skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Isnt this the free market at work? Allowing the people who work the hardest for it (of course this always the case, but you get my point), to choose their place of residence.
Tomorrow there will be a study that says coffee is poison, and the next day it will be a miracle cure. It's difficult to take these arguments seriously when they're countered almost daily.

Life is about taking calculated risks. I prefer the moderation route.
one good metric: minimum wage used to be 40% higher http://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-minimum-wage-falls-e...
If you're going to be monkeying with DNS, then you should take it to the IETF.

A problem we all have right now is that of authenticating to wifi. Many wifi spots use ad-hoc solutions that work poorly on many systems. I feel there is a legitimate reason for a wifi spot to direct me to its homepage when I associate with it, but the way that's done is not in the RFCs, so may wifi spots don't work for my devices.
In case anyone was wondering what "high" means -

https://www.openssl.org/about/secpolicy.html

high severity issues. This includes issues affecting common configurations which are also likely to be exploitable. Examples include a server DoS, a significant leak of server memory, and remote code execution. These issues will be kept private and will trigger a new release of all supported versions. We will attempt to keep the time these issues are private to a minimum; our aim would be no longer than a month where this is something under our control, and significantly quicker if there is a significant risk or we are aware the issue is being exploited.
I assume there will be no clear definition of where the API begins and where it ends when this happens. The various systems which employ humans will probably be mixture of AI and humans working together through multiple interfaces.
Aside:

I'm a biomedical engineer by way of Hopkins and would love to be able to ask you questions about medical device development.

If this is something you'd be interested in, what's the best way to reach you? Conversely, my contact info is in my profile description.
Alan Adler is an amazing human being. I had the great pleasure of interviewing him last year. If anyone is interested, this covers his life's work:

http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-aeropress/
yeah, error-diffusion dithering is a non-starter for animations. gotta use either pattern or ordered/bayes to eliminate jitter and compress well.
>without adding much to human progress and development

I am opposed to vehicles being the priority, but their prevalence is directly related to their usefulness within the economic regions they occur in. If you ever go to the developing world, you will see vehicles used to grow and maintain society. It is easy to forget, living in the suburbs as i do, that most of the world does not joy ride over-produced SUVs.

The ability to move freely is a magical thing. Living in a place with bad roads is a reality to itself that i think every westerner should experience. The problem is what we use to take advantage of the roads.

Roads are society's rivers.
I believe SF is ahead of many cities in not requiring their developers to build excessive parking. Cutting parking requirements in buildings is one of the easiest things a city can do to make building construction cheaper and lower housing costs.
You don't have to necessarily give up tea because you've given up caffeine. There are lots of no-caffeine teas out there (many of which are quite good).

I've (largely) given up caffeine as well, but I still enjoy a warm cup of tea in the morning, especially in winter. :)
This might be interesting for something like Drupal, where you don't always have control of the queries being generated.
As noted by others here, it discourages maintenance and property improvements to rent control units. The landlord has an incentive to create a terrible living situation to get the tenant to move out.

An enforcement in issue. In NYC the laws are actually aggressively pro-tenant on the issue of deliberate neglect; if you don't keep the basic services working (or keep the building reasonably free of infestations, for example), the tenant can use that to delay any attempted eviction processes (justified or otherwise) quite substantially. The smarter landlords in NYC all know this, and hence generally resort to buy-outs as a tool for vacating tenants. Overt harassment-by-neglect does happen, but is quite rare.

It also reduces tenant mobility.

To some extent, it reduces mobility within the local market (and this effect can be quite significant, in some markets). But in an unregulated environment, a great many of these people simply would not be able to continue renting in the local market, at all. So it's a tradeoff, basically.

Rent control also directly causes Ellis Act evictions, IMO.

A non-sequitur; there's no reason one needs to have something like the Ellis Act in order to have rent control. NYC's market (famously) does not, for example; and profit-driven conversions of the sort you mention are generally illegal, and easily blocked in landlord-tenant court.

In other words, the Ellis Act causes Ellis Act evictions; not "rent control."
It was partly voted to skip the number 6 due to the numerous books available for sale that covered the original PHP 6 draft. This would cause confusion for people attempting to learn the new specification.

Examples on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

The vote: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6
Anyway to see how much of the company is still in the hands of founders?
Most rapes are actually premeditated (which makes a lot of sense since most victims are raped by people they know). [0]

Looks like the comment this was in response to was deleted.

[0] - http://www.movingtoendsexualassault.org/myth.html
"No One Cares How Hard You Worked"

I'm glad you think your manager is a good guy and that you like him. I might like him too. My first reaction to your question was, "The gold badge might be worth the paper it's printed on" -- not too far from your manager's coffee comment.

But that little exchange between you and your manager betrayed a lot. I suspect your manager is thinking about what results you deliver, but you're thinking more about the effort you've put in. The problem is that nobody cares how much effort you put in. Mostly they're looking for results, and results are what drive economic value.

This is not to say that posting to StackOverflow is worthless. It's not. (I'm a participant there too.) But its value is what you get out of that activity: what you've learned, the practice you get, and yes, the motivation you get for scoring points and getting badges. Isn't getting a gold badge an accomplishment? Not to anyone outside of SO. It's mainly evidence of time and effort you've put in, but it says little about how much you have or could accomplish if someone were to hire you.

Do a web search for the phrase "no one cares how hard you worked." You'll get some articles on this theme. One is [1]. Ok, this is about photography, but the point is relevant: someone likes a photograph or they don't. It doesn't matter that you put a lot of work into it, they still might not like it. Or [2]. See point #4, but also #3 and #7. Economic value comes from the results you deliver, not the effort you put in.

[1] http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photogra...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michaelprice/10-lies-we-tell-o...
PHP6 was supposed to be this all-singing all-dancing Unicode support release. It dragged on for years but didn't get finished due to various issues, and in 2008 they decided to just scrap it and roll what they could salvage into 5.3

Since PHP6 died, it made sense to avoid confusion and not name the new major version 6, since we'd then have two different PHP 6es.

This is not unlike what happened with ECMAScript 4.
This looks interesting. Too bad the sample chapter doesn't show any code or examples of what to expect from the book.

Having a chapter titled JSX makes me believe React is used to actually render the HTML rather than D3. Is this assumption correct?
Blue Coat Flips to Bain Capital
Oh, is this from the ghostscript people?
You get my vote for the greatest comment ever written.
Connected Home Products Need to Shift from Nerds to Normals
At Osper we use an electronic Niko Niko[1] board to track daily mood. I find it helpful for uncovering issues in the company early though of course it isn't the only source.

[1] http://agiletrail.com/2011/09/12/how-to-track-the-teams-mood...
Not only is it unethical and unreliable, you remove any hesitation from opposing countries from doing the exact same thing, if slightly worse. Its called increasing the stakes and is one reason why there are international laws against it.
Implementing a Clojure Threading Refactoring in ClojureScript Using Light Table
That's not what I was referring to. Yes, technically videos are superior, no doubt. The nice thing about GIFs is though that they are treated like images by the browser and the OS. That makes them easier to handle by non-technical users (think imgur, Tumblr, etc.).
This Fast-Food-Loving, Organics-Hating Prof Will Trick You into Eating Better
[Full disclosure, I'm a current employee at URX]
We had actually briefly discussed potentially using DNS to help resolve the linkage between a given host/domain and its corresponding mobile apps. However, the problem lies in that we need to discover the linkage from HTTP URL => deeplink URI, which means we need page-level mappings, something that can't exactly be done with TXT records at the domain-level alone.

Android has IMO done a good job of supporting deeplinks to some apps "just work" by allowing apps to handle HTTP URLs with specific host + path patterns (though it is noteworthy that this can lead to security problems!), but iOS does not support this same functionality.

I do, however, agree with the author in that a more seamless integration pattern that can use existing infrastructure would be ideal, but it seems that for now, the pattern of using metadata, HEAD requests, or Link headers in responses is as good as it gets.
Why would a front-end developer on OS X use any editor besides BBEdit?
I have tried Sublime and Atom, BBEdit is better. Atom is slow and Sublime hard to grep and multi-file search/replace.
Nice. I enjoyed watching it with 500x5 canvas size :)
Startup Stock Photos. Free. Make Something
BTW, I think that the author (or Alan Adler) has the invention date of the AeroPress wrong. I copied the date 1994 from the article, but I think it should be 2004 of 2005. (And the Aerobie ring was invented around 1984.)

Otherwise the period between invention and mass production and sales is over a decade. I remembered that I ordered a box directly at Aerobie in the USA in 2006 because the AeroPress was not yet for sale in The Netherlands.
Joe:

http://www.warplife.com/mdc/resume/

mdcrawford@gmail.com
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clegoues/docs/legoues-icse09.pdf "Automatically Finding Patches Using Genetic Programming ... We introduce a fully automated method for locating and repairing bugs in software"
http://dijkstra.cs.virginia.edu/genprog/

Though I think the author was talking more about coding up a neural net, where it can be said that the net learns the features itself, and optimizes a loss function, without much reliance on a superviser.
Who does the PR for these people? It's astounding! This keeps showing up on news sites all the time. The Aeropress has been around for years, and while I use one, I definitely wouldn't use any superlative to describe it. Please, PR agency, how can keep pawning this off as news? And how can I hire you?

As for everyone else: if it looks like and ad and smells like an ad, for the love of all that is holy, don't post it.
http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/

Minimum parking laws are the most important of many command-and-control policies and mandates that created the car-oriented American city. More than minimum setbacks, minimum lot sizes, FAR limits, single use zoning, ploughing heavily subsidized freeways through cities, and the rest, parking policy is why American cities have decayed.

Returning to free markets would let American cities be great again.

As for restaurant parking minima, they're usually based on inside area and sometimes on seating. There are minima for offices, factories, schools, homes, ana every land use in most cities.
This is very useful for batch or cleanup jobs.

For example, imagine a system where items are soft-deleted immediately upon user action, but not actually deleted for a few days to facilitate restoration (recycle bin).

There is going to be some nightly/hourly/scheduled job that actually really deletes these records. Initially it will have little work to do, but over time as the system grows it may become slow. Typically this would be hard to separate from other slow queries, you would have to catch it running while causing other queries to pile up. Query time isn't necessarily useful here as you may have enough I/O to cover the slow query replacing pages in the cache, but that I/O would be better serving user facing requests instead of this cleanup job.

This feature allows for the "work" it really takes to serve the query to cause it to error, instead of time which may grind down for other reasons. At this point you know its time to re-think the soft-deletion strategy, you disable the job. Maybe you sweep more frequently? Maybe you keep a look-aside of things to sweep to avoid scans? Maybe you sweep during a low-traffic time? Whatever. It buys you time to think.

I wish there were something comparable for MySQL.
Well I ask because reserved instances can significantly reduce the price of ec2 (up to something like 75%). Also just turning off idle instances can save a ton. If you invest the time in doing those things I think you can beat other options and so in that way, cloud infrastructure can be very economical.

It is like many other things involved in running a technology company. Investing in automation can pay off hugely.

The newer instance types are very reliable too (in my experience).
Is this for inventory based sites inky or would it work for digital products too?
Paradise Lost: How Moreover Won and Lost the Real-Time Web
By taking $367m at $11b valuation, they have given away ~ 3.33% in this round. You may work backwards for previous rounds.

For initial rounds with no public valuation info, you may assume 25% of the company was given away in each round.
Ok, now I see the problem the author is trying to solve. Thanks for clearing that up.

I think from an HTTP perspective, the right way to solve this is to use vendor specific content types and have the OS resolve whether to open it in an app or not.

So when a link is clicked on in a browser, you use the request's Accept header to indicate which apps are installed on the device (and have registered a custom content-type). The server then can respond with a custom content type and let the OS dispatch the response to the appropriate app.

For app to app links, the OS could just perform an HTTP HEAD to see which app to dispatch to.
Cut with a top shelf rum to counteract this condition. Mt Gay Black Barrel, Goslings, or Zaya to suggest a few.
I think all thats needed is a shared settings storage between a website and an app. (This is only between a domain and an appId. ie.. google.com should have access to the space of Google search app. maps.google.com should have access to Google Maps app)

For example, the cases that can arise are :

1) User does not have app installed.

2) User has app installed and prefers to use the app for the service (Something like google maps). This preference can be stored in the shared settings space.

3) User has the app installed, but prefers to use the browser for the service (Like google search / wikipedia / yellow pages / amazon )

-----X----

In 1) When clicking on a url like www.amazon.com/gp/product-id, The browser cannot find an app that has access to shared settings. Hence, the only thing that can be done is to open the url on the browser.

2) When clicking on a url, (like google maps directions), The browser reads from the shared space and sees that this is a candidate for an app open. Now it can open the app and pass in the url. The app can use this path to figure out where to take the user to in the app.

3) When the user clicks on the url, and the settings say the user prefers to use the browser for this kind of link, the browser can open up the URL.
Car: "You just swore at another vehicle. Your insurance rate is now $400 per day. Do you wish to continue driving and have this charged to your account. Say 'yes' or 'later'."

Driver: "Later!"

Car: "You just stopped in traffic. Pickup from this position costs $2000. Leaving your car in this location will increase your insurance rate to $500 per day. Do you wish to continue driving or order a pickup. Say 'continue' or 'pickup'".

Driver: "Fuck you!"

Car: "You just swore at this vehicle. Your insurance rate is now $600 per day. Do you wish to continue driving and have this charged to your account. Say 'yes' or 'later'."

...
On the contrary: you have to assume DNS is always compromised on the client (because it easily is). SPF records depend not on client DNS but on server DNS, so you have control over the lookups. That's a completely different ball-game.
Frequently at design time you don't know enough. This is exactly why SQL is great, it is incredibly flexible, it can also allow you to get in your own way, this is just a feature to help detect that.
Infinite String Quartet (HTML5 Audio/paper.js)
I have a hypothesis, but it's VERY silly. Programming, like many tasks created in the 20th century, is not nearly as physically demanding as traditional jobs. People who work behind a desk 24/7 feel emasculated and try to compensate by showing off their expertise through aggression. It's a game of dominance and frustration. Of course, this is totally unproven.
This just in, I found one of the employees they hired using this incredible job posting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Kboormk3Y
Yep the writing is on the wall indeed.

BusinessInsider had a nice article on the kinds of jobs we may see in the near future:

http://www.businessinsider.com/bizarre-jobs-well-see-by-2030...

A year ago, I was considering to have my son learn to code + design.. to proudly become a unicorn just like his dad..

but now im thinking that all those C-Level 3.0 digital workers of the future, will desperately be suffering from "Digital Fatigue" and soul/social imbalances. So (IRL) services that will focus on psyche course-correction will become a fun and meaningful industry for him to be in ( if he so chooses )

Maybe toward the end of my life i will help him recreate Fantasy Island ( sans the live-cams ) ;-)
There is no reason to create new content in .gif and not webm as of now.
FFmpeg is really nice though.
So people will perceive the self driving taxis as more expensive and continue to own cars like they do now.
Because "grep and multi-file search/replace" is not exactly what a front-end developer does.

If you try to do actual programming, instead of grepping and replacing, SublimeText (and Atom, though slower) are much more featured. From build systems integration, to "go to function" and myriads of plugins for linting, AST based auto-complete, etc etc.
Insanity. Yet another violation of individual rights in the USA. And, in effect, a racist government institution in action.
Yeah, assuming all founders started out with 33%, they'd probably have 5-10% right now, probably closer to 5%.

Best case scenario would be: 33% * (75% angel) * (75% series A) * (75% series B) * (85% series C) * (95%^4 Series D-G) = ~10%

It could probably go down as far as 4 or 5% depending on how big option pools were and just how much dilution was in the earlier rounds.
I often here that employers or consulting clients don't want to hire remote workers because of the tremendous value of "water cooler" conversations.

How much do those water cooler conversations actually take place? How much value is actually produced from them?

Most of my career has been on-site (ie. not remote). In twenty-seven years I can only recall once such conversation that produced anything of value. I was making coffee at 6 Infinite Loop one day, when I was a "Debug Meister" at Apple. Another Debug Meister by the name of Dave Lyons happened to ask what I thought of C++.

"It's slow," I replied. "I prefer C."

"Why?"

"Because of the use of vtables for virtual functions."

"But you need a dispatch mechanism in any language."

Well that made sense to me, actually using tables of pointers to functions is common in C as well, so I agreed to take C++ seriously after that.

However, I did not actually use C++ in my work until I'd moved on to a different company.

That's all I can think of, in my 27 year career, that being on-site has resulted in a water cooler conversation that produced something of lasting value.
How do you handle the case of a product that you get to select different options? I don't see it in the API.
Can you walk me through a concrete example of cost savings? Every time I look at something like SoftLayer, it doesn't seem to offer much of a savings compared to a corresponding EC2 reserved instance. Sure, you can do way better than EC2 on-demand instances, but the reasonable comparison is to a reserved instance.
Yes, I understand productive debt and I have no beef with it (so long as no one is coerced into bailing out bad loans, which, of course, is constantly happening in the name of "systemic stability.")

If you think this has anything to do with the huge debt overhang in western societies... Well, I have an efficient market to sell you.

Read Keen. He explains it very well.
Good timing of this article: recent research suggested that there is a health benefit tied to drinking as much as five cups of coffee each day: a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Article in The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/21/i... , now on the HN front page.
OTOH:

http://www.inc.com/travis-bradberry/caffeine-the-silent-kill...

Claims: caffeine only improves mental performance in those habituated to caffeine, triggers body chemistry leaning towards fight/flight responses, disrupts sleep

None of this is necessarily at odds with the WaPo article, which appears to mostly claim that there are no increased mortality/chronic disease risks associated with high coffee consumption (and some decreased risk of diabetes/cardiovascular risk?).
I imagine when most people say 'a cup of espresso' they're thinking of a demitasse of the stuff, not using '1 cup' in the unit-of-volume sense (which'd be an ~octuple espresso)
Building a better GitHub Wiki
Agreed.. but XSS (or MITM injection) isn't a scalable activity. You'd have to write it custom for each app. Even if you just attacked the underlying library, it's still something that's detectable on the browser side, so you'd have to carefully target your opponent (unless you just didn't care if they knew at all -- but that'd minimize your effectiveness as well.)

IMO, it's definitely worthwhile at least the initial crypto stage in-browser. Heartbleed et al proved that. Just don't rely on it. Ensure strong TLS, HSTS, etc as well.

Definitely agreed - XSS is really severely problematic since it's potentially easier and doesn't require MITM. In this rare use case (and without actually trying the app), I'm guessing you'd basically have to be XSS'ing yourself since you're probably not XSS'ing a public field?
Pretty much. It would probably be an interstitial on navigation (similar to how certificate errors are handled) and a page action for subresources (similar to the shield page action for mixed content).
Great comment! Thanks a lot for sharing this.
You have to make the protocols ...wait for it... failsafe.