skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often wonder how anyone can ever make it through their day, if they don't have a physics degree.

My friend Rod Schmidt once pointed out to me that it is impossible to beat the stock market "because everyone has complete information".

I replied that while strictly speaking it's true that everyone has access to complete information, they don't actually avail themselves of it. For example, just after Red Hat went public, another company with the word "Red" in its name enjoyed a significant uptick in stock price.

"The investors think Red Hat is the only place to get Linux," said my friend Dave Johnson, an experienced investor, "But they're too dumb to know which 'Red' company actually sells it."

I am completely convinced that I know how to beat the market. I haven't invested yet as I don't have the cash to get started, but I will eventually.

The method I've developed is based on completely public information - that is, what you would need to beat the market is readily available, in the plain sight of everyone.

What I have done is correllated a number of factors that are not commonly considered by stock traders. It's not that they couldn't use these factors, it's that they don't.
Three Common misconceptions about DevOps
Beside a startup, what are the other ways to significant wealth for a dev?
I am currently working for a big company doing somewhat very technical work as a developer,and currently trying to formulate a strategy for building a reasonable amount of wealth that would allow me retire early ( and probably return to school yey:) ).

It seems that all the success story are related to start-ups;Looking at my situation, i am not sure that this would be my best options. First my area of interrest/expertise (compiler and dev tools) doesn't seems amendable for a start-up; and beside the somewhat rigid structure,low pay and boring meetings i still enjoy the "big company" setting : working with so many smart people with so much experience really turn every interaction into a teachable moment and has allowed me ( and continue to do so) to grow as dev at an incredible rate.

I am sure other dev/people are facing the same dilemma, so it would be nice to hear from other people :

1 - are start-up the only way to significant wealth for a dev(while still doing dev work) ?
2 - i read on-line stories about dev making north of 1 million a years; is that really possible ?
3 - what are the other way to wealth for a dev (investing, consulting, part time startup etc...) ?
This is an inspirational thing to see on the web. My, we've come a long way. Thank you for bringing this all together.

How are the waveforms rendered? Are these few or single cycle samples? I noted that, with slight detuning, I was getting inconsistent tracking for the detuning. Higher notes yields wider pitch differences than lower notes.

I was unable to get consistent results with really short envelopes. e.g. 0-4-0-0 AEnv for percussive sounds or synth blips. Similarly, fast filter envelope.

Would you be able to consider an alternate data entry? e.g. Toggle a mode where you can type parameter values in vs. using the sliders & knobs?

I pulled it up on my Surface Pro 3 and, with some zoom, could play it via touchscreen. It would be nice to be able to get bigger keys, touch spots, etc.

Definitely the sort of thing that makes me want to see it grow and continue. Excellent work. Keep it up!
The changing role of a startup CTO
What a wonderful fantasy that would have been.
The economics make perfect sense. Imagine you have a pump that lasts 1,000 hours, and it costs $10 to build. You have a reputation for making great pumps.

To recoup your R&D costs and make a profit, you decide that you're going to sell these pumps for $100. Those in the market for a 1,000 hour pump think that's a fair price, but those who only need a 100 hour pump think that that's outrageously expensive.

If you bring the price down to make the 100 hour pump people happy, you're cutting into your margins for the 1,000 hour people. So you segment your market: $100 for a 1,000 hour pump, $40 for a 100 hour pump. Your 1,000 customers continue buying the pump at the price they've always been paying, and some of the 100 hour people start buying at $40. That incremental revenue is all gravy; you didn't have to sink R&D money into a second product (other than building the DRM)
Could use this to monitor competitor's landing pages and see what they split test.
No containers. No virtual machines without hardware passthrough.

If you have a server where the bios and hardware support VT-d/IOMMU, you can run the database in a Xen or VMware ESX VM which has a dedicated storage controller and optional dedicated NIC, via PCI passthrough to the VM. Probably a good idea to dedicate some CPU cores to that VM.
Not to detract, but are you booting on a hard disk or SSD.. the HTPC in my livingroom does a full reboot in about 12 seconds (ubuntu 15.04) and my desktop isn't much slower. Both of which are way faster than my 1+1 android phone.

I also prefer a mechanical keyboard, have my own at work as well... I hate when I'm on my rmbp, which is about as good as a laptop keyboard/touchpad interface gets...
Yes, it does seem like they're using a robot to solve a human problem. If the robots were the ones who decided how the shelves were initially stacked then surely there would be more elegant approaches to this? picking and packing is a tiny part of the whole ordering and delivery system which would probably be best re-designed from the top down if all parts are to be conducted automatically.

That said, I'm all for businesses encouraging research to be done in this area. Automation will swallow us all eventually, but it's going to take a while yet...
This is a thread where prospective employers look around for qualified candidates.

You post your stuff, you potentially get contacted.
The article is not about editor wars. The author only tries to make the point that how, after few years of use, the editor gets out of the way. It could as well be said about Emacs or maybe <insert your fav editor here>.
I see some green blobs, some pricing info, and hear some marketing speak about letting my CMS be a "self-actuated change awareness system".

I want to know how I integrate this API into my tests, what exactly it tells me, and how to use it. How about a free plan to test it out? How about developer docs? How about something more than a few screenshots and a 30 second video that is incomprehensible marketroid speak?

Sorry for the harshness, but I really think visual diff tools are needed for integration testing. I want to figure out which ones are flexible and how they can be used. This site helps me do none of that.
Seriously, you guys are getting tiring. If it's so important, Thailand's a 1 hour flight away, Malaysia a short bus ride, Indonesia a short ferry. By the way, when's the last time someone was hung for smoking a spliff? It's like tourists in Sydney being scared of being bitten by a funnel web...

Singapore has high quality of life, very low living costs compared to large US cities, efficient government (but not overbearing), and is a hub for one of the most exciting and growing regions of the world. It's an international city where a large proportion of residents come from all over the world and dozens of languages are spoken. The air is clean, there are no traffic jams, the metro is extremely cheap and spotless. And there's giant toucans living in the mango tree of my garden, right next to the centre of town - beat that SF.

Most importantly, government is not corrupt and has over the last 40 years gotten a pretty good track record of doing what is right. Both Lees have been exceptional leaders under any measure; amongst other things, the father influenced the direction of the world by directly influencing DXP towards the Chinese "glasnost" that is responsible for how the world looks today. I used to be pretty libertarian (think Swiss "don't have a Federal government"), but realized living here that a clean, non-corrupt government can also work incredibly well.

Another thing that flies under the radar of most critics is that Singapore has successfully set up a system to allow migrant manual labour legally; it is one of the very few places in the world where your Bengali construction worker on $500/month can go to the police, complain he hasn't been paid on time, and see his employer fined within two weeks. Try that in Qatar. Try that as an illegal in the US (over 80% of minimum wage labourers!).
There is, to me, a more interesting question:

If not Toyota, then who? Which auto manufacturers do it right? And is there any public evidence to support that? If not, then I'm probably just as "safe" or "unsafe" in any other brand of car as in a Toyota.
I recently read a book on the history of the middle east [1]. Pretty much every reference to Iran in the last thousand years was to how they are still isolationist and clung onto their religious leaders while other parts of the middle east made progress (politically, economic, and otherwise).

There were moments of greatness in Persian history no doubt, and even Afghanistan became a Persian cultural center. But the later history, post middle ages set a pretty strong pattern that hasnt seemed to have changed.

I'm planning to read more on the subject, particularily a book about the history of Shia [2]. I'm not calling myself a total expert on the subject. I'm open to be convinced otherwise...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/History-Middle-East-Fourth/dp/01431219...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Shia-Revival-Conflicts-within-Future-e...
I'm a little confused by your careers page (mainly since you mentioned PHP specifically, which seems like it would be tied to the Lead Software Developer role) but there's also a Rails Engineer position mentioned so I'm curious about which direction the team is heading (towards more Rails or more PHP?). I'm mainly curious because I'm more of a PHP developer (but interested in doing work in Ruby and Rails too).

Also, I'm currently in Georgia Tech's Online Masters in Computer Science program and am kind of curious about the Atlanta area (if you can share a little more about life in the city).

Congrats on your current successes so far :-)!
The Fallen of World War 2
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SanDisk announces 2TB SSD in its new Extreme 900 lineup
> > when the Go runtime calls that foreign function pointer, it is going to schedule an entire OS thread for its duration isn't it?

>No.

Are you sure? Once a thread enters cgo it is considered blocked and is removed from the thread pool according to these sources [1][2]. I previously found a thread where Ian Lance Taylor explained it more explicitly but I couldn't find that now. Is that not what is happening though when __go_go invokes your function pointer?

I do not understand how the Nim code can live in the segmented stack of a goroutine, nor how the Go runtime could know it is time to grow that stack.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/gorou...

[2]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27600587/why-my-program-o...
UN Special Rapporteur Calls Upon States to Protect Encryption and Anonymity
Fleeting jokes is one. Like you were talking about a shirt, you see that shirt, you want to tell the person but sending them a text and a picture that they will have to delete or keep forever seems heavy.

Snap Stories are also very common. I don't want to tell someone explicitly what I am doing, but it is still fun to share slices of life, so I will record a few seconds of an event and post it to my snap story. If someone wants to know they can. Usually about 30 people watch each of my stories.
would be great if HN could just do this automatically
Agreed. I used LV for some R&D stuff, many years ago. More recently, I became responsible for a product whose support software had been written in LV -- by a guy who was certified as a LV expert -- and the code was impenetrable.
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I'm looking for a way out of a job with a very long commute, so, I prefer remote stuff. I've got a lot of Rails experience and general web development chops, as well as C++11.
Entrepreneurship Takes Flight
I've recently gotten my beta tester card and I've been happily using it for over a month. They are ramping up distribution soon. Thats all I know.
Doodling on the photos is surprisingly useful. To do that via mms you would open the camera app, take the picture. Open the drawing app, draw it save it. Open the texting app, load the picture and send. Snapchat is snap, doodle send.
This seems like it could be great—can I drop this into my CI workflow to find visual regressions?

That's the question you should be answering. Not trying to sell some "self-actuated change awareness" mumbo jumbo. The video literally sounds like an infomercial for a cult.

Sorry for being harsh, but it sounds like you have some cool technology which is unfortunately overwhelmed by terrible marketing.
> Otherwise, he's not really hurting anyone with it

It's like not being comfortable about giving publicity to a racist, except racism usually doesn't cause outbreaks of a vaccine-preventable disease at Disneyland.

> and seeking to punish him for his beliefs seems kind of McCarthyist.

It's only McCarthyist if the government does it. Otherwise, it's people having opinions and not being afraid to voice those opinions even if they get negative feedback from their peers.

We both have opinions. We both voice them. The difference is, my opinions aren't the kind that are keeping us from eradicating polio.
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He "doesn't believe in" vaccines.
Crevasse fall and rescue
Hmm, is this built on top of url2png by any chance? :)
it'll take 15 minutes for someone to figure this out. then we'll have 0 day warez for pumps.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the engineers. They might be working within a managerial structure which doesn't give them the latitude they need to do their jobs. Yes engineers have a duty, but in software it's often hard to know exactly what the impact of cruft will be, and often all you can do is quit.
Introduction to Avail: A Groundbreaking Articulate Programming Language
Your API documentation isn't public. That's an instant turn-off.
Just another plug for the comp.risks digest. This digest from the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy has been moderated continuously by Peter G. Neumann since its inception in 1985. If you don't frequent Usenet like you used to in the 80s, the web archive is here:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks

The Therac-25 was discussed here many times, starting with Vol. 3 Issue 9:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.09.html#subj2
while strictly speaking, tor does help defend against traffic analysis, that's not its main function.

Traffic analysis is a means of obtaining information from one's opponent without cracking their encryption. It was explained to me by a security consultant, that during a battle you determine where most of the messages are originating from, then drop a bomb on it.

For that reason, to defeat traffic analysis, every node in a communication network sends all the other nodes messages all the time. Even if there is a privileged node you can't tell based on the number of messages it sends.
reminds me of on disc DLC
New Awesome Design Website
This talk covers the earth-imaging cube sats that comprise the basis for Planet Labs' global-sensing and analytics platform. The fact that they use modern processors and other electronics for their satellites is super interesting. It's one of the best talks I've seen in a while.
Blow the whistle? Contact regulatory agencies?
Volvo will let you control your car from Apple Watch
Considering how many people liked google's desktop search widget, and similar, I'm not sure I agree... not to mention that seeing repository matches that aren't installed (yet) can be useful too. Not that most of those features require integrated online searches... but I can see how someone, even most casual users would prefer it that way.

Hell, look at how many people type in website addresses into their search box.
I think getting away from the office with a laptop is a great idea.

A few thoughts:

If you're not really using the Mac Mini, why not sell it to subsidize your laptop?

If you're running Linux {or OSX} you can SSH into your work computer and actually work in other parts of the house using the laptop. This highlights the fact that you don't necessarily need a lot of power in the laptop if you're willing to configure your other hardware to provide some services...and configuring computers to work together is some quality tinkering.

Anyway, I bought a Thinkpad X201 Tablet for less than $200 off ebay including a replacement battery. It's mostly just a matter of patience and willingness to accept that it will be used instead of new. I'm usually booting into the Ubuntu partition with Grub but have the included Windows 7 as an option [that looks like it will be upgraded to 10 at the end of the summer].

It's a bit like the pleasure [and pain] of owning an old car.

Good luck.
I almost wanna apply just for the job title.
SourceForge: Third party offers will be presented with Opt-In projects only
Communication in Agile environment
Yup, at least that is the primary source of screenshots :)
A New Start-Up: One-Stop Regulations Search for Businesses
there are many good reasons to go to college other than to gain the knowledge taught in class.

While I can see the point of using online education to learn a specific skill I need for my work, I very strongly prefer to attend a regular class.
The dashboard api is still a work in progress, but the actual api is documented here:
http://blog.diff.io/talking-to-api-diff-io-via-json-web-toke...
Uber Driver Accused of Sexually Assaulting Woman in Delhi
Going out on a limb here, but I don't suppose it was for a superoptimizer?
No H1B possibility? I really like what you're doing.
Servo becoming part of a modern browser gives me a serious boner. Chrome and Firefox are both significantly working on trying to make sane multi-threaded models, and they often either end up with insane ones, or end up with sane ones that don't perform usefully any better than having left it single threaded in the first place.

I just wish that Chrome would fix performance on OSX. I have no issues on Windows or Android (of course), but OSX it just seems way slower than it should be on a lot of normal tasks.

I mean, literally, the only reason I use Chrome is because of synced tabs, history, and bookmarks built into the browser and having access to that on Android too, purely all the integration into the phone features (I have a Nexus 5).

To hijack my own reply here, where Microsoft is going with Windows 10, if they really hit off, I'd consider a future Lumia model to replace my Nexus 5, because Project Spartan seems to be catching MSIE up to what Firefox+FirefoxOS and Chrome+Android do now.

Edit: Not sure why I'm getting downvoted here. I'm pro-Servo.
Location: Russia

Remote: yes

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Technologies: WEB, JavaScript, html5, canvas, Backbone, React, browserify, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, frontend, nodejs backend

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I like javascript and open source tools. I made some javascript plugins for different frameworks. Also I like TDD and do complete my work with honestly. I mainly work with client side Javascript, but also know my way around Python, NodeJS.
Nim does not have a separate unsafe keyword, because all unsafe features are already characterized by keywords; that's a result of its Pascal heritage. To check whether a piece of Nim code is safe, you check for the presence or absence of these keywords; e.g., you can grep for "ptr" in Nim, while grepping for "*" in C# isn't particularly helpful. Every unsafe feature in Nim has an associated keyword/pragma. Having a special "unsafe" keyword that says, essentially, "this procedure can contain other unsafe keywords" is sort of superfluous.

Note: these unsafe features have two purposes. One is to interface with C/C++ code. The other is to be able to write close-to-the-metal code in Nim rather than in C (where you wouldn't gain any safety by using C, but lose the expressiveness of Nim). This is, for example, how Nim's GC is itself written in Nim.

None of the unsafe features are necessary for high-level programming, i.e. unless you actually want to operate that close to the metal.
Do you honestly think his vulgar display was sexual harassment? Is the provincial or local government prosecuting this? Otherwise it's unwelcome and uncouth, but not illegal and your equivalency would be wildly exaggerated.

He, the vulgar firee, should sue the province for illegal sacking --unless he displayed similar behavior toward coworkers or customers.
Wozniak's philosophy on work and life
I agree, but I also believe that as an engineer I have an duty to refuse to build something under conditions that, once built, would cause harm to others. Or at least to relay my concerns to management in writing before proceeding.

And sometimes, quitting is the ethical thing to do.
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Trade Fearlessly and Profitably
Cool demo [0]. The highlights around the text editor and the ambiguity of the buttons' functions (what does a button labelled "ಠ.ಠ" intuitively mean?) ruin parts of the demo for me though. Maybe consider using a different color / scheme for the active box highlighting + more standard buttons.

[0] http://bevacqua.github.io/woofmark/
Good feedback, thanks.

I do see your pointed about CI workflow, but I think visual regressions are the current obsession and a limited use case. A very valuable and useful use case, granted.

But if something like diff.io was in place in your browser, in your content publishing system, in your social networks, having it just in your CI would seem limited. Would you agree?
I've half built a tool to do this using PhantomJS, and a really half-baked API. The image grab part is easy. The diffing is what's hard... well sort of.

What I tried and what this site appears to do is a straight pixel change detection, which fails to account for how important that change is. Minor things change on a site all the time it's catching major breaking changes that's hard, say a CSS rule change that looks fine on desktop but ruins the site on mobile.