skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (By the way, the stylized figures above are very generous to your anti-immigration case, since while there is plenty of evidence that immigrants 2-3x their incomes by working in the U.S., there is no reason to believe that American's actually suffer 25% income losses to do competition from immigrants. Most studies show no change or a positive impact to native workers' wages and the few that show a negative impact show at most a ~5% decrease.)

Why do you think Disney would replace a ton of workers with inexperienced ones unless they're saving on wages?
Given ActionScript is a superset of ECMAScript, it would make more sense to compile it to JS.
Sugar levels too. I've noticed pizza is a sweet desert now, whereas when I was a kid, pizza was herbal/savory. I've made homemade pizza that is herbal/savory and it was interesting, you can't buy pizza either frozen or delivery that doesn't have sickly sweet dough and sauce.

Some of the sauces are totally gross corn syrup ketchup level sweet.

Maximal processed food profit does occur when everything sold is a glazed donut, but when everything tastes like that, flavor and interest is lost.
But that is how arresting in England and Wales is supposed to work. The standard of suspicion to arrest someone is pretty low because it affords the police time to question a suspect, obtain DNA and fingerprint samples, search your house etc.

The problem we have is when the investigating officer gets focused on a suspect thanks to forensic evidence to the exclusion of other suspects. The CSI effect is real and strong, in reality in many cases there is little to no useful forensic evidence at all.
Would a primitive recursive language be less dangerous? Well, it depends on the language.

> They are dangerous to parse not because they can potentially run forever, but because due to their expressiveness, it is very easy to arbitraily trigger bugs, aided by the massive nessisary complexity of most parsers.
> Those two things together make avoiding logic errors invoked by malicious data, leading to exploitability essentially impossible to prevent.

Actually, the parsers for these languages are not too complex -- the problem is that they're written in a language ill-suited to writing parsers. The interpreters are complex, but all the exploitability is very easily avoided: by writing the interpreter in a memory-safe language.

This problem might be bug-prone, but a bug in a font interpreter should lead to whacky looking fonts, and never to remote code execution. The fact that it routinely does just shows we're using the wrong tools for the job.
I gather that Tesla's model is also targeted at people who may also wish to start storing power they buy off the grid at times when the cost is lower (as well as from locally generated solar, turbines, etc).

Price point commonality may be more coincidence than anything else. There's a philosophical question in there for some (probably small) number of customers -- whether they wish to remain beholden to vendors of electricity, at whatever rate is determined by the vendor at the time.
Could HN's post and reply forms be changed so that if you type a word in uppercase in it, that message appears beside/under the form?
The Open Container Project and what it means
I like pencil (or pen) and paper. Self-contained, portable, and broadly applicable to a variety of different problems.
Hello shadowzick, how are you doing?
But then the repo has things such as:
http://famous.org/framework/hello-framework.html

Which has the gem:
"Check out the 'Hello World' example below. When reading through the code, think of the tree as Famous-enhanced HTML and the behaviors as CSS styles on steroids."

So "behaviors" are styles? Why is the first line of a "Hello World" example a load of styles I don't understand?

And it's even more confusing: It talks about "components" but there are IDs which means any resuse would duplicate those IDs on the DOM (I think?) which isn't valid html.
Great app. suites me well
What does "hq" stand for?
I really doubt those reforms will be quick and or painless. It's easy to say society will reorganize around those concepts but you're probably talking decades of struggle to get those reforms.
> In my mind Flickr is up there with the Instagrams and the Ubers of the world because it was a fucking amazing experience at the time. I never even considered the valuation, but Flickr was definitely unique in the UX it brought to the table. I think people forget what the landscape looked like then. Or maybe they just can't get past a knee-jerk reaction to hot-button terminology.

Absolutely. They stagnated for a while, but when Flickr came out all the other popular photo sites would shrink your image down to a tiny low quality version, ads everywhere. Out of desperation I used to host my photos on a PHP-based gallery app I dropped as soon as I got a Flickr account.
Maybe I'm being thick, but they clearly have an inside. Your link does not mention anything about not having an inside.
I haven't tried it to be honest.
I found it terribly useful
You're treating it like a commodity product focused on economies of scale (comparison to Crayola). As an outsider reading about it the last couple of weeks they did have good quantities but it feels like a repositioning as a quality leader makes sense.
So switch the focus from cost leadership to differentiation (quality) in Porter terms.

I'm pretty sure the customers mentioned qualify as typical customers that are willing to pay a hefty premium for a product they love.
tl;dr: scale down, focus on quality, charge more > shutdown
Right now most of my focus is in the financial industry. I would say "in the US" but the truth is that my clients are multi-national behemoths. I'm regularly on plane flights to EMEA and APAC.

Believe me when I tell you that they are still running systems that were around in the 70's. They have a significant investment in code that can only properly run in a mainframe environment and isn't going to get thrown away anytime soon.

This is not to say that they don't have any interest in "cloud" technologies...quite the contrary....they are deploying just about ALL of them: ESX, OpenStack, Cloudstack, etc.

But what often emerges as a barrier to deployment is the operational details: things like upgrades to infrastructure, minimization of downtime, security, and integration with the rest of the network and computing infrastructure.

They don't have the luxury of starting from scratch and they certainly can't just forget about how to make things work with their larger infrastructure. Does OpenStack even have a way to upgrade from Juno to Kilo with ZERO downtime? Questions like that are a huge part of the testing and design that go into their thinking.

These guys spend $1B EVERY YEAR on computing.

And here is ANOTHER barrier: they can't readily do business with startups. It just doesn't work for them. The possibility that a critical part of their infrastructure is dependent on the fortunes of a group of maybe 50 people being successful.

And it's not enough to say "well they have the source code" and can support it themselves. That doesn't work for them when the auditors come out and need to identify WHO is responsible for taking care of support and the lifecycle of the code. They write the code for their applications; you can't expect them to code big parts of their OS too.

SO....please take my comments in the spirit they are intended. You can't be successful unless you are able to sell you solutions to the broader market that includes lots of customers that aren't GOOG or AMZN.

Don't forget staffing either. If your infrastructure requires a CS PhD to support/upgrade, you're going to have a hard time selling it out there. Handling of outages tends to be business-specific so NoOPS style models don't work everywhere. It's fine for FB, but not NYSE.

As for storage, EMC is the standard. Transactional databases are in far more places than you'd expect. If your app has scaling issues with accessing a non-virtualized database or datastore, then that's going to be a problem for you. If your OS can't handle redundant datapaths or confuses the Ops people about which piece of physical hardware is causing the issues you're seeing at the virtual layer, then you're going to have even more problems.

So I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid just yet. I love virtual infrastructure but there are still too many open questions that need answers before it's going to be a complete solution for mission critical stuff.
What an odd interview. The interviewer starts asking the author he's interviewing about sections of the interviewers own book?
That's a great comment! I am in awe of the cynicism and misanthropy it contains. Machiavelli himself would go "Dang, that's dark dude".

- Man, Uber just perfected self driving cars and closed my account with them, what am I gonna do now?
- I hear prostition is still around.

- Shit, some kid in Senegal just released a database server that can create a sensible schema from an excel sheet, even creating translation layers between the insanity the end user put in and the sensible internal representation! There are no DBA jobs left in the world, what am I gonna do?
- I heard those rich actors in Hollywood have acquired a taste for their own "best boys" with strong "grip"...
Remember you are in a business. It exists to make money, not to be a form of kindergarden (yeah I am one of those people when it comes to producing the best possible outcome to the company). Also being 'technical' not equal 'grumpy' and 'sulky' does.

At parties I'm pretty fun though.
So much hate for these guys, it's amazing.
Does a möbius strip have an inside or outside? The klein bottle is similar. The inside is the outside.
Or, say a large game publisher pirates your content.

Guess whose site will go down. Hint: not yours.
There are definitely industry wide food fads. Thinking recently we had added protein in everything, the pretzel bun craze, and for a brief period mango flavoring was offered in several chains suddenly. I didn't save the comment but I had read a user discussing previously that these are usually introduced at industry events and conferences to businesses looking for the next 'new' thing
Thanks for downvoting for disagreeing. But that's not it's supposed to work on HN.

You must have a sad life when friendship means nothing. But each to their own.
This development might be scary because it possibly replaces human creativity to a large extent, but you can't stop it by claiming that

What is scary is the willingness of some people to accept dubious randomly-generated artifacts as "art" and as evidence of consciousness and intelligence. You should not trivialize actual human intelligence and creativity simply because you want to believe in strong AI.

GP post makes a very good points and (like usual, it seems) they get completely ignored in replies.

Setting up some 4/4 beat is easy. And you don't need an AI to throw is a randomly arpeggiated chord in there. It will sound okay-ish. Maybe it will even sound better than the stuff in this video. But that doesn't mean it is equivalent to proper music composition or that anyone would actually listen to that stuff outside of a technical demo.

BTW, if you want to see real procedurally generate music that is recorded by musicians for real listeners (as opposed to by CS grads for other CS grads) you might want to take a look at Karma: http://www.karma-lab.com .
I am not familiar with the specs of these phones. Does the Ubuntu phone (or its near future upgrades) has the capacity to _comfortably_ run, say, IntelliJ IDEA and make writing/compiling code a tolerable experience? That would be very nice.
How long can they hold you while fishing for evidence?
Applications for specialised hardware reading between the lines of the OA. That means getting the suppliers of the original hardware to rewrite the applications to work with later versions of the OS and that might take time.
Templating Jenkins Build Environments with Docker Containers
Sorry, nothing really portable - we have a couple of Zotac ZBOX "nano PCs" (http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-ZBOX-CI320NANO-U-W2-nano-Plus-Wi...) and the others are an old laptop (Dell XPS L502X) and an old Shuttle SH67H3 barebones PC. Each site except the laptop also has a Logitech K400/r wireless keyboard/touchpad which is great except when it occasionally loses signal.
Awesome app..very useful!!!
In the American south - bite marks are becoming discredited now.

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/8b3bd7ebee8c4ae...

Hopefully now all other forensic techniques are going to be heavily scrutinized as it should be. It can be a great tool but it should be carefully used.
1-2 weeks? I don't believe it. Maybe in SV, where young developers are constantly being kidnapped off the street and forced at gunpoint to code for $200k+ and free lattes in swanky offices with foosball tables (or so I've been led to believe).

My shortest job hunt took about a month, but I was a cheap junior dev then. These days, I'm constantly getting pinged by recruiters, but I know better than to take that as evidence that finding a new job would be easy.

My last job hunt took almost 6 months (ok, I was being a bit selective). Hell, finding someone that didn't balk when I told them my current salary (and I was looking for a job in a fairly low COL area) took at least a month (and I'm too old to care about foosball tables and free lattes).

And now my current job has been eroding pay/benefits and layering on useless processes and other BS. I can feel that itch coming on... better budget a year to be safe.
Presumably, a sexist hiring manager could use this to craft a job ad that only appeals to men.

But this will almost certainly do more good than harm.
> ssl: Remove default support for SSL-3.0 and added padding check for TLS-1.0 due to the Poodle vulnerability.

> ssl: Remove default support for RC4 cipher suites, as they are consider too weak.

I'm not following Erlang news but was just wondering, aren't these fixes coming out way too late?
I'm sorry, I simply cannot fully agree with your statement. I also see you are ignoring a great deal of my statement. It is true up to a certain point that what you say is true, as I also said. But if you open the border wide to let anybody in for any reason the near utopia you are describing is just not possible. When someone crosses the border and finds a job to be the productive citizen you describe, all's well. What about when multiples start crossing and there are no jobs for them to have? Let's say your wonderful catering company has too many workers now and not enough new tech companies to sustain hiring yet more people streaming across your open border. Social services will start to fail as the demand increases but the tax revenue doesn't increase with the demand to support it. There are many municipalities out there that are struggling to come up with the money to support the influx of immigrants that were placed, not moved on their own, by means outside their control. I'm not even talking about obvious things like welfare. I'm talking having to suddenly build schools and hire teachers that weren't in the budget to support all these new kids that are suddenly showing up.

Question, would slicing coconuts on the side of the road in Haiti provide the equivalent in pay as taking a low paying catering job in the US considering and comparing elements such as cost-of-living and whatnot? There are many people living in ways we would consider abject poverty but seem to be much happier with their situation than many of the supposed better off immigrants. It's sometimes about perspective too.

I would also say the current economic status of many countries around the world suggest that "everyone way fucking richer in one fell swoop" is not happening regardless of their immigration policies. Everyone is definitely not getting richer in the US despite the years of people pouring across, what is essentially, our open border.

But hey, I'm not an economist, so what do I know?
A great RFC instead a dozen incompatible startups would be the best thing since IRC.
All of this is implied by you. Neither of us knows what motivates the publishers of websites. But you are missing the point entirely, which is that they all chose to publish to the web - a platform that by definition gives publishers very little say over how their content is consumed.

To complain that some users don't consume your content the way you expected is just really naïve.

For example, let's suppose you expect a user to download your animated gif advert. How do you know that the user isn't on a network that filters out all images to save bandwidth?
Of course it won't..and in no way did I imply that it would.

However, latest labour force survey indicated that ~ 1.7 million people still work in manufacturing. While this is the lowest number of manufacturing jobs in Canada since 1976, it still employees a relatively large percentage of our work force. The issue that worries economists is that a large percentage of our remaining manufacturers operate below capacity. When our dollar declined relative to the U.S. dollar, some economists thought it would slow the slide, but the issue remains that manufacturing still costs too many Canadian dollars. Since NAFTA prevents our government from directly subsidizing manufacturing (in most sectors), lowering labour cost is the best tonic left.
Reposting comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9765205 because it's still relevant:

This is a bit like saying that the people causing panic over Y2K were unwarranted because everyone checked their systems and sorted it out in advance. If nobody had panicked about it, then nothing would have been done.

There has been a major, coordinated effort to give women family planning information and technology worldwide, along with economic and social change. Efforts against overpopulation have been a common theme of development planning.
A Tale of Two Kernels: Towards Ending Kernel Hardening Wars with Split Kernel [pdf]
How can you be inferior when you are multilingual? Bilinguals are great but you are greater. :) But if you really need a little boost, try to learn English from native speakers at http://preply.com/en/skype/english-native-speakers . A little practice won't hurt. And when you feel like you're getting better at it , I guess your confidence goes with it.
Hi fiatjaf! It means headquarters. Anyway, let me know if you need any help in trying out the app. I would really appreciate it if you can provide feedback. Constructive criticisms are welcome :)
They do! See http://www.kimsufi.com/ (which belongs to OVH). The SSD box is terrible value though. I have a KS-1 for ~6€/month (incl VAT) and while it isn't a particularly fast machine, it fulfils all my server needs. It's also incredibly cheap for a dedicated server.
It helps but it's not necessary. Schmidhuber obtained state of the art performance on MNIST with a very vanilla deep net (no convolutional layer, no pooling, nothing fancy, just fully connected sigmoid units)
Tindog: Tinder for Dogs
Arno, the first open source platform for NFV
That's incorrect. That's just because the repo owner committed each V1 file separately.

For the whole V1 source code see https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/compare/Epoc...
You make the all too common mistake of confusing aggregate output growth with everyone getting richer. That's not a valid equivalence, as the 2001-2009 economic expansion in the US showed fairly dramatically, with the bottom three quintiles doing worse over the period of expansion, the fourth quintile mostly flat, and most of the gains in the to quintile (and, within that quintile, mostly in the top few percentiles.)

Aggregate growth doesn't mean everyone gets more; we have a system in which the major holders of capital are very good at capturing output growth.

Policies favoring aggregate growth aren't good for most people without policy reform that alters the way gains from such growth end up being distributed.
There are standards for E-Mail though. So you can move your mail around different providers.

With your chat system it's a lot harder. You can't move your yammer content into slack easily.
It's not an either or discussion is it? I think the OP is objecting to the whole "growth hacking" tricks you can do to keep users engaged approach, but it's just a guess.
See: http://lesswrong.com/lw/19m/privileging_the_hypothesis/
There's a whole range of possibilities here. Sometimes you get the strong-willed person who has perfectly sensible arguments and may even be fully technically correct, but for non-technical reasons you can't go with their choice, and that really bothers them. Sometimes you get the strong-willed person who has a choice in mind, and doesn't have strong reasons, just strong opinions. Sometimes you have the person who thinks they know the right answer, but a senior person is fighting with them because their experience tells them there's still a problem tomorrow even if it's all fine today. And sometimes you've got someone who is the very definition of fair and rational fighting you tooth and nail because you are trying to do something very, very stupid.

And sometimes you've just got yourself an asshole.

It can be hard to tell which is which from someone's self-report. Presumably hoodoof (the original poster) has one or more people in mind which prompted hoodoof to write this, but from a one-sided view we really can't tell which is which.

Of course, in the end, I'm not aware of any career path which is populated solely by happy, healthy, well-balanced people that everyone loves to spend time with. Not even therapists or the clergy.
Windows 10 Isn’t Really Free for Software Testers
The best productivity hack compilation ever
I think there's an important difference between a person who needs to be right, and a person who is right and refuses to allow sloppy work to jeopardize the company. The former certainly suck, and you'll find them among any department, or among your clients, or even in your own family. The latter are exactly who you want to be working with.
> "Hiring managers didn’t like me because I went to a small private university in Ohio."

He is complaining because he didn't have enough money to live in SV while looking for a job, complaining that he is not paid for relocation costs, but somehow he had enough money to go to a private college instead of big public university that has lots of computing resources. Marc Andreessen went to the U. of Illinois. So did Larry Ellison. So did several founders of Paypal. So did I.

Marc programmed the Mosaic browser while he was in college. I paid for college programming the university's supercomputers. I don't understand why someone would attend a small private university not known for computing when there are far superior public universities if they want to work in SV.

Also, I don't know of anyone from college who was worried about relocation costs since they really owned nothing but some books, clothes, etc.
Continuum as well by Microsoft

Reference: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8560195/microsoft-continuum...
I have never been on a list for consideration to sit in a jury, but my impression of the process is not very high: I am led to believe that successful, intelligent people more likely to be excused by virtue of having something to do (my family/business depends on me being productive and not in court) but also that anyone with relevant experience related to the matters at issue will be excused on the basis that they are not 'impartial.' With the recent popularity of stories about false convictions and bad evidence, I wonder how it would be different if we could make sure that a jury included a scientist, medical doctor or lab technician in cases where someone from those professions was to be asked for his conclusions in court. I would be surprised if my view that winning a jury trial is all about showmanship is in the minority.