skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who moderates the fake "this was helpful" reviews of the fake reviews? Since those do not contain text they are easier to fake.
This is part of a broader societal discussion we are having about how much to trust data/machine-learning when it comes to human insight. We strive to improve on human fallibility, but we are deeply mistrustful of the mistakes that algorithms can and do make.

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/03/383454933/why-we-judge-algorit...
Lower prestige? I think this is true. People may not be consciously aware of it, but due to the company's core business model, i.e. basically adware and spyware, non-billionaire employees will almost certainly incur a hit to their social prestige account.
So you are blaming the fund managers for your government's problems?
The average front-loaded laundry machine can hold ~18 lbs. Washio and wash and folds cost around $1.60 a pound, so this is close to $20 cheaper. Still $10 cheaper if you get delivery.
I agree and disagree. Like the comment below, I could see this being really useful in some metro areas. I think what these crowd-source apps are missing are dynamic pricing based on purchasing power. $10 for a load of laundry in San Jose? Yeah, that sounds great. In Austin TX that's pretty high.
Thank you that was a really interesting read. My 2p of feedback might be that maybe your design wasn't that bad compared to existing forum websites and maybe it wasn't necessary to concentrate on improve it. Maybe getting more users was a higher priority? In hindsight?
There appear to be two uses for the word "expectations" here, for two different things. There was the original expectation that the fund manager promised, that was exceeded. Then there's the expectation of what NYC would be able to withdraw, which failed to account for fees.

Expectation A: Fund value will be X. Reality: Fund value is X + 2b.

Expectation B: NYC can cash a check for X + 2b. Reality: NYC only gets X + 40m.

The reporting isn't very clear, IMO.
New Matter - newmatter.com

Pasadena (Los Angeles), CA

New Matter was founded in 2014 with a mission to bring 3D printing to every home, school, and office. An Idealab company backed by strong venture capital firms, New Matter is poised to revolutionize the consumer 3D printing market with its flagship product, the MOD-t. Slated for release in the second half of 2015, the MOD-t will be the most affordable 3D printer on the market and will be integrated with New Matter’s online store of 3D printable designs, allowing users of all skill levels to find, customize, and print great objects.

We currently have 2 developer openings:

Software Engineer, Back End and Infrastructure: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qU59VfwN&...

Junior Full Stack Dev: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qU59VfwN&...
Agreed on the parsing. It would be nice if there was a standard "form" to be posted. Something line.

Description: ....
Company:
keyworks: python, startup, collstuff
Visas Sponsered: YES
Ask HN: Is it harder to get into YC with a late application?
We have just sent a late application, the deadline was 2 weeks ago.

Is it harder to get an interview compared to an application sent before the deadline?

What kind of growth should a startup have to get the interview?

I read that late applications will be read after the interview cycle, this at the end of the month. When should I expect to receive the email for the interview and the day slot? At the begin of May? middle? end?
So the author is claiming that it costs money to provide a service? No way.

Heroku is changing its pricing plans in an attempt to improve their business? No way.
What I see in attitudes reflects what you've seen as well. (This is a longer way of saying "me too!" to your comment)

In 2005 I saw people lining up for Google T-shirts and feeling cool when they had invites they could hand out for new Google products. Wave and Gmail people immediately jumped me for invites and then when I was out my friends for invites. Inbox? Nobody cared.
Yup - I've been getting far less candidates (and the quality has gone down). Coupled with the spammers, it's getting quite annoying.
"it wasn't even a binary pre-built and verified with Homebrew"

Most (all?) "formulas" include cryptographic hash checks for any downloaded files: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...
And you need some kind of heat engine to extract useful work from the difference. These typically have a significant size/mass associated with them.

I think solar cells are the way to go for now, though vibration harvesting can work for some applications.
School tech labs are modelled after the enterprise networks, the only difference is usually a bit more competent IT staff. I'd expect most of the school-lab tricks to be directly transferable to enterprise.
Ah so that's why. Good catch.
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But more often than not, artists with no fame will trade the value in their arts for people's attention. Also, I think nowadays, the boundary between arts and customized products are blurred. But still, this is great. I'm looking forward to hearing more about HOW you guys plan to give value to art.
Apple MacBook Review: The Laptop of the Future Isn’t Ready for the Present
A thing can be unethical and still be reasonable.
Good article, if a little brief. With the advancements made in optical computing, I feel that there's a good chance ternary computing making a comeback at least in the research front.
It's too bad a comment is down voted for a dissenting opinion yes. But it isn't a "good point".

Homebrew is fucking atrocious compared to a package management system like dpkg/apt.
Can you explain this to non Obj-C users? How does it not crash on null pointers?
It also makes it sound like the entire fund value was reduced to "just $40 million".
> That it installs things as a non-admin user is not specific or inherent to its goal.

Yes, yes it is. I was there when it was originally released, and its most radical feature at the time (when root-installing package managers were prevalent) was the change of philosophy of putting things in userland.

And 99% of installable code should live in userland. Without admin privs.
Maybe, but Pluralsight looks more like it's aiming for an IPO to me. They've made quite a few acquisitions but then not really integrated them much into the core product - mostly adding big lumps of subscribers and revenue to their numbers which looks better for an IPO than an acquisition.
None if this is legal advice, and quite likely not all of of it would work. It's possiblpe that someone who thinks so little of obeying the law would be willing to hassle you personally constantly for such behavior.

Most of these ideas would be stupid, ineffective, or perhaps illegal, but my point is that you might indeed be able to creatively find a way to make sure that the trooper's illegal actions (off duty!)

- Gather evidence. Take pictures every day that he does it.

- Ask him nicely to park legally. Point out that his flagrant disregard for the law erodes everyone's respect for his profession.

- Ask your local police to ticket him personally. They might not do it, but it can't hurt to ask.

- Write to his boss. Write to the governor, call everyone up his chain of command. Point out the respect erosion issue, and ask that police be held to the same laws that they enforce.

- Sue him on behalf of citizens of the city when you see him doing it. I'm sure judges would feel really happy about police officers who flaunt the law for personal benefit.

- Campaign for a local (city/county) law that allows citizens to enforce parking laws (citations, towing, car boot) on any government-owned vehicle that is parked illegally. Make this your public example. (Of course, good luck actually doing that, but the media publicity might shame him?)

- If the place he parks is a "no parking" area due to things like fire hydrants, consider talking to the local fire department.

- Try to alert an impersonal bureaucracy that will treat his illegal parking as something tow-able or otherwise something they can escalate as part of their job.

- Call or write his boss every time you see him do it. Report it by vehicle number.

- Buy two extremely beat up cars and park them on both sides of his vehicle. (That might not be legal, now that I think about it.)

- Propose a local ordinance to give you permission to install a concrete or otherwise similarly heavy / ugly public art work directly next to his car in such a way that it shames him, or makes it really inconvenient to park there.

0: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&Sessio...
The point of your comment seems to be "iPhoto is untrustworthy, I don't think I'm willing to give it another shot". Photos.app isn't iPhoto. I think I was perfectly warranted in pointing that out.

> I heard multiple things mostly which pointed to basing the new application off of Aperture's code base.

I actually hadn't heard that, but I guess what I meant was Photos.app isn't based on the iPhoto codebase. Whether it's 100% fresh code, or whether it's based on the Aperture codebase, I don't know.
Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways
+ exclude karma earned from submitting popular sites.
Isn't the blame falling to the pension managers who picked the hedge fund, and the victims are the individual pensioners who each have negligible influence over decisions? Or am I misunderstanding something?
They'll just think "oh god, I have viruses!" and call whoever is the family's "computer whiz". The very concept of "this system is not secure" is something that ordinary user does not understand.

Source: I'm a family "computer whiz" :/.
if something is stopping your OS from booting, it is part of the OS, and thus must be installed as part of the OS, and not as a user land tool.
"doom" and "pessimism" are human constructs. In the objective physical world things "are" or "are not". The quote says that objectively verifiable facts indicate the earth is experiencing a mass extinction.

There is no such thing as "doom" or "pessimism" besides that in which humans perceive it.
By "combining" I just meant an operator that takes multiple functions and returns a new function based on those arguments. I guess these "functions" are a special case because they are constant monadic functions. Do you mean to say composition rather than combination when you are about >=>?
Quite the opposite, both Venice and Santa Monica had so many posts I decided to treat them as independent cities, e.g. http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/city/2015/4/Santa%20Mon...
3 reasons why Node.js is good for your startup
That's one of many things they do. (Gang Leader for a Day gives great insight into the many role gangs play in their communities [1])

It's also a possible consequence of Nixon's War on Drugs [2]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Gang-Leader-Day-Sociologist-Streets/dp...

[2] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs
The OS update might be free, but that's not the only reason that a number of large deployments might stay at a single version.

For us IT Shops, its almost exclusively about ensuring support for the hundreds of other software programs.

I see a lot of folks arguing otherwise, and I'm not sure they realize this.

Sure, it works fine for the 'isolated single user', but it's totally different in a large deployment model.
Xen SMEP (and SMAP) bypass
what hashtags/formatting are people using on Twitter for jobs posts?
Ah, this makes sense. Karma-locking content sounds fun.
Interesting. I think I will have to play around this before I get my head around it, but thanks for the suggestion.
"Ivory tower" usually refers to academia.
Weed and beer - the best way to suppress my programming skills. After just two gulps of beer I'm starting to feel it's effect, but then I can drink 0.5l of vodka before I pass out.
Maybe have a special tag that you can add to the text for info that you only want karma users of a certain level or higher to be able to see -- ex. (karma>300)[Contact me at my@email.com], or instead of direct numbers, target people that are able to downvote, or have a moderate level of karma. People would post a link to the recruitment page/job description page on their website for all other users, which would hopefully work at deterring spammers from contacting them personally.

I think something like this would help you focus your recruitment efforts on those who have at least contributed to the community in some way, which should filter out people spamming every single email in the thread.

Another idea is to mask emails with a craigslist-like mailing address, which would give the end-user the ability to report an email as spam, and therefore tie that email to the offending party's hacker news account.

Edit: What I mean is that each hacker news account would see the email address as a different one, so when they emailed that account it uniquely identifies the account that originally viewed that email address. So, Spammer A sees Poster B's email address as hn-49384932842@ycombinator.com, and Legitimate Candidate C sees Poster B's address as hn-4494838943842@ycombinator.com. When either one emails that address, if Poster B reports the email as spam, and if enough reports accumulate, the HN account sending the spam can be docked karma and lower them below the threshold allowed to view further posts.
Adding Authentication to a React Flux App
From LinkedIn's conference call:

Strategic rationale:

- Believes that the acquisition of lynda.com will be an important step to fulfilling LinkedIn's vision of developing an "economic graph"

- Views lynda.com as essential for professionals to advance their skill sets

- Believes that acquisition of lynda.com will expand the addressable opportunity by 30B into corporate employee education and professional certifications market

- Believes that by leveraging LinkedIn's professional context, content distribution platform and channel focused base of customers, LinkedIn is well positioned to become leader in learning and development market

- Believes the mission and strategy of lynda.com is aligned with LinkedIn and will help integrate lynda.com into their business

- Sees lynda.com having large traction on university campuses which overlaps with LinkedIn's strength looks to capitalize on overlapping presence

Financial details:

- Primary focus will be maximizing long-term member and business value over short term financial results

- Views lynda.com revenue mix as 2/3 consumer driven subscriptions and 1/3 corporate enterprise

- 50% of customer base is higher education in government and other 50% is corporate enterprise

- Sees lynda.com business model made up of 70% gross margin, ~20% content / engineering and ~35% Sales and marketing with EBITDA margins of 5-10%
How to close a running process's socket
They/Schrems have been at it for a while now. They initially tried to go through the Irish DPC (Data Protection Commissioner)[1] but that wasn't very fruitful. In 2013 they issued complaints in 3 different countries. Again no outcome[2] (see 'reactions'). Now they're at this lawsuit[3] regarding the following violations:

- Data use policy which is invalid under EU law
- The absence of effective consent to many types of data use
- Support of the NSA’s ‘PRISM’ surveillance programme
- Tracking of Internet users on external websites (e.g. through ‘Like buttons’)
- Monitoring and analysis of users through ‘big data’ systems
- Unlawful introduction of ‘Graph Search’
- Unauthorised passing on of user data to external applications

Some more information about the suit can be found here https://www.fbclaim.com/ui/page/faqs

[1] http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/complaints.ht...

[2] http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/PRISM/prism.h...

[3] http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/Class_Action/...
I'm open to that in this case, though in general people tend to object to karma requirements.

The Who Is Hiring threads belong to this community. If something needs to be done to protect them for the community, we'll do it. But we'd ideally like to see a consensus emerge.

We should probably discuss this in a separate thread (and probably not today, as I'm about to be traveling). And I feel bad for taking a Show HN further off-topic, so will mark this subthread as such (which lowers it), even though it's obviously an important question.
(Not the OP). Maybe try the audio book, which is the route I took with "Quiet". It's been over a year since I listened to it, and I can't really recall any great take-away points, other than the generic "listening is important". Think of it more of a pep-talk for people who aren't overly talkative.
> The first is a world where artists abandon their craft because they are no longer able to make a living. This future definitely hurts the quality of human life and the fulfillment and enlightenment that we gain from the arts.

> The second is a world where every piece of art is an advertisement. Every video, every picture, every song is no longer the expression of the artist, but rather a vessel used to promote a product. Artists will lose their free expression in exchange for advertising space.

I disagree with these two worlds. I'm a "digital artist" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeA5A_g8EHQ). I'm not famous, and I make no money at it. Yet my drive to create art has never been stronger. This is the case with many artists I know. They make no money, and yet it is their passion. They work side jobs to support themselves. If anything, the difficulty to survive is a filter.

The second vision has not come true either. Nothing would be more disgusting to many artists than to turn their passions into an advertisement. We find other ways to pay the bills, even if it means working jobs we would rather not work so we can create our art. I believe the probability your art will be used for advertisements is MUCH higher once you've "made it."

All that said, I support the mission of this project, though I don't subscribe to the dystopian view of the future of the arts.
The Unofficial Chrome SHA1 Deprecation FAQ
I'm puzzled this article has "history" in the title. It would be more appropriately called "a few funny fiction stories and some cheap spin-doctoring on soviet computer science." Somehow it does not mention this guy, who could be called Soviet von Neumann:

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

On the other hand it does not mention von Neumann either, it talks about Norbert Wiener, whose theories have doubtful contribution to computer science. The critical articles about his theories in Soviet media were pretty ridiculous, but hardly had any effect on the development of computers or control theory in SU. The author mentions nobody else relevant to the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Ershov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Adelson-Velsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Lyapunov
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B5...

Perhaps the author took inspiration for his article from the worst examples of Soviet propaganda. Twisting the facts, mixing them with fiction in such a way that is hard to tell one from another.
This doesn't mention a time estimate anywhere. As an interview candidate it might be nice to have an idea of how much time I'm committing to with this project. Even if it is a wide range.
Don't know about that. Leaving investments up to individuals results in a lot of individuals investing exactly $0 towards retirement. By providing an incentive to save, even a 401k that provides negative returns will leave them with a retirement fund greater than zero.
ZFS on Linux 0.6.4 released
:) Thats true, however, that can be applied to almost everything. College, other certificates, etc. I'm sure you have run into folks with CS degrees that didn't know how to code and all they did was talk jargon.

I understand that there is an aspect of labeling theory that goes on with this, however, as with all things, it shows that people are willing to pay $$ to learn.

Just offering a counter point. :)
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For the same cost, maybe we should develop a few generations of unmanned fighters? Perhaps even hypersonic unmanned fighters? Hopefully, some of the R&D will make its way into the civilian sector. Defense projects ar incredibly expensive. I'd like to get more return on that investment.

e.g NY to Tokyo in 4 hours by 2035.
Earlier mainstream MMA events like the first few UFC tournaments actually allowed groin strikes. I know for at least several bouts the athletes would have a gentleman's agreement not to employ them despite the legality.

Beyond that, the problem with attacking another man's genital's is...he can attack yours too. So the athletes employ defensive measures that usually nullify each other.

There are some positions like full guard where groin strikes are much easier to pull off for one person. And what can I say - that's hard to watch. Usually at the least they're wearing cups but it can still be painful.
My closest laundromat does 10lb of laundry for $12.5 with separate washes for colors, white and whatnot, AND fold.

This seems absurdly expensive.
At a place I've worked at, the expense ratio was x10 compared to equivalent funds on the market. For example VTI had a 0.05% expense ratio while their S&P500 fund, the lowest expense ratio fund they had, was %0.5.

I asked HR multiple times if we could switch from 'great west retirement services' (now empower retirement) to something like schwab, fidelity or vanguard where the expense ratios are far lower. They never changed because it was cheaper for the company to stay on with GWRS than it would be with schwab for example.

So these crappy 401k services offer a cheap price to the company so they can make it up + more through their high expense ratio through the employees.
A lot of times it isn't that they weren't smart enough at all, they intended to move into the area and push out the farmers. Think of it as 'rural gentrification'.
> "It has been a pretty good week for Edward Snowden."

That interview with John Oliver was not good for him. And who cares about a bust in some random park? I'd say this is one of his worst weeks.
Just because it's paid doesn't make it better either.
It's one of the key differences between Homebrew and existing OS X package managers (Macports, Fink) and they talk about it quite a lot on the homepage and installation instructions. IMHO one of the reasons it's more popular.

"The standard script installs Homebrew to /usr/local so that you don’t need sudo when you brew install"

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h...

"Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local."

"Homebrew won’t install files outside its prefix, and you can place a Homebrew installation wherever you like."

http://brew.sh/
I have this weird habit where if I sit and read too much about the same topic, I have trouble retaining all of the information I just read. So, I find I can retain everything better if I read small amounts from multiple books. I sit with a stack of a few books and read chapter out of each. Weird, I know. Here's my current stack:

* The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition (Bjarne Stroustrup)

* Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14 (Scott Meyers)

* Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with WebGL (7th Edition) (Edward Angel & Dave Schreiner)

* Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (David Kushner)

* Neuromancer (William Gibson)

I most recently finished:

* Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them (Cynthia Shapiro)

* C++ for dinosaurs (Nick Economidis)

I am highly anticipating the final(?) book of the Ender's Game Series by Orson Scott Card titled Shadows Alive.

I just learned about and probably will buy:

* The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)