skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm honestly glad this is one CEO who's not figuratively sucking the Wall Street c. I know* he's expected to do that for the good of Capitalism and all that junk, but, honestly, is pleasing a bunch of, basically, very-overpaid gamblers what we should strive for, as a society, as a culture, as a country?

What about happiness? Less stress? Not hating the 8-10 hours a day you spend of your life working? Why is funneling money up the chain to those that already have more than any human could possibly know what to do with, such a great thing ???

Yes yes. I know. I have a 401k too. We're all in on this, but I'm glad that somewhere, someone, decided to take one for the team, so to speak, and made a few dozen people happy. Just because he could. And if that pissed off a bunch of "investors" because the shares dropped from $82.52 to $81.88, I'm ok with that.
The audience doesn't need instant feedback and low latency, the performers do. If you listen to a classic rock album, you're hearing the sounds with a "latency" decades after they've been played. But the playing is cohesive and tight. If one of the guitarists was consistently 50ms off, you would notice it.

> Most Android apps have more than 100 ms of audio output latency, and more than 200 ms of round-trip (audio input to audio output) latency.

It's also much more than just 10ms latency. I play with digital instruments all the time, the latency can be as high as 15ms before I can tell. I don't know if an audience can perceive a 15ms latency, especially because you tend to "play early" to have notes land on time. But it's very upsetting for performing.

I haven't tried playing with music apps on Android recently, but when I did, the latency was not just long, but inconsistent, and would result in stuttering in the audio.
Insecure... how, exactly? It's only as insecure as your browser's parsers for other formats.
Just make sure not to filter tedious unconstructive 7-year-old lists of grievances. We can't live without those.
The implication here is that (incapable of selecting the best applicant == complete idiot).

From what I've seen/heard/experienced, hiring is amazingly difficult, and the main reason most professions don't suffer a lot is that there is a large pool of sufficiently capable people that accuracy isn't necessary, and where tech and other profession particularly suffer (and thus expose the problems that are otherwise universal) is that demand far exceeds supply.

I'm hijacking your comment a little, since I agree with your base point that attracting better people would improve their applicant pool and I fully expect they'd see a benefit from this (whether my point is correct or not), but I did want to point out one of my pet areas of concern: We all suck at hiring.
What's better, a brute force algorithm that is cheap and simple but slow, or a highly optimized system that is expensive and complex and fast?

The answer is of course "it depends." Certainly the Roomba could be smarter, faster, and more efficient, but the question is how much more are customers willing to pay for those.
Thanks! And if you all put on a Vim conference, I would love to attend :) (Vim has like 5x the users of Emacs, right? that makes it easy :P)
It seems to be offline now?
You see cars that drive themselves on public roads regularly without human intervention and monitoring? Do tell.
I use Emacs with windows. Native windows.
Why can't Meteor do server-side rendering? The whole design seems almost ideal for it.
This "red pill" metaphor really can apply to anything. For example for a high-level programming language user, C could be a red-pill if learning it helps them visualize what's happening automagically thanks to the VM/interpreter of their usual language.
Not necessarily. One of the interesting results from LADEE was that the measured lunar dust increased a few hours before the probe landed (attributed possibly to the geminid meteor shower). There's lots of stuff that can kick dust off the lunar surface.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Atmosphere_and_Dust_Envir...
Critical Microsoft IIS Vulnerability Leads to RCE (MS15-034)
Acton on Demand
I agree. Realistically I think this will be a short-lived experiment; everyone who got the raise will keep it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they go back to paying new hires a market-competitive salary within 12 months.
Why I built an Instagram-based service
How do you keep the window you want to use visible and distinguishable? If you ever drag windows around to find the one you want, a tiling WM could help you.
Alternatively, offload TLS to GPU's: http://hgpu.org/?p=2472
Very nice. Much cleaner than the memory copying we had to do on ST-Minix. (But the Mill obviously still has an MMU, the MC68000 had nothing so we couldn't implement COW.)
Polymer Gopher: Building Google App Engine Apps with Go
Check out this new courseware from Acton. Looks like MBA-style lessons for startupers. Focused on Valuation, Operations, Customer dev, Growth, etc. Anyone tried it?
I believe it's the stranglehold of the pharmaceutical industry on psychology that prevents research like this from going forward. Instances like Isak's ordeal with PANDAS and Susannah Cahalan's battle with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis show that more research should go into how infections and autoimmune response can cause some forms of mental illness.

I was particuarly appalled when I read that doctors gave Isak anti-depressants to treat his mental illness. These are the medicines the pharmaceutical industry have been pushing on us for decades to treat any malady of the mind, and they have been proven to be barely more effective than placebo treatments.

Their first priority is pushing pills, not our well-being.
3 reasons why story points are better than hours
> Because they're not evaluating the things that scale. .. also the legal paperwork, which grows only linearly

Um, that is something that scales.

> The cost of valuating the company, negotiating, getting board consent, etc., are all basically constant.

I don't see how that can be, though. If the company is just my friend and I, your "board consent" is just getting the two of us to say yes (assuming we are not structured as an LCC, in which case it is irrelevant). The cost of appraising a purchase is generally related to how much it is claimed to be worth. Ditto with negotiating; a higher price tag or larger organization brings more things to haggle over.
That's because no one is mentioning the company name -- it's just nameless CEO gives nameless employees more money. The company is Gravity Payments.
Speed Fighter – 85% accurate 3d remake of NES classic Road Fighter
Yes, that seems reasonable.
So, do you have an emulator, or are you running open-loop?
CEO's fiduciary responsibility to whom, exactly? He's sole owner of the business.

Now, if he has loans outstanding, his bankers might raise an eyebrow about whether this move reduces his ability to repay; private investors would have a similar concern. But if he can demonstrate that his business will continue to deliver the returns he's committed to to those creditors, what does it matter to them whether he is spending additional money on his staff, or on replacing all the potted plants in his office, or on giving himself a big fat bonus?
This blunt move can get him loyalty in return ,which itself is a requirement for taking his business one step ahead .
The staging aspect of this is what I'm really looking forward to. Once this works I'm hooked. I'd also gladly pay for a plugin this complex and all the benefits it provides.
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Harnessing technology to make zero-hours culture less exploitative
Hey Sam, I work for http://bytemark.co.uk

What are you trying to do? What's it for?

There's a whole bunch of pros and cons to dedicated servers, bang for buck, uptime, customer service, networking...

If you explain what you're planning on using it for, I might be able to tailor some suggestions as to what might suit you best - always happy to offer helpful suggestions - even if it's not about our products.
Like New England in the winter?
> This is the perfect situation to sue. You will win.

Sue for what? Kickstarter doesn't have any obligations, and there doesn't seem to be any formal agreements between the author of this post and the gamemaker... and finally the author of the post is Canadian while the game-maker is American.

Feel like figuring out the details of international trademark / copyright law to build up a case?
The missing context here that no other comments have mentioned is that the violence in question here is almost certainly perpetrated by and against poor blacks. Race relations in the US--particularly those between the black urban poor and whites--are definitely not ideal. I'm sure you've seen media coverage of the Michael Brown shooting and related incidents.

It's a terrible situation that most people aren't motivated to do anything about because it, for the most part, only affects poor black people. The vast majority of Americans never experience any of this violence beyond seeing it in the news.
Exactly. California's drought has literally zero effect on anybody else. Maybe a bit on people downstream of California's rivers and such.

So the consideration that "people are going thirsty" should have zero effect on how Californians deal with their problem. It serves nothing more than as an emotional device to make people feel bad.
He does stuff on the server? In the part where he mentions using windows, he says he uses SSH into a server. Windows might be bad, but is it too bad to host a text terminal client?
First off, nothing personal against you here. Onto the post:

Read his comment again.

This article is painting a picture of silicon valley kids coming up with exciting new nootropic drugs that will help us perform better mentally.

OP is saying this new "nootropic industry" smells and sounds like the bullshit that's peddled in Utah. He's not wrong. I can smell the jizz from the pants of the PR guy who coordinated this article with Observer. Unless these new drugs are rigorously studies and their efficacy is independently verified, we're going to be bombarded by all sorts of pseudo-drugs and supplements that are unregulated, untested and potentially dangerous. You're going to see marketing guys, PR men, and all sorts of phoneys trampling over themselves to get a piece of the nootropic action. They'll form associations and lobby for nootropic friendly legislation that defangs the FDA so these marketing psychopaths can experiment on us with their secret blends of brain food.

That's a legit concern because we've seen this sort of nonsense repeated throughout history for hundreds of years. Some of the stuff might be good, most of it will be garbage, and the overwhelming majority of people won't have enough skill or training to be able to discern the bullshit from the real deal. Most pharmaceutical "autodidacts" who "research their shit" online will have no fucking idea what they're talking about, but they'll be more than happy to confidently share their ignorance with others. They won't be able to discern real independent research from industry sponsored research because modern PR groups and associations are really good at lying. The pharmaceutical companies know how to manipulate doctors. Do we really think these marketing and PR assholes can't dupe some autodidactic dipshits who extract only the most vague understanding of the "research" they just happen to come across.

That's what he was getting at, not that there aren't brain enhancing drugs, but that he smells the bullshit coming down the road.

It all starts with a bullshit name that sounds smart (Oohh nootropics!), but is legally vague enough to skirt any meaningful regulation or discernment between bona fide brain enhancers and grass clippings put into pills. You add a story about how nootropics are the future and then you divide the market up into "reputable" brands vs. unreputable brands. People don't have the mental tools to be able to discern what's good or bad, so they'll naturally follow the "wisdom of the crowd" and tell themselves they researched it.

It's the same fucking story. Science and understanding is substituted with brand reputation once again.

Fuck nootropics. Not brain enhancers, but the word nootropic.
> I am unfortunately not prepared for open-sourcing ACUMAN's main architecture code due to it still competing in contests and fairs.

Since you wrote the entire thing, you could AGPL it for now and then pick a less restrictive license later.

(could, is, of course, not should, but it's an option people don't always consider)
John does not mention Borg by name publicly (well, until the paper was published). That's what I meant (consistent with what I was replying to). The article you linked to confirms that.

"According to Wilkes, Google plans to publish a research paper on Borg (though he still won’t use the name). "

Wilkes won’t even call it Borg. “I prefer to call it the system that will not be named,"

(I work with John and have contributed to Borg)
I thought this was going to be an article about Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, notoriously associated with Project MKUltra, and his curious hypothesis of contagious mental illnesses and how psychiatric conditions might possibly be transmitted by way of the mere interactions of differing personalities, and institutional social norms:

Cameron stated, "Get it understood how dangerous these
damaged, sick personalities are to ourselves - and above
all, to our children, whose traits are taking form and
we shall find ways to put an end to them." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron#Mental_ill...
What about over the net? One of the listed strengths is its streaming capabilities, which implies sending it over the net. Error correction would be important there as well.
Probably... Hopefully they're using org files to sooth some of the pain. :-)

org files work well on Github. I've got an open issue that would make using org files even more usable.

https://github.com/github/markup/issues/473

If this gets fixed, it'll be easier to maintain a blog, site, etc on Github with org files.
"What that paper really demonstrates is the need for a TLS stack in the kernel that can let userspace daemons benefit from low-level optimizations. I, for one, would love to see something like this added to the linux kernel!"

The direction the industry seems to be going in instead is to put the network stack in userspace. Same effect on speed, less likely to produce kernel vulnerabilities.
10ms is fine. The problem is that Android apps cannot reach 10ms. The title and article aren't very clear on that point.
It's had a lot of cycles :)
It's a holy war, like vim vs emacs and tabs vs spaces. Tread carefully.

If you want to read more on it, there's a discussion in the Wiki: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?IsSchemeLisp
very impressive Sean. Would you consider doing an interview for doers.bz?
Wait, this article is from a year ago.
They need to be able to stabilize the rocket's landing in all sorts of conditions if they want to have any hope of landing it on another planet. It's not like interplanetary launches will be able to schedule launches to choose optimal weather conditions for the landing. Maybe, if they're lucky, they'll be able to orbit briefly to avoid bad weather at the landing site, but moderate winds and wind gusts are going to be a problem. If it's impossible to reliably land under those conditions, the whole idea is flawed for the purposes of interplanetary flight. You can't have rockets going to Mars, and only have 50% or 75% surviving for relaunch. That's not the kind of cost reduction that will make interplanetary travel and resupply feasible.

It would obviously help with LEO launch costs, though, or any return landings on Earth. Even if rocket stages are only recovered some of the time, and not reliably, that's a significant cost savings and well worth doing. It's just that Musk is so intent on interplanetary travel driving all this technology. If it's only for cost savings for Earth landings, a parachute system or a specially designed (more accommodating) landing complex/barge could work too, right?

> (paraphrasing multiple comments) "but this is to re-land rocket stages on Earth"

Here's an interview where he specifically talks about his long term goal of landing rocket stages on other planets. He says parachutes negatively affect reusability, I'm not sure how much of that is potential damage or off-site landing and how much is the necessity to reinstall a parachute for the next launch. The point here is that he is clearly not thinking only of Earth landings in developing this technology. I think some sort of assisted landing or more developed landing site could increase chance of recovery and reusability for Earth landings, decreasing total launch costs for Earth orbit missions, at the cost of not being applicable to landings on other planets.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpmaLY9XdI?t=11m30s
The first Apple homepage
Sort of like why audience clapping tends to get really messy until the performer does the "hands above the head" thing to get them back in sync.
You're only saying that because you're a bigot: A person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.

If you ever feel bad about being a bigot - don't - because whether you realize it or not, people generally look down upon bigots, so you've already been getting back what you've been putting out.
Bumping a salary is an ongoing expense and commitment, and it has several serious long-term consequences. You can buy 900k in publicity outright and be done or 900k in publicity by bumping salaries and have an ongoing commitment with very substantial HR and tax implications. They'd have to extract a lot more publicity than they could've gotten by paying a PR firm a million dollars to make it worthwhile. I doubt that's happened.
On the last point, I think that's a risk, but the dead-end can still be big enough to make a small company quite wealthy. For example one of the more successful niche-tech companies in Denmark makes a portal that many Danish doctor's offices use. They did a good job really digging into how their market worked and what it wanted, so it's very customized to the way Danish healthcare works. Although it has some benefits for patients too (if a doctor uses this portal, patients can book appointments online, etc.), the real selling point has been that they identified what administrative work produces a lot of the per-office overhead at small offices, and offload much of that, so the doctor saves more in administrative salaries than they pay for the PaaS. They also have a fairly "high-touch" sales process to convince doctors that their product really will help them out. This company is probably not going to grow outside of Denmark, but it makes a lot of money in Denmark (comparatively speaking), and its market is so specialized that it's somewhat protected from external competitors.
The NYTimes article clearly states that this was motivated by concerns about inequality rather than shifting what kind of people are hiring. If you have a source that contradicts this, it would be great to see it.

"His idea bubbled into reality on Monday afternoon, when Mr. Price surprised his 120-person staff by announcing that he planned over the next three years to raise the salary of even the lowest-paid clerk, customer service representative and salesman to a minimum of $70,000."

"“They were walking me through the math of making 40 grand a year,” he said, then describing a surprise rent increase or nagging credit card debt.

“I hear that every single week,” he added. “That just eats at me inside.”

Mr. Price said he wanted to do something to address the issue of inequality, although his proposal “made me really nervous” because he wanted to do it without raising prices for his customers or cutting back on service."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/business/owner-of-gravity-...
A journey from freelance thoroughbred to product novice
The code features some extensive use of coroutines: https://github.com/kingluo/luajit.io/blob/master/lib/ljio/so...

I wonder how nice they are to use compared to threads, or even to node-style CPS.
So, teams are terrible at estimating hours, but individuals aren't?

I'd argue that the reason we're poor at estimating hours is because we're poor at perceiving complexity. Story points don't fix this.
So in your world, nothing grows organically unless it's about a big company?

Success Kid has a bone to pick with you.

Granted, it's not ruled out that this is a paid publicity stunt, but frankly, it has all the right bits to be an attractive story without any sinister manipulation:

* CEO makes 1 mill - that's a very special number to people's minds.
* The little guys make bank - everyone loves that!

I'm sure the company is happy to reap the rewards of attention (I'm sure their HR dept has no problem drawing applicants now!), and likely even tried to capitalize on the announcement in general, but frankly, this is exactly the sort of story that all my relatives* would tell everyone they know about, no push needed.

*Funny how "relatives": serves as a placeholder for "the non-savvy/cynical/technical masses". Guess I have my own streak of cynicism.
I think they want to return to a launch site, just not neccessarily the site that launched the rocket in the first place. AFAIK that's why they want to have multiple sites.
Yes, but it would at least hamstring their ability to make law 'in absence', they'd have to show up and formally register assent, dissent or not vote. That way they would not be able to pretend they had nothing to do with it.
No, it implies that a programmer has zero desire to do programming work for their employer in their own time. I know plenty of people like that, myself included.

Although I count programming as one of my hobbies, as well as the way I earn a crust, the two activities are quite different.
I really love the idea behind this. The team is dedicated too. I have been following it for awhile, hoping they would get here. Great work.
By analyzing differentials in the signals from each beacon, which is how WiFi positioning systems work now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system

Anyway, WiFi actually operates in unlicensed spectrum, not in WiFi-specific spectrum, so continuous carrier waves would be legal too.
It feeds into a growing desire for immediacy, which wanky trend types call 'nowism'. People are becoming less and less interested in what has happened, and increasingly focused on what is happening right this second. It's much more desirable to see what's going on backstage at Glastonbury right this second than a recording of what happened earlier that day.
I thought perhaps they interviewed for a job over the internet, but got their dog to do it.
The easiest way to get attention from the media is by creating something that the media is interested in. Internet media types love the idea of citizen journalists submitting live video from breaking events, so it's an appealing angle for them to write about. The story (what Meerkat could do) is a lot more exciting than the current reality (how many people are _actually_ using Meerkat).
> "Just purely the boat moving, even in a low sea state, it's hard to imagine that vehicle is going to stay vertical," Shotwell said. "That vehicle is big and tall, compared to the itty-bity-greater-than-a-football-field-size ship."

Is this a new development? This contradicts both a lot of things I read over the Internet (granted, those were not official SpaceX statements) and the apparently still ongoing plans to build a second barge.
Ask HN: What is the best RPC method over HTTP nowadays?
We need to develop a simple access control web service, which handles user login/logout, check-in, check-out and access persmission checking. It's clearly does not fit in REST style, because there will be no resources and the service will handle business logic.

What is the best way to do this over HTTPS nowadays, especially if the service is written in Python? Is it JSON-RPC, XML-RPC, SOAP? Why?