skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is it about engineers that make you think they are generally qualified to lead a country?
>Uber isn't doing anything like civil disobedience here, they're just making a new quick buck violating employment laws.

False. Uber is losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

>Aaand, in cases like this, it's always useful to ask: the laws we're breaking, who are they intended to benefit or protect? People without a lot of economic or political power to begin with? Yeah, maybe we should leave those laws alone--by definition, the people we're hurting are the ones least able to do anything about it anyway.

Intentions are irrelevant. It's end results that matter.
People vote with their wallets.
There is only one reason why Uber has created $51bn of market value, many people find it superior to the alternatives they have at their disposal.
Uber _helps_ those with low economic or political power, more transportation options at a cheaper price.
Source about McAfee software quality going down is John McAfee himself. He made & starred in a video to explain uninstalling McAfee.

[NSFW] https://youtube.com/watch?v=YpRvaQsGIY8
Link: http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common...
I just couldn't digest all, after I read this entence in the description:

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When neocitieslogo.svg is added to my IPFS node, it gets a new name: QmXGTaGWTT1uUtfSb2sBAvArMEVLK4rQEcQg5bv7wwdzwU. That name is actually a cryptographic hash, which has been computed from the contents of that file. That hash is guaranteed by cryptography to always only represent the contents of that file.
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And opened a reddit/eli5 question, just to understand "if we can use a hash to identify content uniquely?" here: https://redd.it/3k8g51

Can anybody elaborate and lighten me up a bit?
Yup. http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod...
What is missing, as a context from the article, is that the majority of Eastern Europe spend half a millennium under the rule of the Ottoman Empire as a second class citizens. Islam is not welcomed on these lands.
Academics, you need to be managed. It's time to accept that
JBlueCut – Android app for screen filter
Honest question: is ML/DS something you can just pick up and be hired[0]? May be I'm ignorant, but I'd think employers would look for a degree in some related field to actually consider you for a position doing it.

[0] As in how you can pick up web hacking, do a few websites and create a reputation and get hired that way without a formal degree.
Discovering Statistics Using R by Andy Field. AINEC.
As others have said, the dividing line is more about income than whatever politics tend to align with income in a given area. Here's an example from Boston with the Red Line http://boston.curbed.com/archives/2014/02/the-red-line-stops...

(Arlington and Lexington, even at that time, were relatively upper income but would also have been fairly liberal--at least by national standards.)
This was a consumer kit aimed at schools. Looks like there were many different types as obitoo has another that I have never seen.

http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/asset78077_1582-.html
> A smart startup that pulls a user's Facebook/Twitter feeds and mixes in any other RSS/Atom, as well as allowing users to post back to Facebook/Twitter/Atom could potentially spell the death of proprietary timelines.

A few years ago I would have said you were crazy. But after the race to replace Google Reader, the failure of Google+, the general sense of malaise that many people have with Facebook[1], and the political echo chamber and general bot fest that is Twitter[2], I think there's room for another player here.

[1] despite, importantly, continuing to use it all the time

[2] my default working assumption when someone follows me is now that it's a bot
Big Data, Even Bigger Hearts and a Tiny Island
How do luxury condos help with affordable housing? That's my whole point.
Crowdfund MuckRock's Private Prison Project
Why So Many Fail to Automate Web Testing
There is a function that will guarantee to give you a unique 'hash' for every input value, and that is the identity function. Be sure to use a differently subscripted function for every input size though, as the fixed-length property must be satisfied.

Kidding aside, the answers given on Reddit 20 minutes before your question was posted here suffice.
Found Them First: How many artists did you stream before they made it big?
Of course this is considered big news. However the statistically measured significant bias against marginalised groups isn't even mentioned in the story.

One white man does better under a different name and that is enough for a whole article in the Washington Post. The article doesn't even mention the wider context of studies on implicit bias / blind reviews and so on.
What if states earned their Electoral College votes based on turnout?
HTML/HTTP was an improvement over earlier concepts of bidirectional, centralized, reliable hypertext precisely because the links were one directional, hierarchy-free and unstable, and could be put anywhere. The servers belonging to distinct entities weren't coupled. The pages belonging to one entity weren't coupled. It ripped out a lot of politics and baked-in design decisions and let loose creative anarchy.
The rationale I've seen, in the public schools in my area, is to cram more reading and writing into the day. They eliminated nap time, and have alternating recess - mornings for 30 minutes one day, afternoons the next.

If your child can't read and write their own name by the time they get to kindergarten, they are considered behind age appropriate. This isn't an affluent area of the US, either. It's a rural, poor area.

The quest to test is what's eliminating all 'extra' times in schools. We have to beat China, Korea and all of Europe on standardized dick measuring tests, so our children get to suffer (unless you can afford alternate private schools like forest schools or something similar).
I think you missed the point of Free Software entirely.

The GPL, like the Discordian Kopyleft, is a legal exploit, or a hack if you prefer, that uses a silly IP law to nullify itself.

If some people are using IP law to restrict the freedom of users and makers of software, why can't they use the law to defend themselves? It's like complaining that anarchists are hypocrites for calling the police when they are victims of crime.
The problem is that when you stop building housing, the old, crappy housing increases in value. The investors then start purchasing these units and, if they want, gut them and make the interiors modern. Everyone else is priced out.

Look at New York. People are paying thousands a month to live in crappy 19th century tenements that used to be in dangerous and poor neighborhoods.

Really, you can't win by not building housing. "Them Chinese are buying our housing! Let's stop building housing! That'll show them! Now instead of owning 0.1% of housing, they'll own 10%!" How does that make sense?

The foreign investors aren't going to buy 100% of a city. They can't afford it; the total property value of NYC alone is over $800 billion. As they buy, value goes up. If we let builders respond to this demand, they will keep producing new units to make up for foreign investors. They don't have infinite money, so stop pretending they do.
Engineers think we need an Engineer for leader. Businessmen, a businessman. Soldiers want a soldier king. And so on.

What do we really need for a leader? A leader. A consensus builder. A decision maker. And inspiration.
Wouldn't a open standard for social networks be preferable to simply yet another centralized system - an SMTP for social networks?
Relax, McAfee is just trolling. As is Trump. It's either just for the sake of trolling or some sort of distraction strategy, i.e. making all "real" (and still crazy/bad/horrible candidates) look less crazy/bad/horrible by being an even worse joke oneself.

Plus, in the US, your cat can run for President. It means absolutely nothing.
toaster oven != toaster
Same. I'm very excited about sandstorm.io, though. A lot of very smart people behind it, and the idea of being able to install "SaaS" apps onto your personal server at the click of a button from an app store, but where you own the data and can move from Linode to AWS to a home server, etc, is very cool.
People vote with their votes, and buy things with their wallets. Voting isn't merely a synonym for choosing, it's an act of political engagement. I don't "vote" for Tide-brand soap when I buy it, because buying consumer goods isn't (usually) a political act.

Also, Uber doesn't help people with low economic or political power. Those people still have feature phones and walk or take the bus.
How we created our product as a service for VMware
Supposedly McAfee antivirus software turned awful after being taken over by Intel

McAfee was only bought by Intel in 2011, it was getting worse and worse for years before that.
The entire politbyro of PRC is made of engineers. Xi Jinping is chemical engineer, for example.

They seem to be way more competent running their country than bunch of lawyers ru(i)nning US.
Yeah.. this is good. Its quite close to what I asked for. Thanks :)
guys, come on, its gonna be fun as hell
Chicago's public schools are 86% low income and 9% non-Hispanic white.
Its just a puff piece. Maybe folks can use it to find an ecosystem where they can win for once!
T.H.O.R
I agree with you -- I never participated in these science fairs myself, but I attended a couple of summer programs where the majority of my cohort ended up submitting to these contests. The vast majority of people I knew who submitted (a statistically significant sample ~50) either seemed to have parents who worked in academia, or lived near a university, or just came from an incredibly privileged background (east coast new england andover/exeter or west coast harvard westlake). "Talent search" isn't quite right.

On the subject of whether the children who are involved end up doing real science -- I think they do, or at least they get a inkling sense of the research process. But aside from the difficulty of ascertaining the limits of human knowledge, they are also protected from the very real logistical aspects of the research process. Mostly, their papers don't get submitted to journals. Mostly, they won't be writing grants to fund their work. Mostly, they don't really have to join a lab for the next N years and develop significant working relationships with their peers and advisors.
Oh good, there's a clown on the other side now. Reddit AMA went to his head..
I was with you until the horrible example. Of course Anarchists are hypocrites. (They would be the first to go in a general breakdown of society.)
Apple September 2015 Keynote
MicroConf Europe 2015 Notes and Noteworthy
I know about this video, but I think opinions of users who used this software back when McAfee actually worked on it (who apparently left company mid-nineties) would be more trustworthy than his own claims. I've tried some googling, but couldn't find anything.
Other side of what?
No, he is in his own party. He might be crazier than Trump though....
Good point! Feels like a lot of products start having the "quick exit" mindset, only a few are trying to build a product that last.
Similar experience. Both me and my sister were not napping at all and instead slept 8 pm - 6 am.
Is there a way to share passwords with passbox? pass lets you encrypt different files with different keys so it could potentially be used within an organization with varying levels of permission. Another advantage is that each password is just an encrypted file that could be read with just GPG if pass isn't installed.
>under the "anything goes" regime, vanishingly small amounts of new content were created regularly.

I'm inclined to believe you but I wonder how we can possibly know that. Before modern communication and distribution technologies, lots of content was simply lost and forgotten.
The Elements of Statistical Learning together with the online course (http://www.r-bloggers.com/in-depth-introduction-to-machine-l...) makes for a great introduction.

EDIT: Oops I should have said "An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R" rather than The Elements of Statistical Learning. The Elements book goes into way too much depth to be a good introduction to the subject.
Especially when it could be so easy for Apple to comply and nobody would suspect a thing:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/09/lets-talk-ab...

Unless of course the whole article was meant to make everyone think how much Apple cares about your privacy, a day before the new iPhone is launched, and for law enforcement people to mislead people into thinking using iMessage can protect them.
We moved both my extended families to u .

That has been working extremely well. The only thing that I miss os the opportunity to go back to arbitrary points in time like I could on the old blog.

I find "social" in social network is a form of social that I am mostly not comfortable with.
Everyone has a realistic chance of winning if enough people vote for them.
I foresee Google being replaced by something else. As a search engine Google has been stagnant for a while.

I still cannot black- or whitelist websites that I want or don't want to show up in my results. Really, I want to control what I see!!!

When another search engine gives me the flexibility to control my results, I'll jump ship. But currently even with annoying results that I don't want to ever see again, google's results are still better than anything else.[1]

[1]- Although yandex is definitely better for search results in Russian.
Viruses drive evolution from Evolving Ourselves
I wonder if we'll see a fresh approach here with the new Alphabet organisational structure. Perhaps Google's finally structured in such a way to let such a company be separate from the rest of the products.
True, though wikipedia says McAfee left the company in 1994. So his story of other people messing up his software still seems plausible to me.
Shame of Lisp in Web
As a Node coder I used to avoid SASS since it was Ruby-based; now there's a fully-featured SASS parser in Node that keeps up with the specification. Bootstrap is moving from LESS to SASS, and they've always had their build step in Node.
Yea... the Chinese stock market is doing so great right now.
The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]
Microsoft completely dominating the PC software industry for nearly 30 years, reaping insane profits for that entire time. In some ways they still do dominate it, certainly in terms of productivity software and business email.

Similarly, IBM was computers for 30 years.

Comparing them to simply the most popular social website for the past 10 years is not really fair. The fact that Facebooks value approaches those other two companies only shows how insane the current bubble is.
They might end up with more users, but I've noticed that the content on Reddit is consistently declining in quality. Kind of worrying to me. Smaller subreddits might be enough to save the site though.
Imagine she has a clone in the same governmental position right next door. This is a thought experiment, obviously.

Her neighborhood will have a slightly lower standard of living than her clone because the residents have no where to park, are not a cultural fit with the neighborhood, their voting patterns and motivations are not the same as their neighbors or are otherwise screwing up carefully gerrymandered districts (WRT funding local schools or police, for example).

Also there are likely zoning issues based on old laws, for example maybe the zoning laws somehow prohibit my long dead great grandfather from running a small accounting practice or a yoga studio next door by banning retail traffic, but somehow they're skirting the zoning laws by sneakily not allowing retail traffic or visitors or some other cheaty hack of the local zoning laws. This will also make her life a living hell when the zoning laws are inevitably changed to permit the outsiders and suddenly neighbor X is screaming because neighbor Y used the new loosened rules to sneak in an autobody repair business and is legally running a weld grinder at 2am every night and neighbor Z is dumping waste from his home electroplating business in his backyard.

Now she can't go out in public and start whining that she doesn't want to do work and take risks in exchange for the same salary she got for doing basically nothing, like in the past. And she can't whine in public about how they screwed up the perfectly gerrymandered districts. And she can't whine in public about cultural fit because we tolerate, even encourage, that in business but in public thats just old fashioned racism, whatever-ism, etc, and that doesn't fly in public. But she can go in public and rant about how "they hate us because we cling to our God and our guns" and "they hate us because they're rich" or whatever. So she's a bundle of hate and anger but all she can say in public about it is babble.

So from an empathy standpoint, whats in it for her? Oh nothing? But there is a huge potential downside? Well there you go.
15 UX Commandments
you guys need to take things a little bit less seriously.. leojg was using the "Trust Me, I'm an Engineer" meme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trust-me-im-an-engineer
Intel to end sponsorship of science talent search
> Just getting a page to lay out similarly across NS/IE/mac/PC was a serious challenge, let alone getting the text to show up at the same size or in the same font, or scripts to run the same way, or having any kind of interactivity.

Hardly the fault of HTML, a layout markup language. Put the blame where it's due, on a non-cooperative, or rather openly combative, market place.
Find vs. locate
Why don't you point out some of the inefficiencies they are hobbled by? I'll assert that there aren't any at the isa layer, none that are measurable.
Wouldn't that favor small states, who can mount a turnout campaign with far fewer workers?
There was a thread on here a month or two ago about this. In general, it was noted that it's best (for both employment as well as just getting stuff done) to have a deep understanding of a particular area of ML rather than a general understanding of many areas. Usually those with a deep understanding have focused on it in school. But the latter group of generalists is a much larger group in the software industry, since most of us did not go to school for this specifically.
Food and Diets
An anarchist explained to me that if they are forced to pay taxes and follow laws and all that, they should at least enjoy the advantages, even if they would prefer to forego those advantages if they were then free from taxes and laws.

Much like a significant minority of Free Software advocates (notably not Stallman) believe that the ideal is to have no IP at all, but that since we have them whether we want them or not, Free Software and Kopyleft are a valid defense mechanism.
You could use Crestify which automatically archives copies of your bookmarks to archive.org and archive.today Once you have a page bookmarked, you can use the archived links in your blog post

http://crestify.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/alphaandbetausers/comments/3j702x/c...
That's what browser extensions are for. Google has had blacklisting for a spell (last year?), and whitelisting, but IMO it failed to pass the 80/20 threshold.
I gave a poor example. What I wanted to say was an ever changing data in a non-centrally managed context. Some nodes hold hashes for the previous version and then they'd compete for resources.

The thing from bitcoin is 51% attack where majority of nodes collude to provide the wrong data(they might not be malicious but just serving old version of a data). This can only be prevented by time-stamping in slow scenarios.

In case of neocities, a central server is giving you a hash that the nodes would provide you the data for, but without a central management how does IPFS associate correct file to the correct hash?

If it only works for a centralised scenario then it is similar to the http://peercdn.com project where instead of a server supplying content, your previous visitor browser cache is supplying the content through p2p webrtc and you save server bandwidth.
Why you should go to HybridConf at least once in your career
Rain or the drone of a coffee shop can make you more prodictive? Give a try
Twitter is for me unique that it is used a lot by opensource developers and more broadly IT envagelists/figures. It's a goto resource for news related to frameworks, dev conferences,... LinkedIn aspires also in this area, but it's not relevant yet.
Check out Crestify which supports bookmarking with archiving to archive.org and archive.today https://www.reddit.com/r/alphaandbetausers/comments/3j702x/c...
Well, we technically haven't invented warm fusion yet...
Copy of a comment I made in an earlier thread:

”If you’re not familiar with RDBMS, general introductions to SQL and relational algebra should be useful. Back in uni our textbook was Fundamentals of Database Systems[1]. (It’s okay, but there are probably better books out there.)

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Fundamentals...
Russian spy gang hijacks satellite links to steal data
> The images on these pages were taken from episodes of The Simpsons that are copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox. I will not distribute audio, video or image files.

sorry, but you already did. it's ok though.
Show HN: App mining millions of user opinions to rate the best gadgets
FireBase Adapter for Real-Time Apps with DhtmlxScheduler
Yes, I agree. When you click the text next to the checkbox, the checkbox should toggle.
This “Space Glass” Lets You Drink Whiskey in Orbit
Yes, that is inevitable. Growth is slowing down for FB and the platform has grown to the size where it can't pivot hard. Any new player in the marketplace simply has to reject FBs success and present a wholly different way of interacting, free of the all-inclusive strategy employed by FB.

One thing we are seeing a bit and may see more of is microplatforms. They will focus on specific interactions instead of the generic type FB goes for (thinking bangwithfriends (some would even say Tinder is this type of SN), sector-specific Linkedin, regional social networks).

FB will be around for a long long while thou. It was a twist of genius implementing federated logins, in effect becoming your passport to the internet.
That sounds a lot like the federated media hosting that GNU MediaGoblin is creating.[0]

[0] http://www.mediagoblin.org/
Great point. A good example of theory vs practice.

I still think Xanadu et al are interesting, but it's instructive to try to understand what the real trade-offs are, the most obvious one being one of shipping speed.
nvm maintainer here: this is true - but please use `node`, since the concept of "stable" and "unstable" has died with the advent of node v4.0 using semver.

All node versions are now stable, and version numbers now communicate breakage, not stability. As it should be.
Build vs. Buy Calculator
Test Driven Product Design: Using Jobs Stories and Research to Validate Features
"Because it's a political question" sounds to me like a roundabout way of saying that there is no actual difference, and it's just "disturbing" because the wording you're against disagrees with your particular ideology in some way.
It depends on where you live. Kids near me spend all day in the woods digging holes and looking at bugs and stuff just like we used to. But we live where there are no playgrounds in very rural areas.

I'm with you. The overly structured method of childhood now is disturbing. Whereas we used to play sandlot baseball, kids are on competitive traveling teams. Where we used to 'explore' the woods and camp on our own, kids are in scouts and have structured hikes every weekend with overnight camps in cabins. etc. etc

Maybe it's just rose colored glasses, but I do genuinely believe that the unstructured play of my youth seemed a hell of a lot more fun than what my nieces and nephews are going through with schedules and practices and structure.
toaster oven also != oven. That whole story was very confusing.