skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I share the experience w/LinkedIn that apparently the majority of HNers have. I get very, very few recruiter messages through LinkedIn. The ones I do get are thoughtful and do a very good job of matching skill-set, background, etc.--they have obviously read my profile and are not just fishing.

This has not always been the case. I used to get the hated torrent of "I see you have 12 years of development experience, how about this entry level position!!!" crap, but I haven't seen one of those in a long time. Either recruiters are getting better, or something I put in my profile has quieted down the garbage.

Either way, I don't think there's much that I've put on that site that I'd feel the need to "export" so the topic of this article seems to be a non-issue. You folks don't have alternate copies of your resume and contacts somewhere?
They can expand into the water, adding an extra East-West strip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artificial_island_air...
> Can't wait to have to take into consideration different "year" zone in my code.

I guess with Kepler you're safe for the next couple of thousand years, unless we find something much closer.

In theory there should be thousands of such planets within 30 light years so who knows, maybe we will have to start thinking about that soon :)
The Rise of Computer-Aided Explanation
Like most things, reputation is important, but is second to money.
I had not seen that. Thanks!
Hacking Team Malware Detection Utility
We just found the first planet that is somewhat similar 1400 light years away... and you think our 'sensitive telescopes' would have definitely discovered all possible life in the universe if it existed???
Pure Cyber Security ETF (HACK)
That's good news :-)
Commercial construction or residential? Small residential buildings in the US get by with unshielded Romex wiring, but I'm pretty sure NEC doesn't allow it for commercial projects here.

I'm on the lighting side of things, so I'm tangentially familiar with electrical requirements but I don't deal with them regularly.
Tanuj from the Estimote team here. If you're curious about some of the under-the-hood mechanics between BLE beacons, Eddystone, and the Physical Web check out developer docs http://developer.estimote.com/eddystone/
Understanding this perspective will be a huge benefit to anyone who wants to contribute as a non-technical founder. About 6 years ago, at the end of undergrad, a technical friend and I started working on a project. I had made websites, built computers, dabbled in minor coding, but really wasn't that technical. I had no clue what to do and he probably wasn't comfortable giving direction. I left the project when I felt I couldn't make an equal contribution.

Working for six years made it obvious how valuable it is to be able to get things done offline, in a nontechnical way by planning, finding resources, etc.

Now I've become a lot more technical, the programmer of the office (VBA, ugh) to a programmer without caveats. Non-technical friends ask me to be their tech co-founder, but they have no clue how much work the technical side entails -- they probably still think freelance programmers should cost them $20/hr.

Also, non-tech friends will ask if they can help with my project. I can see what I would need in a non-tech founder, but a lot of times its hard to convey that to people. It's especially hard convey to someone how much effort you expend maintaining a codebase or implementing features to a non-technical person.

Best luck with Genghis and your co-founder search. I hate to be a downer, but personally, I'd never take a non-technical founder that I didn't know beforehand. It's hard enough to gauge the skill/reliability of a tech co-founder/freelancer (with structured, defined abilities and past projects). I wouldn't be comfortable assessing someone as a cofounder based on soft-skills. It's not a statement on their relative contribution, but more on my confidence in my own estimation.

*By technical, I'm also including people with domain knowledge.
Sandstorm is the motivating use case. :)
Yes, but going back on a deal once you've agreed makes you a dick, signed or not signed.
I am beyond excited to get a chance to try that. When I first saw the Oculus, these types of games were the first thing that came to my mind.
This article makes an assumption that regulation is a tool used to protect consumers. While the rhetoric may be to make it sound that way, most regulation exists to protect incumbents who stand to lose money. This is just how governments have always worked; which is why driving accountability in government is so hard.
Germany newspapers apparently use weird grammar conventions that makes translation engines have fits. Google Translate is pretty good on german conversations, anything the EU publishes, and literature, but is really terrible at newspapers.

The translation of the above article is pretty good because a number of people have looked at it and made corrections, but the average German Newspaper article translation is nearly incomprehensible.
IBM are increasingly pissing off their customers since they retrenched a good portion of their experienced workforce. I have a friend who is a CIO of a large company in Australia and he is increasingly getting annoyed with IBM's SAP support and is hunting around for alternatives.

He probably won't move from IBM completely, but they'll be getting less and less business from him. I mean, the other day their entire datacentre's network link was flapping, for hours and hours. It wasn't just his company that was affected, it was affecting even larger companies.

IBM's ability to deliver is going down the plughole. They've always been very expensive, but have been able to justify it because they were able to handle your issues effectively. That's increasingly showing to be not the case.
NASA finds 'Earth's bigger, older cousin'
Do you think you will run afoul of Microsoft for using their trademark in your product name? Is there a lawyer here who can chime in?
Happened to my OP :) Pushed down to -1 early, made some edits and now +10
We'll target more. We should have a good GCE option soon.
Can we get the USDA/FDA to, oh I dunno, test rice samples for arsenic and put those levels on labels? Maybe, gasp, even prevent the sale of rice with excessively high arsenic concentrations?
Facts and Beliefs
Oops, got that first link wrong, sorry.

2005 http://postgresql.nabble.com/A-couple-of-patches-for-Postgre...
Which developer skills should you master next? Puppet pops out on hiring lists
You eat rice for calories. Not much point in worrying about vitamins in it.
The 385 day year is mentioned. What about hours in a day? Do we know that?
Thanks. Someone might have `misclicked'.
Can you tell me which version of pgcli you're running? Can you try upgrading?

\x is implemented and available in the latest version.
The ';' enter bug is also fixed in the latest version.

We're still slowly adding more of the back-slash commands supported by psql.
Effective Interview Coding Exercises
The fire system was the thing that forced them to admit the delays and has gotten the biggest publicity, because failing the fire certification forbids them from doing anything except construction work. I don't think anyone had (or even has now) a clue if the other things actually were completely ready. Stuff like power lines in the wrong cable channels makes one suspect they weren't...
Laura, you rock!
Would that technique not leech out the majority of the vitamins and minerals, too?
Swear to god, I've had inquiries come in that sat dead for years and suddenly it's "Please revise. I need the updated version tomorrow."

Since email is 1000 times faster than shipping drawings back and forth, that means everything I do takes 1000th the time that it used to. Apparently.
Amazon Posts Surprising Profit
"Where is everybody?" --Enrico Fermi
What kind of resolution is possible with direct imaging at 1400 ly away? I would imagine that it's probably milliseconds of arc within the field of vision of any telescope, so how close could we actually look at the planet?
Proteger WhatsApp a prueba de balas: Cómo evitar que te espíen los mensajes
Donate to the relevant parties. Unless you're already very old or very sick, it's hard to say you're condemned. A lot can happen in the next 40 years.
Tech-Tonic Shifts: Mapping the Fortunes of Silicon Valley
Well I can't be CEO of IBM! Not this year, at least.

I've seen utterly awful acquisitions, and good acquisitions. You're right that there's a lot we can't control, and we could be ground up by the big corp machinations, but I do actually think IBM has a big interest in not screwing us up. We shall see.
Magento just get better with instant search
Wait, what? I don't want to have a flamewar over Uber here, but most of this isn't even a little bit true:

>surge pricing is so intransparent that Im 100% sure that has been gamed against the consumer and drivers in favor of Uber

I guess this isn't "false" since you're just stating your belief, but if it's totally opaque to you, then how can you be so sure? I mean, OK, I guess, but... [citation needed].

>Uber doesn't tell you how much it costs

What? Yes it does - it tells you up front the multiple you'll pay, and even makes you manually type it in to confirm before your ride is started.

>Who knows what happens between what you paid to Uber and what the driver received?

The driver gets the same 80% that they get during non-surge times. That's why surge pricing works: it summons more drivers to the street by paying them more.

This is all very publicly known stuff; I don't understand your complaints here. By all means, don't ride it if you don't like it, and criticism is fair game, but try to get the basic facts straight.
But no authentication? Makes it somewhat useless. How many services allow unauthenticated requests?
Seriously? You cannot discern the qualitative differences between human social interactions and ant social interactions?

Gathering in groups is natural. Doing it in residential centers full of buildings that have right angles in their construction and flush toilets and electrical outlets and internet connections is artificial.

> the only way to succeed as civilization, whether it means ending violence or even just eliminating wealth gaps, is to recognize and develop love for one another

Love? How about just respect?

But it doesn't matter what label you attach to it. I agree that the only way to achieve peace is to reach some state of mind, and I don't particularly care whether you call it "love" or "respect" or "nirvana" or the flying spaghetti monster. I don't want to quibble over terminology. What matters is that this state is not the natural order of things. Mankind has never been in this state, and so we cannot "return" to this state. What we have been doing is steadily making progress towards this state. But we have made this progress by mastering the laws of physics, not by denying them.
Economical advancement mean more jobs, more taxes, happier citizens. A privately controlled/financed airport doesn't care about those things, thus the mixed calculation leads to different results for state and private actors. Unfortunately, the numbers projected by the state actors are often unsound.
its because they tell the user that you clicked their profile. what kind of bullshit is that, I wanna compare myself to other people without them knowing.
If it's truly a standard, there should be no other options.

Instead, this sets the stage for lots of OOPish JS which feels very different from a lot of existing code out there, and will result in awkward shims to interface the different paradigms.

We already see such ugliness in C++.
Reading this reminded me of Fred Woodworth, publisher of The Match!, a journal of "ethical anarchism," and his writing about how many people seemingly have a "preference for evil." Who could be so alienated from life that the prospect of universal surveillance would appeal?

I particularly liked this description from the 2013 Reuters article referenced in the OP:

The answer to what you could do, according to Sensity, is a global network of smart lights jam-packed with sensors for moisture, ambient light, seismic activity, radiation, wind, temperature, air quality, audio, MAC address tracking to detect cellphones, and yes, audio and high-def video, all joined together via a 5 gig wireless system that supports both point-to-point and mesh networks, connects to intermittent Internet backbone, and uploads the largest trove of planetary data the world has ever known up to the cloud.

Nice how they snuck in the really juicy bits at the end.
IBM is no longer just focused on enterprise and government. There's a big focus now on startups. Take a look at the Bluemix Garage where there's IBM engineers embedded in Galvanize in SF to work with startups but also help enterprises bridge the gap and learn from them; and also look at digital.nyc and tech.london. Both are IBM initiatives. So... IBM today isn't like the IBM that most people imagine and I am sure that the IBM of tomorrow will be completely different. You don't get to be over 100 years old and a tech company unless you can reinvent yourself to stay relevant.
I agree up to a point. It's pretty clear that regulations in certain spheres like car and food safety have largely created a culture that doesn't universally cut corners. Then again, killing off a good portion of your customer base would do the same thing I guess as no one would want to buy your products if they have a good chance of dying from them.
Was anybody but Arabs involved in the conquest of the early 7th century? Ie I'm sure other people took on Islam afterwards but he was talking about a specific point in history.

We don't call the Spanish conquest of the Americas a Christian one even though they were Christians who ultimately converted everybody to Christianity.
Adding fake liquidity actually removes liquidity.

Imagine if you were selling your house, and I created a service that would bombard you with 10 fake potential buyers a day. You only have time to deal with 2 buyers a day. Chances are, you'll miss out on everyone who is actually interested.

While LinkedIn does not intend to create fake recruitment attempts, it works out the same in the end.
The Only Confirmed Biological Telepath/Psychic
My name is Skylar Craig. I am the only confirmed Biological Telepath/Psychic. I can prove it! Point any Biometric camera at me, and I can take over your computer. Talents include: Eyes that act as cameras, Entering your computer and talking directley to you, communication, dream eating, etc. The future is here my friends. If you have a Biometric Camera. I dare you to try me!
Isn't it bad form to post email correspondence like this? Will this make founders uncomfortable communicating with you in the future?
If you have a weak stomach, it might be tough. I spent a week in Vietnam and got food poisoning twice, one right after the other. Also, there is non-stop beeping and noise on the roads which can be VERY annoying after awhile.
That's really cool, is the raw data available for people to play with? I've been looking for something interesting for some textual analysis experiments.
This is exciting stuff. However, the sad takeaway to me is the broken patent system is already stifling what can be done with this innovation.

Consider this: the patent was awarded to a group that could not have invested more than a few thousand dollars of incremental time and resources (in fact, probably the majority of the costs were in the patent application and process itself). And yet the license is worth billions.

Patents were created - and the US Patent Charter still states this - to encourage and enhance the economic stature of the nation. Instead we use patents to throttle it. Imagine if this patent were only good for a few years or up to license fee commensurate with the incremental investment needed to produce and validate the research (even if this fee were 3x, 5x, 10x, etc. of the costs). Everyone could contribute to the work and the pace of innovation accelerates. Instead we've got a couple universities (and, inevitably, follow-on corporate licensors) locking it down for all but the publicly funded and litigous.

There is so much opportunity out there, there are so many brilliant minds, eager innovators, and great startups. Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot with patent nonsense that hasn't been significantly rethought since (in the US) its 18th-century English law origins?
A stunning new look from space at nature, North Korea and Chipotle
That is what I was trying to say, I was just responding to what I think HN crowd's perception is of IBM, which I think is not accurate.

I think it is really great to see a company of their size and age change course and adapt.
Love it! I started out on C64 too. Buying computer magazines and programming books. Didn't really understand much back then but it was everything I wanted to spend my time on.
Apollo CPU is a modern CISC CPU design compatible to the legendary Motorola M68K
I've never been on linkedin but i get 10-15 "requests to connect" every week - luckily i've filtered them to skip the inbox, since unsubscribing to them doesn't seem to do anything.
A relevant counter-example: the group bringing Compose into IBM is run by the former leadership team at Cloudant (including yours truly). We're incredibly excited to have mrkurt & co. on board; Compose does a great job of filling out the Bluemix services portfolio and gives us a solid platform for launching new offerings going forward.
Poor you! How rude of those recruiters offering you money and a career! I know I hate it when people offer me ways of feeding my family.
Amazon’s AWS Soars to $1.8B Revenue, $391M Profit
Hell YEAH!!!
Amazon posts $92M profit – yes, profit – in second quarter results
You cannot reset any user password on a FileVault disk because it's encrypted.
Walmart had their share of issues:
http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/amazon/299506/

Side note: AMZN just announced profits, perhaps time to buy WMT ;-)
> they're optimized for performing this task with larger strings on the order of thousands of times per second

Bingo. And they use on the order of the genome size in RAM to do so.

The FM-index is a helluva sequence search machine.
>I captured 275GB of photos and videos on my last trip. Just one trip!

Maybe throw the junk away and use some judgement as to what to shoot and what to keep?
Did you ever have trial magazine subscriptions? I cannot think of any subscription-based service (other than MMO subscriptions) where the implicit assumption was not, "Keep charging unless they cancel during the trial period".

This behavior being so common is one of the reasons I have a nearly gut-level aversion to services that OFFER a free trial.

I much prefer a free tier of service, with a clear indication of the upsell options. For services I like (like Toggl) that have a free tier of service, I am still skittish of the trials of "pro" tiers, precisely out of the fear that it might be a hassle to cancel, rather than a "we assume you're going to cancel".

Everything I recall reading about setting up a subscription service suggests that the default-to-stay-subscribed method leads to more revenue (as people forget), and as customers we're accustomed to think, "well, that WAS my fault ...". In a normal subscription scenario, even, that probably is nicer to customers. However, for a __trial__, I would prefer to see an end of the paid service, rather than to start receiving bills.
His book, "Software Foundations" is here:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/

And there's a discussion about the book from a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824793
You forgot step 1.5: spend forever signing the VM kernel modules so they can be started under secure boot. Such pain. Fortunately, once the signature's in the UEFI, upgrading from Fedora 20 to 22 just necessitates resigning the new VirtualBox module without the UEFI steps.

http://gorka.eguileor.com/vbox-vmware-in-secureboot-linux/
Regulation is based on social goals, like "people in wheelchairs should be able to get a cab as easily as people without wheelchairs."

Real time data can certainly help with policing compliance, but the data is not the basis for the regulation. We don't need real time data to discover that disabled folks have a right to get around too.
I don't know if it varies by location but any time I have bought quinoa in the UK it has come pre-rinsed.
No, there's been a concentration of construction-related scandals with corruption, bribery, etc. in Berlin over the last 40 to 50 years.
I find myself thinking that the existance of Dark Energy/Dark Matter is the solution to the fermi paradox. there is some kind of energy creating system which creates dark matter. This matter is no good for normal matter so it is transported far away from stars/galaxies and dumped. This would probably be true if we could create a physics model that can explain like 1% of Dark Matter occurring naturaly. Then we just assume that other species have discovered how to create a ton of energy with Dark Matter as the by-product. We haven't been able to observe them for the same reasons our telescopes can't see the New Horizons spacecraft out by Pluto, just too small. And as far as observing communications. It's likely that all true interstellar communication on frequencies we could understand are sent with a targeted focus, like a laser, rather than a blast. Think of all our deep space equipment which has their uplink bits pointed toward earth.
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Show HN: Minimalistic weechat-inspired terminal IRC client
Military submarines are fascinating examples of what can be built when most financial, environmental, and ethical constraints are removed. The article mentioned liquid metal cooled reactors. These designs allowed for very small, very fast nuclear submarines. Soviet Alfas[1] could go over 50mph, faster than many torpedoes.

The craziest sub I've stumbled upon is probably the 1950's-era Seawolf[2]. Instead of lead-bismuth, its original coolant was liquid sodium. Sodium, a metal that burns on contact with water, was used as the coolant for a submerged nuclear reactor! Of course, that wasn't the only "interesting" aspect of the Seawolf's design:

> The phrase "Blue Haze" was often associated with the boat, which was Cherenkov radiation, visible on a dark night, in the sea water surrounding the hull...

Shake-out problems and a desire to standardize reactors caused the navy to switch away from the design, but it's still amazing that it was built and tested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa-class_submarine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Seawolf_(SSN-575)
With adaptive optics it's possible to achieve resolutions down to ~30 milliarcseconds. At 1400 ly that would subtend a distance of 13 AU, so you wouldn't be able to find Earth-like planets. But even if it's theoretically possible to resolve 13 AU separations at 1400 ly, in practice the light from the star is so much brighter than the planet that it bleeds all over the image and completely washes out the reflected light of the star.

To do direct imaging you really need to look at systems near the Earth, maybe a few tens of ly away. Then you can separate the planet from the star by enough that you can hope to mask the light from the star and still be able to detect the planet.

To get some idea of the techniques required to do this, take a look here: http://astrobites.org/2013/06/09/lowest-mass-exoplanet-disco...
> after I deleted my account my recruiter email volume dropped by an order of magnitude.

Normal people consider that a feature of Linked In, not a bug.
Amazon Reports Unexpected Profit, and Stock Soars
I've been using it for months, it's definitely an improvement over psql. I recommend it to everybody.
Have you tried Bluemix? It's actually pretty awesome.
... but you can't avoid exposing the fact that the application substantially changed with no advance notice or control, because today's updates are not just security / bug fixes but also UI re-designs, major feature shuffling, etc.