skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's true and I do know that, but the reason I bought a Nexus device and not the better Galaxy was vanilla android. I'd rather stay away from a ROM.

Although Google is getting on my nerves lately so I've been thinking of switching anyway.
A Satellite Exploded in Orbit and No One's Quite Sure Why Yet
My social group mainly involves other physics graduate students. I however don't fit with them usually, so I started going to instagram meetups. It seems like people with a passing interest in photography are much more diverse than the types that go to graduate school in physics.
Makes no sense, SpaceX has been profitable almost every year they've been in business. Musk & Jurvetson are on record multiple times of SpaceX's profitability and how the aerospace industry is uniquely structured that way.

Edit: The article doesn't even mention any rep from SpaceX saying they're profitable. This SEEMS like a guesstimate by the writer
Awesome article! That's a very interesting subject.. And it reminds me Jekyll a little bit- but with UI :O
> even with those fancy 6 figure salaries...

And I hate to break to it you Google and Facebook employees, but your salary ain't that great when you factor in cost-of-living. There are many, many thousands of devs across America making much more than you once you account for cost-of-living (and you should).

But between the proven wage suppression, ageism, and now this passing meme that somehow making $100,000 in the most expensive place to live in the U.S. makes you part of the global elite, I have little hope that you all will wake up and demand fair compensation.
The 5 secrets of great WATCH apps
From the FAQ [1]: "While Googlers were closely involved in originating PubSubHubbub, its strengths in RSS and content syndication generally are not use cases that Cloud Pub/Sub is designed to address. Aside from the name, they have very little in common."

[1] https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/faq#pubsubhubbub
They're sure trying. Right now, they're struggling to turn off OpenSSL's "dynamic engine", which allows loading and unloading new crypto engines while OpenSSL is running. In case someone hot-plugs a USB crypto device, perhaps?

There stuff in there that 0.001% of users want. It creates a risk for everyone else.
There's a long history here. An abridged and slightly biased / not complete story follows.

In the beginning, Rust had only green threads. This was because concurrency was deemed important, and everybody knows green threads are where it's at. (totally not sarcasm. Totally.)

Eventually, it was decided that a systems language without systems threads is... strange. So we needed to add them. Why not add choice? Since the interfaces could be the same, why not abstract over them, and you could just choose which one you wanted?

At the same time, the problems with green threads by default were becoming issues. Segmented stacks cause slow C interop. You need a runtime to manage them, etc.

Furthermore, the overall abstraction was causing an unacceptable cost. The green threads weren't very green. Plus, with the need to actually release someday looming, decisions needed to be made regarding tradeoffs. And since Rust is supposed to be a systems language, having 1:1 threads and basically no runtime makes more sense than N:M threads and a runtime. So libgreen was removed, the interface was re-done to be 1:1 thread centric, and Servo got mad. That's another story.

That doesn't mean that green threads are evil. Remember, I/O isn't a language thing, really, it's a library thing, in a language as low-level as Rust. In fact, that's one of the reasons green threads could be removed: libraries like mio could provide the benefits, without the problems that were being caused. Servo might also write a green threading library, with a different set of tradeoffs from mio's implementation.

Anyway, this is my pre-coffee explanation of the history. I'm being a bit silly, so please don't read into any particular bit of language here, that's just the high-level story.
2 Year Old Swimmer.  Future Olympian?
Can anyone see this?
As to #3, quoting from the article, as of 2009 (emphasis mine):

> agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record-keeping system.

How did they ensure this? As a few news stories, including the linked article, have reported, they would have been immune from FOIA requests.

Here's another from http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/hillary-clinton-used-p...

> The fact that Clinton’s emails were not a part of official State Department records until recently means many of them would not have been located in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, subpoenas or other document searches conducted over the past six years
Having code on their servers isn't a big deal.. it's just I don't want them to checkout from my repo. (Like having to provide credentials, etc)
Well, it's one of the original stunt maps in Trackmania, but it also literally means "childhood trauma".
Migrating VMs from EC2 to Google Compute Engine
ESCORT TOURS DINA – Golden Diamond Escort
Any chance of stopping the automator workflow menu icon from popping up every 5 seconds?
I don't think Her was in the headline at the time. I think it was just something a la "Clinton ran email server from home" or something.
How Silicon Valley Shapes Our Future
Let's build it.

In BrainFuck.
You don't need a custom ROM. There's an Xposed plugin to do it. One of the first things I installed on my Moto X (2013)!
ah now that it's been publically announced people might find the mode module I wrote for it useful

https://www.npmjs.com/package/cloud-pubsub
Looks very useful, before I buy, two questions:

1. Do you support any keyboard combinations to add or view notes while a folder or document has focus?

2. Are the notes stored on disk or in a cloud account somewhere?
For what it's worth, releasing something and finding little or no adoption of the product is often where the interesting learning begins.

I can't tell you whether or not it's worth pursuing, but I know that in my own experience it was. Our team spent almost a year building and launching a product that we ultimately shut down. We could have stopped and gone back to our day jobs, but the silver lining is that the core technology became the foundation for our current (seemingly unrelated) company.

While the now-forgotten product we launched was a failure, pushing past that resulted in a product that has been far more successful (funding, product-market fit, etc). There's no guarantee you'll pivot into success, but there's zero chance you will succeed if you stop iterating.
To make themselves feel better about working 120 hrs a week in front of a screen?
My kids got their self-image from their parent's support. Grades were just a number, seen once each term, that reflected what their teacher thought. Almost unrelated to their actual learning.
If you want eventually widespread adoption, the foundation of the currency cannot be illegal. This isn't even a case of questionable morality, there's some really obviously huge illegal transactions going through on Bitcoin.

If you're really so blind that you can't see why this is very bad news for widespread adoption of Bitcoin, you need to take a step back and see things more objectively.
no dont add a contextless note mode. im just thinking that i will forget where i had notes..
I'm in DTLA, everyone is in fashion, film, photography, or works in the service industry attempting to get into the former. I can count on one hand how many devs I know in my neighborhood. I am surrounded by way more lawyers.

But that is okay, and I actually prefer it. Else my life would be completely monotone.
The up button at the bottom of the page leads to 404. http://gethooksapp.com/app_landing_new/#intro

Also your Press Kit is 404.
That Will définitively motivate me to get to write sometjrjk f
Or the Nexus 4 bug where notifications wouldn't be seen when the phone went to sleep when wi-fi was enabled. 4.4.4 fixed it, but the fix was a really long time coming. If you were rooted, it was a one-line fix to some config file.
I'm very curious about the middle part of this spectrum, since I'm currently in it: I'm an early employee with a significant chunk of options (high single-digit %), and the company is profitable and valued at (to my understanding) somewhere well over 10x the total amount of funding we took (I've heard talk of 40-50x). Management is explicitly not looking for an exit: they just want to keep building this company for the long term. My salary started on the low side for my career, but was reasonable, and it has slowly ratcheted up over time to the point where I think it's certainly fair but I could be making more elsewhere. On the whole, it feels like I have a large chunk of (potential) ownership in something very successful.

My question is: how does this actually benefit me in the big picture? I'm approaching the 10 year date when my options agreement is going to EXPIRE, and it's still unclear to me whether I should exercise them, because as far as I can tell, they're just very expensive (when you consider the tax implications) paper. What's the endgame for this success story putting cash in my pocket? Profit-sharing? Other than the usual big-bang exits you read about, I have no clue.
The most dramatic setting in which "The Thing" is traditionally watched:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/04.13/01-winterover.htm...

"Shortly after the last plane leaves, the winter-overs gather in the main dining room, the Galley, for a showing of the science fiction movie "The Thing," about an alien that attacks researchers in an isolated Antarctic base. "

The winter personnel are physically isolated from the rest of the world between mid-February and late October.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%E2%80%93Scott_South_Po...
It's called a "liquidation preference". http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liquidation-preference.a...

The mechanics & technicalities are beyond me, but the consequence is as described above.
Groovy Projects Intends to Join the Apache Software Foundation
It's red flag. I asked the same question of one startup and was told that i didn't need to know the answer.

Fast forward 10 years ... The company tried to go public and they had to do a 5760 to 1 REVERSE split to shore up their share price. People who naively thought they had 100k shares ended up w less than 20. Thecompany had to cancel the planned ipo, too.
> Are your notes saved in any sort of exportable format?

This is a critical feature, and one many note and todo apps forget. Silos of information is A Bad Thing [TM]

Being able to gather notes distributed among objects into a single text file makes this app easily twice as useful (on top of an already great idea).
I’d suggest Firebase for scenarios that need real-time notification all way to a device, app, or browser.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub is better aligned to server-to-server messaging, similar to other Cloud queuing services, service buses, event logs, or open-source systems such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
Well SF is clearly saturated with people working in the tech industry. As we're seeing more and more on HN, there's a huge amount of people in the tech industry who are in it for reasons that do not include a passion for technology, writing code or developing things.

So you've a huge amount of people fairly dissatisfied with what they're doing 40+ hours a week, in an area full of similar people, and who have the disposable income and time to look for more in life outside of those 40+ hours.

So it's not surprising more cultural/outdoor/etc. things are flooded with people from the tech industry in SF, I suppose, where elsewhere they would be both less people in the industry and those that are would be slightly better geographically dispersed.
I think you're right. Here's the old one http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEM_2016_CLINTON_E... and the newer one http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEM_2016_CLINTON_E...
What don't you like about Samza out of interest? Something fundamental with their model or more implementation related?
I always like Carpenter's They Live. Who knew Roddy Piper could act? Or at least sort of act.
I'm latching, probably unfairly, to the comment about "market saturation". I give OP +1 for conviction, and -1 for lack of validation.
ARM9/ARM11 were replaced by the Cortex-A series cores (contain an MMU, external RAM required, runs full OSes like Linux or WinCE)
Yes execution is important. But failing to discuss a problem does not improve execution, surely it is always the first step.

So where would the right audience be? If perhaps there were some corner of the web where technologist, scientist and innovators gather (albeit mixed with plenty of crackpots). A place so influential that it is flooded by astro-turf when subjects involving large industries come up and so ugly that ordinary people are afraid of it. Maybe there.

>Yeah, telling HN readers that we should spend more on science and technology is really attacking the status quo.

Well I also denigrated a tech billionaire, criticized space-x, called for higher taxes and said this site was ugly. On HN that's not a gadfly as so much an invitation to be lynched.
Transactions not having to propagate across the network a second time in blocks is certainly nice, but that doesn't solve all the problems of large blocks. As you said, that proposal is focused on maintaining an incentive for miners to create large blocks without having to worry about orphan races.

All full nodes still need to process everyone else's transactions, so bandwidth requirements are still hefty, just not squared. Even if someone's home connection can theoretically maintain 45k tx/s, how many of those generous full node maintainers out there will be excited about the prospect of their Bitcoin node using their entire internet connection? Storage requirements will also still be fairly intensive, even if nodes prune everything but the UTXO set (that needs to be stored in RAM--although that can change--it's a half gig).

Not to mention that proposal can create problems where miners withhold transactions from other miners so they can build secret chains that other miners can't build on until they have see the withheld transactions.

All that aside, your comment still ignores the reality of the situation. The Bitcoin network has been bleeding nodes for ages, and has settled around 6500-7000, probably a little more[1]. What that says to me is that even if Gavin's 20MB block proposal works for him on paper and on his VPS, the reality is that we can barely maintain a healthy node landscape with the current stresses of the network. Upping it to 20MB will likely cause a "shedding" and we will come to the new normal, so on and so forth, until we increase the block size so much that we end up with only a handful of nodes.

This is all assuming the network continues grows to those needs, which I found doubtful.

[1]http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/
Some of this you've already heard in other posts, but since I'm figure you're hungrily looking at all these posts to help yourself out, I'll give some bulleted advice at the risk of repeating:

1) Get an editor. You may be a great coder, but you're not the best copywriter. Neither am I. So I don't write my own product copy. It will do wonders for your product's image.

2) Video / screencast / visually show me the product without having to sign up for Beta. I'm busy and words take too long to read.

3) This might be nit-picky, but the name really puts me off. It's the Z, man, it hurts.

4) Does your software solve a problem? If so, can you explain the problem to me in two sentences? I still don't understand as I don't use Slack, even though I know what it is.

Best of luck to you. I hope to hear about your acqui-hire or buyout soon enough.
For his first point "You cannot be cheap and secured by proof-of-work at the same time".

The US dollar used to be part of a much more expensive "proof-of-work", the gold standard. In order to create dollars, someone had to buy expensive mining equipment and spend a ton of time and money physically digging gold out of the ground, melting it, and keeping it safe. Seemed to work out well for a pretty long time.
Glad you're enjoying Open Torque Viewer.

It's my creation. :)
Nokia and NTT DoCoMo Reach 2Gbps Speeds in 5G Trial: MWC 2015
“It’s like somebody trying to send an email to somebody … they don’t know”
Speeding Plant Growth to Feed the World
Please do -- I've been reading the linkedin/confluent/samza writeups and thinking there's a lot of truth to their ideas. It'd be great to hear more on-the-ground experience from a different perspective.
> But in the past few weeks it's become readily apparent that Android 5.0 is beta software. It just has too many major issues like the one in OP. For me, the most major issue is the memory leak that causes the entire home screen to be knocked out of memory. Usually a few times a week the leak is so bad that the currently running app will be closed down while it's in the foreground!

This is why after a T-Mobile G2, a Nexus One, a Galaxy Nexus, a Nexus 4, and a Nexus 5 I finally moved to an iPhone 5s. I refuse to spend any more of my life dealing with a terrible product.
For what it's worth, I just recently upgraded from Nexus 5 to Nexus 6 and I have had absolutely no problems with the device, especially with call volume. Literally everything is a step up.

I wouldn't let this sour you entirely, if your device has a problem, return it for a new one. I had an issue with my Play-store-purchased Nexus 4's earphone jack, prolly my fault, Google replaced it within a few days, paid for shipping and everything.

There are a lot of business decisions that go into applying resources to problems, and we can't all assume we know those business decisions and the circumstances that are involved with making them. This could be a very small but vocal segment of the nexus 6 user-base, if it is a small problem, it should be treated as small priority.

Personally, as a type-1 diabetic, it sucks seeing research done specifically for type-2 diabetes, but, unfortunately there are less of us, so it's seen as a lower priority.
I would reckon this depends a lot on your neighborhood in New York, and just how you choose to live. I know several neighbors.
This is one reason I joined a philanthropic group (like the Elks, Rotary, etc). Membership tends to be very diverse, both in age and in occupation.
$4.99 is an easy impulse buy for any productivity geek with a Mac. The only reason I haven't made the purchase is that I'm still living in the dark ages with Mountain Lion. I'll echo what others have said and suggest pricing this higher, right up there with Alfred and similar apps.

A couple of questions. Where is the data stored? Is it possible to retrieve or migrate data to a new Mac or new install?
That's true, but I meant that if a lot of your interviews seem to go poorly you should keep an open mind about things and consider your process as well as the candidates you're choosing to interview.
I realize this has probably been asked, but anyone recommend good resources for learning C? And not necessarily just the legendary textbooks, but any clever tutorials or fun learning resources? Thanks!
Yes, you are right. BTW, the use cases are different, but both are using the same core infrastructure that is widely used within Google, which is proven to be scalable and robust :)
Cool, I started using this an hour before seeing this. It really is a good library, doesn't mess with the String prototype like some others.
Me too, and I'm conflicted about it. I'm well aware that I'm bringing my own preconceptions to the situation, but I continually find it harder to engage people outside of technology.

People outside of tech may be more diverse in appearance, but in perspectives, interests and awareness, people working in technology (in my social sphere) tend to be less conformist and more open minded. This may simply be a regression to the mean - but if it is, it's still supporting my conception.
> Nobody batted an eye at a 6 year old kid walking into a store to return some bottles so he could buy a lolipop.

Bah! My grandpa was sending me to buy cigarettes for him when I was in primary school.
When I play softball is what feels like the only time I meet someone who isn't a programmer here. I briefly took swing dancing lessons with my SO and it was 90% programmers, maybe more.
Anyone know if they're only talking about search queries, or should stenographers start retooling? http://plover.stenoknight.com developer and stenographer Mirabai Knight in 2012 said real-time transcription was far off:

Are you worried that it's going to supplant my
99.67% accuracy rating in another two years?
Or ten years? Or 20? And that's just talking about
the technical accuracy; I haven't even begun to
get into the semantic accuracy.

The Bloomberg article says speech recognition in the lab already applies semantic context to improve accuracy. The article also says 75% percent accuracy from 2012 is up to 92% today, and that we can expect super-human speech recognition online before 2017.
>Btw we are working class too, even with those fancy 6 figure salaries...

No, we're not. We're the down trodden, continually squeezed middle or upper middle class depending on the cost of living where you are.
I think the interesting question here is to what extent are the personnel responsible for building this comm infrastructure kidnapped/enslaved/coerced versus being there mostly voluntarily. There's some merit to the argument that it's much riskier and probably more expensive for the cartels to kidnap and hold these people than to pay them enough to work voluntarily. The main argument against that is how many people have disappeared with no contact with their families, and that the families aren't getting any money. But then, we don't know where these people are, what they're doing, and what degree, if any, of coercion is being applied.

The wild card is the Governments' unwillingness to even acknowledge the problem. That suggests that it embarrasses them. What's more embarrassing to the government, though? That the cartels might be powerful enough to kidnap people at will all over their country? Doesn't sound particularly newsworthy or worthy of suppression, considering what else is going on there. How about the extent to which upper-middle class educated people are willingly working with the cartels to build high-end infrastructure? I could see that being very embarrassing indeed. It makes it seem like the cartels are inching closer to being the legitimate government of major parts of the country. That sounds much more like something worth denying and suppressing. I have no idea if there's any truth to it, but the motives seem to line up in that direction.
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It's also using some manual clone instead of Cargo overrides, and manually running rather than `cargo run`... time for some PRs, I guess!

EDIT: further, looks like it's on a really old Rust: https://github.com/kanaka/rust-pcre wasn't updated since October...

EDIT 2: I tried to update the code, but it's really, really out of date, and will be a ton of work. So I've just submitted https://github.com/kanaka/mal/pull/23 instead. :(
Multithreading is documented as enterprise only. Whether it helps throughput depends on your app's workload. If your app spends a lot of time waiting on IO, such as the database or external HTTP API calls, then yes it will likely improve throughput. Otherwise it won't improve throughput, though it can reduce memory usage.
That's why I said I admit it sounds fishy. I'd never make the claim that I'm not a weirdo :)
> What do you mean by your last sentence?

From a programming model perspective. Granted pure performance is higher. The programming model though of a 'large' address space, modest memory protections (not remamping but some execution protection etc, a simple 'user' and 'kernel' mode, and modest I/O channel bandwidth.