skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flexport sounds like a great place to work.

Question: how do you efficiently filter out job candidates who have lives of their own? My company is trying to make recruiting more efficient but we are always inundated with talented people who selfishly want to invest some of their time and energy away from the business.

Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
Oh don't get me wrong - deprecation is the right move. We are after all unable to simply remove Flash from every website and every user machine overnight.

But right now we're not moving towards deprecation, Flash is not officially stated by Adobe (nor anyone else of any authority) to be a deprecated technology, and new work is being created for it still (with the encouragement of Adobe, even).

Deprecation at the community level will also require us to define replacements and expand the current limitations of HTML5 so that functionality lost with Flash can at least in some way be recovered.

That being said, my ideal solution here is a bit harsher than yours. Like you, I hope all browsers immediately stop executing Flash code without explicit user permission on a per-SWF basis, and I want them to unbundle Flash. The only people who should be running Flash are the ones who have chosen explicitly to put it on their machine.

In any case, my original post was in response to the notion that Flash should be kept alive because of all the old games/animations that have already been created for it - that is IMO a pretty bogus argument for keeping around something so infamously insecure. Flash needs to be deprecated.

Not to mention from a preservation of history perspective deprecation of Flash is not harmful. You can run an old copy of Windows in a VM with an old copy of a browser with an old copy of Flash (and not have any back compat issues, sweet). I do not believe it should be a priority to preserve everyone's ability to view old Flash content without any prior setup at the drop of a hat. If you want to rewind to the mid-00s it's easy enough to get something like this set up - certainly easier than buying your own 35mm projector or microfilm machine like other archival formats.
hopefully they are not taking the pictures ~72 seconds too late
I'd like to use Automatic Profile Switching to change the profile when I ssh to certain servers, but it doesn't do anything. What am I missing?
Npm module maintainer must-haves
One-third of all IT spending is going to cloud-related technologies
I'm sure logic like that works well on the playground and at the grateful dead concert, what about all the people who invested in property? What about the value of homes in general? Where would you even house all these people? It isn't always so simple.
This meme is getting tired.

Plenty of other companies EOL products.
I've been using this one in the office for some time and it's really comfortable and visually pleasing as well: http://biurkobiurko.com/
Just about everyone thought there were WMDs

That is just plain not true. Loud voices shouted over and over that it was true, it was true, here's a bullshit report we made up, believe us believe us. That's not the same as just about everyone.

I read the UN inspection summary myself. It was pretty clear that there was no decent evidence of WMDs (barring some leftover materials from the discontinued productions), or a continuing program to make them. Many of the intelligence people involved agreed. That we were lied to very loudly doesn't mean everyone thought it was true. There was a predetermined agenda; justify an invasion. Make up whatever bullshit we have to. You've got this "curveball" guy making up nonsense bullshit stories that no intelligence analyst in his right mind would believe? Just order the intelligence guys to shut up and get on with invading.

And in the end, good riddance, we should have taken him out WMDs or not -- the problem wasn't an invasion in Iraq, but a poorly planned invasion in Iraq.

Why should we have taken him out? We did it, and it made things worse. A lot, lot worse. How can you possibly, with the benefit of hindsight, maintain that invading Iraq was a good thing to do? Have you seen the state of the place now?
"Of course those random strangers will not know several languages of different
paradigms, and will not be programming themselves, in opposite of what you are
doing."

You know that this doesn't make JavaScript be a functional language, right? It
still only has some parts from functional paradigm, and those are not
well-fitted, so fully functional programming in JS is awkward.
Radon is not (ionising) radiation, it's a radioactive substance!

Fear of radiation is indeed irrational, because the radiation most likely to give you cancer is sunlight!

Fear of radioactive substances is very rational. The danger of radioactive material is that it can be consumed, and so bypasses the protection of the only organ that has actually evolved substantial defence against ionising radiation (your skin). As it hangs around for an indeterminate amount of time you have little way of knowing how much radiation you have absorbed.
But it is not some fuel, it is more or less the same amount of fuel you need to accelerate the thing. And now you have to accelerate twice as much mass at liftoff requiring even more fuel. Of course requiring even more fuel itself. The tyranny of the rocket equation.
Why I Had to Buy My Wife's Inhaler on the Dark Web
Allowing workers to be paid less doesn't result in more jobs, it just results in more profits for fewer people. http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21586578-americas-inco...

http://www.pkarchive.org/cranks/LivingWage.html
> This theoretical prediction has, however, been hard to confirm with actual data. Indeed, much-cited studies by two well-regarded labor economists, David Card and Alan Krueger, find that where there have been more or less controlled experiments, for example when New Jersey raised minimum wages but Pennsylvania did not, the effects of the increase on employment have been negligible or even positive. Exactly what to make of this result is a source of great dispute. Card and Krueger offered some complex theoretical rationales, but most of their colleagues are unconvinced; the centrist view is probably that minimum wages "do," in fact, reduce employment, but that the effects are small and swamped by other forces.
naive about what?
I don't know the form and size of the snippet, I'm assuming it's rectangular because I don't see a reason for it not to be..

I think We're still having an issue at the poles: If you take a rectangular snippet out of the image you've uploaded which its topmost edge coincides with the topmost part of the image, what can we expect the transformation to yield?

They might be dealing with edge cases behind the scenes in some way. Mathematically speaking there can't be a way to fully invert a transformation from 3D to 2D, so I guess they settled for something that they can still work around.

In any case even though I'd like to know the exact details, at this point my curiosity seems to be satiated.

Thanks for the friendly conversation. :)
do you mean Sputnik?
Even a grain of sand will go boom. Here's what a particle of similar size did to the space shuttle windshield, traveling at half the speed of New Horizons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_debris_impact_...
I prefer the interactive solar system on Josh Worth's site.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...
Oh, I think I misunderstood your wording. But in reality, the theocracy in Iran doesn't hold absolute power.. there is some semblance of a democracy and at the end of the day the government does face the scrutiny of its people and the international community, just like every other nation.. saying they are completely devoid of logic is just foolish.
Yeah, that probably won't happen. There is simply too much political opposition to the idea of basic income in the US.
Right. That's a grain of salt I take when I talk to Uber drivers. That said, I've had several drivers who were former taxi drivers, and much prefer working for Uber.

Here in Minneapolis, the taxi driver business is dominated by our large (30k+) Somali community. I'm starting to see Somalis and Kenyans more as drivers now, when just a year ago they tended to be caucasian. This tells me Uber is making a real dent in the taxi driver employee base.
Yeah, a woman letting go of a great guy seems strange. Women fight over great guys, not recommend them to other women.
There is no need for suspecting "...that as years go by the salaries will go lower as the gig-economy becomes standard." There is empirical evidence today anywhere you care to analyze freelancing results. I'm loathe to admit this as I used to think the "free agent economy" was the way to go, but I have to face the cumulative evidence over the past several decades.

Mainstreaming the freelance economy will be disastrous for median incomes, and further concentrate power because the majority of freelancers have little to no leverage. That is because by definition, the majority of freelancers fall somewhere close to some average metric (whatever objective/subjective measure is chosen by the buyer). That average is commoditized through many different means (the primary channel of delivering that commoditization being the purchasing/procurement department), and then the individual members of the average are pitted against each other. Everyone wants to think they are the special snowflake that will beat the averages, but by definition only a top 10-40% (depending upon a variety of factors) can beat the numbers.

My personal rule of thumb to staying a free agent for over the past ten years is assiduously put in the deliberate practice for 10K+ hours on a running 5-year basis constantly learning and applying new fields/skills/concepts, and successfully sell that (the key part many fall down upon). This is alongside the work you do to put bread on the table. My other rule of thumb is the moment you are negotiating a proposed gig's technical deliverables through the purchasing/procurement bureaucracy instead of the business unit that will realize the benefits of the gig, you are losing large chunks of your agency to their buying process that acts as a highly lossy compression algorithm, if you haven't lost it all already by that point.
1: Not everyone lives in cities. 2: Why am I paying for your housing and then having to either live in a slum, or buy one myself?
The thing with Iranians is that most of them are ethnically and linguistically Persian. They are mostly Muslim, but then they're Shia, not Sunni; it's the Sunni extremist that tend to go nuts for scarves and burqas.
I appreciate and enjoy your optimism 8)
I'm continually surprised by Google's total reliance of their core, original business: Search Ads.

Google docs presented a neat opportunity to attack Microsoft where it hurts, and Google has more or less pathetically failed, and Google docs continues to suck. I would have expected docs with version control, a big-data capable spreadsheet... not docs. BigQuery at least is somewhat ok.

Maps, shockingly, has gotten worse. On iOS the current app sucks battery life, and is unintuitive to use. Microsoft and Apple have more user friendly maps apps, which nobody would have expected upon using the original maps.

With Glass, they invented an entirely new way to be a douchebag.

Android, nothing.

App Engine, nothing.
Would love feedback and ideas on the concept. The target audience is lab managers in the live sciences field, and we're looking for beta testers.
There is on just after security to the right in the north terminal and it's been there for at least 5 years.

Also...
"Responding to Prof Colbourne's comments, a spokesman for airport operator BAA said drinking fountains offering free water were already installed at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Southampton airports."

This is from 2002...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-355500/Free-water-...
No Longer Getting Lost at the Strand
Sysdig gets $10.7M in funding
Dang - I spent nearly $1000 on mine UpliftDesk. This could've saved me a ton. Beauty is if you pack your bags and work remote from some other geography you can take this sucker with you - amazing!
So basically, things that will not happen in the US anytime soon.
The (unprivileged) Plugin Check website can't detect disabled plugins because they don't show up in navigator.plugins. Ideally, Plugin Check should be an automatic check built into Firefox. The advantage of the Plugin Check website is that it works in any browser.
Note, click-to-copy will eventually not need Flash :)

See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...
For a long time I've been looking for a guide to functional programming, applied to common real-world web examples, but still can't find one.

E.g. when most of the code I write is database queries, performing business logic, calls to memcached, handling error cases/messages, validating input, and then outputting data in various formats (JSON, HTML templates, etc.) -- how/where does FP help with that?

Is FP more a paradigm for computationally intensive programming? Back-end web programming? Front-end? I come across "FP is good" all the time, but I've never found any kind of resource to help me understand the tradeoffs between FP and non-FP, where it makes sense to use it and where it doesn't. Or any kind of FP tutorial on how to build, for example, a basic web CRUD app.
Thanks for the nice post. I'm already a convert. I was suffering from some neck pain issues, which have gone away. In fact I'm kinda the "standing desk guy" at my workplace.

Here's the remaining problem. I work in an open-plan office area, I've got a desk that can be raised and lowered. But my desk is next to a hallway with a lot of traffic.

When I'm standing to work, I'm face to face with a colleague who is very curious about what I do, and likes to get into conversations. And I think that because I'm standing up, everybody who walks buy thinks that I am the receptionist for my entire work group: "Is Bill here today? Do you know if Steve went to his meeting? When does Chris usually come in?"

And when someone comes to ask me a legitimate question, all of my colleagues feel free to join the discussion, sometimes answering my question -- wrong -- before I can get a word in edgewise.

These are more open-office issues than standing-desk issues, but I'm just offering a warning that y'all in open plan offices may have some additional issues to contend with when you switch to a standing desk.

Style-wise, I'd love to have one of those gray metal foreman's desks that they had in old the fashioned factories.
An alltime classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 (Powers of Ten (1977))
More like, it may be statistically relevant, but may not be clinically relevant.
Here's a prior HN discussion on affordable standing desks that I have in my notes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8552613

I question his choice of keyboards. Most keyboards use cheap rubber dome switches and not mechanical ones. People will spend a lot of money on a good keyboard like this Kickstarter project:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01...

...or build their own like an ErgoDox:

http://www.ergodox.org

This StackOverFlow sister site question illustrates several mechanical switches:
http://superuser.com/questions/366221/differences-between-ch...
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> Of course, developers are motivated by extrinsic factors such as salary, health care, vacation time, etc.

Why salary is an extrinsic factor? It is intrinsic factor to productivity (yes even the best one). I am not saying money is everything, but it is one of the factors that makes a developer feel whether he/she is respected enough in the company. In a lot of cases, if not treated in time, salary can become the sole reason for quitting the job.

A good developer should not have to worry about salary to do his/her job. Therefore, should not be cheated either (in terms of the input the developer gives to the company).
I'm sorry, but I don't buy any of that for a second. Further, youth employment should not be considered more important than the employment of people who DO need to support themselves.
Half of the country is. It bothers me greatly that the Republican Party would be more willing to listen to Bibi Netanyahu over President Obama.

Israel is still a foreign country who spied on us regularly. I don't have much trust in them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
Show HN: BurgeRadar – iOS app to find hamburger places around you
A Watch, Water and Workouts
Yes, it's hard. I understand that. But not impossible.

Same arguments apply to Saturn, but "we" managed to get Cassini in orbit. It's a matter of scale, not principle.
$6M New funding for the Jupyter/IPython project
"Demand for women at a particular level will be lower so
you get more for less."

I don't think that is your intent, but it sounds like you are you proposing that an equally qualified woman hire be paid less than their male counterpart.

That said, demand is not less. Demand couldn't be higher. I haven't worked anywhere in Silicon Valley that didn't wish that they had more female employees and more female candidates, especially for engineering positions. The problem isn't demand, but (1) supply and (2) the fact that most people have no idea how to find qualified women who are in the industry.

I won't comment on any particular one of my past employers or current employer, but I have worked at companies that really struggled with the latter. It's a hard problem to solve that is really demanding of attention to succeed at. Furthermore, when you're trying to get traction, foster growth and improve your product, you don't have time to focus extra effort trying to hire one particular demographic in the current job market. Right now, everyone is struggling to find and recruit any qualified engineers regardless of whatever demographics they might happen to represent.
You have got to be freaking kidding me? SEO’s the good ones are not saying I will rank this page better - they say we should do this, this, & that so we stand the best chance of ranking better. SEM’s have tons of math available to them to optimize and if the budget is large enough sophisticated software to help them manage complex groupings to better manage hundreds, thousands, or more campaigns.

Email - spam… dear lord I hope you aren’t a founder in a tech company I ever invest in.
What exactly was the new information here?

It was a completely fabricated article made to look like it came from an industry source. The article has no bearing on Twitter, yet the shares traded up 8% immediately after it came out and fell back down as it was realized the article was farce.

If any new information was created, it's that whoever is trading Twitter stock (and by extension, most other stocks) trades on false information at least some of the time.

My strong hypothesis is that most trades are based on false information most of the time.
The relay doesn't have to be in orbit around Pluto, it could be trailing the impacter and fly by. Deep Impact did something like this with a comet.
Electronic circuit simulator that runs in the browser
Albert has a lot of good philosophical discussions in this area. his blog archives are worth a scan
That Mario / Great Giana Sisters entry was fun. Played surprisingly well considering code size.
in part it's more dangerous than correction or passive braking system because you need a high twr motor and the explosive to go with it to have a way to correct for unforeseen consequences.

see what happened with philae, they got two redundant system to land and both failed.

if the scan reveal pluto to have an usable atmosphere, it will be much much easier to land

however, if you look at the trajectory they used it's an orthogonal encounter [1]

that means the speed they have relative one another is quite much more than when you approach calmly from behind using a hoffman transfer or the like - however if you go that route, instead of waiting 10 years you have to wait a load more, probably more like hundreds (exactly what they did with phila, they approached from the closest orbit possible to minimize the correction burn needed [2])

and let us not forget that having anything in space surviving for soo long is a challenge by itself, as having equipment on earth funded for so long to be maintained operational - remember this story about the other spacecraft that was sent to a comet flyby and was out of gas due leaks on its way back? [3] they had to work a great deal just to rebuild the communication equipement in time

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/New_Hori...
[2] http://i.imgur.com/TUkKuhf.gif
[3] http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/07/attempt-to-retrieve-nas...
Standing Desks—replace one set of health problems with a different set.
Good article. I just submitted a similar one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9873773 . I use a GeekDesk: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/24/geekdesk-max-sit-stand-des... and wouldn't go back to a normal desk if I could at all avoid it.
Except, as has been shown time and again, people who take advantage of that flexibility end up being punished, making the flexibility not really flexible. Uber, for instance, will stop offering you gigs if you turn too many down, or don't drive often enough during peak hours.
Once I hear the word cost cutting, I think, "Well, it's going to make them money, but it's not going to make them morale."

TPS reports incoming Google!
We see 3 big types of customers:

1) Consumer companies who want to integrate their product into gmail (for a better UX and better for retention). The use cases here mainly revolve around sending and receiving rich content (i.e. gifs from giphy or dropbox preview links, etc).

2) Enterprise companies who want their users to have easy access to the data right inside Gmail alongside emails. Typically, this is a CRM (like Streak) or a hiring tool (that shows candidate history right next to the emails from them)

3) Internal Only tools - typically tools that help internal users with daily workflow automation.
Modular Synth Documentary 'I Dream of Wires' Gets Premiere
> I'm continually surprised by Google's total reliance of their core, original business: Search Ads.

I'm not.

With all the venture capital pouring into Silicon Valley, how often have businesses to rival Google's Search Ads business been generated? Is it really surprising that Google hasn't managed, internally, to develop anything else on the same scale?
The article led me to believe you would avoid a Hohmann transfer with ballistic capture by flying it into a similar orbit and letting the planet slowly creep up on the probe and pull it into orbit. Am I misreading that?
Yet, if you don't log in during off-peak hours enough, you end up getting pushed down the list, essentially being punished for not working certain hours.
It would be great if you also implement ECC. Memory tagging is only as good as you can trust the memory you are tagging.
Windows 10: a review from personal experience
I hope I'll be able to upgrade my Texas Instruments' SensorTag to be Eddystone compatible in the future.
Why did you delete your earlier comment?

> How is dating websites being lopsided in favor of women misogyny?

I did not claim that.

> The systemic use of the blanket term of misogyny in these cases seems more like misandry, to be fair.

Why?

> Why not stay on the point?

What is the point? I thought you were implying that the author believing that women were favored by dating websites was a counter to the claim that the site was a torrent of misogynistic screed. If so, I refuted that. If not, you were unclear, but if you wish to be clear about your point, I am happy to stay on it.

> You can't control of tone of Heartiste. He has the right to express his opinions, don't you think?

Absolutely, and I have the right to express opinions about his expression of his opinions. Free speech is truly a wonderful thing!