skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on what you said, I think the analogy still holds. You talk about work - that's the truck. Others talk about just browsing/Facebook/etc - that's the car.

iPads (and iPhones) are awesome for some stuff - if I want to send a "fax" I just take a photo and email/message it (say to my insurance company). Scanning documents on my desktop is... not easy. Even doing the exact same operation (take picture and send) is fraught with difficulty.
29 years. Wow.

I sort of expected better space craft by now.

Do the space shuttles continue to evolve had their been no accidents?
> We don't develop characters

Look again. :)
Juniper gate.
This would be particularly useful if you could somehow do it in such a way that the service doesn't need to actually be in possession of the CSV/Excel/etc data at any point. (That would be a non-starter for privacy reasons at many companies.)

Would I have paid, oh, $500 a month for this? Heck yes. I would have paid it for it on day #1 and continued paying for it for each of the last 4 years, and it would still be cheap at the price.
> Sales, marketing, product positioning, feedback gathering, and investor relations are all often more valuable

I think you're absolutely right. But so is the person you were replying to. Becuase you know what _isn't_ as valuable as any of those things? "Having a really good idea that I think could make a lot of money."

And that's what a lot of people think, I have a great idea, all I need is someone who knows how to program to implement it (shouldn't take very long), and we're gonna make lots of money!

(Actually, I'd challenge the 'product positioning' as a useful thing to bring, because it is too easily confused with "Having a great idea." But sales, marketting, investor relations, actual market research, actual evidence-based feedback gathering -- sure.)
I used Screenhero a lot when I worked remotely. It's a great tool. Shared screens from the East coastto West coast (US) with hardly ever experiencing problems. Great service.
I enjoy reading how he quantifies pm fit - different people have different approaches. Another guy, can't think of his name, said 40%+ would be "very disappointed" if business shut down.
Think they're all useful signals.
I was really hoping Netflix had a secret warehouse filled with hundreds of workers whose job was to provide recommendations based on what you like, a la 'invisible boyfriend' [1]

Sadly, they just have people on the quest for the perfect hammer.

[1]http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/01/...
Deploying tor relays
The investigation into the accident can be read here
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/genindex.htm

It's very much worth reading, although some of the dialog can be a little dry.

Appendix F ( http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm ) was authored by Richard Feynman and provides a flavour for the rest of the report, if you don't have time to read it all.
I am extremely excited about this.

Pair Programming++
Most definitely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOZCLQ8q968
We attempted to tone down the baity title just a little, but if anyone has a better suggestion, we'll change it again.
Reliable quality email fastmail - 4 words that go together.
Webmail is decent but not as good as Gmail.
Hotmail is great NOW. But there was a time when it was ad filled & crappy. Same for Yahoo which was great at one time but unbearable now. In free email, gmail & Hotmail are the best I know. Fastmail is not too fancy, but its a good email service.
It's a Slacquisition ha ha.

Been using Slack a lot the past few months and really love it. Pairing it with Trello has given us a powerhouse of open communication and task management. I'm interested to see how it scales for our team as we grow, although the way Slack sets up channels I think it won't be a problem.

It will be interesting to see the screen sharing stuff too. Maybe it could replace Skype, which I cringe whenever I have to open (slow desktop app + tons of ads + incessantly begs me to update almost every time I open it).
Giphy plugin for Spotlight
It seems like you're arguing from a pure realpolitik perspective. The FBI is going to raid your Tor node because they know it will make your boss unhappy.

Even under that assumption, what is the FBI's motivation for doing this supposed to be? They can obviously only do this for Tor nodes within their jurisdiction, but that's where they want them to be because it's easier to capture their traffic. It's not like exit node operators have any actual connection to the crimes the government may be investigating. The main thrust of the other Tor article on the front page[1] is that the primary source of criminality on Tor is hidden services that don't use exit nodes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8959621
We built this for internal use within a specific app/process last year, and it was so useful we converted it into a generic uploader than devs could use any time they needed to upload CSV/Excel data.
You can use my handy backup: http://www.daringmeatball.com

Note: some content editorialized by a deranged bot.
Simplify Scaling: Use 1 Aerospike Server, Not 12 Redis Shards
a dystopia rather than a eutopia (sic)

This is an awesome typo. "Utopia" is a transliteration from Ancient Greek meaning "No place." The same rules of transliteration would make "eutopia" mean "good place."

"Utopia" came into English through a satire, the meaning being that nowhere's really paradise, but today we mostly use it without that edge, i.e., as if it really were spelled "eutopia."
Facebook doesn't sell user data (it sells targeted ads, advertisers don't get access to the data).
Ransomware Malware: Everything You Need to Know About It
You could have paid for Screenhero before. Maybe if more people did, they wouldn't have sold to Slack.

We used Screenhero when it was free. It is better than Skype. But, it's not really worth the price when Skype is free.
I think it's the "software" part that is getting down voted not the 5 attributes... I'm legitimately curious, how do you measure those things quantitatively?
And The Interrupt List!!! (Ralph Brown's)
Crude conspiracy theories could be right, study shows
Millenial Poverty
I think that's spot on, but also that having a thread or forum to "discuss administrivia" would be worse than the status quo.
It's easy to blame others but what it really does come down to is a lack of appreciation for what debt really is and how it really works. It's very easy to get approved for 3 credit cards each with a $5k limit and say to yourself "I have $15k to spend on anything I want." For someone who has never had access to a lot of money that's a very easy trap to fall into and it's pretty much what happened to me. Sure I had a savings account that was respectable for my age but that's not spending money you carry around in your wallet.

In my case credit was certainly not discussed with the family, or amongst friends (most of who reacted the same way I did to their first card), or in school. I've had a job since I was 16 so I understood the value of money but I didn't understand the value of debt until I already had it.
How would you address their concern that you should have been able to raise 250k from SV VCs? Also, Shark Tank valuations seem so low compared to Valley (or YC) valuations that I'm curious how you came up with the offered terms.
I'm not a huge gamer, but this is really important to me in terms of tech hiring. It's a serious problem that I didn't know about until graduate school. One of the few women working on file systems was the type that in addition to being friendly and charming, did not tolerate any shit, and would actually speak out about it. Since those days my eyes have been opened about the small percentage of people that do terrible things to women in tech without men ever seeing the terrible things that happen.

I wish that this post had stayed up on the front page longer, so that more people could see 1) what terrible shit goes on in this world, and 2) how a tiny minority of people try to minimize or excuse it in comment threads, and 3) how they get downvoted into oblivion as they should.

These three bits of evidence point out that the solution to tech's problems are pretty easy in that they are not endemic and broadly spread to everyone in the field. There's a tiny but very vocal minority of terrible people, and by either changing their behavior or not hiring them, a whole bunch more people would be willing to work in the field.

Seriously, if anybody thinks that these tweets at FemFreq are not so bad, just quit your job and find some other field to work in. That type of person is hurting us all. Alternatively they could grow a spine and not be so hateful.
How so? If the cost of making the computer able to do everything itself is greater than the cost of an equivalent system that takes human input, then you should use the human input version every time.
Superman would still aim up at a slight angle to maximize the distance. Also, I'm sure he'd avoid intentionally hitting anyone in the park (or outside, checking with his x-ray vision).
Thanks for the link, I had googled some questions that led me to a couple of Kickstarter blogs about opening a bank account outside USA (tl;dr: Ask a relative).
I'm guessing your friend had petit-mal seizures, where you just sort of stop and freeze for some amount of time that you're not aware of?
When does this come to a head, and what does that look like?
These questions make me anxious about the future.
Human-Level AI Is Harder Than It Seemed in 1955 – John McCarthy (2006)
It would be such an important feature that I'd be willing to tolerate breaking changes -- the language designers may not however.
Can we not forgive and forget a single, isolated mistake made many years ago? I'm sure bcantrill has already been punished quite enough for that one mistake.
> Don't forget health care. That plus a basic living stipend would be quite a revolution to the economy.

Don't get me wrong, I think this would be incredible, but where would the money come from to fund this? How would you guarantee that the funding stays in place for the long haul?
Thanks for the ITIN/IRS, will look into that
I find this debate very interesting, but I have little insight in the arguments for and against. You argue there is little correlation (if any) between AGI and processing power, but you end your comment by saying that it "[...] likely to remain so for a very, very long time". What is keeping us from advancing?
A while back I built something like that for my old employer. It did most of the work on the server, but it did a good job of guessing column mappings, highlighted bad cells and let the user fix them, checked for dupes, and all the validations could be configured with a little xml, including multi-column constraints. I used Aspose for the excel import.

I've thought about making an updated version, maybe as a hosted service, if I can come up with something different enough so my old employer can't claim ownership. I did a little test marketing a while back and it didn't go that well, but maybe it just needs more experimentation.
Anyone know an affordable way for a bootstrapped startup to automate this? Testmunk looks like a good platform but the price (at least for us) is out of a small startup's price range.
I saw the news on a chalkboard in LeConte Hall at UC Berkeley, going to class or Physics Lab, perhaps. I was 17 ... what a loss of innocence.
The iPad is a tool for consumption rather than production. For those without an iPhone, I think the iPad is a terrific device for consuming content.

I think that if the iPad could serve to bridge the gap between consumption and production, then its place would be clear.

I own a Surface Pro 3 and I adore the ability to switch between consumption and production. However, its presentation and implementation leave a lot to be desired. It's often jarring switching between the clean Windows Store apps that were designed for touch, and the "Desktop" apps that dump you into the familiar, but frustrating, desktop where the mouse and keyboard dominate.

I feel that, if done well, a multipurpose device could supplant the incumbents.
Stop assuming AI will have emotions or feelings, that is purely an animal thing.

If we come to a point that a conscious AI is possible, do you think it will have wonder, interest, awe, curiosity? No, why would it? It's impossible for us to even imagine what it would be like to be conscious but without any feelings. Personally, I think it will just self terminate, as there is no point to life in the end.
I have half a dozen devices that play netflix. Wii, chromecast, phone, tablet--and it's really not hard to switch to chrome to watch netflix.

I'll agree I'm not a typical end-user, but I don't remember having to "work hard" to get anything I wanted out of Chromium.

I troubleshoot every little problem for every member of my mostly tech-illiterate family, and I don't remember ever having this problem (like before PDFs would open in browsers, say).

Anyway, just more anecdotes.
It's very useful. I discovered this the other day when testing some client side scripts. I was able to simulate a 3G mobile connection and determine which parts were causing the intolerable load times.
As a student, the iPad has changed my life. I no longer need to purchase giant 3 ½ pound tombs that cause back and shoulder pain. I just get them for my iPad and they're all on one lightweight device.

It just renders text books so perfectly. I have a smart phone, but there's no replacement for that big, 9.7 inch screen. It makes web pages and PDFs so pleasurable to read.

I think the sales have slowed because the upgrade cycle for tablets is similar to the upgrade cycle for computers. I've had my iPad with retina display for over 2 years and, unless it breaks, I don't see a reason to get a new one.

One side effect of having an iPad is that it has allowed me to have a clunkier PC life. I have a workstation set up with a 15inch MacBook, a second monitor, mount, usb hub, keyboard, mouse and the works. I no longer have to worry about its portability because I have my tablet.
I gather that various conservative cultures see much of Western popular culture as child porn. Even to arguably dissolute Americans, aspects of popular Japanese culture look a lot like child porn.

Who gets to set standards on the Internet? If the least-permissive standard won for each category, the Internet would be boring.
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What a poor article.. let me just cherry pick a number of benefits of functional languages and call them requirements for a 'reasonable' language.
FBI: Businesses Lost $215M to Email Scams
Clumsy: an utility for simulating broken network for Windows
Also in the current news is a Frenchman suing Facebook for closing his account for posting Courbet's L'Origine du Monde, an artwork which depicts a certain part of the female anatomy very prominently.

Several years ago an image of a friend I (re)posted was subject to FB policy-based deletion. I'm not sure whether this was because reposting other people's images was frowned on at that time or the sight of the top of a male ass wearing female underwear poking out from jeans in a group called the "ass appreciation society" was a bit too racy (I can't find the email I received about it, and I believe the original pic is still there) but I'm convinced it was several orders of magnitude less likely to have caused anyone offence than a Muhammed-cartoon-meme.
Impressive stuff. "...both stages designed to be available for reuse within 'single-digit hours' after return".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy#Reusable_technolog...
It's simple ROI. There is not that many movies this is a task that one doesn't need to scale with computers. Hiring a guy is likely much cheaper than investing on the software. Plus I am sure there are plenty of people who would like to watch movies for their day jobs.

On the other hand, I am pretty sure there is at least some degree of automated video classification at Youtube.
I'm aware of a load of hosting companies using the MaxMind service, you basically push them a load of information for a transaction and they reply with a risk rating.

I've use it in the past a few times and it was fairly accurate at capturing the fraudulent traffic.
It sounds to me like FutureAdvisor might have a problem with low compensation. Previously you mentioned making 8 offers at this event, and only one accepted. And these are candidates who specifically had 2 days free to work on receiving a job, so they have lower compensation requirements then an average dev of equivalent skill, and still 7 of the 8 rejected your offer.

This doesn't seem to me to be a problem of market efficiency, but just trying to use the inefficient state of the market to find the best candidate for the lowest price.

Also to reduce the work of interviewing candidates that won't take your offer when you make it have you tried telling your candidates what the expected compensation is?
Yes, that's definitely true. Plus iPads are not essential in the way phones are. They're luxury items.
Screenhero is joining Slack
Amazon threatening to shut my account for no obvious reason
Show HN: Modular and Live-Reloading Shaders in WebGL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Boisjol

How can we, as engineers, learn from this so that similar things don't happen on our watch?

http://www.webcitation.org/651nnfKDv
The homepage, forums and press releases do seem really focus on Visual Studio. I guess that's understandable given it's an MS product.

There are a couple of links to editor syntax files and a link to WebStorm but they're a bit of an after thought.

I keep expecting the homepage update "any day now" but so far I've only really seen VS mentioned as a default environment.
I disagree, and I'm obviously not going to change your mind, so I'd prefer not to argue any further if that's all right with you.
A bug obviously. I am sure you knew that yourself already. Just click on satellite view and you'll notice it's just water.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8960280.
GHOST glibc vulnerability (CVE-2015-0235) affects Linux Machines
I saw it on T.V. in elementary school. My teacher was something like a semi-finalist to be aboard. We'd been doing class projects all year as part of the competition.
This saddens and frustrates me as a user. I love screenhero and it does its job well. I've used it for all of my remote interactions over the past year or so and was a happy paying customer (through our company).

Unfortunately, due to other concerns about paying for Slack[1], we probably will not be able to continue to use it. We'll be a once-happy customer that falls victim to this acquisition. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth :(

[1] It is expensive especially at our scale, we already pay for a couple chatroom-type/irc-like services, and the big one: long-lasting offsite chat logs present a difficult hurdle in client negotiations, a headache we just do not need
If we give it ability to program, re-program and improve upon itself it will do just that. Who is to say what kind of motivations will drive it? Give it enough computing power and it will become unpredictable.
This article must have been written with an implicit ARPU in mind. For lots of low ARPU companies, milestone 1 and milestone 2 are going to be inverted. That is, you'll likely get 10 paying customers before finding true product market fit.

Also, likewise, hundreds of customers will not equal $1M ARR for lots of SaaS companies. Even at 1000 customers, you'd need ~$100/mo or greater subscription price.

For SaaS companies with < $100/mo pricing, the equations and milestones are very different. For example, a $30/mo ARPU means having to get 3x more customers. So suddenly, hundreds of customers are not enough, you need thousands. That can mean the difference between a direct sales or white glove treatment to something slightly higher scale.
I guess I'm confused about something, then.

My understanding of DNS is that you want to look up somesite.corp.com, your computer first goes to its configured resolver. Resolver returns what it knows about the domain you wanted.

If that information includes an NS record, it has to make another query to the server mentioned in that record to actually retrieve the information (since, say, 8.8.8.8 doesn't have their own records for the stuff somedomain.corp is authoritative for)

Is this incorrect?
>Putin with his actions has brought a nasty war to the doorstep of the western world

Putin's point of view is that US brought a violent and dangerous regime to the doorstep of the Russian world. Sounds like this isn't a starting point for a discussion.

>Putins actions are believed to go against every principle on which this stability is based

Putin's point of view is that Russia has no seat at the table that decides what are the global governance principles and what is the Western consensus. Further Western actions in Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Kosovo have been interpreted by Putin as harmful to stability and peace of the Russian world. Bottom line both West and Russia have different narratives of the past 10-20 years. The problem of the West is that it doesn't admit the validity of alternative narratives (i.e. unipolar world) while Russians understand both their own narrative and the Western narrative. Further, Russians are more effective than Westerners at winning the hearts and minds of those who don't belong to the "golden billion". I agree with you that ultimately this is a war of perceptions. I think it is one that the West is losing because the contradictions of its narrative are surfacing very quickly.

Here's an example of where US is running scared of Russia's effectiveness in media space: http://rt.com/news/225543-rt-isis-us-broadcaster/
You went from a nuclear carrier to carrier shaped hulks of steel really fast.
This is a quick session using glslify-live[0] for reloading shaders, and glslify[1] to bring in npm modules like glsl-film-grain[2].

[0] - https://github.com/hughsk/glslify-live

[1] - https://github.com/stackgl/glslify

[2] - https://www.npmjs.com/package/glsl-film-grain
A very common and very real problem. At my last company we addressed this by writing a CSV library that really did handle all the Excel weirdness.

https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/csv/

Actually some of that is not automatable, so this cannot by its nature be a complete solution, but with heuristics -- ugh -- it worked. Months and months of effort to get it to work, and we didn't even have the general public as customers, just a small set of B2B companies.
>What if it's political, like "Death to Israel"?

Or what if it's in line with official US policy? Like "death to ISIS," or "death to Boko Haram."
an interactive playbook for hockey coaches, a touchscreen map for storm chasers, a training assistant for sumo wrestlers, a field guide for identifying fish when you’re scuba diving, a cutting-edge tool for fixing wind turbines.

The author answers his own question...enterprise. iPads are seeing massive adoption in Architecture Construction and Engineering (Plangrid comes to mind), not to mention medical and insurance practice. Go to any enterprise rent a car and they are using tablets exclusively for contracts with clients.

The consumer/causal user use case may not be there but there is a real need to be able to take a powerful computer with you that has network capabilities, screen sharing/powerpoint display, cameras all without needing to lug around a keyboard and mouse (yes I consider a laptop lugging around).

Especially when you consider power on/off time there is a big difference in use case that makes it perfect for enterprise.
they're passive devices for consumption, not production.

http://www.kylelambert.co.uk/ipad-art/
I was in first or second grade (can't recall which). This was back in the old days when teachers would roll out the A/V cart and put space launches on the TV for the class to watch (because it was science-y and half of the kids wanted to be astronauts).

I remember seeing the explosion, and the TV being turned off rather quickly.