skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This time, I just said “Get me to the W Hotel in Times Square,” hit start, and started walking. I didn’t bother with my phone or the Apple Watch until I felt the taps indicating a turn, changed direction, and kept walking

You can do the same thing with Google Maps on an Android phone (or probably an iPhone). Just turn the screen off and put it in your pocket.
The headline implies a "cloud" based spreadsheet.
Web of Trust does something similar, but seems to be geared more towards spam and malware. Would be nice to have something to keep track of all the sites that I forget not to go to (e.g. Forbes).
My problem is that I drink too little, sometimes, I guess I could have "optimized", by taking an evening/night off, and relaxed with a drink. Some "itchiness" in the morning, can be a good thing too, as I remember from school.
Unfortunately your argument makes sense.
Not completely.

Most GCs want to be able to compact the heap, that means they lean in favor of reference based models by default.

It's not exclusive like you mention but to my knowledge C# is the only language with explicit guarantees. I was aware of the effort around Java's value types, however how long till we can reasonably see this in production?

You can do this in Java today but it involves lots of nasty ByteBuffer manipulation(in which FlatBuffers is fantastic for). You'll still pay for the conversions from bytes to the actual types you want.

If you're dealing with these types of performance problems it's best to treat them with a language that's well suited to deal with them. There's nothing wrong with using Java for higher level business logic and delegating the heavy lifting to a stack that's designed to deal with them.
Well, as a matter of fact, OpenWrt is probably the smallest you will get with a 'package manager'. It's really quite well made for that purpose.
They have 'package install', they have 'full upgrade' and they also have an overlay filesystem to make changes to what is technically a read only system....

Personally, I prefer a tiny, very compact ROM style filesystem; if I need a package, I just rebuild it with it, and reboot.

I'm the author of minifs: https://github.com/buserror/minifs that is made to do just that.

However, we're reaching the point where the kernel is so full of crud that it is in itself the bloatware, and far worse than the userland :-(
I have disabled PAM by default on all my boxes that run sshd for the last 9 years out of habit, I long ago forgot the reason why (probably because the gentoo sshd handbook entry said it was a good idea). Why UsePAM is set to yes in sshd_config by default on many distros is beyond me.
Because there's no one they can sell their shares to. With a public company, you can sell your shares on the stock market.
I run a tech meetup. We try to be hospitable, and that means providing food, drinks, and snacks. We provide beer, but I make a conscious effort to make other options as attractive (we probably go through more coconut water than beer). I think it's important to be able to have a social event in tech without alcohol as a centerpiece.
No, the title is suppose to be catchy and accurate, which it is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zweig

Some Hacker News "title police" who thinks it's more accurate to simply say "former hedge fund employee" is simply wrong. There are millions of former hedge fund employees.

Why can't people add real value to the conversation or say nothing? Understanding how the trading algorithms work, for example, would be interesting.
It annoys me to no end that alcohol is the primary psychoactive substance in use by the population. I don't think there's anything inherently immoral about consuming a drug to feel a certain way - to relax after work, or help cope with negative feelings. Drugs to achieve these ends are routinely prescribed.

Unfortunately it's often much easier to access alcohol than any of the many other psychoactive substances, either prescribed or currently illegal. In comparison, alcohol is both physically and psychologically far less effective and more dangerous. I do drink myself, but there are many other drugs out there that I would much prefer that don't have the same accessibility or culture as drinking does.

I've been substituting kratom for drinking in when the opportunity arises and I've found it to be terrific improvement - much more relaxing/pleasant with less cognitive impairment, addictiveness and physical side effects.

Anyway, I guess my point is that I drink, and I think it sucks, but only because in comparison alternative substances are so much better (ex marijuana for many people). Of course this assumes moderation, safety etc. etc.
If researchers really want to underscore a point: hang out outside the IIHS testing facility, and when they're testing the vehicle in question, then mess with the systems.

Maybe IIHS needs to include "remote hackability" as a criterion in their testing?
Long story short my mother has an incredibly rare condition that causes her neural stem to be constantly telling her brain her face is in pain, all the time, every day, even though it's fine. She has been prescribed every kind of painkiller, including some of the strongest opiates one can acquire legally in America, and yet they don't affect the rare and hard to reach nerves, and are useless.

However, she does drink a few glasses of wine a day and having tried everything else, she is adamant that alcohol is the only acceptable painkiller for her to take for the rest of her life.

I mention this because I have roughly 1-3 drinks per night -what the doctor told my mother as "average for a Frenchman" - yet when I drink even a beer I lose all motivation to go to the gym that night or to cook a healthy and properly proportioned meal. So I think the way to define a drinking problem isn't in quantity, but by the opportunity cost of drinking or drinking too much on any given occasion.
But there are many places out there that will swap out MySQL or PG for MSQL because it's Microsoft and they all know C#. I had, and have, a really hard time with people who only know the MS way of doing things. I have always taken issue with software developers who only know one language, because I think they're missing out on seeing different ways to look at problems. But the .Net people take it a step further and only look at things from MS. Even if Nancy is a great framework, they wait till WebAPI is available.

And when I've gone to speak at conferences, I'd show things like Sass and livereload, only to have them scoff at me and say "if it isn't in Visual Studio, it's not worth learning." And when VS included live reloading, it was the Greatest Thing Ever.

Just like how ASP.Net MVC came along. People actually argued with me that Microsoft invented that concept. Despite the fact that the very first version looked a lot like a C# version of Rails and Spring.

So that's a chip on my shoulder that I have to get over. Hopefully since the people I know followed MS before, they'll follow them in this new direction.
Quit altogether for 2 months as a diet experiment, with 2 expectations: 1) it would be socially frictive 2) I would lose some weight. Both were wrong.

1) Quitting had basically no social consequences. The friction of ordering a non-alcoholic drink at a bar is gone by the third time. Only one person gave me shit about it, and they were a friend-of-a-friend and easy to disregard.

2) It had almost no weight-loss effect, in the absence of other diet and exercise improvements. Premise was "does this one thing have a strong effect on my weight?". Given that my previous intake was moderate (< 8 units/week), removing alcohol and leaving the rest of my diet intact resulted in < 3 lbs lost early on, but no ongoing results.
It's only a problem when I get completely schway every few week and do something out of control like burn my friends lake house chairs that have been in the family for over 100 years.

I want to stop, problem is it's just so much damn fun.
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This is exciting news and I like the changes. I question what users utilize Amazon vs Walmart
Technically, 10 + 26 + 26 = 62 files, since it uses string.ascii_letters and chains on digits.
The New American Slavery: Invited to the U.S., Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare
As someone who has bought AMD cards for the past 5 years for gaming, I switched over to Nvidia this time.

You've overlooked that Maxwell / 980 Ti has a ton of overclocking headroom. OC to OC, you're looking at 20-30% performance difference at more commonly used resolutions like 1440p and 1080p. The gap narrows only at 4K.

Voltage is locked on Fury right now and AMD isn't saying why. The best OC I've seen on one is 10% higher clocks, with Maxwell 30% is common. Huge difference considering both cards are in the same price bracket.

Lastly pricing is also an issue with the Fury cards. Usually AMD undercut Nvidia, but this time the flagship matches the 980 Ti in cost. As the underdog, AMD is going to have a tougher time winning people over at the same price point. This happens in any market.

I like to support the underdog, but I couldn't this time given the large disparity in OC performance.
> Using /dev/urandom is not a good thing. It's only needed to get secure random numbers (CSPRGs) very slowly.

https://gist.github.com/sarciszewski/f7bd4c0358a44321787b

http://3v4l.org/j330O

mt_rand() performs worse than CSPRNGs, funny enough

Using a strong PRF we can take a 128-bit seed and turn it into an endless stream of random numbers. If /dev/urandom drains entropy, that's a bug that your OS should fix.

> Everybody should know by now that the first bits are good, and the last bits horrible. That's why you should not use modulo %, but rshift or better use Melissa E. O'Neill's PCG, which uses the first good bits to improve the latter worse bits. http://www.pcg-random.org/

Yeah, there is no pgc_random() function in PHP though.
Exactly! The worst (or best) part of having a slow mobile site is mobile platforms are, by and large, single-task platforms: you click on a link and then look at the screen until the page load.

If your website makes me stare at a blank screen for over 5 seconds that's it, the attention span for your low-content article that I was about to read out of boredom is gone. Close tab, click next link.

I guess it's a self-limiting problem in the end :)
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I used to drink socially every weekend or so, and never to the point where I'd reach a drunken state. Nowadays, I rarely drink, and on those occasions it tends to be limited to 1 drink.
Can't tell if you're serious or riffing on the meme of HN users not actually reading the article.
There's such a thing as a "high-functioning alcoholic", you know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-functioning_alcoholic
Jeez, what a guy. When I'm found dead in a room, I hope I'm holding something more manly than peppermint schnapps.

"Somewhat influential halfwit logicrime found dead in hotel room, having drank himself to death. He was found on the floor with a bottle of Jack Daniels in his hand. He probably won't be missed, good riddance."
I imagine controlling for human error is hard, because people will lie to you.

I also imagine that patient error is a factor in LASIK risk too, because there's post-surgery care you need to follow, and if you don't do it right you probably increase your risk.

So in both cases, you should look at the risk with an eye (heh) towards your ability to do things properly, and try to be honest with yourself about your willpower in that respect.
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How an 11-Year-Old Boy Invented the Popsicle
Hey,

This book is actually my second one the first one was: 'The Magento PHP Developer's Guide' which was in collaboration with PacktPub. During the process of writing and publishing the first book, I learned a lot of hard lessons.

The Magento TDD book is actually my attempt at doing things differently:

- Building an email list
- A lot of twitter marketing

As well I'm currently working on getting some reviewer copies distributed to a few well-known blogs in the Magento community.

I plan to do a couple follow up posts with all the things I'm learning about marketing the book and the experience overall.

Reference:
https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/magento-php-develop...
Configure Google cloud storage as a static website
The Minimum Wage Muddle
Ugh, "glitch."

This trend of publicly addressing every tech mishap as a "glitch" needs to end.

It's like reporting every death as "because of boo boo."

Edit: the linked press release does not say glitch, and the word "glitch" has been removed from the title of this story. But, it's still a problem in general.
It's funny how tolerant and even encouraging I've found people to be around outright addiction to a substance. If it was anything other then caffeine than people would be shocked.

I do love my espresso though :)
While it's no doubt annoying for those involved, I find myself unable to sympathize much with the woes and travails of those poor stock-holding employees of private firms with skyrocketing valuations.

Cry me a river, basically. If this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed, it's at most inside baseball not worth the rest of us worrying about.
I regret wasting my time reading that.

Oh, well, at least I have learned what you get if you put words into a candy floss machine instead of sugar.
That might be a good thing. I'm still not convinced that a lot of these high-flying "unicorns" are really worth their valuations in a meaningful way. If Uber were to go public today, they'd immediately switch from "startup cutting legal corners" to "entrenched corporation doing illegal-ish things". Pulling back the covers of their financials is one thing that would bring an outcry of how much money they make off the backs of people that they dump liability onto.

The overhead, requirements and legalities are there for a reason. If you've raised $10b, you can afford the overhead dollar amount; but can you afford the visibility?
Just started with the one in FLG, AZ. Stoked.
Both systems have their downsides. The simpler system generally has fewer, and that makes it preferable in many ways. But there could also be a different simple system that has fewer downsides.

It's important to first think of the active system at play and its influences on people, and second, try to improve it without disconnecting the model from reality.

This is a hard problem, and is one of the reasons leaders and managers need systems thinking skills above all.
I try my best to brush and floss after a meal. Since I eat meals at work, likewise I'll brush and floss.
Thank you for this comment. I guess you can understand how depressing it sounds, I go back in France every 2/3 months and everything is worse everytime I go there, and I can do nothing about it. It's really crashing at high speed.

I also have a friend in Moscow I discuss with regularly. I can speak basic Russian but I don't mention it normally because it's really a Tarzan-like level, the language is really beautiful. I really hope things are going to improve there also. France is definitely not the place to go for IT, I'm sorry for that.
Something I'm big on in life is that the worst thing you can say to someone is that you don't understand them. To not understand someone is to deliberately not give the issue thought because you're so deeply embedded in the idea that you have enough background on an issue to decidedly say that you are right and that the reasoning behind your stance is flawless, and thus that they are wrong. I believe that everyone's beliefs and actions are understandable. They might used flawed logic, or they might value things differently than you, but I believe 100% that everyone on this earth uses reasoning for every action and opinion we have.

But when it comes to politicians trying to ban encryption and automakers trying to ban me from editing bits on a memory chip that I got as a part of purchasing one of their cars, I really am unapologetic when I say I really don't understand them. I completely and utterly lack an ability to get into their heads. It would be fascinating to lose my knowledge of everything I know about computers for a day and give these issues thought. To have computers be mystical voodoo magic would be an amazingly different world.

If I had to give it a guess, that's probably what I'd say. Politicians and automakers and middle aged Edward Snowden haters all lack an idea of what is possible and what is unpractical when it comes to computers. They lack an appreciation for just how much commonality there is between the computer running a McDonald's register and the one making sure their car doesn't kill them.

Politicians think we can just "ban" encryption, as if this isn't some mathematical concept with freely-available professionally made implementations. They think Apple has gone to great lengths just to implement their end-to-end iMessage encryption... when in reality they almost certainly took the path of least resistance and merely stand on the shoulders of giants that collectively implemented encryption for them. PR reps for automakers think of code in such an abstract way that they think modifying it must be terribly difficult and thus inherently malicious, when in reality their programmers stood on the shoulders of giants and used the same common interfaces that every programmer uses. Hacking their car was probably done by a curious man decompiling the firmware which they pulled off via JTAG or a test clip. They think Edward Snowden must have been sneaking around in underground tunnels with a ski mask and plugging his laptop into servers, when in reality this was just a drive that was mounted on a machine he used.

Tl;dr: Programmers all pretty much follow the path of least resistance. The general populations lack of background makes them think that things are much more difficult and thus deliberate than they really are.
Agreed. Go is a systems language not really designed or good for mobile development.

I think the only advantage anyone could claim is for concurrency, but that actually very easy in standard Android Java using built-in classes like Handler, Looper, and AsyncTask. Even if it wasn't there are lots of solutions that involve annotations or event buses that makes things even easier than Go, like:
https://github.com/greenrobot/EventBus/blob/master/HOWTO.md
Gone. I quit drinking 10 years ago and everything has gotten 10x better. Sober enough to meet a great women and get married, in better shape, sleep is better, eating is better, work is better and my finances are better. I am at a point with not drinking that when I interview with a company, I ask about team outings and how much alcohol is involved and if it is too much, I pass on the job. My sobriety is so important to me that I won't work on a team that has a drinking culture.

Those of you who are on the fence about not drinking, quit drinking and see how much better you life can get.
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The honest reality of unicorn'hood is also that your post-IPO performance is almost assured to be flattish (on average) with potential for swings in either direction of course. So when you look at the delta between your strike price and your actual potential future IPO price -- that is really probably the net of the win you can hope to achieve... and often it's not as good as you'd hope.
Apple stops Nest product sales in the US
Key problem: aside from PAM, there is no way to use TOTP-based 2FA on your SSH server. And any modern security setup requires 2FA.
Synology DSM has great auto-update systems :) But, absolutely correct.
Perhaps they should be able to sell their shares back to the company? The company would be responsible for raising more money and have some allocation for share buyback.
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Have you stopped drinking altogether? Did you consider yourself someone with a 'problem' when you did your experiment? Did your findings change the ferocity with which you drink? Given that it was one of your original expectations of the experiment, do you think that social friction plays a major role when it comes to the frequency with which you drink?

I find the idea of that type of experiment fascinating, perhaps you documented it in more detail....?
What does a musician do when after his show, some record company exec puts a self-review form in front of him? To fuck off with the worthless piece of paper, if he has any self respect.
1. The US had 3 females as Secretary of State almost in a row (M. Albright, C. Rice, H. Clinton). In the US, Secretary of State has a much higher significance/gravitas than Foreign Affairs.

2. The US is worker-hostile (no law-mandated vacation), not selectively female-hostile (lack of law-mandated maternity leave).

3. Most US companies have maternity leaves (typically 3 months). Not near quite enough, but not "incredibly backwards"
I bought it and read about half of it. It's pretty good. I feel like it was the straw that really helped me turn off evil mode for good.
As a gradstudent my program provides absurdly large amounts of alcohol. My first year we were provided with essentially unlimited access to free beer/wine once a week. Fortunately they seem to have gotten things back under control. My old lab also had 2 cases of beer in the fridge at all times (European PI) so that didn't help. In my experience if you want to reduce the amount of drinking you have to reduce the amount of alcohol that is easily available. Self medication in high and even medium stress environments is almost going to be a given.
This is the glue that the Go compiler needs to export its symbols in a way that they can be used from the C side of things in Objective-C, and vice versa. Think of it like a toll-free bridge [ * ] between the ObjC and Golang runtimes.

[ * - See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridging_(programming) ]
> then my mind would always jump back and take control of the situation.

In Buddhist lingo, that's the Self, always clinging to sense-impressions, trying to manipulate them and mistaking them as something personal.
Well that's what you get for taking stocks in a private company I guess. I never do it because it's just dumb. Unless you want to be tied to that company for ever don't do that. But who knows, I don't live in the same world as you people.
At most private companies, stock options aren't worth the paper they're written on. Unless of course the company sells, in which case they're worth slightly more than the paper they're written on. And besides that, to exercise them you usually have to pay a pretty hefty sum. I generally don't consider equity as a part of my compensation package when I work for a private company.
Yup, this is exactly the marketing angle Nvidia CEO was using in his GPU Technology Conference presentation (10x speed-up on deep-learning vs their current Maxwell architecture):

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/03/17/pascal/
Most companies have a Right of first refusal clause embedded in the options agreement effectively limiting selling shares of private companies even after exercising options.

If they are RSU's , I am assuming they can't be sold at all in the private markets ?

Can anyone with prior experience elablorate on these ?
What I really want to see is Gigster's contract. What terms do they make their clients sign?

To do any kind of fixed-price work, you need absolutely ironclad protection against scope creep. Said protection against scope creep usually must start with an extremely detailed specification - the kind of thing that takes weeks to develop, not a 10-minute phone call.

I would imagine Gigster's terms looks something like:
• Client gets no input beyond the 10-minute phone call
• Interpretation of the specifications given in that phone call is 100% up to Gigster
• Any revision of specifications whatsoever results in a change order