skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenID, OAuth, and the like have just made things more confusing for both devs and users alike, IMHO. Wasn't it supposed to "unify" things and make it easier and safer for everyone?

For example:

- a site might offer to login via Facebook, but I'm afraid to in case my friends' Facebook news feeds get spammed.

- I want to offer an easy login for my users, but which OAuth provider do I pick? Which OAuth, OpenId thing am I supposed to use? They all look the same! But different!
I don't know, neither my "with fire and sword" nor your constructive approach solved the true problem, the binary one of BSD vs. modified BSD, although it would appear he took a bit your's to help transform it from totally impossible (the original version was really bad) to not entirely awful.

The #1 thing I want to see is the community increase, and I'm entirely unsure that'll happen now (e.g. taking our money and doing this makes it personal). Especially to the extent the rule that for every person who complains N others silently agree and do the same thing.
I would suggest some serious outside-the-box thinking. Here are some ideas:

* Try advertising on Reddit. I think Reddit will let you target specific sub-reddits, and I don't think their advertising is very expensive anyway. Right at this moment, r/programming claims to have "588,311 readers" and "1,059 users here now". Most of these people won't be in the Bay Area, but I would bet a significant fraction are.

* Try advertising on Pandora. I don't think there's any way to target technical people specifically, but I think they may be able to geo-target pretty accurately. And compared to the cost of a recruiter, I can't imagine it would be very expensive.

* Try advertising in your local alternative weekly newspaper. Up here in Seattle that would be The Stranger. In the Bay Area I guess that would be papers like San Francisco Bay Guardian, the SF Weekly, or maybe the Metro Silicon Valley. Even if this doesn't generate much in the way of direct leads, it might generate some notoriety which in turn might benefit your other recruiting efforts. A conventional contact from a recruiter might be more effective if the contactee has already heard of your company. And again, the cost of this advertising is probably a lot cheaper than a recruiter.

OK, maybe that last idea is a little too outside the box. But it still seems like somebody should try it just to see if it works.
How on earth is a vague chart, with absolutely no methodology, promoted by a charlatan to sell subscriptions "arguably more accurate" than a completely transparent nationwide survey?

Especially when that survey matches with literally all of the private measures of employment.
From their Twitter: https://twitter.com/Netflixhelps/status/562760983790485504

We're aware some members are experiencing technical difficulties on the web site in all regions. We hope to resolve this asap.
One would think that, but with AST's generated from 'normal' text (not code), they're actually quite noisy, and lexical and syntactic features have been more useful[1]. In traditional authorship attribution, AST's are a about decade-old technology. But then, this is code, so for all I know, very different.

PS: 1] shows that using AST's does does not get you THAT much of entropy gain compared to other features.

1: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6234420
They're not great on paper. They ignore some powerful personal human motivation that we know exists. Perhaps you should say "They're great for robots that can be programmed to think in whatever way is convenient for the academic imagining them".
HN is a fickle beast, one I've quit several times for being down voted to oblivion for a humours but on topic, relevant and quite poignant comment. And the very next story on the topic had almost the exact same joke as top comment by a well known handle. I've seen vulgarity posted in the top comment, but been down voted for using the word bullshit when referring to something that was complete and utter nonsense. Don't kid yourself, just because the topics are intellectual, doesn't mean all those with voting rights are.
What happens when it reaches the end of the drivable highway? Will it wake me up and make me take the wheel? What if I don't? Does the car crash, emergency stop in the middle of the highway, or pull over gracefully?
Yep, there is https://github.com/trustmaster/goflow for that
This all seems good advice for an organisation with fairly heterogenous client/server populations.
Ever notice how sociopaths end at the top in big companies, the reason is because they are the most willing to fire anybody, check out the Gervais Principle
We're working on the macro level as well: https://github.com/the-grid/msgflo#readme
Really looking forward to read about what happened. I know they have great resiliency measures in place, I'd like to know if they worked, in what measure, how they failed or how they weren't enough. Or if there was anything they could have done.
Why Developers Always Say No
AWS status is all green so this is a first. Monkey gone wrong ?
Are they somehow forbidden from stickering books with a higher price?

Bike shops sort of have that limitation, the big vendors pick the prices, but they're like 30% over wholesale and so the bike shops get 30% for assembling the bike and selling it. I can't imagine that book stores are prevented from selling books at a higher price.
I took a ton of acid (blotter) in the late 70's and early 80's as a teen, and then again in the late 90's (window pane and liquid eyedrops), and I just have to say, I, personally, have mixed feelings about this sort of thing being heralded as some sort of metaphysical panacea.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I became addicted to opiates in the mid 2000's and lived as a zombified-but-somehow-functional heroin addict for about 4 years.

There is no doubt, in my personal case, that acid and mushrooms (that I often hand-picked in cow pastures after rainstorms here in central Florida) gateway-ed me into harder, destructive "escapes", and for that reason, I cannot fully endorse this sort of thing.

I've had amazing trips where I literally felt as one with the group of friends I was chilling with and created deep, transcendent bonds, and I've had a select few shit ones where I felt totally alienated from every living soul (but not nature, interestingly) on earth.

They did expand my consciousness, but looking back, I see now that it introduced into my psyche a fairly deep distrust of authority and convention which, under sober scrutiny, perhaps did little to help me always successfully nagivate my life.

Treating the very sick and/or terminally ill with psychedelics makes great sense to me; anything to ease those pains, but my own experience makes me want to throw at least a dart of caution into the mix when it comes to making a blanket statement about the benefits of LSD and such.
Ant colony systems are really interesting! It's fascinating how distributed creatures can communicate and, with a simple set of rules, converge on a good solution.

Last year I did a GPU programming project involving an ant-colony-like simulation. Based on the idea that ants have immediate knowledge only of their neighborhood, it's a simulation that works well with GPU fragment-shader-based parallelization:

http://www.dan.andersen.name/gpu-accelerated-3d-ant-colony-s...

https://github.com/DanAndersen/gpu-ant-sim
Kyle here, Cruise CEO.

It sucks when press (or even our own marketing) give well-meaning people like you the wrong impression. We need to fix this. The positive impact self-driving cars will have on society far outweighs any desire we have to be first to market or turn a quick profit. We haven't launched a product yet, and we won't until it's safe.

For example, we built a mashup of lane-keeping assist and adaptive cruise control within the first 3 months of starting the company. It wasn't safe enough, so we didn't launch it.

We're on roughly our 5th major iteration of the product. It uses maps, but it also works fine without them. It uses a GPS, but it works fine without it. It uses lane markers for localization, but it works fine without those too. But it's still not safe enough, so we haven't launched it yet.

Plenty of tough problems left to solve, but enough upside to justify our commitment.
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The idea isn't to numb yourself or stay high the whole time. It's to take psychedelics once (or maybe several times) to gain a new perspective, well before dying.
It might be about a DOM node, not the Node project.
Worked fine from my iPhone over LTE but not Wii over wifi.

And apparently it started right before my son's designated Sesame Street time. Boo.
We (my beautiful wife and I) are currently going through the baby-making limbo, and it looks as though IVF will be the necessary next step. When you start actively trying to have children, there's loads of literature preparing you for the pregnancy swelling and the sleepless life of parenthood etc - less so preparing you for the anxiety, uncertainty, and just general feeling of not being in control of your life which comes from things not working for you.

I couldn't imagine the additional emotional turmoil that would come from repeated miscarriages, terminations etc. I'm really holding myself back from thinking about the ecstasy that a confirmed pregnancy will provide after our time and struggles - to have complications and loss after that would be devastating.

So bravo to the scientists working on this, to the parliament for 'permitting' it, and of course to those struggling wannabe parents having to fight for their family dream.
You're right. I chose a snarky way to disagree with their premise. I should have just contested it directly. Sorry.
You don't get to keep waiting for a prediction to finally come true when it doesn't come with a deadline. It already didn't happen despite all our labor saving technology so far (we don't even weave cloth by hand anymore!). Sure it might happen in another 100 years, or another 1000. But that's almost a given for most predictions.
I guess he meant to link to the RPL, which is the only license that the OSI has approved, but not the FSF.
Chaos monkey strikes?
Read Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. The violation of international law results from the failure to "respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of other States." So again think of my hypothetical above, with the shoe on the other foot. If another country conducts a military strike in the US, and violates US sovereignty, the claim of self-defense must be against the US (i.e. the member State), not a claim of self-defense against an individual residing in the US.

Essentially, there would be no rule of law if Use of Force was authorized, under the self-defense, so long as one Country alleges a terrorist is residing in another Country. To be fair, under these specific set of facts, it may have been possible to make a case before the Security Council and have the Security Council authorize the Use of Force. However, that is the whole point the US circumvented the established law and acted unilaterally, when they could have gone to the UN presented their case and had a vote on the merits.
IBM didn't take the microcomputer seriously, until it saw how well Apple did and then made an IBM PC to compete with it.

They made a deal with Microsoft for DOS, but didn't make the deal exclusive so Microsoft sold their own version of DOS to the PC Cloners.

IBM made the PS/2 series with Microchannel as Clone Killers. VGA was a better video, and Creative Labs had the Sound Blaster for better audio. IBM's Microchannel flopped because people wanted to still use their ISA cards. IBM had OS/2 and Microsoft had their own version of OS/2 and Windows, and Microsoft took their OS/2 NT 3.0 and made Windows NT 3.1 out of it and stabbed IBM in the back for a second time.

IBM sold their printer line to Lexmark, and their PC X86/X64 line to Lenovo, IBM didn't know how to turn a profit on them.

When IBM couldn't supply the PowerPC chips to Apple for their Macintosh line, because IBM was making PowerPC chips for video game consoles as a priority, Apple switched to Intel chips. Then later video game consoles switched to Intel or AMD chips. IBM open sourced their PowerPC chips eventually.

IBM bought out Lotus and basically ran it into the ground and let Excel replace Lotus 123, and Lotus Smartsuite was never updated to compete with Microsoft Office and for modern Windows systems so it fell away and IBM forked OpenOffice.Org to make Lotus Symphony. That also went nowhere.

IBM still earns money from mainframes and contract support. I think IBM got into Linux and Java contracting as well.

But IBM has changed over the decades and it is not the same company it once was. It fell into a trap of maximizing shareholder values rather than making the customer experience a better one like Apple did. Microsoft also suffers from the same sort of thing that IBM does which explains why Microsoft Surface sales tanked.

IBM needs a big reboot, and to focus on making the customer experience better. Mobile apps is an area they could focus on, make the IBM Cloud and then make IBM Lotus Symphony for iOS and Android and store the documents on the IBM Cloud and offer subscriptions for more storage. They should also make Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes for mobile devices, and make a set of developer tools to make Android and iOS apps easier to program.
Congrats to the PyPy team on what sounds like a pretty big release!

Something in the release notes caught my eye:

> The past months have seen pypy mature and grow, as rpython becomes the goto solution for writing fast dynamic language interpreters.

I asked this question[1] on the Perl 6 thread from a few days ago but didn't get an answer. Does anyone know why on earth the Perl 6 folks created yet another dynamic language VM+JIT with MoarVM instead of taking advantage of all the great work done with PyPy? Does anyone know whether PyPy was even considered as a target before writing MoarVM?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982229
I made a snapshot of a CentOS 6 box with CoreCLR cloned if anyone wants to play with it: https://www.terminal.com/snapshot/f34341a1b529a9141529cda006...

Note: You'll need a terminal account to boot it, but it only takes 10 seconds to come online once you do that.
This is definitely message- board- clever, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean. Stipulate that the United States was founded by terrorists. Now what? What's the implication of that fact on public policy today?
Seaweed was a pretty common insulator in old houses in fishing communities along the eastern seaboard of Canada and the US.
Planet of the Apes? Eager for the postmortem.
Have you read the specs? Getting it "working" is trivial, but to guarantee security there are a lot of considerations and checks you must or should do that are easily overlooked.
Some American companies apparently have yet to figure out you can fuck over your employees even more by not paying severance. IBM's clearly behind the curve on this trend.
It's different in the eyes of the security services because of the potential for blackmail. A single guy picking up girls is not particularly blackmail-able. A gay man in a society that imprisons and chemically castrates gay people? That is someone who is trivially subject to blackmail.

Even to this day, I believe the security services will ask if you are homosexual and still in the closet, as you are keeping a secret from friends and family that could be used as leverage.
Paying taxes is a civic duty.
Great resilience measures? Like depending on AWS that's seemingly going down like one full day per year?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that one the one hand i see netflix having lots out outages, on the other hand being celebrated as some sort of thought leader on resilicency/high availability. Good tech/open source marketing goes a long way in certain crowds, it seems.

It's not like doing lots of stateless transactions/distributing read-only content is a really hard problem by now. Akamai has done it well for ages. Yet Netflix while being celebrated primarily for their tech marketing in this area is struggling.
Ugh, i can see it already. Fork the kernel, and stop trying to get kdbus into the Torvalds maintained version...
A lot of successful .NET projects are based on converting Java to C#, such as NGit.
If you're getting unemployment benefit but do some undeclared job, you are employed but count as unemployed.

If you're not looking for a job, it's fair to not be counted as unemployed. Otherwise you can also count any kid in age of working in the statistics or family who have decided to have one member employed and the other taking care of the family.

The writer (CEO of gallup) pretty much explains that the stats behind the title is not what HE thinks it is.

This statistic describes those who want to work and cannot find a job.
Yeah… It always seemed like a weird name for a messaging system. Was there any explanation why?
How many passwords will soon be hanging on the walls of various cubes and conference rooms?
How do you indicate you want the shape overlays, like the Rails logo and such?
Kickstarter, Django inline import and export explanation. Work progress
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When Albert Einstein Flirted with Holy Land Girls
> Before the IBM apologists start commenting

And here they are now!
Yes, those types of measures.
GopherJS will compile large chunks of the Go stdlib, so the base size is a few 100KB. As your app grows, the generated code should approach the size of a normal JS app of similar size.

For instance, this demo uses the `fmt` package from the stdlib, which imports a whole lot of things. In normal Go programs, importing `fmt` means growing you binary size by a large bump.

https://github.com/tidwall/digitalrain/blob/master/digitalra...

I know the Go authors are concerned about the size of generated binaries, or at least have expressed concerns in the past. I don't know how work on that would translate in improvement to GopherJS' codegen.
Amazon already collects sales tax in 24 states as per your link.
So was this banned before?
More important is the average tenure of the shareholder. Much wealth now resides in organizations that do not play a traditional ownership role. Mutual funds need to rebalance, typically every month or every quarter. Pension funds and hedge funds are actively traded. Average share holding is now less than 2 years. Doing whats best for the shareholder means gutting the company and maximizing profits for the next 2 years. This is why the well run companies tend to be those where the founding family still holds a large block of shares -- they tend to think long term. And this would include IBM during its Golden Age.
Most recruiting companies do the best they can with the job requirements they're given.

If you're trying to get junior people for $75k and senior people for $125k, no recruiter's going to fill those positions.

Try upping your ranges and I bet most of the 5 recruiters will start coming up with a sufficient supply of candidates to fill out your team.
I am also interested about this. I hope someone with enough legal background chimes in here.

Could the company claim that they are providing a service of programmatic access to that data? I mean there is added value here, so I don't see anything particularly wrong here, ethically speaking.
There's a strong temptation on HN to see the community and perhaps also the mods as lined up against oneself on controversial issues. For the sake of interesting discussion—and, I can add from experience, one's own well-being—it's important to resist this. Such perceptions are easily distorted by cognitive bias: enemies loom larger than friends, negative responses feel stronger than positive ones, you are more likely to notice what you dislike, and so on.

No doubt the community does have more bias on some issues than others, but there's nearly always room for calm, substantive contrarian arguments. What there isn't room for is the frustrated comments people tend to post when they become convinced that the community is against them. That's the HN equivalent of going on tilt. Other users respond negatively to the lashing-out aspect, which then gets interpreted as "hostility to my views", "groupthink", and so on. When someone knows a truth that others don't, arguing this way actually discredits that truth, because it gives others a fresh reason to reject it.

As for the moderators, we try as hard as we know how not to let our personal views influence moderation activity, and to keep the latter strictly procedural. I know we don't do that perfectly, but one improves with practice, and we get a lot of practice.

p.s. I'm sorry about your cousin and your friend. I'd feel intensely too in your position.
Ironic that US Special Forces trained the Taliban to fight the USSR in the 1980's and then later on their leader founder Al Qaeda using the same tactics to fight the USA.

I think US failed foreign policy helps create a lot of terrorist networks. We pulled out of Iraq and Syria too fast and then ISIS/ISIL took over in the power vacuum there. So in trying to end the war too soon, to score points for people back home, we actually made it worse in Syria and Iraq.

In leaving Afghanistan we gave control back to the Taliban.

So the US war effort in the Middle East has failed as terrorist networks just take back control.

The USA won't admit to the things it does, it covers up the Prism NSA spying system, it covers up the torture, it covers up murdering people with drone strikes, then it goes after the news media that reports on all of the bad things the USA is doing to censor it.

Maybe we cannot prevent being a tyranny, maybe it is too late? We had to become a police state with the Patriot Act and Prism in order to fight the war on terror and then what have we become over that?
Ah, this seems like the key answer to my question - it's the only one that's been tracked for generations, and we often want to compare across that time scale.
i have been getting the issues warning and a limited movie selection on and off for days now.
Perhaps more surprising is that they now use a 9mm sidearm for that role, at least according to the article's speculation. Good luck doing anything other than making the bear mad with that.
Im always curious to see usages of GopherJS in the wild. However the Go code used to generate the demo is a bit ugly (sorry, don't mean as a judgement on the author). Is it something that follows from the idioms required of interfacing with JS-land, or is it unrelated?

I haven't seen clean code using GopherJS so far, if anyone has examples, please let me know.
Ah, thanks, I forgot that was the name of the fork and was definitely puzzled.