skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- In 2008 I moved from DC to SF and kept my job.

- I started thinking about moving in May, near the end of June I brought it up as a possibility and to see if there was any possible chance it would work for my employer. In late July we worked out the details which really amounted to not much of anything other than "work". And in early September I drove to SF and set up shop.

- I was in SF with my future wife working on a pretty slow moving government contract. It worked for me at the time and allowed me to transition to a new city/life without the hassle/stress of finding a new job. The work was fine, but I was thrust into the center of the startup universe, so it was obvious how much was out there to learn and do.

- I was "supposed" to commute back east quarterly, but it was never really needed, so I only did it once officially (though I was back for a few days for a funeral at one point as well).

Basically, if you are a well respected and valued contributor to the team and the team has experience with other people working remotely then I'd say your chances are pretty good. But I'd start talking to them now. You know you have to move. You know you want to keep the job. But if they are going to telly you it isn't going to work you want to know sooner rather than later so you can find a new job in your new location ASAP.
Using naive Bayes to predict movie review sentiment
Harder. I think blue-underlines are the easiest for me to read. It might be familiarity.
The Innovators
FOR UPDATE NOWAIT immediately locks the rows being retrieved in the first step (as if they were to be updated)

Technically "FOR UPDATE" only makes an attempt to lock rows, and the "NOWAIT" instructs postgres, in the case that another transaction already has a lock on the row, to raise an error immediately instead of the default behavior of waiting for the lock to become available.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-select.html
Are there ever opportunities for freelance/contract work?
Most geeks I know of are OK with Microsoft, actually. I find online communities, in general, amplify the voices of a discontented minority because the vast majority don't bother saying anything about a topic that simply doesn't affect them much either negatively or positively.
Yup I’ve given it a look-over. Coincidentally, a friend is also applying to YCombinator later this year so I’m aware of the process.

Let’s compare Seldon to the financing structure of Make School (see: https://www.makeschool.com/admissions).
It seems to me that your idea has three unique selling points: 1) it can cover the cost of going to any university, 2) % repayments are lower and last much longer and 3) student repayments become a tradable asset class. This has pros and cons. Pros: students have total control about where they want to study, return can be much higher and more kids get an education. Cons: students are incentivized to make expensive choices, education is commoditized, return is much slower (you might not break even for decades) and ‘human capital’ (as an unavoidably opaque financial product) is high risk. I think your biggest obstacle will be overcoming volatility and opacity – you’ll need to prove that the candidates you finance will provide good return on investment. What is it about Seldon that means they can offer a student loan a traditional Chinese bank cannot? Maybe adopt some of the strategies Make School and YCombinator use – a rigorous (and prestigious) application process, guidance, relationship building, sense of community, commercial nouse ect. I wouldn’t sell the idea as a cold-hearted asset class at the start and I certainly would change the name – it undermines the true value of your project. Make human capital a little more…human? Besides, tradable asset classes only really emerge once a financial product is big and established enough to be traded.

Other points:
•	2% seems too low? (I’m not a numbers guy)
•	This business would not work in the UK (~50% of students never pay back the full amount they borrow…so no financial incentive to use Seldon)
•	Top US schools usually cover all their students financing needs – so not too much of a market there unless you want to grab higher-risk candidates. (MBAs are the BIG exception – probably some good opportunities there).
•	Highlight who you both are - your past achievements and work (because it’s good).
•	Take your private contact info off of the website (it’s in the public domain, yo).
•	I like the basic idea – but you need to be more conscious about the fact you’re dealing with 18 year olds and not, say, crude oil.
Wow £2.15 for a Uno! Paid 4x that on eBay.

I currently have one switching a fan on and off periodically to exercise some seedlings (tomatoes, chillis) so not a massive CPU demand here :)
Except that almost all the boards are sold out. Is there any other alternative?
As a programmer baffled by hardware, i find these performance enhancements on physical systems remarkable. Congrats to them for pushing the spaceflight envelope.
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_inst...) US has 35 existing bases in Germany and has closed 207 (!) bases in the past. Some of the most important (strategic importance and size) are in Germany. To think that such a huge military presence has "exactly zero to do" with how freely German government can make decisions which would be contrary to the US interests is an illusion.
see http://waneck.github.io/wwx-unity3d-haxe/
John McAfee Lands Atop the Cybersecurity 500 List
Thank you, but I cannot edit anymore.

Readers of my above comment, please note that it should read:

"This is [part of] the now famous SMACK TLS"
I'm sure the Greeks will be so happy to learn that "official bullying" is considered ridiculous.
Harder.
That is one very sexy government website.
Enable Cross Team Slack Chat with Blockspring
They're trying a bunch of things, I'm sure some of them are working. I went to a JS conference recently and one of their dev evangelists was talking about using JS to control Arduinos or whatever. No proprietary-stack stuff in sight.

I don't have numbers to say "a majority", but a whole lot of developers don't use Windows. They really need to give up on the Windows-everywhere stuff, but as I understand it that was a Ballmer thing. Anyway, I mean, they're Microsoft. I'm sure they'll land on their feet.
Reflections on Web App Development Cost
Masters Level Computer Science from Udacity
LibreSSL 2.1.6 released
We do what they do, but not with voip phones, with Sococo. I work there, and our team is in 5 states and 2 continents. We use our own product for all of our development.

Its especially important to have regular team online meetings e.g. Scrum. This is both for communication and for socialization. Its easy to forget that other remote workers are people; its easy to quit talking to them. Seeing and hearing them daily makes them people again, instead of just an avatar.
>I'm actually astonished given Germany's strength in Europe that they didn't just say GFY!

Consequences are playing out in other arenas, weakly evidenced by Germany (and other close US allies)[1] joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)[2] which is an organization similar to the World Bank or IMF spearheaded by China.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2015/03/18/by...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Infrastructure_Investment...
I liked it after I realized what was happening. Blue on black is too busy.
> Fine, you care only about yourself. Understood.

Yes, and my vote represents myself. The fact that other people have other needs is represented by the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of other votes.

The idea that Peter should vote for what is good for Paul rather than Peter is absurd.

> What bike tax are you paying for those roads?

None, currently! Bring it on. Calculate the wear caused by cyclists and send me my share of the maintenance bill.

> And you're right, you as a biker don't benefit at all from reduced auto traffic. Not one bit.

No, I don't. Less traffic means cars going faster. The safest is no cars at all, or cars in bumper-to-bumper traffic slugging along in 15 km/h bursts.

This proposal promises reduced commute times to drivers. There is supposed to be a new bridge and more roads and so on. Of course that will get more people into cars. The commute times will then eventually drop to the original values, just with more cars. More noise, more pollution.

Vancouver has never been about this. That is why we do not have a nasty network of raised highways routed through the city, like other cities in the world. You can't get from one side of Vancouver to the other without crossing a crapload of intersections. That's the character of this town.

Douglas Copeland writes about this at length in the introduction to the book _Vancouver Stories_.

I do not care about myself only, but also about preserving the character of this town. I do not support the "Los Angelization" of Vancouver.
What are people using to create APNG animations? I have an older version of Photoshop but it doesn't seem to support the format. I tried APNG Anime Maker, but it's really rudimentary and doesn't optimize the image at all the way ImageReady does with GIFs.
One more reason that will make a lot of people to migrate to mbed platform.
Wow, what a twist.

To think that Obi-Wan is secretly Ian Betteridge.
This is a noble goal. I would like to do this, too.

It appears to me, however, to be theoretically impossible to achieve. The code is running on your hardware; there is simply at the moment no known way to give any kind of assurance about remotely running code.

What would work, of course, would be to implement the entire app as a JavaScript application that only asks the backend for information when necessary. The blockchain.info bitcoin wallet does something to this effect. So does the web version of the LastPass vault. There is, of course, still no assurance that you will not occasionally inject compromising code when it is difficult to spot, but this is the closest that I have seen.

Richard Stallman is also advocating something to this effect: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
If they can't compete, that means they're not providing sufficient value. What value would I, as a consumer, enjoy by doing business with a local dealer rather than the manufacturer?

I don't think the fear here is that they would "undercut them". I would do business directly with Ford, Toyota, etc. even if the price were the same. That's what they're afraid of.
This is a very important topic as robotics and automation begin their exponential curve of running our lives. Who will own the robots? Will the majority of humanity be enslaved to rent-seekers who own patents on a robot hinge?
An ethical search engine to rival Google
Wanna be a software developer in Cleveland, Ohio?
.Net and SQL certifications or schooling preferred, may be able to test the right self-taught candidate. Cool environment, where you're encouraged to be creative and continue to learn. 40k-50k, benefits, free parking is available. United States citizens only at this time. Currently not open to telecommuting.

Send your resume to: HiringinCLE@gmail.com
Maybe they're worried that Windows 7 is only 41%?

I think W7 is the de facto for businesses now.
Jibber – A super simple free Mac app that gives you dummy text for your designs
>I'm buying a new car soon and am dreading the experience

I've bought multiple cars in my life. I don't understand this in the slightest. Every experience I've had has been only slightly more involved than purchasing anything else, as it should be for the cost.

The dealership world is hyper-competitive. Know the value of the car you want, and what you're willing to pay. Let them know that. If they can't do it, go elsewhere. Don't pay for anything you didn't ask for.

Like practically every other consumer experience, the buyer has all the power. You're the one signing the cheque. They want your business.

>poor financing

Most companies offer 0% financing. Where else can you get that?
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Making Phil Libin style cohort visualizations available to everyone
> That mentioned, Spotify deserves credit for paying anything, rather than sitting around and saying that exposure itself is a tangible payment form (e.g. McDonalds & SXSW).

Or the pro-piracy crowd...
Neat question. I guess there are really two separate things a user could want to verify:

* the application isn't broken/still fulfills its API contract

* the application isn't compromised in a malicious way

As far as the first point, I wonder if it could be possible for users to run some sort of a test suite against the public API? Like a crowd-sourced test suite that verifies that production server behavior is still as advertised.

The second point I think can only be partially addressed by partial methods, since it's impossible to guarantee that some sneaky compromise hasn't happened. But you could allow outside auditing, let people have some form of read-only access to the directory tree that stores the code (if it's separate from the config), etc.
> Netflix has a wonderful problem. It simply has too much content, and the streaming service is constantly testing new interfaces to address it.

That's not their problem at all. Their problem is that they keep losing lots of desirable content, and they keep tinkering with the UI to hide how thin their library is and make it appear that they have a deep well of stuff you might want to watch.

I don't blame them for their licensing deals, but it's simply untrue that Netflix has "too much content".
> Will the majority of humanity be enslaved to rent-seekers who own patents on a robot hinge?

If current trends continue, it will be the capitalist who first commercialized the robot once public and private R&D had done all the heavy lifting.
Real World Rails Testing
Well, it's in OpenBSD, so now?
I think we agree more than we disagree with regards to "deserving" poverty.
What the German government should do is to refuse intelligence gathered using criminal methods (and push for an international prosecution of the American officials involved in such actions), and request information sharing gathered by legal means, as expected from any ally.

I understand that for any you-are-with-us-or-against-us mentality this is difficult to swallow.
It is interesting to see the IE numbers, I suspect it is because many government computers do not have other options. When I was in the military it was all we had. CAC cards also only work properly in IE, on government sites at least, so that will likely also skew the numbers. We of course were running extremely outdated versions too, so that may be part of the higher 8/9 numbers then you might expect.
AFAIK, nobody did. PCT shut down before anyone could mount a case, but made the code available.

It's actually a pretty strategic way to demo a technology that would get shut down in civil court.
They need More marketing.

Hire cool agencies like Hello Monday (they've done most of Google and Android stuff).
Apparently. They have paying customers.
Animated GIF's can be lossless optimized with GIFsicle. I went looking for something similar for APNG and found apngopt.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/apng/files/APNG_Optimizer/

Think of it as pngcrush for each animation frame. Also, it can leverage Google's Zopfli implementation of DEFLATE, which produces much smaller output than zlib's implementation. I haven't seen any other lossless optimization tools using Zopfli, so that's pretty cool. (update: actually it looks like recent versions of advpng can use Zopfli)

Also, some good comparisons of APNG vs. GIF vs. WebP animations are here:

http://littlesvr.ca/apng/gif_apng_webp1.html
Yes, interesting. I wonder how did they implement search over there
It's awesome, because companies use this to drive profit. I worked IT for a company that had an entire department (think up to ten people!) just crawling sites like this all day to determine where to increase their advertising. They made flu-related medicines.
As far as I know, car dealers tend to be large empires built over the years through roll-ups; and they tend to ally themselves with the party favoring big government.[1]

[1] https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=20010301&id=...
The Navy Needs a Wider Look at Wargaming
"What it does is it allows us to land the first stage for GTO missions on the drone ship."

Yikes! That's a pretty substantial upgrade.
> I'm actually astonished given Germany's strength in Europe that they didn't just say GFY! We're not going to be seen to be bullied by you in front of all of Europe.

Even more astonishing is they're openly admitting it (and thereby admitting weakness). My guess is they have ulterior reasons for admitting it now - perhaps to gain sympathy or be seen less as bullies during negotiations with Greece (http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-poll-kick-greece-out-...)
> Log message: Fix several crash causing defects from OpenSSL.

Is there some reason they're obscuring the fact that these are security vulns? Trying to keep their 'street cred' intact? (undeadly.org even uses quotes around "crash-inducing" in their announcement, so it seems obvious this is unusual language)
Sunk costs shouldn't matter for economic decisions. Not that I expect the politicians to think this way. I don't see the point with the anti trust "issue" - regulating market power might have been an effective measure when there was only Ford. But that's decades ago.
Hackers May Have Taken Medical Records from Insurer Premera
No robot is 100% self sufficient.

There will always be a need for skilled labor to maintain and update robots. Even the most magical electric self-driving car requires maintenance in the form of software updates, tire rotations and the like.

I think we are entering a period of "super industrialization", where even fewer workers are needed to do greater amounts of work. Careful care needs to go into making sure we don't enter the age of "robber barons" again, but I think a careful review of history and thoughtful policy decisions can guide us into this new era.
This might be tangental, but why isn't there an ISBN equivalent for other media (e.g. movies, music)?

It would make distributed streaming services like this much more powerful, but would also allow copyright holders to have more control over their content.
LibreSSL is ready for prime time. It is the default SSL library on OpenBSD since version 5.6 [1], which was released on November, 1st 2014. Since then, more cleanup went in, and they developed libtls which is a new TLS API.

The latter is also included in several OpenBSD projects (OpenSMTPD, relayd, httpd).

The goal of libtls is to provide a sane API to develop new applications needing TLS. The problem with OpenSSL's API is that it exposes too much, and it's extremely easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

If you want to know more regarding LibreSSL, I recommend reading these:

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2014-libressl.html

Despite what the URL suggests, these are not papers but presentations at BSD related conferences. You might be able to find recordings of them on YouTube.

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/56.html
GrouperChek: A USB peripheral that can detect counterfeit seafood
RT documentary on the village

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dQiCuZO76o
Over a population, statistically? Yeah, you do.
Yes, you're right, of course.

Being more specific - there may be transition periods where you may become more valuable (through training or whatever) at which point you have the opportunity to seek higher compensation. If one does not seek higher compensation, then one is trading their higher potential salary for other wants/needs (maybe they trade the enjoyment of their current work at a lower pay over the higher salary at another job).

In equilibrium and in an efficient market, the value of the labor provided is equal to the cost of the labor provided.

Of course, in the real world, there are inefficiencies and irrational behaviors, but to a first order - it's approximately correct.
Looks like the US is inching it's way closer to the top of most "disgusting country on the planet". Germans should sever the ties IMO and stop allowing their bulling tactics and double-faced dealings. Country of "freedom" my ass. Can't understand why some people from European countries still consider to migrate there. But you're not allowed to say anything alas it's immediately labelled "hate-speech", so self-censorship (especially among Americans) remains strong.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/STM32F103C8T6-ARM-STM32-Minimum-Syst...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/STM32F103C8T6-ARM-STM32-Minimum-Syst...
Show HN: Watch partial solar eclipse with an iOS device and an Apple TV
Now now, there's an LL(1) parser for ASN.1, and it's easily found in the following reference:

Fouquart (P.), Dubuisson (O.) and Duwez (F.). - Une analyse syntaxique d'ASN.1:1994. - Internal Report RP/LAA/EIA/83, France Télécom R&D, March 1996. Only in French
Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best
Tesla Model S software update will make it 'impossible' to drive too far
Switching to Go and Learning What Features It’s Missing Along the Way
They're mostly DoSes, which rank a bit less as a vulnerability. If I know a world leader is going to a city and call in a bomb threat, yeah I disrupted things but it's a rather qualitatively different attack.

These don't seem to be directly in the ASN.1 code, but the consumer of such code, right? (Apart from the boolean compare?) That's probably just the result of having complicated structures to deal with, and no type system to tell you when you've made a bad assumption. And even with a good type system, you can still opt-in to explicitly failing. Code like "let x = foo.Value.bar // foo must have a value at this point" isn't totally uncommon. You can statically analyze and know which points will fail at runtime, but without exceptions, if any logic error counts as a vulnerability (because it kills the process), then we're basically saying the bar is perfect code, right?

With exceptions you'd just wrap the whole thing up and catch any such logic errors and save the process and destruct the socket. It seems like that'd have been a mitigation here (assuming structures aren't reused and sockets are exception safe).
It is really OK that you didn't get into YC. People with absurdly successful companies today had to apply repeatedly to get in. And, of course, getting into YC is just one way to do it.

Gatekeepers bother me a lot too. You can bootstrap instead of appealing for financing, and sublimate your anger at the gatekeepers as motivation. Lots of successful bootstrappers do exactly that. Being pissed off at financiers worked really well for me for a bunch of years.

Ultimately, though: you're responsible for your own success.

Also: next time you bring up your startup in an eye-catching retort to someone lots of people follow on HN religiously, you should seize the opportunity to tell us about your startup. It's 7 years of your work! That's the most interesting thing you have to talk to us about; not "not getting into YC".
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Streaming music revenue beat CDs in the US last year for the first time
Similar IE8 and mobile numbers here. IE8 support used to be a main focus because 3% of a really big number is still a pretty big number. Then we started paying attention to mobile stats and realized how much we were missing in the mobile experience.