skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
isn't there already plenty of software involved in starting your car that could have bugs and prevent it from starting? I don't think an embedded reaction time test is that hard to get right compared to the software that has to deal with the engine internals and so on.
+1. Getting on the soapbox... It's more sad than anything. Maybe some of the poly world is looking at this and thinking, "See? I told you!" and maybe feeling smug about the outing of hypocrites. What we really have here are people who for whatever reason can't, won't, or don't go down the road of consensual non-monogamy but their desires and needs don't go away so some of them cheat. I think that's wrong, not because it's immoral, but because they're engaged in lying, breaking trust, and hurting other people. The dispersal of the account information is also hurting people and providing a salacious topic for gossip when it's none of anyone's business but the people involved. It's not my or anyone else's obligation to out someone who avoided the communication, risk, and work for the consensual part of non-monogamy but I believe I should avoid that person because they are not trustworthy and show a lack of concern for other people. Exposing them publicly to prejudice and ridicule confirms the worst attitudes about sex and love.

Sorry for the throwaway, my relationship status is no secret to family, friends, and colleagues but I don't want my private life public.
"Internet dating consultancy"

what a world
I haven't had any issues with windows 10. What are people doing that is causing problems?
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So you are saying employees can't contribute to their 401(K) until after 3 years of employment, but then are fully vested?That doesn't sound right. How do you know this?
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It definitely is so. What authority do I have to talk about economics or law? Shouldn't I leave that to the people who do know what they are talking about?

Kind of a central problem in democracy, if you think about it.
You're basically making the case that, if you have nothing to fear, you should have nothing to hide. But, replacing "fraudsters" with "terrorists" or "online weed dealers" in your comment states the law enforcement and intelligence community case against personal privacy pretty clearly.

I think that, in practice, it's about whether or not social media sites and search engines should be forced to maintain a market on personal data to serve as a crowdsourced proxy for state-sponsored surveillance.
If you're going to biology, absolutely strict monogamy is not really part of our package. But, some sort of monogamy (or pairing) is almost certainly. Culture makes these rules, not biology and culture is pretty malleable in this regard.

Your great grandmother might have had a much more forgiving reaction to this infidelity stuff as a lot of people today. She probably thought girls having extra marital relationships some lasting days and some lasting years (as is normal today) as immoral trollop behavior.

Side note on evolutionary monogamy:

A lot of birds are monogamous. A lot of foundational zoologists were Victorians so they saw eye-to-eye. There were a lot of studies of avian reproductive behavior for the entirety of the modern scientific period. Recently, DNA tests on nestlings revealed that birds cheat. The reason Victorians (and other later) rarely picked up on it is because they're so damn sneaky about it. It's a no no in bird marriages, but they still do it.
> http://pxc-coding.com/portfolio/donotspy10/

This one looks interesting but I'd be wary of using it unless source code was available.

The site it is hosted on doesn't appear to have much in the way of info about the author or anything either.
As a successful polyamorous person, I find the whole thing kind of amusing.
All jokes and sexist comments aside, how does this really improve productivity? Wouldn't this be more of a distraction?
Maybe don't marry someone who will divorce you simply because your name is on a list?
> We’ve been watching HTML5 impede on Flash for a while

I don't think 'impede' means what TechCrunch think it means…

Also, when I visited their home page I got an 'Install Flash plugin?' dialogue…
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I would recommend an article by George Magnus called "The Chinese model is nearing its end", which was printed in the FT on Friday. You can bypass the paywall if you Google for it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10108955
Could be a dead cat bounce:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce
I wrote a similar tool for Digital Ocean a couple of years ago, for the same reasons! Improving CLI UX is shooting fish in a barrel, few designers seem to care about the non-web experience.
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Re: conservation biology, Google sent me to Society for Conservation Biology Career Center: http://careers.conbio.org/
The demographic shift angle doesn't make sense. The boomers are slowly exiting the workforce, sure-- on an individual basis, as they can choose to retire at different times. Many are having to defer retirement or not retire. This isn't an orderly mass exit, it's a trickle.

Millenials are a far larger generation than the boomers, and are rapidly leaving college and attempting to enter the workforce-- 100% of them are trying to enter the workforce at the same time, immediately after graduation day. The fact that labor participation rates haven't stabilized or even increased in response to their population level attempts to enter the workforce shows that there really are not enough jobs to go around.

Jobs lost in the early depression haven't returned, and there are many more people out and about looking for them now than there were before. Boomers are retiring, but their children are desperate to take their place, which isn't actually possible.
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>It sounds like you're pretty bitter about something or other.

What did they say that made them sound bitter? I often see this response for points similar to the one GP made, so I was wondering what about it makes one seem bitter?
Ah, that's great to know it didn't break dual-boot. I've been holding off on updating dual-boot machines until I heard from someone else. Thanks for letting us know!
I agree. I think Microsoft picked up on that seeing as though they gave all Windows 7 and 8.1 users 1 year to make their decision.
We have a democrat who is president, and who took over after a crisis during the term of a republican. (never mind that he was part of the cause of the crisis with his 1990s era "not lending to people who can't repay is racist" lawsuit against banks)... so the liberals of HN are highly motivated to believe that democrats are "responsible" and that they have "fixed the economy" after republicans "wrecked it".

So when you point out that the king has no clothes, naturally you get downvoted.

The current mess of the US economy is due to the choices of many politicians, in congress and the presidency, from both parties. Neither party should get a passing grade in this regard.

This is why we need the government out of the economy, and let it work. Hell if it weren't for government the bad banks would have failed in 2008-- and we would have had a real recovery afterwards.
Bubble? http://i.imgur.com/lQt3Ylr.jpg
I was just in India, working at a startup and doing recruiting, and it varies extremely widely. It's not the most relevant to this thread, but here's what I found:

- Fresh out of a top college at a large firm: 5Lk/yr ($7.5k USD)

- Shown yourself to be good, at a small startup, one or two years out of college: 10-15Lk/yr ($15k-$22k USD)

- mid-20's developer at top-notch tech firm: 20-30Lk/yr, can go higher ($30k-45k USD)

- engineering manager or top engineer at a top startup: 30-45Lk/yr ($45k-67k USD)

- VP, CTO, etc - 50-60Lk/yr ($75k-90k USD)

- it can go up from there, I've heard of 1crore+ salaries...

Lk = Lakh = 100,000 rupees.

Crore = 10 million rupees.

Note that about 15-20Lk would provide a similar lifestyle to that of a young in SF earning $100k USD, by my estimation (nice apt in the center of the city, going out to nice restaurants & pubs regularly, uber & food delivery daily, etc).

Also note that there are extremely few Indian developers on Toptal currently (I have no idea why). Maybe two or three in the entire network. There are also relatively few American developers (I'm not sure if it provides much value if you're a well-connected American developer; it's more helpful if looking for quality clients is a problem).

EDIT: Just wanted to add that the weekly rate I was paid on Toptal (they charge/pay weekly) for part-time work, ~20h/wk, was in the "engineering manager or top engineer at a top startup" range – in other words, way above the top 1% of developers in India. So I would say it can compare extremely favorable, but then developers set their own rates on Toptal so not everyone would earn as much.
Until an official, signed, mandatory update from Microsoft installs something worse.
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Finally we're getting started in that direction, I knew it was possible. Sometimes I wish I were a freaking hardware engineer :)
Is the society in the west changed so much that people condemn people using this service? i know that cheating is bad and blah blah... but atleast in my countty entire telebision serials is completely based on second wife/hidden wife and etc... so i beleive in my society the occurance extra marital affair may be more(my personal view). But would wife consider a husband cheater just because his id was on AM site? Woukld you in the western culture consider a person on chaturbate also same like cheater? How about people who think and masturbate? and what happens when some more sites data leakes like this and people take it as Nuisance
You're painting an incredibly immature picture of how real relationships work.
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Well, at this point everyone is expecting them to raise rates, so not raising would, in effect, be doing something.
Here's one job that might be open: Photographer for the BBC. Article features one corny stock image + 3 webcam myspace shots?
Central bank bubble.
It's funny, but my gripes with linux aren't the UI.. I use an Ubuntu Server VM via SSH most of the day... my desktop is windows, my laptop is OSX, and the computer I use the most not working is my Ubuntu HTPC (Unity)... I actually like Windows 7's UI the most.. though 10 is tolerable after disabling all the damned search options.

That said, every single time I've tried to use a Linux OS either as my primary laptop or desktop OS I experience significant problems that no end user should have to deal with... the last time, I added a drive after install... the system updates included an update to grub.. next reboot, wouldn't even load... after 3 days of setting up my environment, applications, vmware, etc, etc... I can't even fucking boot.

The time before that I couldn't get both monitors to work... twice before that I picked recommended hardware for linux support (straight intel graphics) and hit weird regressions when the OS updated on one, and the other just some wierd suspend issues..

I agree "works fine" for the desktop is a huge stretch... it does appear to mostly work okay for my HTPC, except when it resumes from suspend there's no sound (fortunately it's got an ssd and reboots fast), or that if I happen to turn it on too early before the TV is on, the display doesn't come on the screen (guessing it picks the DV port instead of the HDMI)...

either way.. still stuff that's worked in windows/osx forever, without issue.
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> Capitalism at it's finest. The race to the bottom will eventually

What are you going on about? If capitalism is a race to the bottom, we would have reached it a long time ago.

Capitalism isn't new. It's been around for a while.
Lots of socialist countries are doing fine, so how can you say it "always fails"?

How does the "structure of control" needed for things like national health care contribute in any way to the "structure of control" needed to oppress citizens?
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It might hurt to read that because it pinches on the untouchable tenets, I mean, who dares to admit not being a individual free-thinker?

However, if you look behind the "smokes, you'll see he has a point. I proudly admit that I wouldn't think for myself on situations such as choosing a complex therapy. I know nothing about it; what would I do? Trust the Internet?
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Ah, this is the same LED skirt techie--I thought there was another on HN. Good on ya!
Aldo respect, this article is a waste of time. We're so obsessed with putting a number on everything - that's why the "8 glasses a day" rule exists. It's not literal. It means "drink a lot of water throughout the day and you'll feel better." Which is true. I drink tons of water and it's made a massive difference in every aspect of my life. I have no idea how much I drink daily, though. It doesn't matter. Because we're all different. Just drink more water, and stop trying to figure out that magic number by reading articles from the media that change every week.
Why was this down voted?
I love being the center of attention, and I like telling jokes and making people laugh. I'm also very introverted.
Instead of downvoting you may want to reflect on the fact that an actual story [1] got buried in 'Tech' section of the paper of record and the hear-say attack piece on Amazon went straight to front page. Front page of NYTimes is a very (very) politically hot space, don't you think? /another big wink ;)

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/technology/engineers-alleg...
Mainstream media? Sure, I agree. But listening to reports on actual science, I disagree.

Saying that people should "start thinking for themselves" is disingenuous I believe. For one, this is how we get shit like faith healing, homeopathy, healing crystals and so on. "Normal" people don't have the resources to test a hypothesis, nor the time in most cases. Say you have cancer. What's better? Thinking for yourself and eating a naked mole rat every day for dinner because "they don't get cancer"? Or read some reports and research that apply to your case, and go to a doctor armed with some extra information that will help you both make an informed decision about a treatment?

The problem lies entirely at the feet of the media. Lack of scientific training and a desire to create interesting, attention-grabbing headlines makes for situations exactly what you're complaining about. But this is no reason to eschew science. Science is doing what it does: conducting studies that only test for the smallest amount of variables as possible. It'll be a long time before science will be able to perfectly say "a human of type foo must live exactly like this to achieve maximum potential in life". This is a huge ever-changing puzzle, and while we might have the edges built (my grandma taught me you always put the edges together first) we don't even have all the pieces out of the box. Science finds a piece with a tiny flower on it and the media happily exclaims the puzzle is a picture of a garden.
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Basket case economies are reflected in bond yields. The US pays little to borrow money because it is a safe haven. That may not jive with your world view but people that invest on their ideological dogma are quickly separated from their money.
Quoting out of context like that it sure seems pretty absurd. But I'm going to trust you understood GP's point?

Any sane person wouldn't presume to thing for themselves on the best course of action in treating their cancer, for instance. The same thing goes for nutrition and health.
The problem with a sample size of 1 is that you could well have just gotten lucky
As long as you stay away from perpetually-beta distributions that I shall not name, driver problems are really a non-issue. I haven't had a malfunctioning peripheral under Linux in a very long time now (years?). Driver problems are on-par with what you see on Windows :-).

I recently installed a workstation for using CUDA, with X11, using nVidia's off-the-shelf packages (the Ubuntu CUDA packages have some compatibility problems).

- On Ubuntu everything worked fine first (LTS, 14.04), after some upgrade, X11 did not come up anymore. Some problem with DKMS. While debugging, it doesn't help that Canonical has made disabling the display manager completely non-sensical. Something akin to

update-rc.d -f lightdm remove

does not work anymore. IIRC I had to pass a parameter on the Linux command-line through GRUB (really?). Of course, this was not documented in any logical place like a manpage.

- On CentOS installing the CUDA package simply gives a blank screen and you cannot switch to TTYs anymore. You still have to manually disable nouveau, etc:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140808222919-219659043-rhel...

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/842496/nvidia-drive...

Of course, this is just an anecdote. But my experience while still reading Linux forums and helping other people, it's often still work to get and keep hardware running.

I don't have much experience with Windows. But on the few HP/Dell workstations that I have set up, Windows generally worked out of the box.

As long as the desktop respects ICCCM (hint: they all tend to do) and you don't write your application using some obscure, non-ICCCM compliant toolkit, this tends to be a non-issue.

There is much more to a desktop than just being able to display windows rendered by a random toolkit, such as: consistent keyboard shortcuts, consistent look an feel, etc. Every time that I tried to switch back to Linux, the lack of consistent keyboard shortcuts drives me crazy (though they are typically somewhat consistent within the applications provided by KDE, GNOME, etc.).

it's just as easy for a malicious user to keylog you on Windows or OS X

OS X uses GUI isolation, only applications that a user has explicitly enabled in the accessibility options can listen in on keyboard events or send events. Moreover, app store applications use sandboxing by default and can't see files outside the sandbox. So, this is false.
That's more or less US anti-communist propaganda.

I've been to china once, lived with Chinese Nationals for several years, and currently telecommute with partners in China. There is wide spread support for the party. People do understand that the chinese system is unique, and not necessarily the only government system. They simply believe it is better.

Which from a socio-economic outlook it kind of has been for the past ~30 years in terms of industrialization and infrastructure construction. People have lived their entire lives where the idea of questioning the party seemed stupid simply because the party was, and has been right for their whole life. Not because of life or death punishment. Simply looking around and seeing the cities and lights were the only proof needed.

The party ties its sucess to the sucess of the nation. Which is really what all political parties do, lest we forget Bill Clinton's, Its the Economy Stupid. Economic downturn is a crack in that armor. Proof the Party isn't by itself responsible for the economy, proof the party doesn't have absolute control of the up turn. If the party is wrong on the economy, what else could they be wrong on?
Protestants, at least, have the idea of the "priesthood of all believers", meaning roughly that each person can have authority in doctrinal matters. So you should listen to your priest, but you don't have to accept that he's correct if God is telling you something different. Thus the billion different protestant denominations.
I see a difference between privacy (preventing information about you from getting out) and rewriting history after the fact. Historical data is a public good, it's much bigger than an individual and his affairs, whether legit or not.
Any junior level engineer, product manager, or professional panhandler could have seen this coming. Microsoft is betting on their marketshare and the stupidity of their average customer, as they have always done in the past. Unfortunately, out of 4 OS releases, 3 have been outright failures (Vista, 8, 10), one was decent (7), and even your average computer using idiot is aware of the horrible software quality that Microsoft is putting out these days because they have to use it. While disasters like removing the Start button are much more prone to stir ill will in privacy-ignorant consumers than privacy concerns, I'm sure there are no shortage of bugs in Windows 10 to further antagonize Windows users to the point that they might start to care about privacy and see it as just another way they're getting fucked over by Microsoft (which it is). In my testing for example, the Edge browser is completely unusable and can't even paint its own window. With software like that and all the privacy concerns, it's likely Windows 10 will have even less adoption that 8. I guess all the executive shifting and layoffs really can't change Microsoft's root problems (but at least they're now releasing interesting open source software.)
We shouldn't expect the ability for Steam to honor a request to remove our accounts because that ability could be abused by family conflicts, friends and jokes?
Most the people complaining on that thread aren't Windows 10 users but Linux power users so take their word with a grain of salt...
This complaint of "Why can't these scientists make up their minds?" is addressed well in the book "The China Study" ("Forks Over Knives" was the movie sequel to this book).

Before you are two conflicting research papers. One says eggs are bad, the other that they are good. One paper came from The American Poultry Society, and the other from The Poultry Research Institute (those are made up names for the sake of argument). One of those organizations is full of industry shills, and the other is actually doing legitimate research. Every few years, they release papers which contradict the another, in an endless arms race.

The problem which the consumer is faced with is: which is which?
> Regarding the "trust your physician"-part: I would even take their advice with a very big grain of salt. At least looking at my own experience and the experiences of my significant other in this regard. (And I know, anecdotes not evidence.)

Thing is... "which" grain of salt? Physicians fail frequently, but what's the alternative? I wouldn't know what to question, and on which basis. I could read about it on the web, but why would I trust a strangers report instead of a flawed, but at least "certified", physician?
Hey man, I have an amateur's knowledge of the market, but I keep up with geopolitics.

I didn't make this call based off of technical knowledge, more of an unscientific gut feeling based off a ton of factors I probably can't even name in detail.
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> That's surprising. Here in the US non-profits aren't allowed to match at all.

I'm not sure that's correct. I'm at a 501(c)3 in Boston and receive a 401k match up to 6%, fully vested at each monthly grant. According to this[1] IRS doc it looks like 401(k) plans and matching can be used by any non-governmental employer.

1. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4484.pdf
People have been saying the Chinese economy will crash for well over a decade. Wish I'd gone all in ten years ago...
I love my touch screen. How's touch screen support on Linux?