skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally true - i think if you want to use open source you should be prepared to read the code in order to understand it and for debugging
To anyone who actually bothered to pause and compare Yahoo's culture today to yesterday's, it would be obvious that Marissa's conviction and aptitude is heralding a new era of prosperity;

That is the complete opposite of what I've heard from those still at Yahoo.
iRobot-Like Workers in Lincolnshire Hospitals and Museums
Or just use file:

file /usr/lib/firefox/firefox

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=16336605009f841acd45261f5f904be8509cfe21, stripped
Disappointing Google hiring experience
When I got an outreach recruiting email late afternoon last Friday about a design position in google, of course I was excited. Subsequently I went home and start preparing for it. My portfolio has been fairly maintained and updated consistently and was last updated several months ago. But I wanted the best version of me to show to google. It took me the whole weekend and finally everything is ready to go Monday morning 9:30.

I sent it out to the recruiter, and didn't expect hear back merely an hour and half later, a rejection note, standard as below:
"Thank you for sending that over! We would like to thank you for your interest in career opportunities at Google. We carefully reviewed your background and experience for Visual Designer and Interaction Designer , and we currently have other candidates already in process that are a stronger match for the current open positions.
We will continue to use our database to match your profile with new opportunities and will reach out to you if we find an opening for which you may be qualified.
Thanks again for your interest in Google's careers!"

What I sent over 2 hours ago are two links, resume and newly updated portfolio. Neither link was clicked according to my monitoring system.

I am not offended because google rejected me, but because how I was treated during the process and how silly I feel for spending almost 30 hours during the weekend to update a portfolio link, which, no one even opened.

To careless google recruiters: More and more talents will just slip away like this, because of irresponsible outreach and careless "review" (if not non existence).

also reminds me of this article I read couple of days ago which maybe in a more neutral tone than mine, but reveal the same story:
http://designtaxi.com/news/372904/Illustrator-Creates-A-Cute-Animated-R-sum-To-Get-A-Job-With-Google/?interstital_shown=1
"Unfortunately, Google never watched this animation and the position was closed subsequently"
> Works on Linux, Mac and Windows

That's quite some understatement, it freakin' runs on toasters (i.e. ~everywhere where you can run SQLite, the only hard requirement I'm aware of is there has to be a C compiler for the platform).
Add 1: Creating a Simple iOS Game with Swift in Xcode
Is telegram open source? I didn't see it obviously linked from their website.
It has all of the trappings of a successful slogan: definitional, pithy, & ambitious-sounding enough to make everyone ignore the bad math.

Berkshire itself is on that list, so surely there are only 489.5 to go. :)
Or, you know, pay the royalty you agreed to pay and stop being a thieving scum.

I would think they have some sort of enforcing mechanism. It almost seems like the $3,000 limit is a signal of the cutoff when it starts becoming worthwhile to pursue scum buckets.
Or downgrade to 2.2.1 and disable updates.
> No, I don't understand you since you have no arguments.

Seems pretty clear to me:

1. You say that Captain Kudo's loyalty to his Marines is "mostly a cliché"

2. I disagree and provide personal examples (which isn't really necessary, because examples of loyalty among soldiers are pretty well known)

3. You say that I don't know what loyalty really is

> As long as the miliary's loyalty doesn't also encompass those scenarios, how is it not a bastardisation of the word?

Your definition of loyalty seems to require the meeting of impossible goals. The military would not be able to meet its obligations and also fully protect all soldiers. PTSD is an unavoidable reality that comes with the job, and the military has really made massive improvements in handling it in the last decade. There are plenty of examples that demonstrate failures, but that is true of every system that has ever existed.

Maybe you should provide an example of loyalty that meets your lofty definition of unfaltering perfection.

> Or maybe I should understand you by your lack of arguments?

Or the more obvious answer: We aren't going to come to agreement on anything because we can't agree on a definition for "loyalty".
I'd be glad to. It's at home at the moment. I'll probably, with my wife's permission, send it up to my github.

Also, feel free to contact me. https://keybase.io/jwconway
What if it's not a bug? What if it's a feature?

The article likes parliamentary-style democracies, but what happens there is that the party in power can pass pretty much anything it wants, limited only by the members' willingness to go along. American-style checks and balances mean that, even if you have a majority, you can't pass your brilliant idea without selling it to at least some of the minority. I assert that that's a good thing - your idea has to make sense outside your party for you to be able to turn it into law.
Only works if have got a Gmail account. I had been using Gtalk with a Google account custom domain and that's gone. Took me a lot of time to realize my SVR records were not the problem. I created a new account with Gmail and everything works fine.
Oh yes it's early days for Matrix still. We do have clients for web, android and ios which we use day to day; they're nothing too fancy at the moment, but they're slowly getting better.

Matrix is very much still in beta; people have been quite excited about writing their own server implementations but have decided to wait until the protocol (and documentation!) stabilize. :)
There's a REPORT method that can used with any content-type.
If you work on anything web related and you have a Mac or an iOS device, I strongly encourage you to try the "Network Link Conditioner". It's a preference pane (on OS X) or a setting (on iOS) that allows you to simulate different types of networks. You can artificially limit bandwidth and transmission delay, simulate package loss and DNS delay.

For me, it's become an essential tool for testing website & app performance.
Cool, thanks. So, I got it working with some friends. The start is rough when you don't have any contacts. There is no hand holding like you'd expect from other messaging apps. Especially the first message to the first contact is a tough discovery. I managed to mistakenly call instead of texting and another friend did exactly the same.

The error message when you are not registered yet is also not totally clear. One friend complained that he couldn't see when I had read the message (compared to Facebook Messenger).

On the plus side, you've come really far in usable crypto when you're being compared to that.
And here is a problem, I can't possibly read though all this before it leaves the "new" page.

(So far p.1 and 2 passed the test.)
Isn't that tightly-coupled with CouchDB though?
>That’s why she has spent $2 billion on acquisitions, most notably the $1.1 billion for Tumblr, which instantly gave Yahoo a credible entry into social networking and user-generated content. (It was, in fact, a Tumblr post that was Patient Zero in “The Dress” contagion that ate the Internet last week.)

I think the above excerpt, is a good reflection of what I believe the OP means by defending MM.

It may be unfair to try to sum up MM's time as CEO in terms of acquisitions, but its simply what the media has highlighted and I am sure Yahoo wants the media banging that drum for all its worth. Therefore, if the biggest argument for the $1.1B Tumblr acquisition is pointing to the latest viral post, I consider that running to her defense. From the tone of this article, the stockholders are demanding cost savings (sounds like less employees), new revenue streams and a general direction for the company. For better or worse the CEO is responsible for making the stockholders happy, I personally think Yahoo's niche could be in privacy - give users alternatives to Google, Facebook, Gmail, cloud storage with a focus on what people want...privacy. IMHO Yahoo has always had a respectable focus on the cross section of technology, privacy and human rights (maybe one of the first in tech to create a human rights program).
Picking the Right Metric
Show HN: Bypass paywalls with a click – Come from Google
You do realize these types of articles are just noise? If it wins or fails, it adds no value to debate it ahead of time.
I read some article about bandwidthX which is a wifi bandwidth exchange. And the estimate there was that wireless providers could get around $5 gigabyte.That's far above internet connection charges, and together with the other benefits i mentioned could be a decent reason for businesses(at least in dense traffic areas) to install this. As for the demand side, it's hard to determine that, but i assume it could be considerable , especially if video is involved.

And if they succeed in building infrastructure that way, that's the whole game.

The part about the free wireless,yes 87% of the u.s. is online, but with regards to mobile internet, maybe some people prefer a zero bill, and in general zero(even with an option to premium) is a good marketing technique. But that's just one option.
There doesn’t need to be DNA change to make people smarter. Just having a few generations in a row with adequate diet, not breathing smoke from a wood fire every day, less damage from childhood disease, etc. could make a huge difference.
All the world's economies artificially prop up the market and, surprise, General Re is now a gem and the king still has no clothes on.
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Daniel Dennett explains the Flynn effect with a trickle down effect of engineering knowledge to the general public (as an example he mentions percentage calculation). It provides people with more useful thinking tools than what is traditionally passed on, which makes people more efficient thinkers and thus they achieve higher scores in IQ tests.
Autobahn|Testsuite – automated verification of WebSocket clients and servers
How to survive a week of virtual reality at GDC
One of the founders of SigOpt here, I'm happy to answer any questions about this post, what we do, or anything about SigOpt. I'll be around all day!
What do you think about this project?
Still works for me and my custom domain.
> Is it strange that people defend Mayer so much ?

I've found just that opposite, that people generally seem critical of her time spent at Yahoo so far. Common targets are her seemingly haphazard app acquisition strategy, or how she frequently is late to meetings or misses them entirely, or how she has hired the wrong people high-profile positions. And often the conversation steers more towards her personality quirks.

Here was a particularly damning article published in the New York Times in December:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe...

It's very critical and I didn't see many people rushing to her defense after it was published.

Here's another one:

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/yahoos-dynamic-ce...

Where do you see all this defense of her?
For internships in particular, I strongly prefer people who can work in our office in DC. I just think the experience is so more valuable for both of us when we're all in the same place. But if you want to make a case that you're the exception, send me an email.
A company that contains all companies that do not contain themselves?
(I feel like a broken record when this topic comes up, but...)

RFC5323 is still a thing, and the HTTP verb mechanism is still extensible. Use the SEARCH verb, submit your complex query in the method body. It's up to you to define the query structure appropriate for your use case, but MongoDB's query language is a good starting place.

http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc5323
Bitcoin has nothing to do with waging war or the end of the state.

As for me being unrealistic: it's my life, I'll be happy to live it without ever having to say that I allowed myself to be used whatever the consequences, and yes, I would refuse.

Defense contractors can't wage war without people willing to operate the weapons, the circle of concern/circle of influence nicely overlaps if you simply say 'I refuse'.

That's where you exert maximum pressure. Developing bitcoin to stop wars is about as relevant as invading Iraq was as a response to 9/11.

As for the no-fly zones and the UN weapon inspectors:

(1) the no-fly zone was a unilateral arrangement, how do you think the US would respond if some entity declared a no-fly zone over the US?

(2) the UN weapons inspectors were in agreement that Saddam did not possess a credible threat of WMDs.

It's all just dumb wars over resources no more, no less.
??

... so?

What provision on that page would I violate if I made an FLOSS project based on UE4?
This guy is (pretty much) right. Firstly it's energy not power (power is more like the rate of flow of energy).. The embodied energy of a PC (ie, energy required to make it) is huge.

>life cycle energy use of a computer is dominated by production (83%) as opposed to operation (17%). The yearly life cycle cost of owning a computer is about 3,000 MJ/year, half again that of a refrigerator, a much larger appliance that uses far more electricity in operation. The short lifespan of computers and the variety of computing needs of users suggests that extension of lifespan, for example by promptly reselling to users who need less computing power, is a promising approach to mitigating environmental impacts.

This is from a study[1] from 2004 of a 1990 PC, inclusive of CRT... I suspect the figures are similar if not worse, as power consumption has come down a lot while chip sizes have remained similar... regardless, the point is so strong that it seems quite likely to remain true whatever the case -- unless your idea of a 'PC' is a rPI.2, which might be useful for some of the same scenarios, but certainly not all-- it's still far from the CPU power of a 2.8ghz p4. So, in many (most?) cases this is credibly a 'green' thing.

1. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2...
Thanks for the additional info. Its always fun to hear a little of the back story when people are willing/able to share.

I have built both prototypes and production systems using a couple of different approaches to text analysis. Its always fun to hear a little of the back story when people are willing to share.

I wish you all the best in converting it into a solid business.
If anyone from Whisper Systems is reading, can you please tell me how I can disassociate my number from a Cyanogenmod installed version of TextSecure in my (now formatted and sold) Nexus 4 and get it working with my no sim Nexus 5 with Google Voice/Hangouts?
Right Colors Improve Conversion Rate: 6 Unusual Case Studies
Copyright – Copyhack
Question, what to do.. when a webmaster use my pictures and then after do you told them they have to delete it!-? no reaction no answer etc. and my nervs are blank soon... and would really like to DDOS these sites, because they use my Pictures? i mean... . - that the same when some one use your code and they ignored you..?!.. damn bad modus right now.. - can someone help to shut down these sites?.. of course it will be payed. you can contact me here spaceg.github.io - Let shutdown these sites. Please. !
Still, the market isn't going to solve this on it's own. Other peoples children are going to be cheaper than robots for the foreseeable future. In fact, poisoning the local population could be considered a minor issue compared to contaminating the water tables. Sick people die, but a contaminated water table keeps killing people for generations.

I think strong local regulations, as well as an emphasis of recycling locally is the best short-term solution. It does expose the actual cost of recycling (safely) -- but also cuts energy to shipping, and can be used as a stimuli for a more re-cycle friendly value chain (eg: make sellers of electronics take the bill for recycling, and demand local, safe recycling) -- which in turn puts pressure on suppliers to deliver items that are cheaper to recycle safely.
How does it work for everyone else and not for Google?
This seems right to me. The headline claim that Google was going to "require" encryption on all Lollipop devices contradicts the linked Google blog posts as well as Ars's own headline from when the announcement was made[1].

"On by default" is not the same as "required of OEMs". No one should be surprised that the OEMs might change the defaults, as that was sort of the point of Android at least at first.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/android-l-will-have-d...
Even that isn't strictly guaranteed to work; have you read ken's Reflections on Trusting Trust? Strictly speaking, you'd need to hand-compile (or at least hand-verify) the app, and trust the underlying platform as well (dalvik and/or the hardware).
> In the spirit of civility you might want to spell out why it's not a good idea to "try and piss-off a Marine" instead of resorting to implying things.

He is probably cautioning you against antagonizing Marines, because we'll resort to telling jokes about the Army, and quoting Eleanor Roosevelt. Nobody wants that.

> Especially when they in their previous statements have recognized their own bias...

Hmm, who to trust between two individuals - one who recognizes his own biases, or the other without such introspection?
Speed-up AngularJS application using Immutable data
Tinder launches Tinder Plus with age-based fees
We've been working on a similar idea for a few years now. We have a distributed version called P2Pedia: http://www.nmai.ca/research-projects/universal-peer-to-peer/...

and a centralized version as a Moodle plugin called Social Wiki: http://www.nmai.ca/research-projects/socialwiki

You can try out Social Wiki online (there's a link to a demo site on the above link).

The UI needs work, but I'd say Social Wiki is functional. Just need to install Moodle first.
Lol, shoulda locked those profits when you could!
I would phrase it "contracts" - which has the implication that if you violate the contract, you may be sued. Contracts are how just about everything is "enforced". I think that programmers tend to think that if something is required, we must have programmatic protections in place that ensure it actually happens. Most of the world does not work like that; they rely on contracts.
Project Remote – Live any moment
It's conditionally free. If it were unconditionally free that would permit you to use the term without question or having people call bullshit. When they do call bullshit, which is to be expected, it's absurd to go around accusing them of whining and being ridiculous. Get a grip.
I tried encryption on my HTC One M7, currently running 4.4, and performance was sufficiently bad to make the phone barely usable. Then I needed to factory-reset the phone to turn encryption off.
If a lot of top-notch indie devs are abandoning the appstore, where are they going? Back to the Web, Windows, or OS X? It seems there is a catch here that a large number of consumer eyes are pointed at the various app stores and not at more traditional and perhaps more sustainable platforms. So how does an indie pull those eyes back to their platform of choice?
Universally good advice:

>> Ask yourself frequently, “Am I having fun?”

>> The answer needn’t always be yes.
>> But if it’s always no, it’s time for a new project or a new career.
yeah, i gather this can't be used to completely replaces sms? The handy part of the android textsecure is that it's my sms app for everyone whether or not they use it. I just send a message the normal way and if they're using it, a little lock icon is on the message.
Sure there is a company (Whispersystems) doing most the work behind it. As they state: "dedicated development is supported by community donations and grants". This is good, it allows for very focused development.
iDTech is no longer licensed for third-party use; only Zenimax properties can use it. CryEngine is available -- they have a $10 a month subscription plan that is royaly-free, but you don't get source code access like you do with Unreal Engine here. (They offer seperate terms for source access.[1]) Unity exists, but I don't think it's in quite the same tier as Unreal (although for some projects that may not matter).

[1] http://cryengine.com/get-cryengine
> ...the Fed would still be able to sell debt below 5% interest

The Fed doesn't sell debt, the Treasury does. The Fed buys Treasury debt at below market interest rates with its magical money printing machine, and that is the problem.
Microsoft Unveils Midrange Lumia 640, 640 XL
I strongly suspect that this is more about Google showing that "Better is possible."

If people can look at a few places and see that it's possible to have affordable wireless service that makes a profit, then it might kick more municipal providers into delivering the service, and provide more competition for the big boys.
Interesting. Yeah, I wonder if they have a way to import/export textural representations like Max/MSP or Pure Data patches.
Outstanding work, very well written, and very helpful. Thank you
Mayer is no doubt smart and talented, but she was also at perfect place at the perfect time and rode the Google rocket ship straight to the top. So it's hard for outsiders to really separate talent from circumstance.

That said, you're very wrong. She had a defining impact on Google Search from the start, a project that did in fact produce notable success and revenue for the company.
Samsung announces “Samsung Pay”
Holy crap, this is so much faster than Firefox. Lifesaver. Thanks!
The chances of my information being subpoenaed are remote, and even if it was, the invasion of privacy would be more of an annoyance than any sort of existential problem. I waste a certain percentage of time online reading random stuff. I look at porn occasionally. I consume long-form journalism on obscure topics. I make international calls a few times a month...to immediate family members who live overseas in unremarkable places and circumstances.

You're not constitutionally protected from any invasion of privacy; the 4th amendment requires that authorities explain what they're looking for when they apply for a search warrant. Obviously Google services are not ideal for everyone, and could become less suitable depending on the future evolution of the political climate wherever one happens to be, but for a lot of people what you describe is just not a practical problem.

If there were lets say 20 different services, there would be NO way to connect email account foo@email.com with a forum posting from member RedSpike93 to a search for "escorts in miami".

OK, then use 20 different services. For other people, the utility of convenience and vertical integration outweighs the utility of keeping private their searches for 'rubber duckie kitchenware'. (Disclaimer: I have never actually searched for rubber duckie kitchenware)
FoMO – Fear of Missing Out