skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gradle users often get confused about whether or not to use an equals-sign, e.g. in your example...

cloudUrl = 'https://cloud.testdroid.com'
projectName "Project 1"

The XML in Maven is more consistent.
You don't need to know the new hot stuff if (a) you currently have a job and (b) that job is with an employer where people carefully think about their user needs, product goals, and then pick tech and write code with those needs in mind (much like the article recommends).

Otherwise, there's an extent to which you have to accommodate the absolutely rampant fetishization of current fashion for How We Do Things Now Because It's Better(TM) so you can sell yourself properly.

In more concrete terms: right now if you're looking for a gig as a front-end dev, you're going to have a much easier time finding a job if you can put Angular and React on your resume. The fact that this isn't particularly rational (or fair) as a hiring filter doesn't really matter.
Is the Patriot Act Dead? Not Even Close
Thanks for the recommendations. I looked briefly at Kodi but wasn't sure whether Netflix (my primary source of video entertainment) plugged into it. I'll have another look.
Yes. 32-bit machines are going away any time soon.
I developed C++ apps on Windows and Linux from 1999 to 2007 before moving over to C#. Unfortunately, I think the author is correct that C++ has moved from one dark age to another. It will simply never receive the love that C# and related technologies get.

Programming is hard. C++ gives you almost total power but with that power comes enough rope to hang yourself and a small village. Having done C# now for eight years I can't imagine having to go back to C++.
if we're going to build a 5 mile evacuated pipe while not try to use it as a prototype of a space launch? At modest 50G acceleration the exit speed would be 2.5km/s - not a production, but it would be a good test prototype to get real funding for the real deal to the top of Kilimanjaro.
Banning things should be banned.
That's not really irony, is it? A thinner phone in an Otterbox is still thinner than a thicker phone in an Otterbox. Also, there are plenty of people (myself included) who do not use cases, and instead prevent their phones from being damaged by not dropping them. I suspect that "most users" do not use a case anywhere near the thickness of an Otterbox.
It doesn't run Oracle's JVM, but there are plenty of other ones to choose from.
In your model you get a skin forming around the event horizon. However, stuff would still be attracted to that object. This increased mass would increases the size of the event horizon. So, your hypothetical border would need to expand as matter accumulates. One of the odd things about black holes is there density decreases as their size increases. At really large scales even the 'vacuum' between galaxies is dense enough to form a black hole in a static universe.

PS: In reality black holes are molded by the full general relativity equation which most physicists don't actually understand. Much like how most programmers don't understand how GPU drivers work in detail.
Actually, Java was originally designed for interactive television (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javah...).
Agreed. He advises us to make high resolution (paper!) handouts, and give them out as people walk in. I was lucky enough to attend a presentation of his this year where he did exactly that, and its effect was amazing.

Say, "Here, read this," and then give them ten or fifteen (or more, if it's a longer talk!) to read as much as they can, before talking.

This helps because people can quickly skim the parts they don't care about, jot down questions, focus on the parts that are interesting or that they want to understand better -- and not everyone feels the same about each part of your presentation.

Then, in your talk, you can basically follow a similar rubric, or allude to the handout, and people can (and will!) ask questions about the meaningful parts.

He also notes that it's important NOT to send them ahead of time in emails, as no one will read them. Force people to read them (or play on their phones); the people who are most busy will scour the paper for useful info. Jeff Bezos' [0] meetings follow a similar pattern.

0: (apologies for lazy searching :)) http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-fortune-int...
copied ;) see the comments upthread
> It’s super hard to get a dating product funded by mainstream Silicon Valley investors

Huh? I've seen quite the opposite. Anecdote: The League [0]. $2mil in funding without the existence of a product or a team (when it was funded). There's some very mainstream investors on that list too.

Investors who don't invest in dating apps don't do it because they know the problem never gets fixed. Investors who do invest in them, know they can sell to IAC. As I've heard from a prominent VC who is friendly with the Match.com board (paraphrased) "The whole dating app market knows that at scale finding someone on a dating app is statistically no different than finding one at a bar. We simply making going to the bar easier".

[0] - https://angel.co/the-league-date-intelligently
True, but I really think that's a shrinking sector. I used to have a dual-tuner HDHomerun (and before that several ATI cards), but over time my viewing shifted entirely to services like Netflix. Unfortunately it seems that people who use services like Netflix on a Windows desktop is also a shrinking sector.
Bitcoin: Provably fair bets, no need to trust?
I don't think this is evidence of a tech bubble at large, but it is evidence that tacking on monetization onto a mass-popular app/service/site isn't always a slam dunk
Neither the announcement or the git repo even have an example of what the font looks like. It is like announcing a new copy of the Mona Lisa not having a picture of it.
Hacked something together. Seems to work.

http://simulationcorner.net/maze/
>I'm quite sure I've read somewhere that information cannot be lost in the absolute sense,

Quantum information is, in some decently well-regarded theories, a conserved quantity. Classical information is not, in any major theory.

>In short: if you're smart(fast, precise, determined) enough to look at the individual molecules of a puddle of brain-goo. And if you can infer the way it has collapsed by ray tracing those molecules back through how they collided with each other/the walls of your mold then it should be possible to reconstruct the spatial form of the brains at least. That's a pretty big IF obviously, but equally obviously not impossible. If only you can look deep/far/fast enough.

Again: classical information is not a conserved quantity. A puddle of brain-goo will likely tell you more than a puddle of non-brain goo about the person who used to be that brain, but there is a very strong limit to what it can tell you. You cannot, so to speak, extrapolate the universe from one small piece of fairy cake.

(Disclaimer: I have previously donated to the Brain Preservation Foundation precisely because I think the issue deserves investigation by mainstream, non-wishful scientists so that people who want to... whatever it is they're planning on, can do it.)

>Many knowledgeable people are making guesses based on our current understanding of intelligence/computation/AI, and then extrapolating. The paradoxical thing is that on the one hand AI-doomsday speakers tell us no to anthropomorphise (for good reasons) with the motives of an AI, but on the other hand apply human reasoning/understanding to predict such machines/patterns.

The thing about "sufficiently advanced AI" is that it dodges the basic issues. A sufficiently advanced AI is just a machine for crunching data into generalized theories. It can only learn theories in the presence of data. Admittedly, the more data it gets from a broader variety of domains, the more it can form abstract theories that give usefully informed prior knowledge about what it can expect to find in new domains. But if it can use detailed knowledge about brains-in-general to reconstruct a puddle of brain-goo into a solid model of a human brain, solid enough to "make it live", that's not because of some ontologically basic "smartness" about the AI, it's because the AI has the right kind of learning machinery for crunching data about specific and general things together to allow it to learn and utilize very large sums of domain knowledge. These sums could possibly larger than any individual human might obtain in the course of a single 20-year education, from kindergarten to PhD, but the key factor in "AI's" understanding of the natural sciences will ultimately be experimental data and domain knowledge derived from experimental data.
Insurer Cites Lax Security in Denying Data Breach Claim
Netflix would have to get really creative with their business model to support those subscribers.
Or many times worse: Won't allow you to zoom in with ctrl+mouse wheel.
As someone with poor eyesight I can tell you: breaking zooming (or accessibility) in such a way is the same as saying "fuck you".
And thus, after banning french fries, the world was less fat.

I think you made GP's point better than he did. Banning the medium and hoping that fixes the root issue is a bit foolish. Not to say banning the medium isn't always a bad idea, but doesn't mean it'll help.
Powerpoint is not the problem. People thinking the tool makes them a presenter is the problem. Being a good presenter is not an easy thing to learn, and using a tool like powerpoint doesn't make you any better at it. The best resource I've found so far for learning how to present is macsparky's field guide to presentations, but if anyone knows of a better resource I'm all ears.
To recap for everyone joining the conversation afresh: our intuitions about selfhood, continual consciousness, and personal identity probably don't make any sense at all if applied to this kind of question. The right thing to do isn't trying to repair the intuitions, but instead trying to figure out which of the unintuitive possibilities we happen to like.
Today Is the 20th Anniversary of Bill Gates' “Internet Tidal Wave” Memo
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say, but it sounds kind of like an unnecessary personal attack.
Finding dates is a near-universal problem. If you're relying on people you know, you're limited to your social circle - professional contacts (which can be fraught with peril), blind dates set up by friends, blind dates set up by your mother...

The fact that dating apps were one of the first popular uses of the internet for ordinary people (the big players mostly date back to the dotcom era) says a lot about the value proposition. The problem is, it's very hard to increase the value beyond what the current players already offer.

edit: The "blind dates from your mother" strikes home with me. My own kids are 21 now. It's very tempting to set them up! I was really excited when my daughter got her first professional-in-her-field job recently, just on the off chance she'd meet someone who really shares her interests. Sigh.
Brain chip's potential is limitless
I don't think "tried to use DRM" is an accurate description. They were trying to watch their cable sub on their computer. I did it for years, and it was quite convenient and very high quality, but Comcast slowly encrypted all their offerings, the HD Homerun cable card version was slow to appear, etc., etc. It all just became too much of a hassle and streaming won.
Uber is dating for drivers and riders.

AirBNB is dating for owners and renters.

Facebook is dating for content and readers.

Amazon is dating for supply chains and consumers.

Tinder is for hookups.
WinPcap Dropping Packets (2014)
Yes, I like powerpoint that is self contained and makes sense without the presenter. I'm not saying each slide should be crammed with information. I'm fine with 80 page ppt as long as it's self-contained, and narrative, with appropriate amount of information density. It should have a story.
Here's why it'll take us decades to master nuclear fusion
Totally agree. What I found to be most effective with OKC was spending the money on A-list status and only messaging women who favorited my profile (or liked, or whatever the terminology is). The response rate I saw was well above 50%.
yes, please, so my free time is not long for this world
There's a whole network of nasty crooks behind this. I demand more blood.

http://graphics.wsj.com/libor-network/#item=Hayes
It's not really a personal attack. Many people wish to date only within or above their social class. I'm just questioning whether this attitude is compatible with being "rabidly liberal".

(Unless what you're saying is that while you personally are not rabidly liberal, you want to date someone who is.)
They give a reason why people might think they go faster, but don't prove that they don't go faster.

See http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/lane/cars.html
Thought it was weird in Interstellar that Cooper survived getting pulled into the black hole. Interesting that surviving is one of the 2 possibilities.
That's really awesome. Which town is that?
I believe your analysis is incorrect. There is a 50% chance the other line will move faster. With no additional new information, once you've chosen a line to stand in, the probability you chose the slower line has not changed.
How about the inverse: given a palette and a set of images, return only the images that "match" the palette.

Could be useful for web design. The other way around often does not work, because once you are stuck on a palette you need to find images that match it.
Ask HN: What pentesting blogs cover advanced techniques?
Hi,

Most of the write-ups on the internet regarding penetration testing or exploitation are pretty basic.
What are the blogs to follow on more advanced topics ?

Thanks
If it’s a “signature” font, isn’t it covered by trademark, and would this not make any copyright licence irrelevant?
"Native desktop" spotify is just a web app wrapped into an embedded Chromium browser.
While these are all reasonable and valid points it's missing a key one: margin.

If you look at successful SaaS businesses users who pay <$50/month are pretty much always loss leaders. Almost all the money in SaaS is in enterprise and large customers.

It's very hard to make subscription work for consumer SaaS businesses simply because the margin between CAC and LTV is so small. Gaming (ala World of Warcraft) has shifted away from subs to IAP because it's easier to lower CAC through making a product freemium than to increase LTV.

Commercially successful dating sites have become so through increasing LTV by locking customers into long term contract and reducing CAC via shady tactics to increase conversion. Neither of which many investors want to be associated with.
I certainly don't favor 95 year copyright terms of the Disney variety, or even life + 70 for authors - more like 35-50 for collective/corporate works and life terms for authors, or maybe some combination of the two, although that would be tricky to administrate.

I also think that there should be a few different levels of licensing (much like the Creative Commons approach) and possibly some sort of price controls for licensing, to be reflective of the fixed pricing for copyright registration that currently obtains. In general I'm against price controls, though, and going down that route could lead to mandatory licensing which would also be undesirable (eg you find your passionate song about freedom used in a political campaign commercial by a candidate whose values you find repellent, and can do nothing about it because anybody has the right to unilaterally license anything).

Other people have proposed increasing copyright renewal fees over time, or renewal fees that were somehow keyed to the economic performance of a copyrighted work, though I think both these approaches are problematic.
The checksums we have from the IA are md5sums, which are not ideal, so a preimage attack is possible, but AFAICS you could only use it if you're generating the original file that is stored in the IA, and are planning to replace that with a colliding version in the future. Otherwise, we can detect falsified files.

There are some potential attacks of putting false information into the git-annex repositories, that we use for tracking which clients are storing which files. We'll eventually need post-receive hooks to validate that pushes only change information about the client making the push. For now, if someone attempts this attack, we can revert their malicious changes after the fact.
I read this post just in time!... now I'm am sure, the future is create a new PornHub for android, and other in xCode for Iphone, and for nokia, another one, and what about Blackberry, sounds very portable! is a remarkable idea!
Jean-luc Doumont gives excellent advice on how to avoid making slides like the ones mentioned in this article.

http://www.principiae.be/X0800.php
It was actually what they intended, before the execs told them audiences wouldn't understand it.
Vim EightHeader: easily create custom headlines, foldtext, toc, etc.
So, you need a statistically significant sample?
I freakin' love stationery. If I had the money I would join a stationery subscription club similar to Candy Japan

I sometimes wonder why I don't just have my paycheck direct-deposited to Jetpens, especially since I moved to CA and get next day delivery from their San Jose warehouse.
Probably merits a NSFW.
Now, who can explain the Noether's theorem binding conservation law with an invariant better than "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics"? :)
Although I didn't look really carefully, it looks like the data only took a single lane change into account.

What about weaving into the lane that seems faster, passing several cars, then switching back? It seems like the snaking effect would work to your advantage if you always get in the lane where there is more distance between cars. Then again, maybe it's perception.
I will go down the list:

Demographics:

Facebook: Everybody (my parents are on Facebook)
Instagram: Same as above
Twitter: Professionals, businesses, everybody
Linkedin: Professionals of all ages. They also make money through recruiters and anyone else interested potential employees

Here is a breakdown: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/09/demographics-of-key-so...

Teenagers and Students mostly use snapchat. Unless they can break out of this demographic (which all of the above were able to do), they will have a very difficult time making money.

Chat is historically very difficult to monetize. I'm not sure if you are old enough to remember ICQ messenger. It was the #1 app download on Cnet and I think they hit 1 billion downloads. Since they never had a business plan in the beginning, they scrambled to come up with a way to make money like charging for a pro account and some advertising.

It eventually limped along until AOL purchased it in 2001: http://news.cnet.com/AOL-acquires-instant-message-firm/2100-...

That is a way for Snapchat to make money: getting purchased by a bigger company that will use it as part of their eco-system.
Unless they took a very large sample this might not be entirely true. Or put differently the lane next to yours over a long time frame isn't moving faster, but it does move faster at various points. By switching to the lane that is moving faster at that moment, you can move faster than your original does over the average.
As someone firmly in the slides-as-illustration school, I love PowerPoint for its outline and speaker's notes views. That's precisely where detailed content should go---alongside the slides or something that can be printed in handouts. Even better is how PowerPoint works with dual-monitor setups, with the speaker's view on one and the presentation on the other. I use that all the time.
The 5% churn = 79% annual churn is incorrect.
Churn doesn't compound, because after churn your user base is smaller and 5% of that becomes a smaller number.

It is actually 0.95^12=0.54 (5% churn/month = 46% annual churn).
AMT is geared towards anonymous tasks (e.g. classifying adult images) and finding projects on Upwork (formally oDesk) will probably be better if you have marketable online skills.

Also, do you live somewhere with Uber?
It's true: Skyhook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft have been doing it for a while. Even more, there are free databases that you can use to map WiFi routers to locations (for example wiggle.net), but for some reason this is still not enough for Google to treat WiFi as equivalent to location. This also has consequences in age rating: if you explicitly require location access, you fall into a different age category than if you require "only" the WiFi permission.

You can control the scanning settings in settings -> WiFi -> advanced -> scanning always available. It's ON by default, but you can disable it there.

Apart from what you mention, what is new is the measurement of how many access point you actually need to know to track my location: it's costly to look up all the routers I see during a day, but we show that people spend a vast majority of the time close to a very small number of unique access points (~20 routers per person over 6 months).
Well, I don't use one personally but if I were dating I'd consider using an app because it does automatically does one big thing for you: lets you know whether someone is actually looking for a relationship.

It's difficult enough to meet people for me, but even after that you have to find out if you're single and if they're looking to date at all.

On the other hand, I also like the idea that relationships should be natural, but I can definitely see the appeal of using a dating app if you have already decided you want to be in a relationship.
I hope this is not a dumb question, but as I have no experience/knowledge in creating fonts, I will ask nevertheless.

I quickly scanned through the repo and assumed that the font is created programmatically through a Python script. Is that correct and a common way to build a new font?
So "Syd" Krofft could have been a nickname for "acid"?
Luckily, you can turn this feature off. Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > Advanced and uncheck "Scanning always available".
URLs are opaque strings to the typical user.
Their big revenue concept is vertical video for commercials. That's not too impressive.

There's a life cycle for social networks:

- New cool thing, but no monetization.
- Big growth.
- Ads and spyware added.
- Growth slows.
- More ads added to boost revenue.
- Growth stops.
- More ads, more tracking.
- Users leave.
- Collapse.

AOL, Geocities, Orkut, and Myspace have already completed their life cycle.
Facebook and Twitter are at "More ads added to boost revenue", and entering the "growth stops" phase.

(Focusing on cool can backfire. Coca-Cola has that problem. While frantically advertising and changing their packaging, their product quality has dropped. They once worked hard to get expired product out of stores and checked drink dispensers for over-diluting their product. They don't bother any more, and their products taste like crap about half the time.)
https://github.com/edgard/ansible-edgard

This is what I use to configure my Fedora workstation. It also has a few roles for other stuff and might seem a little confusing at first, but it's a good starting point, I guess.
In fairness, didn't they use a bad analogy rather than faulty logic?

Apart from that I approve of your pedantry.
I'm still not clear on what your original reply to me was supposed to mean, except that you seem to be making some unfounded assumptions about someone (or two people) you don't know.
Speaking of “Rockit”, does anyone have the lyrics? All sources seem to categorize it as strictly instrumental, but you can hear a distorted voice, and the music video clearly shows him speaking into a microphone.
If your devices have been compromised i'll pay list price for them.