skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that what the jury found, though? I thought that they failed to find evidence sufficient enough to show that KP was biased. Showing positive evidence that KP is not biased is a somewhat higher bar to clear, no?
90% if not more of web startups from the last 10 years would not exist without free software. Is it entitlement that Facebook has closed-source software? Dropbox? GitHub?
"Zirtual"? Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for names these days.

Edit: Really, guys? It's a terrible name.
Wouldn't it be a bill of attainder to point to a specific person, or company, or PAC like in the straw man above?
Which took longer to develop, the app or the sales site?
I'd ask the opposite question: why should any of your property go to your children when you die?
How Cheap Can Solar Get?
The API for mutations is one of the things we were least happy with, but we thought it was better to ship and iterate rather than get stuck on wanting to perfect everything out of the gate. Hopefully we can remove most of the boilerplate over time.

That said, mutations in Relay are very powerful. This one does an optimistic update and handles inserting both the optimistic update and server response into the graph at the correct place. The fat query means that we can use the same mutation everywhere -- even across indifferent apps -- Relay only refetches the fields from the fat query that are used by the current view.
Perhaps uncharitable, but her argument seems like grasping at straws. She's well educated, and had good representation, there's little likelihood she didn't know the risks going in.
Aspects of React, Relay and Flux make me feel like my company's js framework could end up like Leibniz once we release it this fall...
Building Almost Dependent Types in Swift
Mutations are global, not view specific. They can be triggered by multiple views, and are smart enough to only refetch the data that is currently being shown.

For Facebook we can write a single "like" mutation and share it between comments, posts, photos, etc.
Honestly I don't remember anymore because if I search for help on anything, I now actively avoid the android site and just take the StackOverflow links instead.

Maybe Android docs aren't so bad in comparison to most documentation. However, in comparison to Microsoft's they are severely lacking. And this is coming from someone who used to bitch at all the errors he found in the Microsoft docs!
The problem is that "the rules" are now complicated enough, and fuzzy enough, that anything the established cabal doesn't like is against the rules.

This means that while anyone can edit an article, almost everyone gets their edits reverted.
Well, I'm not a lawyer but sounds kind of illegal to hack companies to acquire non-public material information and profit from it.

If it's legal, sounds like a promising startup for YC, smart hackers changing the world, they should apply to the next cycle!
Google creates Alphabet, but runs into BMW
I'm not talking about ability to code, and projects don't necessarily need to invite people who don't already know how; that's a separate issue. It might be a good idea, and I do think you're also undervaluing non-code contributions, but that's not at all the kind of "welcoming" I'm talking about here.

For the people who do know how to code, there's an additional barrier of dealing with people who (for a few examples) like to shout about how anyone who could possibly write such terrible code should die to save important people the trouble of dealing with them, or who talk about "how to explain to your wife or girlfriend", or who give conference presentations featuring lingerie models and pornstars. Nobody should have to put up with that, or should be told to grow a thicker skin. Not wanting to put up with that does not mean someone doesn't know how to code. And allowing that kind of thing in your project disproportionately tends to exclude some groups more than others.
Well getting off of disability and finding an employer that can work with your mental illness and accommodate you is like the hardest thing in the world. Many managers see mental illness as a personal weakness instead of an illness that needs treatment and support.

That is what happened at my workplace my mental illness was seen as a weakness and they tried to weed me out by picking on, bullying, and harassing me until I left the company. I had a panic attack one day and they discovered I was mentally ill. I couldn't quit because it was hard to find work at the time, and I have a wife and son and house payments.

Someone who threatens violence most likely won't end up on disability but will do things to end up in jail and await a trial. Threatening violence is threaten with intent to terrorize and a class C felony in some areas. If he does it again and the police are called, he'd face about a year in jail and mental hospitals as they try to figure out if he is fit to stand trial. If found guilty he'd spend 3 to 10 years in jail and have one strike against him in the felony section.
Interesting. I had thought the same thing.
> if response to a mouse click went from 1 to 7 milliseconds, would anybody notice it?

Considering that a frame at 60fps is ~16.7ms, YES. That's 42% of your total frame budget!

And it's not just IPC calls, either. There are many things that are less efficient when you segment things between multiple processes.

Also, you're completely ignoring / missing the point of memory use. FF (or rather, Pale Moon) is currently using >1/4 of the RAM on my laptop. And swap is (really really really really really) slow.
Loser pays is a system well-established in modern legal jurisprudence. Nearly every Western democracy, other than the United States, follows the "English" rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_%28attorney%27s_f...
ASP.NET Self Host Static File Server
There are plenty of applications in system control, when you want to estimate a variable within a system (sometimes, it's just too hard or expensive to set a sensor).

I've been close to applications that estimate the state-of-health and state-of-charge of lithium-ion batteries. I myself worked in volatility estimation of financial returns using Particle Filter (very similar principle, but usable with non-additive and/or non-Gaussian noise).

Here's some work on applications in Failure Prognosis: http://icsl.gatech.edu/aa/images/e/ed/Pfafdfp.pdf
In which case what's stopping the malicious software from replacing the official build with the sign-disabled version?

There is no way of doing this that both respects users freedoms and prevents malicious software.
Good luck with this goal.

I think we need more companies like this. Although to get a job as you are describing, I'd probably need to lose the lions share of my salary.

Then I have to ask: Should I just contract in a cubicle job for 6 months, then take 12 months off for the same amount of money over 18 months as one of these 'nice' jobs?
I would like to encourage more people to share on StackBus (FYI, I built it) on why they use RethinkDB and what they use it for, to provide more insights to those who are evaluating RethinkDB

http://www.stackbus.com/
Prior art only applies to patents, not copyrights. The preexisting publication of copies of this poem would also undercut any such attempt.

That said, the fact that one can ONLY find copies of the work by looking to 3rd parties (rather than Oracle) should undercut any arguments they try to make against discussing it for the purpose of criticism to be fair use.
These silos are the foundation of their business. No news organization is going to have the resources to cover every piece of information on the internet, so they must specialize. The alternative to this model is to have one organization control news syndication for a large number of independent contributors. This is the intent of Facebook Newsfeed, but there's little incentive for news outlets to publish to it. No matter how much money Facebook gives them, they can make more by building up their own "silo."
No, because I think Wall St. is fairly safe from the NSA in at least three ways. First, they can hire the best defensive programmers (and probably do). Second, even if they get breached, the NSA can hire the best lawyers (including plenty of ex-NSA, ex-Justice Department folk) - so it can't be used against them legally. Third, the NSA and Wall St. are fundamentally on the same team, at a very deep level.
It's a pretty big leap from lots of little parallel (and I assume 1D) FFTs to a deep learning processor. The rexcomputing chip looks like a DMA-driven systolic array with beefier data-processing units than I've ever seen before.

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

There are certainly applications for this sort of processor (embarrassingly parallel batches of small independent units of work), but I'd be highly skeptical that this guy has anything close to a "magical compiler(tm)" given his inaccurate understanding and significant underestimation of the competition. That's dangerously close to Intel's absurd "recompile and run" nonsense for Xeon Phi (It's anything but that)...
You'll be amazed at the small and mid-sized companies who don't do that to secure their network. Some even don't have an IT department and have tech savvy employees handle the network for them.

A lawyer of mine has her husband handle their network and PCs. Still running XP and Vista, using ClamAV for AV, has clients access the XP PC to watch videos and they could click on any link or browse any address when they aren't looking. You'll find a lot of small law firms work like that.
They should change their name :/
Sure I am well aware of why they need to do it. But that need is also what is hindering them from providing actual value and why things like Facebook, Pulse, Twitter etc are popular news sources and newspapers aren't
The jury found that she was, in effect, crying wolf. The evidence against her claims of discrimination was overwhelming, to the point where the jury felt she should be responsible for KP's legal costs.
Reflections:+We+love+celebrity+break+ups
Hacking together a homebrew 3D camera
Perhaps this is a stupid question, but why is it called a _filter_? To me it just seems like a (very clever) linear projection.
>>Professors have a lot of people to answer to

Nope. The agencies you mentioned effect their ability to grow, their formal employer is the University. If their research goes to hell they can teach a class and make the same amount of money. Sometimes their students are completely free (TAs).

Having seen professors give projects they know dont work and falsify work under vagious euphemisms, they are the problem with academia - they provide little value but somehow run the show. This is especially true for less mathematically difficult fields like biology.
If you rotate the triangular grid, you get an isometric grid, which is nice for sketching 3d models
Hi Hendry! It's Josie Tam from the video. About the standardisation, we are already working with selective professionals from the industry and improving.
I did a double take at this headline because I just listened to the This Week In Startups episode [1] about this company yesterday. You wouldn't have gotten the impression the company could have gone out of business in a week after listening to that.

1: http://thisweekinstartups.com/maren-kate-donovan-zirtual/
Cisco has the stereotype (at least here in the South Bay) that it has almost only Indian employees. There is also the idea that since Cisco hired so many Indians, it is now no longer considered an American company (I don't seem to be able to find the link anymore). Finally, there is the rumor that Indians only hire Indians. So after all these stereotypes you would think Cisco would have an Indian CEO.

Here are some links:
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-bias-among-Indians-of-hir...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1831365/posts
Interesting to see excitement over new features which I am not aware of.

I would like to encourage more people to share on StackBus (FYI, I built it) on why they use PostgreSQL and what they use it for, to provide more insights to those who are evaluating PostgreSQL.

http://www.stackbus.com/
Great point lol. You might find the link below interesting, esp difference between redactions. Crypto AG's willingness to subvert equipment isn't debatable at this point. Courtesy of my fellow high-security engineer and friend Clive Robinson.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33676028
Would love to keep updated. There is no contact info in your HN profile.
I wonder how long until someone creates an Android client for this (one that is configurable, not hard-coded to point to the defunct Ubuntu One servers).

I'd love to run a ZFS-backed Ubuntu One server for all my family's portable devices.
Wired has exposed poor software engineering
Chat is eating the world
How is this different than Tesla?
http://blog.sfgate.com/energy/2014/02/28/tesla-from-the-brin...

It was near death yet Musk is now a SV hero?
When I worked remotely, I had a coworker that was hard to deal with (with everyone) and openly threatened in logged work chat to come to my house and shoot me in the face.

Over nothing.

He still works there. I don't. Jerknuts would flip out to HR over every minor grievance but was completely immovable from a team where everyone (including his boss) hated him. HR did nothing about his threats (which were to more than just me). Did nothing about his consistent efforts to undermine his boss and the work of the team. Did nothing about him deliberately misleading and trolling his coworkers and _our customers_.
> If you're attempting to bring people around to your point of view, you're going to repeatedly have the same argument, because you're constantly going to be encountering new people who need to be convinced. If you don't want to do that, perhaps political activism isn't for you.

Granted. I've certainly spent a pile of time commenting in this thread, and none of it was new. But just as it's reasonable to link to a FAQ rather than answer the same question for the Nth time, it's also not unreasonable to link to a detailed response to an argument rather than reiterating it for the Nth time, especially when it's far better supported and researched than something off-the-cuff.

> To be more accurate, it's a repository of refutations that GeekFeminism asserts answer the argument.

Sure. And if someone really wanted to try to argue against those points, by all means do so (in an appropriate forum and context, not on a project mailing list for instance). But ignoring those arguments because of the site they're on or the people who made them is a perfectly sensible reason to end the discussion, just as if someone said "I'm ignoring everything you just said, my arguments still hold, so there".

I'm disinclined to read a pile of arguments in favor of creationism for exactly the same reasons I'm disinclined to directly get into an argument with a creationist: there's no possible way it's worth my time to do so. If I've found myself making some set of poor life choices that led me to become involved in such a debate, then of course I'd read and respond to arguments made in it, as with any other discussion. I'd also be inclined to consider whether I'm primarily trying to convince that person, or primarily convince the set of as-yet uncommitted bystanders while writing off that person as likely a hopeless cause.
Less Than 20% of Indian Engineers Are Employable for Software Jobs
I host 4 Wordpress sites on the $5 plan without a problem. Admittedly they are pretty low traffic, but you did specify starter site. If any of the sites ever start seeing significant traffic I'll probably bump up to a 2 cpu plan and move the database to a separate instance.

None of them are mission critical or have any impact on my income, so I used my server setup as a chance to teach myself how to setup nginx.

The sites were using the bitnami image on the free AWS tier before that. No issues there either.
I like the approach drive takes, but if you are looking for full automatic sync, there is also InSync https://www.insynchq.com/ (linux client available; I've installed it from the AUR for example).
Why Machine Learning Is Like Squeezing Olives
https://github.com/kevinohashi/WordPressVPS you can take a look at the loadtest_results folder to see. I tested a lot of different configurations and plugins. The default LAMP stack which DO provides starts to struggle at 10 users. While some configs were doing fine over 1000.
This was my thought - the main use for me was D&D!
If the problem is that monied interest control policy, "getting money out of politics" doesn't solve the problem.

Look as Israel as a cautionary tale of a country that did everything right according to the liberal prescriptions. Regardless of implementing everything that Lessig calls for, monied interests still control the political system.

How does it work?

Well, take a look at Sheldon Adelson's actions. In the US, he buys his influence by being one of the biggest GOP donors. In Israel, he buys his influence by operating the largest daily newspaper (Israel Hoyim), which he runs at a loss of 20+ million a year. Israel Hoyim is the mouthpiece of the Netanyahu government. The paper never strays from the party line, in the same way that Granma never strays from party line in Cuba. This gives Adelson a tremendous amount of influence over the government. Even moreso than he's able to buy in the US. Billionaires will always find creative ways skirt the rules and buy their influence.
On the flip side, this should provide sufficient background for early SSI benefits... not that they're great at all.

In either case, I'm with the company/state on this... there's no accommodation that could have been applied that would have been shown to improved the situation and reduced risk.
I think what GP meant is that it's like the "Scroll direction: natural" option that appeared in OS X system preferences after Apple changed the default scroll behavior to match what happens on mobile devices.

I am guessing that a lot of us "see what they did there".
It's insider trading if you trade based on non-public information. So if you tell your family that your company is going to do something that will influence the stock price and they trade using that information (no matter how vague that information was) they are guilty of insider trading.
I lost my cursor, had to restart FireFox.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/zirtual-suddenly-laid-off-...

This is weird as hell.
Sun had to put out a JDK bug fix for this nine years ago ( http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-... ).
Pretty much yes.

The only thing they had to find for the judge to accept their verdict was that she hadn't proven discrimination to 51% certainty. Proving the opposite wasn't required ... but they did anyway.

Based on the jury interviews afterwards, they came to the conclusion that she hadn't supported her case because the evidence was positive that she had been fired for performance.

They had gone over her claims and reviews of her performance and found that they would have fired her too (my summary, to be clear).

She's now expressing concern over the message having to pay costs would send. I'd suggest it sends exactly the right message, she just doesn't like hearing that message.
why is most of the world still poor?
Show HN: StackBus, what stack you use, why and what you build?
https://github.com/t0x0/random/wiki/ffu2img
Why this awesome thing dont work with awesome browser ( FireFox )
>Nixon was one of the worst US presidents of the modern era

see, I disagree. I mean, I don't want to diminish his crimes, but he did a lot of good things. Nixon was responsible for Détente, I think, in ways that Reagan wasn't. Really, to the extent that Reagan deserves credit for the wall falling, he deserves credit for not screwing it up. Nixon had a lot more to do with actively turning China from being our enemy to being our workshop.

Compare that, say, to JFK, who almost started world war three. It's astonishing to me that JFK gets credit for not screwing up the Cuban missile crisis, when the Cuban missile crisis was the inevitable result of the bay of pigs, an operation he approved.

JFK was kind of insane, and if he had gone up against a soviet ruler with his level of crazy, rather than a comparatively sane Khrushchev, the east coast of the US would have been irradiated. (I mean, the CCCP would have been fucked up even more, sure; and I'm sure that's why Khrushchev backed down; we would have "lost less" as it were, but that's still losing.)

The thing to remember is that we know far more about Nixon's presidency than about any other presidency since. Now, again, this doesn't excuse Nixon's crimes, but he did voluntarily record a lot of what he did. If he acted as all modern presidents have acted, which is to say, in secret, we wouldn't have known about most of this.

I mean, I really think it is important to punish crimes when you see them happen, which is why I keep going on about how none of this excuses his crimes... but I really think he looks a lot worse than most presidents because he recorded all this stuff for posterity. For all we know, everyone since has done worse; they've just been more careful to cover their tracks.
A friend of mine was an intern for a candidate that was on the national stage for the presidential election in 2012. This was a couple years before the election. He said all of the candidate's time was fundraising. The person was almost never in the office. Money is simply everything when it comes to being re-elected.

In case it's not clear, he was a supporter of this person (their families were long-time friends), so he wasn't saying it as a derogatory thing or speaking from a negatively-biased place.
Stuff like this really brings home the feel that systemd is by programmers, for programmers, and very little else.
Oh hurrow Koa.js
Mukesh+Ambani+appointed+as+director+of+the+Bank+of+America
Yeah... That's not something I would enjoy working with. It's a nice idea, I'll add my hopes that some of the boilerplate will get removed, but I can't see myself working with this on a production app any time soon.
StackBus is my weekend project.

The purpose is to provide more insights and usage statistics when evaluating something new (server, language, framework, database, IDE, etc.).

It also double up as your online tech resume.

Hope you guys find it useful :)
Well, I'm sure everyone would approve of prosecuting the people who actually broke into the building. I just don't think the politicians ordering or supporting the break-in would find much resistance.
None of your second paragraph is computer science though, why is that a better program?
aptitude update sure is part of maintaining things up to date. One cannot rely on it exclusively due to how those updates sometimes require other changes. Plus it doesn't cover all packages. Using docker just adds another layer of complexity and possible vector of attack. For standalone wordpress installs docker is not required. Wordpress security is more of a continuous process rather than a set and forget thing due to how it's a constant target.
This should be a monthly thread, like the who is hiring threads. We should also have a monthly thread for passive income projects and side income projects that make revenue.
This is an ideal outcome for a situation where the failure of one person to do their job resulted in 400 employees losing theirs.

As CEO, it's your responsibility to understand your runway and know whether your business can afford to be operating in a month or two. If it can't, you need to reduce your burn. Depending on a last minute cash infusion to avoid telling your employees things are looking rough means you failed to do your job and run a sustainable company.
Because the bits of "not poor" exist via leveraging the cost efficiency of employing the poor.
I think it will happen sooner or later, but it will be the market force doing the work. At some point, it will become too expensive to engineer and build a vehicle that is both autonomous and human operable. Offerings will dwindle. Cheaper insurance and maintenance will accelerate people's flight to autonomous cars.