skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We actually don't make a branch for each ticket because we need to expose the repositories to outside and so we use Gitolite, and having to reconfigure branch permissions each time... Ain't nobody got time for that.
Any YC Companies at Cannes Lions?
EBrandValue (YC W15) has been selected to be one of the 10 innovation startups globally to be showcased during Cannes Lions. We would love to get a chance to meet any founders if they are here.
You did not say that you played Skyrim first on a HDD and then on a SSD…

> Area/Cell transitions are MUCH faster on an SSD.

I think we were not talking about the same thing (anymore?). Like I wrote below, explicit area transitions - entering a city, loading a save game - will of course benefit from an SSD, a lot. That is loading though. But you also have cell transitions that are streamed – you talked about texture streaming above - when travelling on foot through the game world. If I remember the engine from my morrowind mod days correctly, that is a special case in those games with its explicit cell system, but it probably basically applies to all 3D-games that include moving through big areas, since they all have to load textures at the time they come in reach. It would be quite interesting if an SSD would have a real effect here, and to my knowledge it so far does not. It would be interesting because those transitions can stutter if the streaming system does not work properly, or if the HDD is really too slow, which is a likely cause of bad minimal fps (and depending on the benchmark, could lower average fps) or rather explicit stuttering, measured in fps or not.

I'm not saying SSDs do not help with loading stuff, I say that to my knowledge, they do not help with streaming - which are two different things.

I never felt those explicit transitions were too bothersome when I played Fallout/Oblivion/Morrowind, that together with the streaming system outdoors is why I see an SSD as not necessary for those games. But of course, if it bothers you - and maybe loading really takes longer in Skyrim? - an SSD is a good load time minimizer.
What a bunch of total fucking assholes. That's not lobbying, that's blackmail.

No joke but this sort of stuff makes a mockery of the positive things they have done recently. Ao much positive spin hiding the same asshattery.
I am not, but I work with them closely. If you'd like to talk to the team involved, send me (shankun_at_microsoft_com) your email and I'll connect you up!
> Teams who can’t use SaaS rely on cryptic, decades-old technologies. As an example, the US Army uses myIRC to order missile strikes

"myIRC" doesn't exist. The name of the protocol is IRC. The name of a popular Windows client is mIRC. WikiLeaks called their leak "mIRC logs," which is where this trope came from.

The United States military (not just the Army) uses Internet Relay Chat for a whole lot of C2. It runs on a network, both IRC and IP, dedicated to the purpose. Given how long IRC has been in existence, that they've been doing it since the early 90s, that the use case is the perfect ideal for IRC, and that the average modern Web app is less reliable than my last Datsun, I have a hard time finding incredulity at sticking with something that works.

Even beyond that, IRC is text-based. It is not cryptic. An IRC client is a common first software project. About twenty lines of Go gets you a bot. You can make IRC look exactly like Mattermost with a week of hacking in your favorite framework of choice, and then you're not reinventing fanout. Entire products have been built atop IRC.

Even beyond that, guess how many protocols are decades old in just the software development workflow for this product. Pretty tired of "that's old, let's do it better," even though I hate finding myself on this side of defending IRC.
From https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/vertx/xgGgQcDeX04/0q8C...

Here are some of the highlights of Vert.x 3:

* A new and improved core API providing HTTP, SSL, TCP, UDP, DNS, WebSockets, File System, Event Bus, distributed maps, clustered locks, clustered counters and many more features
* Introducing Vert.x-Web http://vertx.io/docs/#web - a new toolkit for creating any type of web application from traditional server rendered apps, to modern client rendered apps, real-time apps, REST apps and HTTP micro services.
* Pluggable authentication/authorisation with out of the box implementations using JDBC, MongoDB, JWT and Shiro
* Pluggable metrics with an out of the box implementation using DropWizard metrics
* Database connectivity for MongoDB, Redis and JDBC
* Integration with SMTP mail and a JCA adaptor for interop with JavaEE app servers (e.g. WildFly)
* RxJava style APIs if you don't like callbacks
* Reactive Streams implementation http://www.reactive-streams.org/ for interop with other reactive systems (e.g. Akka)
* Introducing Vertx-Unit - a test toolkit for writing async tests
* Codegen of Java APIs into idiomatic APIs in other languages - including JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy
* Completely embeddable
* Simpler classloading model
* Docker images and support for Red Hat OpenShift
* Faster than ever
So the top 100 Apps don't offer something useful? I think the point is that regardless of how useful the app is, there is decreasing engagement right away. It's best to not be demoralized by it and think through your onboarding.

The goal is not to shift the slope because that is similarly negative regardless of how useful your app is. Rather, focus on day 1 where the downslope starts at 75% vs. 50% vs. 25% retained users.
There's still an opportunity loss.
Distributing Android Libraries via JCenter for Gradle Importing
Catching a frisbee like a BOSS
when you are asking for companies to verify all the software that is signed by their certs, im quite certain you are not at all considering the consequences.
Building the Fast New MSN
I did five year of engineering school, like a lot of other people. Let's see how I could have used this time in other fields.

In five years, an infantry soldier can go to bootcamp (BCT, 10 weeks), advanced infantry combat school (4 weeks). Then he'll go on to a combat unit, and train with them to prepare for a combat deployment. With a week or two of visits home, this will take up the first year. He could use the remaining four years to conduct up to two 18 months combat tours (with about six month back in country after each one), deployed in a warzone. At the end of his five years, providing everything went well, he will be considered ready to try joining the special forces, if his IQ and fitness are good enough. He could go to NCO school or officer school even sooner, after his first combat tour.

At the end of his five years, a just graduated engineer is considered too green to touch a production server, much less try joining the 'special forces' of our profession. The difference in autonomy in various professions after five years is striking. A surgeon would just start his internship, and assist senior surgeons, but a pilot would already be flying for several years!
Tutorial: How to design a model for an online discussion forum. Part 2
Hello Pluto
This article dates from January but is a really interesting read.
Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Phone release date set – June 25th
This article dates from January but is a really interesting read.
I think it would sound better if we thought the neural network to play notes and music theory.
teachers are paid less than babysitters -- but they'd be paid even less without unions.

Maybe in the median, but certainly not in the right tail. Lots of schools and their 'customers' are well aware of the value of great teachers, and freed from the 'fear' of being stuck with a bad tenured teachers combined with the competition to hire the best possible teachers will no doubt push their salary up.

The real down side I see is that once the salary gap between the best and worst teachers starts to widen, then the schools in poorer areas and with lower budgets won't have a chance to afford employing good teachers and will be stuck with the 'leftovers' to an even bigger degree than now.
"Having performed thousands of similar hair examinations over the previous 10 years, the FBI agent told the court, there had been only eight or 10 times when hairs from two different people were so similar that he could not tell them apart"

At worst this is a 1% error rate, at best 0.1%. Scientific validity aside, I find it unbelievable this was not considered reasonable doubt.
I wonder why? After all, it's directly attached to a huge heatsink with a sophisticated liquid cooling setup that ensures it will stay at a comfortable 37C -- it will even do evaporative cooling when necessary, going so far as to replenish the liquid reservoir on its own.
Haskell is an exception. Haskell is two distinct languages in one - one for defining types, and one for expressions.)
The Curious Case of Typeahead in AngularJS
Show HN: GoCommando – Connecting brands to millenials at hundreds of campuses
I wonder if DNA evidence will prove to be subject to the same kind of over-interpretation?
I'm pretty sick of Atom.
I'm not saying it doesn't have a place or isn't good, I'm just saying I'm sick of it. These are my reasons for being sick of it.

It's written in Coffeescript

It's a webpage doing a bad job masquerading as a genuine application

It's shit at files over 1MB

It's excessively CPU hungry.

Excessive CPU usage burns up my laptop's battery like its kerosene soaked sawdust.
Also, there is http://getkaiwa.com/, with roughly the same features, open protocol and a built-in LDAP. Hubot integration is also possible.
Facebook open-sources its Nuclide IDE based on GitHub’s Atom text editor
> my advice is based on the current market climate, where engineering demand severely outstrips supply

in Silicon Valley? The entire US? Certainly not in Europe.
Price: €299

Purchase by invite only after signing up at: http://meizu.com/en/ubuntu/index.html (link currently not active) from tomorrow, June 25th.

I currently use the BQ 'uPhone' and for the price/performance have been satisfied. Another 4 cores + 4G/LTE would be interesting though.

--

Source: Newsletter from Canonical received this morning.
IRC federates easily, requires minimal resources, and is vastly more efficient when it comes to bandwidth usage. (you'll notice this over satellite links)

plus it works in screen natively
The error bars are massive.

At the CV stage you might be a 6.2, but the error bars on whether you're a good hire might be +/- 5.8.

As you progress you're not just filtering, you're also trying to reduce the massive degree of error.
The simple answer to your question is this: regulation.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prevents hedge funds, private equity firms and other private investment managers from marketing their products to a wide audience.

High risk funds, like the Medallion Fund, are limited to fund raising to an exclusive group of investors that must meet the following criteria:

a) those with a net worth of at least $1 million excluding their primary residence, or

b) annual income of more than $200,000 in each of the two most recent years.

The deeper answer to why the SEC does this is: protection of the 'lowest common denominator' investing public.

By and large the investing public are not what you might call:

1) 'professional' (keeping an eye on the market as part of their job), or

2) 'sophisticated' (as in have a knowledge of the multitude of securities, how they work and how to trade them), or

3) Have a high risk profile and matching capacity for loss.

I think these points, from the SEC's point of view, make the selling of the Medallion fund to the general public inappropriate. I would imagine that from the SEC's perspective, the Medallion fund would be a 10/10 risk profile (highly speculative) and therefore the SEC would want an investor to make an investment fully understanding what they were investing in, and having enough wealth to suffer a total loss of money invested.

This leads into another point, the wording of your post implies that the 'astounding' annual average of 38% net of fees is practically a 'sure thing' when you say that since the fund's launch it took one drawdown in 1989.

However, you miss the obligatory warning that past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Speaking as a retail trader I can quite happily say that for different levels of risk I can make (and have made) the following returns (net of fees):

a) 1% per month with a high level of confidence with what I would call a very low risk trading strategy (annualised to 12% per annum),

b) 2% per month with a medium to high level of confidence with what I would call a medium risk trading strategy (annualised to 24% per annum),

c) 3% per month with a low to medium level of confidence with what I would call a medium to high risk trading strategy (annualised to 36% per annum), and

d) 4%+ per month with a low level of confidence with what I would call a high risk trading strategy.

The point I'm making here is that:

* If you know what you are doing,

* You have the capital (and capacity for loss), and

* You have the risk profile,

Then you can make decent market returns too. Technology has democratised the markets so there really isn't any reason for being negative and bothering about inequality.

You would however have to work for it and if the Medallion Fund are making 82% per annum (38% + 44%) before management fees they are working extremely hard for that.
can i run it on Linux?
I don't know for a fact, but I'd it's possible that rendered animal fat might have used for cooking (and potentially other uses too) in paleolithic times - so no need to buy a jar of oil, they'd just make their own :)
I side with the Startup. If the customers is not a good one for them, they have the same right to kick him off as much as the customer has the right to seek for another better service provider.

And his condescending tone it pretty obvious to me, in http://s.natalian.org/2015-06-17/7days.pdf (but maybe these are just cultural differences ;])
Agreed, without a list of the features, or something to show what useability is like (does it support markdown? code highlighting? e.t.c.) it's tough to evaluate it.

Kudos to them for open sourcing it. It does look nice in the small pictures they have of it.
It appears to be a web-based GUI toolkit. Something to replace JQuery-UI or Polymer, both of which are minimal.

The web needs something like Apple's Cocoa or Cocoa touch - a very rich GUI toolkit. It looks like this takes some inspiration from that, as some of the names are same. I don't know if it has an solver-based auto layout engine, though.

Anyways, I've been wanting something like this for a while now, as no company has really stepped up to the plate with a real GUI toolkit.
> $30M is chump change compared to the upgrade cost

Which said upgrade is going to happen anyway, so it's not staying fees vs upgrade cost, it's staying fees (however long it's dragged out) plus upgrade cost.

The proper comparison is $30M vs the cost of not doing "business".
Famous is probably most famous for making the front page of HN.

It does look like a cool JS framework though.
Ask HN: API Games
After reading about http://deckofcardsapi.com/ on HN, it struck me that I couldn't think of any games which are played through APIs other than Chess Games (although text-adventure type games would be perfect for this sort of incarnation, other game types are possible) does anyone know of other API style games?
What’s the right time for your startup to build in house?
WordPress Theme Boilerplate – Build Tools Included :)
did they consider to work with beloved IE6 on a virtual machine instance? My uneducated guess is that it would be cheaper, even when counting expenses for training users to start the VM.
I, on the other hand, always trim urls when sharing them. Sometimes I break them :)
How many open source slack alternatives before someone writes one that actually utilizes the IRC protocol?

Is there a defensible argument against using IRC?
That's pretty much why I insisted on learning functional language (Erlang)
instead of another imperative one (Go) for writing concurrent tools. I already
see how it affects my Python and Perl code.
"tax the corporations for benefiting from automation, and redistribute the money to the population as unconditional basic income."

I think you have nailed the critical dynamic as well as any can.
Slack's success inspires derivatives and, in this case, a direct copy. Review the screenshots.

Before you get excited about Mattermost as the hosted Slack you've been waiting for, think hard about the AGPL licensing.
not only do they want simple ingredient lists with names they can recognize or even picture in their heads, for many consumers these specialty brands an easy way for them to fool themselves into believe they are being healthy. For some it may even fall into the category of luxury items, treating themselves. the food scares a few years ago with imported food from China probably has done some to move this market as well.

Yet it will be interesting to see what happens to people's choices when after years of moving to easy to understand foods their health doesn't improve. The one connection most of them haven't made is that it isn't necessarily the types of food they are eating but simply the volume especially related to their activity levels.
>FOSS of more often then not superior on its merits alone, why does it need a protectionist anti-competitive law to help it compete?

If proprietary software is more often then not superior on its merits alone, why does it need a protectionist anti-competitive law (Intellectual property, reverse engineering forbidden by EULAs) to help it compete?
The difference is that patients can choose their hospital, so the hospital has an incentive to have a reputation for the best care. In the case of prisons, the customer and the user are different people.
Voat bans fappening, jailbait, doxbin subvoats
"Low copy number" DNA analysis has had a degree of controversy swirling over it.
That was a nice marketing video. However they didn't show it actually working aside from it just staying in one place without falling over.
The IRC protocol isn't pretty, and there are plenty of incompatible server implementations, but if you're controlling both the server end and the client end it's certainly where I'd start. My first thought when I saw Slack was "someone did a pretty web irc client finally, cool" (I have no idea if they use irc internally? but it seemed such a direct match)
Apple Reaches Deal with Beggar's Group for Apple Music Streaming
You can setup a virtualhost for that URL and have some fun with the domain. (Think; porn, disgusting stuff, extremist stuff)
Confusion about Food, Diet, Nutrition and Healthy Living
A fellow reader :)

(I just ego-surfed my hn name. The twitter guy is somebody else.)
> At worst this is a 1% error rate

If those 1000 pairs of hairs really were from different, randomly choosen people. But we don't know the quality of that sample. Maybe the examiner looked at 1000 pairs of hairs, 10 looked similar to him and those 10 were from different heads, while the 990 that looked different were from the same head. That would give an error rate of 100%.

Even if we assume there were no errors in the sample, then we still don't know anything about the correlation between the judgement of the examiner and reality. Maybe he randomly considers one in 100 pairs of hairs to look similar. So while yes, the error rate would be 1%, his judgement would have absolutely no informative value. It would be as good as throwing dice.
Yeah, they used to serve real food. About 20 years ago, the school districts where I lived were buying real ingredients and the cooks were actually cooking meals. Now it's all packaged crap that they slap on a baking sheet and barely warm up.
Chromium's Hotword feature is being removed
Good analysis! I'm just hoping that it is real and one day I can get on one. Its a step in the right direction though.
This is my biggest problem with Slack. It's a cool product that could have been built over IRC. But no, they had to create their own walled garden.
3 Important Fundamentals of Using Data Visualization Tools
Built for the team at the company where I work, this theme bootstrap has built in build tools that include Browser-Sync for automatic refresh-less style injection, SSASS/SCSS support for CSS pre-processing and Webpack for modular AMD/CommonJS/ES2015+ JavaScript support. It also comes with tools to help make teamwork easier, combining configurable eslint and scss-lint for controlling JS/SCSS style across projects.

It is constantly being improved and worked upon to better fit a teams needs and any feedback would be awesome, thanks.
A Partnership with China to Avoid World War
Except, as I said, some previously productive regions were eventually destroyed for good.

As I also said, we have only been doing this (modern way of farming) for a miniscule time span. We have no indication whatsoever that it can go on indefinitely. Starvation has happened in the past, so you are simply fooled by your even more miniscule life span in which you didn't experience war or starvation into an unwarranted optimism.

It's also not a given that we will have unlimited energy - that science fiction novels exist with that scenario is not proof. Even desalination might have issues, apparently atm they also cause environmental issues. And water is not the only resource needed for farming.

Obviously with unlimited energy you could produce lots of food (for example underground or where ever). But we don't have that.
Better to have slack-compatible APIs.
But boot the customers when they try to give constructive feedback on what they are missing on their blog?

That link http://dabase.com/blog/Hiveage_grievances/ is not bad publicity, the reaction to it is.
> I couldn't find any demos there or in other pages, though. I couldn't figure out how to run the examples [1] and there's no live links of em either.

This framework isn't gonna be ... famous.
This article is incredibly biased against Windows.

> when the software attempted to divide by zero, a buffer overrun occurred

While it's possible some poor exception handling lead to a buffer overrun, it sounds dubious. Your explanation sounds more likely - do you have any references?

The various random quotes regarding Windows NT's fit for purpose are highly opinionated. The article doesn't mention that at the time Windows NT was certified at the NCSC's C2 rating level; while I'm just guessing, it seems entirely reasonable to select Windows NT because it was the only C2 certified OS with a GUI, which may have simplified development and systems integration given that some of the applications required user input.
Pirate Party surges in polls to become biggest political party in Iceland
This is an SEO thing, they hijack your domain to get their rank up a bit then ditch you for their commercial website.
Had that once working for a client, just added a rule about if requests came from the fake URL I redirect them to a porn website. Worked like a charm and they stopped their scam by the end of the day.
My comment didn't imply any judgement; I was just pointing out the semantics of the thread, that althoigh two statements can appear contradictory, they aren't necessarily. Personally, I don't have enough information abou unions to offer any opinion.