skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct links to the tweets that prompted this article.

Github - https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/633411771617832961

Ars - https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/631961638304804864
I guess I thought this was common knowledge. I've stayed away from working at Amazon for a while now based on stories from other tech people I know. It's not a top-tier place to work outside of AWS and the opportunities aren't really that great either. Maybe the pay is good? I've heard it's not competitive even.

I know how it is though - people want the stamp of a top company on their resume. They also want to succeed.

I blame the husband just a tiny bit - for not saying 'no' earlier. Ironically, he might not have been fired if he put a line in the sand earlier. He probably did underperform because he wasn't managing the manager's expectations properly.

Of course, he might have gotten fired anyway - nobody will ever know.

Work is tough - and unfortunately companies like Amazon aren't "buffering the core" very well. These are engineers who might not be good at managing expectations or managing or leadership even - but why stress them out if they're otherwise super-useful to the company? Employees who can't handle this stress but are otherwise valuable should be cradled and they'll perform better for longer - pretty simple really.
I watched my friend swap the 'm' and 'n' keys around on the two tech directors keyboards the evening he left after goodbye drinks, the next day they both had to contact the IT support department as it turns out they still look at their keyboard whilst tapping in their passwords... amazing!
I think you and me might have different definitions of "easy" ;)

But, yes, I tried, and failed horribly to get an exact replica of the <hr> of the old Netscape about window[0]. Incidentally, back then I thought the introduction of <hr noshade> was the bee's knees.

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/WZfGllF.gif
5-Week-Old Fetus Brain, in a Dish?
True, but there are plenty of idiots everywhere, including in government.
This is silly. Yes, if you're not the one paying, then you're the product. However, I do get things in return - I get to connect with people I don't get to see too often anymore and see what they're up to in their lives. Everyone and their grandma has one, so I know if I'm trying to find someone they're on there. It also reminds me of people's birthdays, which I'm pretty terrible with otherwise.

People do get things out of facebook. Why else would they be on it all the time, checking it at least a couple times a day?
The burden of proof is upon the one who makes the claim, so no it isn't the other way around.
"But, as Microsoft has substantially ramped up their work on the web platform and Edge, it now feels unfair to make them the butt of the joke."

As someone who has done Web development prior to and throughout the entire lifespan of IE6, I say: no, no it does not.

I wish the Edge team the best, and hope their application spurs more innovation and improvement in the browser space. But I (like many others) will be burdened with IE support for the foreseeable future, and see no need to temper my strong dislike for the product.
Fun Graph API fact: while it's incredibly easy for any user to scrape data off of public Facebook Pages (https://github.com/minimaxir/facebook-page-post-scraper), it is very hard to scrape personal data from people on Facebook, even if you are Friends with them or their Facebook statuses are public. Personal data is much more valuable.

I've tried multiple endpoints to do so (for data analytics purposes) and they have all failed. The only way to get data on a person is for them to opt into granting the necessary permissions for the app.
This is such a cool move from google. Doing material design in HTML/CSS/JS is pure win.

I am working on React.js components for this. I have already did half of them. Check out https://github.com/pksunkara/react-mdl. I welcome any contributions.

EDIT: Components can be seen at https://github.com/pksunkara/react-mdl/tree/master/src
Revisiting rails:update
Sure email is ios at arrowheadgrp.com
Intel demonstrates Optane, extremely fast SSD with 3D XPoint memory
Why Your Company Should Invest in Application Security
True, but giving the gov your blackmail file and giving your kid's nosy 3rd grade school teacher your blackmail file are different things. It is not difficult to imagine a person with a TS using AM, telling their boss about 'that one time' or not even worrying to tell them, having their OPM data flung to outer Bongolia, and then having this AM data bounced about. Though people should be better about updating their blackmail files at HQ.gov, they are not. These hacks in conjunction are really going to make a mess of things going forward. If you were thinking of giving the gov your blackmail file, you may be rethinking that info, as it seems to uninformed people (which are most of us on HN) that you may be better at keeping your personal secrets than the gov is. A chilling effect indeed.
Does it support Git Flow? I couldn't really tell by looking at the repo or the site.
You can't think of any reasons, or you simply don't want to?
I don't think "Edge Mode" rendering in IE11 has any relationship to the browser also named Edge. "Edge Mode" was around at least as far back as IE8. It's not the proper name of the engine.
Angular 1.x to 2 reminds me of the transition that Flash made from ActionScript2 to ActionScript3. AS2 had a bunch of newfangled conventions just like Angular and then AS3 came along and made everything more sensible. Speaking of front end frameworks though. I wonder what happened with Enyo and why that didn't take off.
I've done it for some other sites, though not recurring though. My guess is if there's enough balance on the prepaid card (for a pre-auth?), it will work.
Having moved from Scandinavia to the UK, I can tell you, ther tax rate there is quite comfortable :)

Enjoying my six figure salary and a rougly 34% tax rate (incl. National insurance).

... I am more used to 42-45%.
WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext app available
The Ecstasy of Testing
Well, one way to explain this to your girlfriend is that it is a crime to steal information, even if you are stealing it from people you don't like
Honest question: why do cheaters "deserve to be outed?".

I realize you'd be enraged if someone cheated on you. So would I. But what does it matter to you what other people do with their private lives? Do you think people struggling with alcoholism also deserve to be outed and publicly humiliated?
> You CAN quit. We are in an industry where you have to dodge recruiters trying to tackle you on your way to get coffee if you have any technical skill. Recruiters that represent companies capable of paying your mortgage and some probably well needed vacations.

Some of us can quit. Amazon employees in Seattle are probably in a better position than most in this respect, but many people in this industry are not so lucky.
>people want the stamp of a top company on their resume.

I hate how valuable stuff like this is to hiring managers. If you asked me to pick between the guy who spent a year at Amazon or the guy who ran his own startup soup-to-nuts for a year, I'd rather go with the startup guy. Its crazy that we have this informal pseudo-classist system of "people who worked at AAA shops" vs "nobodies." Are HR departments and hiring managers really this dense?
Same three yes/no questions about terrorism (though numbered differently), taking up 1/4 of a page of a 21 page document. Most occurrences of "terror" are in explanatory text (what is terrorism, etc).
I follow - in my practice, when dealing with the phrase "employment agreement" it almost always refers to an agreement with a fixed or minimum term of employment.

This is all beside the point. The central point is that an at-will employment agreement, reduced to writing or otherwise (NB: in NY State, it is explicitly the case that a contract regarding employment must be in writing if it is of an indefinite term, else it violates our statute of frauds - this has been dealt with affirmatively by the court of appeals) is definitionally terminable for any reason or no reason, at any time, without notice. In this regard, it is a type of adhesion agreement, and acceptance of each payment of consideration acts as a renewal of the agreement. As a result, its terms may be changed, at any time, by either party, where payment and acceptance of consideration acts as ratification of those terms, so long as the terms are not explicitly illegal.

This was my point. And that is the way this decision came out. It is 100% unproblematic.

Feel free to debate the semantics of whether an "employment agreement" means any contract relating to employment (is an NDA an employment agreement? What about an offer letter?) or if it can also mean a fixed or minimum term agreement (NB2: I've been involved in many labor disputes and maybe the use of "employment agreement" is dealt with as conceptually separate from "at will employment" more frequently by labor lawyers - I know that the labor lawyers I have worked with don't seem to use the two phrases interchangeably). It is not what I was arguing at all. And DannyBee got it wrong, explicitly. The judge explicitly limited the discussion to at-will employment.

To put it another way: this decision should only be surprising to someone who doesn't know about at-will employment or standard american employment practices. Having overseen the contentious separation of a dozen high level executives at my various clients, and having overseen the "employment agreements" (both at will and for fixed terms, just to be clear) for many, many dozens more, I can assure you, this decision, even if it were issued in New York, doesn't change my practice one iota.
I'm not the biggest fan of FB or for the fact that I pretty much have to use it to keep up with friends and family these days.

These are some things that you get in exchange for giving up your information:

A place to store photos
A platform to publish your photos
A communications platform (Messenger)
A platform to stay officially connected to things you "like" and their updates
Near instant publication of your brain thoughts to a curated group of people
High availability
Maintenance of connections to other people
IRL event management
Mobile and web applications to use the aforementioned
Some of the best engineering talent in the world working on the aforementioned

I think the average person does get a lot in exchange. Look at all of the other social networks that tried to solve this in the past and failed. I don't see any legitimate alternatives.
Actually there is an easy way to confirm if this dump is at least part of the AM dump: Public court records from divorce proceedings. When my cousin got divorced one of the two of them had put a key logger on the computer and one of the two of them was using the computer explicitly. It is quite possible that there are lots of records that include the term "Ashley Madison".
Once again, someone has proposed that an ad supported company offer subscriptions for exactly its revenue-per-user, without seeming to realize that not all users are equally valuable to advertise to, and only the most valuable ones will opt out.
Also, John Oliver's segment regarding this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn_Zln_4pA8

And Time's article backing it up: http://time.com/money/3819382/john-oliver-and-irs-tax-gap/
I generally prefer text, but this was a topic best explained through visuals. Works far better in video than in text.
That's... crazy! Where can I read more about this?
Why not set the bar at $2 or greater than? More than a few of us would be happy to pay for that. I definitely would for youtube.
(replying from old openid account due to rate limit)

No probs: I understand the cynicism: the SSL industry is dominated by sales and marketing giants that market snake oil like SGC and seal in search, I wouldn't trust any of them either.

There's not a lot of people who get UX and get crypto: I've got my name in RHEL and I've also built consumer facing web apps for Google and Microsoft. That's 17 years of pretty unique experience, and we launch new features every couple of weeks. If a CA tries to follow - and they will - bring it, we'll smoke them.

Your final point is accurate.
Sounds horrifying - human brain grown outside of a body. But its only actually a few cells, with absolutely no capacity for higher function. Not materially different from a worm or insect brain.

But what next? A viable brain with vascular system? Down this road come serious questions about mortality and the nature of humanity.
Lots of people don't care about that crime. Look at this thread!
The leak contains credit card transactions associated with the cardholder's name. Could those be faked? I suppose. You have a 1/9999 chance of guessing the right 4 digits of someone's credit card.
I think this has been around for a little while. I remember seeing it pop up on my feed.

I think it's a great idea, but a lot of the animations are still a bit clunky (slow/choppy). Polymer still has the leg up, but this is neat for projects where you know your user base won't have access to the latest and greatest browser.
Except significantly fewer people would use it if it weren't free.
In other news:

Google should pay all of us.

Yahoo should pay all of us.

...
Ha, imagine how creeped out said people would be if the company calculated personalized fees for opting out.

"Ehhhhhh? Why am I worth $76 to them?"
I also want this option- last I checked fb earned about USD $0.95/month/person. Charge me $25/year and double profits from me.
The general point is "local direct communication is hard and unreliable". Your phone falls back to 3G - connection broken. You're on "HouseWifi" and the other device is on "HouseWifi_5Ghz" - connection broken. You have a router with a guest mode and stops guests accessing the local LAN - guest can't print or chromecast or whatever.
I love your idea for Free Code Camp. I love it so much that I did the same thing a few years ago.

Unfortunately, after approaching and talking to dozens of nonprofits, we gave up. The Boards of NPOs tend to be highly egotistical, highly possessive morons. I can't tell you how many times we weren't allowed to fix an awful website because it had been a Board member's pet project done by one of their friends or relatives. Or, in many cases, the Managing Director just wouldn't give up control.

I hope you have better luck. I've now worked with two industries I'll never work with again -- restaurants and nonprofits.
"The website's existence itself is -- at the very best -- ethically and morally questionable". I vehemently disagree with this statement. Why is it morally and ethically questionable to facilitate private individuals finding sexual partners? Perhaps it's questionable according to your moral code, but society is not run on your personal moral code, thankfully
This is great. Batteries could at last hold sentimental value as we pass them on to our children. "my granddaddy gave this battery to my daddy, who gave it to me before he died" etc.

Seriously, when I think about battery tech advancement, I think about all those millions of people doing it tough in temporary communities and camps with limited power resources and inadequate infrastructure. I don't get tired of hearing about new battery tech.
Step 1: Have the right neuro chemical balance. Everything else flows from that as a consequence of confidence, not a cause of confidence.
It's good to be developing chemicals better than Deet, considering most Dermatologists would never use the stuff.
Yes, it was released last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9840682

I'm looking into using MDL for a redesign for my blog. Some of the layouts (e.g. the navigation and cards) seem more efficient than using Bootstrap.

> Polymer still has the leg up, but this is neat for projects where you know your user base won't have access to the latest and greatest browser.

MDL only loses support for IE9, which a) has a low market share b) will drop market share further as Win7 users upgrade to Win10 and c) heavy-duty websites have been dropping support.
also here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10085093
Thats simply not true. Tcl was pretty heavy in the 90s, but its always been comparable to Perl, and slightly better than python. I would be EXTREMELY curious to see what TCL version you were running, and for what values of sin/cos.
EDIT: Here is a benchmark that shows TCL/Lua both in a good light for hash table lookups.
http://playcontrol.net/opensource/LuaHashMap/benchmarks.html
OnePlus 2 Review
I'm sure this article "The Outsiders" from the Prometheus society has been posted here before:

216.224.180.96/~prom/oldsite/articles/Outsiders.html

Summary: it's well known that high IQs are linked to maladjustment in later life.

I sort of question if this 'bipolar' diagnosis is really a true bipolar disorder, or just an observed similarity between bipolar traits and high IQ thinking patterns.

Acute awareness and overdeveloped imagination can lead to exceptionally strong emotions about things that wouldn't even register to "normal" people (highly gifted children are often noted for some strange things like hypersensitivity to touch and color as well as both the intensity _and passing speed_ of their emotions). Simultaneously hyper-rationalization can cause those emotions to be checked rather forcefully even to the extend of flat affect (ala "Ender"). I wonder if the exterior effect could be seen as irrational mood swings, especially from a multi-choice survey...

It is a little frustrating that the sample is an extremely limited 22-23 years of age... I imagine that this age group is far more prone to _self-report_ behaviors that could be interpreted as bipolar behavior as it's a relatively unstable period of life to begin with, especially for gifted students who will selectively be entering high pressure job markets as opposed to their less competitive peers who will be settling into long-term careers.

Also, 10 IQ points is less than one standard deviation from the norm (a SD of IQ being defined as 15 points), so perhaps "above average intelligence" is a bit more accurate than "high intelligence" (I think 2 standard deviations is when you start talking about "gifted"ness). It would be interesting to see the wings of the distribution, although a sample of just 2000 would likely not spread much light there.
Wait, did you do freecodecamp.com or a similar idea on your own? The camp sets me up with the nonprofits.

http://www.freecodecamp.com/nonprofits/directory
Isn't that already the reality for plenty of commercial enterprises, where certain licenses are avoided like the plague? Licensing is an unfortunate form of yak shaving that everyone must get around.

Considering the alternative is conducting research on top of intrinsically obscurantist proprietary software, the trade-off might well be worth it.
And, in many places people don’t use most of these features, but Facebook still collects Shadow-Profiles of them.

At least for shadow profiles Facebook should pay.
If you come from an OO and/or typed language background and TypeScript looks wonderful to you, I think it definitely is.
Luckily, most of the entire human race agrees with me.

Maybe you don't think it's inherently unethical to cheat on your partner. But it is certainly an act of questionable morality. In fact, it is literally illegal in many states: "Adultery isn't just a crime in the eyes of your spouse. In 21 states, cheating in a marriage is against the law, punishable by a fine or even jail time."

You, and all of the other moral relativists can tell me I'm an extremist, or a purist, but basically I just believe in justice. You cheat, you deserve to get caught. You run a site for cheaters, you deserve to get hacked.
what was unfair about it?
While it is possible to capture some value from data; like heat; most of that data does not actually have value until it is captured.
Also, even though I also think it is irrelevant distinction between miniatures and board games - I'd like to add that Zombicide is not a typical miniatures game. Also, the recent successful Ghostbusters game, which plays very similarly, is not a typical miniatures game. If you look how games like Warhammer are played vs. games like Zombicide, there is a clear distinction in complexity and duration of the game.

In any case, there are more than a few publishers outside of CMON doing well using KS as a vehicle for promotion and pre-orders. Eagle & Gryphon Games and Tasty Minstrel Games are my favorites to watch. A friend of mine actually had a game published by E&G through a Kickstarter, it would likely have never been finished without Kickstarter.

The renaissance is in the fact that we can have great games made by people who like to play great games - and not just rehashed stuff from Milton and Bradley. These are all definitely not games that would have been picked up by large publishers and sold at your local Target. With that said, many of them have been picked up by games stores, B&N, and others. Which I think is fantastic.
Have you tried a non-API reliant way? Like Selenium?
Debugging remote webhooks with ngrok and Visual Studio
I'm actually happy this happened.

When the private conversation of Donald Sterling was leaked..it didn't matter..because morally, he did something wrong and needed to have everything taken away from him.

When it was leaked that the Mozilla CEO donated a small amount of money to a cause that angered the left, it didn't matter how we got the information. He was bullied online (and offline) until he resigned.

When Wikileaks leaked the locations of covert soldiers in foreign countries, we had many people here on HN saying it doesn't matter if they even get killed..they shouldn't have been there in the first place. I was down voted and silenced for saying anything contrary to this or even having an opinion on it that didn't fit the narrative.

But somehow, because it probably effects people here on HN (and cheating isn't really a problem), it draws the line.

So, to me, this is justice. If you cheat and don't use a fake name...and your spouse/boss/newspapers/family find out that you are on this list. It's your own fault and you deserve what you get.

Let this be a lesson to you all: You should protect the rights of everyone, even if you don't agree with what they are saying. Otherwise, people like me won't protect your rights when the same thing happens to you.

If want the bullying to stop for being gay...it's a little absurd that a person with a different set of religious beliefs than your own deserves to get bullied in the same way (and it's justified).

In fact, I might just make a website that utilizes all of the data and cross-references Facebook, family, friends, etc...or a bot that automatically contacts them. To make it easier to find out if your spouse is cheating. It's similar to how the GNU uses the existing system to promote freedom.

This should bring about a discussion about privacy and why bullying someone online and destroying personal lives (or firing someone) for a person's lifestyle or opinions is not good for society and is wrong.
I don't have a FB account and I get all those things. I also don't feel like "Some of the best engineering talent in the world working on the aforementioned" is a compelling reason to give away my personal information.
I also started the same thing a few weeks ago but I chose a different approach. I decided to use their `upgradeElement` function to upgrade the component, instead of re-writing everything.
https://github.com/tleunen/react-mdl
I went to a conference last month where software vendors would do an RFID scan of your conference badge.

My coworker (I do not have facebook) had companies that had scanned his badge show up on his Facebook advertisement feed the next day.

To me, this was the real eye opener. Facebook doesn't just sell to advertisers the promise of groups of users. They can offer to sell to you, specifically, by name if they want to.