skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all part of the experiment.

Given the only forcing function for distributions is tied to founder salary, there is no reason founders couldn't simply keep investing in, and growing their business, for years without ever making a distribution. And we'd be thrilled for that as an outcome.
The clintonemail.com web site is blank, but if you view source, you'll see that it does have some ad tracking enabled.

Also, if anyone wants to impersonate the current Sec of State... kerryemail.com is available.
Why is it there? It exists, and it works. Replacing big systems like this is incredibly difficult and expensive.

Personally, I think some of the old, expensive tech like ground based radar is a better solution than using GPS. End of the day, we're over-dependent on GPS, the system is very vulnerable to attack, and any disruption of it would global and catastrophic, while ground-based stuff is at least somewhat localized.

The MH370 case is a red herring IMO. Say we knew where that plane crashed. What does it mean? Everyone's dead in any case, and the details of precisely what happened doesn't necessarily offer a great deal of value.
Those were all-in. The $0 Air Canada one they actually called me and said that technically there was no contract of carriage because there was no money exchanged, but they let me have it anyway. And actually I remember now, it was $200 to Romania, and we ended up paying $230 more to get to turkey on a standard ticket. The Bucharest ticket was surely supposed to be $2000.
Oh yes, I've been waiting to do that with OpenGL for a looong time. As a matter of fact I preferred working with the ARB_vertex_program and ARB_fragment_program extensions; I even designed (but never fully implemented) a custom, Lisp inspired language that compiles into the ARB_???_program assembly.
Why Your Children’s Video Game Sucks: Minecraft
I've never intentionally added something that I used as a distraction from the rest of the work, but I have added requested features--that I thought were poor design--in a way that would be very easy to remove. Later, when the client finally agrees that it is a bad feature, it's no trouble to remove it.

I've also just hidden things that the client has asked removed if I thought they would eventually ask for it again, once they got to using the software. They usually do, and they think I'm a "genius" when I can make these "big" changes in such short periods of time.

Hell, I even tell them I'm going to do it. I'm always very forthright with my clients. But they never remember. They always think I do everything from scratch. I guess because their own developers do, they think we all work the same way.
Having used Angular in a couple of projects, I mostly agree with the OP. However, the "moving forward" part is somewhat tricky. The subject has been discussed over and over in HN, but still, I don't feel comfortable settling down with any of the alternatives. Being Google backed, was a strong point for us when we picked Angular in the first place. Now with the sudden turn of Angular 2.0, the big-corp-backed argument seems to have lost all of its strength. So I'm not considering it as a big plus for React. JSX also felt very unfamiliar on my first Hello World trials. Ember + Handlebars seems like a more natural move coming from Angular. Just to mention some of the most popular, but the proliferation of js frameworks is overwhelming. Any real-world experiences moving away from Angular?
One person's positive discrimination is another person's negative discrimination. Negative discrimination is seen by those its applied to as punishment. In their mind punishing someone for something that they had no hand in is a terrible technique to engineer a society and usually only leads to a backlash.

Further, it's easy to model what society should look like and how it should act by reducing it to mathematical models, but human behavior is not strictly dominated by mathematics.
I have a cardboard box with a decade's worth of personal e waste. I see articles like this and wonder if I would better serve the world by simply putting it in the dumpster. It would likely pollute our ground water locally, but perhaps that's better than being burned in Ghana? What do HNers do with their e waste?
Shameless plug for a (much longer and broader) thing I wrote on sort of the same subject:

http://convexfunction.com/blog/2015/01/11/cognitive-behavior...
Totally not need-based. A buddy and I just bought them and we decided to just make a weekend of it, went to a few good restaurants, saw a show.
Adaption to dysfunctional management structures and processes seems to be a mega-trend in IT: Agile, Micro-Services, HDD (hype driven development), ...
Are those images CGI or real?
I completely agree with you safety should never be compromised just for the sake of modernization however when it takes 40 years to upgrade you're doing it wrong.

There should be ways of introducing new tech and features while slowly fading out the old ones however you don't switch from one to the other until it has been reasonably field tested.

One problem is they went to a defense contractor to build software instead of a software company.

I'm sure their software is great in their spy airplanes where it will never see the light of day and you can cover it up if it fails majorly however I wouldn't want it in the air traffic control computer.
I don't know that, actually -- I'm sure that Tinder has said something along those lines at some point, but founders of companies saying that their company is going to move into some ultra-broad undefined space that they have little demonstrated competence in is not exactly rare.

But in any event, even if they were going to move into "social discovery of anything" as a technology company, it does not follow that the current Tindr app and accounts is going to be used for "social discovery of anything," because it is obviously absurd to imagine that people want to use a hook-up app for "social discovery of anything." There is no market for people who are like, "Hey, I want to find the perfect drapes for my living room remodel and also at the same time look for casual sex."
This is also great parenting advice. Give your kid the feeling of having chosen to eat their vegetables, and they'll devour an entire plate of them.
Nice feature or cunning conspiracy you be the judge.
Extremely educational, thanks.

I started using Node for some things where PHP feels inadequate (async network requests), and overall I'm happy with the speed, but after years of PHP it's been rough figuring out the right way to do objects. I don't need nearly this many requests, but I find it useful to internalize micro-optimizations to make your code a speed demon
It may not be successful, but I really think Pebble has the right idea with smartwatches.

I really hope that the smartwatch industry doesn't devolve into the monoculture that is the smartphone industry (well, technically a 2 platform culture, but Android and iOS are basically 2 sides of the same coin now. Neither one offers anything the other doesn't).
Google Backs Away from Default Lollipop Encryption
It's really not a wrapper around indexeddb at all. It doesn't even communicate with indexeddb except to save and load data for storage and that is optional. The main use here is for allowing web app developers to be able to load a dataset from a server and then query it dynamically on the client-side, as well as display that data automatically via data-binding.
Do you guys sponsors new H1Bs or is there any option for remote?
Might as well go to the source of Intelligence Amplification:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_amplification
Great work!

In newer versions of the V8 engine the global opt is not de-optimized.

Thanks for testing!
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> A computer allows you to amplify the power of your brain considerably by trading understanding for extreme speed of execution. This allows a person that is not well versed in math for instance to arrive at the correct answers for math problems either by trying a bunch of solutions in a row (called ‘brute forcing’) or by using the computer to figure out a rough approximation to the answer which then leads to the crucial insight required to get an exact answer.

Yes exactly. Which is why I consistently disagree with people who don't think that programming is a new kind of literacy...either they have an incredible faith that computers will continue to be better beholden to their computationally-ignorant users, or they just don't understand that programming (or "coding") does not mean, "Teach everyone how to deploy a Rails bootstrap app on Heroku".

Is traditional literacy -- reading and writing -- any more than an amplifier? It's possible to be able to communicate without reading or writing, but the ability to transcribe your thoughts in a durable format (even in this age of unlimited digital video) and to interpret the transcribings of others...that ability greatly amplifies your ability to communicate and interact with society.

Computers obviously are another such amplifier...so why shouldn't programming be seen as a worthwhile kind of literacy?
Similar game to 2048 that rocks: Just 11
Hi guys.

I've just found this interesting game, just 11, on the Play Store. Is something that came from Cirulli and 2048?

I found it addicting and i just want to know if Cirulli made it.

You can search for "Just 11" on Play Store (URL is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.tinygames.just11).
Quite true. Or they may be hesitant to be push too much. Or they might just mentally note to not come this way again. All feedbacks need not be verbal.
That's tough because purchasing is often difficult. It took me dozens of tries to get a flight booked to Cypress once, through 4 cities. I ended up deciding the onerous itinerary was not worth the nearly free ticket. That's common so you don't necessarily want to insert yourself into these transactions for people, it really wouldn't scale.
For what it's worth, the tradition wisdom is that flexbox is meant for widgets (e.g. the social icons in your sidebar), not for the main layout of your content.
Ohhh, I was confused because I know Node caches module objects, but I see the code in the V1 case is creating a new function each time it's used. Seems like it's not really a module issue per se though, just a general JS best practice.
Institutional discrimination is a thing, but segregation (either voluntarily or by force) only makes that problem worse, not better.
Don't think I've ever heard of it, will duly watch ;)
India rapist says victim was at fault for her own murder
So your claim here is that there is enough demand for housing in Berlin to produce tidy profits for landlords and a steady influx of new people for whom there are not enough jobs and so those people are unemployed?

That is:

1. Obviously not true.
2. Obviously not a good or sustainable thing if true.
Are you by any chance finding it impossible to upgrade your pledge to the Pebble Time Steel? Kickstarter is really crapping out on me today.
No, bikeshedding is something completely different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality

This is about how some managers feel they have to suggest a change, any change, to justify their position.

Bike shedding is excessive discussion in committees/group emails about trivial matters because everyone feels they understand the issue, unlike more complex issues up for discussion.
I don't get it. So the total transaction ended up taking as much time as if you had made a thinner slice, but you actually lie to the customer? You haven't trained the customer to stop asking for thinner slices, thereby speeding up the whole process, you've just maintained the outward appearance of the same, inefficient process, while also not really improving the internal efficiency. Why didn't you just start with a thicker slice, if you knew they'd always want thinner? That way, at least you wouldn't be dishonest.
Apparently, not directly funding a direct competitor is now seen as "evil".

We're really letting the definition of that word slip, yknow? It used to be you had to actually hurt people some way before that label could apply, now I'm seeing it applied to the layout of UI elements on a screen.
Zuckerberg – the unasked questions
This reminds of a papal election, where all the cardinals voted for one of the least likely candidates in order to see how the other's were voting. The candidate then won unanimously on the first vote

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XII#Fournier.27s_...
Ratings border on being useless to begin with, but out-of-ten? What's the difference between a 6 and a 7? I'm skeptical that anything finer than a 5 "star" system is meaningful without hard data to back it up, and even with that you have to divine whether it's calibrated to their best skill setting the 5 mark, or whether 5 represents best-in-the-field knowledge (so it'll almost never be used, so why not make it a four scale, but then what does the four mean...)

Ratings. Ugh.

Also, is it really normal for people to list something like "clean code" as a skill at all? Let alone one that can be rated out-of-ten? It seems like putting "contains no cyanide" on breakfast cereal.

(it does look very nice, though—I may, um, "borrow" some of that design)
It is similar to pouch yes, but is more mongo query friendly right now. Also ForerunnerDB includes data-binding which is a pretty useful thing for web app devs.
How the Pentagon plans to replace the password (with behavioral biometrics)
I haven't looked, but are each organization getting more or less slots than before?
Reminds me of this Koan:

Sen no Rikyu, a tea-master, wished to hang a flower basket on a column. he asked a carpenter to help him, directing the man to place it a little higher or lower, to the right or left, until he had found exactly the right spot. "That's the place," said Sen no Rikyu finally.

The carpenter, to test the master, marked the spot and then pretended he had forgotten. Was this the place? "Was this the place, perhaps?" the carpenter kept asking, pointing to various places on the column.

But so accurate was the tea-master's sense of proportion that it was not until the carpenter reached the identical spot again that its location was approved.

from here:
http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans
Oh yes I would downvote you too, don't you realize the effort that comes into crafting all this content that you qualify of spam? Many people have to come together and figure out ways of making seemingly non-intelligent beings click on things. This is in no way a small feat and I must say they are very good at it, almost Buzzfeed-level of perfection.
Do It Yourself Live Chat- the True Costs
remember, price != cost. pricing has many other influences.

Interesting conundrum however that the author discusses, that the gigaom link does not. At first glance this may appear that big consumers would be better off with their own hardware long term since they could theoretically follow the moore curve, but the missing piece is the cost of ownership AND cost of staying on the curve(since the curve keeps falling, you're continuously upgrading)

Next up is to build such that you can treat all cloud hosts as a commodity. Continuously monitoring pricing and loads and moving large amounts of instances from one provider to the next to optimize your costs.
'Sol' and 'Luna' are used as their names in common speech, every single day, in all Spanish speaking countries.
Bad managers maybe. A good manager's work is done when they don't have to do anything "hands on" and the product is great.
I think this is related to Chinese user data. Europe requires the same thing. European data must stay in Europe and European authorities must have access to that data. U.S. must not have access to, nor jurisdiction over that data. I think that's fair - it's basically a "You cannot spy on our citizens, but we can".

Of course, as people are becoming wise to these tactics, they're doing what they did with their money back in the day - sent it somewhere neutral that has strong privacy laws. Outside the jurisdiction of countries that will spy on them.
> On LinkedIn, I'd expect these guys to be old enough to know better in general, and even if not, old enough to know that doing this on a professional networking site is creepy.

How would they know this? Just because they're older doesn't mean someone has explained this to them.
> A patzer is somebody who lacks skill at chess. It's not a racist or sexist term.

My apologies, I didn't express myself correctly. I know what the term means. It's the self-deprecating nature of it that got me curious. Have you ever felt unsuitable as a chess player because of your sex or skin tone? I didn't really expect you to say so, but I thought the possibility might exist; that you have somehow been excluded from chess by those factors, which could have made you internalise the term "patzer".

Of course, my armchair internet psychonanalysis was completely wrong, which makes me glad, and I feel humbled by you. :-)
In this scenario, the "hairy arm" could also be considered a way of "thinking out of the box", of trying something that's totally outside how you normally create. Maybe the novelty inherent in that was attractive to the clients, if the work really was considered "bad" and not just different.
Speedify – Speed up everything you do online
Creating a roadmap to implementing agile
My experience with trying to get even small tech things approved by the FAA:
It will take at least a year and you will never know what stage you're at. Basically, once enough people have breathed on your request, it will be approved, assuming they can find absolutely nothing wrong. If they do, you get to start over.

If you build enough rapport with some of the workers there then they will actually respond to your emails in a relatively timely fashion, otherwise you'll be completely in the dark. Once every so often you find someone who actually responds quickly and does their job well. You guard that person's contact information and only give it to people you trust.

To be quite blunt, almost everyone you encounter intends to be a lifer at the FAA and knows that simply sticking around will almost guarantee them higher pay and a fairly decent retirement package. There is zero upside for them.
One of the famous tricks in ops consulting is to disconnect the knobs. Shift A likes this oven temperature, shift B likes that oven temperature, etc.
The problem is sweeping all the complexity (and power) under the rug in pursuit of "easy". Modern computing hides all the cool stuff. We should expose the difficult and powerful side, even if it's less easy.
Introducing Surge – The CDN for Front-End Developers
Why Sponsored Search Results in Google Play Are a Big Deal
A small repo with the files would be useful for other people to run the script.
I made one here https://github.com/AntouanK/node-modules-benchmark
( I removed the huge number of tests, I didn't want to wait more than a minute :D )

And maybe a way to get the results would help you see differences between machines and platforms.
I don't have a problem with the link or reading it myself.

I have a problem with 'Aw, c'mon, nobody has mentioned Aurora yet?'. What do you mean by 'Aw, c'mon'? That's an illiterate sentence. And why say 'nobody has mentioned it yet?' Why ask that question? Why not check for yourself if anyone has mentioned it yet?

What you probably meant was 'This may be related to the Aurora project [link]'.
Personally speaking, as the kind of white guy who, nine years ago or so, should have in theory been being negatively affected by programs like this, I don't find a meaningful dose of negative discrimination in "dudes are welcomed with hugs and handpounds pretty much everywhere, let's make sure there's a place for women too." I respect your stance and your viewpoint, but I think you're worrying about folks who don't need much worrying done on their behalf. We dudes will be just fine without being the implicit focus of every place we go.
> Pebble produced a decent product relatively on time

Their branding is great. Now whenever i see "time", it reminds me of the watch...
Metonym?
Product Design and SaaS Value: Distinguishing on Design
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was talking in a Mozilla-specific POV. Thanks for the link!
Imagine you are looking to buy an apartment. The units on the south side sell for $300K. The units on the north side sell for $200K. There is a unit on the north side with this light fixture in the living room for $265K. Also, imagine there is a unit on the south side that has great natural light in the living room, but has this fixture in the hallway. It sells for $365K.

In both cases the upgraded apartments would be very compelling even at $65K in additional cost.
The title of the video better conveys its subject than the one here (and IMO is more interesting): "Windows 10: Cortana Integration in Spartan"
If you enjoy Leverage, Hustle might also be up your alley: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379632/

That's where I got my fix after Leverages' somewhat premature demise.
9 Tips for Better Performing Typography on a Landing Page
Efficient Learning for Programmers
Yes, version 1 is using closures which creates a new function every time the function is called. I've seen this pattern in many places and even used it myself :)

-sorenso-
That sounds like web development. If I had a penny for every time we're asked for more zazz, pop, pow, shazam, zing, shizzle, pizazz, "something", cowbell...

I'd use them to bury the meddling fuckers who ask for this shit.
I like Octave. I'm a Mathematica user (sorry), but I've used Octave a bit and found it pretty nice :)
Is this "not invented here" syndrome again?

There are plenty of little towns and cities out there already. They were all programmed in non-portable assembly for obscure processors. Some even have a rudimentary OS written in C. And the startup in the article wants to scrap the entire code base, and rewrite the whole thing from scratch in Python, or Scala, or Clojure, or Brainfuck, or whatever closes the first round of funding this year.

Never mind that this has been done before, countless times. They're called "company towns". If the company did it well, they diversified their economies and still exist. If not, they failed, and were absorbed by natural communities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

-or in the extreme case-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_republic

I can't quite tell if Silicon Valley has already jumped the shark, or if they are still seeking funding to build the ramp.
To be convincing they need a fake room where the camera can pull backwards and you can see there is no way the sun is real.
> computer scientist with a love of sensors, tracking, quantified self and the like.

Have you considered a career path in project consulting? You might imagine that there are senior execs working in all of the areas you mentioned-- that could use your help with short-term projects lasting 3-to-12 months. The duration and variety might appeal to your particular strengths and personality.

The challenge for you now is finding agreeable clients, with interesting challenges, who will pay your fee. On this subject, Alan Weiss is masterful > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142757.How_to_Acquire_Cli...
Will Electric Unicycle Work in India?
re 2.: sure? And did you try it with the new Google Mobile Freindly Test too?