skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve always used its “smooth scrolling” feature, and I do not recall ever encountering any issues with it at all, save possibly one which has been happening for what is probably almost a year and which I still haven’t reported: monospaced code blocks with horizontal scrolling don’t draw the newly exposed regions properly as you scroll horizontally (of course, selecting the text fixes that, but it’s still a nuisance). Is that the sort of thing that you’re referring to?
Airbnb Said Close to Hiring Blackstone’s Tosi for CFO Role
By the same argument, Lisp and Haskell would have been ruining more devs than anyone would have cared to admit. Instead, the opposite happened. I don't know if Go will make you a better programmer much like I don't know if C++ will either. I've done both. No improvement. I'm sure, though, that proponents will claim either does. Then one day they'll discover Lisp...
Thanks to people like this who pass out resumes without authorization and shop candidates, I lost out on a key job opportunity at a time where I was in a pretty bad personal situation, and the job market was not so great.

So maybe I'm mean, but I have no respect whatsoever for contingency recruiters.
Billing alerts and learning to use the CLI largely remove the issue of ghost resource usage. If you use AWS beyond the basics, it is worth investing the time to get the CLI setup and use it in favor of the web interface.
Every single one of your “like WebP has now” is already in JPEG-2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000
Nothing new there... It would be cool to have current and successful examples of decks by stage (concept, prototype, growth...)
Almost everything in PHP is surprising behavior.

And yes, in the eleventy billion cases where PHP should yell at you that it's doing something totally different than what you wanted, it instead just goes about its day silently.
Let me get this straight:

>Communism is a subset of socialism

and

> Socialism always results in tyranny.

but your only examples of tyranny are from communist regimes.

Does that mean that:

> Square is a subset of rectangle

so

>rectangle always results in four right angles

given that my only examples of rectangles are squares?

Saying socialism /always/ does anything, and then listing only examples from a specific subset of socialism is plainly incorrect.

By your own admission:

>Humans will always create a hierarchy

Socialism could not have been tested, because it would require social ownership of the production of goods, and co-operative management of those resources.
Hierarchy means they did not have co-operative management of resources, they had hierarchical management of resources.
> It just so happens that Elixir is the top horse of today for representing the Erlang ecosystem and so that's the vehicle people choose to present the features of that ecosystem, mostly.

On HN maybe, but out there it is erlang ahead by more than just a noselength. Elixir is nice and promising but by no objective measure is it 'the top horse'.
French court backs mass surveillance
The PHP approach seems to be that any crazy behavior is acceptable as long as it's documented.
You on a 32-bit system?
Why not write it in C and slap on the native cocoa/win/gtk/android front end and have something totally "portable" to mac/ios/android/windows/linux?
It is a PHP bug. You're on a 32-bit system. The bug only occurs on 64 bit systems.
My eyesight has always been excellent and still is at age 34. I spent lots of time in front of computer screens at work and at home.
congrats peter & travis! and see you today at pydata seattle :)
I dealt with this for years and it was incredibly frustrating. The problem wasn't so much with me and the employee (I didn't like it but he performed so I could look past it) it was more with the team and upper management. It looked poorly on me that one of my employees disregarded direct instruction (and obviously showed lack of respect) and it was difficult to justify the behaviour to the other employees who thought it wasn't fair and that they also should not have to come in on time.

I do agree that special employees deserve special treatment, but there are certain things that should be fair across the board, especially in small teams.
This just screams "prepping for an IPO"

1) hiring someone as your CFO that wall street loves.

2) From the article:

> The firm paid Tosi $15 million last year in salary, bonus, stock awards and a cut of profits, according to Blackstone’s annual report. He also holds partnership units that gave him $1.4 million in dividends.

So if this rumor is true, Tosi is walking away from a lot of money. I've got to assume its because he's got a chance to make a lot of money in the next year or two because I doubt he'd do this because he loves using Airbnb.

3) He is rumored to have turned down the CFO job at Apple a few years back. If he's heading to Silicon valley now, I find it hard to believe that its to be the CFO of a private company
I generally got excellents on performance reviews for my brief, entry level stint at Big Corp.

I still felt demotivated by the whole process, because it was a forced ranking of the system that wasted the whole teams time to say what everyone had already known: some of us did more work, some of us did less, and some of us were on a faster upward trajectory than others.

It turns out that it doesn't actually motivate any of your employees to throw social hierarchies in their face -- it only causes tension and undue focus on micro-social hierarchies (those heiarchies within a social class, eg, the hierarchy of entry level tech workers).
The question is, why would I want that?

With the availability of Kotlin, Groovy or (somewhat limited I believe, but still) Scala on Android, what advantages does Go offer?

I was under impression that it's more of a backend language, tailored to the needs of backend devs

I understand the crossplatform argument - write a platform-agnostic library in Go, and use it in your iOS and Android app etc. but it doesn't answer "why Go, of all languages".

It's an honest question, not a flamebait. Is there anything specific about Go that makes it well suited for mobile environment, or is it like a using a great shiny truck to deliver pizza "because you can" : )
Could something not be notarized as a public work for free by this third party?
The bug works for me on PHP5. Are you on a 32-bit machine? Your values would suggest that you are. See Stormcaller's comment for an explanation.
Can anyone recommend an idiomatic go project to look through?
Python 3.5 is on its way
The fact that a float tank would never be true sensory deprivation makes me sad.

Having tinnitus drives me crazy. Not in literal sense, it's not like I focus on it all the time. But at night when I hear the crickets and other nightlife, I mourn the lack of silence in my head.
Given that all the numbers are less than 2^32, there's less than a 10^-192 chance that it's a 64 bit system...
Terrible post IMO. I've been using both OS X and GNU/Linux (Arch) for several years (OS X since 2006, several GNU/Linux distros since ~2000), so I think I can weigh in. I'll quote a few interesting parts.

> Be customisable

Valid reason. But he perfectly knew he was getting a proprietary OS, not Arch.

> because if you follow the Unix philosophy, each component is modular and replaceable

Who told him OS X follows the Unix philosophy? Also I don't understand the obsession with applying the Unix philosophy to everything. Give me a good full-featured browser and email program, keep your Surf (http://surf.suckless.org) and mutt if you want.

> Make it easy to compile, test and run any kind of software I'd like

Yes, like you can do already on OS X since forever. Obviously if you're going to do Linux kernel development OS X is not ideal and I think everybody can agree on that one. But for UNIX/POSIX software it's pretty much the same. You can get GCC from MacPorts and I guess Homebrew too, pretty much any version you want, if you don't like Clang (which is the default compiler in FreeBSD too btw).

> Be transparent in its workings, be easy to understand in principle

100% agreed on this one.

> Should be a separate entity. It should not rely on some third-party service in order to function properly. If I can't access the internet (or choose to airgap the machine eternally), it should be possible to run all of the software I'd like (and to use all of the features I'd like to) without needing access to online services.

I really don't understand this one. This is OS X, not Chrome OS. You don't need an Apple ID to update the OS itself. You can get programs from the internet or your favorite package manager without ever logging in with your Apple ID on the App Store.

> A package manager is useless if it doesn't manage all of the packages on a system

I wouldn't call it "useless", but I guess if you prefer a package manager for everything then MacPorts/Homebrew are not for you.

He then mentions that OS X has a "horrible development environment" without giving any actual reason, and mentions too "filesystem pollution" because OS X separates most GUI tools from the BSD tools (so he considers a logical separation between the BSD subsystem and the rest of the system "pollution". I think it's the opposite).

The post is a series of exaggerations and inaccuracies mixed with actually valid criticism.
Images are inherently viral. They're easier to link to, re-post, retweet, &c., than text. They work on any device and in any browser. They're easy to save. They can be made more pretty than text and (although not necessarily the case here) the "A picture speaks a thousand words" feature means they can communicate ideas/concepts more efficiently.
Your attempt at applying mathematical logic to human affairs, as if one had anything to do with the other, is laughable.
This talk about protocol-orientated programming in Swift at WWDC (https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/?id=408, you need a Mac to watch this) had a rather humorous take-down of OOP by a rather humorless old greybeard called Crusty.
Even good compression of non-photographic images?

Edit: Also, I didn't know that. Maybe it was more a marketing problem then - they focused too much on the minor compression improvements, and not enough on the major new features.
And Universal isn't alone:

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/search?utf8=%E2%9C%9...

EDIT: Also, Universal's been doing it LOTS of times before too (via above link).
Crowdsourcing Saves D-Day’s First Airplane
Excellent news! The Anaconda distribution has been great for me, and CA's policy of free academic licensing for their go-fast extensions [0] is the cherry on top.

[0] https://store.continuum.io/cshop/academicanaconda
I am 42 years old, and have been staring into screens for most of my waking hours since I was 11 years old (when I got my Commodore 64). I have a slight astigmatism in my left eye, easily corrected with eyeglasses. I wore 1 contact for a while, but that was too weird of a feeling having that in one eye.

Other than that I am 20/20.

I suppose I could maybe get a monocle for that astigmatic eye.

Now, having been programming for 31 years...a new question should be asked on HN: "How's your drinking problem?"
Exactly. The whole self-review thing is an exercise in "tell me what I want to hear"
Honestly, Snapchat felt more like a feature till they brought in stories. That interaction has been a game changer for them. In fact it's unique from the entire plethora of networks around. Especially when centered around an event or a country (their UFC mega stories are incredible).
I'd like to see this get more attention. http://bellard.org/bpg/
One of the things you can do is get a pair of yellow tinted glasses. Gundar makes a specific one for gamers but I prefer the ones from Oakley. They make staring at computer screens for long periods of time easier.

Another thing to be aware of is symptoms of diabetes. Are you are sitting in a chair in front of a computer for hours a day, years on end? Do you eat sugary or stachy foods, coke or energy drinks for instance? Do you not get exercise? Have you gained a lot of weight? Do you have a lot stress in your life (startups)? Depending on your body type this type of environment can lead to diabetes. One of the symptoms of that is blurred vision.

* Updated for wording/grammar.
You should send them a detailed email about it. Be as detailed as possible without doing anything illegal. Then wash your hands of it. If they don't reply, it's not your problem.

Also, notify any companies that you know use the service. They may have some requests to make of the compromised company, as well.
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127.0.0.1 is purely a virtual loopback within your own system. Google can't take it down.
React (and Flux) with Bridge.net
WB failed to properly certify that they made a best effort at truth: their machines fundamentally are more error prone than they could be, and thus WB didn't spend a reasonable effort on ensuring veracity of their claims.

More specifically, the lawyers whose name is attached claimed that under his best powers, the claims are known to be true. However, he knows the error rate of WB bots is above that human workers would produce parsing the same content. They fail to do an additional check on the machine parsed lists (or they'd remove many of these embarrassing links).

But they did sign, under penalty of perjury, that they did.
Is the media becoming a wire service? – Vox
He spent seven years at Renaissance, arguably the world's top-performing hedge fund management company.
Are Data Mining and Machine Learning Distinct from Statistics?
I love how you can destroy the logo / title by playing with the mouse over it.
> Amphetamines allow for short term gains in productivity for individuals and possibly companies.

Your premise is incorrect! It depends on the dosage. Low dose amphetamines can be neuroprotective. Even meth!

People also take a combination of drugs to stave off tolerance. Memantine, for example.

> As much as Silicon Valley likes the myth of the lone (drug fueled) rockstar developer, please don't be deluded to think this has any semblance of relevance in reality.

I'm not making reference to that.

Increased productivity is good for living standards—ceteris paribus. I've given two examples of how amphetamines may be used profitably in the longterm (which increases productivity). And because of what I've said in the first sentence, it follows living standards will be improved.
> I wonder if that is going to be what it takes to fix today's bloat problems: Google takes the hammer to sites that too much advertising cruft.

That could get interesting: Google, using the argument that all those ad-related scripts make things slow, ranking sites with a lot of them lower than sites which don't, and at the same time hitting their competitors hard: after all, Google makes money through ads, if their competitors are forced to be used less (by Google's own actions) more people might be using Google ad networks.
Experience is worth paying for as well, not simply responsibilities. There's an entire industry called "consulting" based around that.
Learning by doing is cool.

You don't have to do it the conventional way.

It's just that from my perspective, I can only focus on the future problems. I am too traumatized from the HW experience!
I almost rewrote a couple of my points again just now.:)

You are documenting via your blog in a sense. It has value. It is a high level representation of your plans for the project.
It's because there simply are more odd numbers than even numbers...

(j/k!)
It's also being linked on Reddit for a double whammy DDoS.
They may take away our 127.0.0.1, they may take away our lives, BUT THEY CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY...OUR FREEDOM!!!
> Web browser vendors have been reluctant to implement it because of increases attack surface, and of course web sites will not use it without browser support.

I believe codecs should actually be part of the OS. There should be one good, well-tested implementation per OS that browsers and other apps just link to. It might actually be possible to sandbox the codec components for increased security. Ideally, a web browser would just be a HTML+stuff parser, a layout engine, and a bit of gui, and shell out to the OS for everything else. Unfortunately, it seems the monolithic kitchen sink model has won.
Apple is (was?) very tight about what they allow on ios.
Do they allow go programs on iphone and ipad?

Serious question, people.

[ are the downvotes because I mentioned apple is very controlling? ]
Our Restya stack (open source) is similar to this with tech agnostic approach. We used it to build Restyaboard http://restya.com/board/ (open source trello alternative/clone)
yay, another rant into the OS wars. and like all of them, flawed from the outset - this guy is happy with Linux or BSD, and nothing will ever top that.. alas, this is not the final flaw in this article;

swipey bullshit - can be disabled. explore system preferences.

why customise perfection - bullshit with a hint of straw man. OS X is not perfect, i think there are few people that claim that. perfection would preclude any more work on the OS. want GCC? install it. it's not hard. proof,

% uname && gcc --version
Darwin
gcc (GCC) 4.9.2
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

botched package management - OS X doesn't have a native one, yes. in my experience, they all suck. and for someone that wants to know everything that's going on, i'd be surprised if he didn't build from source for everything.

horrible developer workflow - what? firstly, it's so similar to linux, what is he talking about? i don't know any OS X users that build on a virtual machine, unless they are wishing to replicate the exact running environment of a system. in which case, people do that on linux too.

filesystem pollution - aha! the first almost valid complaint! although it's in a compliment sandwich kind of format - bullshit, valid complaint, more bullshit. System is for OS X internals resources and libraries. Library is common resources for applications. done.

but here it comes, a valid complaint! yes! HFS+ is terrible. apple very nearly did switch to ZFS a long time ago, alas it fell through for some unknown reason. shame. HFS+ is case sensitive, although the default option for Apple is to disable this behaviour. whilst i do not like this, when you consider that they're aiming for windows converts.. well..

hardware - all EFI firmware is proprietary. apple don't have an open-source update tool, but so what? most UEFI motherboards have an auto-updater built into their firmware. good luck finding the source for that.

this guy loves linux. so stick with it. have your hidden partition of OS X on a removable drive (because you can do that) for firmware updates. or use a regular laptop. the article had as much content in as an article titled "i ate a faal curry.. and it was too spicy for me!"
Annual reviews are too coarse of a tool to be effective. They cause stress for employees because a year's worth of feedback gets dumped on them at once. It is difficult to condense a year's worth of issues, praises, concerns, props, and feedback into a one-hour meeting. Reducing people to a set of numbers often leads to negative feelings.

Good relationships, be it professional or otherwise, are based on effective communication. An ongoing conversation between managers and their reports is the best way for a manager to know what is going on and be connected, and for an employee to feel heard and in-touch. This conversation must be continuous and embrace all aspects of a employee-manager relationship.

I've been working for over three years on a service called 15Five which is a tool for such communication. It is neat to hear how people use this service in their organizations as an alternative to annual reviews.

I feel there is a growing shift away from quantified annual reviews and into more conversational feedback loops.
... and then debugging when it inevitably didn't work.
Does HackerOne[1] let you report vulnerabilities if the company isn't already signed up? Like, would they help facilitate interactions with the company, allowing some sort of public disclosure timeline?

[1]: https://hackerone.com/
Correct link: http://mrmrs.io/profile/

So, when I fixed the link, it shows my name, my profile picture, and then my repos three times.

"Better" might not be the word for this. How about "different"?
I got LASIK four years ago. No haloing, and in general I'm really happy about it. I did have vicious dry eyes for about six months, which was much worse than it sounds, but it went away. Overall, I'm thrilled with the procedure, and as I previously had terrible vision, it was legitimately life-changing.
I had one 7 years ago, never looked back.
It's visual (large grey text across the page at an angle).
Pretty sure I would be less happy getting polled every week.
Yes, I know that. We have all watched James Simons, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0

What does that have to do with being a more appropriate news headline? I was responding to the 'clickbait' comment.
The Medallion Fund has been phenomenally successful for decades. They are being challenged for an aggressive accounting trick, but there are a lot more things contributing to their success than one accounting trick.
How poor was your vision before?
Win7, 64 bit.
DroidConTLV impressions – 2/2
True but that's where great managers differ from mediocre managers. Great managers have stronger EQ qualities that help them sense when potential issues may arise. They have good self-awareness on what's going on without being buried in the productive work.
It sounds like the Mozilla solution of building some kind of intelligence around advertising might be the way to go then. Injecting all this stuff in the page load is crazy.
It's kind of funny to open up Verge with both uBlock and uMatrix enabled only allowing only 1st party scripts. First I thought that I have to enable some js to view the article, but then I noticed the small scrollbar and scrolled down.

https://imgur.com/a/YVbDE
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Can we please have one discussion on hacker news that doesn't devolve into a discussion about inequality
Wow. That was a great and helpful answer. Thanks again.
I love this story. I believe that the Church of Scientology did the same thing a long time ago in the early days of the internet.
Was it this paper?

http://people.idsia.ch/~luca/acs-bio97.pdf
Nothing so far, only available hardware that I know of using it is their Shield console
CAP theorem in distributed computer systems
I had LASIK in 2010 and never experienced any halo'ing either. Same with the dry eyes though. Got better. I'm in the UK and had it done with Ultralase at a cost of about $6,500. That was the most expensive surgery option though (why risk being cheap when your health is on the line, even if the chance of a bad result is marginal?)

I advise anyone considering it to go to more than one surgery for a consultation. I first went to one in London which didn't inspire confidence, treated me like I'd come in to buy a car, felt pressured and marketed toward. Ultralase treated me like a medical patient. So shop around wherever you are in the world.
I have never gotten results by attempting to use a company's regular support channels. Best bet is to research who works there in a capacity that would actually be concerned about security issues.

On Nexmo's leadership page[0] I found their CTO, Eric Nadalin. A little LinkedIn search got me his profile[1]. Searching his name shows a lot of sites that would allow you to reach out to him (e.g. AngelList, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

If that does not work, try reaching out to some of the companies that are Nexmo's clients. Even if Nexmo does not care, you can be sure that most of their clients will care, and they will definitely have the attention of Nexmo.

[0] https://www.nexmo.com/company/leadership/

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/enadalin
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