skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I was wondering about that, but had never heard of a split in a private company.
The US gov (at least under the current president and under at least 90% of the current candidates) does not care about non-lethal weapons. It prefers killing them, even over blinding them instead (as the article says), or capturing them [1].

As for automated killing robots, is anyone naive enough to think they will wait until they can "perfectly identify an enemy combatant"?

First off, the definition of enemy combatant is already waaay too vague, to include just about any male in the Middle East.

Second, the gov is making even now, in 2015, plenty of "mistakes" with drone strikes (see the hospital strike, the killing of the mother of the guy who they were supposed to kill, but had switched phones) - and they've been using them for more than a decade.

After all of these facts, there's nothing that can convince me that the robots will only kill the "right people" when they start launching them on the battlefield.

[1] https://theintercept.com/document/2015/10/14/small-footprint...
Wow, THANK YOU!

It blows my mind this is not advertised and not the default.
I wonder who commissioned this article.
> It's honestly the worst line of investigation I could think of.

Really? You don't think investigating whether technological progress has (or hasn't) improved the damages caused by war is worthwhile?

The issue that we somehow can't manage to stop going to war is a distinct one. Just because it would be preferable to not start wars in the first place asking followup questions about the effectiveness of attempts to reduce collateral damage and indiscriminate slaughter when we do seems reasonable to me.
Since each language has a language-specific but OS-independent package manager, this is a language-independent but OS-dependent package manager?
There exist Rust crates that make it easy to call Objective-C APIs. See https://github.com/SSheldon/rust-objc/ .
A physically draining job should keep one somewhat fit and healthy,
after all.

Not necessarily, ex a waiter or a sales person would be drained by the end of the day
but that doesn't make them fit and healthy.

Their children too, are obese - which really suggests that it's
more of a culture issue.

There is a premium on healthy food while inexpensive food are fatty. "Organic produce" is multi-billion dollar industry.

The not so expensive meat that is available are frozen and/or have hormones & preservatives.

If you live off of "Dollar menu" you can't expect to be healthy. Most of the homeless are obese.

If I'm perpetually hungry the chances are that I'll eat food that will take longer to digest and in turn make me hungry lesser
times during the day.
IT Challenges and Staying Ahead – Interview with Nathan Hays
Still it's a lot more physical activity than sitting on a couch. Or commuting to a convenient office by car.

For example, making six tube trips involves so much walking that it equals to a modest jog.
But, why would the app agree to completely block usage in those cities? People can still use the app to determine whether any mistakes were made on the ticket and to ensure the signage is proper. The app could then tell people what to write to the city to fight it.
Show HN: Zite was killed, so we rebuilt it for you in Pipes
Rust can call anything that exposes a C-compatible ABI, and Rust code can expose a C-compatible ABI so any language that can call into C (i.e. all languages) can call into Rust.
Yeah they actually finally fixed this with flexbox.
That use case doesn't make Fixed money.
Everybody Scrolls
Regarding people skills, I always recommend Peopleware[1].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-3...
> The primary thing I struggled with in the past was delegation. Learning to trust (but verify) your team to complete tasks the way they should be done.

I would like to add that the above is only possible if you "plan" the work. If you have expectations of how a certain task should be accomplished then you should be able to define the task on a detailed enough level so that you "can" delegate it and that the team member working on it actually has the ability to complete the task according to your expectations.

There is nothing worse for a team member to be given some vague idea of what should be done to then afterwards having a big discussion on the expectations, i.e. how to be a mind reader.
I wonder how encrypted data can be de-duplicated. Do they use per-file encryption with no per-file salt?
Brad Griffin Talks About How WooCommerce Is Shaping the Ecommerce Industry
The producers also admire the hack.

From the show's creator & executive producer: "We wish we’d caught these images before they made it to air. However, as Homeland always strives to be subversive in its own right and a stimulus for conversation, we can’t help but admire this act of artistic sabotage.” [0]

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/homeland...

(edited for clarity)
I get weekly newsletters from him. Still good stuff.
This article was posted a few days ago. The discussion is located at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10377422
Probably could happen with Gibson and Fender, maybe some smaller brands too. Depending on high profile a person might be, they could likely get commemorative treatment. As for being a 'fan' there are plenty of collectors that would make the news should their gear collection remain intact after they pass away.
1) That was completely non-sequitur. I didn't say Christians are primarily responsible for discriminating against Muslims.

2) The people persecuting Christians in (some of) the Middle East aren't the same people facing persecution here. It's unfair to assume they're guilty of bigotry just because someone else who shares their religion is. Should we assume all Catholics molest children because some do? Are all Protestants members of the Klan?

3) I'm from the US, and I'm not bigoted toward Muslims or Christians (nor do I belong to either group). I'm neither pot nor kettle, so your nonsensical comment means even less to me.
Hm, I think the shift to part-time workers in service and industrial jobs is mostly about evading labor regulation of full-time workers and further eroding the remuneration, economic stability, and bargaining position of lower-income workers.

I would hope instead for more leisure at similar pay =/
Alternatively, I would think that gzip does a good job of factoring out repeatedly embedded user objects.
What do you bring to the business?
This is a great sign for the entire government technology space.

The potential for impact is massive. If we can save 1 hour per week for each of the 10.5 million local government employees, that unlocks 273,000 years of human potential every 12 months.

To rekindle love for public service, Seneca Systems is hiring in product design, front, and back end engineering.

Ruby, Elixir, React, Postgres, geospatial mapping.

http://seneca.systems/careers
However, Jews also have disproportionately high levels of atheism, secularism and other forms of irreligion, which means much of the Jewish culture (Judaism) is relegated to irrelevance, but the ethnic identification nonetheless remains.

Jewish culture as such is certainly interwoven with Judaism, but becoming increasingly syncretic. Look at the large number of hilonim in Israel.
Well, this is basically what's now happening in Syria; the Russians are carrying out strikes on US-backed anti-Assad fighters using (among other things) cruise missiles launched from the Black Sea.
In Citizenfour (the scene I was referencing but neglected to mention) GG explicitly mentions this slide, as well as the existence of another whistleblower. Of course the situation might be more complicated than that, but it's clear the story was in the making for quite some time.

I also recall Laura Poitras mentioning the work that Jeremy Scahill was doing on this topic at one of the Q&A's she did.
There's a similar story about putting armor on planes during WWII - http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/01/21/selection-bias-and-...
Geneticists Reconstruct Population History of New York City
web dev, NJ/NY
If it degrades the user experience so much that the page is unusable, it's not serving the intended purpose. Users will block the ads or not bother waiting for the page to load. Some ads/buttons/analytics code is worth it, but most content sites don't seem to think about the tradeoffs at all.
Ohio has a population of 11.59 million.

Singapore has a population of 5.3 million.
> Dropbox's business is enabling users to share content.

It's worse than that. If sharing was their only business, as opposed to backup, storage of data -- then it wouldn't matter as much if you could trust them or not. If your intention is to share data, then that data shouldn't be considered as secure any more -- even if you trust the person(s) with whom you share it.

But as Dropbox does more than just enable sharing of data, trust is paramount. Without trust, docker isn't a service, it's a liability (I don't necessarily I think the addition of a pro-surveillance board member makes much difference for how much I trust Dropbox, I'm making the point that trust is/should be a core business value of Dropbox -- if you can't trust it, I don't see how you can use it (without engaging in doublethink).
Sources proving most people never move their laptop?
Currently it's a GNU/Linux package manager, but there's a working GNU Hurd port that is being finished up, and I don't see a reason why someone couldn't port it to one of the BSDs if they wanted to put in the effort. Nix, the project Guix is based on, has been ported to OS X and there's even an experimental Windows port, so its possible to support many systems.
From the article: "Bitcoin-NG addresses the scalability bottleneck by enabling the Bitcoin network to achieve the highest throughput allowed by the network conditions. Paradoxically, not only does it improve transaction throughput, it also reduces transaction latencies -- it is possible to get an initial transaction confirmation in seconds rather than in minutes. And it does so without changing Bitcoin’s open architecture and trust model."

@stanga as you are one of the authors, could you give us a tl;dr as to how this is possible?
Yes, they got it from email, but they didn't get into the email until they were in the house and got the password from a post-it note for the main account, and the daughter had the browser auto-fill it. They wouldn't have had either of these without a willing participant that let them into the house to find the information. It's like saying "I was easily able to rob the bank vault after the manager opened it".
We've been running a series of experiments to find a solution to good stories failing to achieve liftoff from /newest.

The latest experiment involves emailing submitters when we notice a
good story that got overlooked and inviting them to repost it. (On HN,
a small number of reposts is ok when a story hasn't had significant
attention yet; see the FAQ.)

Such reposts get an initial upvote from us. They also go into a pool
from which the software periodically selects a story to place randomly
near the bottom of the front page. Not all such stories get this treatment—it depends on factors like how old they are, how stale the front page
is, and some randomness.

Placing a story near the bottom of the front page ensures that it gets
a bit more attention from the community—surprisingly less than
expected, but still a lot more than languishing on the 5th newest page. If
there's interest, the story rises; if not, it falls off after a
few minutes.

We use a combination of software filters and human review to find
good-but-overlooked stories. "Good" here means by HN's definition of
"gratifying intellectual curiosity".

The currently open questions are: (1) what to do when the submitter
has no email address or doesn't check their email; (2) whether to add
a profile setting people can turn on to have this happen
automatically, and how exactly that would work; and most importantly
(3) how to distribute the human review aspect to the community in a way
that doesn't just reduce to the upvoting mechanism,
which obviously does not suffice to surface the best stories.

Here are some links to look at if you want more about this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date... (<-- mostly comments I posted because the submitter had no email address in their profile)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866140

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790134
It's not really a hack – it does make sense. Make left and right margin automatic so it would be balanced automatically.

There's flexbox, which allows vertical centering and other cool stuff.
I think (s)he was implying not that they're racist, but that they are ignorant of the cultures they are trusted to portray
If a TV show were five minutes of content, and 55 minutes of advertising, I would stop watching it. And yet, that's the approximate breakdown for many websites between content and advertising. And they wonder why readers complain.
> What animations have to do with styling and layout?

What don't they have to do with it? CSS is all about defining the way the site looks. Animations, and especially transitions between states, is the exact same thing. Animations are just layout plus time.
Alternative link: http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/10/15/310477/Chattanooga-Im...
It's more common than you think. I was an early engineer at ZenPayroll (now Gusto) and they split the stock 10-to-1 in their last round.

As the company grows and the value of the stock goes up, it becomes difficult to give granular stock options.

Rarely publicized because it doesn't mean anything. Owning 5/1000 shares or 50/10000 is the same.
You see what happens when you find a stranger in the alps?!
This was addressed in the article.
You can share files with other people, similar to the way you can with Dropbox. That might indicate that encryption is done per-file (which is actually a little less secure, so who knows).

I haven't researched it, but it could work like this: scan the local machine, find duplicates, upload unique files, and then create links to any place a file is duplicated. It all happens locally, so only encrypted data is ever uploaded. Some tiny bit of info about the structure of the file system might be transferred and known by SpiderOak, but I can't conceive of a situation where that matters.
Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8
Looks cool, good job. What do members pay for?
> And matches are perfectly safe, if you don't happen to be surrounded by flammables.

My point goes back to personal responsibility. Whose fault is it if you're surrounded by flammables labeled appropriately?
The analogy is that this is labeled as a "TV show" not a documentary.
I'm legitimately surprised that technically savvy people literally wouldn't know they could get network channels OTA (given reception in their area).

However, I suspect the general state arose because there was a period when much less was available over the Internet, a lot of talked about shows were on cable (premium or otherwise), and you might very well get a better picture with cable/satellite (which is still true for many). So people just got into the habit of thinking in terms of needing cable to get the TV they wanted.

Personally, I can't get anything OTA. If I could, I'd drop cable TV (still need it for Internet and phone) in a heartbeat. As it is today, it's a more difficult decision.
+ for mentioning on-boarding and implications,
another + for mentioning open discussions on things that matter
I agree that's a bad definition.

However, one aspect that makes a difference is many Americans' picture of a Muslim is someone with vaguely brown skin. The people who engage in anti-Muslim hate crimes sometimes end up attacking Sikhs, non-Muslim Indians, even Coptic-Christians. https://www.splcenter.org/news/2011/03/29/anti-muslim-incide...

In a case where a culture conceptualized all and only White people as Christians and stereotyped or attacked them, I would see no problem calling that racism.
You're right in that's a false equivalence; but the response of Obama about the two events that happened the same day was striking.

He has no control whatsoever about crazy people who shoot other people on campuses; and yet that's what he chose to talk about.

He has a lot of control about what targets US armies bomb, drones or no drones. And yet he has almost nothing to say about that.

But my point is not even this. My point is Obama actually loves guns... when they're his own.

Everyone who uses guns thinks they're doing God's work -- and nobody is.

"Evil" is just a point of view when used as an epithet. The only thing that separates us from true evil is certainly not the assertion that one is right and the other, wrong.

It's the rule of law. Get rid of due process, and evil is everywhere, or nowhere at all.
Revert of Make dates default to the local timezone if none specified
I'll just drop this here:

The Strange Tale of the Norden Bombsight
https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell
Yahoo aims to phase out passwords with new service
Never?
It does if you just do a pay-per-ticket fee. The software is already built. $2 for every ticket?
Understanding the Feature Space in Machine Learning
As a counterpoint, I quite like Carousel, and I haven't noticed any problems. Background uploads work for me, although it seems to wait until I am on wifi to upload.
I imagine doing the same thing on a show where they show "computer code" where it could actually compile to a message without being blatantly obvious (say, concatenated characters expressed in unicode)
It's encouraging to see the private sector and government work together so smoothly, creating improved government services and a more fair system for citizens in these innovative cities. So often, government is mired in allegations of corruption, inefficiency, and opaqueness, and these cities are clearly bucking this trend. I only hope voters reward city officials with the votes they so richly deserve in the next election.
There's no magic that means good laws will get strengthened and bad laws will be weakened. The other way around is just as possible.
Do senior software engineers actually have to write code in interviews these days?

I have no problem brainstorming on a whiteboard with their CTO or senior architect, but I would consider it silly to do puzzle programs or write java with some middle-manager lurking over me
Seriously. This is getting tiring. Can we please be more creative with product names?
It is conceivable that they could use software to correct for this. Is there is something they can measure that indicates the amount of dilution with interstitial fluid,there might be a way to take account of it. Similarly you'd want to correct for hemolysis
> Logically, if the U.S. feels justified in targeted drone strikes against legitimate threats to national security, what's to stop China or Russia from doing the same?

Um, nations have been using military force of whatever kind they have available -- and doing so in whatever ways minimize what they have at risk for what they stand to achieve -- for a very long time, longer than the US has been around.

Its not like Russia or China would refrain from using drones, where available, just because the US hadn't done it first.

> Who has the "moral high ground", if such a thing exists, in such cases?

The moral high ground is highly subjective, and generally perceived as being strongly linked to the validity of the justification.

Not that the moral high ground matters all that much in practice if the outrage level isn't tied to groups with both the capacity and the will to do something about it which influences the national interest calculation.
First result on search

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vivek.imei...

Imei changing is trivial. But you are still on the same number.

Now - to change numbers on the fly requires telco assistance. And some very very interesting toys.
Slow Cooker Strainer
Homeland is a TV show, for entertainment. No one is happy with a lot of documentaries, the TV shows that are meant to get at facts and not just entertain.

So while I don't want to give Homeland a free ride, it'd be too much to expect more from the show.
No. War is categorically inhumane. There are no gray areas.

You can add layers of abstraction on top of the violence – much like Tesla owners are abstracted away from the pollution that powers their vehicles – but at the end of the day, someone is on the receiving end of a weapon designed to kill, and you can't sugar-coat that.
How to hire SRE
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
I didn't do a lot of tests in my last work, but had a pretty good system. It was in house, so didn't matter so much if the odd bug slipped past.

I just changed job, and the system I have inherited doesn't seem to have much in the way of automated testing at all, but it works, and it runs. The logging is really thorough which helps a lot. The bugs I have encountered far wouldn't be caught by tests.
I always recommend the book "Leading Snowflakes" for new technical leads or engineering managers:

http://leadingsnowflakes.com

It gives very concrete advice, and it explains the people side in terms of skills that may already be familiar to you as an engineer -- for example, to "code review" your management decisions with your teammates.

I'm also a big fan of this video on Autonomy without Chaos, by David Singleton. David is one of the best engineering managers I've worked with, and really exemplifies a style of management that's focused on empowering your team from the bottom up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKgZmHhSD9I
Some of the Arab/Iranian/Pakistani characters are critical members of the portrayed CIA team.
How to assemble the base of DXRacer D-Series chair
Is there an honest belief that wealthy people keep their money sitting idle in bank accounts? That would explain a lot of the hyperbolic language around the politics of envy - it's a pretty easy (although nonsensical in reality) leap to assume the wealthy accumulate money just to keep it out of the hands of "the people."
They can go full ticketmaster and pay your ticket for you with a convenience fee as an option.
Sorry, but what world are you living in?

Yes, now that its not fashionable to report how many of the "enemy" are killed or injured at the end of each day, it doesn't mean that they are not killed.

The sheer colossal waste of life for the last three big wars, is overwhelming. In iraq we(the west) killed the best part of at least 100,000 people. Then with the sheer ineptitude of occupation set the seeds for a bloody civil war that is still raging (ISIS et al is just a direct consequence) claiming god knows how many people through active fighting a week, and a magnitude more because of the breakdown of the fabric of society.

Yes, we have precision bombs. Yes we have drones. but that just means that we, the west don't directly get hurt. Not the "enemy", or the poor fuckers that happen to be in the way.

Do you know why the current calibre for most nato guns is 5.56mm? yes partly because its smaller, partly because there is less kick, but also because its less lethal.

An injured enemy requires more resources to rescue, causes a distraction, and mental anguish.

As described by many, more gifted people, war is hell.

And right now, futile.
Well, now we see where Jobs's reality distortion field went.
Dietary Supplements Lead to 20,000 E.R. Visits Yearly, Study Finds
You're exactly right. If you get some dork that wants you to code during an interview then walk out immediately.

That's not how the real world works.

That said, as a senior software engineer, you should be able to get on a whiteboard and brainstorm and defend some architectural designs.

Even then, it's so much more important that you're all on the "same page" and can collaborate on problem solving, rather than they hoping your freaking Richard Feynman and will solve cold fusion for them