skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well since Ellen Pao hates majority votes "free speech" platforms, I assume she would approve of the situation.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-its-n...
An infinite loop is an algorithm. No result required.
I always figured this, but never cared to confirm.

Otherwise, you should take a holiday!
that is an interesting line of argument...but i think ultimately, the fight over the application of law isn't one which can be won over by sheer logic. Men in power who wish to manipulate the world for their own agenda will be able to do it, if the common folk don't care or fight back.
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A lot of companies say "Can you link to your GitHub" to applicants -- including applicants fresh out of college -- and the applicants don't really know if "No" or "Yes, but there's nothing there" is an appropriate / acceptable response.

I've had this happen to me, when interviewing (in 2011) with an bachelor's and an expected master's from MIT, and a bunch of other great experience on my resume. I'd had a phone screen, and got an email from one of the engineers asking to see my GitHub. There wasn't very much there at the time, and I was confident I was out of the running without a GitHub presence, so I didn't even reply. A friend at the company said that they liked me and were just curious (and I ended up replying with "well, here's a bunch of patches I sent to the Debian BTS", and ended up getting the offer).

I see MIT classmates with years of real work experience behind them worrying about their GitHub presence and how it affects their future jobs. I see questions on Reddit from students who've been asked this question. I see job postings that ask for a link to your GitHub. I don't know if anyone explicitly disqualifies candidates based on a lack of contributions, but there is absolutely an impression that it's a strong negative signal.
I hear many great things about Fastly from users, but whenever I look at CDN performance comparisons (e.g. https://cloudharmony.com/reports/editions/cdn-performance-re...) they never do brilliantly for US/EU regions. What gives?
Weird rant. C is not dead, especially not for really low level high performance things. But Go/Rust/Swift are more modern and easier to use for some of C and many of C++ use cases.
This word, meritocracy... sometimes to me, it feels like it is to capitalism what utopia is to socialism.
thank man, for your valuable points.

For 1 - Ya I also think blue is good for title color. i changed it some time back to black will revert back to blue.

2 - due to lack of data results are not good, crawler is continuously running, once we have enough data, that wont be a problem.

3 - for cloud apps - you hit exactly on the point that's why we added cloud apps, to target specific site or app you can choose app name in query like "s3 credentials from bob evernote", it will do the trick for you until more usable is developed.

4 - Yes chrome extension installation is bit tricky but right now don't have anything more innovative will figure it out. Search form on home page is symbolic, its not actual search. Initial idea is to take user to search page, definitely club both the pages to single one, like most of search engines are doing.
Also if you contribute to a clone, it won't show in the stats.

It is a metric for self-motivation, but I guess it can be wrongly used for other things. Is like the "GH is your CV" thing, ignoring that there are other code hosting environments and non public code.
Why Immutable Infrastructure?
ROC is still "China".
http://a16z.com/2015/05/20/enterprise-sales-for-product-peop...

This article by Steve Sinofsky provides a broader framework to understand Enterprise sales.
Sadly, there are a lot of absolutely silly measuring sticks in widespread use in tech industry hiring. Remember when everyone was asking logic puzzles because they heard that's what MS did?
From the diary of Otto Geipel: “1942: The winter comes with full strength, hardly a way left to advance without missing winter equipment. Even the winter clothing is missing. (. . .) At midnight the temperature dropped to a new reported low point. On 24 January 1942, –56 °C was measured at our division observation post.”

Temperatures like that make a difference.
So true. I listen to the itineraries of people I know who visited. "Had brunch in WeHo, then went out to Malibu to the ocean, then to this sushi place that someone recommended in Van Nuys, and then back to the Santa Monica to see the sunset." And then followed up with, "It was nice, but the traffic was terrible." It hurts.
You name all this theoretical great technology now how many countries have the resources to launch that type of attack and survive the repercussions? Maybe China and Russia who both have nukes anyway.
The startup I contracted for didn't have an app. We would just take turns picking a place for everyone to eat at. One day I would pick a place, someone else would take us through some suspicious alley ways to a hidden Mexican place, etc.
And if it's not stolen and seized using a legal warrant and you're not permitted to control it?
What to write in the preheader?
Cool, keep hacking away. Bookmarked.
> Nash, and the many economists who have followed in his footsteps over the past sixty-five years, can’t necessarily provide an answer.

> This is just one of the drawbacks of Nash’s approach. Another problem is that game theory is mentally taxing.

I find those depictions a bit skewed. Nash equilibrium is kind of like Thermodynamic Equilibrium, and that's fine. Why does it have to be a one-stop-solve-all?

Mentally tasking: so what? That's just what assuming that people are superrational means. You must expect assumptions to be made when people behaviour is being studied. I would think "Behavioural Economics" must do some complexity theory pushed down there to see how decisions vs. optimality decision making would interact and finally crack the whole cognitive-economy.

They do give lip service to the fact that an economic theory could not possibly predict the future exactly, but that's not even the point. Economic theory contributions must be valued in more than one way, and it is my impression that Nash equilibrium is specifically about stable-points in a field of possible transitions.
Not do downplay this issue, but wouldn't one simply assume it works this way.

I mean, how else would it work, Hola operating their own proxies and giving all of that infrastructure and bandwidth away for free?

Of course it would be P2P and would turn the user into a supplier of data and bandwidth to others. This basic model has been in use for "illegal" content for well over a decade now.

Now how they exploit that bandwidth is a different matter. Conflating those two is what will give you the "meh" reaction.

Also, "accusing" Hola of being unethical because it has no recognizable signature is another red herring. Of course it hasn't, otherwise it would get blocked by the geotarded services it is supposed to unblock. It's not an evil feature in itself.

The Luminati exploitation angle is the issue. Everything else about Hola is either transparant or at least pretty damn obvious.
Especially when the established players:

1. Have huge bloated software that is hard to add features to, support, or reason about

2. Are based on a decade or more old software (at best)

3. Are being undercut by software that does probably less than 10% of what they offer, because nobody needs the other 90% of shit they pack in (but did because they added some customization or "feature" to the product whenever a big client came online due to some slimy sales guy)
those are the export formats
> We're still working on open sourcing (!) our serving infrastructure, so eventually you will be able to see all of the code we use for this (sans the secrets and keys, of course).

I just want to applaud what you've been doing with neocites -- when the project started, I thought "Oh, nice." -- but not much more -- but I love the fact that you've kept at it, and your approach to openness is great (pending infrastructure code notwithstanding). I especially like your status-page:

https://neocities.org/stats

(Which I found from your excellent update blog-post[1] -- but I think it could be even more discoverable. It's not linked from the donate/about pages?)

I hope your financial situation improves -- and still: I wonder how (almost) half-a-cent of revenue/month compares to most ad-funded startups sites? While you'll need... a "few" more to reach your goal. Actually "just" need 43x as many users with the same revenue/head to get there :-) )

ed: clarity (hopefully)

[1] https://neocities.org/blog/the-new-neocities
Sure, if you're considering all the suburbs/metro area surrounding NYC. If you're really looking at the city, then it's 26k people/square mile, not 5000. Kind of a huge difference.
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Yes, now it says so. Didn't do that earlier :-)
Me too.

Also, isn't there a watchdog circuit that would reboot if a heartbeat fails? I haven't worked in embedded controllers for many years but such things used to be common in embedded systems.

At least Atmel processors have them built in: http://www.embedds.com/using-watchdog-timer-in-your-projects...

I realize that the Lightsail is a bit more complicated but the principle remains valid.
Video review from The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/27/8670645/pebble-time-review
It's not inventive. It has been a rule here since the beginning. I know that because pg told me.

The guidelines don't pretend to be exhaustive.
Our underground subway system here in Lisbon has cellphone coverage.
New site for Firefox OS
I always appreciate new ways to make accounting easier. A lot of accounting should be automated because most of it is ministerial.

But, I do thinking that financials are something that each person should learn a bit more about. I find it too common that people aren't spending enough time to understand what their financials are trying to tell them. For example, they're generate awesome revenues, but failing to convert it into cash fast enough to meet their debts (statement of cash flows).

Always a fan of everyone gaining financial literacy =).
I haven't seen a Q&A site for users & enthusiasts of Firefox OS. So, I've proposed a new site for Firefox OS devices at Area51 Stack Exchange. Interested users are welcome :)
And just in case you're in a network that does block access to port 22, use sslh to listen to port 443 and map all ssh traffic to port 22 (and all https traffic to httpd, and all openvpn traffic to 1194).

One port (443) to rule them all!
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>Two years of OS updates (2 major OS versions, since they do them yearly now) + another year of security updates seems quite ideal

As someone who has recently had to support some Windows XP systems, I have to say Microsoft has set a high bar for support. XP was released in 2001, received major updates for 7 years until 2008 with SP3, and received security updates until 2014, a total of 13 years. Some customers are still receiving special security updates.

While Windows XP is not exactly a desirable OS in 2015 for many reasons, its sad that 3 years of security updates is seen as progress in the smartphone world, and I say that as an Android user with a perfectly functional phone facing EOL this year (a 2013 Nexus 4). I'm hoping google can wrestle enough control from OEMs and carriers to be able to support their OSs for 5+ years with at least security updates. Its not without precedent, they supported Chrome on XP until at least this year -- on a 14 year old OS.
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It depends very much from company to country and so forth, but I've worked in the U.S. for over a decade now across both massive and tiny companies and the best way I can put it is that if your engineering team can fairly neatly fit into the different engineer stereotypes that are in the show Silicon Valley or the IT Crowd at least 80% of the time, you probably have selected for a rather narrow spectrum of people.

There are a great deal of very intelligent people that cross so many different ranges across humanity and IT / software seems to select for just a small slice of the possibilities and the richness that exists. Even among companies you are biased for certain personality traits (big companies tend to attract those that are less risk averse or with children due to the 9-to-5 culture as stereotype and vice versa with smaller companies).

The European immigrants I worked with certainly had a different sense of all sorts of things as well as the Middle Eastern and African immigrants. But gosh do they all share some strange similarities despite all these differences.

Things do get rather boring potentially outside the usual nerd crowds. For example, I really don't care about following competitive sports - this is a huge, huge social handicap in the U.S. even among women in many regions. This becomes even more pervasive among sales folks for sure - I think most sales folks that are pretty good performers are actually pretty darn.... moderate if we tried to "average" personalities. It's clear among managers that engineers tend to be a rather specific group of people that doesn't necessarily need to be accounted for among other types of organizations.
As a NYC resident, 1000 square foot studios made me both smile and cry a little.
Hmmmm.... that's the great thing about alcoholism and addiction - there's more than enough blame to go around. For those in the 'moral weakness, pull up yer bootstraps' camp, I find the following analogy helpful: Try willpower when you've got diarrhea. When you've got the runs, nothing else matters... whether it's your fault or not.

The story is sad; the only thing that is sadder is that the wife didn't leave - that might have been the only thing to underline the seriousness of the situation. The other caveat is that he was 'high functioning' - so he could stay in denial about the situation (rent's paid, wife's here, money coming in, everything's fine)... depending on the amount of money coming in, that can fuel really powerful denial.

It's a lot easier to recover when you're broke.

It's a shame that he didn't get the chance to go to a rehab for 30 days - the staff there might have had a chance to help... that one's on the doctor...

So if you think you might have a problem, you probably do. If you want to discuss it with someone hit me up...
What do you mean "remember"? They still do that! :/
Honestly I don't think including null in the language is a big deal. Academics tend to think it is a big deal because it makes it harder to prove programs correct, but almost nobody does that with Java programs, so it doesn't really matter to most programmers.

null is a natural representation for an optional type. It's efficient because the CPU can implement it by page faulting on null dereferences. Yes, you can have Optional<T> and so forth, but it uses more memory, and Java already has a problem with using a lot of memory.

Even assuming we could somehow solve the efficiency problems with a super-clever compiler and a built-in optional type, the language needs a way to represent the state that an object starts out with. For integers and floats that is 0, for booleans it is false, and for objects it is null. You could argue with the whole concept of imperative programming (and many academics do), but if you have X happening before Y in your imperative program, you better have a way of representing the state of the objects that haven't yet been initialized by Y to X.

C++ got a non-nullable type in the form of references, and it didn't exactly turn the language into a paragon of sweetness and light. It just made things more confusing and annoying since you had to keep flipping back and forth between pointers and refereences, depending on the API you were using. And in typical C++ fashion, they invoked undefined behavior to answer the question of what happened if you accessed a not-yet-initialized reference (for example in a constructor).
We've used this one: http://wtfsigte.com/

Crude but effective.
so tl;dr: be liked, don't be afraid to ask for raise?

I thought there would be more advices....
We experimented with a channel #Lunch on Slack, unfortunately it became a channel to share /giphy food
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We have a bot in Slack that randomly picks places from a list of nearby restaurants.
Now that's an idea. If you want traditional manned aircraft you have a large number of limitations on how you can work with them. But drones are flexible, in fact they can be extremely flexible.

Submarine launched drone aircraft. I wonder if it's possible to get enough bandwidth to control them from underwater and if it's possible to fit a non trivial drone into a form factor that could reuse Trident/Polaris missile tubes, then there's the matter of how to do post mission retrieval underwater. It's an interesting idea.
/giphy food is my FAVORITE slack usage!
Three Years of Logging My Inbox Count
Acquiring proven entrepreneurs is a smart way to innovate
"saying that most people don't have hard-core mental illness is really bad is really bad to say."

But it is true - most people struggle with ups and downs but don't have hard-core mental illness.

For you, drugs and therapy help. Wonderful! Do what works for you.
See also
https://twitter.com/d_olex/status/602823348272246785/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/37c38l/uefi_backdoor...
My last job (not a startup) used wheelof:

http://wheelof.com/lunch/

Pretty cool. I've also used it in different cities.
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Sounds like Terry Pratchett's idea of L-Space translated to Enterpriselish:

"L-space, short for library-space, is the ultimate portrayal of Pratchett's concept that the written word has powerful magical properties on the Discworld, and that in large quantities all books warp space and time around them. The principle of L-space revolves around a seemingly logical equation; it is an extension of the 'Knowledge is Power':

Books = Knowledge = Power = (Force x Distance^2) ÷ Time"

http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/L-space
As a former bookkeeper, I should mention that this is technically bookkeeping, not accounting, which vaguely corresponds to the difference between computation and programming.

That said, this is very dangerous knowledge; once bookkeeping makes sense like this you will constantly have to resist the urge to yell at people who claim "expenditure X really shouldn't count because it has benefit Y", which is a disturbingly common belief among otherwise smart people.
Firefox, cgminer, zotero, etc.. Yikes.
Truth to be told, going by the title I was expecting a sort of handbook for something like ledger[1].

[1] http://www.ledger-cli.org
The people that get pay more usually know they are needed and they use it as leverage. Everyone else, be more needed ;)
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Oh, that is fantastic.

I saw it at a screening many years ago and was never able to see it again. The movie clips made releasing it too difficult.

I see now it was released in October 2014 -- ten years after it was finished!

Very worth watching, even if (like me) you've never been to LA.
I have seen lunch picking apps out there, created by developers. Lots of them were backend centric or filled with ads or using flash.

List of Lunch Picker Apps I've found:

- http://wheelof.com/lunch/ ( Flash)

- https://github.com/darrenmce/lunch-picker
Have to edit lunches in code.

- http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/lunch-picker/6e7...
App for windows phone

Initially, it seemed like a good idea to get closest lunch locations based on location or yelp reviews/rations, but issue is fetching yelp results was taking too long.

From personal experience, most of the time when you want to decide where to go for lunch, you already have a few places in mind that fit your budget and style. You just don't know where to go again and want to outsource the decision to a tool.
I find that for such tasks it makes sense instead of trying to hack around nginx config and its lua scripting, to throw it away and write a small app in, say, Haskell+Warp that would do the job. It's as fast as nginx (and probably faster than nginx+lua), would have much more static guarantees, express logic more clear.
When I worked at Yahoo UK back in 2006ish someone wrote an app to do this.
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> Vote on Hacker News

Really please don't do that.
More discussion about the possible cause in another Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_text...

I don't think it's a buffer overflow attack. Seems to be something wrong with rendering Arabic text when a message is shortened.
Ah yes... The lunch gadget. At Plumtree Software it actually helped us sell a portal deal to Thomas Weisel Partners in the early 2000's. Good old ASP/VBScript.
This sounds like a uniquely American thing to me. I've never heard of this concept anywhere except California.

Everywhere I've worked on-site, if people wanted to eat together they just did that weird thing people do and talk to one another.
Bookkeeping wasn't super hard to figure out when I started using GNUCash in grad school. Really the most painful part was importing history from shitty local bank records.
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To some extent, yes.
Startups Are Making a Comeback in America
We sell a room and services reservation software, and have set it up so you can order lunch and have it delivered to the office, from a windows desktop client, from a browser, from outlook or from a mobile app. Billing happens automatically through the integrated contracts and billing system. It's somewhat overkill, but we consider it a form of dogfooding. The company is mcs.fm
We had the simplest "app" possible - cross platform, no Go or Rust or React. It was simply the newest member of the team had to go and collect the ordered lunches, organise the menus etc. Simple algo, simple implementation.
Im born and raised in LA and now live here again, I found this article to be pro-LA in a way that ive almost never seen written. To your point once you "get" LA it's the most interesting diverse city that has ever existed, but like any great love it takes a little patience, a little trial by fire and ends with a huge reward.

This article made me so happy I almost teared up because I sometimes forget how engaged and comforting this city is.
While often related, dead reckoning in games refers to a particular technique for latency compensation, not the general concept. Specifically, it refers to calculating positions based on last known velocities.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning
While I do understand that there's possible misrepresentation resulting from judging candidates based SOLELY on GitHub profiles, for those with presentable contributions/projects readily available on GitHub, I feel it makes for a much fairer representation of the candidate than many of the alternatives (whiteboarding, solving algorithm puzzles under pressure, cultural fit tests, etc).
I had an opportunity to be the manager of a multi-million dollar contractor's office. It included bookkeeping among many other things. Never before had I realized the power of cash-flow, but also the destruction.

On paper there were many employees that made more annually than the CEO.
I don't always feel like eating what other people want to eat, the problem here is finding every day some kind of food that everybody in the group wants to eat.

I always wanted to build an app that would track our preferences every day of the week, and then with machine learning predict what the team wants to eat on any given day.
In no jurisdiction can you be compelled to lie, either.

Not say something, yes (gag order).

Say something true, yes (or get a contempt of court charge).

Say something false, no.

As of May 2015 anyway.
PLoS is actually a pretty nice success. It's more than an experiment at this point.