar2d.com/

You can handcraft a simple starting point and let it gradually evolve in different environments. Note how the different environments bring out different traits even tho the starting point is the same. I don't know how many hrs I lost playing with this. :)
The page reports "Your browser does not support HTML5 local storage", because the browser here is configured to block that.

Your game doesn't need local storage. It doesn't get to plant tracking information.
I'm surprised, Capital One are idiots.

I was travelling to Europe but the Capital One card I had only had a magnetic strip. I've had this issue before with other US banks and it was fairly trivial to get a Chip & Pin card instead.

So I spoke to Capital One's CS, I explained I was going to Europe and needed a C&P card. They then read out this statement about C&P rollout in the US and how they would be replacing all Capital One cards within the next 12 months (or similar).

I told them I was leaving in just over a month, and that magnetic strip cards don't work in much of Europe (which is true, a lot of places have physically removed magnetic strip readers now).

So they re-read out selective parts of the statement about the US rollout and said they cannot provide me with a C&P card and "not to worry your card will work fine until then."

I was and still am flabbergasted. It is like they weren't even listening to what I had just said. The worst part? This is a card which advertises itself as having "No foreign transactions fees" as a major perk, yet they don't offer C&P for people who, you know, actually travel? Mind boggling.

I bet before this US C&P rollout they were providing C&P to people who asked for them, then they set up some internal process for C&P rollout for all of their customers but confused themselves and now think that they cannot provide it unless you're rolled out to...

Regardless I just gave up. Their brand of stupid was too much for me, their CS just ignored what I said and keeped on parroting.
Ask HN: What tips or tricks do you use for fast and efficient note taking?
I often find myself wanting to document various pieces of information during meetings or my commute, but often the information is coming at me faster than I can put it all on paper. I end up getting flustered and the quality of my printing degrades as I try to scrawl everything down. What shorthands, tips, tricks, or other note-taking quirks do you use to make your life easier?
You can blame Bill Joy for that. Allegedly, it was him who made csh the default root shell way back in the day. The reason it was never changed to sh or ksh subsequently is simply that it was never that big a deal: tcsh is a solid interactive shell, it sucks for scripting.
Great work and happy to see the support from all those corporations.

Agreeing with the others on the Minnesota label being needed on the site, but moreso - what do you think would be required to take this to other major cities? Is the limiting factor just data or is there more to it?

Aside: if this is still in active development, I'd be happy to offer some time on design & UX
> I've always be leery of self driving cars. They run on software. Software is only is good as the guy programming it.

Software is as good as the best team we can find to write it, and then it can get constantly improved - unlike meat drivers, whose firmware cannot be easily flashed. Moreover, when switching from human control to software you're trading the need for quick evaluation and reaction of driving conditions repeated times number of drivers for a long, concentrated time spent on development and testing. It seems to me like a good trade-off. You can spend all the time you want writing, testing and fixing software up until you reach the point it drives better than humans.

And then you have usual, obvious advantages - self-driving cars won't get tired, emotional, distracted by texting and definitely won't be driving in blatant disregard of traffic laws because "they're pointless and that's how real drivers do things".
Luckily though we have the internet now which has accelerated the spread of new ideas and products on it. We're not dealing with a pre-internet world anymore so comparing them is silly.

I think you don't understand. People had no need of the Internet until applications such as online banking, online shopping etc were available to them. They didn't come pre installed on the Internet and whilst they wrre being developed most Internet users were people who got involved with it because it was cool new technology. Your mum and dad only got it when it had already become a mature technology.
Have you looked at the source? Maybe it caches a bunch of expensive to compute stuff? Or are you just assuming it wants to track you?
The YC article suggests that black and hispanic founders are slightly more likely to be funded by YC than other ethnicities. 3% of applicants to the batch were black or hispanic but 7.7% of funded founders in the batch were black or hispanic.

The article you linked does not seem to adjust for demographics of the applicants, it only discusses those who were funded.
Loggly has a new relic chrome extension that lets you correlate matching logs (in Loggly) to performance errors (in New Relic). If that's interesting, you can find out more info here: https://www.loggly.com/docs/new-relic-extension/
Another Kickstarter Project Fails – ZPM Espresso
Well, I don't think there's anything wrong with letting your side projects die or collect dust. It's perfectly natural to get partway through and then decide you just don't want to do it anymore.

I've found that if I REALLY want to do something, I'll just find time to do it. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to fake that kind of motivation. It's kind of there or it's not.

One technique I've used though, is to make my side-projects bite-sized (little tiny MVPs). That way, even if they only hold my attention for 72 hours, I'll still be able to finish them and put something up live. Later on, if I'm still interested in it, then I can iterate on it more.
Do Startups Matter?
"When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that’s what you needed on the farm, but as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers, cars got more popular. Innovations like automatic transmission and power steering and things that you didn’t care about in a truck as much started to become paramount in cars. … PCs are going to be like trucks. They’re still going to be around, they’re still going to have a lot of value, but they’re going to be used by one out of X people."

I don't see any moved goal posts.