skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a valid point, but I wonder how many people just don't complain but would be more productive if this were addressed?

The absence of a fix is frustrating but not in and of itself - I know what it's like to have an old codebase and the massive job that it can be to retro-fit a feature like that. I just wish that Unity had given some proper statement on it over the last few years. The editor is the face of their product - you're expected to spend a great deal of time in the tool. This _has_ been a frequent complaint (just Google 'increase Unity editor font size' for example).

I just wish there had been one statement as in "we know it's an issue, this is what we're going to do to fix it / this is why we want to fix it but can't right now". It's an issue that plenty of people seem to be having - I mean, anyone who owns a high-DPI display is going to run into it and there are many threads on the forum about that kind of thing.

I'm glad at least to see that they've started working on it. I hope it makes it into the 5.x cycle.
> The photographer standing on the corner of the building with no safety so he can take a selfie? Fuck him. Doing that on your own or with similarly risk-tolerant friends? OK, enjoy your dangerous hobby

If he falls or drops any equipment, he puts the people below him at risk of fatal injury. This isn't just a question of showing off for an audience, it's a question of the safety of bystanders.

As others have said, the level of safety demonstrated here appears negligently insufficient to match the risk to the photographic subjects and to bystanders below, machismo aside.
The author(s) admitted it was click bait. Not sure why they would do that... it seems strange. Why should we believe anything else they write?
Virtual Reality (VR) headsets and it's health risks
VR hardware has been a big break this 2015. A whole bunch of companies big and small with their headsets. I have tried some of the mobile headsets from cheap gogle cardboard types in plastic and a good version of Zeiss VR one headset as well. The experience is there at varying degrees. But one thing everyone talks about is motion sickness and I had problems with strains in my eye with VR one though it has good quality optics. How safe are these headsets in the long term for the eye for prolonged users? Another thing I notice is the brightness of some content which is quite bright and moving right in front of your eyes whether it be a video game or some 3d content. This surely has impact on our eyes as well compared to a console or a pc which is not in right in front of eyes but at a distance and most times some ambient light as well. What do you guys think about this in the long run? I do enjoy some of games and content with these headsets but as am trying out things I had been wondering how this is affecting my eyes.
I think eating is a separate matter. Plus, eating (particularly slightly more solid food) takes longer to absorb, so if you eat after you are hungry you are just extending that hunger longer.

That said - I've done many long (8-12hr cycling only or triathlon) events on liquids alone (I prefer infinit.us).
>* Avoid AES-CBC.

Why? Most of the flaws comes from MtE as I understand.
Then why aren't they using an existing python jit implementation if they want to get things done? Numba or pypy?
Seriously, I think a couple of hours and a lunch is all that is needed to consider most positions. Management and directors can be more prolonged.

Developing a workforce is about cultivating good leadership, a balanced diversity of thought, improving raw talent and most importantly tenacity.
This is excellent mathematical writing! I found it very approachable and superbly well researched.
Here's one good source, pulls posts straight from AngelList: http://startupseattle.com/jobs/
To each their own; but mantra based meditations are probably more effective at attaining hemisphere coherence which is what brings gains in creativity at those random moments throughout the day. http://youtu.be/RAETeTPhekk?t=1m40s
If there's one thing that the outrage around the Snowden leaks showed us, it's that people do care. But they just aren't all geeks or programmers or crypto experts, they're welders and baristas and waitresses and cab drivers.

They want privacy too, but one could argue that we've failed to educate them about how to use existing tools and failed to make those tools simple enough that they're usable by the average Joe.
waited and its fixed, and ran test:
Good, you seem not to trust the Superfish CA.
Also no other SSL-disabling product was detected on your system.
with PrivDog installed
No need to uninstall it. Sometimes give it 24 hours from when uncovered and things are fixed after releasing the info. For those that said remove immediately, well you can reinstall it now, for those that waited like me, good job as I wasn't using my pc when the report was posted/then the app was updated.
You really need professional employment counsel to respond to this properly & IANAL but here goes...

"Not paying Founders is illegal, is it?"
Most likely, yes.

"Which exact part of any law demands paying active Founders?"
There is no "exact part of a law" that demands it. You don't just look it up. That's not how the law works. There is a whole host of federal and state minimum wage legislation as well as precedent case law that would come into play. You cannot point to an "exact part" that requires "active Founders" (a term that the law doesn't recognise) to be paid minimum wage. Dig through [1], [2] and do a precedent search on LexisNexis or Findlaw if you're really interested.

Look, paying minimum wage is a legal requirement in the US. There is a small set of exemptions that allow companies to pay below minimum wage. The executive exemption [3] is one such exemption. These exemptions usually come with tests that you have to satisfy in order to qualify for the exemption. For example, according to the DOL [3] there are 4 tests, ALL of which must be satisfied to qualify for the executive exemption:

1) salary based comp > $455/week
2) primary duty is management
3) directing work of >2 FTEs
4) hiring/firing authority

An "active founder" in your situation who is not responsible >2 FTE would fail this test & therefore fail this exemption. There are probably other exemptions you could look to use instead. Your founders might or might not qualify for those as well, depending on your exact situation. Not paying her/him might or might not therefore be illegal.

The main problem is that you're completely missing the point.

Firstly Carolynn's advice is largely talking to startups that are YC-funded (& beyond). Secondly her advice is a reflection of the consequences & the risks involved, not some legal sub-clause. Do you want to risk falling foul of state & federal minimum wage law? Do you want to fall foul of payroll taxes? The answer is no. You do not. In the event you and your founder fall out (as Carolynn goes on to discuss) your life will be so much worse. Delinquent employers, minimum wage abusers do not fare well in a judge & jury court let alone the court of public opinion.

This is a complete non-topic. You are focused on a technicality & some overblown/imagined idealogical conflict, when instead you should just take Carolynn's very good advice and pay yourselves minimum wage if you can.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Stat...
[2]: http://www.dol.gov/dol/aboutdol/history/flsa1938.htm
[3]: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17b_executi...

Again IANAL.
At first I thought this was for interprocess communication. But it's not. It doesn't even have the locking for multithread use. This is a micro-optimization for a single-thread, single process program.

The advantage gained with all this memory mapping is that you get to avoid an extra copy coming out of the buffer, because the "poll" function returns a pointer into the buffer, not the data itself. Avoiding that copy creates a potential race condition. When "poll" is called, and returns a pointer into the buffer, it advances "head", indicating the data has been consumed. That space is now both available for writing and being used by the caller as if immutable. The code that calls "poll" must be done with the data before anyone calls "offer". You've now created an undocumented constraint on the callers to "poll" and "offer". If someone doesn't know that constraint and modifies the code, it will randomly break.

Is this micro-optimization really worth it? Modern CPUs are good at copying recently touched data.
On a whim, I recently updated my LinkedIn picture to a photo of myself in a multi-coloured clown wig. This put an immediate end to all messages from recruiters.
This is fantastic. I've been wanting to see something like this!

I'd love to see a partnership with GoPro and get these into live events (once GoPro can do live feeds). I'd love me some Red Bull Rampage, or Supercross footage.

Supercross has this spider cam concept they started this year, but it still requires a camera on wires zigzagging the stadium, this would solve the issue. if you can get live footage out.

awesome stuff!
You can publish to OS X, iOS, Android and Windows Phone on the free license of Unity.

Major restrictions are no render to texture and a Unity splash screen on the app boot.

I suspect html5 will be supported in free Unity 5.0 (it is in the pro version currently in beta).
My view is that the scenarios described in the paper basically amount to "computer authentication", and smartcards would be completely warranted (and not at all unreasonable to implement) here.
I see. I think it's a huge stretch :)
That's like Go claiming they are self-hosting because some of their tools are written in Go.

On a related note, I have to say that I still don't understand the point of this project.
Were you guys unhappy with pypy's performance or development?

I understand that in theory, the approach you guys are taking is incompatible with pypy's, but I can't help but wonder how thing would play out if you Dropbox put their weight behind PyPy. Maybe it could've been the start of every Python programmer's wet dream: Python 2.8.
> If you're regularly saying "my urine's dark, I must be dehydrated" you should probably be visiting a doctor.

um, well, maybe, but it is accurate (and interestingly, a bit more Bayesian) to say "Hmmm... my urine appears to be darker than it was previously. Without evidence supporting a competing hypothesis, this is most likely because I'm relatively closer to the lower end of normal total body volume". Competing hypotheses include rhabdomyolysis, acute renal injury, chronic renal injury, and all the many things that cause those sorts of end organ damage.

I know HN has at least on board-certified nephrologist lurking around. perhaps he'll chime in.

source: I'm a physician.

Also, I think Noekes raises some very interesting points. I'm a little concerned by the tone of this article, though overall I'm glad the author made the effort to write it. Things like saying Noekes only found 6 instances of heat exhaustion found in the setting of long-distance running are suspect. Doing a lit review is suspect, and in a case like heat exhaustion, it's very tricky to demonstrate the literature reflects the population. Do you really think every patient with heat exhaustion after a marathon got a case report written up? I don't.
The Hidden Costs of Being an Uber Driver
"Drink different. Beer is too mainstream."
Inside DeepMind
Stories of the Past and Future
It seems the main feature to Python3 over 2.x is that it enables you to beg projects to port to Python3. But Python3 people- it's opensource. Isn't that wonderful?

Python3 patches welcome.
Why Airbnb Desperately Wants to Pay Hotel Taxes
To OpenCL from JavaScript via js-ctypes
No, but I probably would if the background were white.
Dion's a smart guy and a great communicator and I'm really excited that he's been pushing hard at Walmart Labs since moving on from Mozilla (and Palm.)

Walmart does things at scale and if they can bring some of that strength to open source, even just improving business understanding of open source (ideally a lot more, as Dion expians) that's nothing but solid good for the world.
Two different engines optimized for different purposes but in general Unity will run much better on low-end hardware than Unreal. Unreal has a renderer that is (out of the box) definitely aimed at high-end hardware.

KSP's performance is probably bound by a physics system that is abnormally complex for games. Unity's version of PhysX is based on an older, slower version. Unity 5 brings that up to date so if Squad decide to continue development on 5 there should be some improvements straight away. Unreal uses the same physics middleware out of the box.
Von Wong, you know what would have really been impressive. If you had taken a moment to show the rigging in the making-of video. Just a walk through of the precautions that you used to showcase what an excellent shoot coordinator you and your team were. Jumping up and taking the crazy selfie was fun and crazy Russian style, leading to a fair degree of narrative power and sweaty palms, but it wasn't good safety promotion on your part. For the dudes that do this, it doesn't always work out for the best - those crazy youtube/liveleak videos sometime come with terrible falls. I've been in shot situations where I'm so glad nothing went wrong, and thankfully we didn't have behind the scenes footage to show how poorly rigged our set up was, but showing your dedication and diligence for the safety of those people that you were shooting would really be a testament to your work. It's my opinion that this bordered on unsafe and irresponsible. It's clear from your other videos that you care deeply about your creative work, you can do better with your technical and safety work as well. I'm glad nothing bad happened.
Where do you draw the line? is it OK for me to have a shaggy beard? How about long hair? Tattoos?

My personality is my personality, and when you hire me you're going to get the whole thing. If you can't handle it, I rather you don't even talk to me in the first place.

I look forward to a future where nobody cares about this stuff.
Another data point. We were hiring for a developer position and found a really promising candidate. The higher ups decided that we needed a hire for another team first which put a temporary (permanent.. ) hold on our new position. I found out much later that the candidate was never even contacted to tell them it was a no. This was a major breakdown of HR - but it shows that it's not always about the candidate.
Yep. My roommate got an offer from them last year. That offer was contingent upon a drug test. He ended up going with another offer.
Cant be surprised that Darren is the creator. I remember seeing him at a talk this summer and I imagined he would be the kinda guy to put this type of project together.
just wait until the circus recruiters get a whiff of your profile
Trouble Ahead? Searching for Google's Future
Is teaching undergraduates central to the mission…?
Way to growth hack your youtube subscriptions :)
I can confirm they do drug tests.
Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=http:%2F%2Fworrydream.com%2FMe...
Just a question, how do you know it's only your mother you are talking to? Have you verified the key she uses with the one you are talk to?
Something similar happened to me years ago. I later learned the hiring manager had left. But when they contacted me, I had already moved on.
It could be for a number of reasons.

1. OP wanted to emphasize what it is like to interview at a company which has a lot of resources to invest into interviews - one of the things mentioned was committing multiple people for a full day to just interview him, as well as willing to bear a high initial cost (travel, hotel) to interview him.

2. OP wanted to detail the interview process of such a financially successful company: who they hire, why they hire that person, how they find and select candidates that have contributed to that high financial success.

3. OP wanted a crafty title beyond "My interview at Apple"

4. More likely to be clicked on, shared, commented or voted on (i.e clickbait).
more tech details & specs

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/24/arm_ibm_internet_of_...
Ask HN: Sources for tracking business metrics ?
I am developing SAAS business which is still in its early stage. I am solo founder. Can you please tell me where can I find information about all metrics that I should be tracking ?

e.g. LTV,Burn rate, Churn rate, CTV etc etc.
Another anecdotal... I originally got rejected from my current position. It wasn't until a month later that they called me back and we're like, "um yeah, actually come back and let's talk about compensation." Found out that some political hurdles were cleared up for the extra headcount needed to bring me on. Apparently the whole interviewing candidates process was started a bit earlier than it should have.
ugh: "THE UPGRADED SYSTEM WILL GO ONLINE THIS SPRING, FIVE YEARS LATE AND AT LEAST $500M OVER BUDGET." #
Thanks for sharing your experience. Bottomline - don't let any person/company judge your competence. If you've got the chops, you'll excel at what you do. So, go build it.
Indeed. The generally held view in violin circles today is that we're living in a second "golden age" of violin making.
Internet cafés
Right. In cases like this, you either a) have unmodeled dynamics or b) (much less likely) you found a superior strategy.

If b), try it out in the wild. If a), add assumptions that make the observed behavior optimal again, and see if those assumptions apply to the real world situation.
The sax man who took the Hollywood Bowl tunnel
Dozens of new craters suspected in northern Russia
One should note that Apple has basically no dress code, at all. Sandals, dreads, etc. and it has a history of this culture.
Makes me think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huevos_rancheros
Thank you so much for doing a more detailed examination of the shoot, and offering your services in support to the photographer and to SmugMug. The safety on this shoot was terrible, and I'm so glad, considering how trusting and nervous the employees were, that nothing bad happened. But this type of reckless shooting, either for film, photo or video, needs to be addressed. Thank you for bringing this up as well. People don't understand how easy, and unforgiving a slip can be in conditions like this.

I was at Pinnacles National Monument when a lead climber swung around and pivoted out of his harness, resulting in a fatal fall. The whole process took about a second. It literally happened in the blink of an eye, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it.
Bugs found by jsfunfuzz
Does this law also permit H1B employees with i140 Approval to apply for EAD or is it just the spouse?
Ask yourself, what "specific value can I offer this particular company?" Then apply for a realistically suitable role and throughout this process, provide (AND prove) this answer.
It usually goes something like "mom, what are the two words (short authentication strings) you see on your phone?" Sometimes she even asks me--we make jokes about the combinations.

And yeah, it's true that some of the Snowden docs reference ZRTP attacks & spoofing voice so it's not necessarily foolproof (or her phone could be owned etc.), but another one of the things my mother told me when I was a kid was "the key is to begin." And that's what moxie's done...
Google Launches YouTube Kids App for iOS and Android
I fantasise about Scala when having my everyday sex with PHP
I have experienced this problem first hand. AFAIK, YC does not recommend co-founders working remotely.
I found the error (moz stlylesheet
object has cssRules not rules) and made it work. Also made the custom styling of input work in Firefox now. Thanks for pointing this out! Hope you can see it now.
> There are installations which don't support ECC, usually due to hardware limitations

Isn't RSA much more computationally expensive than ECC? What hardware can do RSA but not ECC?

/me sits down to be schooled
Wow, that's a beautiful watch first and foremost, and a "smart" accessory second. It reminds me of the Bauhaus style of Nomos and later on Stowa, both held in extremely high regard by the watch community.

$450 is high for a smartwatch, but low for a watch in general. Nomos watches cost thousands. Granted, that's in large part to their in-house mechanical movements. But $450 is certainly not unreasonable for a high quality quartz watch -- see Seiko and Citizen. And this has the aesthetics to compete with the best of them in my humble opinion.

I have a Moto 360 and I stopped wearing it a bit over a month in. The extra features it has aren't very useful to be completely honest, and it's a bit bulky, having to charge it daily was really a drain, and it just felt flat-out fragile. I was afraid to even wash my hands while wearing it.

Lack of Android support is unfortunately a deal breaker for me right now, as I don't have an iPhone.
Docker-ception
Thank you for your interesting comment.

May I ask for your definition of altruism?

Helping someone else, in part because you recognize that you may someday need his/her help, seems like rational egoism to me.

And even if I thought I would never see someone again, I might help them if I thought they were virtuous, simply because I think virtue should be recognized and rewarded.
Walmart seems like a great place to develop for. They use some awesome and fun technology.
Universal SSL: Encryption all the way to the origin, for free
Those regulations were essentially removed in a lot of cases by the JOBS act in 2012. The rules are still under review but crowdfunding of equity will be possible sometime in early 2016.
Nice. As usual, entry and exit conditions aren't that hard to write; it's loop invariants that are hard.

/*@ loop_invariant
@ (\forall int i; 0<=i && i<stackSize-4;
@ runLen[i] > runLen[i+1] + runLen[i+2])
@ && runLen[stackSize-4] > runLen[stackSize-3])
@*/

It's surprising how close their notation is to our Pascal-F verifier from 30 years ago.[1] Formal verification went away in the 1980s because of the dominance of C, where the language doesn't know how big anything is. There were also a lot of diversions into exotic logic systems (I used to refer to this as the "logic of the month club"). The Key system is back to plain old first-order predicate calculus, which is where program verification started in the 1970s.

For the invariant, you have to prove three theorems: 1) that the invariant is true the first time the loop is executed, given the entry conditions, 2) that the invariant is true for each iteration after the first if it was true on the previous iteration, and 3) that the exit condition is true given that the invariant is true on the last iteration. You also have to prove loop termination, which you do by showing that a nonnegative integer gets smaller on each iteration. (That, by the way, is how the halting problem is dealt with in practice.) #2 is usually the hardest, because it requires an inductive proof. The others can usually be handled by a simple prover. There's a complete decision procedure by Oppen and Nelson for theorems which contain only integer (really rational) addition, subtraction, multiplication by constants, inequalities, subscripts, and structures. For those, you're guaranteed a proof or a counterexample. But when you have an internal quantifier (the "forall int i") above, proof gets harder. Provers are better now, though.

A big practical problem with verification systems is that they usually require a lot of annotation.
Somebody has to write all those entry and exit conditions, and it's usually not the original programmer. A practical system has to automate as much of that as possible. In the example shown, someone had to tell the system that a function was "pure" (no side effects, no inputs other than the function arguments). That could be detected automatically. The tools have to make the process much, much easier. Most verification is done by people into theory, not shipping products.

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/verifier/verifiermanual.pdf
Do you know a good resource for getting started with TM?