skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only know what Ted[0] told me: "This is a cheap place. Wait, did I say cheap? I mean frugal. No Herman-Miller Aeron chairs here. It's nice to work for a company that saves pennies so they add up on the bottom line. The office furniture is utilitarian. I'm sure there is a fancy executive table somewhere, but the conference rooms, training rooms, etc. just have plain tables."

I don't know if workplace conditions have improved in the past 10 years but I hope their recruiting has.

0: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/The-Insider-Amazon...
Have you tried GetMacApps? http://www.getmacapps.com/ I have a coworker who uses it, and it seems to be exactly like a Ninite for Mac.
Does it show how to compute the error margins?
Apparently they don't state what "disproportionately" is supposed to mean. If that is indeed the case I doubt much valid insight can be derived from this chart.
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Nobody's forcing me to use trigger warnings. I choose to use them for some things. I don't choose to enumerate all the possible ways that anyone might be upset by my writing, and nobody's asking me to do that. There is a potential slippery slope, but even if I go a little too far down it, I'm not worried about going all the way to the bottom.

(I don't read tumblr, or any blogs where I think trigger warnings have gotten out of hand. It's possible such blogs exist. That doesn't mean my own use of trigger warnings is excessive.)

Not everyone can easily get help. If you want a therapist for example, that costs time, possibly money, and depending on your social circle you might fear being made fun of or cast out if they discover.

(Actually, as it happens, I approximately never write anything that needs trigger warnings. I'm mostly speaking in the first person for simplicity, and as a hypothetical "this is what I think I would do if I wrote about such things". I don't recall ever issuing a trigger warning though, so it's possible that I'm being somewhat hypocritical here.)
Would you consider a 1:1 UK based service? Mainly to investigate your options & find the right kind of jobs that are not via a recruiter.

Or are you more after a list you can check daily?
That's true of phosphorous acid (where the name distinguishes it from phosphoric acid), but otherwise English chemical names use the noun form of the positive ion (e.g. phosphorus pentoxide).
‘Text neck’ is becoming an ‘epidemic’ and could wreck your spine
Interesting! I assume you would have to statically link all other libs? Distros often swap out e.g. libfoo for foolib and from my own experience that usually ends up being a rabbit hole of "make."
DNS Analysis from Roubaix to Www.Google.com – Super-Ping.com
I couldn't agree more. In .NET I use something like this:

new Regex(@"

# {begining of string}International Call Prefix,

# digits [0 - 2]
^[+]1

# Area Code validation allowing only US landline and mobile numbers,

# digits [3 - 5]

(?:

2(?:0[1-35-9]|1[02-9]|2[4589]|3[149]|4[08]|5[1-46]|6[0279]|7[026]|8[13])

|3(?:0[1-57-9]|1[02-9]|2[0135]|3[014679]|4[67]|5[12]|6[014]|8[56])

|4(?:0[124-9]|1[02-579]|2[3-5]|3[0245]|4[0235]|58|69|7[0589]|8[04])

|5(?:0[1-57-9]|1[0235-8]|20|3[0149]|4[01]|5[19]|6[1-37]|7[013-5]|8[056])

|6(?:0[1-35-9]|1[024-9]|2[036]|3[016]|4[16]|5[017]|6[0-279]|78|8[12])

|7(?:0[1-46-8]|1[02-9]|2[0457]|3[1247]|4[07]|5[47]|6[02359]|7[02-59]|8[156])

|8(?:0[1-68]|1[02-8]|28|3[0-25]|4[3578]|5[06-9]|6[02-5]|7[028])

|9(?:0[1346-9]|1[02-9]|2[0589]|3[01678]|4[0179]|5[12469]|7[0-3589]|8[0459])

)

#

# digit [6]

[2-9]

# Remaining 6 digits can be any digit{end of string}

# digits [7 - 12]
\d{6}$",

RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace | RegexOptions.Compiled);

The key part is "RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace". With that, you can add comments to your Regex using the "#" character and break it up even more. In this example I didn't use capture groups, but I usually use a combination of both techniques.

Edit: Formatting of whitespace was somewhat lost with the post. In my code it looks great! I also cleaned up some of the comments that revealed more information than I intended.
Certificate pinning helps with Github, but doesn't help with <random website that I've never visited before>.

(Still doesn't help if the software package itself - that is the canonical copy - is malicious - but prevents MITMing from anyone that doesn't have that particular certificate, at least.)

That being said, you have a (very) valid point. Modern OSes are... not exactly secure.
If you're gonna denounce a religion, can you at least get the sects done correctly?

Wahhabism / Salafist Islam, which is a very small minority of Muslims, is the one preaching the extremist reaction.

The majority of mainstream Shia / Shiite Muslims are actually peaceful. They kinda don't like the cartoons, but I don't know of any attack from "mainstream" Muslims. They all come from the Al Quaeda-inspired Salafist sect preached by Osama Bin Laden.
IMO, the biggest issue with Linux gaming is not OpenGL, as others claim, but input support.

Specifically, advanced controller support. SDL2 is far from enough.

For windows, there's no issue adding support for Logitech G25, G27, F710, Microsoft gamepads and Joysticks (the best joysticks ever made), and several other wheels like Fanatec.

In Linux it seems that only XBox360 compatibility is possible and everything else requires a huge amount of refactoring.

Also, raw keyboard and mouse support requires having root permissions and whatnot, something users can't be expected to set up themselves.

So, OpenGL has some performance issues but it works, input programming is actually a nightmare in comparison.

Still no Steam game works with the G25. Euro Truck Simulator 2 can't read it right, despite having kernel support, and the game is simply boring with a controller instead of a wheel.
Oh, God, yes: the only similar example that I see abused as much is callus vs callous.
Is 2M still an acqui-hire though? Even in Silicon Valley?

Where's the threshold between acqui-hires and acquisitions these days?
Looks like it's from a slide deck[0] (maybe a presentation) he did. I know it's not the exact quote, but he may have said it in a talk?

(slide 4) "What Are Design Patterns: To avoid limitations of implementation language"

[0] http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
Just a reminder that Tape Op (the magazine cited above) is free; you just have to register. They even send you their print copy for free, which is wonderful.
The homepage change is a pretty low move, but the other items make sense. DirectX is most likely used by gamers, who are often fairly young, have risky internet habits, and not very security conscious. Using an old version of IE isn't good from a security pov and the malicious software remover tool is a great way to lower the number of botnet hosts.

I really wish MS would give up on pushing MSN and Bing. They're just terrible products. Shame their good products get mixed in with them.
Abbreviations can be human-friendly as well if they are well-established.
> People with these names are more likely than others to have these professions.

Shouldn't it say: "People with these names happen to be in those professions more often than others"?

Anyway, there are a couple of fun ones in there, but I'll let you figure those out yourself. Unfortunately neither my name nor my profession are covered — I'm not quite sure what to make of that. :/

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They use the same language in their blog post: "Arnolds therefore appear to have a much higher tendency to be accountants than Shanes." That's just wrong, no? By wrong I just mean intentionally misleading. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that they sell an app that helps you find names for you babies though.
The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology
Researchers Shed New Light on Collapse of Easter Island Society
A simple, hackable frontpage for hackers
Where are the numbers? It would be interesting if it wasn't so vague.
He was far from perfect and the Armenian genocide will forever mar his legacy (and to this day can't be talked about in a reasonable way in Turkey, or even with quite a few Turks outside of Turkey).

But he did move Turkey from the state it was in to the next step. Keep in mind that most of the things that you add there were compromises, he was walking a very fine line between unification and all out civil war.

I doubt he could have done much more in one lifetime, I agree he probably could have done a better job but then again I wasn't in his shoes so it is hard to judge.

But putting Turkey ca. 1980 next to the countries surrounding it and you'd have to agree that his legacy had the potential to pay off.
I'm not Mormon, but I shudder when I see the mainstream media ripping on Mormons or Scientologists. This isn't us. I think this is one of the biggest things we've lost to 9/11, decency and restraint. It was first OK to talk shit about Muslims, Towelheads (sadly many more peaceful Sikhs were victimized by actual violence than Muslims), then Scientologists, then Mormons. What the hell happened to our ideals?

I recall receiving an e-mail from a KKK affiliate. It was a rational argument that a significantly larger proportion of the black population was incarcerated as compared to whites. The e-mail stated that see it on TV shows like cops who perpetrate heinous crimes. It then went to state that it's not about being racist. It's about taking a stand... I replied with a long rant countering every point and was obviously unsubscribed from the list.

Now let's apply that template to other minorities. Hmmm, skin color is too obvious, let's do religion instead. "Did you see how most scientologists are crazy? They jump on couches..." It's not racism since you're not targeting a race. But it's the same fucking thing. You're singling out a minority group. While you might not personally like a minority group, one not as powerful as the group you belong to, our society did not publicly attack minorities (I'm talking about the 90's).

It seems the only things that still haven't crept in are outright racism against a different race (probably because racial minorities are more powerful now). But we are now taking pride in offending and trying to decimate the views that aren't mainstream. WTF is that? Did we forget what that type of vitriol led to the last time around?

Can you seriously compare the socioeconomic conditions of the average Mormon to a Muslim from Iraq or Afghanistan?

I'm amazed that I'm reading comments on HN comparing 1.7B Muslims and trying to judge them as a whole. Yes, it's not technically racism, but it's not any less shallow or ignorant.

Is Islam more violent than Christianity? (WTF kind of a question is that)

Are American blacks more criminal than whites?

Both of these questions should make anyone with intelligence shudder. If you just tell yourself that you're asking yourself these questions "scientifically" an "rationally", let's not forget the Nazi Scientists who were measuring how Jews were scientifically different or even earlier when scientists in a slave owning american were trying to prove that blacks people were less evolved than whites.
>To say that in other words, to Muslims, a graphical satire is acceptable on anyone except the prophets, which includes Moses, Jesus, Abraham, etc.

Disregarding the past, even today Muslims (most) respect only their religious figures. They respect Moses, Jesus, Abraham since they are considered prophet by Islam. Muslims (again, most) have no respect for other religions like Hinduism, Buddhism (You can see this on many occasions when they talk about Muslim tolerance and mention only Jesus, Moses and Abraham). Why being a Hindu or Buddhist, should I respect your prophet?
The company's software stack includes php and python. But on average, what number should I give? And start-ups vs larger companies?
Show HN: Simple Radio App – No headline needed, it's that simple
Erm... Islam was what kept most of the world out of the Dark Ages. They didn't need to experience enlightenment when they were busy experiencing Algebra and the number zero.

The Middle-east is such a hellhole because the Ottoman Empire got royally F'''ed up in World War 1. And its iddy-bitty pieces were redrawn by the Allies.

Whereas Germany remained strong and rebelled against the Allied rule by basically starting World War 2... the Ottomans were cut up piece by piece and distributed across the Allied powers. The clusterf'''ed map today was drawn by military commanders with no rhyme or reason to cultural unity, which leads us to how screwed up the Middle East is today.

Granted, the Ottomans were in decline by that point, which contributed to why they lost the Great War. But lets not forget the basis of history here. World War 1 screwed things up, quite severely, in this region.

In fact, the former map of the Ottoman Empire basically reads for where things are screwed up today.

http://www.zonu.com/images/0X0/2010-01-02-11578/The-Ottoman-...

Ignoring the major geo-political changes between 1850 through 1920 seems frankly insane. The current state of the Middle East can be easily explained by WW1 and the collapse of the Ottomans. Furthermore, the history and culture of the region _remembers_ when they were a great world power.

There's probably a bit of jealousy and pride in there, as the Persians / Ottomans were a great empire only ~150 years ago.
> For baby bottles... I guess the search is on for the next best type of bottle.

Use stainless steel baby bottles. There are couple different companies that make them, we use Klean Kanteen. There is some plastic (the ring to tighten the nipple down) but the liquid never touches anything but stainless steel and silicone.
Very interesting app. How did you launch and gain users?
Still damn expensive compared to things like a dedicated server from here:

http://www.kimsufi.com/en/

Amazon seems to offer more network bandwidth though, so they might have an advantage for CPU-heavy and network-heavy loads. But from the testing I've done Amazon comes in almost dead last for cost/performance on most metrics. I suppose they could make sense if you make heavy use of all their services, and maybe their cost/performance improves with scale?
Does Google ever access your Google Analytics or other Google tools you are using to get more insight info about your website or app? Would they ever do such thing?
> Google initially was talking about an investment or purchase

I don't see anything like that. Also, what’s the difference between a purchase and acquihire in this case? Both would surely mean an employment at Google.
I'm offended by the fact that there is a warning at the top of this page...

Shouldn't it be there all the time then?

How about, we don't believe in anything anymore, or we don't have any integrity?
$40K/yr Senior Software Engineer (full Stack) at CrystalMD
That's the #1 reason ALL the computers in my house aren't Ubuntu but Debian.
After we tackled gender inequalities, we can move on to name inequalities. How about introducing name-quotas, that ought to fix the problem.
>I think the purpose of downvotes is a mild correction

Unfortunately, I just don't think people are generally that nuanced with it. But that may not be their fault, and instead may be in part due to what I mentioned previously: flags are for inappropriate content, comments should be for disagreement, so where does that leave downvoting? What is a "mild correction"?

>I'd like to test the idea of mandatory comment before downvote

I have thought this too. I really just think downvotes are childish and counterproductive, but if there must be downvoting, then the downvoter should at least be required to provide a cogent rationale that is subject to the same public scrutiny and potential for discussion.

It just seems a perverted incentive to "punish" those who take their time to contribute to the discussion, while allowing the "punisher" to remain anonymous and lazy.
PG defended scribd (much as InstallMonetizer), including automated scribed links on HN, even as it was hijacking people's content and widely loathed.
This timely article appears the weekend I erase & install OSX having clicked the wrong download button on CyberDuck. The Google DoubleClick banner is prominent on the page, the actual software download is "below the fold". I should know better, but I clicked the big green "Download Now" next to the big Yellow duck, and underneath the same-Green Donate button. I ended-up downloading something wrapped in Genieo's InstallMac software, nothing to do with CyberDuck, who I wouldn't even mention except the banner is so prominent on the page. I also, dumbly, entered my admin credentials before aborting the install when it started downloading more components. Within seconds my search engine on all browsers was changed, start-page reset and other configuration including a process left running.

The installed files and modified files were not easy to find, apple provide good help but it's hard to trust the computer once it's executed malicious deceptive code with root privilege.

Clearly this was all my own fault and poor decision making.
http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/12/30/names-by-professi...

Direct link to the blog that goes in to a few details of how they work out the names.
I guess so.

Last time we spec-ed up an ElasticSearch cluster the SSD EBS didn't exist yet, so on-board SSDs was an obvious win.

I should revisit it again some time.
I did this for my sister this Christmas. Every holiday she visits and hands me her laptop to be fixed or reformated. So I got fed up, installed eOS and the tweaks plugin, got Netflix and mp3/aac support working, and told her I had installed Mac OSX on her laptop.

If I had told her it was Linux, she would be too scared to touch the thing, but she honestly believes she has a Mac now (in a Dell laptop), and hasn't complained at all so far.
Interesting trend. If you could spec out the whole thing including cooling for use in a data center, you could probably do some really damn fast many-core chips that wouldn't be likely to sell much in the desktop and a la carte server markets.
Was there an actual offer made, even for an aqui-hire?
I see a lot of comments here about Mac & Ubuntu. I run Ubuntu myself, so no disrespect intended.

That said: If we all do and make everyone else do as we say, replace Windows with Ubuntu & Mac, guess what happens next? The next shitwave of shitware will come to our favourite platforms, and they will find new exploits and new creative ways to fuck us over too.

This is a social problem and technology alone wont solve it. Either users must be taught to avoid things like this (flying pigs be damned) or it must be banned by law. Law which unfortunately knows geographical limits and universal lack of uniformity & coherence.

What's the general opinion on that? I'm obviously all for banning crapware, but lets say the majority was for banning it, and we found a solution for the "global" laws thing... How would you define it, where would you draw the line for what is just poor software and what is actively harmful?

What about remote-control/support-tools? Obviously they can be used for good, but in the wrong hands they can be used for espionage and surveillance and ransomware.

I suspect such a ban would cause quite some debate, even among techies.
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Interesting choice of professions. Race car drivers and musicians seem to have similar names. Other than that I have no idea what to do with this information.
Why Contributing to the Linux Kernel Is Easier Than You Think
Ok I don't understand the last sentenxe but I think we both agree that we shouldn't confuse the need to fight Islamism with a need to fight Islam. You may be right that Christianity has just as much potential to be used to justify Christianism - but as you and I both agree we now have very few nations AND very few violent revolutionary groups seeking to replace existing governments with ones organized along a "Christian political structure" whatever that may be. I was trying to say that Christianity doesn't COMPEL large swaths of the population at any given point to strongly support a political revolution towards Christianism, which is why the separation of Church and State is rather stable. Whereas I feel that the QuRan among its contents contains prominent instructions as to how a polity is to be set up. Christian writings have this too but the organizational principle is more akin to anarchism so whatever the political leaders wind up using isn't from the NT. Don't you see a difference in the nature of the writings at all when it comes to political structure, conquering and physical violence? I will give one example:

http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=8&verse=67

Tell me where do you have a comparable verse in the NT? These pronouncements have been interpreted to apply to modern times as well, since Muslims are to emulate Mohammad. That is what I mean.

Look I could be wrong and at the end of the day the only danger I see is in the political and violent aspects of the writings, as something that makes it hard to separate Mosque and State given enough people. It's a "rule of the game" that you can't jettison as easily as Christians can. That's what I meant.
"In our sample of two and a half million people, a whopping 1.9% of Arnolds are accountants. Contrast that with just 0.55% of Shanes. Arnolds therefore appear to have a much higher tendency to be accountants than Shanes."

http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/12/30/names-by-professi...

You see where this is going. If you correlate the data with the popularity of names in general, you'll find that Arnold is a much more popular name than Shane ...
I'm one of those people who say "$0 marketing spend," and I don't mean that it's bad to spend money on advertising. I've intentionally held back since I wanted to see if there was "natural demand" to validate my product before moving forward.
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Normally this is spam, but this is likely being posted because the job location is San Francisco and that salary is hilarious.
> Too often someone with an automation mindset will see an task and decide that it can be automated without actually understanding half of what the task involves.

I know I've been guilty of this. The only solution I've found--be humble and ask as many questions as you can. (I guess working in the job for a few months is another solution, but sometimes that is a luxury you can't afford.)
stdout and friends should make sense to every developer. I don't think you have to have the library functions in sync with system calls and file descriptors.
> A compound is considered safe (by the Food and Drug Administration) until proven otherwise.

This is simply false. If it were true, getting FDA approval for a new drug would be trivial: Just release it, and hope nobody dies.
Ceilings usually aren't problematic for GPS. They do better out side, but if you get cell service through the ceiling, you'll get GPS signal through it.

What I'm curious about is that GPS is only accurate to within a few meters. If I turn on my GPS and set it on my desk for an hour, the resulting track will look like it's bouncing around the room.

My guess is this app averages a bunch of readings from each wall to correct for the noise, but I'm still surprised that works well enough to give accurate results.
Adobe forced ninite to remove the Flash installer, so that won't help. You can set Flash to auto-update in Control Panel > Flash Player > Advanced > Automatic Updates. (I've heard it's more complex in Win8 though.)
Agreed, and I think this isn't getting enough play. EBS is one of the more failure-prone parts of the AWS stack. I full-stop don't use EBS, anywhere, on any machine, because of the reliability concerns. (Since I am at least sort of competent, I design for redundancy and don't care if I lose a node anyway, so instance stores are fine.)

These machines sound cool, but C3's will do me just fine.
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see http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/11/13/intel...
Yes, that's why I posted it.