skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not David, but I work remotely (+900 time difference!) and regularly work with others over VOIP. Hardware SIP phones are pretty hard to beat, but we often use Mumble for pair programming. It is a bit fiddly to get used to but it has some very nice features and we actually prefer it to SIP. First, you can easily (once you get the hang of it) configure the sound so that it is really voice activated. This is actually quite important for us because only about 25% of the team are permanently remote. When the office is noisy, it really is nice not to hear the background. When I used to work in the office regularly, I would pair program "remotely" with other people in the same room -- it is just a lot more physically relaxing to have your own space. I can also adjust the other person's volume to my own liking.

Another nice feature is the really low overhead of the server. Running a Murmur server barely ticks over my CPU, so it is easy for each of us to run their own server. This allows people to essentially join conversations at somebody's "desk" at will. Everything is essentially a conference call so it is easy to casually come and go, which is less nice with most SIP clients.

Finally, Mumble is really low latency. Especially since I'm 9 timezones away, this is really important. We tend to pair program using Tmux and Vim (which is really efficient), so you really want the voice to not lag too much from the action. Honestly with a combination of Mumble, Tmux and Vim, I often completely forget that I'm not physically in the same room as the person when I'm pairing.

We tend to use Google Hangouts for our standups and planning meetings. We make good use of the video and screen sharing in those meetings. I wouldn't say that I need video overly much, but seeing everyone for 15 minutes a day does help me feel more in touch.

Anyway, I know we're not the only group using Mumble. You might like to give it a try.
This a javascript implementation of the simulations that we used to study zombies on the continental US. More details can be found in the preprint on the arxiv http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01104

The parameters are (1) the kill to bite ratio which is the relative ability for a human to kill a zombie and a zombie to bite a human, (2) the walking speed of a zombie (the time to walk 1 mile), and (3) the number of simulation steps in between redraws (so it can be tuned to work on various hardware responsively).
Change Money. WebGL Bitcoin Data Visualization
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2yhcqn/were_not...
This definitely makes sense and thank you for sharing your experience. From what I've noticed, most people say to talk about this early on, so I think I'm going to bring it up very soon.

As you said, the more time I give, the more time I have to look for a new job, etc.

Thanks again!
Client code could be hard to verify too. Browser do not support this functionality and there are no popular addons to verify JavaScript I'm aware of. You can't just download script.js with curl and assume that server will serve the same file to your browser.
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Uber also displays the license plate number of the car and the vehicle make/model in the app when you make your order. This provides an additional level of verification if you have security concerns.
I've done remote like this for the last little while. I was pleasantly surprised that my employer was okay with it. Turns out, if you are competent, employers usually don't want to lose you.

Bigger question ... do you want to work like this? I work a lot more/harder than I used to. I have to remember to take breaks. There are no water cooler chats in my life any more ... no chance to grab coffee with a work colleague. I try to go to meetups but it is not the same.

Suggestions:
1) Build a sweet work office. I was working with my laptop for ages and it was tough. Buy a nice printer, external monitor setup, get unlimited Internet.

2) Make sure you have buddies in the home office who can help you if something urgent comes up. VPN/connectivity issues can happen.

There are big questions I have around growth (salary, responsibility are the big ones; technical growth is okay since I put in many hours to study up).

Working from home - if you have a spouse, they need to understand you are working. Home office is best but a separate room may not be feasible.

Don't sweat talking to your boss. I did sweat - turns out it wasn't necessary. You can propose a 3-6 month trial run.

Best of luck
Thank you for letting us know about this. We unfortunately don't control the page (the client does), but we've let her know and we'll watch out for that trailing slash.

Thanks again!
Next Gen BASE-T (2.5 and 5 Gbps Ethernet) [pdf]
Creating Fakes in Go with Channels
'It's Not About Snacks and Scooters': How to Win the Big Talent Game
Mark Andreessen's tweetstorm about the sharing economy and income inequality
Companies which are satisfied with their ability to hire and employees who are satisfied with their ability to find jobs don't have to even care we exist, though they're certainly welcome to play our games.

Sadly, many companies are dissatisfied with their ability to hire and many qualified engineers are dissatisfied with their ability to secure desirable jobs. In economics, they call this a market failure. In CS, a search problem. In business, "a shedload of money available for the taking."

In Starfighter, I guess we categorize that as "the mid-boss."
1. What? Why the airport? Why drive that particular route? What is it about being in Amsterdam proper that makes the car worse than it was at the airport or on the motorway? What does this have to do with Apple? What's the comparison being made?

2. Ok? Why?

3. I am, in fact, 182cm, and was just in a Model S yesterday. I had tons of headroom. I've driven them with a helmet on and had no issue.

Though I will note, on the ride home yesterday, I sat in the back seat. When I rested my head on the headrest (which I almost never do in a car), I noticed my head brushed the sloping roofline, which is a common problem in sloped roof designs like the CLS and Panamera and A7. In fact, because I have a long torso, I find that my head often scrapes the roof in the driver's seat of (taller) friend's cars, until I adjust the seat downwards.
First evidence that MH-17 was taken down by a BUK missile
The Tesla Model S Will Get “Autopilot” Mode in About Three Months
Security is the through-line of the game; it gives us structure, incentives, little dopamine hits, and makes it so that the systems we're building reward exploration. But the game is not about security; it's about programming and interacting with complex systems.

If you're a software developer with no security domain expertise, one benefit of goofing around with Starfighter is that you'll come out knowing a lot more about software security. But it's not a tool for getting people security jobs.

It'll make a little more sense when Erin posts the game details.
We will not primarily be a security company. It's a fun and interesting field(s), but it's a small subset of engineering skill, and we plan to be substantially broader in focus.
Microsoft Character Riddle
The CMake language is just an atrocious mess, but that gets easier with time. The main problem with CMake on Windows is that it is really really slow for large projects (because it has to call back out to CMake to do all sorts of basic stuff) and that debugging CMake errors is horrifically hard (this has improved in recent MSVS generator integration, but I'm stuck w/ VS2008 still).
The big difference is that GIF uses LZW compression which is less efficient than DEFLATE (i.e. ZLIB) which is used in PNG.
Become a Publisher with Redis and Ruby
I wonder if GP is trolling. Having spent time in NJ visiting family, I've researched this issue a bit and have never found any logic to support the ban on self-service pumps – beyond corruption, politics, etc.

The one interesting thing I did find is that many disabled motorists have a very hard time using self-service pumps – while still being able to drive safely with vehicle modifications. The Americans with Disabilities Act even has a requirement that gas stations provide refueling assistance, with some exceptions. (http://www.ada.gov/gasserve.htm)

That still doesn't mean self-service should be banned. At most, it's argument for requiring gas stations to have >=1 full-service pump.

The other funny thing is that many NJ natives seem to really like using full-service pumps and want to keep the ban. And because they have low gas taxes and import so much fuel, NJ still has some of the cheapest gas in the country. So, there's not much political will to change it – despite the inanity.
This is awesome. I'll definitely become an avid player, right after I contribute meaningfully to several open source projects, have an active GitHub profile, while keeping my Stack Overflow reputation high, and having a fleshed out CodeCombat profile, and of course making sure my LinkedIn page is up to snuff.

I hope when I get this awesome job my employer doesn't mind me keeping all my profiles updated on company hours!
Doesn't seem that controversial here, everybody is in favor of Google's direction. I'm glad they're enforcing better web standards and quality across the board. We have to be mindful and not lazy about designing the web experience.

The site you mentioned probably won't be affected since you're likely not in direct serp competition with anyone else, so you can choose to ignore their advice if you want.
Want to write Go full-time? InfluxDB (YC W13) is hiring
InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database written in Go. We're building out our team of talented Go developers and are looking for engineers that are enthusiastic about building complex distributed systems that process terabytes of data.

We're located in San Francisco and have a lovely office on Market St in SoMa. Come join us!

To apply, visit our jobs site here:
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the actual page http://duilian.msra.cn/zimi/
I seriously want to meet the kind of person who looks at a job advert, maybe does an interview, and then decides "Yep, this is the kind of job that I would like to live and breath".

I can understand if someone does a job for a good while and gets invested and passionate about it. But who are these people who just look at job adverts and say "Yep, I could definitely centre my whole life around this."?
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I went to Berlin, and the Pirate Party had a bunch of stupid anti-housing-construction posters up (like you see from the NIMBYs in SF). Seems that they have drifted from their origins of internet freedom. Reminds me of Occupy SF- it started out as a group of motivated, charismatic people trying to get the thieves in the banks jailed, ended up with random crazies blathering about chemtrails in the general assembly for half an hour and shooting up in tents.
Maybe I'm in the minority with my opinion. This is pretty common in most startups in Silicon Valley (it is true in the one I'm working for currently). You usually have an option of getting a less pay, more equity or higher pay, less equity. It is assumed that you won't have much of a work-life balance, but some would like to spell it out clearly. Nobody forced me into this, I chose it because I wanted to work with brilliant people (I'm not saying there aren't any in established companies) and roll the dice and see where it goes.

I really don't see how this is so controversial when there is a chance, however small, that there could be a big windfall if things fall into place. For someone who values work-life balance, they should look to join an established company.
I'm surprised 4 hours have gone by and no one has made a joke about Teslas on a bridge.
Well, great info on the Embarcadero's website about Delphi + Android: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/android-app-deve...

And here are examples of using it (with source):
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/android-ios-...
Make coding more fun
The Truth About the Healthcare Industry
Book - The Truth About the Healthcare Industry - shows how government is covering up its mistake of creating a Healthcare Oligopoly. This was done by the IRS, which will not audit or tax the healthcare industry and is now covering up.
I love this.

Top Pages right now:

Where's My Refund? - It's Quick, Easy and Secure. 4,600

"You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?"

National Weather Service 1,858

"What's the weather gonna be?"

National Weather Service - Forecasts by Region 1,846

"Will it rain today?"

Internal Revenue Service 1,672

"Let me spend a few hundred hours figuring out how to pay you for the weather."

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1,155

"What is the weather today, though, seriously?"

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"Please let me in so that I can work in your private sector."

The United States Social Security Administration 921

"Where's my check this month?"
This is super awesome
Tag Heuer Partners with Intel for New Smartwatch
As a German, I have suspected for a while that something like this had happened behind the scenes. I am surprised, though, that Sigmar Gabriel would admit it this openly on the record.

One the one hand, I am quite disappointed at the German government's lack of courage to stand up to the US.

On the other hand, if I was Snowden, I would not go to Germany even if the government was on their knees begging me to come here, given the number of US soldiers and intelligence operatives stationed in Germany. So the whole question if Germany should offer asylum to Snowden seems kind of hypothetical to me.
Would this be a good way to teach my son technical skills? He's 6 years old, homeschooled and is interested in technology. He's already figured out how to bipass the parental controls on his Kindle. We're trying to figure out how to stimulate that desire when you can't read well yet.
Tesla Says It Will Now Be “Impossible to Run Out of Range Unintentionally”
The Algorithm Auction
Good to see.
Appications should be architected so that security-critical logic happens on the client. See how Mega and SpiderOak do that. This way, the attacker has to hack every computer of every client instead of one single server.

Of course, this requires making sure that the code which the client executes is not malicious
Do you have experience with any frameworks? Use what you know :)

If you are a beginner, this will be a learning experience for you, pick something with good documentation.

Check out this poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7600875
not even close! you'd have to watch the video more than a thousand times, each of those views having a pre-roll video ad before it, and never skipping thru the pre-roll video ad.

realistically, this means the artist would have to get more than fifty thousand streams per month to equal just one subscriber.
Have you created an SPA before? If so, start with what you know best. Spending 2 months learning how to write BackboneJS is probably going to add up to more time than the lag all of the users of your first iteration get combined. You can then change the parts that aren't working for you, and optimize for your use case.

If you haven't, I'm a big fan of using a MongoDB, Express, Angular, and NodeJS (MEAN) stack. Angular has a huge number of libraries you can use for transitions, and you can always use CSS animations and jQuery to accomplish anything not in there.
That story had a bit of an exaggerated feel, but I also got the feeling there was quite a bit of truth as well. Sad to read.
>Why only 'zero-emissions" vehicles?

What incentive does Elon Musk have to lobby for other companies? If he's doing the lobbying work, why wouldn't he structure the regulations to favor his organization?
I am super excited for these gaming hiring funnels to take off due to your first reason. Dollars to donuts there's a ton of unidentified talent out there that is being filtered out due to those biases (I would also add in academic pedigree bias which is correlated with economic/cultural upbringing). Granted these types of funnels also select for those who have free time to play games so they are not perfect.

Knack, the other company mentioned in the article, seems to have profiles with pictures and names that I assume are visible to hiring managers and others. In my opinion that's a bad move. I want to see a completely objective view of how a candidate is performing without age/experience/appearance getting in the way. These gaming funnels aren't perfect solutions but they are certainly a step in the right direction.
That is a good question. The Marketplace/TMP introduced full multisig support, but while admired for this, the users never materialized. For a while now, the trend has been against multisig, if anything; it seems that for all the moaning about exit scams, using multisig in Electrum is just too darn inconvenient compared to a centralized escrow market.
hehe most pretentious website.... not letting that one down.
Ha! That's funny, we both basically wrote use what you know best.
Ya about that...

http://www.licenseplates.tv/replicate_a_plate.php
They do. The BND had DE-CIX tapped for years (and shared freely with the NSA), for example.

Compared to the US, the scale might be rather tame, but that has more to do with the bloated US intelligence budget than with any "respect" for privacy on the part of the european intelligence services.
How close to launch are you guys?
Go challenge author here, really glad to see this post and a great read for Go and not Go developers.
DEA approves study using MDMA for anxiety in seriously ill patients
http://www.licenseplates.tv/replicate_a_plate.php

Actually, its not really a solution. All of these identifiers are easily duplicated :/
Geek to geek and parent to parent: honestly, no. Can I recommend Besiege? It doesn't require literacy. It has the same sort of freeform expressiveness you're allowed to do in Minecraft. "Syntax" errors are inherently fun rather than demotivating. There's fun, rewarding visual feedback for success.

It doesn't teach programming qua programming, but it is almost perfect for a gateway drug into engineering. (You get to build catapults! And airplanes! And catapults which fire airplanes!)
This seems like it might even scale to elementary school type projects. Maybe not for all the students, lol. But I bet a few of those kids that like to wear button-up shirts and carry briefcases to class would love the heck out of it. Maybe even a new kind of pen-palling.
I think it's more accurate to say that companies exist to make money, so that's what they optimize. Government agencies exist to provide political capital to their supporters, so they optimize both the political capital created and the number of supporters it's created for.
Teenagers, though: I wish I had excellent CTFs when I was growing up.
Prufrock451 (RomeSweetRome) returns to Reddit with a new off the cuff story
I don't hire unlucky people (2012)
Close enough that the question makes me want to barf into my sock.
Leap – Your daily commute. Redesigned
Or something similar to this - http://gfycat.com/SomeUnkemptKrill

Slight quality loss admittedly, but a huge bandwidth saving and I believe supported across all browsers now.

I'll admit however I didn't think about some other advantages of PNG (transparency for one), which would mean it was more suitable in some situations.
>YC is at its core a group of great people.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I actually thought that was the obvious reason to most applicants.

A $120k investment from YC doesn't provide that much runway. That kind of money doesn't give much wiggle room for founders to splurge on luxuries like Aeron chairs and fancy cappuccino machines. That amount is to allow a small team to live in near-poverty in the SF Bay area for ~6 months and maybe also buy some tech necessities like AWS EC2 time. Basically, provide some breathing room for founders to not worry about rent and put the focus on building their idea. What other reason to work 60+ hours a week in modest conditions unless it was the networking and interaction?
This is what I was about to say. If you want money, go to investors. If you want a community, join an incubator.
Here's the link to debian's wnpp bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754513
This is so true. I was blown away by VB6, especially after working with Visual C++ (and MFC).

Shortly after I got into VB6 I was turned onto Delphi 7...and never looked back. For me, Delphi is a superior alternative to VB6 and Visual C++...and I say that as someone that really learned a lot from, and enjoyed using VB6

I still use Delphi to this day and am using a modern release of Delphi (XE7, the latest version). They've added a 64-bit compiler and support creating native OSX, iOS, and even Android applications now too.

If you value high performance, easy to develop GUI's, small EXE's with no dependencies, native generics, and awesome DB support, I highly recommend using Delphi.

However, to each their own. I know Delphi is not as popular these days, but it really offers programmers huge productivity gains.

If you prefer an open-source alternative to Delphi, have a look at the Lazarus IDE which uses FreePascal.

The Lazarus IDE is very reminiscent of Delphi 7 and runs on Linux, OSX, and Windows. You can also create native GUI's on all of those platforms as well:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Unfortunately, they can not reuse the second stage yet and they might never be able to with Falcon 9. I think Elon has already stated as much. The payload penalty due to the required heat shield, thrusters, fuel and legs for the second stage would be too much.

For arguments sake, lets assume that the second stage was 10% of the manufacturing cost and the first stage was 90%. You could argue, that the engines are what's most expensive and the first stage has nine times as many. Ignoring the cost for lunch, landing, refuelling etc. you could at best reduce the cost by 90%, a single order of magnitude.
Unfortunately, the first stage might be worth much more. I wouldn't be surprised if the cost distribution is closer to 50-50. The second stage has all the avionics, a special vacuum version of the Merlin engine and might be more weight optimised due to the larger effect on maximum payload.

Lets hope the Mars rocket (BFR) will allow full, low cost reusability. I'm sure SpaceX is working very hard on that.
Hats off to these guys, I personally felt this is one of the few interviews I've done where the resulting story captures a lot of the flavor of the early days of Olark.
We are under attack
AMA: Yann LeCun
Barely. I have to try a few times.
AMA Geoffrey Hinton
Again, I haven't watched the video for several years, but I thought I remembered him using the example of a police officer coming to an apartment complex and asking residents questions about a recent reported crime. I don't think reporting crimes came up, and it probably doesn't apply, since when you call 911 you (as far as I know) do not talk to police officers.
Yeah. The Babylon 5 episode that talmand was referring to was an explicit reference to the Berserker stories.
Google, Intel, and TAG Heuer Team Up on Luxury Smartwatch
> lack of tracking

Are you joking? The entire shipping industry offers tracking services, delivery confirmations, etc.
Agreed, even though we've only seen one side of the story I can't see this working out well for the guy behind Arduino Srl. He may somehow sneak a win in court, but the community will likely shun anything he's involved with.
>> "I’ve lived in this house for 20 years. I’ve lived on this street for 60 years,” she said , between hauling water from a standpipe through the icy streets on a sledge. “Now where will they send me? What’s awaiting me there?”

Indoor plumbing?
So that someone getting access to your database's data storage doesn't compromise your data.
Thanks for sharing this. If any HNers have any questions on the report at all, I'll be more than happy to answer. The report this article talks about definitely included some surprises...