skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meeting a potential employees significant other? I would like to see the person that agrees with that. :D

In the end its a managers ability of good people judgement to keep problematic personalities out, in combination with probation periods.

Unfortunately sometimes some of them slip through and are even rewarded with promotions (happened in two of my previous jobs), even though all colleagues hate them, by employing the good ol sucking upwards, kicking downwards strategy.
He talks about using live-server[1] about ~2m in. It injects the live reload script into the page it serves so no plugin needed.

[1] https://github.com/tapio/live-server
Could you explain a bit more? A quick search suggests that semi-unification is equivalent to Milner-Mycroft typeability, which is polymorphic recursion, which Haskell does indeed have.

http://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~camarao/SUP/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_recursion
woah this is really neat!

Lags a bit as you type, is that to be expected?
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That sounds like something you'd use the state monad for if I understand correctly.

Can you provide an example of semi unification where Haskell would be not so great?
The build step is mitigated by incremental reloading, and the incremental reloading can be tied to a live-reload event.

So you end up with the same workflow as shown in this video; but most likely faster for many modules (browser requests 1 JS file rather than potentially hundreds) and also more realistic for production (aside from minification, the dev environment is the exact same as the production environment).
> We have no tolerance for dishonest, manipulative, belittling, or egocentric individuals

This seems code for "I don't want an egocentric person here with more confidence than me." Honestly, it depends on the role. I want my guy who handles negotiations to be a tough character. I want my lawyer to be fearless. I want my security guards to be unafraid to assert themselves if they see something.

This is what both this guy and Paul Graham get wrong: there simply is no "one good personality" for businesses. We need a mix of personalities to get things done effectively, or at all. Yeah my coders and sysadmins should probably be INTJ's, but I don't want an INTJ sales guy.

I also think there's folly in being ultra-sensitive and ultra-politically correct with hiring. So what if someone has more confidence than you? Is it such a threat to your company and well-being? I think this idea of a young company being a nerf-game nerdfest of humble geeks all "being nice" is asinine. These companies get eaten up by tough guys who just can out-compete them. Niceness comes with a lot of limits and in the long run, can't compete. Look at how quickly Google has given up its 'no evil' mantra, for example, or how Bill Gates had to transform from 1980s geek hero to 1990s hated Bill Gates. It was a limiting philosophy, especially when you have shareholders.
Because... you're defending the right to be dishonest, manipulative, belittling or egocentric? That's an unusual point of view.
Do you have it online? care to share?
See also "Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?" by the same author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8828543
I may be misunderstanding something but should the pawn shop not be prosecuted for buying stolen goods?
Or chat with me immediately via http://telegram.me/eteeselink
I don't think you can do that since the wrapped values have different types.
The best known top-shelf brands that fit that description are Pappy, WhistlePig, and Black Maple Hill. They're good products, but they're all bottlings of someone else's spirit. The term for that kind of brand is "NDP".

NDP practices are most notorious in American rye, where the majority of products come from a single ex-Seagrams distillery in Indiana called MGPI. Templeton is an NDP infamous for carefully concealing the fact that they're reselling commodity rye spirit. Chuck Cowdery, whose blog is well worth a read, calls them a "Potempkin Distillery".

But there are a lot of top-shelf brands that don't fit that description at all. The Buffalo Trace antiques --- Thomas Handy, for instance --- are genuine serious products. Of course, they trace back to Sazerac, which is a pretty big company; just look at all the stuff Barton Brands (also owned by Sazerac) sells.
Depends how far away from the server you are. Anything over 100ms will lag a little (or a lot). So yes for most of the world.
Simple tricks to enhance your memory
> I don't know any other decent FTP clients that I would recommend.

I use a paid version of SmartFTP & like it. Combines Filezilla with Putty.
I'm pretty sure it is fear of being judged. I try to convince myself that most people are open and positive towards me. If you would ask me I'd tell you that most people are even sympathetic towards me in case I panic, stutter, or somehow f'up a presentation. But as soon as I'm in such a situation rationality is gone.
As a comparison, what does it look like if you enable GCC optimization?
spacemacs looks amazing, thanks for that!
Supposedly this is a chat server to run as a login shell for users ssh-ing to a particular box.

Apparently, unlike a e.g. Jabber server, your whole interaction, including the typing of your messages, happens in the remote terminal session. Probably this is perfectly fine for chatting inside your LAN, but probably not best if your connectivity is limited or just has a high latency (imagine a ping from Iceland to New Zealand).

It seems that long-term history is not supported yet.

Still this thing must be easier to set up than IRC over TLS.
One of the big problems with AB testing is that the people running tests within a company often don't have a strong understanding of the statistics behind the tests. And unfortunately, they often have little interest in performing statistically valid tests.

They might be from the marketing department, they might be web-designers, they might even be growth hackers (eek), but most likely they are not statisticians.

Their motivations may not align with running tests correctly. E.g. they may want to strengthen the argument for their design over someone else's competing design, or they may be looking for number to serve up to their boss at their monthly review meeting. But performing a statistically-valid test is low on their list of priorities.

I love articles like this that go into the minutiae of how to perform AB tests correctly. But I think they only speak to a small portion of the people who are doing AB tests.
Likely, the social sharing buttons that aren’t shabby
The author has some valid points, and there may be some consumers who are worse-off with an unbundled cable system. However, analogies to air travel unbundling are not particularly apt. The air travel industry has very high barriers to entry—i.e., FAA regulations, limited number of gates, and very high capital requirements. There are some barriers to entry in the media/entertainment space, but they are nowhere close to the barriers to air travel entry.

When unbundling occurs and it is difficult for new entrants to create new offerings, consumers may suffer because the suppliers have more leverage than consumers. On the other hand, if you have unbundling in an industry where new entrants can come in, the suppliers have less power vis-a-vis the consumers. If they don't supply the desired unbundled goods/services, then new entrants will come in and satisfy the demand.
What happens if you have no significant other? Does that fail that test?

If yes, this test was written by an egocentric asshole.
It says 90% thermal efficiency, which makes me wonder what the electrical efficiency is. Also, "500 hours reliable operation" doesn't look great.
Islay is amazing. If you make it there, consider staying at The Bowmore House[0]. Andrew and Alison are wonderful hosts, the breakfasts are marvelous, and the rooms are great too.

[0] http://www.thebowmorehouse.co.uk/
This is important. You can be an asshole (in the present tense sense of the word) without "asshole" being a defining part of your character. If you're socially awkward but well-intentioned, yet when you speak everyone rolls their eyes because you come off as a condescending jerk, the end result is not much different than if you were actually a condescending jerk all along.
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HTTP/2 is not SPDY. They're not compatible.

The IETF mailing list archives are open if you'd like to see what 3 years of standardsing looks like. You can also go to the chair's blog (mnot.net) to read the evolution. Or Roy Fielding's presentations on Waka which were one of the early (2002) catalysts among the IETF-orbiters that lead to HTTP/2.
http://gbiv.com/protocols/waka/200211_fielding_apachecon.ppt

Ultimately Waka was already a decade late, Google had SPDY which had some similarities and was already deployed, and people didn't want to wait another decade to build something no one might adopt. There were aspects of SPDY that needed changing to make it a true protocol standard rather than just a shared library, and a few features that out of rough consensus were changed.

That's how successful standards processes actually work - codifying what's already working, implemented in the field. Implementing a standard no one uses? See Atompub. See XHTML2.
New CheckiO's Web Plugin allows you to use your local IDE
Show HN: We hacked a way to buy cheap gift cards (Newegg, Amazon)
If the creator of a software critiques your SaaS that uses his software maybe you should pay more attention to it? I am sure Linus knows git a lot better than most of us.
"won't". It hasn't been adopted by even a significant portion of the internet yet, and based on these discussions I'm fearful it will turn out exactly like IPv6.
I'm actually thinking about putting together an ebook for developers to learn design. Would I be able to ask you some questions about this? If so, please send me your email.
> Everybody is an asshole from the point of view of someone else.

Agreed. One man's asshole is another man's best friend.

Also, and perhaps more commonly, people behave differently to different people and in different circumstances. I've never met someone who was an asshole to their boss, even if they acted assholey in general to everyone else.

Bullying is a bit easier to operationally define, focused on behavior, not attitudes or personality traits as much.
This was a ShowHN a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743374
WBUR Podcast about Sound and Music
Apple sued over 'shrinking' gadget storage
@ggreer, I have pretty much the same latop (e145) and I still have issue with video (free driver), for example the video quality in HD is very bad. Most of the power is handled by the processor and not by the video card...
Did you find any solution ?
Can you cite a reference for "apparently it doesn't", and for the point that the "new Series 30+ phones are not based on the old Nokia OS any more"?

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_30) calls Series 30+ "a little version upgrade of Series 30 platform" but I have no idea if that's true. If so, it would suggest that Series 30+ would support J2ME: the contrary would be surprising, as you said.

Thanks.
Why should we drop it? Exoplanet just means that it's orbiting a different star than the Sun.
Thanks, i'll have a look
Truthfully I was on the fence about "manipulative" (not the other three, though). I get that it has a negative association, but at the end of the day aren't you just trying to show someone why doing _______ is in their best interest? Understanding that the connotation of "manipulative" is that it's not actually in their best interest.
I'd take a significant bet that opex is much higher than capex for that stuff.
> Business practices, such as any reduction or elimination of shipping charges on an order, or of any other order-related fees and expenses

"Other order-related fees and expenses" is what would be considered the Amazon commission.

This isn't something worth debating... it's a fact that most things on Amazon are more expensive than if you found the seller's own website... I've been doing this for a long time. You are free to throw your money away based on some sense of "trust" you feel at Amazon.

Do some due diligence the next time you go to make a purchase on Amazon; I'd say 9 times out of 10, you will find a better deal elsewhere.
Tobermory, of course, being owned by Distell, itself a pretty big spirits firm. :)

The big difference I noticed between big and small distilleries was automation. A large-scale distillery still has a blinged-out spirit safe, but the LCD screen showing the stats on the stills is more important, because it's what's making all the decisions. The Benromach people were doing all that stuff by hand and eyeball.

On the other hand: I'll probably drink 4 bottles of Balvenie for ever 1 bottle of Benromach I drink. I'll let you know when I manage to finish the first bottle of Benromach I bought. It's good stuff, but the big distilleries can produce stuff that's better.
There's of course also a optimized brainfuck compiler written in sed:
https://github.com/stedolan/bf.sed
The most important thing is that learning other languages and frameworks really helps expand your perspective. It's fascinating and fun to learn how another framework in a different language solves common problems like security, routing, or UI abstractions.

Any time you see a problem approached from a new angle, it deepens your understanding of that domain. You learn what patterns are common and what tradeoffs are made.

I gueninely believe learning Python or Erlang makes you a better Ruby programmer. You don't have to cross over to reap the benefits.
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Should browser developer tools have a “security” tab?
Can we file a report against SF?
Then when users attempt to enter the site browsers will warn about the dangers.
(I'm responding inline, and I'm not looking at all the aforementioned posts/comments, so forgive me if I'm missing something here.)

It sounds like you're arguing that SRV records are no slower than A records, which, on it's face, seems reasonable. A DNS request is a DNS request, and aside from a response being too big for UDP and having to switch to TCP, you should get nearly-identical performance.

The part, to me, that looks like a real performance issue is potentially having to double the minimum amount of queries to serve a website. We couldn't possibly switch directly to SRV records; there would have to be an overlap of browsers using both SRV and A records for backwards compatibility.

If we stick with that invariant, then we can say that the first-load cost of a page not using SRV records doubles in the worst case: websites that only have an A record. Now we're looking for a SRV record, not getting it, and falling back to an A record. So, now, all of the normal websites who don't give a crap about SRV records, won't ever use them, pay a performance penalty. A marginal one, sure. but it's there.,

So, overall, their claim seems valid, even if low in severity.

I'd love to hear from someone that has the data, but I can count on one hand the number of times where a loss of IP connectivity has happened where I wish I had SRV records for load balancing. It's usually bad DNS records, or slow/bad DNS propagation, or web servers behind my load balancers went down, or a ton of other things. Your point is still totally valid about being able to more easily load balance across multiple providers, datacenters, what have you... but I'm not convinced it's as much of a problem as you make it out to be.
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Less taxation. Police officers are effectively just tax collectors.
The editor was webstorm with a very minimal UI
Fun but laggy
This is what I call a 'content free' article.

Yes, it's nice to wax lyrical about zero-tolerance of baddies, and we can all rally behind such a idea, but the practical side of how to implement this without some egotistical maniac deciding whimsically who is an asshole isn't viable, and if they do think they have achieved such a utopia, I'll bet dollars to donuts that they are deluding themselves. Case in point, this article is intolerant. Intolerant people are in actual fact, assholes.

Also, as Michael Palin once said regarding the early days of scoring Monty Python work, paraphrased, 'if you won't do anything out of principle then sooner or later you're left with nothing but".
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I wonder if latency can be improved by building upon Mosh[1], rather than SSH.

[1]: https://mosh.mit.edu/
Some of the production facilities used in the whisky industry are rather "industrial" - there are a few large industrial malting facilities that supply malt to large number of distilleries including some of the more upmarket brands.

NB When I was a student in the 1980s I used to work in the summers at one of the large industrial maltings.
I haven't been able to find anything saying how many wires are in the cable, does anyone here know and have a reference?

Is it the full 24 wires mapped end-to-end or are some of the connectors mapped to a single wire? Like, the 4 USB 2.0 connectors, I imagine it makes little sense to have 4 physical wires there, right? Yet they obviously have the SuperSpeed lanes wired separately because they can run DP alt mode on one side of the connector and USB 3.1 on the other.

I'd love to see something discussing this and it could affect the longer term viability of the physical connector spec.

EDIT:
Honestly, I'd love it if the spec said they must have 24 wires AND that balanced pairs would be twisted pairs. As long as the connector is durable I'm willing to pay more for a good cable designed to that spec.
Having a meal with someone is a great test to see if someone is an asshole. Of course, very few will be such huge assholes that it shows up at the first meal.

A better approach is to just keep a lookout when you scan their online profile (which you should). Everyone will have some posts on Twitter/HN/FB/Reddit/Disqus that they aren't proud of, but the assholes will be immediately visible.

Having no visible trail on the Internet could be a sign that you are privact concious but I'd go so far as to say it's a liability these days.
ampere/hour

Minor correction: battery capacity is measured in ampere-hour, i.e. ampere * hour.
Templeton is evil. Try Few, if you're looking for a similarly-priced Rye that isn't an MGPI product, or if you're looking for the same juice as Templeton at a more reasonable price, try High West or Bulleit.

You should avoid Templeton just because of the douchebag factor.
After all, what use is a certification authority, if basically any authoritarian state and intelligence service can get on that list?

Who says what an authoritarian state is? The reason there are a lot of CAs and some of them are governments is that having rules and policies for what it takes to be a CA is way better than having some random neckbeard at a browser maker deciding he read something in the newspaper yesterday about your country he didn't like, so you can't be a CA.

If you wanted to, you could build a browser that's a fork of Firefox/Chrome, and just doesn't show the padlock when a CA that you believe is under the thumb of an authoritarian state is the signer. However you would then have to exclude all American and British CA's, which would then exclude most SSLd sites, thus making your fork not much different to just deciding to never show any padlock at all and assert that everything is insecure so fuck it, let's (not) go shopping.

OK ..... back here in reality, real browser makers understand that there are more adversaries than governments, and actually SSL was designed to make online shopping safer, not be a tool of revolution. Judged by the "make shopping safer" standard it does a pretty great job. Judged by the "fight repressive regime and save the world" standard, it still does a surprisingly good job - the NSA doesn't seem to like it much at all - but it's unrealistic to expect an internet protocol designed in the mid 90s to do that.
Well-intentioned of course, but I think people need to be vigilant against this sort of thing ossifying into something less savory. Or in other words, it is possible to be an asshole about being anti-asshole. I keep seeing that word more and more in these discussions, and I noticed the phrase "no tolerance" is used very heavily here. See how zero-tilerance worked for our schools.
For anyone building projects utilizing GIFs, check out the GIPHY api.

http://api.giphy.com/

Here's another project using GIFs and beat matching:

http://www.seehearparty.com/

Some other cool projects:

http://giphy.com/labs
Ask HN: VOIP service encryption
It appears that most commercial VOIP service providers do not use encrypted SIP or RTP nor do they seem concerned about the lack of encryption.

The common response seems to be that it would add jitter, cpu overhead, and still be unencrypted on the PSTN. All valid points but it seems any security and privacy is better than none at all.

VoIP.ms, for example, even goes so far as to suggest the SIP packet is secure simply because it uses an MD5 password hash[1].

How do other VOIP service users feel about this issue?

[1]: http://wiki.voip.ms/article/FAQ#Does_VoIP.ms_encrypt_the_communication_.3F
I certainly think the Japanese single malts are already giving them a run for their money. Hard to say, "already" when they've been making good product for a century or so... but this year was a pretty good reminder:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/05...

Although, I don't know about moderating prices. Finding a bottle of the Yamazaki has not been easy (particularly at a reasonable price).

EDIT: the Diageo special release pricing has gotten almost insulting.

EDIT: yup, tpacek, couldn't agree more. The Robert Parker of Whisky, to be taken with a grain of salt... but I'd say it's at least correlated with quality and an indicator of where the market is headed.
"Asshole" is not a class of people, it's an insult. That being said I'd rather deal with a rough-edged person than listen to crap like this. If you write something down, please make sure its intellectually valuable and reflected and not just a random polemic load of crap that could have been generated by a half-arsed algorithm.

We live in a world where algorithmic natural language generation is a real thing. I can only strongly suggest that now is the time to start communicating in an intelligent fashion because being able to express a philosophically sound thought is the only thing that distinguishes you from a machine nowadays really.
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Unfortunately, if that happened to me I would think the managers are morons and my teammates are dicks for saying that I was being an asshole.
Isn't this just hype? I still don't understand why it's going to be helpful to have something like my refrigerator connected. I've heard rumors of having the refrigerator tell you when you're out of certain products, but this is useless for people like me who rarely buy the exact same products! The internet of things is a cool idea for some products, but kind of gives me the feeling of being a gimmick overall.
Great news, I might finally be able to use RDS now. I'm always impressed that the AWS team seem to be on the ball with improvements - whenever I think "I could really do with X feature", they come out with it a few months later.

Having said that, the limitations at the bottom are a little arduous if you're already on RDS. Can't encrypt an existing unencrypted database. So you'd think to take a backup and restore to a new encrypted DB, but you can't do that either. Nor can you stream from an unencrypted master to an encrypted replica, freeze and swap over. Bit of a pain there!