skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely time to add Hypervisor.framework to the list of interesting things on OS X to check out. Related: I'd love to see a Vagrant provider for Xhyve, may have to hack on that a bit later.
Outsourcing stories and how they did it (or not)
Steve Jobs Would Have Been Against Apple Music
Meet people, attend cons,events etc. You need to know and be known.
What hosting server is the best
if am to run a site that has about 1million unique visitor or more everyday what host or cloudhost that can offer cheap hosting and cheap transfer GB.?
what is the server hosting features? Like the configuration.
Is they any twert to do on the server to reduce it cost?
Any contract included or not.
"By targeting Kaspersky Lab, the Duqu attackers probably took a huge bet hoping they’d remain undiscovered; and lost."

That seems like a very nice spin on a successful attack that was eventually detected. How long were the attackers able to spy on their internal systems? Perhaps they didn't need ongoing access and simply wished to steal client files or documents.
The way I understand it is that they usually just move the pointer to the ArrayBuffer's underlying data store. No block copy occurs.
Microsoft’s 7 Foot Surface Hub Wall-Computer Will Set You Back a Cool $19,999
Gmail: behind the scenes deleted scenes (2007)
The full Mencken quote is superb:

"The state—or, to make the matter more concrete, the government—consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
It's been since I was 15. I have gone through a sister and a son having terminal cancer and I don't notice a difference when I was in high stress or low stress. Just frustrating.
On a related note, there is highly educative book on Yiddish called: "If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say It In Yiddish" by L.B. Epstein [1].

Yiddish curses put any other language's curses to shame. They use a lot of very well thought analogies. They also sometimes revive a bit of the (lost) history of the Jewish people pre-wwII.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Anything-Nice-Yiddish/dp/0806...
This is coming from a perspective of "I know a little about stats", not "I know anything about climate science":

That doesn't feel like a particularly strong response to ESR's claim. Taken as a response to that claim, it feels kind of like: "our predictions were wildly inaccurate, but it's a complicated system with short-term and long-term factors and the short-term factors caused more warming just before we made our predictions and less just after, and that threw us off".

Which doesn't inspire confidence. If you can't predict the short-term factors, you need to widen your confidence intervals. I feel like at the very least, you should be making predictions like "conditional on these factors staying within these bounds, we expect this amount of warming". Then if that condition doesn't hold, you don't lose any bayes points.

(I recognize that the article wasn't written as a response to ESR, I'm not even sure it was a response to the same thing that ESR is talking about. But you offered it as a response, so that's how I'm evaluating it.)
Ya I thought it might mark it as dead but even if I append the result to something like a List and print the list at the end (so it can't just not run the code?), Stream wins. Anyway I'm off to work for today, maybe I'll post in evening.

edit:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ed0d8f4a5c6553fe8435

Is there some way in this example it could not actually run the code here?
I didn't have insomnia as bad as some on the thread and with the caveat that every case of insomnia seems to be different enough that there isn't a single fix for it:

I found melatonin helped to get me started on a sleep schedule, but, in the long run, not as much as using f.lux and making my room as dark as possible at night. Got rid of my TV and listened to audiobooks instead.

I weaned myself off the melatonin supplements over a few months.

For the last two years I've been able to get a full night's sleep without much problem.
Mesosphere introduces free data centre OS
Aka "flat profile". Using these things in full force requires really banking on JIT doing the right thing (if perf is a concern), which is optimistic. A simple loop is just as readable as these one liners, and carries less risk of not being compiled as tightly.
What makes you say it was quick? Jefferson has been extensively studied and presumably well cross referenced, this shouldn't be hard to check. Are you assuming they didn't do the work?
In our testing, we’ve found that SourceForge’s downloader behaves more nicely in a virtual machine. If you want to see what it actually does, be sure to test it in a real Windows system on a physical machine, not a virtual machine.

This is the same sort of behavior that malicious applications are increasingly using to avoid detection and analysis.

Very interesting! I'd be interested to hear the corporate-speak rationale for this. Kind of interested, anyway.
Well, what about something like:

ArrayBlockingQueue<Work> q = new ArrayBlockingQueue<Work>(10)
Great! I hope you succeed.
Material allows for super complex applications to be consistent and easy to use. It is not "artsy" it's functional in a way that is better than anything else right now.
That would be an awesome thing to be allowed to do. Outside of high workload Asian offices I haven't heard of sleeping during hours was anything but firing material.
Hackers can tamper with medical drug pumps, leading to fatal outcomes
It's massively unfortunate that a tradeoff like this has to be made (speed vs responsiveness).

But FWIW, you can do canvas pixel operations with a web worker, which you then blit to the canvas, which is acceptable in some cases.
'dancing git' – how to explain Git in depth || Hackership blog
Also please consider competition for cargo space. I've "next day air" shipped things to avoid checking bags because, hey, why bother with the hassle? And for non-international stuff I don't need soon (dirty socks?) I've ground shipped at the very cheapest rates. I've walked on to planes and trains with little more than a tiny bag for camera and tickets and phone and such a couple times. Its a nice way to travel. Not as nice as paying for 1st class, but not as expensive, shipping is well worth the money.

The problem is that cheaper air shipping means it may very well be in the same plane I'm flying on, insane as that sounds. Then multiple middlemen all trying to get their cut, etc.

Shipping is infinitely more reliable than airline baggage, which is weird to me. The difference in loss rates is like 100 to 1. Everyone knows someone who ended up with missing baggage if not themselves, but its incredibly rare to lose a tracked postal package. I really don't understand this beyond maybe baggage handlers are more likely to be thieves than USPS mailmen.
Deploying Spring Boot Apps on EC2
Kaspersky Lab reveals cyberattack on its corporate network
Exactly, this is why it's called "The Grind". My wife works 40 hours per week at a local government facility, and I work the same schedule at a private company. We have maybe three hours of time together each evening, and that time is taken by household chores, cooking (which I mostly do), eating dinner, then we usually each have something we wanted to do separately. By the time we're ready to spend time together, it's bedtime. It's been a drain on both of us mentally and emotionally, and if we weren't so amazingly compatible it would be an issue in our marriage. As it is, I'm planning on going back to government work myself on a rotating 12 hour shift so I have days off during the week, and can take care of those household chores that take away a lot of our free time together. It will also allow me to get back to my writing, which is difficult to do after a mentally exhausting nine-to-five day of fixing other people's issues.
A directory is stored as a linked list of clusters like regular files, and the 32-bit filesize field is irrelevant for a directory, so it theoretically could be as big as the whole volume - just keep adding clusters to the chain.

Filesystem drivers may give up long before then, and access to such a huge directory would be very slow, but there's nothing in the filesystem structures itself that would prevent it. I've written FAT code for an embedded device that I can confidently say would have no problems with large directories, since it'll just keep following the cluster chain to the end.
A pension? I've never heard of a pension in tech (though I am from a different country than you). I've never heard of companies taking part of their earnings to invest in the well being of their people. The most I have heard of are perks like ping-pong, a free beer once in a while, and conferences. They often even give you a computer to work on! And a chair to sit in!

(I kid you not, these are often listed as perks in tech job ads)

Obviously startups are not the place to look for a pension but I haven't even heard of established companies in tech offering them.

Seems like a dead-end career if you care about retiring and sending your kids to a decent school (if that's what they want). My grandfather-in-law was set for life when he retired as a mechanical engineer. I'm in my mid-30s and I don't see my career ever ending and my financial future seems like it will always be at risk no matter how I invest and manage my savings.

What kind of company, might I ask, offers such a rare thing?
No offense, but I disagree with pretty much all of this. We work more than our ancestors do, not to make an easier life, but for the sake of incorporating the ephemeral and inconsequential into our lives. And an agrarian lifestyle can be loads of fun, actually. I got more of a sense of accomplishment helping on my grandparents' farm than from any blue collar job I've ever held.
Kaspersky is pretty much the pawn of the Putin administration and works against Western interests. Wired has a decent writeup here:

http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/

They're fair game as far as I'm concerned, considering the things they've done in the past. They're not this innocent tech company morally above the dirty games nation states play. They're an active participant. Pretty much every "important" industry in Russia is controlled by the Putin administration and is a tool of it. See how the founder of VK didn't want to play ball and had to flee the country. Now VK is run by Putin stooges.
It could happen, if this had worldwide scientific consensus (Japan, China, Australia, US, Europe and Russia), and if agreed on in the UN. And if you dump this all at once in the same place, you're stupid. It could be dumped over the course of years in different places, while monitoring radiation levels in water and fish.
Understand the author's (Clintonesque) pain, as I am going through a similar problem, but don't have it all figured neatly to disengage from the industry yet.

My own views are that the software industry has reduced its 'professional quotient' a lot, to probably near zero, and hence all this chaos. I used to work in 'well-run and large companies' prior to the internet days, and in some sense we are a victim of the post-internet (mid-90s' post-Netscape) runaway success.

There is no professionalism in the industry anymore, and paradoxically it could be due to the 'open source model'. Don't get me wrong, I like open-source with all that emphasis to openness, freedom etc.. but it has led to the ruin of the small developer. It is forcing a lot of us to jump into the 'entrepreneur/solopreneur' bandwagon.

The openness part described above also includes anyone to jump into the industry (unlike say the medical, or civil-engineering profession; after all do you want a 'hacker heart surgeon' or a 'hacker bridge builder?'). The professionalism is completely mocked at, and all this hero-worshiping of start-up culture etc.. has ruined it.

OTOH, I am not arguing in favor of high-barriers of entry etc... Honestly I don't the answer on how to fix it....
Periodic face time is important. But even in the same building I rarely speak face-to-face with everybody. A message or call or video share is normal even for 'local workers'.

Remote workers can be very effective with the right tools. Hundreds of companies are switching as we speak. I work at Sococo, and we enable it! Some of our clients have actually closed their offices and gone entirely remote, and they love it.
Given that Microsoft are going to "continuous deployment" with Win10, I think they ought to have taken the opportunity to do one last breaking change, possibly behind an install-time option or compatibility layer: ditch the CP/M legacy.

That is, change the path separator to '/', ditch the drive letters, and the magic file names like CON, and the 8.3 names.

It sounds like a huge breaking change but code that is already using the shell path functions https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7... would work transparently.
NSA Won’t Say If It Automatically Transcribes American Phone Calls in Bulk
How different generations will control their home through IoT
Well, I'd like to call shenanigans on your calling BS.

1. Distribution is the first step to social interest and therefore marketability. As in, until a tune gets heard by a marketing person or a film maker or Joe Q. Concert-Goer, it's relatively useless to have a recording. Fundamentally speaking, this is why Radio airplay is considered advertising and not due significant compensation.

2. The source of the money to go on tour is relevant, but not prohibitive. Willie Nelson is/was adamant that every musician needs a very good Jewish lawyer (his words). Contracts and getting paid are extremely important to longevity, whether it be licensing or crafting a tour.

3. I don't see how this point genuinely contradicts the parent assertion. Making a living in music is difficult, it always has been, and adding one additional layer of overhead - a label - is simply that - another layer of overhead. It goes back to having a lawyer / manager / publicist - sure, paying them XX% might seem expensive, but the amount of money that can be obtained as a gross sum will, hopefully, be larger on the net take-home basis.

Artists don't need labels - they need publicity. Labels have traditionally worked themselves into all sorts of publicity avenues such as...deep breath...rack jobbers - payola - 360 contract deals - ghost writing / manufacturing pop stars - digital rights management - pay-for-publicity on blogs...there are plenty of examples of labels creating successes and gambling on the small timers that they want to be successful. Now, Sony and Universal Music Group will sign distribution deals with labels for which they have no fiscal kick-back. It's a lesser known process, but essential for getting sh!t on the rack @ Best Buy (see: Macklemore).

No, what artists need are equitable channels for distribution and competent management for business affairs. You like Chvrches? I like Chvrches a lot. I especially dig the Soundcloud hat Martin Doherty seems to wear non-stop in gratitude for it being their big break / ability to negotiate their own terms in the modern system...but what excites me the most is what Chance the Rapper is doing along with Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment. No label. Free release. Now what? Time will tell.
> 1) Developers cannot reliably estimate software timelines. That often comes with experience and age, but many never learn that skill. It is a skill like programming itself. It comes with practice.

This is true. But this is the problem that Agile is supposed to help solve -- with the caveat that most companies don't do true Agile. I guess people are now calling it Continuous Delivery, but the idea is the same: you don't tell people when a feature will be done, only when you will be working on it. But even then, even with experienced estimators, the rule of thumb is to add 15-30% to their estimates.

> 2) Break down in communication between management (product managers) and engineers who are writing code.

Totally agree that this is very common. Unfortunately, the best way to solve this is with process, and developers hate process. But developers often don't realize that they can use the process to their advantage: a strong engineering lead can refuse to accept poorly defined requirements. That allows you to push back on product to force them to define the requirement better.

IMO this breakdown is caused by just that: developers who say "oh yeah, I can do that", then start working on the problem and realize that there are a lot of undefined edge cases. If they promised it to the client in 6 months, fine, but define what "it" is.

From the perspective of an MBA, if we have to bring in a contractor to implement it, fine. I know where I can go to hire certified rockstar contract developers at $200/hr, which I will do if the client is lucrative enough. There is no feature I can think of that would take more than 6 months of development.
> Unless Yelp has a toxic work culture, it's likely the author brought it on themselves by pushing too hard.

Nice victim blaming
> App -> window manager -> desktop environment -> X -> graphics driver (-> hardware)

No, the window manager isn't in that chain. You can kill the window manager and your applications can keep running and drawing to the screen, but you can't move or resize windows. Also, instead of "Desktop environment" you mean GUI widget toolkit.
The Mets stance on this to me seals any doubt about their involvement in deploying these boxes. I've been watching developments in the surveillance state in the UK with some concern, this just puts the final nail in the coffin.

You can't defend such dragnet surveillance techniques as 'terrorist prevention'. How can I make a difference?

I don't want my country to become America 2.0 (It's already starting to look like that with water cannons on standby, internet filtering and now this).
Not the same thing but in Middle School we used our "id numbers" for passwords everywhere. They were also helpfully printed on all of our schedules which a number of students simply slid into the front see-through plastic sleeve on their binders making it trivial to get nearly anyone's password. I wanted to see if there was a pattern to the id numbers (to see if given some info I could guess the id number) so I started collecting them passively. Just writing down the name of the student and their id number and storing them all in a program called HyperStudio (This was like powerpoint for mac but much more kid friendly and easier scripting) which I hid behind a number of hidden buttons on a project that looked legit (No clue why I did this, I could have just stored them in a text file but I wanted to play with HS some more and hiding them felt more fun). I never got to the point that I could discern any pattern because I very stupidly read off a student's id number when they pissed me off for shock value (I was in middle school, cut me a break) and they told the teacher and by the end of the day I was sitting in the principal's office. I got in a bit of trouble and lost computer access for the rest of the year (that really sucked) but I'm just glad it didn't happen in today's climate where I probably could have been charged with computer hacking/fraud charges. Like elwell I never once considered using it for malicious reasons and honestly I only logged into 1-2 accounts to confirm they worked but the vast majority I had no interest in looking at their network share folder (They were just full of a bunch of school assignments after all). Looking back it was extremely stupid and could have resulted in much worse consequences. That said I stand by my opinion at the time that they were blowing it WAY out of proportion and used the word "hacked" a number of times when really all I did was observe data that students were exposing right on the outside of their binders. I only lost computer access because I stored the numbers on a computer which to me at the time and now seems like some pretty stupid reasoning but whatever.
Building a better goal / habit app. Need opinions
United States of Surveillance: FBI pushes for access to secure messaging service
No, it's actually the hard way.

This is the easy way:

Foreigners come to country ->

Foreigners need jobs ->

Foreigners get jobs ->

Less jobs for nationals.

That's a very easy reasoning to following, it also gathers a lot of popularity, specially if I'm out of a job o with one I don't like.

Explaining why this is not true, or rather why it is much more complex than that, takes a lot of time, effort and understanding of non trivial economic concepts.

I would say the later is the hard way, this kind of reasoning applies to so many things that said by politicians all around the world to gather votes.

I would also like to clarify that I absolutely don't believe that that kind of reasoning is only used by the right wing politicians, that would be extremely naive.
Correct. A passive action by the user, who often just leaves WiFi on seeking mode when on the move from convenience (walking between home, work, Starbucks, Subway, friend's house, etc).

Passive of the user not taking action, I don't mean passive of the device.
A startup journey from an idea to 1,000 customers
In 2003, Jobs ranted about how people didn't want music subscriptions services. In 2015, we have Apple Music for $9.99 a month.

Yet another example of something Jobs said Apple would never do ... that it is now doing.
Wow. Thanks for doing this. The team is honored that you would redesign the app.

David
CEO @ Driftt.com
Me, I'm wondering how many FPGA gates you'd need to implement a TIS-100 node, how many nodes you could get on an average Xylinx, and whether you could actually get useful work done on the result. Finding a HLL that would usefully compile down into a network of nodes would be... interesting.
I've seen several articles that tout the benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy as a solution for various issues.

Is there a self-guided CBT app out there that one could try out?
There are valid points in this post, eg http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-...

I thought he could almost be talking about London. Diversity is not integration. Lack of integration creates polarisation. A single example: different nationalities have different levels of education, therefore different incomes, therefore different social status, and different accommodation budgets, therefore geographic limitations, and common solutions. In my area, watching east africans try to steal phones off tables in coffee shops is so run of the mill it's boring. Same nationalities, same activities - community effects. Some places in London try to resolve such a situation by mixing up affordable housing with higher-income housing. The situation is then exacerbated, as the higher income people then have to live with what is in their culture unpleasant behaviour. Of course, everything just gets dismissed as racism, when it's in fact about culture, not race, and not applicable to all cultures. The dismissal resolves nothing. If we were talking about moving into the amazon, people would be outraged at the displacement of the locals, but somehow western cultures don't matter, or some sort of penance has to be paid for sins of some previous generations. Until the liberals learn to have a discussion instead of flippant dismissals and name calling, nothing will be resolved, and europe's moving to the right shows that their is something that needs to be resolved.