skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Next time, consider having a buy-sell agreement, vesting, options rather than shares, etc. irrespective of which side of the transaction you are on.

Huh? Based on the situation described by the OP, it sounds like he or she owns shares outright, possibly free of any major restrictions. This is the very best scenario a (former) employee will ever be in because the company has far less leverage.

Buy-sell agreements, vesting and options almost always work against the interests of employees and former employees.
This depends on what you mean by "trade barrier". Is a labeling law a trade barrier? I don't believe that it is. The Canadian objection to the US food labeling laws seems misguided to me, for the same reason that opposition to California's GMO labeling proposals seems misguided. My solution to this is to radically reduce federal power (basically back to what the founders intended). That would let the states decide whether they want ag-gag laws, and also whether they want to mandate "made in an ag-gag state" labeling. Seems fair to me. Apparently seems fair to you, too. So why are we commenting on a federal court decision?
Weird. I just checked one of my client's accounts as well and it works for them as well.

What happens when you go to this page:

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/

If you are logged in to your AWS account there should be a button for Select an AWS Support Plan. Choose the Basic (free). Then if you are in the AWS dashboard, in the upper right, the Support dropdown should have a link to the Support Center which allows you to open new cases.

Do you currently have any AWS services running? Maybe the free support only works if you have a service currently running. I can't see why, but that is the only reason I can think of why it may not work for you.
Hover.com resetting our passwords due to precautionary measure
Got this email today and I also noticed it on their site: NEW: If you're having trouble logging in to your Hover account, please reset your password.

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Dear Hover Customer,

We are writing to let you know that we reset your password today. If you are unable to log into your Hover account, you will need to use the “I forgot my password” option on the sign in page to change your password.

We did this as a precautionary measure because there appears to have been a brief period of time when unauthorized access to one of our systems could have occurred. We have no evidence at all that any Hover accounts have been accessed, but even the possibility that this could have happened moved us to err on the side of extreme caution.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,

The Hover Team
Do these tools violate the YouTube TOS?

Has anyone found a solution for building your own YouTube powered mobile app with Chromecast support? It seems the only way to do this is to use a tool like this to cast the raw video URL.
No. Electric cars that charge on fossil fuels face the Carnot cycle loses exactly once, just like internal combustion ones. They are competing on what are details when compared to another cycle.
We analyze spending across a large number of US consumers. It’s anonymized, so we couldn’t tell either way!
Is it possible that in healthy environments where people are valued and value each other as people they are capable of behaving ethically and responsibly?
Daily Kos moved to Oakland
>. We were only able to fully resolve it by using an obscure section of the 172.16.0.0/12 range.

This is exactly why I use 172.16.104.0/21 as my home network range. Almost no one else does so it makes things really easy when I VPN home from a hotel somewhere.
There have been several (mostly in Canadian television, of course), but "the québecois accent" isn't really a single thing. Depending on how you want to split it up, there are somewhere between three and six (or seven) regional Frenches in the area with different sound systems, and that results in a rather broad range of accents in English. I grew up in a part of Northern Ontario that was at least 50% francophone, with English as the "high language" (extending education in French past the 9th grade was a recent innovation), and it wasn't hard to spot the "immigrants" (people who had moved in from another part of Canada) by accent - almost to the street if they were Montrealers.
Rotating doesn't alter the probability density of the length function, and I suppose that's one reading of what I wrote, but it's not what I meant.

This method has different probability density from the random-center and random-endpoints methods. That's the whole point of the exercise: you get different probability density across the chord space depending on how you select from it.
The German Grundgesetz even puts all those basic rights right at the beginning and not just in the amendments.
This is not a new thing: their Inbox app automatically picks up my amazon purchases and tracks its progress. The items show up with a picture of the item inline as well, which I thought was a rather nice touch. It also picked up emails from Eat24/Yelp and showed them with the restaurant's own photo of the item I ordered, which is rather astonishing. Nice job, whoever implemented that
Likewise, are all of these dismissals of Netflix's policy backed by data rather than anecdotes?
What's unethical about taking them at their word that vacation is "unlimited"?
You'd guess so, but the books picture a different story. As Geralt himself explains, Witchers are relics of the past and they basically undermine their own livelihood (i.e. by hunting monsters they leave less work for them to find). In the portrayed world, monsters are becoming extinct, same as witchers themselves.

And despite what service they do to people, they are viewed as freaks (since they are mutants) and are marginalized by the society. So earning a living is not an easy thing for a witcher.

Graphical illustration of that concept: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/merely-tolerated
Could you share the question with us?

Forgive my skepticism, but I have been battle-hardened by some pretty bad horror stories.

I work at a Big 4, we see a lot of fresh graduates coming in every weeks or so.

To give you an idea of how bad it can be: a group of technical recruiters took the decision to "tweak" one of the interview questions we are asking during on-sites. They thought the change was benign when in fact it made the problem NP-hard, which is you know... pretty "tough" to solve under 45 minutes (or without a lab, a research team and 20 years). Of course, all of them were baffled by the fact that none of the candidates were performing well on this "trivial" question.

It took us three engineers, and two interviewees to make them acknowledge, and understand their mistake.

A big waste of time for everyone.
wow. what a piece of shit.
You don't seem to directly reject any of my points, you haven't heard of rape racks, yet artificial insemination (AI) accounts for 75% of all animal agriculture pregnancies[1]. And sure, government subsidies specifically for the dairy industry may be floors as you say, but farm subsidies help ensure milk stays at close to half the cost it would be otherwise somehow[2].

As for selective breeding, I sure am impressed by the three fold increase in milk production! Sure, it's selective breeding, but that takes a huge toll on the animal, we don't consider its effect on the animal beyond its ability to live to give us that milk. Once again, we treat them as objects rather than animals that should have their own considerations. *One only needs to look as far as dog breeding to see an example of how much selective breeding can screw with an animal.

It's strange though, your post brings me close to my initial thoughts that lead me to veganism... where is a workable solution in a capitalist system where the only thing we value out of these animals is the quantity of flesh and milk we get out of them? There aren't any laws protecting them which aren't self enforced (the Animal Welfare Act explicitly excludes farm animals). I cannot agree that there is a workable solution except moving past this system, thanks for your thoughts and reply.

I've seen many posts from dairy farmers turning away from the industry and going vegan, becoming champions for the cause, you seem like a nice and reasonable person, hope someday to see you in the tofu aisle!

[1] http://polyland.calpoly.edu/topics/agriculture/studentsites/...

[2] http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/1206/Milk-for-7-a....
I'd guess there have been attempts to do something like this in most fields, and this is one of the few that worked. Why?

One hint may be in http://plato.stanford.edu/info.html#policies

"Contributions to the Encyclopedia are normally solicited by invitation from a member of the Editorial Board. However, qualified potential contributors may send to the Principal Editor or an appropriate member of the Editorial Board a proposal to write on an Encyclopedia topic, along with a curriculum vitae."
"By qualified, we mean those persons with accredited Ph.D.s in Philosophy (or a related discipline) who have published refereed works on the topic of the proposed entry..."

Also perhaps http://plato.stanford.edu/info.html#copyright .
I don't know how much non-cs academics think about copyright and licensing, but as most accomplished academics are authors, I am guessing it may matter to them that they keep ownership.

"Copyright Notice. Authors contributing an entry or entries to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, except as provided herein, retain the copyright to their entry or entries. By contributing an entry or entries, authors grant to the Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University an exclusive license to publish their entry or entries..."

This is just one facet of course. I'm sure there are many other factors such as possibly the stature of the Stanford lab, and particular personal relationships and technical skill of those involved, good timing, etc. I'd be very curious to hear from those with personal knowledge of the details.
"Part of hitchBOT’s mission was to study how to create anthropomorphic robots that human beings can react to, empathically, so that when a person comes to work and finds a glorified garbage can with a Samsung Galaxy for a head at his or her desk, they don’t react by demolishing it and throwing it out the window. Or, at least, they feel badly after demolishing it." - @netw3rk
I have the basic plan selected.

When I go here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home?region=us-east-1...

and choose technical support. the textarea for the support question disappears.

It says this:
At the Basic Support level, you can create account and billing support cases and service limit increase requests, but you cannot create technical support cases. For information about features and pricing of support plans that include technical support cases, one-on-one technical assistance, and additional support resources, see AWS Support.

This is rather surprising as there are many basic technical support questions that should be resolved without a 50 fee.
Is it still being developed? I see a funding campaign from 2013 and no recent code commits.
to a very small number of engineers, maybe. to most of us, no.
This and other things have sold me into applying to netflix. However, looking at your job openings, EVERYTHING has "senior" on it or "director". Literally, go check it out: https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs
Does that mean I'm automatically disqualified because I am only just graduating college?
Ooo! Something I can comment on!

I fired up Redline a few months ago, attempting to "evaluate it" for a potential work project - day job is writing connectivity solutions for an enterprise search engine using a an in-house Java framework, with actual implementations in both Java and Scala. I used Smalltalk for a few classes in college in the mid-2000s and jumped at the opportunity to see how it went for this little test.

Redline needs some TLC. The basics are there, but it seems like much of the standard library is not yet implemented. It'd be really awesome to see it come up to speed, and I wish I had time to contribute to it myself.
Microsoft selects Interana to improve Bing performance
Chapp – IRC alternative
Apt-Get for Windows – OneGet and Chocolatey on Windows 10
Nothing says globalization like the swap ability of international teaching styles.
Cory Doctorow: Why I'm Leaving London
I got the same.
The Lexus Hoverboard: The Story
How would you solve to propose the growing need for IP addresses and the hard limit imposed by IPv4? It seems like increasing the address space is an absolute necessity, and I see no way to accomplish it without hurting the ability to memorize and type them proportionally.
It's an attack on privacy expectations.

There are at least two ways to escalate from here:

- One if agent forwarding is enabled.
- Another: learning details like people's names is often a first step in social engineering.
See also:

http://blog.scholarpedia.org/2013/11/04/wikifying-scholarly-...
I bought a tablet awhile back, not really knowing what I'd use it for, but thinking that it might encourage/inspire new things. In practice, I found only one extremely limited use for it. The 10" screen, turned vertical, most approximates paper books (compared to a phone, e-reader, or widescreen monitor). For textbooks, or other ebooks that need layout and color, it's good, and convenient that I don't need to be at the desk. But that's it. That's the only thing it's good for.

If I'm just reading a text-based ebook, then an e-ink reader is better, even with the smaller screen. If I'm wandering around somewhere, the phone is more portable. If I'm doing anything that requires an actual user interface more sophisticated than 'tap', then a laptop or desktop is better.

As a consumer device, I found the tablet to be a solution without a problem. It excelled at nothing. It wouldn't surprise me if tablets drop back to specific industrial/commercial uses where a laptop/chromebook is too inconvenient and a phone is too small.
It will probably work. But it seems like you are increasing the attack surface here: the current method gets the list of keys once, and if github isn't compromised at that very instant in time, you are safe. Your proposed method relies on trust in github at all times.
What a great thread - from one Canuck to all of you - "How's it goin' eh?"
I mean any sort of trade barrier. E.g. California can ban imports from Idaho unless Idaho repeals right to work laws. The problem with federalism as implemented in the U.S. is that the method of apportioning votes gives small rural states disproportionate influence while the Commerce Clause neuters the ability of large states to use their natural economic leverage to the benefit of thei citizens.

You should either have one nation, with everyone getting one vote, or a collection of nation states that can use their full range of natural advantages against other nation states.
Interesting. I'll check it out, but unless I can get the same level of integration, super-fast file loads and searching, and parity with packages... I'm likely to not be a convert.
Really cool... Now we just need longer Lambda execution times (current limit is 60s) and a proper crontab. For a complete auth flow you can also check:

https://github.com/danilop/LambdAuth

It would be nice to integrate some ideas from LambdAuth into JAWS.
Yay! Just what the world needs is another proprietary closed source chat system. Assuming its closed anyway, nothing yields source on Google, and the actual web site is down.

IRC works just fine.
A DOS is especially annoying, if the attacker needs to burn less resources than the defender.
> in some misguided attempt to reclaim privacy that never existed in the first place

From the Guidelines: "Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation."

With a face-to-face conversation you have better privacy after the conversation is over than you do on HN. I would prefer a forum that offers this privacy. I'm ready to join one.
this idea is terrible
> the film has been redubbed constantly to attack other operations -- even tho they weren't filmed.

But.. filming the others was made illegal.
So, wait, was the destruction of the robot orchestrated by the creators or some people in Philly?
It was a fraud! A terrible fraud.

http://factually.gizmodo.com/vloggers-faked-a-surveillance-v...
It was killed due to user flagging. I'm pretty sure that was because it was a duplicate, in the sense that the story had already had a major discussion.
Slightly less so. But they can still trick you into signing something different than what you'd expect.
It's an interesting approach at controlling the signal to noise ratio. Unfortunately, my experiments with that sort of thing over at reddit show me that blocking some people and "following" others isn't all that effective. People are dynamic. They have hot days and cold days, interesting days and not so interesting days. I've started looking into machine learning to see if I can train it to recognize what I consider a "good" post based on the word content of the post. I haven't gotten it to work yet. :P
Might be an interesting indicator of increasing paranoia in our increasingly connected media saturated society.

Found this article, but maybe there is some more recent research out there.
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/paran...
How to write the perfect pull request
For the same reason it makes sense for everyone to collectively to pay for public schools, including those who do not have kids.

In places where population growth is not a concern, such as in the U.S. where birth and deaths are at equilibrium, those who have and raise children and do it at least reasonably well are producing positive externalities[1]. And the better the children are raised and educated, the more the positive[2]. Policies like Netflix's thus benefit society as a whole.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Positive

[2] The flip side is that when children are raised poorly, be it the fault of the parent or the society that sets the parent up for failure, it turns negative.
But they do not have the same feature sets. And PostgreSQL trivially be tuned to work almost like an in-memory database.
> And without a lot of work, single-factor.

Wouldn't a passphrase be a second factor?

By the way, we use a security fob at work for that. Seems to work fairly well. The private key never leaves the fob, you have to press a button to sign anything, and every once in a while you have to enter your passphrase.
Just out of curiosity - would you be interested in open source chat similar to this one, made with pytnon?

What would it take for people to switch from IRC to a website like this?

Are there some pain points of IRC that can be solved?

Because personally I like chapp a lot more than irc, and I would be happy to use a system like this, especially if it gets more developed/popular. I think it can be a lot more beautiful, have a lot of cool features, and open irc to more mainstream communities.

So I'm wondering, is everyone in tech community averse to this and will prefer to use IRC, or is there a space for a startup here?
There are no valid points in the article to argue against. Read the article again. This isn't some "oh well I wish they were working on clean water" post. It's "these out of touch elitist assholes will be lined up on the wall when it all comes crumbling down". That's something a paranoid fool would say. Calling it out as simplistic and being dismissive of it is the proper response imho.
> "That's intentionally not expandable, because they want some way to make your old device obsolete."

This only makes sense if they were increasing storage capacity year over year - but this hasn't been the case for a while.

We've been on the 16/32/64GB system for a preeeetty long time now.

Storage isn't being expanded because the demand for local storage is decreasing for most users - where someone used to sling around gigs of music it's now streamed on-demand. Ditto videos.

Expandability isn't prioritized because most users who bought the old expandable devices never used it, and it creates user confusion when they use it without knowing what they're doing - the lack of an explicit file system in tablet UX means that users don't keep tabs on where their apps/data actually live and then get confused when they eject the memory card.

Expandable storage sadly has always been a niche, power-user feature.

Planned obsolescence is sometimes a thing, but in this case it seems reaching.
You can get most of the benefit you would get from disabling fsync by just disabling synchronous_commit. Disabling synchronous_commit means that fsyncs are still doen but we do not wait for them to complete.
It's sad how rare authoritative, free resources are on the web. It's cliche to say how incredible an opportunity the Internet presents to share the world's knowledge, but the most valuable knowledge, the serious scholarship, is effectively withheld from the public. Imagine how some debates would change if more authoritative resources were easily accessible (I don't want to exaggerate the value of 'authority', but it's a much better starting point than Wikipedia) and cited with a link, such as in HN discussions. Partly as a result the Internet is mostly rumor and popular notions, not knowledge.

I've even turned to SEP for mathematical concepts (to the extent it covers math), for example, because there is no free authoritative resource in that field.
Not only a different key-pair per server, but also per session.
How much of it was a fraud? The whole project? The destruction of the robot? Or was that part all true, and just the video was fake?
Ask HN: Selling out?
I've had a passion for development almost as long as I can remember. Growing up I remember sitting on my dads lap while he was trying to teach me fortran (I was 5 so you can imagine how well that went, he is a patient man). I always knew I would do something with software development but I imagined pioneering or inventing something awesome. But the older i've gotten the less of that spark I see in myself. I have done very well by standards, I have a senior position at a large financial firm, i've written a full stack framework that gets around 1000 unique users a day internally and runs about 80 applications. I also make very good money ~200k/yr, with potential to increase further. I am not saying this to brag, I am just seeing my time turning into more of teaching others how to develop and mentoring than doing the cool stuff that I used to do. I see myself going into more of a manager role that's fighting to keep developing. I recently turned down a very generous offer from a startup because I was worried it was too risky. It was always my dream to work in a startup. Maybe im just getting old. I dont know if this is a bad thing. I'm starting to imagine that maybe there are more things in life than software development, there was a time when I couldn't imagine doing anything else. Has anyone been in my shoes? Maybe I am just burnt.
Any non-senior SDET type positions?
That is the exact opposite of my experience of Chinese markets (Beijing/Xian). Asking in English is quoted at a markedly higher price than asking in Chinese. Not to mention that it is haggling-based, and final price was even more dramatic when using Chinese vs English.