skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me neither.

The only reason I downloaded it was for this feature. This dead simple feature which was available in 1976 (or whenever) when VHS came out. It should be in every digital player at version 1.0.

Very poor work. It's really spotty, and it shows up as a bar at the top of the window on seemingly random loads, about 10 percent of the time. Whatever video player VUZE uses works 100 percent of the time and doesn't stupidly ask you if you want to start at the last position. This seems like a feature that should take five minutes to implement and they managed to mess it up bad.
Reliability and Integration of Semiconductors
Personally I'd prefer .dev for local development ala http://passingcuriosity.com/2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/.

Let's petition Apple to make this default in OSX. Game, set match.
Since adware often uses dark patterns to trick people into installing it I'm not sure you can draw any conclusions about intelligence. Ability to scrutinise every panel of an installation script, and check or uncheck a variety of boxes that might be described with double or tripple negatives -- and that's for the adware that is polite enough to tell you ot's going to install itself.
Live Sails.js course tomorrow
Don't dismiss things you don't understand: I think array programming is extremely useful for parsing, and I also think that with some untraining and some practice you would find it easy to read and write.

I have a new programmer- strong maths background, but no programming experience prior to K which she started about two weeks ago.

Today, she's working on taking strings that look like this:

y:"http://host/path/to.a.swf,http://host/path/to/b.swf"

and finding out if the url-fragments are "claimed" by any any other user in a database, AND if the current user claims any url-fragments. So she has a database like this:

d:`f`u!(("adap.tv";"adap.tv";"btrll.com";"btrll.com";"cbs.com";"cbsinter…
l:?d`f

and in about thirty minutes of puzzling came up with this:

|/#:'y ss/:l[&~|/d.f[&x=d.u]~/:\:l]

Since you don't know K I'll walk you through it:

d.f[&x=d.u]~/:\:l

This returns a list of bitmaps, such as:

(10000000000000000b;00000100000000000b)

What it's doing is taking all of the urls and indexing it by the where (&) address of each x (parameter to function: user id) is equal to the array of all of the users. That is, x=d.u returned: 01000001000000000000000000b and &x=d.u returned 1 7 (because the second and eighth element of that bitmap are ones). d.f[1 7] returns the second and eighth fragment.

Then, she &~|/ which ors- the bitmaps (|/) together, finds their complement (~), and takes the where of (&) them, so in this case 0 5. l[0 5] then returns the strings in the master list.

Note this is the list of all of the url fragments owned by other users:

l[&~|/d.f[&x=d.u]~/:\:l]

In PHP you might try to write:

$mine = array();
$theirs = array();
foreach($db as $row) {
if($row->u === $x) $mine[$row->f]=0;
else $thiers[$row->f]=0;
}
$list = array_diff(array_keys($thiers),array_keys($mine));

but there's a lot of syntax here, and a number of PHP function calls that a beginner might not be aware of. She's just using this:

http://www.timestored.com/kdb-guides/files/kdb-cheat-sheet.pdf

So then on to y ss/: which basically does a `strpos()` of each of our urls against the list we're scanning (i.e. the thing that looks like "http://url,http://otherurl". She then counts each (#:') result, takes the max again (|/). This means if ANY of those match, return `1b` otherwise return `0b`.
On Heroes
Cause then sitcoms would become basically soft porn.
It would have been a lot better if they'd broken superfish even if installed -- they're potentially leaving the least technically savvy people vulnerable.
Airbnb Is Raising a Round at a $20B Valuation
It's one of those things that I have had to exercise very rarely (as an EE working at software companies), but it has been put on the table as a non-negotiable a few times. Usually there's some kicking and screaming at first, often followed by respect.
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SEED: Our Philosophy (YC W15)
Wouldn't work for such a company if they doubled my salary. However have a friend with a degree from an elite school who went to one recently so I know people don't do it for lack of opportunity.

Ethical and soul crushing concerns aside I don't see how investors aren't concerned that some technical shift or filtering will render them with significantly less penetration.
Almighty Wikipedia: nootropics are "drugs, supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods that improve one or more aspects of mental function, such as working memory, motivation, and attention"

Potentially a very broad category, which absolutely includes, but is not limited to, stimulants (within a therapeutic dose range). Also, as you can see on the same Wikipedia page, there is an entire category of nootropic stimulants, including the widely used caffeine and nicotine.
Valve Censoring Torrent References in Steam Chat
So you made Plague for iOS?
Rom-halan ne ki'ne.
Because folks here don't like to hear non-PC opinions?
It wouldn't. They'd see Fx wasn't working, IE was, and assume Fx was broken:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngCIU7b5j-M
Are you saying it figured out there was less friction with snow in matter of few seconds? All the while it's mind was occupied by something it had in its claws? It could be a genius crow(there has to be variation in intelligence amongst crows too), we will never know. I thought it got irritated with that thin edge quite quickly(being not able to stand comfortably) and hence flew away to look for a thicker one.
Both are heavily under development for 3.0.0
It may not be especially problematic, but it is more problematic than if they were grabbing .google. It shows that the gTLD plan wasn't well considered. The more generic the TLD, the more there is going to be an expectation that it is open.
I agree. Dedicated tutorial authors of languages with advanced concepts such as Rust, Haskell, etc. really need to take a course or have a quick overview of technical writing. Steve does a pretty good job with Rust, I think. I wish Haskell had good tutorial authors like Steve. Haskell really needs better tutorial authors.

Are CS majors typically required to take a technical writing class like other engineering disciplines?
Although the medication you get may be counterfeit and either contaminated or not the actual chemical that you want.
> My personal theory is that the only advantage kids have over adults its lots of free time.

And is your "theory" informed by the research results in neuroscience, or is it just idle speculation?
Which part of it says leaving the DevOps Community?

This is more like leaving the world?
Spotify replacement on a Raspberry Pi with my own music
"Intriguingly, Cook argues that even in an age of digital money, which is inherently less private than cash, consumers’ private life can still be respected. His new payments system - Apple Pay - in particular has been designed to restrict the amount of information available to outsiders, he says."

Your data is private as long as we are ones keeping it secure. At this point, can we really trust any large company with our data?
> [From Uber's blog post] On September 17, 2014, we discovered that one of our databases could potentially have been accessed by a third party.

A charitable interpretation might be that they discovered a vulnerability in September, but didn't find the May breach until recently.
No info as to how this was exposed. Were they storing data as plain text?
You're right. But it's already known that the actual dress is "blue and black" as someone found it on amazon. It's essentially the picture that is creating the ambiguity.
I'm not defending them on this because that does seem to be a long enough time to be more proactive about it. You did bring up an interesting point though, Uber is facing opposition from almost every city they are in. Whether it's small town South Carolina where I'm from and even in some of the largest cities in the world. It would be interesting to see how people deal with this on the inside and how it affects the culture.
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> It shows that the gTLD plan wasn't well considered.

That ICANN's gTLD rollout, is, from concept to execution, a complete disaster is not a point I'm going to argue against.

The question I'm asking is that given that the ICANN gTLD rollout is happening, what is the basis for complaining about the way Google is behaving?
Most plastic surgery is not drug-based, so there is a lot less research that needs to be done on the molecular level to get it through. Much like nootropics, plastic surgery also has a use-case for "diseased" people: people born deformed or injured in accidents.

The big exception is Botox (aka botulinium toxin). Yes, the safety standards were a little lower in the 1960s, when it was being researched for therapeutic use. But also, botulinium toxin is very heavily researched because it is a useful molecular tool in other contexts, so we know quite well how it works, even though it is an extremely dangerous substance if used improperly. For many nootropics, we just don't know.

And if anything, the standards for something that is supposed to be operating on the brain are even higher than those applied to facial muscles, skin, etc.
It means rule of the whores and is a certain period in the catholic church.
Our society accepts violence and gore over sexuality in most circumstances. It's an attribute of a culture whose roots are fundamentally puritan and warlike.
when Kim annouced this on Twitter, the price of Bitcoin shot up $25 in about 5 minutes ;) Its pretty crazy that one tweet can have such a big effect on a large market like Bitcoin
I've been trying to come up with a common definition for language safety, and in scoring both C# and Clojure, Clojure came out a much more "safe by default" language.

It's incomplete, but here is where I'm gathering the data: https://github.com/steveshogren/blog-source/blob/master/sour...
I find it unlikely they have a database explicitly for driver names/license plates. Unless it was some flat-file dump compromised. I'm curious how much data was really obtained. If only 50k were truly stolen, it could be a shard too. The lack of technical details is sketchy to me
The colder oceans are notable natural CO2 absorbents, plus we have to mention the effects of life itself: photo-synthesizing plants and unicellular creatures. Like the historical ones that fixated enough carbon to create today's wast coal, oil and methane fields.

As I recall, there is a group of creatures that may did the first big wave of carbon fixation at the beginning of life, binding CO2 and releasing the important O2 that enabled the appearance of complex life forms, but I can't remember it's name.
Can a Stock-Trader-Turned-Convict Start a New Life?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum_obscurum

> Saeculum obscurum (Latin: the Dark Age) is a name given to a period in the history of the Papacy during the first half of the 10th century, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasting for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964. During this period, the Popes were influenced strongly by a powerful and corrupt aristocratic family, the Theophylacti, and their relatives.
You are a fucking moron. The report was leaked to these two Republican lawmakers and these Republican lawmakers said the WH authorized the leak so they could "undercut" the Snowden narrative.

You need to do some serious reading comprehension. Seriously, you're a fucking idiot.
> Now, having your house connected to both the grid and your personal backup makes jobs more dangerous for linemen -- already one of the top ten most dangerous jobs in the country. That was waved away with "well, if I were working on power lines, I would just assume they were always live anyway" by people who have never had an outdoors job, and whose entry-level salaries are where linemen top off at the end of a career.

Any home inverter that feeds power back to the utility is required by code to island itself when it detects a loss of utility power.

Also, I have a close friend who is a lineman, and has worked in every state between Illinois and New York. He says (over the beer we're having right now) that all lineman assume lines to be live, and they routinely perform service on hot lines without removing power.

Its not the newest fad we're after; we're excited by any prospect of the status quo shifting. History shows us technology getting cheaper and better at a constantly faster rate (I won't say exponential, but close enough). This is where the excitement comes from, perpetual destruction and creation with a higher quality of life the continual result.
Have We Drawn the Wrong Lessons from Epigenetics?
Uber really needs to have a public data retention policy stating that they anonymize or delete all data older than a couple weeks. I'm just waiting for them to be hacked and have to reveal that people's trip data for years has been released.
For some of my projects the build process is pretty complex and gulp provides true value. However, after thinking about it more you could alway standardize on build through package.json script and if gulp was needed you have package.json refer to the gulp build.
No black bar, I guess PG is a Star Wars fan.
I've been a Star Trek fan my entire life, since my dad first exposed me to TOS when I was maybe 5 or 6. When I was growing up I was the kid who dressed as Star Trek characters for middle school Halloween parties when everyone else was seemingly obsessed with Star Wars. I never understood it. I attribute that to one character: Spock. With his unshakable discipline and faith (ha!) in logic as the method to explore our problems ("Fascinating!"), I identified with him more than any other character - because he didn't fear the unknown. As the series and universe progressed, and Data in TNG seemed to fill that void I couldn't help but notice the subtle commentary. Spock, half human, seemed to desperately try to repress his humanity - and therein show us why being human is all the more important - Data, literally a machine, a pure logic system, sought to become more human.
There's a lesson in there somewhere. Maybe it's just a commentary on the cultural zeitgeist of the times of the two series, but for me it's simply to not fear the future or what's out there, even if there are bumps along the way. Spock is a deep, and lasting character that I'm sure will remain influential. House of Cards can wait, tonight. Plotting a course for Regula 1.
MPK is also a common abbreviation for Menlo Park.
I'm going to take the other side of this one. My starting point is the Super Bowl. During that game, advertisers spent $4M for one commercial. Are they fools? Or can they, in 30 or 60 seconds, make a $4M+ change in peoples' behavior?

I suspect that they know what they're doing. Because they are putting their money where their mouth is. I trust them more than I trust all those who say that all the sex and violence (hours and hours of it) doesn't matter, because it doesn't change anybody's behavior. Follow the money, trust the money. The money says what we see changes behavior. (Not everybody's, not 100%. But enough to matter.)

So I take the position that neither the sex nor the violence is good for us as a society. It causes actual changes in behavior.
I've only been on IRC for 4 years and I can't imagine life without it. For me, it's become one of those constants I can rely on that's just always there wherever I go.
I never worked on Adware, but I worked on a system called PrintMe, which enabled users to print to printers in Kinko's, airports, hotels, etc.

(I saw PrintMe as a logical next step after working on Cisco's internal CEPS printing system.)

PrintMe partnered with Adobe to add a PrintMe entry in the File menu of Acrobat. This was not received with universal applause. Typical disgruntled user:

https://grumpybear.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/remove-printme-i...

Nobody was openly malevolent towards users. There was earnest hope that busy business travellers, who otherwise wouldn't know about PrintMe, might use that menu entry once and become hooked.

We knew the product was very useful to a certain kind of traveller, but getting that person to notice and try the product was hard.
Thanks for that article, sounds like there are a lot of ideas from React (and probably similar sources) making their way into Angular 2.0. Can't wait to see what it looks like.
I accidentally stumbled upon employee admin screens, all by changing a key, isAdmin = true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9121004
That's true, and just call gulp from package.json :)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xbi7_leonard-nimoy-sings-...
I think ethical education is important, and is more of a first step rather than a complete solution. It's probably effective with most well-meaning professionals. But there are obvious conflicts... It's a problem when my health care conflicts with a doctor's profit motive. As an example, pharmaceutical sales is built around getting doctors to do borderline unethical behaviors like over-prescribing or prescribing ineffective medications.

Not directly on-topic, I read this about an hour ago... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Swango, an article about a doctor who was a mass murderer, and was eventually caught after killing something in the range of 30--60 people, and provides an interesting counter-point to the effectiveness of medical ethics. I admit that it's an edge case, the exception rather than the rule, but even ethics training and oversight isn't effective against a bad actor.
Show HN: Panda vs. Zombies-action, weirdness and references to gaming in the 90s
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The indirectness in silicon valley speak is grating.

Starting sentences with "So..." and ending with questions is annoying indeed.
Maybe they have query logging turned on and saw what queries the attacker ran?
While Android is technically open (AOSP), phones don't run just AOSP. Not even the Nexus ones.

Good luck selling a phone running "Android" if it doesn't support the Google Play Store and their other proprietary apps.

"Runs on Android" in an advert does not mean "Runs on AOSP".

More open than iOS? Sure. As open as Linux? HTTP? Don't make me laugh.
Ask HN: Have startups given up on solving diversity at technology companies?
Large companies who are affected by the problem of diversity in their workforce are sharing their numbers and everyone is talking about how bad the problem is.

Is it a problem that startups cannot solve or improve drastically? Is there anyone moving the needle in a significant way?

My question stems from my limited experience talking to diversity commentators and experts who all refer to research studies, but none to any real game changing solutions, in my narrow view.

what do you think of the problem? or have you've encountered startups addressing along any part of the funnel? (hiring, wages, performance reviews, career progression, leadership, etc)
How do we set the valuation for a seed round? (2008)
Congress needs to stop pissing in the wind and make a federal law on breach disclosure. Self evidently companies won't universally do this on their own, and state specific law makes compliance more difficult and expensive.
How do you explain the last decade of your graph?

The totals look to drop sharply by about 70%, but looking at the data, it was pretty consistent at about 1 million a year.

In general I have a problem with applying smooth curves to data derived from histograms.
Because it's answered with a web search. The Google "instant result" (or whatever the hell they're called) says:

"1. a large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite."
The TechCrunch article says "license plate numbers" but the Uber post[0] says "driver’s license number".

[0] http://blog.uber.com/2-27-15
Uber's in a position where they get flak for breaking the rules while also being painfully aware that following the rules is worse for them. They face opposition, but every time they play nice it doesn't go well for them.

The lesson here is that sometimes, you do much better by breaking all the rules.
No idea, but assuming it belongs to Russia, I'm sure they're okay with pictures that make the Soviet space program look good being shared.
The earth has sometimes been cooled by volcanoes putting stuff in the atmosphere and that could be simulated by pumping sulphur dioxide though whether its a good idea is dubious. Funnily enough the present man made warming may actually help keep the earth compatible with human habitation as there are arguments it may head in to another ice age otherwise.
Um, 5 days ago, in preparation for a vacation.

Again, theoretically.
Not all regions (see US GovCloud for example).
How in the world did you only get 8 points for that? I've upvoted yours. That seems almost as bad as the incident reported in this thread.
But the presence of a nuisance toolbar afterwards will be quite obvious.
You may be able to find what you want by digging through these benchmarks: http://openbenchmarking.org/results/featured/Compiler

It is kind of difficult to find benchmarks that were run on the same setup over time.
People are getting mad at Lenovo for making people's laptop vulnerable to MITM attacks. But what I don't get is why people are not even more mad that Lenovo is injecting ads on their private computers.

Since when is it a thing that some laptop brands would put advertisements on your softwares? How come people still buy Lenovo if they do that?
Well according to this article[1] this ups Y Combinator's portfolio value from $30 billion to at least $40 billion.

Pretty impressive.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3033215/most-innovative-companies...
Methane is indeed a stronger greenhouse gas, but it also has a much shorter 'lifespan' of 8-10 years.
Ask HN: What is your stack?
With the mean stack (http://mean.io) I realized the importance of those 4 factors to any web application developer workflow.

I personally am using the JVM as my platform, grails as my 'backend' framework, ember as my front end and postgres (or should I say hibernate?) in the database realm.

I feel like getting to know other devs stacks helped me realize what is really important for a modern web app development.

So what is your stack?
Yes, I've come to the conclusion that there is nothing to be done about this. We can't flip the table because we failed to foresee a loophole.

It's probably worth lobbying to change the rules for future gTLDs, though.
You forgot `ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE` on `htmlspecialchars`, it's perilous to use directly in every single place. But after embracing `short_open_tag` (or `<?=` is always available in 5.4+), foreach, `\PDO::FETCH_OBJ` and a helper function;

<?php foreach($row in $results) { ?>
<div><?=h($row->field)?></div>
<?php } ?>

Is it really longer/worse than the equivalent twig/smarty/handlebars ?
Does "original data" mean some sort of recording of an analog (think NTSC, etc) signal? Or is it sent digital?
Free has value and competitive edge. Especially when the costs involve educating your market.

The problem in your scenario is not that the word spread, but that the word that spread wasn't any good.
ive been using kdb+/q for over 5 years now - in a financial setting. I'd be happy to see the language go more "mainstream". There are definitely a lot of complaints about the terseness. There's no doubt, this adds to the steepness of the learning curve. But once you "see the light" you start realizing that you can do the same thing you do in perl or python in just 1 line in KDB. It makes more sense.
Genuinely curious: what possible non-PC answer is there? (Ignoring that the OP didn't realise craters could be caused by many things)
Any plan on working with Matchstick as well?
A gender neutral pronoun.

Saying "he/she" gets annoying after a while; using "he" (or "she") as the default pronoun carries unnecessary sexist connotations; using "they" as the pronoun when it already serves as the plural third-person pronoun just muddles the water.