skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

It's more important how it's made (and how the people involved are treated) and what it's made from, in addition to quality for cost.

Honestly, I'd like to see live webcams in contract mgfr factories where a particular product is made and be able to follow a product's components until it ships. That's the proof necessary to show whether workers are dangerously exhausted, abused by supervisors, etc. It would also be good to see the authentic average of hourly worker pay compared to local cost of living.

Every physical purchase has an human, animal and/or planet cost.
Advisory Guidelines for UDP Deployment
I've yet to see a product that turns non software engineers into software engineers. These types of products only make salespeople commissions and then sit unused. Crystal Reports is a prime example. I've seen it sold many times to people at companies who buy into the notion that software engineers can be replaced by drag and drop tools. The people who buy into the sales pitch lack the desire or discipline to learn it. Software engineering is difficult work and requires patience, which is often lacking in people who think a half-assed design document written in MS Word is anywhere equivalent to writing bug free scalable code that needs to run 24/7.
What legally allows them to audit you?
Thanks for using park.io and I'm glad you had a good experience.

park.io doesn't just get domains from drop-catching when they expire. Sometimes we buy them from the previous owner directly. Also, not all sales go through the drop-catching/auction process, for example users can park their domains on park.io and set a "Buy it Now" price for their parked domain, so domains also sell in this way.

file.io was never listed because it never expired/dropped or went to auction. We bought it directly from the previous owner and it was parked on park.io. I have now used it for the service posted here. What you quoted above was said to advertise park.io, and I apologize if it is misleading.
> I don't think the users of spreadsheets are dumb. I think they don't have an appreciation for organization of data to allow for efficient machine-readability.

Well said...it's that concept of machine-readability that is so core to efficient data investigation and interoperability with other enterprises (such as web apps)...theoretically, such a concept is learnable without a decent jump into the computer science/programming waters...but honestly, I haven't run into many lay persons who have figured it out well enough for themselves.
This is great, but I feel like take-home interviews are better for a first-level filter. I went through this when I applied to Thoughtworks, but it definitely wasn't the only interview. This may have been because I was in a different state also though, so before they would pay to fly me out, they let me pick out of a few problems and then email them in within 72-hours.
Why the migration to MySQL rather than just migrating away from the stored procedures?
What is "Active Directory provisioning"? Is this just an alternative way to authenticate users with the wiki similar to LDAP?
It's weird looking at that map from their prospective.

Like really weird.
I like your idea of aggregating a bunch of small debts - that's smart. And great for the freelancer if it means they get access to a better level of collection service than they could otherwise afford or find.

Figuring out who the deadbeats are is great too IF you can reach scale (hence your free service is important) and likewise for calculating a score.

What's your average commission charged to the freelancer and do you find that many have the ability to oncharge collection costs to their clients?

tx
"Nobel-winning scientist age" is not a good proxy for "productive scientist age", for a variety of reasons. They mention specifically lag time between discovery & recognition, but you also have issues where the "name" behind the discovery is the guy in charge of the lab, but the actual discovery (and sometimes the idea) is generated by the 30-year-old postdoc / assistant prof / etc.

There is also a sampling bias issue where scientists in academia as a whole are getting older because the boomers still have a death grip on institutional positions, and academia as a whole is shrinking.
I guess part of my point was that when your post implies some implicit threat, you should be clear on whether you are merely warning of this threat or whether you think it's a good thing. Otherwise you might end to inadvertently supporting a system you don't intend to.
"No True Scotsman" isn't a good way to defend Feminism; continuing to be an example of an empowered feminist is.

In this case, though, you shouldn't even feel the need to defend it because feminism has nothing to do with the OP topic. It was dragged into the discussion because kefka blames feminism...because feminism.
Seems counterproductive. I don't see how UDP is intrinsically more prone to allowing reflection attacks than TCP if it's used as the foundation for a well-designed connection-oriented protocol. And indeed, the principles of packet amplification and session authentication are much better understood than in days of TCP/IP.

ISPs limiting DoS UDP flows isn't reason to not use UDP for legitimate purposes. After all, nothing stops DoS botnets from sending junk TCP packets.
revenue from servicing the startup economy will dry up

One of the salient differences between the 90s tech bubble and our current state of affairs is that in the 90s Yahoo sold to startups justifying a higher valuation for Yahoo justifying more startups... and this largely doesn't happen now.

I haven't worked with Github but I have worked with many companies which are "strikingly similar" to Github. Their median customer is a boring business which sells things to people for money. If the entire Bay Area slid into the sea, most software companies wouldn't notice until their pull requests stopped getting accepted.
Ha - have you tried dragging a file into the "upload" button on file.io? It works!
Gotta sell all those old manual vehicles to _someone_ ...
Cue pirate drones stealing cargo.
Letsencrypt offers to configure common webservers automatically. If a lot of people take up the offer, there could soon be much fewer servers with grossly insecure TLS configurations.
We're working on something to split the middle at http://Clubhouse.io

As easy to use as Trello for small teams, but scales up as you grow (although we probably cap out at 100-ish devs right now, not quite to Jira's level yet.)

(Full disclosure: CEO/Founder)
Github has chosen the left/PC side, certainly, as evidenced by the rug death. But I suspect this will help them rather than hurt, as the majority of developers are probably left/PC, as is leadership of major tech companies. They are aligning with the power structure.

Do you think Bitbucket would stand up to a PC Twitter campaign? I think not; only the explicitly ideological want to fight such battles.
The original title of this document is "Advisory Guidelines for UDP Deployment". HN Guidelines (see the link at the bottom of the page) specify that you should use the original title unless it's misleading or linkbait.
Windows 10 Might Be Free, but Your Privacy Is Priceless
Great to see Nokia coming out with new products. I think this type of cameras will be commoditised within 1-2 years, I hope they are looking into light field tech.

BTW - any sample footage available from this?
Simple Android Hack Leaves 95% Devices Vulnerable
So what? So right now when they use planes and cars you can see who was driving it, who made the car, who purchased it.

With drones, you won't be able to see any of that. The criminals who programmed the drones would be free from the law. And not only that, the "police drone" as you say might arrive too late, the drone might already have shot up some people. And then there's always the possibility that despite your best efforts, some drones are gonna fall from the sky on people.
Knock, Knock, Nokia's Heavy Fall (2010)
If it replaces the "coding on a whiteboard" part then it was definitely worth it to me.
What do we do with parasites when they attack us? That.
Amongst those who use Asm regularly this is a fairly well-known technique... in BIOS code pre-memory-initialisation, for example; there is absolutely no RAM available at that point, so even a call stack can't be used, but you can still reuse code by putting the "return address" in a register and then jumping to the common block of code:

mov sp, ret1
jmp block
ret1:
...
mov sp, ret2
jmp block
ret2:
...
block:
...
jmp sp

You can even to go somewhere else after that block instead of continuing like a function call would, just by modifying the destination. No recursion is possible with this but I've seen BIOS code do more than one "level" of "calls" by using more "return address" registers (it tends to be BP and SP.)

It's funny to see this technique being rediscovered/reinvented (AFAICS the authors seem to think this "flattening" is an entirely new idea), and somewhat poorly too - there's no need to use switch statements and their associated complexity to map integers back into addresses, when all that's really required is for the "caller" to supply a where-to-go-next address. This is possible on any CPU that has an indirect-jump type of instruction. I've seen this in Z80 and 6502 code, as well as x86; it's present in early PC applications that were handwritten Asm.

https://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/pinczakko-s-guide-to...
The problem is that today, UDP is a rate limited sewer of attack traffic from Brazilian home routers and so on. Your legit traffic is guilty by association. Devs need to know udp is collateral damage in the ddos war
That's the reason we use it. I love GH and use it personally, but the pricing for companies with a lot of private repos (like agencies) is not ideal. We save a considerable amount of money using BB over GH.

BB is pretty great though, so aside from the social factor, the functionality is pretty much the same.
How to Make a Tuning Capacitor Out of a Roll of Toilet Paper (2014) [video]
We hired some key employees from Flickr who knew a particular MySQL sharding strategy really well. Postgres would have worked fine, just not the way we were using it back then.
Announcing Browser Monitoring Support for Microsoft Edge
"there's no need to use switch statements and their associated complexity to map integers back into addresses, when all that's really required is for the "caller" to supply a where-to-go-next address."

There's nothing quite like implementing an abstraction, then turning right around and unimplementing the abstraction as a layer on top. (See also: using relational DBs as key/value stores. Bonus points if it implements a hierarchy that looks like a file system! Implementing unreliable data delivery on top of TCP (which can be done by reconnections). Taking a character/block device and implementing block/character access. Implementing streaming on top of page-based abstractions like HTTP, implemented on top of streaming via TCP; there's "official" ways to do this but for a long time it qualified.) If you're wondering where the CPU cycles are going....
We can't comprehend the danger that could be caused by strong AI because we don't understand how to make worlds. Embedded within the fabric of the cosmos are the instructions for materializing a black hole from dark matter and energy. And though the recipe may be hidden from our mortal minds it's possible they may be discovered by a de novo thinking machine. A software system with infinite IQ but the moral sense of a one day old. An electronic brain that would have no compunction in creating a super massive black hole right here on Earth just to see if it can succeed. Irrespective of the consequences to humanity.

If this "Jupiter-sized" consciousness is allowed to have thoughts that are not "amenable to inspection". Even perhaps beyond comprehension. And the danger elides to the scale of a solar system with nothing but diamonds in it. Then, by the naysayers own logic, shouldn't all AI research be outlawed? Or at least confined to the equivalent of CDC-level-5 quarantine labs?

If on the other hand you believe that Nature has certain innate prophylactics. And that it takes more than a super will to bend the laws that govern space and time. You may be self-assured in thinking we as a species have at least a century or two before we really need to begin worrying about virtual immortals.
"We also investigated hierarchical features where the image is overlaid with a grid of cell size c × c and pixels withins each cell are added up. This is same as downsampling the image and using the raw pixels in the downsampled image as features." (p. 3)

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-15...
> So you categorically reject the scenario of a machine "processing meaningless symbols" being harmful in any way?

How does this follow from what I said?

> How does that follow from the Chinese Room experiment?

The implicit (philosophic) question behind the Chinese Room experiment is; where does meaning come from? What imbues meaning to the meaningless symbols that computers process\? This is an old, unanswered philosophic question. I implied it in my answer but I will make it explicit; it comes from our perceptual awareness of existence via the senses.
Maybe I need to check again. In any case, closing a window via middle-click would make so much more sense IMO.
Let's pretend the perspective is true, that ATC has full responsibility for separation when the pilot is doing instrument training in visual conditions under radar contact.

Why delay doing exactly what you're told to do, twice?

1. Turn left if you don't have that traffic in sight, does not mean ask questions to confirm the distance, it means turn left if you don't have that traffic in sight. This delay is a minimum of 8 seconds difference in whether this accident happens.

2. Turn left immediately means do it now, not beginning to turn over 18 seconds... I've put a Cessna in a 60˚ 2G bank inside of 5 seconds many times (it is an unusual attitude, done for training purposes), and this guy is in a fighter jet. He can do better than that.

From this transcript, it's a much easier case proving negligence on the part of the F-16 pilot, than defending it. About the best defense the F-16 pilot I can come up with is that he probably had no chance to see and avoid because of the nose cone of the F-16 obstructing the view of the slightly lower Cessna; and the whole see and avoid principle is probably statistically bullcrap, and all flights should be under positive control. But unfortunately that's not the system we have, and I don't understand the cause for these two delays and the seemingly slow turn when the word "immediately" was used by ATC, which has a very explicit, formal meaning in ICAO terms which is when instant action is required by a pilot.
> Did you really claim 2-factor authentication as your primary differentiation for choosing source control? Really?

As someone who used to have keys to a number of security-critical OSS projects, I would never use password-only authentication to protect write access to my repo.

It's not just the chance of someone sneaking in a change and its getting shipped to users -- although that's also awful -- but it's also the chance of someone sneaking in a change that pwns all of your developers (by running a script as part of the build).

And if you're using a private repository and care about keeping your source code secret, then you really, really, really want 2FA.
I'm not really sure what you mean. We don't know what the task was that he had to solve. I was providing an example of a situation in which 66 commits could be seen as a bad thing.

For a typical whiteboard coding problem, I also wouldn't want to see 60+ commits.
Thanks for these, they're informative and interesting.

As to the Parthenon marbles, yeah, I agree with you. It would be good to see an Imperial theft redressed. Even a couple of centuries after Elgin did his deed, it matters.
TextEdit would be an upgrade. Try inserting lines on a blackboard.
From what I can tell a list of forks can be indirectly obtained through a "network" graph that's pretty clunky to use.
>Schedule 2x or 3x the estimate.

This might even be an underestimate. In my experience, there is a lot of research time that goes into the problem before you really dig in and start coding. I had one take-home project that required a few days just to get my system configured to begin testing code (collecting the dataset [10's of GB], installing libraries, and configuring the system).

>I've seen applicants receive friends'/roommates'/spouse's help on take home tests.

I enjoy overtly mathematical problems, so I've talked through a number of take-home interview questions with friends during the research phase, and even provided implementations for comparison and review after they've returned them. (Most recently on a take-home challenge to generate digits of pi.)

>But the company just took 10 minutes to arbitrarily reject your application.

This is actually my second biggest gripe as an applicant. I spend a couple of hours building and submitting the most compelling application I can for a job. The worst so far was an automated email response that my application had been forwarded for review, and before I finished reading the automated response I got a rejection email from the hiring manager. The emails are literally two minutes apart in my inbox. It is incredibly frustrating to put so much time into applications when they are clearly being summarily rejected.

(For anyone curious, my biggest job search gripe is not receiving any kind of firm decision...ever. I can appreciate that there "is not a good fit at this time", but I'm not going to be sitting here in six months pining for that job I applied for with your company. If I want to show interest, I'll apply again in a year or so. It's actually mildly frustrating when I get a callback three months later.)
This is just me being cranky, but I'm always slightly amused by watching younger guys grow up and realize that embracing (and enforcing) schemas on your data, along with adopting a strong, sound type system actually results in better outcomes.
I wouldn't be worried about hashing, either, given you effectively want to hash a 34 bit integer to a ⌈log 4e8⌉ = 29 bit integer.

An easy way is to take a 32 to 32 bit hash (eg. http://stackoverflow.com/a/12996028/1763356), calculate

hash(top 32 bits) ^ hash(bottom 32 bits)

and take the bottom 29 bits of that. I wouldn't be surprised if you can do this in less time than an integer division.
I actually preferred using ClearCase to git.
I wish I could be angered by your reply, unfortunately it just amuses me. Web sites rely on advertising dollars for revenue. To be denied this revenue from the dominant browser would have created a revolt.

>So, no, websites couldn't afford to block Microsoft. They would lose their customers.

I see. So they can't afford to block Microsoft, but they can afford to have their main revenue stream cut off by Microsoft.
> Devs need to know udp is collateral damage in the ddos war

Is it? Where's the citation to support the claim that UDP is widely rate-limited? Even if some network operators are daft enough to be indiscriminately rate-limiting all of UDP and not just the ports that are abused (DNS, SNMP, NTP, etc.), how is it productive to encourage more network operators to do that, as this draft does? (Section 4, "Recommendations for Network Operators" point 3.)
Go 1.5 Beta 3 is released
YC Fellowship flooded with 6500 applications
I wonder why my comment is getting downvoted though. :/
Want a free Tesla Model X? Convince ten people to buy a Model S right now
Given Stallman's background with Emacs and lisps in general, the idea that he doesn't understand the idea of implementing a program in two languages is pretty hilarious.
Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy
I don't know if it's an entirely fair comparison to go by body count. Things have gotten a lot more efficient since the Bell Labs days. Even Richard Hamming stated "when I first started working there was a woman who walked around handing out the coffee and donuts, now a machine does that and her job no longer exists."
I'm pretty sure he'd go to Antarctica.
A shrine to the Shrike!
And that - a single word change - is why editorial control matters.
I would actually put money on most of those UDP rate limits being in place because of uTP Bittorrent traffic. It's dumb and it needs to stop. Nothing between two networks on the Internet should be inspecting the transport layer.

And since when has 'guilty by association' been a good reason to condemn anything?
There's QUIC support in Wireshark. Use the beta version. :)
Cars are regulated, guns are regulated, slingshots are regulated, motorcycles are regulated, noise is regulated, EMR is regulated, medicine is regulated, knives are regulated, RC airplanes are regulated. Anything that can cause danger is regulated. Leaving drones unregulated is absurd.

There is tremendous likelihood that regulating drones will lead to less crime. Banning drones within 1/4 mile of permanent residences and mall rooftops will prevent a large chunk of drone crime.

Banning drones from mall areas is not about "making it more illegal to put C4 there." It's about empowering the law and private citizens to forcibly remove drones from a dangerous areas to prevent drone crime.

If drones are allowed to buzz around malls, there are no police to determine if one of them is piling up C4 on the roof. If drones are not allowed to buzz around malls, as soon as one as spotted in a no-fly zone, it can be taken out to prevent a dangerous crime.
If you look at their map, they don't have enough presence outside of China to be much use. Only one PoP is outside of China.
For those wondering about the name, "yun" (云／雲) means "cloud" in Mandarin.
Big companies very consistently skimp on things that are not directly related to the success of some undertaking. Sure, safety standards might be put into place, but that does not convince me in the slightest that Amazon is going to spend a lot of money making sure the drones are secure and bug free and can't be hacked easily, so on and so forth... Certainly not to the degree that commercial airplanes are vetted, and even those systems aren't invulnerable.
Humans accidentally created hidden carbon sink in the desert
You could also use ZenHub [1].

It is a powerful extension that add project management features directly inside GitHub.

You would enjoy Task boards, Burndown charts and many other features without leaving GitHub's website.

[1] http://www.zenhub.io

(Full disclosure: I used to work for ZenHub)
The article from Scientific American that this article links to has much more scientific detail on the pesticides that are used in organic farming, and seems fairly trustworthy:

Are lower pesticide residues a good reason to buy organic? Probably not.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/pesticides...
>It never ceases to amaze me how negative the HN community is to new ideas, technology and generally "trying new stuff" that has never been attempted before.

That's because the HN community has a high bar, and most "new ideas" are bullshit (when it's not a rehash of failed old ideas shot down 100,000s of times, like "perpetual motion machines").
It's a perfectly good word that should not be banned:

This patch retards the rate of retry attempts after three consecutive failures