skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mentioned in the faq about porting numbers, but we also address it when someone requests a port so they don't have a bad experience (this is why it's currently a support request rather than a UI capability, until we've got that workflow working for the customer's overall experience). We haven't had any mobile lines cancelled yet, but we've only worked with tmobile, sprint, and AT&T so far. It's usually best if you work with your carrier at the same time and we can provide some advice on that for those that request a port.

This might be more prominently featured as we go forward.
I'm not so sure. It's kind of true for HTML (forgiveness was not "good" property of the format, but of the browser: 1 site works in one browser, but not in the other, and user will blame the browser, so let's display whatever the hell we can). But PHP in the early days was kinda handy (even though hacky) tool, allowing to use simple syntax to render HTML instead of custom Perl-scripts. And then it just got popular.

MySQL was once actually superior open-source database, being more performant and simpler to setup and use than PostgreSQL. And then, once again, it just got popular.

I don't think being faulty helped these technologies, although it sometimes is the case.
*if that employee doesn't have sufficient liquidity to take the risk.

This is another case in the world where having money helps you make money. I think most people rationally understand that it often takes money to make money, but the startup scene is usually portrayed differently.
I dunno.

Uh, suppose this code takes numeric tabular data as input and produces forecasts.

Forecasts which are, by policy, kept secret until certain release dates.

...Is the input data available before the forecast release dates?

Maybe this code isn't secret. The included PDF documentation (!) links to a public document that describes the algorithms implemented by some of the sub-routines (also included).
Read about stoicism.

Especially Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus.

Read it again.

Then read it again.
Too much?! You make that sound like a bad thing! This totally reminds me of HHGTTG and I want one! Very neat product.
Doesn't NetBSD use PAM? It might behave the same way.
To be honest, all that Disney wanted to protect was one work, they just did it the wrong way. Do you know why?
Can it block unknown callers?

The FCC doesn't allow phone companies to do that directly. It drives me nuts -- it's always spam callers.

http://www.t-mobile.com/company/privacyresources.aspx?tp=Abt...

> the FCC has mandated that carriers allow callers the ability to block their Caller ID information and thus place “anonymous” calls. T-Mobile is obligated to honor the privacy of the caller in these circumstances. Of course, you may choose not to accept such calls. But we cannot block the call or override the privacy choice of the caller.

Thanks, FCC. Maybe this is a fix? If so, sign me up!
13 experienced startup CTOs offer their top tips to first-time CTOs
A Tale about Dependency Injection Containers
http://federalreserve.gov is the website of the "board of governors of the Federal Reserve System" (who are appointed by the President). Individual Federal Reserve banks have websites like https://www.clevelandfed.org/ or http://www.newyorkfed.org/ or http://www.frbsf.org/
Historical precedent indicates that this will not be a high value story for the product owner. Variant data types are a feature, not a bug. If they don't ship in the box, someone will union up their own to make life easier.

People use Excel to reason about their business. Reasoning about the code is a second order problem and SourceForge is paved with the rotting corpses of projects focused on making a better spreadsheet.
"The conditions imposed by the Commission address potential harms presented by the combination of AT&T, one of the nation’s largest telephone and Internet service providers, and DIRECTV, the nation’s largest satellite video provider...These targeted conditions, which generally will remain in effect for four years after the merger closes"

So the commission admits that there are potential harms of merging two large firms, but will only keep the conditions that prevent these harms from happening for only 4 years.

Why would the commission see the potential harm of combining these two large enterprises and yet have time bound conditions like Non-Discriminatory Usage-Based Practices, Discounted Broadband Services for Low-Income Subscribers and Internet Interconnection Disclosure Requirements around for only 4 years?
Hm. I renamed the blog to HELLO WORL.. to make the pun a bit more obvious instead.
It's really just an issue on sites that monetize through ad revenue, because it generates a ton of traffic.
Nope, the problem is in your design. At least add a unique index on the id_action column in your actions_archive table.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_animated_films_...
Looks cool.

I've found that asynchronous voice chat programs (WeChat got huge in China, then the West got WhatsApp, Nextel etc) make for much easier voice communication. There's zero overhead of waiting for a ring & voicemail message and a beep -- just press a button & speak.

I'd love to see this integrate with phone lines but I doubt the feasibility.
From Addy Osmani :

http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/bo...
Lean Startup Without the Startup
It's not just cellular. They also found it was the digital radio, and presumably anything else on that bus. Bluetooth? Key fobs? In-car wifi hotspot? Who knows what other entry vectors there are.
Being nice is so much better
Please read this (with tongue firmly planted in cheek) for all the example you need:
http://www.gulawweekly.org/features/2012/4/3/congress-takes-...
Candid Advice for Those Joining the Startup World: Sleep with One Eye Open
Everything About Tor [pdf]
Unit tests vs. integration tests for your web app
What does it mean to you to "eliminate the ability for ..."? To patch the known bug? Or do an audit and fix all the bugs they find? Or unplug the system?

If they were yanking the cellular connection that'd be pretty good... If they're just patching one or two obvious holes it'll likely be broken again by Blackhat.
The article is ~1700 words. It takes the author ~950 words to get past her autobiographical background and finally start the meat of the message:

>, and, glued to our devices, playing video games, or checking theDaily Mail, we waste enormous amounts of time — even while pretending otherwise.

>, they’re busy with text messages and Snapchat, with Tumblr and Vine.

>If my son spends his afternoons watching FIFA videos on YouTube, or my daughter studying nail-painting tutorials, these are no worse ways to spend time than watching Get Smart or Diff’rent Strokes — arguably, they are better. Their world, however, is more monolithic.

Lastly, it closes with:

>It’s all here, inside and in the room — not on the screen — before us.

In essence, it's another "stop and smell the roses" essay. Similar templates for essays would be the "slow living"[1], or "be in the present moment"[2],
and "power of now" type of messages.

If you're not already familiar with those themes, you may find something new in the essay. Otherwise, it's just another author's take on the same material.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=slow+living

[2]https://www.google.com/search?q=be+present+zen
I'm not really sure this article is a great one. I don't mean that to demean the author, the rest of his blog is a decent resource for people who want a good 1000 foot view of the basics of quant finance as it relates to trading, you won't find much useful for pricing for instance. This article on the same site is a follow up and does a better job explaining the material IMHO....

https://www.quantstart.com/articles/Serial-Correlation-in-Ti...

If you want a good beginner tutorial, these are the ones I recommend most to people.

http://a-little-book-of-r-for-time-series.readthedocs.org/en...

http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa3/R_toot.htm

and if you want a bit more rigorous presentation then I recommend this book:

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387759661
I think the right approach is to build from the ground up for testability both on unit-test and integration-test.

But one has to be very careful how to structure the pieces/components.

For example:

Do not write extensive unit-test on the UI but definitely have extensive Selenium tests for the UI _library_ (if you are a library builder). If you are a library user, assume the UI works as advertised and attaching/removing event-listener can be considered "configuration" type of code: test it once to see if it is configured properly and that's it!

If the SPA uses some sort of MVC/MVP, I'm hoping I can:

1. For unit-test

- unit-test individual M,V,C,P, Service, Helper, Model Validators, etc

- ability to mock different aspects

2. For integration-test

- ability to construct the whole thing (MVC/P) including the back-end, mock the View, and start controlling/simulating the code execution from the Controller/Presenter

The integration test can cover more than the unit-test to the point almost close to Selenium type of test but not as brittle as Selenium.
Toronto's not far away ;)
But I agree, the nation's capital deserves a teaBOT.
Thanks for your comment, this is actually the next feature (allowing users to select their location - to a state level).
Or for those who know how to write python but don't have time to write a program for every problem they've ever encountered.
IETF getting cold feet about P2P Names?
I feel like part of what you're trying to say is that the misogyny in SV is not authentic misogyny but rather an immature response to negative stimuli (e.g. "girls are gross"). Am I completely missing the point here?
>This is a red herring: this idea that the user will already have a cached copy of CDN-hosted jQuery is bogus. Even for a common library like jQuery: the number of versions of jQuery that are in use is likely above 50, and the number of popular CDNs that host jQuery is surely above 10. So we are hoping that the user will have a cached copy of that exact jQuery version from that exact CDN.

I wonder if it might be a good idea to have a hash attribute for external resources. For example, I might include jquery by including

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js" sha256="ecb916133a9376911f10bc5c659952eb0031e457f5df367cde560edbfba38fb8"></script>

I calculate the hash on my end. This ensures that if code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js is changed, the browser can know that the resource was tampered with or the developer made a mistake, and not load that resource. Also, if the browser sees a hash for a resource it has cached, it can load that cached resource, even if it is hosted at a different location. This seems better for both security and performance, but does put a slightly higher burden on the developers.

EDIT: This seems to cover what I am talking about: http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
I had a less dark version, saying nature is a fair bitch. You'll fail but everything was under your nose from day one. You just had to explore the black space of ignorance, lighting it spark after spark.
The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, The Ugly Duckling, Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast, Alladin, The Princess and the Frog, Frozen.

And many, many more.
Is your selection of cities driven by how accessible the cities permit data is? It doesn't look like it is driven by size of the metro area.
Tracking product work is just one use case. The power of spreadsheets is their flexibility and general applicability. I would be sympathetic to your plight, but I had a boss who wrote letters in Lotus 123 in the DOS days. There was no place from which to copy and paste because there was no multi-tasking. The only upside is that Lotus 123 was better than edlin.
Disney says their trademark on Snow White precludes ANY other films based on the story. Even if the source of the new film is the public domain tale.
iOS 8.4 cydia tweaks
Iirc Saab pioneered heated seats because one of their engineers had colon cancer and Saabs are pretty common in Sweden, but I'd still wager that's an urban legend because the heating is done with DC current and to reliably alter the contents of a tape you'd need a lot more of magnetic field to overcome the resistance of the magnetic particles to change direction (remanence) and you'd want that field to alternate.
Oh, sorry, I poorly worded that then (and have edited it to reflect as such to prevent further confusion, but your quote stands as good reference).

You are correct that I do care about open source. I don't have much of a care about going open source for our stuff. We make our money on service, not software, but I can see the appeal. Essentially I'm just "meh" about doing it myself here.

It should be noted I love the freeswitch folks and while I'm not involved in writing the C (that takes me back), I hang out in the IRC channel and help there when able. I've looked at the code (it's hard to use binaries with FS), but never had to submit a patch as of yet. They're rock solid and deserve every support contract the get!

Go ClueCon!
I don't know if I could tell you the best place, but this seems like a good start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Water_Project

I became interested while living in LA twenty or so years ago. The whole system represents a monumental engineering achievement, whatever its political, ecological, social, etc., implications.

Edit: that page doesn't discuss siphons much, as they are part of the aqueduct components of the system, but reading through it my twenty year-old impressions seem off. Siphons do play a big role in getting water over some heights, but there is a lot of pumping too. On the other hand they generate power from the flow at several places, so who knows how it all balances out?
Show HN: Vibrator Timer with Speech (know the time without looking at the phone)
> Africa well can't afford and doesn't have Netflix <

And if they had there would be some crazy region locks in place to avoid someone elsewhere paying African prices while living in, say, Canada.
Part of her point is that the current activities of feminism in tech are not productive, might actually be negative, and if everyone just shut up and did what they loved the misogyny or perceived misogyny would disappear a lot faster.

I don't necessarily agree, but she may not be wrong.
Harvesting the steam is a clever idea, but I don't know if the average consumer is ready for what would be spun as "radioactive Franken-water".
Check your browser cache sometime. You no doubt have most of the CDN-hosted jQuery's in your cache. You also probably have hundreds of copies of Closure compiled jQuery. ;-)
Disney took public domain stories, and made billions by creating their own versions, and now seek to prevent others from doing the same.

Well no. You could go out tomorrow and make your own movie of Snow white, or Beauty and the Beast or some other public domain story, and many people have. What Disney work so hard to do is prevent its particular versions of various from falling into the public domain. Now I think they're missing a trick insofar as they would still be able to sell Official Disney Versions even if their famous animated movies went into the public domain tomorrow, because they have the best marketing operation on the planet (so kids would demand 'the real one') and they could keep adding more content (eg additional 'making of' documentaries and so other extra features that serious fans of a film will pay to watch).

I'm in broad agreement with you, I just want to be clear that when Disney makes a film out of a folk tale or so it is not claiming property rights over the source material, just the firm's own rendering of it.
I understand (1), that some people are better than others at detecting the hidden emotional motivation for behavior. What I don't understand is what those people will actually be using that skill for - I hypothesized one use, but you said I'm wrong, so I'm curious what the actual use of that skill is.

Setting goals? Maybe tactical, rather than strategic, goals. E.g., emotional intelligence may say "exploit tribalism to get users to feel loyalty towards us" (a tactical goal) which would help in achieving the strategic goal of having more users and lower churn.

In another reply, you suggest: "products need to be less harmful --> ... --> putting more emotionally competent people in the industry", but it's far from clear to me how the latter gets to the former. If anything, I'd suspect that emotionally competent people are better at building harmful products and exploiting flaws in the brain.
> using the ndk with c/c++ for serious development on android is absolutely one of the worst modern platform development experiences out there.

I have to second this. Serious attempts to use the NDK for application-layer work will turn your hair white. It's by far the most god-awful mobile/quasi-embedded tasks I've had professionally. In my experience it's second maybe only to porting C-decompiled FORTRAN between families of obsolete and badly documented DSP chips.
The post isn't complaining they'll only block it at the network level, it's complaining that they're trying that at all. The issue is vulnerable cars - not the lack of a firewall between the net and those vulnerable cars.

Any network fix is useless smoke and mirrors.
If it's documented it's a feature.
No, the main go thread will receive events on a channel, all GUI calls can be wrapped channel writes, which get sent to the Android thread. Like how React Native is modeled.
sigh I suppose it's probably unrealistic to hope for separate first-flush and second-flush Darjeeling blends...
You get pretty close to full caching... often better than using your own copy. The reason it isn't a common practice is more about potential bugs caused by newer versions.
Could Your Laptop One Day Heat Your Home?
It seems like you're marking sites down for using a cookiless domain for resources, even though that's faster and no less secure? For example, you'd mark google down for referencing gstatic.com or facebook down for referencing fbcdn.com.

I realize there's no publicly available way to tell that yahoo.com and yimg.com are the same entity, but it would be good to at least note this as an issue with the analysis.
We are working on an economic index based on the building permit data, so a lot of it depends on where our economist tells us to go. He likes to dig deep in certain areas for his projects.

But we also pay attention to the size of an area (number of permits) versus how easy they make the data to get.
PHP 5 – Which Random Sources You Should Trust, by Order of Preference
>As for it being an informal or hobbyist language, if one begins by designing the proper data structures and adds the adequate functions to handle them, the resulting programs can be just as capable as those designed in any other language.

Well, that is exactly my point. Basic has the reputation of being easy for beginners and hobbyists but properly written code in a recent OOP dialect of Basic doesn't look too different from code written in any object-oriented Algol-derived language. As such, it is probably about as easy/as hard to write. Which is what makes me suspect that Basic-the-language might not really be the secret sauce of environments like QB64 or Blitz3D. Other possible reasons they get the sort of following they do could be that

1. Those environments are easy to install and create your first project with.

2. They start you with an IDE, so compiling and running your first code is only a matter of pressing a single key or clicking a single button.

3. They ship a "fun-oriented" standard library. You don't have to install any addition packages or even import extra modules into your project to access subroutines for plotting, sprite graphics, sound, 3D, networking, etc.

4. They have high-quality, beginner-friendly documentation with plentiful examples.

5. They are fast, both the IDEs and the runtimes.

6. (A language-related one.) Somewhat surprisingly, they are more often that not statically typed and offer decent error messages. Perhaps compile-time errors are a better educational tool than runtime errors.

I am not sure how important it is to have all of the above points but 1-3 seem crucial.
Ask HN: Why are we hiding feminism threads now?
This thread from today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941712 quickly rose to the front page and then dropped off to the third page even though there was over 200 points in just a couple hours.

Is talking about feminism too off topic for HN or was it because of the article associated with the topic, or other?

I didn't see any comments from dang in there mentioning it was inappropriate so genuinely curious now.
Sounds like a mixture of the sc file format and BASIC:

let A0 = 123
let A1 = 234
let A2 = 345
rightstring B3 = "asd"
leftstring B5 = "foo"
label B11 = "bar"
goto B11 A0

Just a textual description of what your spreadsheet should look like. Gosling had it right back in the 80s ;)
Steering wheel audio controls are common and useful in motion.

It's not really about RO v RW, CAN is about sending commands. The head unit could say, it's the brakes, so that has to be protected against.

When there is not a physical layer doing that protection (separate bus, a filter, and so on) there are two other layers. One is the thing sending can reject it from going out, but that takes resources that might not be there. The other the receiver does some sanity checking on it, like "you want me to go in P but I'm going at 65, yeah I don't think so" to even it's gotten common place for messages involving the brakes include a shared code back and forth.

Really I think this boils down to there are untrusted channels (wifi, cellular, DAB) that should be locked down better. I mean the DAB thing, likely it's a buffer over flow in the head unit. Even if that has a cpu that is running FW that is making sure the CAN messages it is sending are sane, the exploit just makes it stop doing that. There's such a pressure to save cost and so many OEMs involved that ease of integration motivates the rest.

Yeah it sucks, but it is what it is.
Day seems to be complaining that the networks aren't centralized enough with less-than perfectly hierarchical addresses (for efficiency of routing) and without lower level QoS levers. Neither of these things are good IMHO, but he certainly seems to think so.
NASA’s New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto
It doesn't seem like there are informations you already don't know.
Tool to automate creation of VMs and the network topology between them
Ask HN: What are the data structure and algo questions asked to senior programmer?
Companies like Amazon, Google keep asking problems on algorithms and data structure with complexity constraint even for senior tech positions .
The problem is that a fix for this particular problem doesn't actually make anyone secure, it only blocks the one specific attack the hacker told them about. (Hopefully the hackers kept another bug in reserve so they can trigger another recall/patch cycle as soon as this is over.)

We need to communicate that this isn't a decent half-measure, this is specifically a worthless measure intended to keep vulnerable cars on the street where they can kill people because a real fix is seen as being too expensive.
That's the first time I've heard the Civil War ascribed to Americans being too competitive. Every day I learn new things on this site.