skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I type on my old keyboard it's like I really mean it, when I type on a touchscreen it's like there no weight in the words
I don't think that's fair. Free lunch isn't 'free', it's just part of your compensation package. At least some SV companies don't have it - I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't.

If someone asked you if you'd prefer an additional $500 per month or free meals, what would you say? I imagine it'd be at least a toss-up.

On-call and paternal leave aren't great, but again, it's a factor into a job decision.

I guess my tacit assumption is that most people who get dev job offers from Amazon also get job offers from other places (or could if they so chose) because the job market for CS is so good. So if they take the Amazon job, they must think that the lack of niceties is outweighed by either the pay or the work they'll do.

This probably won't be the case for their warehouse workers, who might in many cases have a choice between Amazon and unemployed.
The behaviour of both parties is, at best, childish.

Thesis is clearly breaking the law (as WordPress has defined it -and rightly so-); but it should not ignite more than a tweet or a blog post by Matt. Matt can also go a long way as suggesting not to buy non-GPL licensed products for WordPress.

I don't really understand Matt aggressive (and childish) reaction. He is obviously not in the same play field, size or ambitions as Thesis. He also got his whole company (Automattic) into this strictly personal issue, by purchasing the domain (and probably hiring the lawyers) with Automattic assets/$$.
Deleting comments, locking threads created by reasonable people - in general, over-zealous mods suppressing the voices of users who don't toe the party line - is an unforgivable sin if you're trying to manage an online community, and The Verge is really terrible at this.
That's the concept here - http://www.honeyfund.com/
AngularJs is the best
I like how scrolling is choppy in it on my OnePlus One. Although I'm not even supposed to use this app.
Ha, my long distance relationship survived with a good old fashioned "3, 2, 1, go!" :)
C is "a unix language"? wtf?
I understand that people are giving Palantir a lot of money. We don't know (do we?) how much they are actually getting from customers. My question is: what does Palantir actually do to create so much value?
It represents 12% of the population but only 4% of the land, not all of which is arable or habitable.
Not Lonely at the Top
Ideally more software would have an option to use either a light or dark theme or customizable colors. Dark themes make eye floaters much, much more manageable, which is my main visual problem and a common complaint from heavy computer users. Can't speak for anyone else but that's my experience. It's also important to have good ambient light levels as well, which can affect things.
That looks like an absurd amount of complexity/overengineering just to save some wire. I suppose "put everything on one bus" could be turning into some sort of anti-pattern.
When it happens, it is an accident, not the intention of a third party. Arguing it can happen accidentally isn't a defense against endangerment.
Not quite. I learned map and filter much earlier, and still I use more list
comprehensions, both in Python and in Erlang.
I guess I'm allowed to correct a posteriori, when my spelling evokes the true 'Pearlman'.
I find Amazon to be screwy less than 0.5% of the time. I have ordered 209, 223, 149, 127, 207, and 73 (YTD) physical items from Amazon in the years 2010-2015 and as far as I can tell, they're getting better, not worse.

I ruthlessly use camelcamelcamel and place items in my cart saved-for-later when I care more about price than speed. Amazon gets maybe a 2% "leeway" for me, because I know I'll get great customer service if something turns up screwy with the order.

I do agree that Ebay has really turned things around for the better starting about 18 months ago, and I find myself ordering a lot of items from Ebay that previously would have come from Amazon or AliExpress, especially inexpensive Chinese-sourced electronics components.
This is demonstrably false, and speaks of the "tyranny of averages". Yes, worldwide, huge reductions of poverty, largely in Asia, have let to increases. For the average middle class worker in the US, however, things have barely budged in decades. When you take into account growing inequality, and the fact that limited resources (like housing near city centers) will always go to the wealthiest, it's easy to argue the average middle class worker is substantially worse off.

See http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor... , and this quote: "In fact, in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today."
It's served over http so I disagree.
PLEASE open source this! I will use it and might even help you finish it.
...demoing it on a public road (at high speed)...

The result of the hack was that the vehicle slowed down. That happens on public roads, that vehicles slow down. Have you ever driven a vehicle on public roads? Be sure and watch for vehicles slowing down!

They deserve to be charged/locked up for that portion of it.

What is wrong with you? Some hackers have made a great hack, and you want them hassled by the authorities? You're a bad person and you should feel bad.
I really want to see that Paris TV interview with him and Norman Spinrad that he talks about. I checked youtube, nothing. After some googling I found this page[1] which notes that, "apparently a tape of this is available for viewing at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, in Paris".

So I searched the ina.fr site, but apparently they haven't digitized it. This is a long shot, but does anybody who speaks French want to ask them? Their contact info lists 'assistance@ina.fr'. It just sounds way too surreal and odd to be hidden away forever.

[1]: http://2010philipkdickfans.philipkdickfans.com/frank/problem...
one cannot expect to keep using shitty software with backdoors built in. FIX IT, OR WE'LL TELL PEOPLE. the date was prearranged... fix it sooner, or better yet DON'T WRITE BUGS IN THE FIRST PLACE, MORONS.

ain't nobody got time for that.
Lol'd at the blog's title
I'm not sure how universal this problem is, but Mike would probably know better than I do.

How can we get beyond the anecdata, and put some comprehensive numbers on this problem?
For hardware without a FPU, you can do floats in software when accuracy is more important than speed (vs fixed point), one can imagine that if this thing actually works then for hardware without a "UPU" one can just do unums in software when needed.
He's been ostracized for more complicated reasons than "fascism" --- I'm not sure what that word means. I think it's a little misleading to suggest that this is a case of hair-trigger political correctness.

The irony of the "fascism" dig on this thread is that the source you've provided appears to be this person literally arguing for privatization in order to create a corporatist autocracy. By that way: that's the solution to San Francisco's problems you find promising? Or am I misunderstanding you?

I think the author's "practical" political ideas are comical and worthy of ridicule, but that they alone don't make the author problematic. The virulent strain of scientific crypto-racism that seems to run through their writing though; that's a problem for me.
> Because max value should be "mt_getrandmax()" instead of "PHP_INT_MAX", it just gets a 32 bit number then scales it up.

How does that answer anything?
Also, in addition to the other responses, excel is great for quickly modeling problems/systems with lots of inputs and outputs and calculations in between e.g. discounted cash flow.
The need to fill story space so they have enough places to put ads, and ideally they fill that space without doing any expensive content creation.
> It may just be a matter of which a person learned first.

I think this is the case, for me map is much harder to read. But I also think that comprehensions go back to math sets, so I was familiar with this even before learning any programming. Therefore comprehensions clicked immediately for me and it's by far my favourite python feature.
Thoughts Evoked by CircleCI's July 2015 Outage
I used FoxPro too (text based and windows). I liked a lot the command approach to access the database.

I don't see something as much convenient in nowadays softwares. All are based on multitiers, SQL and frameworks.
(I guess you are not the author of the post, but anyway ...)

I think that a few screenshots of the intermediate states would be nice to see the effects. Bonus point for an animated gif. Something like:

Telephone: (XXX) XXX-XXXX

Telephone: (12X) XXX-XXXX

Telephone: (123) 5XX-XXXX

Telephone: (123) 555-77XX

Telephone: (123) 555-7777
Completely off-topic ethical prompt; Should society fund the harvesting of eggs / sperm from his parents to serve as a genius bank for surrogate parents? Could 1,000 children with equal capabilities dramatically alter the course of humanity?
Even when software R&D is capitalized, it's often capitalized over just 2 years, so the net effect is close to expensing it, assuming this year's expenses are reasonably close to last year's.
Pretty sure big animals being fewer in number can be better explained by their need for larger and more specific territories than by their intellect.
1. Disable root

This doesn't add any security, it only makes your admin life miserable.
1) Awesome! I've signed up. Hope to hear more.
2) Absolutely, thanks again for making the site. For what it's worth, the same author recently went into much more detail on how to make an optimal 'hot' algorithm, looking at Reddit as an example. I thought it was pretty interesting, even if it's a bit more complicated. http://www.evanmiller.org/deriving-the-reddit-formula.html
I think that grandparent meant that CA represents a "smaller" fraction of the area of the US (~4.3%) than it does of the population (~12.1%).
US preparing to release Israeli spy
Use a YubiKey Neo keychain dongle: https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo...

Normally they're used for OTPs or Chrome's FIDO U2F auth scheme, but you can also put them in smartcard mode. If you do this, you can use it as an OpenPGP key, which is also compatible with SSH:

https://www.esev.com/blog/post/2015-01-pgp-ssh-key-on-yubike...
https://www.yubico.com/2012/12/yubikey-neo-openpgp/

Just about the only place that won't work is on a phone. Technically it has an independent NFC interface which could probably be made to work with some extra development, but I haven't looked into it.
Yeah, what's with all the tech?
I suppose directing your 384-employee company to spend $100,000+ and a whole lot of lawyer-hours getting revenge over a personal grudge is a benefit of keeping the company private and closely held.

Mr. Pearson wrote things up from his point of view this month as well: http://www.pearsonified.com/2015/07/truth-about-thesis-com.p...
I would imagine he knows he made a series of mistakes but cant find the exit :(
most don't "brew it fresh constantly". they keep the pot on the burner until it is empty (or in newer hardware, store it in an urn that limits air exposure somewhat) until they need more. None I've seen actually time a brew set and throw it out when it hits that shelf-life counter, like Starbucks (let alone do individual pourover brewing like better coffee shops).
You mean our Free / Bronze support listed here: https://cloud.google.com/support/ ? As people have mentioned on several threads, Google Cloud is actually a business so there are actual support people paid to help when you need it.
It's not over until it shows up in a few mainstream media pieces.

Maybe some music videos, or the intro of an HBO show..

Until then, enjoy your eyes and dog faces on family pictures.
Apparently they've already addressed the recent vulnerabilities:

https://twitter.com/0xcharlie/status/623258479730552832
For plex users, if your friends can access your plex server, this is trivial.

One of you starts watching a movie, the others start watching the same movie and it asks them "would you like to resume from X". Just say Yes and you're all watching the movie in sync.

I love that you can do this with Netflix now though, this seems like one if those features that could have (was?) In the original release.
I'm sure there are some who might want to "create mayhem on a highway" and who would not choose this route. But when your potential attackers are [everyone with an internet connection] this kind of exploit has huge potential. Imagine if the vulnerability were bundled with a popular mobile website or if someone else cracked how to mass-distribute it. Countries that are at war could use it against their enemy. Al-Abu-ISIS-HAMAS-Nidal-Haram-Boko could use it against anyone/everyone.

>Analogy: is it worth the time making a pick-proof lock for the front door when someone can just break a window?

Yes, because not everyone can throw a rock from their house to yours, be nearly everyone can be connected to the internet.
if it literally spoke to you, your meds may need adjustment. ;)
I didn't. I was quite distinct.
Good knowledge! I wouldn't bet my life on it though.
One advantage that C has over most other languages is that it has a very simple and widely-supported ABI that can be embedded into virtually anything else under the sun, without additional dependencies.

That's especially valuable in this case because the kinds of organizations that have lots of business logic in Excel spreadsheets are unlikely to want to switch programming languages to take advantage of a tool like this. Given that automatically-generated code is likely to be ugly no matter what language it's written in, it makes sense to target the lowest common denominator that everyone can benefit from.
Does this replace Ansible or Docker or Chef?

I'm not sure what this is used for, but it looks really interesting! Appreciate the additional information.
> > I'm having a tough time understanding how giving people a buffer isn't desirable.

4) There is some fame in being the first to publish a full exploit. Not as much as publishing a vulnerability, but still.
Excel already uses floating point internally, so if you're worried about compatibility, this is less risky than switching to arbitrary precision math.
Enabling Super Wi-Fi[1] nation-wide would be a good start to a better system for wireless communications for drones and other internet-connected devices

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Wi-Fi
1. You have to be careful how you define "luxury". The average house in 1950 was less than half the size of today's average house (even though the average household was larger), and not air-conditioned.

2. Since 1950, food prices seem to have grown at the overall rate of inflation, so food is cheaper relative to the median income. (https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPIUFDSL/)

3. Healthcare is usually considered essential, and its cost has increased as a fraction of median income, but I would bet 1950's medicine would be dirt cheap today if it weren't illegal to practice it: no MRIs, no patented medicines, no chemotherapy, etc. What we get in exchange for the higher cost is a decade of life expectancy.

4. Here is an interesting article I found on this topic: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/how-amer...
Video is on the www.teaBOT.com website.
Maybe if they focused less on inverting binary trees then they'd ship less busted software.
Stephen Hawking is doing his first Reddit AMA next week
Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle (1973)
Amazon is betting on technology to allow it to scale so that it won't need the meet that ratio.
Thanks. I bet like most things in this world, this design grew organicly.

It seems like a good design in a very noisy environment and it does allow the car manufacturer to easily add in new controls ( volume up for example ) in different locations that do the same thing.
Introducing Jupyter Notebooks in Azure ML Studio
"There was absolutely nothing wrong with Qualys' timing. When the embargo ends, it ends." And then later some comments about people's panties being twisted, etc. which ends the thread.

Reading the entire thing is worthwhile.
I'm not lo_fye, but in my opinion, if we can get full elimination of copyright (and software patents, must be both), the trade is absolutely worth doing, even though I currently license my own work as AGPL.
I'm thinking "slingshot" might actually be a better term than "Gravity assist". Gravity is just the force through which energy from an object's orbit is transferred to another object. Putting it first probably makes many people wonder why it doesn't cancel out.
Does that keep them in sync if someone pauses, jumps back, seeks, etc?
Unless you're concerned about needing emergency server access while your phone got stolen and hasn't been replaced yet.

Yes actually. Because it has a copy of my password manager file, which has all the passwords to the various social sites I could use to alert friends that I need a ride home. ;)
there's a lot of arguments here that delaying the patch release gives a false sense of security because we cannot prove that bad guys do not already have the exploit, or because they will develop one within hours.

if to have real security we must prove that bad guys do not have an exploit, would that not lead to a conclusion that there is no real security at all? it is safe to assume that exploits for undisclosed vulnerabilities exist. and, regarding the "several hours" argument, didn't the release of the exploit reduce those several hours to zero? instead of not being sure if the bad guys have the exploit, or if they will develop it in 1 or 3 hours, we are now certain that they have it. instead of a sense of false security, we currently have no security.

it seems obvious that little to nothing can be done about those who already have the exploit. and given the wide agreement that developing it will take a couple of hours, then wouldn't an optimal exploit release time be 1-2 hours?

and as far as i could notice, only one very downvoted comment mentions that a motivating factor for a quick release could be to be the first to break the news. certainly sounds like good PR for a security company. why is this unspeakable? :)
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Interesting, thanks for the link. Do you know if it has any multicore (i.e. parallel) support? I looked but all I could see was support for concurrency.
ScanCode: Open-source tool to scan code for licenses and copyrights
Based on YC history odds are close to zero.
The point of an embargo is to allow vendors to coordinate patches. Since the exploit clock starts ticking when the first patch is released, releasing all patches at once means that everyone has some opportunity to patch before an exploit is in the wild.

Releasing an exploit simultaneously with the patches gives people zero time to patch. In that sense it somewhat defeats the purpose of the embargo.
For 1, in this case a much simpler script that verifies if newline can be added or not would have been sufficient.

For 2, not releasing a PoC could be even better. Someone else from the advisory might come-up with an even more clever angle. With the PoC released and it being so intricate, there is less motivation, so less surface area is explored in this case.

For 3, yes it's always false sense, that's why the PoC release being delayed should not influence any appropriate reactions anyway.
For compose to really shine, you need to be able to curry/partially apply functions. This part of things is made much more difficult than necessary because of Python's unnecessarily neutered lambda syntax (in fact, I don't think one can claim that Python is FP friendly until this decision is corrected).

It's also worth noting that reduce() was removed as a builtin for Python 3.
Yes I think that. This was on local news early in the morning, just to cite one source from which I rarely get hacking stories. Normally they just talk about weather and how the elderly are getting scammed. This test occurring on a public road created an effective visual, that pushed the story into many more media channels.
Citation? I find that an incredible figure.
Vehicle manufactures get a huge data set sent back to them by vehicles.

That is creepy. Is there a way to disable this phoning home (or know it even exists) if I ever buy a new vehicle? That's an unlikely situation for me, but maybe there are others who would like the new features but not the privacy aspects of it.

Even so, the manufacturers are only receiving data, so a one-way link from critical systems to others would be fine. That's how airplane avionics have been designed.
A large military contractor would be way more likely (Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumann, etc).
1) That is not cool at all.

2) I approve of this. Have a cafeteria with cheap food, great. But I eat healthy, I don't want my workplace dumping pizza on me every day. Let me make my own food choices ;)

3) As long as total comp reflects it and it is not abused, seems reasonable. i.e. better not be more than 1 3am wakeup per year.
1997 "Lee Scott, the future Walmart CEO who was then running logistics told Dalzell (who Amazon was hiring) that Amazon was a novel idea but that it had limited potential. Don Soderquist, Walmart's COO, said that because Amazon didn't store its own iventory--at the time, it just ordered it from distributors and then quickly shipped it back out-- the model would hit a wall once it got to $100M in sales.

(from "The Everything Store" Bezzos' biography)
Smart that you all used a scratchpad. I've been encouraging their use for years now for the higher efficiency and predictability.
David, thanks for sharing your thoughts about your experience with WVA and the first two of your "Seven Easy Lessons". Looking forward to reading the others.
I just started with a cohort in PHX this week...Pumped!
> Well, the fact my window manager is now intrinsically linked to my systems boot process strikes me as somewhat obscene.

Gnome depends on logind, which is sensible. Yes, logind is part of a suite of system management tools which also includes tools to manage the boot process.

Your complaint would apply equally to your window manager being intrinsically linked to your serial port (via the Linux kernel).
You could feed them to termites then cook them.
Team behind Delicious creates extension to send self-destructing mail from Gmail
Maybe the cluetrain manifesto needs another chapter.
System and method for storage, querying, and analysis service for time series data
Here's the product: https://mail.delicious.com/
It's used in parts of engineering too. Matlab is more typical for complex models, but a reasonable number of models end up being implemented in Excel.
Using machine learning to compose drum rhythms
I bought an order of 1.5 and can't stomach the stuff. On the 3rd day I nearly puked.

I'd like, for dietary health reasons, to be able to stomach the stuff...

I tried blending/adding things to it, as I made each serving individually. I tried blending bananas, adding cinnamon, adding powdered peanut butter mix, I even (ironically) tried to blend unhealthier things like chocolate milk mix into it. I tried blending with the powder before mixing (as I hear that mixes better).

Nothing got rid of the absolutely horrid taste that masked everything. So now I'm stuck with a 2 weeks (-2 days) supply of something I can't stomach.
> What's next, a database in a spreadsheet?

You have no idea, poor innocent soul... :(. I hope you won't touch excel-based databases, it's really awful...
Tea bags on strings make steeping time really controllable.

There are pack-your-own tea bag systems too here in the UK but I think most people would rather just have something good/familiar rather than blend their own weird tea.
If it delivers on slides' claims, it's pretty awesome stuff. All the floating point nonsense has always aggravated me. I dodged it where I could since I wasn't doing scientific computation. I appreciate any improvements, especially efficient.