skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's not really any different than any other medium. If there exists two copies of a book in different libraries and then one of the libraries burns down it's not any different. I mean we still talk about the library of Alexandria 2000 years later.
GCC 5 will default to -std=gnu11 (C11 with GNU extensions)
Sriracha used to be a lot more hot. The problem is that if it's too hot then you use less then you eat less then you buy less.

Pretty sure he had to do a compromise to increase sales.
what do you compile with for windows?
In DC in theory you have 3 providers but in practice that's not how it works. Even though my neighbors had RCN or Verizon they could not serve me. I ended up stuck with Comcast and everything this implies. Then I moved to another place, just a round-robin, now I'm stuck with Verizon.
Gotcha, I didn't realize that APNS was involved here. :)
OpenBSD releases every 6 months but does a #.# scheme incrementing the point number each release, so no date in the release number. FreeBSD has not been on a fixed schedule and doesn't use dates in their version numbers.
Yeah I've lived in a few larger and mid sized cities and I've never had more than one option. On the east coast its Comcast in some buildings and Time Warner in others (mostly in the North). On the West Coast its all Comcast. Some residential areas I know have access to Century Link but I've never heard of someone in an apartment complex having a choice on their ISP.
Affinity Photo Public Beta
You're correct. Bad copy/paste on my part.
Gotta agree, all I was thinking while reading it was that it sounds like a wonderful program. :)
Transforming Control flow to Data flow
You mean Goldman calling up a friend at the FBI doesn't count as probable cause??
Well, unless you can think of a reason why someone would want to kill David Carr for interviewing Snowden, Greenwald, and Poitras, but not be motivated (or not able) to kill Snowden, Greenwald, or Poitras themselves, the answer is probably 'yes.'
Sigh. Different font rendering engines. I made the font blacker too. I'll review it again next week. Thanks for the feedback, all.
I once had a co-worker (who lives inside the San Francisco city limits) say: "San Jose? Why would I ever drive that far south?! As for as I'm concerned, San Jose is Southern California." He was serious.
Will 360 Video Emerge as “The New Killer App” in Media Before Virtual Reality?
Needs a date stamp (2013).
Crowdsourced Smartphone Barometer Data: 130M pressure observations per month
Computational capacity of the universe (2001)
No, not trusted. That's why I was sad. The app failed to verify the certificate chain and silently continued over the (in)secure connection.
I can recommend "Programming Pearls":

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Edition-Bentley...

It hasn't a lot of algorithms per se, but it has a lot of examples of how a different view on a problem can lead to an easier/more performant solution. It also does a good job at explaining tradeoffs. I think it's great for people that have had some basic introduction already.

[Ref link if anyone feels like it: http://amzn.to/1CnQUQ7]
I can't help but think you also touched upon a point I've been thinking about recently: the enthusiast.

You can dilute a product to appeal to everyone all the time, but the enthusiasts are the ones who help champion the product to friends and followers. The power of the word of mouth should never be under-estimated.

I was listening to a podcast by Zach Lowe where he interviewed one of the writers of Parks and Rec. Zach mentioned that sometimes he'll notice extremely esoteric jokes which would fly over the majority of the audience. And the writer responded those are what they call the 1% jokes. Those jokes absolutely kill it with people who recognize it, and probably also help inspire the writing staff who are likely inspired by the fact that they can produce work that they themselves find really funny.
Linear Programming for your Lifestyle: Resource-constrained life optimization
> San Quentin state prison in California has begun a ground-breaking programme to teach prisoners how to code.

What is so ground-breaking on that? Any normal country will some sort of education to their prisoners.
If you only have $2,000, you'll get a better bang for your buck with books and online courses than traveling to a conference--especially in an expensive city (which is where tech conferences tend to be). I went to KDD[1] last year, and racked up a bit over $3500 in expenses without even trying.

[1]: http://www.kdd.org/kdd2014/
If you do wish to purchase new books, get them from overseas. The "let's make an expensive US version and then a cheaper but identical international version, the latter being illegal to sell in the US" practice is horrible, and it is your moral obligation to circumvent it as best you can.
Couldn't you have a service which checked you were allowed to delete something, then handed a deletion order back (essentially a signed xml blob) which would then get passed on to the actual deletion service (and here validated)? That way no issue with scalable architecture and no issue with hacks like this.
For your current work, I would say put your objectives, discuss it with your employer to see which ones fits better and then have a side project and learn how to do it in a new technology that you don't know. Examples will be AngularJS, EmberJS .. etc.
And the US continues on its way to corporatism and corporate fascism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Fascist_corporatis...
Absolutely; it goes well with almost anything :)
I'm curious - i know the purpose of the blog post was not to get people to use your referral link, but have you seen anyone sign up after reading your post?
Interesting. Because the article accurately describes myself and a number of other folks I work with, all of which are considered "rockstars". It's great advice in my opinion.

I 100% agree with the don't ask for help advice. People need to ACTUALLY LEARN something. I'm sick of people externalizing the costs of their inadequacies.
Also techmatters, send us an email to service@touchables.io and we'll be happy to send you multiple medmanagers.
Offline products without subscriptions go against two base principles of the current tech investment boom (bubble?).

The first the that recurring revenue is strictly better than one-off sales. That means VCs aren't interested in business models that don't end in "aaS".

The second is the emphasis on iteration - making users connect back regularly allows for automatic updates that allow you to ship buggy software and fix it later.
In most U.S. prisons, prisoners are denied access to computers at all, and especially to the internet, as a general principle.

As of a couple years ago, there is a program that offers monitored email to some prisoners in U.S. prisons. Email only.

Not only are there no educational programs involving computers, but prisoners are specifically disallowed from using computers for purposes like learning to code.

Now, I'm not saying the U.S. is a "normal country".
> many folks who have strong conflicts of interest usually recuse themselves from those discussions.

Cite?
As far as hiring and ongoing employee evaluation goes, how do you feel about developers who can hit a really tricky problem, go deep in it and come out with a great solution?
> It is one step in a long effort to make companies as well as privacy and consumer advocates more comfortable with proposed legislation that would offer participating companies liability protection, the White House said.

Companies get protection and individuals get the CFAA; they want information about attacks shared and information about vulnerabilities hidden. Almost makes sense if you don't work in tech.
CISPA, attempt 3.
It's not actually about the WiFi, secure or not. I was in a WPA2 WiFi. I attacked my phone (at a higher network level), so unless there's an active IDS in place, you can't do much about it.

The issue is not the network, but the way the app continued over an insecure connection.
So by employee #50, you have about %50+ of the company tied under employee stock options alone. So either you inflate away everyone else's original equity significantly to pay for new employees or you soon run out of equity.

The reason why the equity slices are low from what I understand is in the end of a VC funded company the numbers are something like %70 investors, %15 founders and %15 employees. If your a unicorn performer like facebook, it's more %40 investors, %30 employees and %30 founders.

But you'll notice the pattern that all employees combined get the same equity as founders.

Also profit sharing is hard to do with the red ocean strategy of VC companies that give equity in the first place. When the company is around for 3-5 years concentrating on getting hundreds of millions of users first before collecting cash, profit sharing is going to be $0. Profit sharing is only something enterprise or product companies can do initially, and it cuts out the new search engine, the new social/messaging network and other long lead time companies that eventually dominate the software world. WhatsApp was purchased for billions because in a couple of years, it could of easily become the world's next Facebook at their growth rates. With under 40 engineers...

So to make the numbers work, angel list is going to be giving %0.25-%0.50 of the company to initial employees.
Sort of, that sale was back in 2008 and they retained a 36% stake (see my other recent comment for the sale to Sun Pharma). But they of course knew their company was a fraud, as the Fortune article makes clear.

Let me put in a word for Indian English: the usage of "promoters" for that class of businessmen is perfect.
We're talking about people that turn their water heaters down during inactive periods or completely off because of a "smart" system that tries to save electricity.

Legionellae grow from 68 to 122F (20 to 50C). If you're letting the temperature of the tank drop into that range for a period of time and then running a shower before it's fully heated, you run the risk of aerosolizing the bacteria and contracting the disease.
I agree with this approach.

Sorry about that
http://broadbandnow.com/Pennsylvania/Pittsburgh Looks like it's pretty decent, but everywhere I've lived so far (which has been in quite a bit of the city in the past 4 years) has not had access to FiOS. In my apt right now I only have access to Verizon DSL because Comcast canceled my account because I wanted to downgrade. (Their sales staff could only upgrade, status quo, or cancel outright -- not downgrade.)

Also, http://broadbandnow.com/Pennsylvania claims that 90% of people have access to 100mb service in my county. 1) No. 2) "Access" doesn't mean at any price anyone but a business can afford.
From workers to investors. That would be a good thing if we were in the need of economic growth, but we are not.
Async in the browser
Some of us are old enough that that IS how we learned to code, before most people had heard or had access to the internet! Of course, we weren't learning how to code for the web.
Goldman Sachs was entirely within their rights to contact the FBI if they believed proprietary information was stolen from them by an ex-employee. It's the government (read: FBI) that screwed up here, as is most often the case.
I use it on eggs more than anything else.
This is a good place for this, one of my favorite quotes from the century before last:

"Next in importance to personal freedom is immunity from suspicions, and jealous observation. Men may be without restraints upon their liberty: they may pass to and fro at pleasure: but if their steps are tracked by spies and informers, their words noted down for crimination, their associates watched as conspirators, who shall say that they are free? Nothing is more revolting to Englishmen than the espionage which forms part of the administrative system of continental despotisms. It haunts men like an evil genius, chills their gaiety, restrains their wit, casts a shadow over their friendships, and blights their domestic hearth."

The freedom of a country may be measured by its immunity from this baleful agency. Rulers who distrust their own people, must govern in a spirit of absolutism; and suspected subjects will be ever sensible of their bondage."

The Constitutional History Of England Vol II(1863), pg. 288 [0]

by T. E. May

[0] http://archive.org/stream/constitutionalhi029622mbp#page/n31...
I do javascript full stack and use eslint + vim for many hours/day. I don't notice the slowness. It may be one of those benchmarks that doesn't translate to real world productivity. Eslint has more rules than JSHint, easier to configure (errors display the rule name) and more accurate.

The real competition is JSCS.
Yep, that's about par for the course reporting. If it sounds ominous, it must be. I remember a small town newspaper that was all mad 10+ years ago about the master / slave IDE toggle and how it was racist. It was not an Onion article, sadly.
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Maybe You Should Send Your Co-Founder a Valentine This Year
The thing about Twitter is that everyone is connected to the same party line.

Imagine you are at a party of 100 people, all having their own small conversations in of two to five people. Then imagine someone throws a switch and every single thing said is heard by everyone in the room, but only fleetingly and with no time to imagine the context.

And sometimes Twitter's culture makes it really hard to find context. If someone responds directly to a tweet, you can see that in the conversation, but a manual RT destroys that chain.

The real solution is that we have to recognize that our lizard brains love beating the shit out of people. We've put on a layer of civilization that stops us from doing that in person, but it's just as bad to do it online. Once we recognize that we can be monsters, we can figure out how to stop doing it, or at least do it less.
If you're an Aphex Twin fan, this, along with his new album, has been a goldmine of great music. Really like this track:
https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/35-japan-1

Very clearly from when he was working with Trent Reznor on NIN's Further Down the Spiral and made the track "At the Heart of it All" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MdcVdL2kIY
Wow, thanks for pointing that out.. that makes this reporting look pretty laughable, and wildly uninformed:
"..through a so-called 'subversion repository'.."
Apparently I can add "not looking suspicious" to a list of reasons to use git.
I was wondering why everyone calls it svn now.
That's interesting. I'm not a huge fan of the technical interview either. I'd really like to see the industry find a way to assess technical ability without forcing developers to re-take their data structures and algorithms exam every time they interview for a new job.

So if you've been successful without this ritual, you have my attention. But what (if anything) are you doing to see if someone is good at writing software. Do you know the candidates you interview already, by reputation?
The US is a pretty strange place when Bank of America can literally break into someone's home, steal everything they own, and never suffer either financially or criminally, but all a corporation has to do is point their finger at an individual and that individual will be arrested and prosecuted.

It also reminds me of the AT&T case where someone accessed records on public URLs and instead of AT&T getting a black eye for being so incompetent the dude went to jail. When will a corporation metaphorically go to jail? They steal, they lie, they cheat, they launder money, but yet they're always "too big to prosecute."
I would understand if they did offer a service that you could subscribe to, but I've seen devices that are one off purchases that require live server access. That just doesn't make sense to me aside from your point about updates.
> Is the racism necessarily part of it? Or do you feel like white people are deserving of any indirect scorn you wish to heap on them?

I mean a large part of medical research is basically appropriating plant medicine from indigenous cultures and then sending people to prison for using the same medicine in plant form. So yes, racism does play a large part in the medical system.
Put it on the eggs; scrambled, fried, whatever.
Some cities have wifi providers. It's not common. As for mobile internet, the data caps are the issue. Data for Verizon is $60/mo for 10GB. With Comcast, it's unlimited (or maybe 250GB) for maybe $50/mo?
Ask HN: Where do you get your daily laughter quota?
Laughter is an instant vacation -- Milton Berle.

Whether you are aiming for stars or moon or just other side of earth - you will do hard work to get it. The journey, however passionate and committed you are, will have its ups and downs. Everyone might have a different way of relaxing at the end of the day. I listen to music - but I would love to laugh out to relax. I feel it's one of the more common ways anyone can relax by. I am trying to find books, comics and other things that make me laugh. (Avoiding online videos)

I am curious about HN - where do you get your laugher quota everyday?
Deslide to the rescue:

http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http%3A%2F%2F...
> the executive branch's "calls for them to hand over more data" are fundamentally about totalitarian surveillance and control

But then:

> That may not be the goal, stated or otherwise

You seem to be confused about what the construction "action X is about Y" means -- it means that Y is the (usually, unstated) goal of X.
Do we need to preserve every tweet, though? The important ones get mentioned in articles and other places. 99% is just noise, although I guess it would be interesting for future people to listen in.

It doesn't seem that important of a thing to preserve though. Sure, if we could hear daily conversations of people from the year 1000 we'd learn a lot. But that's only because we don't have access to much other cultural information from back then, unlike what we'll have now with webpages and news articles.
Why don't you zero the y axis?
There is a lot of literature, but it may not be easy to find out, and different domains use different names for it.

One keyword to look for is 'stochastic approximation', with a long (> 50 years) history in engineering and stats. Another one is 'stochastic gradient', which got a resurgence following the whole deep learning craze. There is also 'particle filtering' in signal processing.

One generic article I may recommend is http://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/online-1998.pdf, it does not require much math knowledge, but that may be less practical than what you want.

The 'onepass' keyword mentioned in the original article is another keyword to look for (see e.g. interesting work to do Monte-Carlo based linear algebra operations for very large matrices, this used to be a reference, not sure what's the state of the art is: http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/mmahoney/pubs/matrix1_SICOMP...)
Will they actually? Are employers starting to value Coursera courses as valuable educational experience?
I love this. Beats a boring ol' spinner any day of the week. Keeps my attention on the app and is just plan delightful.

I wonder the first app to add something similar?

My bet is Snapchat. They always have fun pulldown animations.
The introvert's guide to getting noticed
Fried spam, scrambled eggs on a toasted and buttered english muffin with a bit of Sriracha on the top. Probably not super healthy, but I love the stuff.
This has been exactly my experience. I was an early convert to Chrome, and I loved how fast it was, but now I find it slow and buggy. There are some partial workarounds: Chrome does a cache lookup on your history when you type, so if you delete your history, then you get a speed bump. But I'm annoyed that I have to erase my history. If I never erase my history, Chrome gets very slow after a few months of history piling up. And when I have many windows open it is slower, and when Flash is running, it often crashes. I've switched back to FireFox.
Numeric sorting can still work after 985 years. Only question is whether to use 1000.01 or 3000.01. I slightly prefer former, as a final rejection of the culture-specific BC/AC split. The ascendance of the net is the beginning of the real CE. Though skipping year notation altogether for seconds (or some 10s multiple of) since the epoch would also be fun for versioning.
So what is your opinion on the book Flash Boys?
This is why proprietary binary formats are evil.
We here so much of IoT now, but what we're really going to get is MS's IoT, Samsung's IoT, Apple's IoT. We are not ever really going to have a true IoT (assuming we even need an IoT).
They'll go back to prison and quite possibly never be employed again. For starters.
Demographics of Tech Video Tutorial Viewers
I have been looking at the site for several minutes, but I was unable to understand what the product does.
It's unfortunate that the trend for law enforcement agencies is to shield individual agents and officers from any personal culpability. They'll get a month of paid leave, the agency pays out and they get to return to the same position with the same pay.

The only lesson learned is that their coworkers, bosses and justice system will bend over backwards to make sure that they can get away with abuse and injustice without repercussions.
99% may just be "noise", but that doesn't mean it's not worth preserving.

Excluding an entire medium from preservation would be horrible for future research.
For me the performance has never been a problem, but the end of NPAPI support may also force me back to FF.
Sure, a lot of discovery is done in industry too (and, as you note, is supported by academic outputs). But that's not the expensive part which is what I was trying to say -- obviously not clearly enough.
The World's Top Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Social Media
I never switched to chrome since it seemed sub-par all that time (reduced set of controls, dumbed down all the way) but flash-related crashes are Adobe's problem actually (I also have them on FF sometimes).

When will this proprietary crap die off already?
"How can we use Pharmaceuticals to solve a problem in Hollywood 2.0?"
... and i thought that problem has long been solved? :)
Sonny – Fast single page app engine
Did the same some weeks ago!
This is a weird comment for a couple of reasons:

First, because it reads like a tacit threat - even if you aren't personally a convicted felon, anyone reading this might find themselves less willing to even consider someone who is.

Second, people adjust their expected salary expenditures on any number of qualities and characteristics. It's not "taking advantage" of someone any more than paying a junior developer less than a senior developer. There's increased risk - real and/or perceived - involved in hiring someone who has had difficulty staying within the confines of the law.
Written by a high frequency trader. Are there any third parties that have deeply explored HFT and come out in defense of it?
After reading this, I tried out Firefox for Android on my old Nexus 7 tablet. The performance improvement over Chrome is significant. Chrome simply can't be run on low-RAM devices any more, IMHO.
The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID.

Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.
Various bits of numerical analysis. The overall framework and plumbing is written in Python, as are all the algorithms initially. Then for those that are too slow, or need to be run lots of times, algorithms are reimplemented in C as a Python extensions.

The existing Python implementation then helps with debugging and testing.
Lumia phones have manual focus buit into the standard camera app.