skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.producthunt.com/posts/blnkk
Blnkk: An online community for crowdsourcing your startup needs. This could help.
"Millions of people on the planet believe in Santa Claus, proving that it's very easy to create cover ups involving crowds across multiple continents".

See the fallacy you're committing there?
>What they're doing mostly makes sense - let somebody else pre-qualify you and then we'll have a look. If they can do that, why wouldn't they?

Because recruiting knowns, that are often already employed, means paying higher wages, as well as losing the competition for skilled labor.

Right now, there is an enormous opportunity for businesses to higher well and treat employees well, in order to recruit the most competent employees, create continuity, a strong brand, higher efficiency and quality in work performed, and thereby higher profitability.

Employers are simply incompetent--Employ-unable.
This is so true, also why you have a defacto ageism that in many cases pushes you out of employment at or around 40 despite having achievements like being published by MIT press. Companies are also so specific about frameworks if you don't have 5 years experience in some completely obscure php framework then obviously you just don't know php. Also the use of tests for language minutia that are irrelevant to production work. On top of that at least in Southern California we have a massive increase in outsourcing going on, still plenty of low paid design jobs but the higher paid development jobs are fleeing from here at least.
I've been using http://naturesoundsfor.me/ as they let you mix a bunch of sounds and control the relative volumes of each. I've settled on 40% "Creek" and 70% "Rain" for sleeping.
> I think people bristling about long work hours are doing so because they haven't found something that makes them feel this way.

Or they are not in a position where they stand to profit in proportion to the extra work. Extra time with out extra compensation means the employee's individual ROI drops, and that is not something a smart person should accept on an ongoing basis.
Graffitied DNS codes on walls in Turkey
If you were on windows and on chrome before 39 (I think), the battery bug was often because chrome forcibly set the system clock tick rate higher than (arguably) necessary. Should be fixed now though at least according to the bug tracker
Using Magic on the Apple Watch
That would likely not be a title we would let stand on HN. But I'd have to see specific examples. There's no algorithm for this.
Out of curiosity in what scenarios do you see a forking web server being faster than a evented server that balances requests across cores and can direct a request to the core with the best cache for the request?

I completely agree with need to async. The hard part is that many operations are async without an async interface. For example memory allocation, or even memory usage if the memory was not truly allocated by malloc.
There is no a single site/book I use, I just search for a topic that I think is interesting. Fore example, lately I've been exploring Promises and asynchronous JS [0][1]. For understanding react & flux, you can watch 3-part series from SeattleJS [2]. This post is a good general roadmap: [3].

[0] https://www.promisejs.org

[1] https://promisesaplus.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6Ub7Ju2RM

[3] https://medium.com/javascript-scene/learn-javascript-b631a4a...
Right, because people seldom act rationally, and often act against their own self-interest. The message is an observation.

As for the government acting in people's best interest, yes, exactly, that's what it's for. You are calling your state rep to discuss issues, right? If you're articulate, you can probably even book a 15-minute meeting to chat with them and tell them what's important to you, a citizen in their district.

That's not as fun as posting hur-hur-gubmint-sucks on the internet, though, even though it's definitely more rational and self-interested.
This reminds me of some deeply troubling things I've read about the education systems in China and Japan, where students are heavily burdened and stressed, and suicide rates are also high.

The problem unique to the West is 'do your best' doublespeak. There is a real, objective standard that, if kids do not meet it, means they will live a materially worse life. Their prospects at virtually every level, personal and professional, will be reduced. Effort is not actually what our kids need to be elite: admission to an ivy league school is, and that means objective achievement.

Preparation for admission requires ever increasing levels of achievement, where achievement means "fewer and fewer mistakes" approaching an asymptote of no mistakes, ever. This pressure apparently starts to kick in around 6th grade.

Maintaining that kind of consistency is itself a very real burden, no matter what age, activity or the difficulty of the task. Imagine being told that, as long as you press a button every hour for 8 hours a day, for 4 years, you'll get 20 million dollars. If you miss once, you get 10M, twice 1M and three times, 0. Would this create a healthy psychology, or would it be stressful?
Isn't that the point of a flag to be unique? A flag should have an intuitive design.
Today, no sane person takes what she reads/watches in the media on face value. Journalism as a profession has lost much of it's respect and credibility in my lifetime. Most news papers, TV/radio stations and online properties have some agenda or the other and they act according to that, openly and shamelessly, truth be damned (liberal, conservative, religious, left, right...whatever).

But even for them, attacking a very distinguished journalist's character, instead of analyzing his work on it's merit is new low.
Though I'm on Hacker News, I'm not a software developer. I would have thought it obvious that everyone would shift their hiring practices to be community-based, by looking at GitHub.

I suppose most companies, even in the so "progressive" tech industry, are closed systems with little connection to anything in the outside world. In reality, Silicon Valley startups are just small corporations in the digital era. There is no disruptive about them at all.

For the intelligent business person, the lesson to learn here is that design, development and production processes need to be integrated with community. Either like with Automattic and Wordpress, or by going open source on GitHub.

All but a few closed companies will die over the next decade because they are unable to hire well.
Tip: to help make even smaller proof of concepts use a Teensy [1] instead of an Arduino.

[1] https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
Go to SmashBoards. Those people are obsessed with those things.
when i graduated with CS in 2002, the job market was crazy tough. I searched for so long, it was frustrating. One thing that never really made an iota of sense to me was Lockheed Martin.

They were 'having hard time finding talent' so they were recruiting kids out of high school. they'd spend years on them doing internships (on what you can learn your own in a few weeks) and then pay the students tuition in college so that they would work full time for LM once they graduated.

or, they could have hired someone like me and not have to spend years on training on basic stuff and save all that money on tuition. LM wasn't the only one doing things like that.
I know you're trying to avoid doing the slam dunk obvious right thing. There's almost zero upside to what you want to do. Even if you're cofounder hadn't left the odds are that your startup would fail. That's the nature of startups.

The $10k won't change that. Your cofounder leaving makes it even more likely your startup will fail. And that means that should the startup fail, your startup will have failed and you will have done the wrong thing.

On the other hand, if you disclose the status to the investor, the worst thing that can happen is that you walk away from a troublesome project with a potential future investor who sees you as a person of integrity. The best thing that can happen is exactly the same as the best thing that can happen if you don't disclose. And the odds of that best thing happening are improved because you don't have to waste energy on a web of deceit and because you have an ally who will talk well of you.

A person is only as good as their word.
Another case of an Employ-unable company.
Unix is the worst operating system. Except for all the others.
Two people fly jetpacks over Dubai [video]
your first mistake was to promise arbitrary date for delivery without any data to support that; that is what a common folk call wishful thinking. It never works.
Being passionate about something doesn't mean you have to kill yourself working. It sounds to me that you are fairly young and IMNSHO if you are smart you should know not to put ton of hours and have things done. Quantity of hours put into a product doesn't correlate with a quality
Same options exist in Columbus, Ohio. You just have to work around their schedule, they only come to certain parts of town on certain days of the week/month.
cool idea! DMing you ;)
The most fascist part, out of a bunch of fascist parts:

> Pawluck is also prohibited from posting anything about police or anyone associated with the judicial system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_Canada
Thank god it's written in C and not C++
Might they make specific challenge coins for specific operations within whatever we're calling the 'war on terror' nowadays? Absolutely, and some of those coins might even be vaguely offensive.

But unless these coins were actually evidence of some sort of JSOC conspiracy to loop in Pope Benedict on U.S. counter-terror operations then why were they worth the attention of the Great Man who popularized My Lai and Abu Ghraib?

I'll leave open for now the question of why a group of people who certainly know better would procure hard physical evidence of their nefarious misdeeds instead of executing the professional conspiracy that any snake-eater should be able to handle if they really wanted to. Since this is Seymour's world now we needn't concern ourselves with trying to find contrary evidence that would disprove Hersh's assertions, and then demonstrating why that evidence isn't actually problematic. Why, Seymour has told us this must be true, and that's all we need to know.
I don't know how my fingers wrote "H" for Mohammed, but yes, of course. :-)

I'm not sure I agree that it's strategically valuable - in an asymmetrical engagement, it seems like this just provokes sympathy and stokes recruitment.

Treating him (both of them, in fact) with dignity, respect, and an honest public trial including an accounting of their crimes might help, though.
Yep I do this. Every night, sitting at the kitchen table, doing a little work but mostly answering questions, checking to see if that computer is really doing homework and not something else. It's for solidarity, not nagging.

Frankly it's way too much work for kids and not enough idleness. But when I try to put a stop to it's the kid who objects. He's fearful that if he messes up his whole life is screwed.

When I point out that his parents didn't follow the straight-and-narrow he just says "well it's different these days".

Oh, and another cost of this: I can only work on low-concentration tasks, so have to catch up on the rest of my work (professional or domestic) between midnight and 7AM, by either going to bed late or getting up early.
I don't read many theses, but I do occasionally read random academic papers.
In Mountain View, and likely elsewhere in the Bay Area, charitable organizations make the rounds once a month to basically do the same. They provide the bags, collect them, and presumably sell what they can for cash. As for batteries and other hazardous materials, there's a protocol to have the city pick them up for no charge. I've never had a problem getting rid of stuff and feeling like I'm doing it responsibly. It's hard to understand what value this adds beyond immediacy.

At least with the services I already take advantage of, it's all done in batches and my contribution is low compared to the overall haul. This is on-demand, so it's likely not as efficient.
Canada's free speech laws apparently aren't stellar. I guess cbc.ca should be given 18 months probation while prohibited from using Facebook or writing anything about the police, since they share the same image in the article.
It has not been demonstrated that a libertarian system necessarily results in warlords, so the entire premise of your argument is unsupported. How about you prove that assertion?

And please drop the silly "cunning plan" business, this is Hacker News, not reddit.
Install and Configure Windows 10 Insider Preview on Raspberry Pi 2
Going one level up: https://github.com/Microsoft

Good to see Microsoft having 100 plus open source projects out there!
I'm not sure why you feel that is the "real" reason. It is a strong one, of course, but the fact that the squared error has a derivative - and a nice and simple one - is equally strong in my opinion.
The Perfect American Road Trip Has Finally Been Planned
My opinion of Canada just dropped a few points.
Since IP filter will rule out many sensitive contents that is said about corporation, government, I'm fairly certain it can be ruled out as a good indicator of spam. If it is a spam, is it that hard to just look at the content, I think not!
I really like www.w3schools.com They go through HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery, and a ton of other stuff. I'm sure they're not the only site that does this, but I found the "Try it Yourself" feature to be extremely helpful. Every single concept has an built in editor with example code/markup, so you can see it in action, change it, break it, whatever.
My notes on Amazon's EC2 Container Service, aka Docker on AWS
Ludovico Einaudi is one of my favorite modern composers. Oltremare is fantastic. I actually found him first from a hilarious youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn6qSM-UYBs which lead me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoaPhxNubL0 such a great modern composer.
You can have concurrency with only one thread. What you cannot have is parallelism.

More context here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/concurrency-vs-pa...
This is a specific critique about the usability of the Unix shell, and I think most of this is still valid. The inside jokes (less is more) and overloaded meanings of command names is still an issue today, for example. Some of the visibility has improved by various means, but overall there is still a fair amount of 'black box' that takes arcane knowledge to peek in to.

Naming is one area I appreciated Microsoft's approach in Powershell. They have command names with a Verb-Noun structure, and full clear words, sometimes quite long. Then, after establishing clear canonical forms for the commands, they add a few well chosen aliases for short invocation and memorization.

Of all the critiques though, the Cognitive Engineering objection, that the system is not well designed to be used by human capacities, is still true across many platforms, especially in esoteric areas like the command line.

Also interestingly, I am guessing that this is the same Donald A. Norman of 'The Design Of Everyday Things'. It's fascinating to see these ideas in flight in 1981.

How do we address these things? How does one "redesign Unix" today?
Poll: What online services do you use
Hi HNers,

I'm doing some product research, and was wondering which of these types online services you use regularly from a personal productivity point of view. It can be paid or unpaid - I'm just trying to get a category popularity indication.

Thank you!
Document Management System (file storage with versioning)
Bulk file storage (no specific versioning requirements)
Project Management Suites
Kanban Boards (Like trello)
Calender/Scheduling
Wiki (or any kind of textual collaboration app)
Revision control software (github, etc)
There's a lot of common ground feature-wise, but both also have their strong points. PyCharm's biggest one is that it's cross-platform, but also good integration with GAE and AWS, and neat features such as Cython editing. PTVS, on the other hand, is Windows-only, but has neat stuff like debugging Python and C++ side by side: https://github.com/Microsoft/ptvs/wiki/Mixed-Mode-Debugging
I don't need permission to install a plasma TV in my bathroom either. Does that mean it's a right? I don't get it.

I can't tell if you're just trying to be provocative, or if you genuinely don't get the distinction here, but I'll err on the side of good faith. What I'm saying is that most of the time, when people talk about things like "the right to have a Plasma TV" what they are saying is that they are entitled to a Plasma TV and that someone else (can|must|should) be compelled to provide them said TV. That would be a "positive right" and I disagree that such rights exist. However, of course you have "the right to purchase a Plasma TV and install it in your bedroom". Because you don't need anyone's permission to do so.

Do you have the right to defend yourself if government is trying to arrest you?

Of course you do. The government may not recognize said right, and since they may employ more men with guns than you do, they may be able to compel you to go along with their dictates through force, but that doesn't mean it's right.

At the end of the day, there's probably no way to ever totally escape "might makes right" since a person (or persons) with sufficient power can over-power those who disagree with them. As far as I'm concerned though, that's a meaningless tautology. The issue that concerns me is to what extent we institutionalize the use of force, particularly in any offensive mode.
I often have hundreds and Chrome just dies when this happens (not to mention it eats tons of RAM -- they need their own MemShrink project). Firefox continues to work and uses far less RAM for the same set of pages.
Having fuzzy search/completion is also a mandatory thing. The "no news is good news" is a very important negative factor for newcomers. Of course programmers and scientists have mileage to learn 'semantics' of operators by heart and learn to compose effects in their head so it's not as important to them.

Nowadays one could setup a zfs-on-linux so you can have free FS level undo.
cat(1)'s versatility is mostly a side effect of the essential nature of file descriptors, which I believe is good.

Criticisms of command, standard library and FHS naming are evidently quite ancient. I have little sympathy for them, given that other mainstream systems are usually worse. However, one can see GoboLinux and NixOS for alternative takes. I also will grant that creat(2) is embarrassing.

Modern versions of rm(1) (or at least GNU rm and I believe Solaris rm, as well) have a default policy of refusing certain glob patterns without explicit approval so as to prevent user error. I do not favor this much in principle, but this criticism is now dated. That you aren't asked if you're sure every time you do an operation that is potentially dangerous (which can be so many things) can be seen as a good thing.

Configuring your shell isn't particularly elegant, though understanding general distinctions like sessions isn't all that difficult.

ed(1) is seldom used these days, obviously. The functionality of fgrep(1) and egrep(1) have largely been merged into more monolithic grep(1) implementations, though the former two remain as aliases.

Overall, modern Unix-like UIs are actually pretty good as far as these things go. It could be much better, but whenever people try to fix things they're quite ironically met with resistance from people too conformant to the status quo, and the better ways are inevitably relegated to either academic curiosities or cult/heterodox practices that are espoused by a loyal few.

On the other hand, whenever a new solution does make it, it's rarely truly better because it's also based on some paradigm that is relatively well ingrained in the computing popular culture. When someone criticizes the FHS these days, it's almost always a concealed way of saying "Why isn't this like the directory structure of Windows or OS X?", rather than any interest in having the most ergonomic solution.
New test detects cocaine in a fingerprint
$ cp foo /real/long/path/name/to/destination/
/real/long/path/name/to/destination/: no such file or directory

Why doesn't it tell me which component was wrong?
Any non asynchronous application.
So, you think the US should have gone after Germany during WWII? And, not privately run militias?

I think that in a world where we have Nation-States like the US, Germany, etc., that those governments should at least "play by their own rules". That doesn't mean I wouldn't prefer a world without them. In the case of WWII, the point I'm making is that WWII was the last time there was an actual Congressional declaration of war, and perhaps the last time the US government was actually somewhat justified in invoking it's military - at least relative to more recent overseas military actions.

As for private militias... yeah, if a bunch of guys in the US in 1941 had said "Hey, we're going to organize and go help the French and Brits against Germany", I would have had no problem with that.
The fact that they spent years arguing against its necessity rather than working on it certainly didn't help.
Scary to see how this is just a small step away from prohibiting any criticism of the police. I feel sorry for Canadians now, and hope that one day they can recover their freedoms.
Exercise alone doesn't make you lose weight
I once spent a long day interviewing in Lufkin Texas for a job in College Station. At some point someone observed, "Nobody moves to Lufkin unless their from Lufkin." I wasn't the best of the best, but I was good enough that they paid my way out for the interview, and when they didn't offer me the job in College Station but one in Lufkin instead, the observation was in fact astute.

If the young are leaving, I'd suggest focusing on finding someone older who is more amenable to the lifestyle. If there aren't any old developers locally, then there won't be any really good young one's. But you might get an older developer to relocate to a place without any action.

Good luck.
They can't stop her from posting on social media for a year.. that's baloney.
Where do banks get the money that they loan out if not from deposits?

Reserve requirements dictate what percentage of deposits banks have to keep on hand rather than loan out, and its inverse, the money multiplier, determines how much the money supply is expanded by repeated application of the deposit->loan process. This seems to be the standard treatment: I checked Abel-Bernanke's and Mankiw's Macroeconomics textbooks and they both tell basically the same story.

The supply and demand for loanable funds are balanced through a price mechanism: the interest rate. If banks have lots of deposits and can't loan them all out, then they'll lower the interest rate that they charge until they can. If there's more demand for loans than can be covered by deposits, then banks will increase the interest rate that they charge until the two are balanced.
Wow the SF flag is truly, truly terrible. I like the redesigned one at the end. Personally, I'd go with more rainbows and less Giants/Halloween, but that's me.

Anyone know where it came from or if there is an effort in SF to replace that horrible, horrible mistake?