skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
readbo.com

newsfeed reader I tried to launch twice, the first time it ran for a year, and then I shut it down a month before google reader was announced to shut down. if I kept it running it might have worked, it was just expensive for me. the second time i worked on it, it was cool but didn't have enough good features compared to newsblur or feedly, didn't even bother launching again.

1kbitcoin.com

random bitcoin idea, I've never bothered launching it.
As soon as I started reading how it worked it reminded me of Microsoft SAGE [0] It also uses guided execution to find constraints and new bugs.

[0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/pg/public_psfi...
I have to disagree. It limits new entrants, as new entrants can't get into the large agreements easy enough to have a fighting chance.

You mention sports, but that's a total anomaly, because upstart sports franchises are not common and they tend to be big entrenched players anyhow, due to the massive physical infrastructure required to run a league.

Sporting events is just not a good example of why zero-rating should be any sort of norm. And I can't think of a good one.
Edit: Close from memory but it was 42% couldn't get help from a clerk, 47% were denied by a participating merchant and the source article is here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/04/like-all-mobile-wallets...
Edgestream Partners seeks scientists and machine learning experts to join its research team (Princeton, NJ - No Telecommuting)

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How is that? An "obsolete" Smart TV is then just a dumb TV.
I thought it might be something like that. I've never been able to do them. I just find them frustrating and quit.

I do play various puzzle games, but I'm not a huge fan of this particular type. For me personally, it would put me off your game, especially if the failure to complete the puzzle stopped me progressing.

I can't speak for other people. I may just be weird.
The problem, however, is that most standardized tests of this type discriminate against non-white, non-male test takers (at least in the United States).

Can anyone explain this? I don't understand the explanation that follows.
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Beefing up the server cannot improve client side code. Jquery is quite slow, nice, but quite slow. Sometimes writing out those 8 lines can make your code literally 400 times faster.(source : http://vanilla-js.com/) So yes if performance is a concern, you might want to look at writing it yourself.
There are a couple of distinctions to make here, both practical and probable.

First, forming an LLC does not protect you from liability in and of itself. The idea of creating an LLC is to create a legal entity that is separate from yourself. However you still must act as if you are separate from the business by creating a separate bank account and using it for all business purchases, for example. If you form an LLC but then buy all your supplies and hosting with your personal credit card, in the eyes of the law you are a sole proprietorship.

Ideally this would be done early on, as there isn't much downside. However there is some. First, there are filing fees and a lot of times you must pay a representative for your business (especially if you are filing in a different state). Then if you want to dissolve your LLC, this can cost hundreds of dollars.

Practically speaking you won't get sued unless you're already successful. The reason is quite simple. If you don't have anything worth going after (assets, an insurance policy, etc.), no lawyer is going to take the case without charging sizable fees. For most people, paying an attorney out of principle isn't going to be a realistic option. Therefore, I would say it really depends on your business and the potential liability. If you are starting a company that catalogs baby pictures, your potential liability is probably pretty low. I wouldn't worry about filing for an LLC before I had a decent set of customers. If you are starting a company storing sensitive financial data, I'd definitely file for an LLC and probably take out a large insurance policy to boot (see how those are correlated?).
It's not "hard", it's just obfuscated as it stands. I chose one of many plausible success conditions to work towards and got one step away due to what seemed like a parity error and quit.
Well, that's a different can of worms than, "I have a tool in front of me that I know how to use and is an appropriate tool for the job, but I will consciously decide not to use it. This will cause me much grief."
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No, I still prefer graffiti.
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Now. Only if they give me feedback on what I did wrong - that would be more useful I think. As it stands, however, that is calling for a lawsuit. Sigh. Catch-22.
Oh, I agree that it's a terrible decision, but people make horrible decisions all the time. Many times they won't even admit it was a bad decision in hindsight.
Since outside of math the goal of science is not proof but plausibility, this would not be an effective approach. Science is the discipline of publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference, and as such is aimed at changing the posterior plausibility of some proposition, not "proving" anything. Proof and certainty are the Alchemist's Stone: philosophers sought after them for thousands of years the way alchemists sought after the secret of turning base metals into gold, never realizing that the fundamental problem wasn't in their methods (although their methods had problems) but in their goal, which was impossible and wrong. We should seek knowledge, not certainty.

The range of means by which that can be done is huge (though considerably less than "anything goes") and there is a definite role for work that is exploratory and speculative, up to and including stuff that is almost certainly wrong but worth publishing because a) the error is not obvious and b) publishing creates the opportunity for others to respond to it, hopefully putting the error to rest for good and all. Some of the early work on the "no cloning" theorem was motivated by publications of this type (it turns out if you could clone a quantum state you could use entanglement to communicate faster than light, and there was a series of papers in Physics Letters in the late '80's proposing to do just that.)

So trusting in the self-correcting ability of the discipline of science is fundamental to its progress, and therefore insisting on some alchemical standard of "proof" as the goal for publication would fatally cripple the scientific enterprise. For science to work we have to be tolerant of the publication of error.

But we need to keep the rate of erroneous publications down to a manageable level. Peer review and society membership were ways of doing this in the past. They have broken down today, and we are still casting about for new ways to keep the error rate well above zero, but not so high as to swamp everything else.
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I have a Smart TV as well as pretty much every casting add-on and generally prefer the built-in Netflix player and only using one remote.
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Shouldn't they also take other factors into account, like image quality, sound quality, connectivity and the likes? Seems rather easy just to slap a "quality" label onto a TV just based on how well it runs the Netflix client.
I suppose it would be simple to embed the receiver in the street. You know with decent certainty where the tires will be, so if the signal works one wheel-diameter away it will be picked up.
Anybody knows who is behind this product/company/website?
Can anybody integrate with Mastercard PayPass or does Mastercard choose integration partners?
Actually, that's why I happily offer to help those who are interested in learning C to come and ping me with code snippets and to even assign them exercises and walk through them step by step with people. The world needs more competent C programmers, and if I can help with that at all, I'd like to :)
Its not difficult. The author has a stream of data (random bytes for crypto keys) which needs to be consumed in different bits of the program at different times. The traditional ways are either a global variable holding the current state of the generator or else re-assigning that state to one or more variables in a complicated and error-prone way.
Google has a single question to find out if the candidate would be a good fit or not: "do you want to support our services, and see them running for the long-term?"

The correct answer is "no, I want to shutdown as many Google services as possible, preferably after they have active users we can then infuriate. "

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Wow. This sort of underhanded advocacy really undermines the efforts of the Scala community. The half-truths and just-plain-wrong-headedness of this article defy description.

I respect that you have an opinion, but your reasoning is disingenuous at best and idiotic at worst.
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Because it's cheaper to buy a television rather than a monitor.
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The core of it (as I understand it) is that these standardized tests are written by groups of white men. Thus, the "standard" they are working to is, in fact, not all that standard, but is actually a self-replicating formula that makes sure that the next series of people to create the standardized tests are also white men.
Check out http://blockcypher.com. The APIs are easy to use and it just works, which is my main priority when doing development.
No. Holding on to outdated scientific information because it's what you learned in school is bad policy.

Pluto is not a planet, but is a nice dwarf planet, much like Ceres.
Sometimes I think "melancholy" was a better way to describe the situation than "dysthymia" or "major depressive disorder". It might be that's just your personality and the way you look at life. Maybe if it were possible to fully accept that temperament in this day and age it'd still be a burden, maybe not. But never forget, the depressed have a more accurate prediction of the future (though perhaps a skewed emotional emphasis). That's gotta be useful (or rather, there's gotta be a reason that trait got conserved). Regardless, as Allie Brosh put it:

> The problem might not even /have/ a solution. But you aren't necessarily looking for solutions. You're maybe just looking for someone to say "sorry about how dead your fish are" or "wow, those are super dead. I still like you, though."

I wonder if in the past society used to be more accepting of personality differences. Nowadays everyone makes a point of being so tolerant and accomodating but it's all based on the extraverted always-on always-happy norm. Anything else is fine so long as you acknowledge it's a disorder or a condition; otherwise ostracism. Feels like when I read about olden times there's more "oh, that's just how Fred is" but Fred's also an accepted part of the community.
Surely not! Google shutting down one of their services? Nah, they like never ever do that. /sarc
My Samsung includes Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu & HBO Go making my set of casting devices mostly superfluous. And only one remote is definitely a benefit. I think the masses are going to be happy with that.
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It's a contrived distinction. If network effects, like Facebook enjoys in social media, keep out competition, you're a classic economic monopoly.
Does Google hire the best people?
Previous discussion from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3252290

Seems about time for a repost, this is a really great read for people who are receiving or considering stock options as part of their compensation.
So wasn't Heartbleed caused by a single overly large value coming directly from the attacker?

So, yeah, fuzzing could find that but it seems like wild overkill. The normal sort of manual range checking one does when implementing a protocol would of worked too...
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Ok, found the guy behind it: https://twitter.com/tobyai
And about the integration with Mastercard: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/onebit-app-enable-bitcoin-wh...
I have:

- build.center

- misreads.com

Ping if interested.
I don't think anyone is going to touch that; I will point out though, one wouldn't expect the SAT to predict college performance because it is used to sort people into less and more competitive schools and within those schools people select their majors (and some majors are more cognitively demanding than others)
You can view their list of apis here https://developer.mastercard.com/portal/display/api/API but they do require you to go through some exercises before you can get to some of them. With the PayPass program i'm not sure on the specifics but I would assume a fairly strenuous look at your business and what you intend to do.
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I found the playground much better to browse through.

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/
Got to say, I feel pretty fucking depressed whenever I have to look at farcebook, so not surprised by this finding.
> I think it's a safe assumption that most Netflix subscribers want to watch Netflix on their TV with ease.

I think it's a safe assumption that most Netflix streaming subscribers already have a way to watch Netflix where they want it, whether that's on their TV, on some other device, or both. In some cases, when that's on a TV, its directly through the TV, but in many cases its through a Chromecast, DVD/BD player, AppleTV/Roku, etc., etc., etc.

If they are looking to replace the TV, then, in all cases except where the existing TV is also where the Netflix app is, all they need to do is replace the TV with any TV/monitor that works with their existing mechanism, which probably means "has an HDMI port". Which isn't a really difficult challenge.

The only time the friction is reduced for an existing customer by a TV with an integrated Netflix app is when they are adding a new location, or replacing an existing TV where they were already relying on an on-TV app.
It's because asymmetric cryptography is very inefficient, so most protocols just use asymmetric public/private keys to send a symmetric key (AES, etc) to the recipient, so further communications can happen over the much more efficient symmetric keys.
Actually, if you receive a message from someone using SMSSecure, you'll get a prompt asking if you want to upgrade to a secure session. But yes, there is no way to look someone up and check if they're using SMSSecure.

The detection was actually inherited from TextSecure and works by "tagging" shorter messages with some detectable whitespace after the message contents. A bit of a hack, but it's a limitation of the transport.

Relevant commit: https://github.com/SMSSecure/SMSSecure/commit/93d94f2b7a9fd6...
We took that out of the title since it's so baity.

All: please let's not argue about that ludicrous title, which I'm sure the author had nothing to do with. At first glance, this piece looks a lot more substantive than the usual posts about hiring. Let's discuss the strongest bits. (Come to think of it, that's the Principle of Charity applied to articles.)
The big one is Reddit AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/AMA
There are municipalities in the bay area that are requiring new companies' new head quarters campuses to install these readers on their own properties to monitor ALL traffic driving by them.

And if you tell anyone about which city and which company, they threaten you with legal repercussions.
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> One does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in one's travels on a public street. Anyone (including police) can follow you, record where you go, photograph you, etc.

I think people definitely do have a reasonable expectation that they aren't being followed everywhere they travel, and if you framed it in that way many would see it as a violation of privacy.
Sorry I didn't answer more quickly.

Yes, that's what I mean by crowdsourced data. I agree on the safety concerns while driving. However, even if you could collect data on emotions of people throughout the day in a city... that would be insanely useful for planners... aka knowing when people are angry sitting in traffic, scared in sketchy areas of the city, or where they go for walks often because it's a beautiful park. They can analyze all that data to plan smarter cities. The issue here is: how do you engage the "crowd" enough for them to share this data?

Yes the city API idea is definitely cool. With all the data opening up it's good timing for sure... Only thing is, I heard the API aren't exactly perfect. Depends on what you are working on. I met with a Founder of a Parking App that was building on data like you are talking about.
If you have very little, you've got very little to worry about...

An attractive statement but totally wrong.

If you have very little - if you are poor, you have to worry about renting a roof for yourself, and food to eat, and clean-enough water, and having enough warmth, and healthcare, and then all of those things for each member of your family.

Every second of every day.

So much that you cannot manage anything else.

That contributes towards depression, sure.

Find something you truly love doing? This is usually something that rich people have the capacity and opportunity to do.
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> Nothing wrong with enjoying your sea salt - you'll probably get plenty of iodine from water, flour, milk, eggs, seafood, etc.

Seaweed an even more potent source of iodine, and the Japanese eat a lot of it. The concentration of iodine in these marine plants ranges from 0.5-8.0 mg/g. Terrestrial plants, in contrast, contain only trace amounts of iodine, 0.001 mg/g.

In 1964, the Nutrition Section of Japan's Bureau of Public Health found that people in Japan consumed a daily average of 4.5 g of seaweed with measured iodine content of 3.1 mg/g, or 13.8 mg of iodine. Saltwater fish and shellfish contain iodine, but one would have to eat 15-25 pounds of fish to get 13 mg of iodine.

[Nutrition Section, Bureau of Public Health. Nutrition in Japan, 1964. Tokyo, Japan: Ministry of Health and Welfare; 1965. ]
I stumbled across this yesterday - it is a known issue with IDEA 14.1. There's instructions on a fix here: https://github.com/cursiveclojure/cursive/issues/813
Not a full window manager, but I've used Winsplit Revolution for years to manually re-tile my windows. I have it set to use ctrl+alt and then the grid of keys:

qwe

asd

zxc

...to move windows into corners, sides, or the center of the screen. Hitting the same key over and over re-sizes it to take up more or less of the screen. It's sadly no longer being developed, but works fine on Win8 and Win10 (and so probably will continue to work into the foreseeable future).
Like everyone they hire the best, the average and the worst in some proportion. No matter how you interview, you really don't know the what their contribution will be until X days after the hire date. And X is often a random value.
I second this. Although I myself use Emacs and am very happy with it, Cursive allows focusing on Clojure and not on the setup. Though once some level of skill has been achieved, I'd recommend Emacs. :)
I really like this website and hope it continues to add examples. As a Microsoft oriented developer, it's nice to be able to peek over the shoulder of someone who is knowledgeable in another area and see how they do things.
Bug? How? Why? Where? When?
That and PGP, AFAIK, also doesn't really do perfect forward secrecy. If you get the private key, you can decrypt all stored messages.

That said, you provide the answer: use PGP's asymmetric encryption to establish a session key, then use that to communicate.
They didn't tell him not to work at Google, just not on the project they were on. (My interpretation of GP's comment).
The playground is possibly my favorite thing about BabylonJS. Makes it very easy to share sample code and ask for help. It uses daily library builds, so several times I've submitted a bug along with a playground link reproducing the issue, and the next morning it just works.
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6 first-come, first served invitations.

I love the idea of Keybase and wish more people were using it. While it's not a replacement for keysigning parties, it's a nice probabilistic model for casual security.
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I have been depressed and I suspect this is a two-way street.

You go to Facebook to self-medicate your depression, but Facebook contributes towards your depression.

It's the same with alcohol - to which I compare this situation.

People with depression think that alcohol helps because it gives them a fast dopamine hit, but alcohol is a potent depressant.
Your honesty is admirable. But this delves into a much deeper question. What exactly makes you different from every other recruitment house? Companies come looking for talent and pay a fee or a percentage for the people they find. You have a database of talent which is curated based on some way of looking at github commit history. I guess I can see how that can be quite useful when trying to hire someone.

But then from this situation it looks like you aren't getting the type of talent you need to fill the positions you have. So you did what most recruitment firms do. You sent out a form letter trying to get the best talent you could find (like the Director of Security for Heroku) to sign up for your service to keep the companies that are looking for happy.

I am not trying to make you look bad or whatnot. You've already apologized. But I (and I would imagine quite a few others here on HN) use a lot of recruitment services either to be hired or to hire others. Can you talk a bit as to how you plan to be different and find or place that talent better in the future?