skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open standards are a real issues in the industry. I find it ridiculous that you often have to pay thousands of dollars for software that simply understands those protocols. Not only that, it requires you to jump through ridiculous hoops to do stuff that you could easily do with a reasonably simple Python script. (Look up Niagara AX as an example.)

Another problem is APIs and connectivity. Tuning a light on or off should be doable with a simple POST call to a RESTful service somewhere. Instead, we are sold dubious phone apps for everything.
Print out digital photos or risk losing them
share the sentiment, to the point I'll never visit an SL link
Ask HN: “Obama 'to order' firms to share data”
Why was this flagkilled? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9044459
A building is not a video. An older private residence does not have to be upgraded to be ADA-compliant. A video which is intended for mass distribution should have some effort put into accessibility.
Misconfiguration is not really a bug though. case of RTFM
As a note to anyone interested in what's in the standards: the C committee openly publishes its work in progress, including documents that are functionally identical to the official standards except for the working at the front that says ‘this is an official standard’.

C99: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf (post-publication ‘draft’ including technical corrigenda 1–3)

C11: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf (final draft as voted on)

Similarly for C++:

C++11: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n333...

C++14: http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3797.pd...
Sergey Aleynikov Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him
In the Bay Area this already happens weekly. I've checked it out a few times and each time manage to drag along a new friend to Berkley/Oakland area.

http://www.meetup.com/FPVexplorers/
This is a very bad precedent. I'm hearing impaired and I would never think of demanding this when I'm getting these things for free. Perhaps, I would not be saying this if I were paying for it - still, I may consider the other party when it comes to this.

Using the law as a weapon to demand something where we have alternatives[slides, notes or manuals] is, in my opinion, like "biting the hand that offers help".

That said, I have been seriously putting in effort to listen to videos without captioning. Yes, it's an uphill task and I'm willing to do it.
What components did you use for this?
Yes I meant APL, not PAL. By functional closures, I tried to mean functions as first-class objects, i.e. ability to pass them as arguments or store them in data structures, etc.

I had read this in an article about Ruby, AFAIK. It was talking about Ruby (or alternatively "Matz") borrowing many principles from LISP and there the author had mentioned Lisp's functions being first-class objects were adopted from APL. I should find that article to clear the things up.
It had to happen...
Great! You should set up a Typeform to streamline the joining process, then you can bulk-add people to Slack every few hours. You missed an opportunity not calling it Slacker News :)
Vint's been at Google since 2005.
Ugh. This post jumped to 40 points in 3 hours, and now has been pushed from the front page to page 4, rank #108.

It's really annoying and heavy-handed when HN shuts down and effectively censors conversation like this.
Index funds, or really anyone with long horizon investment objectives, are major benefactors of HFT. Note, "HFT" really means nothing in modern context, but regardless, what most mean are "Electronic Market Makers". Long horizon investors benefit directly from being able to access cheap and plentiful liquidity pretty much whenever they want to. Spreads are tighter because there is now significant competition to provide that liquidity.
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It's not clear. To be fair, I think there are people who use nanomsg in production as it is, though probably only some parts are production-worthy (e.g. IPC support on Windows has been sort of sticky).
Is there a language reference document? I didn't see one under the documentation link.
True. But having it turn on while you're on holiday is a nice perk.

Plus it isn't an OR choice, you often get both a switch and an app. So you can have the lights turn on as you drive into the garage.
Aqualert
Only somewhat related, but is there still no way to access the clipboard in a web app without flash?
Could be. There is some chance that hubs like Wink (which supports ~6 protocols) will encourage manufacturers to choose the ones that work well. Then someone just needs to make a similar hub that isn't architecturally tied to the internet.
Mind sharing? Sounds awesome for noobs like me...
I'm gonna just throw it out there for you: You Do Not Get It when it comes to Go. Internalize that. Nobody, fucking nobody ever, has said "this tool sucks, I think I'll use it exclusively from now on".

They're seeing something that you are not seeing, most likely an appreciation of simplicity.
Docker alternative Rocket drives container trend
More important than pre or post evaluation is in writing. Also more important is to have the shares If there is a liquidity event without VC ever being taken.

By the way, if it's pre-money, there's no reason not to have the shares today. If it's post money and they're coming from the option pool there's little reason to settle for just 1%.
There's still plenty of matter-of-fact smugness in our own day.
With that attitude, MIT would never exist in the first place!!!

Every undergraduate who's ever attended has been rather "privileged" in being able to do serious math (although in the post-Civil War beginning a common track had seniors ending with the calculus). Nowadays you must at minimum be ready to learn the calculus and do calculus based mechanics and E&M ... at the MIT pace.

MIT (and CalTech) undergraduates have to learn at a much faster pace than is the norm, a lot of material in a fairly compressed schedule of 13 weeks of instruction if I remember correctly as of the '80s. That's not believed to be good for most STEM students, but we at least believe there's a place in the world for institutions like MIT and CalTech. One meme is that a fair amount of what you learn will be obsolete before your career is over, but there's merit in learning how to learn difficult stuff quickly.
You might also google stories about market makers not answering their phones during times of high volatility. There is this strange obsession over "how it used to be", as if it was better having people in the mix matching orders and providing that liquidity. The fact of the matter is, those people were as deeply flawed as any algorithm. The major difference today is that there is significant competition to provide liquidity in US equities markets and that liquidity can be extracted ON DEMAND by any trader.

Did you know, in the past it was NOT POSSIBLE for you to post a limit order and have it displayed in the order book unless you were an anointed market maker on an exchange?

[edit: this was meant as a reply to gdl not tptacek]
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Ask HN: I have $2k for books, training and confs. What should I spend it on?
Hi,

I've been given a $2K budget from my employer to spend on training, books and/or conferences. I currently do Web Development (mostly front-end) and was looking for suggestions on what to spend it on.

My long-term goal is to work for Microsoft or Google and wanted to learn more about the fundamentals of algorithms and data structures. But I wouldn't mind to learn more about whats coming around the corner in the world of front-end development since things are changing and advancing so fast.

Thanks in advance!
New to HackerNews and looking forward to contributing insight into the startup fintech scene. This is a quick background on the company I co-founded, currently in private beta.
C11 standardizes variadic macros — see §6.10.3 Macro replacement http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
Sriracha is a type of sauce named after the coastal city of Si Racha in eastern Thailand [1] originating in the 1930s.

Did the author of this article not bother doing a Wikipedia search on the subject of their article?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce
I saw a good job post for a modern security engineer the other day from slack https://jobs.lever.co/slack/dfd75111-97a6-4edb-a21a-b8388a46...
> Analog data decays too.

Sure but at what rate? Most 20 year old CDs are still fine, to say nothing of paper stored with a sliver of care, what percentage of web companies from 1995 are still around?
It's out the first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for Phones
this is all good and the guy has a commendable mindset, but really it's a bit naive no? Eventually this will hurt him. Because there will be so many alternatives, of same quality or not, that someone will ask him why they should buy his and he'll say it's the "Original". But without putting that on the bottle and a little TM business, he wont' have much to go on. Seeing the existence of Sriracha Heinz this week makes me think they will overpower him slowly and quietly.

Of course, if he's 70, maybe he'll be fine drifting into oblivion on his pile of money hehe
Not like that. A few times I've gotten free software, twice I got some recognition, and one time I got $500. This was years ago before bug bounties were a thing. I simply emailed a technical person (once I called cause I had a prior business relationship) saying I had found a bug with security implications and I want to let them know privately, who's the best person. Always someone has been grateful at least. After you've explained everything to the right person and they get back to you, then you can ask. The $500 I did not even ask, I was assuming it would be like with the large company that simply mentioned my employer in the notice, it was from another large company, that floored me.

edit: And you're probably not going to get anything for what you found, but you'll get a thanks if you go around it right, and you'll get arrested or ignored if you don't. You might get some recognition too, and that's worth a lot when you are young.
Huy Fong Foods is the brand, sriracha is the product.
It's because he likes the fact that he created a new condiment and is satisfied with his current wealth and business size.
It's easier to turn off in a false alarm. It can warn you ahead of time when the batteries are getting low. It can alert you over the internet if your house is maybe on fire. Not sure if that's worth the price premium, but there are some benefits.
Homeboy cameras are the one thing in my setup that work perfectly. I wish more products could be so well integrated with the cloud and the phone. I have them set up to send pictures to Dropbox via IFTT, and it all works perfectly, recording only when there's motion, and only when we are not home (it uses your cell phone location).

Tried a Quirky Spotter, and it does detect things like motion, but it doesn't know to send just one push notification; instead it sends a continuous stream of them while motion is happening, which is irksome.
The article is essentially arguing that entrepreneurs should be contrarian: not set up shop in the same place as everyone else, not try to hire the same people as everyone else, not have the same office setup as everyone else, etc.

Of course, to win, it's not sufficient to be contrarian — you have to be both contrarian and right. Whether or not these choices are right for you is probably highly dependent on what you're doing. But the idea of being contrarian, and not always following the received wisdom, is sound.
Pluralsight, Safari Books Online, and small local conferences.
Is it OK for coding? Are the braces well-placed, the $ easily reachable etc?
Good questions, our house isn't huge (smaller than "normal" it according to that def) so light travels. We usually DO turn lights off before getting in bed but sometimes we are tired and forget, and it's not obvious until our eyes adjust. It's a little childish but it's like "ugh I don't want to get up"

We really only use lamps and sunlight aside from the kitchen so we're mostly using the plug-in switches, so it really is nice turning off lamps in 3 bedrooms + living + den in a few taps.

Might as well turn this comment into a little review of my Vivint setup. These are controlled via the console in the house, the web and the app:

- Alarm

This is nice because you can enable it after you leave the house, which is nice if you are in a hurry or just simply forget. Maybe not a killer feature.

- Front door lock

Same deal here, but it also lets me open the door for people remotely or grant them temporary access. It's a little janky, I imagine that the Lockitron is better. My main concern is battery life, which it alerts me about long before the batteries (4 AA) die. My second concern is that the gears inside will wear out, though it has lasted for ~3 years so far.

- Thermostat

Super convenient for Florida. We travel a lot so it's nice to kill the AC before we leave and still have a cool house half an hour before we get back home. There is an automated "Nest-like" web interface for this but I don't really trust it. Scheduling works great.

- Pan & tilt camera

This is more of a toy but it's cool, the other day we saw our dog tearing up the trash can in the living room so we ran home and stopped her (and put the can in the garage).

None of this stuff is perfect, and you are probably better off (quality and price wise) by going with Nest + Wemo + Lockitron + some alarm company, but we're still happy with it all.
I would also recommend reading "Flash Boys: Not so Fast" (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P0QI2M2).
This Week in Data (February 13, 2015)
My favorite C99 trick:

const char *lookup[] = {
[0] = "ZERO",
[1] = "ONE",
[4] = "FOUR"
};
assert(strcmp(lookup[0], "ZERO") == 0);

(not available in C++ or pre-C99)
I don't know if the advanced stats themselves give Garnett his full due, but I feel like the members of the analytics community give Garnett his due, no question. He was truly amazing, likely the best player in the league for a stretch.

On the MIN team that won 58 games, the rest of the team in descending minutes order was

Latrell Sprewell
Sam Cassell
Trenton Hassell
Fred Hoiberg
Mark Madsen
Gary Trent

THEY WON FIFTY EIGHT GAMES!!!!
They are run out of the UI thread of your web site, but their lifecycle is managed largely by the browser. As a developer you can't count on your service worker running at any given time. Their main feature is that they are in between your app and every network request that is made by your app, giving incredibly powerful caching and offline capabilities. They're also part of the foundation of push messaging for the web.

Here's a good overview: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introd...
I assume this is intended to promote this project? I have used this for while on a couple of projects and found it to be solid and dead simple. Direct link to source: https://github.com/tobiasahlin/SpinKit
I find phrases like:

"It [the tech industry] often shuns women, minorities, and others who don’t fit into the rising “brogrammer” culture."

down right distasteful and a generalization that is pretty outrageous. I would go out on a limb and say most of the tech industry isn't racist, sexist, or anything else.

I'm petty sure the number of women in "tech" reflect the number of women graduating with C.S. degrees. If anything, women seem to get an unfair advantage just because they are women and "under represented."

I'm not saying that there aren't issues, but the author of the article pretty much calls everyone in tech a racists and sexist. Then goes on to write an article that these "techies" are suppose to read.
Since it won't be native code, they'll only be able to abuse a FF bug exposed by the JS plugin API, but should be in a very bad position to exploit a kernel bug...

Same process isolation, but the JS plugin got a vastly reduced surface to attack.
Conferences are expensive. I'd go with books, and local conferences that are cheap and don't cost a lot of money in terms of hotels/airfare/etc...

Another way of looking at stuff changing really fast: wait until it settles down some until you jump on board, or you risk wasting your time. I remember in the 90ies when CORBA was going to be the "next big thing". Glad I didn't spend time learning that...
Yes, I deleted my comment above shortly after leaving it because I figured it was a relevant discussion afterall unless I'm splitting hairs. (In the deleted comment I claimed this was all off topic to my original post).
In the grand scheme of things I'd probably liken it to disability ramps, braille on room signage, etc. It'll probably add a few points to the total cost, but in the grand scheme we're talking about 3-5%, not 30-50% in additional costs. What'll probably happen is that each prof will need to assign a TA to basically deal with it. (Remember, these specialized technical costs are particularly cheap for universities.)

I unfortunately don't have a lot of insight on the case itself, but I surmise the reason why these activist lawyers are going after Harvard and MIT is because they have plenty of resources to solve these issues. Part of being a leading academic institution is to "do the right thing", and at this juncture it's up to highly specialized legal people to figure out what that means.
There was an article on HN recently about someone who had a Masters Degree in computer science + very good qualifications, interviewed successfully for several companies,but they all refused after they have found out he spent a year in jail for a non-violent offence.
An example:
"Just as we still need to rebalance housework and child care at home"

No, we in fact, do not. The amount of time men spend on housework and their job each week is greater than the amount of time women do:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/14/men-wom...
"Work time — paid at a job and unpaid at home — is almost equal for American men and women, says a report out today that shows men clocking in at 45.6 hours a week and women at 45.2."
But a wave can get transmitted without any 'particle' moving any significant distance.

With people walking a few hours between villages, ideas could theoretically spread at >10 kilometers a day. At 100 walking days a year, that's Rome to Paris in a year, easily. In practice, transmission speed would be way lower, but given a few millennia, a lot is possible.

And, by the way, that applies to genes, too. There is no need for statistical east-west drift of humans for genes to spread from Asia to Europe. All you need is (way) more people in Asia than in Europe, and people moving a few km in random directions between birth and adulthood (oceans limiting such movements would help, too, but aren't even necessary)
I don't advocate having the tail deliberately wag the dog.
You might be right. In my stats courses, we used lower case letters for all sample estimates and upper case for all population values.
Video: NuoDB Continuous Availability Demo
If MIT is all about giving more privilege to the privileged, why did they start the OCW project in the first place? I submit that MIT actually wants these videos to be as accessible as possible, including captions. This is supported by the fast the many of the videos already have captions.
Not knowing anything about the praxis of SBM, I presume that "prior beliefs and evidence" would be in the nature of noticing that people once used aspen bark tea to treat pain and fever, then determining through a series of experiments the exact molecule or group of molecules that produced the effect. At the end of the experiments, you determine that acetylsalicylic acid, ingested orally, is an effective remedy for pain and fever, with side effects stomach irritation etc.

I also presume that there is a more important aspect. If society believes that homeopathy works and that vaccines cause autism, that would be good cause to conduct very rigorous, credible (and above all media-friendly) experiments testing those beliefs.

If society believes that eating too many eggs is bad for you, test it. If we believe drinking red wine is good for you, test it. If we believe reptilian aliens are using sodium fluoride in the water supply as an adjuvant for their mind control rays, test it.

I presume, without knowing, that this particular aspect of SBM is very much about countering all the junk science hucksters stowing away on the gravy train, just because no one bothers to grab their freeloading asses and throw them off. So when Dr. Selschupplementsondeside (who may or may not be inspired by an actual person) touts a miracle cure on his cable television show, you put that on your list for potential testing and start tracking the hype versus scientific credibility ratio. If too many people start believing without knowing, you need some experimental results.

We can't test everything, so focus on testing the unanswered questions. Test the home remedies and traditional cures. Debunk the junk science.
I had some luck awhile ago with an INSTEON setup using their SmartLinc central controller---but only because the SmartLinc itself had a sniffable HTTP protocol for its "phone control." So basically it was ideal for me, as long as I completely bypassed all the crap software that came with it (I ended up writing a small server app that read my Google Calendar for "light on / light off" commands and sent the appropriate HTTP commands to the SmartLinc to fool it into doing the actions).

Unfortunately, the setup stopped working and I don't have useful tools to debug it; no way to know why an INSTEON controller can't see another component, only that it can't. Plus, I'd like to move away from systems that want to use the house wiring at all (INSTEON is hybrid x10 / radio) because I don't want an errant power surge blowing my $100+ of equipment.
Pluralsight - great resource
Beta channel for the Android Webview – Update the Webview Independently
Imagine a web where you could just write to the users clipboard without a plugin + requiring a click.

It would NEVER be safe to Ctrl+V again!
That's true, but how do you distinguish between migratory people, conquering people, and cultural diffusion?
There's also the demo-derby version:

http://www.meetup.com/GameOfDrones/

"We believe in trial by fire, there is no faster way to develop state of the art drone technology than our method of aerial combat sports."
Why are they unreadable?

CD-R's, and especially older CD-R's, turned out to not have as long a shelf life as initially assumed. I recently found a bunch of old CD's I burnt ages ago, back when I got my first CD burner, and only one of them was still completely readable.
i agree, you hear a lot of buzzwords thrown around these days and then a few months later its fizzled down.
“Clang strives to both conform to current language standards (up to C11 and C++11)”. If anything's missing, it's a bug. clang also kindly defaults to C11 so I don't have to curse and go add a command line flag every time I write “for (int i = ...”.
For me the geometry of the MSNE 4000 outweighs the advantages of mechanical switches. Symmetric Alt and Ctrl plus sitting in my lap comfortably while I type matter more[to me].

The MSNE 4000 is the result of Microsoft's dogfooding more than a consumer facing product development cycle and it shows. If the marketing folks were running the show it would have wireless, an asymmetric layout, and a Google with Bing key.
Do you get time off to receive training?

The "drier" the subject matter the more I like to it to take place at an offsite location where that is all I will doing for several days.

Pluralsight certainly is a good resource if you are more diligent than myself at managing your own curriculum.
Are you a smug emoji snob? Chances are you're not getting laid
Use the money as your salary. Work for four hours, research for the other four. Learning is free but time is limited. Ask your boss for four hours a day with the $2k dwindling according to your rate.