skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit curious. I was under the impression that changing your site to show different content to "Google" than "regular users" was against TOS and could get you banned from results all together. Do big companies pay to get around these restrictions or have there been rule changes in Google Search?
StudioNow had been broken off from AOL and repurchased back by the initial investors two years ago, although AOL still holds a minor stake in StudioNow (at the time). [1]

Disclosure: I used to work for AOL StudioNow.

1: http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/morning_call/2013/01/st...
Built to Last?
In the video they looked apprehensive for a moment when lily landed in the river next to the kayak. Or maybe that was just me feeling apprehensive for them.
So you don't imagine you being the one home with your children, day in and day out? Life with children is demanding. It's a bit more complex than what you allude to. Not that I'd recommend not having children, I love mine and love taking care of them, but a more realistic view is appropriate, e.g. try googling "toddlers are assholes". :)
I see you wrote a Chrome extension that cuts most of the ads from NYT.
No, you can't control these things. All I'm saying is I'm disappointed to see yet another one.

However I would much rather spend my time building new features then having to find ways to ensure a paywall is not circumvented.
These guys have an open source plugin that allows IE to join the webRTC party.

http://skylink.io/plugin/

This library they also have makes WebRTC cross browser compatible.

https://github.com/Temasys/AdapterJS
To be fair, I was a self taught programmer (albeit PHP) and I was on my second or third programming job before I came across a modulus in the wild. It's really simple basic programming theory, but not super common in live web development.
Shadows of Itanium: Russian firm debuts Elbrus 4 CPU with onboard x86 emulation
Show HN: Pyre – A command-line interface for Tinder
That's a wolf.
Serious question. Is this not a thing being sold already? The design is really nice and the video is really well done... the waterproof seems maybe a new thing.

I have seen multiple promo videos for various drones offering same "follow me" feature.

Here's one I found in few seconds https://store.3drobotics.com/products/iris

The 3d mapping on this one is amazing.
I wonder how this handles obstacles. The trails we ride are not wide open ski slopes, or rivers, often times they are tight/wooded trails. Would like to see how it handles "close following".

Lastly, the part in the video where the guy just tosses it into the river was definitely mind-blowing.
Never heard of Circa News before, thanks for mentioning it.
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Amex allows you to dispute charges very easily. Their dispute resolution process is slanted in favor of the cardholder rather than the merchant.
I mean, it's one incident, at one point in time, with very little context. I'm hardly in a position to judge somebody based on that. Who here hasn't said something insensitive or less than compassionate to somebody else, at some point in time? Does that mean we're all bad people? Nah...

Even though I'm totally not religious, I try to adhere somewhat to that old saw about "let ye who be free from sin throw the first stone" or whatever.
Here is George from BuddyGuard - for any questions on how we manage the artificial intelligence algorithms, or how we make everything a seamless experience, I'm here to answer! :-)
I think this is slightly exaggerated. Microbiomes are very dynamic and can change very often.
They're either shutting down or being acquired soon: http://fortune.com/2015/04/30/news-app-circa-buyer/
Why should I support the work? The work is given away for free on Google searches. I value a WSJ article very little unless it is free. I want to support their work with exactly zero dollars. Why is that a problem? I would prefer that everyone working at the WSJ were just doing something else with their lives. Is it okay for me to align my spending with my values?
Yeah, I wanted a stylus and at the time Pencil was one of the only ones that worked on the iPad I had, so when I got it, I played around in Paper and it's such a slick experience, but wasn't really the kind of app I needed. It is the app I show people who ask about the Pencil though.

So I'm stoked to check out the new features.
They're trying to increase the pipeline of software developers. One way to solve the problem of not being able to hire the workforce you need is to train more workforce. This guide is a very inexpensive way for them to increase the top end of the funnel at basically zero cost or obligation to themselves. The topics are pretty specific to the types of work you'd do at Google; they're good, although the field of software engineering is much broader than what's listed here.
A Review of the CallFire Communication Platform – By Kin Lane
Conclusion
In short, the CallFire passes my review. There are several key areas like mobile, and roadmap communication, that are missing from the platform entirely, but then there are other areas CallFire nails almost every one of my review criteria. The API is robust, the documentation is complete, and they provide all the essential support building blocks.

One of the things that really stand out for me is the CallFire business model, something that I think really cuts through the BS of many APIs I look at. CallFire has a clear business model, and the tools to manage your API usage. There is no grey area with the business of model for CallFire, which is something I just don't see a lot of.

I'd say my biggest concern with the platform is the lack of diverse code resources. I can't tell if they are just getting going, or maybe the lack of developer skills is slowing the diversity of available coding resources--I am just not sure. My guess is their is a lack of diverse developer skills on staff, which explains the lack of mobile SDKs, and the SOAP residue on the REST API. My advice is to invest in the developer resources necessary to load the platform up with a wide variety of coding resources that developers can put to work in their projects.

Lots going on with the CallFire platform, I recommend taking a look at what they are up to.

Read the full review here: http://apievangelist.com/2015/05/03/a-review-of-the-callfire-communication-platform/
> Actually it was the Department of Justice that created this mess.

That's an interesting way of looking at it. "Wet streets cause rain" as I just read in a different comment.
Oh, well AMEX in general is the most liberal with consumer-protection. If it ends up being fake, or the end product is nothing like the description, or whatever, AMEX just credits you with no questions asked. They also do lots of cool stuff like automatically doubling warranties and such.
I imagine that one problem is that if it's too small, it will be unstable in wind... So since they need a certain amount of weight for stability anyway, might as well devote it to big batteries (rather than being small and dense).
I'm very impressed by the capabilities. I've seen 'follow me' drones before, but I don't know if I've seen any that are waterproof or as compact as this. And the smiling face on the front is a nice touch.

It's still hard to part with my money (even at 50% off) when the ship date is next year though. I've been burned by various kickstarter projects that get delayed ad infinitum.
Thanks. I know that "pure" is not thread-safe. I'm quite happy to consider the expressivity of Haskell's monadic approach to effects in a sequential setting first -- much easier to reason about. I wonder if anybody has investigated this expressivity problem. If not, there's an interesting problem waiting to be tackled.
It looks like it's actually

return $(window).height()-20*0;

Which is just subtracting zero from the result. Not sure why. The only reason I know for doing that is to cast a string to a number without the function overhead of parseInt(). Furthermore, I don't actually see any code using that function.
Is Lily a Drone? Or Is It a Camera?
Guess what I do when I hit a paywall like this? I get annoyed and close the site. Just because I click a link doesn't mean I value it. I would be just as happy if no one ever sent these links to anyone.

As far as I'm concerned people that let google index their site and try to paywall everyone else are the ones abusing the system.
I need a 'facebook sent me' version, lots of websites allow facebook references but not neccesarily google.

I'm reduced to going to facebook and sending a message to myself with the url so I can click on it.
But it's possible that they've lost some of their technology. Or that it's a punitive outpost - a space-jail, where they work off their debt to their society by mining, or performing astronomical observations, or something else.
We'll change the URL for you if you like.
Heck, I work at a vendor (professional services) and trying to get pricing for my own company's offerings is next to impossible. The best I can find is list price, but of course no one pays the list price so that's useless. The sales folks hesitate to state a price as well, saying that it varies. Of course it does.
I love learning about people who are incredible outliers. This quote really struck me.

"Paul Erdos has passed on to us Hardy's personal ratings of mathematicians. Suppose that we rate mathematicians on the basis of pure talent on a scale from 0 to 100, Hardy gave himself a score of 25, Littlewood 30, Hilbert 80 and Ramanujan 100" - Bruce C Berndt

[1] http://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan.html
This drone does not seem at all to be optimized for surf. It even says in the FAQ to be cautious when putting it in salted water.

But yes, 20 minutes is really short, it's its major default. I suppose it was a necessary sacrifice to make this kind of product at this time.
This was very interesting, thanks for writing it up! And I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed by the end result, looks fantastic!

Do you have anything planned to pull in data from the iOS calendar? Probably wouldn't be easy to work out how to fit this with the idea of possibly syncing timeless events back as well. I love your app's visuals but not so much the idea of manually keeping two calendars more or less up to date.
Especially at the rate that batteries degrade. It'll be no time before you're getting 3-4 minutes per charge!
Who'd link to the NYT if it was always a paywall, indeed?

Of course I understand that the publishers don't want to cut themselves out of the conversation.

But why must "the conversation" be limited to powerful internet companies? Do we not converse about news articles in blog posts? Comment threads? Up and coming social platforms that don't have Facebooks media clout yet?

It's simply unfair to treat a visitor arriving at your site from Google differently to a visitor arriving at your site from anywhere else. It runs against the grain of the web. To that end, if I hadn't published this extension, someone else would have made it. If Google removes "Referer" privileges from Chrome extensions, someone will fork Chromium to allow them again. Let's build a better — a more fair — paywall.
For what it's worth, I just got a Dell M3800, and couldn't be happier with it. While I do miss the trackpoint on my Thinkpad, the trackpad on the M3800 is one of the finest I've used on any laptop ever. Only second to the Macbook trackpad and Logitech T650 (which I consider equally as good as one another). Other than that, it's light, sturdy, and the 4k screen is magnificent.
Faster Model Tuning and Experimentation
Because it's easier to put innocent people in prison than it is to catch those who are actually guilty, so making cops' jobs as easy as possible pretty much requires mass quantities of false imprisonment.
Sorry for the late reply.

I mean that caffeine and sugar both have an energy upswing and an energy downswing associated with them. If you're already having issues with motivation, maybe even with lethargy, the downswing will potentially take you from minimally functional to useless. Any sleep or nutrition problems will also exaggerate this effect.
Yes. My guess is you're leaving that statement hanging to make a larger point?

If so I'd love to add that I'm annoyed by some of the tactics and lengths that publishers go to to monetize content ad the expense of user-experience and other costs.

The only path right now are ads, 'sponsored content', 'native units'.

I would much rather we have a subscription-based model that generated enough revenue to ween them off awful ad experiences.

Thats very much an aspirational goal.

My larger point is that having readers circumvent that, as opposed to supporting that, is disheartening to many of us who are working on the inside to push change.

BTW: And that extension was a redesign, of which ads were removed or moved. The NYT legal dept had Google remove it.
I understand your frustration, but I think you're complaining that you didn't get an option that was never realistically on the table in the first place. Your respect for the W3C matters a lot less to them than millions of people being able to watch content produced by a billion dollar industry, which much of that industry simply isn't willing to make available without DRM-style safeguards at the present time.

Yes, we used to use plug-ins for video. This worked reasonably well for quite a long time. I do think calling those plug-ins non-standard is a bit of a joke, given that Flash had 90+% market penetration for years and ran acceptably well almost everywhere, putting it far ahead of any browser in terms of portability and compatibility. By any reasonable definition, it was the de facto standard for on-line video streaming.

Then Apple decided not to follow that standard and broke the Web for their users. For those users, a lot of major sites still "don't work properly" today because of Apple's arrogance. Browser makers are playing along anyway, so now we have an HTML5 video ecosystem where the closest thing to a universally supported video format is patent-encumbered anyway. It is still supported on fewer systems than video using Flash players used to be. And instead of security flaws with your "non-standard" plug-ins like Flash, you're inevitably going to see security flaws with whatever media extensions you install instead (unless you think low-level, natively executed code written in error-prone programming languages and provided by the same kinds of organisations who used to provide the plug-ins is somehow magically going to be secure this time around, in which case I know a Nigerian prince who has a great deal to offer you).

This isn't progress. In what is becoming a serious and recurring problem with the modern web, issues other than what gives the best experience to users and makes things easiest for content providers to provide content are dominating the discussions. Many of the proposals are advocated by other parties with vested interests. And in the end, the result is that less stuff works, and stuff works less well, than the "legacy", "insecure" standards that have actually done the required job pretty well for a decade or two.
> lots of websites allow facebook references but not neccesarily google

Like what?
The Zen of Burnout
I don't think you are disagreeing with the article. I took one of the crypto classes recommended. I did well, learned a lot, and enjoyed myself, but in no way does that mean I've mastered cryptography.

All in all the recommendations seem reasonably achievable in a few years of conscientious part time effort.
The Internet mob has only one rule: "Guilty until proven innocent".

I suspect that the turmoil has been caused by the upcoming book http://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/0... and its dubious marketing strategy: http://uk.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-email-tesla-employee...

As you can see from a recent thread, It's easy to fall into the clichè of drama and hubris https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9526362 Some users even imply he may be a sociopath.

We are not quite able to cope with the success of other people. We MUST find some kind of weakness, or tradeoff: this is why media love troubled geniuses. "Sure, Einstein was a great physicist, but did you know that [insert meaningless gossip]". It gives us the illusion of being morally superior, because of the false dichotomy between love/affection/community and money/mastery/fame.
Sorry but too many people are focused on just the NSA. Two administrations have defended these programs, as have the heads of the FBI, NSA, CIA, and the FISA court supposedly providing oversight. So the problem extends well beyond just NSA wordsmithing section 215, there are a lot of other agencies doing this with an executive who either actively supports it or tacitly accepts it.

Jim Sensenbrenner, who is the primary author of the Patriot Act (and therefore section 215,) has unequivocally said it doesn't authorize bulk collection. Two years ago he warned the heads of all of these agencies to change their policies or section 215 wasn't going to be renewed meaning any legitimate programs under section 215 become illegal. And it seems they've all been obstinately tone deaf, there's no evidence they've changed anything, they haven't even bothered to lie that they have changed their behavior in order to try and keep these programs.
I took a contract at this great place with highly experienced team members which had been acquired by Verizon a year before. I was assured Verizon would not mess with the great thing they had going but slowly, almost all of them got fed up with the changes and left, including our manager.

It was not just our team, almost every week there would be a "bye and thanks for all the fish" email from some higher up.

Just last week was talking to a recruiter who told me of massive layoffs on that place last year.
Ask HN: What is a pain point you have?
I am in a bit of a rut in terms of a project to work on. Please share some of your current pain points so that I might be able to help tackle them.
Different scopes, HTTP.SYS actually processes and routes HTTP requests in the system, think of it as an HTTP proxy router. This is a kernel mode driver, and a misuse of it can compromise the entire system. It's not dumb behavior, but that's the "price" you have to pay when you have a system component that allows you to handle HTTP requests easily, it also removes the requirement for an HTTP server to have a working socket on the system since HTTP.SYS for example can route requests to multiple virtual servers on the same machine using the same socket based on the URI requested. And more importantly allows applications to communicate over HTTP without implementing a TCP/IP or any other networking stack, they only need to register with HTTP.SYS and it works, heck if you really want too you can instruct HTTP.SYS to strip all the HTTP protocol related stuff from the traffic and then you don't even need to implement "HTTP" in your application either.

Sockets require very little permissions to bind because binding a socket cannot have adverse affects on the entire system, if it's in use by another app it wont allow you to do it.
This is the big reason people don't buy these types of drones (this one certainly isn't the first of it's kind).

It doesn't have obstacle avoidance or it will make a massive deal of it.
Do trains have window? Yes. Do limousines have windows? Yes. Do planes have windows? Yes.

Will robot cars have windows? Yes.

People love to look at the scenery. If anything, people will spend more time looking outside than now.
Well ... I have found that thepiratebay works flawlessly to deliver videos on any platform. It is sad that we are moving backwards. Right now I WANT to give netflix money for Daredevil ... and there is no legal way for me to do so ...
Like inkjet cartridges, it can simultaneously add electronics to landfill while increasing your spend on consumables!
With HAML :) http://codepen.io/anon/pen/MwyYey
Battery is not removable.
Very handy. Ideas for next version: allow control points of the bezier curve to be moved; generate a javascript function (for those of us who want to run the animation from within javascript completely).
That's good to know. Though I will note that I don't use Haskell. (Haven't had the time to properly learn it, and keep getting frustrated by minor things when I try to dabble with it.)

That being said, I used to think that about Java as well - and then the whole substring thing happened.
No, I figured it was too unpolished and you can write it in one day.
Cloud Brokers to Marketize the Cloud
Like I mentioned below, as a self taught web programmer, it was years before I came across a modulus in a real-world situation. I feel like it's understandable to not have a 100% grasp on all the basics and still produce stuff.

I think the more damning thing in her case is her questioning the question and seemingly not giving it a thorough effort.

Again, just listing "HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript." by itself as a minimum qualification doesn't specify what level of knowledge is expected of you. Familiarity? Proficiency? Master? Do you need to know how v8 interprets Javascript?

I'm not making the case that the job was right for her or that she was competent enough to handle it. I'm arguing that ambiguities in descriptions wasted both her time and the company's time.
I'm curious how it homes in on the tracker.
Whoops. Miscopied. the second `=10` shouldn't be there.
As the author also points out, subprocess DOESN'T shell out. It starts the external process directly.
Can it show pics via ASCII art?
Good point about being an API. When combined with RFID, I can imagine smart fridges / washing machines utilizing this API to automatically order (or suggesting human do a 1-click order) when your Tide is about to run out.
Much of Western Europe (along with Japan) owns more cars per capita than the US does.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its...
And some people might see that as a disadvantage, but personally I think it's a good thing that shelling out requires some setup (using `shlex` to parse a command string into an escaped list for example) and using a library rather than conveniently using backticks because it encourages you to try using the language's capabilities first.

In addition to all the points mentioned by the author, another problem with relying on external commands is portability. Even the ubiquitous and UNIX-specified `grep` command contains extensions in OSX and GNU compatibility flags.
Probably have a coating of hydrophobic treatment so water slides off.
I've been burned by various kickstarter projects that get delayed ad infinitum.

Me too. I've decided that there are no new things that I need so much that I can't wait until the thing is actually shipping. In many cases I've been quite happy waiting until a v2 release when the early bugs and quirks are worked out.
Without a human operator assessing risk, what's to stop the drone from accidentally flying into someone and cutting them up with its blades?