skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about "labs are fallible"? I think the point is, while forensic "science" are still using lie detectors and other very questionable techniques that just can not work reliably, it's a bit strange to paint DNA itself as fallible. DNA can work, if the lab is competent. Lie detectors and other voodoo can not.
We had a similar issue with our Hackerspace website - we have a section on the site that shows logos partners and sponsors, and at some point it disappeared. We found out that some class name in a div containing those images matched to some Adblock blacklist. We changed the CSS names to something silly and now everything is back to normal :).
Fantastic photos from Burning Man
This is great news. One issue is still how to retain these women in tech as over 40% of women leave tech mid-career [1] [2].

[1] http://documents.library.nsf.gov/edocs/HD6060-.A84-2008-PDF-...

[2] http://keepwomen.com/static_pages/subscribe
> But in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost

Shit got lost in the olden days! No Google, no Wikipedia ...

Mozart only learned about J. S. Bach a few years before his death. Amazingly, he spent his entire career ignorant about the important works of his great predecessor.

Today, thanks to modern information technology, the only professionals who remain ignorant about prior work in their field are software developers.
The company, Carbon Engineering, is funded by Bill Gates:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/4f66ff5c-1a47-11e5-a130-2e7db...
To be fair, applicants indicate major areas that they're interested in. The admissions committe may or may not take that info into account in deciding on applicants.
Why not do `x == False` then? Arguing about a language not being as strongly typed when you're not being as explicit about your own types seems pretty roundabout.
>a photo/comment the creator willingly released to the public and attached to the brand logically allows for re-sharing that content to me, especially by the entity explicitly mentioned.

I don't see why you think that at all. Re-tweeting, sure, but that's because it's an expected result of putting something on twitter, with or without tags or even text.

Sending someone a picture on twitter in no way implies I am giving it to them to do whatever they want, in the absence of external context.

Or in other words: The tweet as a whole is released to the public of twitter. There's no license to derive or take elsewhere.

Sending it directly in the mail doesn't let them use it to advertise either.
You don't have to compile and store regexes in python. re.match(pattern, string) can be used right away and it will internally cache the compiled version of your most recently used patterns.

I'm also curious in which type of application regex is so important that it will be a deciding factor of language choice. I mean, if you have a regex in one out of 100 files, does it really matter if you have to write 2 lines instead of one.
> Why would an adblocker be so incredibly aggresive as to block random words from urls is beyond me.

Because advertisers are so aggressive about shoving shit in our direction. It's an arms race, and unfortunately we sometimes suffer from collateral damage.
I guess that puts the "slavery" into "wage slavery". It's funny how Zynga is reviled on HN, while something like the Work Diary or UPS' management software is considerably more dangerous. What kind of person do you have to be in order to implement that?
> And you can use SFTP (secure FTP, not to be confused with SSH file transfer).

Do you mean FTPS?
Yeah, like what if it was racist?

From Urban Dictionary:
"ii)Br: A dumbass online gamer who also hails from Brazil but is ignorant of rules and disrespectful of fellow gamers. Uses his or her lack of knowledge of the English language to try and get away with breaking rules"

Hmm.
Why make a great browser and then host it on sourceforge? My browser just gave me a security warning when I tried to open the link. Now THAT'S browsing done right.
Syscalls via asm block? :)
> Legally speaking, a lack of case law means the jury’s out. But for brands striving to connect with their constituency, it’s clear that more explicit permission is needed for brand-based tags (e.g. #calvinklein), or more complicated tags (e.g. #caughtondropcam) need to be used so that the claim of implied consent is more defensible.

Specific tags only solve half the problem. Someone could copy the tag from someone else without being aware of the campaign going on.
Came here to say the same. 9-10 hour work days I think shows that the company is too young that they aren't able to invest in a work-life balance. I hope that commitment comes with early employee equity, because time in someone else's payoff is something you don't get back.

Putting it in writing up front for employees is crucial and good.
Quoting the article—please take this away if nothing else:

But regardless of industry, the families investing
the most in presidential politics overwhelmingly
lean right, contributing tens of millions of
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I agree with you. It's all highly subjective, of course, but my own perception is there's a slightly negative connotation to calling someone a "coder." If you don't think so, you can at least agree that it's less positive relative to "doctor"/"lawyer"/"manager." Heck, even "designer" has a slightly fashionable connotation to it.
> JVM is actually a great platform to deploy code on

The JVM is a fantastic platform to build for and run on. I know of nothing else that's so powerfully general purpose for typical server-side business work, with such a compelling ecosystem. Multiplatform support can be useful, though mainly for me it's the ability to develop from any platform, rather than deploy to. It seems to be widely undervalued -- I would describe it as popularly unfashionable right now. Yet I don't know of any platforms with such deep ecosystems and comparable technical merit. .NET comes close (and is arguably better designed in some ways, and has some neat features), but is Windows-focused and seems to lack the open source communities Java has.

Talking about this almost makes me want to start a list of "awesome things about Java that are without parallel in other platforms".

I've enjoyed reading a number of the comments you've posted in recent days. Please continue and good luck with your evangelism!
PostgreSQL support that through triggers and Notify (www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-notify.html). You may look into chat example: https://gist.github.com/quiver/4240546
But it's nothing like a pinboard with a group of friends. Instagram (I wrongly assumed it was Twitter) allows you to only share with friends; this post would be more like posting on a public bulletin board with a giant flashing sign that says 'CROCS(tm) PLZ LOOK.'

Hashtags are generic, certainly, but this usage was contextually relevant (with photographic proof) and clearly meant to represent that entity. Additionally, crocs is their registered trademark -- it's not unreasonable for them to search a massively popular image publishing platform for images their customers choose to share attached to their brand, nor for them to take those images and say 'Look at these happy customers!' in a non-commercial context (ie: on their website, in a photo gallery of customer photos).

I believe it's straightforwardly analogous to mailing the photo directly, though perhaps posting to every bulletin board in the country with a giant label might be a more exact match.

If anything a (public) hashtag implies you want it to be easily seen by the entity tagged -- or anyone interested in it -- as a tag doesn't specify an individual.
You can learn to read Hangul quite quickly: http://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/

Pronouncing it properly (especially the single/double consonants) is another thing entirely.
I pine for the days when the only drama I had to deal with was vim vs emacs.
If you're doing a fair use, make your own copy, especially to keep it safe from sudden deletion.

If you're not doing a fair use, then maybe you shouldn't have the right to embed so freely.

I don't see how a no-embed policy hurts anything.
We don't need to shard our data, but we do multiple node setup for HA using Pgpool + streaming replication.

From what I heard sharding my be really problematic, and one should avoid it as much as possible.
Bit of an interesting marketing campaign.

Put your handbook out, watch your target end users learn who you are and check out your products.

The end users feel like they really know you and feel more positive towards your products when they come to choose a vendor.
I completely disagree. Your snippet above is exactly what I do whenever I want to check for falsiness. If I get a None, a 0, 0.0, "" or [], I check for it using "not x", sometimes using it for multiple return values (e.g. if I get a None or a 0 from mydict.get("param"), meaning that the value wasn't there or is 0).

To me, this is the absolutely most reasonable way to check for truthiness or falsiness. If you want to check for equality or identity, use == or is.
Yep, I'm switching to Sticky Password too. According to this they offer a discount too: http://heavy.com/tech/2015/10/lastpass-alternatives-logmein-...
Dashlane is pretty OK. I'm playing with Sticky Password now.
I'm sorry, but I think these recurring "we do everything remote" are cheap shots from the outliers that produce software that, with all due respect, is relatively simple, usually the "for developers, by developers" kind of stuff.

I work with a team that deals with a highly complex domain, and for us it is absolutely essential that we are close to and regularly interact with the rest of the business.

This can't be replaced by remote work unless I create an extra layer of analysts to tell the developers what to code, which is both highly inefficient, removes a lot of potential innovation that comes from the synergy between people looking at the challenges for different angles, and a lot less fun for everyone involved.

For me, what happens between developers and non-technical coworkers in the hallways and during lunch is an essential part of the process of making great products together that cannot be replaced by remote work.

(To be clear: within the dev teams we are completely set up for remote work, and any developer can work from home at any time without prior permission. It's certainly not a matter of lack of trust or facilities.)
There's nothing wrong with it, but having the ability for people to opt-out (some professional photographers, for example, don't want any kind of usage that isn't pre-approved, even if editorial) would be a way to make it crystal clear whether that user is OK with it or not. What we have right now leaves everyone in a murky area legally, and adds friction and annoyance. "Embed controls" would remove any questions about it, which would give users a say in how their content is used without having to give permission for each usage request, and would protect the people that want to use the posts without having to make a request for each one. Everyone would be covered.

Also, there are many different kinds of uses, some commercial-y. Here are a few:

- Display on Twitter itself (retweet)

- Use in a news story, near an ad

- Display in a Twitter widget on a web site

- Embedded Instagram photos on a company gallery page

- Use in an email ad campaign

- Use on a billboard

The list of things above exist on spectrum of "commercial-ness", and reasonable people can disagree on which they think are OK and which aren't as far as obtaining advanced permission. What many would like to see are much more explicit rules or technical controls so that the ambiguities are removed.

Embed controls might not be ideal from a fair use perspective, but it's a lot better than the "let the courts figure out" situation we have now.
Is is pretty OK. I've tried also other alternatives and so far Sticky Password does a great job with the WiFi sync and cheaper price.
Yes, so I'm switching over to a different one. LogMeIn is always a mess when they acquire another company. So far Sticky Password seems like a decent alternative with some servers saying they offer a great discount. http://heavy.com/tech/2015/10/lastpass-alternatives-logmein-...
I can't tell if it's a joke or if it's really being turned into a movie.

Regardless, I'd love to see a tv show that was a cross between this story and Breaking Bad. Just imagine Walter White, surrounded by loads and loads of barrels with his trademark blue color.
PostgreSQL hot standby feedback. How it works
I've also hit this in the past. However I feel like I remember seeing that the error messaging had been enhaced in whichever version of Chrome came out next. I've forgotten the details now, but I feel like it explicitly said that an extension had blocked the request.
Intel Software Guard Extensions Overview [pdf]
I relate so much to this article. Being put into a situation where you have a real connection with other people and real ideas like a boot camp is amazing. There is way too much disconnection in academia. Places where the success of the students determines the fate of the teachers, and vice versa, makes a way more real environment. Anywhere equal investment despite histories as the basis of the Thing at hand is going to make people better off. I'm rambling
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Analyst turned Python/SQL developer after getting into programming a few years ago and just loving it. I have a bachelors and an MBA but am currently working on a post-bacc computer science degree and am just loving every minute of it.

I am looking to get deeper into Python software engineering and eager to learn as much as possible. If your looking for someone who is self-driven, a great communicator, willing to be taught, and passionate about clean code then I just might be a great fit!
By sight and experience. It‘s not very difficult to cook food without thermometer. We still do it, for example when grilling with coal. Also, humans can eat raw, over-cooked and everything in between for nearly all foods.
Embrace it and see how society will change from it.
Write NY Times op-eds bemoaning the scarcity of quality marriageable men in ten years.
If someone posted a photo with an individual with crocodiles, who happened to be wearing Crocs™, and it was hashtagged "#crocs", it's possible they did not intend to consent to be used for Crocs™ advertising material, but your proposal would assume they are. It may be contrived, but I don't think it's so contrived as to be automatically dismissed as a problem with your position. It goes to the general problem of ambiguity in hashtags.[0]

IANAL, but AFAIK having a trademark (in what jurisdiction?) does not confer the ability to appropriate others' IP even if they used your trademark. At best Crocs, Inc. can probably censor uses of the #crocs hashtag.

If she had snail-mailed Crocs, Inc. her photo with nothing else but the caption she wrote on Instagram, it would not give them a license to copy it! I feel like a broken record at this point... I agree it would be bizarre, and some people's social media behavior like this case is bizarre, but it would not justify them reproducing it without her permission.

They reproduced it on their own website, which is different than retweeting or whatever analog Instagram might have. Honestly I'm not sure exactly where I draw the line, especially given I don't know all the nuances of social media's features and etiquette, but rehosting crosses the line.

(I don't typically defend IP law as it exists today, but as long as it remains the law, I will when rich corporations try to trample lowly individuals' IP rights.)

[0] Edit: In the spirit of IP attribution, I will note I did read another commenter's post here about crocodiles and have probably derived this scenario from it. :)
As a foreigner, can someone explain me why this is important?
As a foreigner, can someone explain me why this is important news?
So someone would expect that an int cast of "2" would be 2? What would an int cast of "a" be?
If you read the New York Times articles of 1917, 1918, 1919, they talk about how the Bolshevik government would be collapsing any day now...eventually it happened seventy years later - because leaders of the communist party decided to.

When the leaders of Russia's communist party decided to reorganize their government in 1991, what governments in continental Europe from 1917 still existed in the same form, uninterrupted? Not Germany, not France, not Italy. Not Spain, not Portugal, not Holland. The only country I can think of is Switzerland, although perhaps one or more slip my mind. Some "failure" - when you've outlived everyone else and are done away with by the leaders of the party that was in charge seventy years before decides to throw in the towel. While in the meantime surviving numerous major wars, and, under Stalin, having enormous economic growth, at a time when the rest of the world was stagnating economically.

Russia was a backwards country in 1917. Lenin said Russia would not be a leader among countries, but the opportunity availed itself and so socialists would hold out in Russia while the rest of the world went on with its processes. This was followed by invasion by every country (including the US in places like Arkhangelsk), then 25 years later being invaded by a coalition of most of continental Europe, followed by a Cold War against a military alliance of all the world's industrialized nations. What magic pixie dust would the Russians have to combat all this? It's a miracle they made it to 1991, in the process launching the first satellites, man in space etc., before deciding themselves to close up shop in 1991.

It's a strange triumphalism - exaggerate a threat beyond all proportions, then crow how you defeated it. 1917 US (and allies) against 1917 Russia is like an NFL team against a Pee-wee league. This is the case for triumphalism? It's a miracle the Russians did as well as they did - they even beat Nazi Germany. It shows there must have been something to what they were doing.
There's a story in Primo Levi - The periodic table where a raw onion is used in the recipe for a varnish and nobody knows why. Turns out that it was used in the past to measure temperature (it would fry at a certain temp) and people kept doing it even when it was no longer necessary.
Is ruby monkey patching evil?
I heard that the acadians people where praying in front of the over. If they can stay there until the end of the pray, the oven is ready to bake the bread. Otherwise, they had to wait a few more minutes.
I think it was this way because they didn't learn how to count.
So take them seriously and don't tell them any more than you need to.

If you're worried that these agents are actually investigating you for illegal downloads, see if you can find out what division of the FBI they work for. If they work for the IP division, then your paranoia might be justified.
> In a line sure to make heads explode, it quotes Grace Hopper explaining how programming is just like planning dinner.

It is just like planning dinner. Programming isn't magic and it's wankery to suggest otherwise.
You are explicitly allowing them to reshare your image via the platform -- whether that's an embedded view, iframe, img tag pointing to the original, or copy with attribution seems academic to me. The point is you allow them to send your content on to other people, right?

They weren't advertising with it, the article mentions they did ask for permission before doing that. As-is all I'm aware of Crocs doing is taking an image that was published and willingly tagged to their brand and putting it in a public collection of similar photos. If I posted a picture of myself on every bulletin board I could find posing with [popular_brand] and labeled it with a big, flashing sign that said '[brand] LOOK HERE', is it unreasonable for that brand to share my image on their website? I don't think so.
Strange question for HN .. anyway, plenty of people bake today without a thermometer. It requires "knowing your oven", such as by doing a reference batch of cupcakes to see the heat distribution. There's also various techniques for assesing whether a cake is done (does a wooden skewer inserted come out clean?)

Coal and wood fired ovens usually have a huge thermal mass so once it's up to temperature with a particular size fire it will stay there.

Edit: the gas oven doesn't predate the thermometer, but traditionally is set by "gas mark" rather than a thermostat. Old recipies would say "gas mark 7" etc.
I get that, I can cook free style fine and somewhat consistently. But how did people bake the same thing multiple times and establish pastries, like what was the process I guess would be a better question
Also not sure I agree with the rationale they provide for remote not working for their needs.

As a small team, things move very quickly and decisions are made or reversed as new information helps guide us. This makes it really hard to keep up with company progress for anyone who isn’t in the office participating in all of the conversations that are going on. As a result, we put a high premium on physical colocation, even though this limits the geography that we can recruit from.

I think this is a common misconception and tools like Slack (or previously IRC) and smart scheduling of skype conferences can go a long way to helping. It's worked great for our team. Our size varies, but up to 14 people collaborating from around the country and world.

Remember, working remotely reduces environmental impact, gives your team more family time because you eliminate the commute, diversity has also been mentioned, larger hiring pool, multiple languages is often a nice side-effect and it gives you multiple time zones which is great for support teams.
Uhhhh ... My gut reaction is usually anti feds but since in the case you actually have a track record of receiving these death threats before ... to the extent that it made you flee your home country ... it seems pretty legit. What other activities are you involved with that you think are a more likely reason for the FBI to show up at your door?
Berlin anti-TTIP trade deal protest attracts hundreds of thousands
By using empirical rules related to the state of the ingredients (look, physical properties, etc). French especially has developed a very rich technical vocabulary for this. For example, the continuum from sugar to caramel has very precise phases (and words to name them) that you can recognize by color, consistence, and so on even if you can't measure the temperature of the sugar.