skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web browsers seem to manage to parse URLs quite well.

Doesn't this suggest that MS were doing something funky with the URLs or had some sort of code to operate on certain URLs differently? Why would simply linkifying break the whole app?
It's become like the NBA draft -- if you've spent four years in college, how good can you really be?
No Medicare. Medicare overpays? Then why have it?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but members of the (U.S.) public had their say when they voted for their President, Senators and Congressfolk. Who, not coincidentally, negotiate all sorts of critically important legislation in private.

Besides, the version of TPA under consideration by the House this month requires that any agreement be public for at least 60 days before it can be signed by the President and submitted to Congress for enabling legislation.
Very true. I was just saying that they are always going to be different than some of the more open structures in FOSS land. Not worse...just different.

The ASP.net team is kicking major ass.
College admissions discussion is as good a time as any to emphasize the algorithmic vs. reflective intelligence distinction, via Stanovich. SATs, grades in high school, and the rest of the college admissions stuff filters very heavily on algorithmic intelligence ("understand the rules and be willing and able to play by them perfectly") and more-or-less not at all on reflective intelligence.

Engineering is also mostly about algorithmic intelligence, which makes the dropouts succeeding in tech thing a little ironic, though success in business (particularly not old entrenched business) is probably more reflective intelligence-loaded. My favorite overview of the subject is https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/do-rationalist...
You're going to have to expand on that vague explanation because I still think it is fairly obviously impossible. The best you could do is be much brighter than the background (which may be quite effective in a dimly lit room but isn't true occlusion).
I had the same reaction at first, but are there any laws stating that the details can't be disclosed? Meaning - is this paying someone to breach a contract or something worse?
why use MSFT in the first place? Really, it is 2015.
Thanks for the work to present that data in a nice and explorable way!

It would be awesome to have another column next to "% of Greencards" that says "% of population".

One of the reasons India has by far the most green cards is that they also are up there when it comes to total population.
I work for a company that is completely remote, and we have an all-hands meeting 2-4 times a year. As an employee I find I need these meetings just to put faces to names, at the very least.

It also means you get a broader view of what everyone else is doing. It's easy to have a very narrow view of just the project you're working on, so you lose some of the cross-pollination of ideas between projects.
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... which required a lot of pressure, by two major economic blocs. At some point people get tired of that.
Right, but consumers would be aware of the risks knowing there is no regulation in this business. They would need to trust their Doctors as they do. Benefits surpass risks.
A good number of people realize that by the time it goes to Congress for its rubber stamp, it's too late to tweak the agreement. It's not like a bill where you can introduce amendments. They have to either throw away years of negotiations, or accept the agreement with its significant warts.
The submission was accepted on Slashdot [1] but with several modifications that changes "Fyodor accuses Sourceforge of hijacking nmap account" to "Fyodor warns that he doesn't control Sourceforge nmap mirror", among other things.

I detailed the changes made and why they were biased in a comment on the same submission. [2]

[1] http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/06/03/126224/nmap-maintainer...

[2] http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7500817&cid=49829957
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Look these games at best can be __good__..

But lets talk about Legendary ones: might & magic series, planescape torment, baldur's gate, day of the tentacle, neverwinter nights, monkey island series, ultima online, warcraft 1, starcraft 1, diablo 1, heroes of mm & Ultima 1/2/3 etc...

The games you are listing can be highly rated, but they will not be remembered..
Thanks Stefan :-)

I guess the takeaway here is that repeat business from the same client is rather nice!
> I mean it as a driver developer. Its trivial to do things that are difficult or impossible anywhere else.

What is a "driver developer"? What's your end goal here - to enable the hardware on a particular OS, or do you have the added constraint of wanting to maintain control of your "driver" by keeping it proprietary, and so you have the additional requirement of a pluggable architecture instead of just contributing to the upstream Linux kernel?

In other words, do the obstacles you claim exist only exist because you are trying to write non-free drivers?
Its supposed to show the full article if the referrer URL is google. Try limiting the search domain to WSJ? I'm not sure why that wodnt be showing up for you in the normal results.
>My first "tech job" was as a freelance VBA programmer and Excel expert. Pretty much the only class at Penn that came easily to me was called Operations and Information Management 101. It was basically an intro to advanced Excel techniques. I took what I learned there, and a few things from elsewhere, and contracted out to anyone in New York (where I'm from) that needed Excel work.

I'm a pretty advanced Excel user and enjoy writing VBA. How did you find these freelance opportunities?
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Just wait until they try Slack..
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With the positions of the various parties secret, there's no way for the people to know whether their interests have been taken into account. These are some seriously heavy negotiations for something that can't possibly be considered more than a preliminary proposal.

In particular, there seem to be provisions in it that cannot be remotely considered acceptable to any democratic system. And the way public interest and civil rights groups are explicitly kept out of this, while corporate groups have pretty thorough access, it's pretty clear who's interests are and aren't being represented.

The entire negotiation process seems utterly pointless.
> negotiators making difficult tradeoffs

Are there any "difficult tradeoffs" that need to be secret? Or is it just the bad copyright provisions and undermining of environmental protections?
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considering soundhound is in the business of audio analysis, the voice understanding surely is the highlight here. I'd find interesting any connection between semantic parsing and their song recognition techniques.
They switched to Yahoo (over HTTPS, honoring "Do Not Track" if you enable it) last year. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an... And yes, as far as I know, most of their income is royalties from these deals.
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Give a shot submitting it to http://soylentnews.org as well.
Ah, I should have made it more clear. It's the decision date, note the application date. So probably those applicants applied when the USSR was still a thing.
I guess it is the only reason, because most of these problems are relatively easy to solve for small data.
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It's a really hard problem, and even current Tasers are only "less lethal" like every other vaguely effective alternative I'm aware of. So, yeah, there's R&D, but sometimes nature just isn't cooperative.

I'll note that in the up to 2.5 million times a year a gun is used in the US for self-defense (as of some years ago), more than 90% of the time it isn't fired (or hits, but I think it was fired), but the user indeed needs to be willing to fire it if the simple threat of lethal force is not sufficient.
Right, but who are the crowdsourcers? And who will be the person who leaks? Presumably we won't know either. Which is what is shady.
There's also new recipe from Ambronite available:

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The site says India 40.1% and China 6.7%. According to the CIA factbook, the respective populations are 1.2 billion and 1.3 billion.
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> but members of the (U.S.) public had their say when they voted for their President, Senators and Congressfolk.

That's not how it works. If it was, we'd have SOPA, but we don't.

Citizens telling their representatives what they do and don't want is fundamental aspect of a well-functioning democracy.
and lost by acquisitions and should be reconsidered after leadership changes.
Where do you even get a trusted copy of the putty binary?

You download it from an unencryped, unsigned website, and there are GPG signatures available, but you can download the keys from the same unencryped, unsigned website.

A MitM attacker could easily manipulate the executables, sign them with his own keys, and do a MitM attack on the key page too.

This is not mere paranoia; we know now that the NSA has infrastructure to do such attacks fully automated and at scale.
There's no qualification more respected than a solid GitHub. If that qualification can't be expressed on GitHub, it's probably not a Tech qualification.
I see your point and it makes sense but won't you agree a story line or a rich description of game play won't make the same or perhaps a better impact on the potential buyer ?

Of course i am assuming there is a story line or nice gameplay..

To give an example: my favorite game of all times, Ultima Online has at __best__, __meh__ graphics..I remember i got hooked before i even installed it, not because of the screen shots but the way the game magazine editor was telling his own experience how he got murdered while fishing quietly in a small town..
Ask HN: How to respond to recruiters who barely speak English?
I'm currently in the process of looking for a junior development job. As such, I have my resume up on a bunch of different sites (Monster, indeed, etc.)

I've lately been getting many calls from recruiters I think are in California (that's what caller ID said) who can barely speak English.

I'm having a hard time understanding what they are saying or asking me, and talking to them seems like a waste of time. Would it be poor form to tell them I don't want to chat, or what?
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> How do I reach these guys?

Assuming you've identified your target prospect correctly-- simply go direct, call them for live conversation. This is time consuming and can be energy draining. But that's where you'll get the true insights and sharpen your positioning.

Here's an excellent read on prospecting> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15863998-new-sales-simpli...
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I'm not sure how reasonable it is the way the author mixes demographics to make his point. I don't see the type of person playing sims social, wanting to buy a AAA game to begin with.
I think the tech arms race does matter to people.
It also acts as a signal of minimum floor of quality,but the specifics I'm not sure myself. I know would definitely prefer HD in movies, tv, and videogames. I definitely prefer movie special effects to cheap television special effects.

edit: maybe it also acts a way to signal people in market full of noise (competitors?)
If your goal is to prevent a trade deal then forcing them to negotiate the terms publically will accomplish your goal.
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I was pretty lucky. By time I was ready to try out coding for a living everyone I knew in college had graduated and was working on the street. I leveraged my connections there and it worked out pretty well. It happened mostly accidentally really. I had contracts with several banks and hedge funds and it call came through word of mouth.
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Maybe it refers to US nationals as opposed to US citizens. For example, the people of American Samoa and Guam are US nationals but not US citizens, at least not automatically. But I don't know what all the differences between the two categories are.

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE
I'm unsure of how to reconcile the conflicting things Cook says, then does: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-china-security-checks-o...
China will ask for keys and Apple will give them up. I guess because China's a much bigger market than the US.
> even if they only vote against the bill because of its draconian copyright rules

I think it's about time that politicians start voting against bills because of the underhanded way they were drafted, and that voters start to support this behaviour.

It doesn't have to be binary, either. "No for now but you can present it again in a year's time so that it can receive proper debate" should be perfectly acceptable. If for a process reason that actually means "No forever" in practice, then it should be made clear that it was the underhanded process that led to "No forever" and not the politician who was forced to vote it that way just because there was no opportunity to fix the process.
No wink. Doesn't involve betting. Although that's a good idea :)
> Ask anyone about their favorite games who are passionate about them and i can bet they will list games that didn't had 3D graphics...

And I bet most of those won't be high-revenue games. Flashy, shallow AAA titles make stupid amounts of money.
I can't seem to find the H1B statistics page, maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place though. Got a link?
Kudos my friend.
My first reaction is this goes too far but on second thought is this just the state of the world now? We are going to come out of the shadows and just be upfront about what we are doing? Is it a "The rich and the powerful lie, cheat, steal, bribe, corrupt, etc. Why shouldn't we?" situation?

I think money in politics is ruining the USA, is using money to fight back against these dirty politicians and lobbyists the only tool we have left?
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The problem is that 3D often doesn't tend to age well, as polygon count, texture mapping, terrain sculpting, particle effects and other graphics fidelity has been consistently and rapidly improving over the past 20 years or so.

That doesn't mean that it makes the games less enjoyable, necessarily, but certain art styles are just better at conveying timelessness.

At some point we'll probably reach a certain peak level of graphics that can simply be considered "good enough" for most purposes henceforth (Have we already?), but in general investing too much in graphics for production purposes over tech demos and research, is often shaky.
An individual holds information that is in the public good to be released.

Said individual is threatened with significant harm by states if the information is released.

Only those with tremendous conscious, like Snowden or Manning, step up in the face of odds like that.

Financial compensation shifts the balance to make dangerous humanitarian disclosures more self-interested. It means that more information that should be public becomes public.

What's wrong with that?
I think this is your nostalgia talking. There are plenty of 3D games which have been and will be remembered. (You even list Doom as a 2D game! I are astonished.)
I really think medical trials is something that the world government should sponsor so that treatments are accessible to everyone. Maybe each country contributes some small percent of their GDP.
I don't know... $100,000 to change your identity, suddenly it sounds like a small fee.
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Why would our trading partners make any painful concessions at all if they believe any corresponding painful concessions we make will simply be amended out of the enabling legislation by Congress?

The result would be a scuttled agreement, and all the political headache of having made those concessions without any of the corresponding gain.

The U.S. hasn't entered into a major trade agreement without "Fast Track" in 40 years. It's fine to be against liberalizing trade agreements, but it's practically impossible to be for them but against some form of TPA.
I'm more concerned about the crowdsourcing of it. How would that work if "they" decide to come after anyone who leaks it. Does putting in a few bucks mean you can be criminally charged if that cash leads to a bounty that leads to a leak?

I'm all for government transparency. But this seems like an unwise mechanism to achieve it.
There is an ocean of money sloshing around buying Congress and buying provisions in treaties like this. Altruism is for suckers.
Headline doesn't match article: Saltz's beef is with the US spending too much on the very sick, which is getting in the way of truly universal health care coverage for the generally healthy.

He wants the US government to use its market power to discourage the progress of ever more expensive treatments until we solve the problem of getting everyone access to affordable health care.
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Yes, but many times it also ends up in "maintenance" work. So new projects are always more exciting, but they might be rather short term and don't provide stability. In the end a mix of both worlds is what we try to achieve :-)
Thanks! We haven't really looked into it recently, but I'm not opposed. Reach out to me and we can discuss.
The Microsoft of today is not the Microsoft of 15 years ago. Nadella has a long history of embracing openness, especially with the Cloud Services division he was heading until his appointment as CEO. I think the open-sourcing of the .NET platform is a big testament to that. The old Microsoft guard would have ran the company into the ground before doing that.
The issue that HAProxy is encountering with SO_REUSEPORT is not an issue for Nginx's use case.

In the HAProxy case one of the sockets belongs to the old server which is going away, and a new connection can be assigned to that socket right before it does so. For Nginx, all of the sockets are accepting new connections.
It could be either depending on the person and how they came into possession of the information. Government officials likely have statutory duties prohibiting the disclosure of confidential information learned during the course of their duties (hence possibility of corruption once you start offering money), while others who are not strictly government officials may have signed the equivalent of a binding NDA and be under a relevant contractual obligation.

A person who is neither an official nor a contractor but who nevertheless received the information knowing it was confidential and that it ought to be kept confidential might also be held by a court to be subject to an equitable obligation of confidence, which is different again.
This is certainly very interesting. I wonder what kind of replication they are using (on mobile, didn't check, looks like 2PC).

Curious to see how this is related to Service Fabric, which shares many of the same goals. Fabric seems more mature (very well battle tested), but this has some interesting concepts around accessibility.
Incredibly unlikely. At the current moment even 3 hours of movement/combat between 20 players results in log files of ~0.5 gb

Now there is a decent amount of it that also tracks data generated by the actions (and not actions themselves), however without it, due to RNG you will get different results (even with the same actions)

Unless blizzard decided to implement a truly monumental storage facility, i doubt they would do it (for all actions)

They do however store some of the actions, mainly with the intend of recovering items/etc.
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Obviously they are telling you that *BSD is better than Linux and that you should switch.
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I prefer using wikipedia or stackexchange for information rather than searching for hours
Agreed, there are few more harmful concepts to a representative democracy, especially one with as poor of an electoral system as the US, but any representative democracy as well, as the idea that citizen input begins and ends with voting. It's like saying a boss's input on an employee's work is limited to hiring and firing.
If I remember correctly, Open whisper systems, makers of TextSecure app say that Whatsapp[1] uses the text secure protocol[2]. This means that chats are encrypted end to end. It doesn't seem to expose information to Alice when Bob's keys change though. So someone could coerce Whatsapp into changing the keys for Alice and Bob and MITM that way. However, if we are worried about that we should also be worried about a rogue agent just updating the binaries for Whatsapp to remove such privacy-conscious decisions.

I guess the prevailing notion (as the grand parent said) is that while Facebook couldn't give two shits about our privacy, there are
people who work there who do care about privacy in general (and not just their own privacy). Of course, no Facebook employee is going to come out publicly and call Mark Zuckerberg for being a self-serving psychopathic douche bag.

[1] (owned by Facebook, I imagine the deal is complete by now)

[2] https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/

> The most recent WhatsApp Android client release includes support for the TextSecure encryption protocol, and billions of encrypted messages are being exchanged daily. The WhatsApp Android client does not yet support encrypted messaging for group chat or media messages, but we’ll be rolling out support for those next, in addition to support for more client platforms. We’ll also be surfacing options for key verification in clients as the protocol integrations are completed.

> WhatsApp runs on an incredible number of mobile platforms, so full deployment will be an incremental process as we add TextSecure protocol support into each WhatsApp client platform. We have a ways to go until all mobile platforms are fully supported, but we are moving quickly towards a world where all WhatsApp users will get end-to-end encryption by default.
It actually sounds really promising! But I'm not sure what they are doing is legal or not.
There are generally much stricter regulations on non-lethal weapons than there are on guns, so the OP might have to be careful in his choice of taser (depending on where he lives).

I grew up in Texas and was always surprised by how cautious I needed to be with my boy scout issued knife -- carrying it in Houston would have been a felony, but carrying a glock was permitted everywhere. I remember my mom having to carry a can of bear repellant instead of mace for the same reason.
Which is why open source and data portability is so important.