skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, we were only allowed to use the first 30 seconds of songs in school projects. Presumably that rumor started because of iTunes

More likely, it was a rule adopted because fair use analysis is generally helped by using a limited portion of the copyrighted work, and organizations concerned with liability don't really want everyone independently trying to figure out how limited a portion is limited, so they like to set some standard that is likely to be limited enough in most real cases of the type they are likely to be exposed to (e.g., nonprofitable educational uses, for school projects) as to mitigate risk sufficiently.

> Meanwhile we just had to cite where entire photos came from! I think it was just the recency of the music piracy issues that made them care.

That's actually perfectly sensible -- the demonstrated propensity of interested parties to file a lawsuit, and the likely damages in the case a suit is lost, are perfectly rational factors to consider when determining how to craft a legal risk mitigation policy.
Media Genre More Basic Than Politics or Personality?
There seems to be this misperception of board members as individually highly influential on the actions of a company.

Rice was probably hired for several of the reasons that you mentioned above. Ultimately though, it's hard to make useful speculation from outside of the company, with little knowledge of the company's long-term goals.
> Same thing with a Visa card didn't go very well

I agree with the overall sentiment of your post, but unlike Amex, Visa does not issue credit cards, and relies on banks ("Issuing Banks") to deal with disputes. So if you had a bad experience with your Visa card, you should consider switching to a different issuer, vs. just assuming that all banks that issue Visa cards will act the same.
This is absolutely on point. As I said in another comment, often, HR departments outsource the entire search to recruiters. Here in the US, the typical cut is 20 to 75%. For those recruiters who have negotiated higher cuts like 75%, it is usually due to an executive-level relationship...but they don't keep the full 75%, they then sub-source the talent from secondary or even tertiary recruiters.

Lets take an example -- the worker makes 100/hr, the tertiary (recruiter who actually found the talent) gets 25/hr, the secondary (who vetted from multiple tertiaries) gets 25/hr, the primary (who plays golf with the CIO) gets 25/hr.

So perhaps the worker is well off at 100/hr, but this is a huge loss to the company -- three extra parties have taken a cut just because the HR manager didnt want to vet their own people. If the skill-set is worth more than 100/hr, then the company cant recruit the right talent, and complains of "shortages" whereas in reality, the "shortage" is because too many third parties have their hand in the cookie-jar leaving too little to pay the actual market wage.
Xamarin on iOS works in a similar way to Unity. They both use the Mono AOT compiler (ahead of time translation) to convert C# to native ARM code. It's not a JIT environment, like on Android. Miguel de Icaza is one of the founders of Xamarin and the Mono OSS project.

However, Mono isn't composed of ObjC classes so it's harder to detect just by looking at that list like the author did here. Xamarin does have a few ObjC components (such as XamarinNSThreadObject) since it adds a support library to the environment.

We actually match the structure of the code (control flow subgraphs), as well as other items like data references, so we get a more accurate view than you do just looking at class names.

You're right that each native or ObjC library you use with Xamarin has a plugin that exports a C# interface. It will be interesting to see how this evolves and if Xamarin will come up with a way of auto-generating these interfaces better.
I am against DRM in general, but I don't really understand the whole "free" software movement. Whenever I see the FSF (Stallman et al) deriding any and all software that isn't open source and licensed for free use by anyone for any purpose, it just seems ridiculously naive to me. Does their ideal world really have zero commercial closed-source software? How do software developers get paid in that world? And why stop at software? Do they eat food from restaraunts that don't publish their exact recipes? Do they pay for commercial transportation (buses, airplanes, etc.) that restrict your destinations to pre-set terminals? Why does software get this special "it's evil if it's not open and free" treatment but nothing else? I find it truly bizarre.
I have a few suggestions.

First, I am technical with lots of experience in manufacturing, systems, software (CAD) and some programming. (mostly low level / embedded type programming) Just for context.

Do you have people skills? I got them from the performing arts and various other activities in my life. Basically, if you have a personality and can just engage people, you may be well suited for sales.

Secondly, will you close? This is the qualifier. Lots of technical people will support the sales process, but are reluctant to close. Asking for the business can be extremely difficult for some people.

Based on that qualifier, you may consider pre-sales, which is basically supporting sales people by defining the value proposition, technical proof of concept, discovery, demonstrations, competetive (fun), etc...

Or, you might consider sales and lead others to do your pre-sales support.

If you think you are the latter, you could do very well in enterprise sales as you have technical qualifications that really help you directly understand the deal, it's worth, viability, etc... You can also get some credibility strictly sales only people often find more difficult to establish, though the good ones do establish it by selling their team as well as the software solution.

Suggestions:

1. Consider a VAR. Many VAR type organizations aren't always the best places to work longer term, but they are also more willing to take risks on good people wanting to get into sales. Many are technically hungry and or wanting to improve on their close rates with better / more sales people.

You could approach a VAR for either pre-sales, or sales and perhaps accompany an existing team to learn the ropes. From there, you would get your number and start hunting! Or, you find you are more pre-sales oriented, and join a team and start helping put deals together.

2. With no direct sales experience, you might also consider applying at an enterprise company for pre-sales. This is a more formalized environment, and you will get a lot of exposure to the sales process, network with sales people, and maybe get some opportunities to close deals.

Good pre-sales people can be hard to find. If you are personable and able to communicate complex concepts to people successfully, you probably won't have much trouble.

Startups are a mixed bag, compared to established B2B enterprise companies. Risk is higher, but so is the excitement level.

One thing you need to consider is risk / reward. Many technical people are risk adverse and prefer consistent income. If this is you, target pre-sales.

On the other hand, if you are fairly secure taking some risk, sales can pay very, very well.

Good luck. Have fun!
We're running all the containers on Mesos hosts, so really all Ansible needs to do for us is talk to Marathon. We realized early on down this path that to accommodate scale we'd need to have some sort of scheduler. Mesos happened to be the most robust.

We originally tried the docker module in Ansible but found it had a few problems. There's been a lot of work on it since, and I expect it will be in a much better state when Ansible 2.0 is released.
is electricity any different than ionized hydrogen?
Will you at least get a portion of the sales on the game? If the game really will be one of the biggest releases next year, a 20k salary is likely nothing compared to residuals/bonuses that might accrue to you.
By "owner" are you trying to mean "copyright holder"? and by "consumer" I'll assume you mean "not the copyright holder or licensee".

If yes, then ever since copyright law was enacted. It's called fair use and the public domain. Also note not all artistic creation is actually copyrightable.
These criminals are not stealing all these credit cards for fun. It's to make money. They have money. Obviously they can throw $200 at someone just to troll him. They could pull together more if they really decided it was necessary. Money talks.
Building a voice-activated light switch at home
Interesting tome. I wonder how much of it is actually empirically accurate?

I'll skim it and see what's up. Obviously people will be jumping to call this some sort of conspiracy theory style document, but whatever, maybe the information is useful.
Blindly hitting candidates with a test is rude. There was definitely a trend a few years ago where bigger name companies wouldn't even look at resumes. They would just send a test out to every candidate who applied.
I hear that O-1 review has become less favourable to founders over the last 1-2 years.

TN is risky because you may be asked to prove that you are not employing yourself and that you can can be fired at any time by your boss. On top of that, you must be paid market wage or higher and not a "founder's salary".

Another visa to consider is the E-2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa) if you have the financial resources or after you have raised some funding.

This is not legal advice, consult an attorney.
The wording is definitely a bit awkward. (disclosure: I pitched the news announcement to TC so it's kinda my fault).
I always find hard to explain technical debt and connect it to code reviews in a concise manner. I believe you're 100% correct.

Coming from a .NET world, you are definitely well served by great tools. Our main selling point with Codacy is that there's a higher value to static analysis tools when they are not only integrated in the collaboration workflow (i.e. Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc) but also integrated with other tools.
How does one discover quickly what is the code quality impact of a commit/pull request done by a team member? How about whether a pull request is ready for merge? That's what we're doing essentially.
There is evidence that meditation can help with anxiety/depression. I've experienced depression through varying life circumstances although never clinical depression. In these times of distress i began meditating, and have not stopped as i find it helps me.
Onboarding tool for web apps
You're not going to get an answer. I think we all know why.
The Economics of Watering Your Lawn
It's interesting to see the moral ambiguity in this, in the comments and in the article itself. Perhaps the comment with the rarest insight of empathy is the one by Matthew B.:

"The people who conduct this type of crime often think of it as justified. After all, Americans are rich aren’t they? How could it hurt them to lose some money? We are poor, if they won’t share, we’ll just take it. We will make them share!

They think of it as a game. A lucrative game in which they get to win over and over again. Even those of them who may be kind to their friends and even generous with those they love, don’t really see their victims as people. Not being a member of their group makes the rest of us not quite human.

This type of tribal thinking isn’t as uncommon as you might want to believe. I’ve seen it here in the US over and over during my lifetime. Most people who suffer from it don’t consider themselves evil. They just consider the rest of us their lawful prey.

We tend to feel otherwise. Thanks for the great work Brian."

What I find a bit crass is the sensationalistic complete disclosure of identity employed - going all the way to the classical mugshot. All of this will certainly not help for Fly's later reinsertion, say, when he decides to get a job in IT. And I'm not playing devil's advocate here, it just seems to me that the author is pushing aside his inner moral voice in order to write a more viral article. Justice is taking care of prosecuting the criminal, but let's push him further down if it can attract some pageviews. I suppose I'm simply being bitter about journalism, though.
No, astronomers probably haven't found “alien megastructures”
The firm that said they had already received the CV and couldn't contract has all the evidence that is needed. Surely a firm would unite with a potential candidate to bring down scum recruiters?
Depends. You'd have to look closely at the photo to see him, but the stance and appearance are very close to the other, well-known photograph:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Billy_th...

I'm not anything like an expert, but looking at the enlarged portion, he was the one who came to mind.
Absolutely. To be called "hydrogen" (or any element really), a nucleus must be involved. Electron-free nuclei maintain their elemental identities, they're just positively charged and willing to take on electrons. "Electricity" involves moving electrons, which doesn't always require a nucleus (hence "free electrons")
"Fake" is a little strong. As he says at the end of the article, you couldn't capture an image like that with a single photograph. He strove for accuracy, but who knows how close he got - the article doesn't go into that. His clients thought it was realistic enough and evocative enough to give him $1m.
Which makes sense, because the sole purpose of the exclusionary rule is to punish the state for actively cheating the Fourth Amendment.
> Aren't most reasonable people utilitarians? :)

If by reasonable, you mean "rational" in the sense of rational choice theory, and if by "utilitarians" you mean "maximize of their own individual utility" rather than "adherents to the philosophical school of utilitarianism", then, yes, all reasonable people are utilitarians, by definition.
This argument doesn't scan at all. Employer's compensation maximum being equal, you'd be able to negotiate a 25-30% higher salary without the recruiter's cut being a part of total compensation.
But that's what happens anyway isn't it? Disney kept getting the law changed to protect their fictional mouse character. The MAFIAA got their terrible DMCA. And so on...

The question is - how can you fight it? If the plebes could get laws made in their interest, they would. But they can't, so some of them do the next best thing - break the law. And I don't see anything wrong with that. Might makes right is the ultimate rule here. If nobody can stop you from doing what you want, then it's OK. That's just how the world works.
This article goes into a little more detail:
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/new-image-shows...
In general photo content owners are as litigious as music ones.
You are complaining that Krebs doxxed a credit card scammer who tried to frame him for dealing heroin?
never heard of them. Explain

Their URLs lead to their respective cgit repos, where looking at the top-level source tree immediately demystifies their purpose.

Rest is nitpicking by some nebulous standard that barely any project satisfies. It's clearly mentioned that sinit and svc replace systemd, too.
The story behind the code: "LAPD underreported serious assaults, skewing crime stats for 8 years" http://www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-crime-stats-2015...
You could always ask them.

As an alternative, VPSs are cheap nowadays and you can easily spin up a VPN server automatically with something like Streisand
By definition once a fix is available it's not a 0day anylonger.
> To build a pyramid required a very large number of slaves.

Minor nitpick - I think this was finally confirmed by historians that pyramids weren't built by slaves, but by paid contractors. But then again, the lives of slaves in the past were closer to the lives of employees today; American slavery was a historical abberation. Also I personally believe that if you have to work to earn for bread and home, you are a slave. What will break this slavery is - you've guessed it - more cheap energy!

I agree with you and with Burk here; this is the pattern I'm increasingly begin to notice. Social issues are indeed secondary to technological and are enabled by them. This also means that energy issues are the most important topic the public refuses to talk about - most of the things that usually take up the slots on TV will sort themselves out. I hear people in my country discussing the issues of immigration, in between bickering about schooling and taxes, and I can't stop thinking that we could do so much more for those problems if we just shut up for a moment about them and finally ACKed the construction of that goddamned nuclear power plant.
From what we know as long as it is a custom 1024-bit DH key and you're not being actively targeted by the NSA you are probably okay. That said, you should still upgrade to 2048-bit (or higher, if you're paranoid) ASAP.
Italy to dig for ancient Roman treasure sought by Nazis
Velocity 2015 in New York addressess “human” issues
Not working for Chrome on Linux. Starting Chrome with blacklist arg still shows _DHE_ entries.

Chrome: 46.0.2490.71
Linux: 3.19.0-30-generic
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Here's one more big thank-you to you and everyone else who made Ansible what it is: excellent. Congratulations!
And the bottom of such a huge iceberg can't possible be as well lit as if the sun was hitting it from below. (And of course it looks like that because it's an above water shot, flipped.)
University of Leeds to develop robots that can fix street lights and potholes
Each fix is in response to an exploitable flaw in their software that was discovered by a hacker. It's quite shocking how many exploitable vulnerabilities exist in Flash.
You forgot:
10.- Eat healthy and drink lots of water. Fruits and veggies, less bread and potatoes.

(I can be presumptuous in saying I know you forgot #10 because it feels like I wrote your list myself...)
We've moved to using Hashicorp's Consul-Template (https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-template). Ansible populates Consul with any required configuration changes during the deployment of a new version, and Consul-Template knows about these changes and automatically writes them to disk. Applications running on the host are then reloaded to pick up the changes.
If they are from a "treaty country"[1] they could apply for an E-2[2] investor Visa given that at least 50% of the company is owned by entities from the treaty country (easy at that stage) and you could demonstrate a substantial investment in the company (if you are after the prototype stage shouldn't be a problem for a good visa lawyer).

On your specific question, from feedback of my lawyer, if they have invested (read: spent) more than 100K in the company they are good to go. No requirement on how much you have raised (but obviously at least 100K).

So should't be a problem for a typical YC company.

[1] http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/fees/treaty.html

[2] http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...
For the blockchain/proof-of-work concept to truly work, everyone should be offered some sort of incentive to participate in the network. It's the best way to ensure that a single actor can't gather enough computing power to take control of more than 50% of the network.
Even post Pirate Bay?
While I understand where you're coming from on this with respect to high-end audio and other fields where eye-watering price tags are applied with poorly-defined reasons, this isn't the case here.

The espresso process is EXTREMELY finicky and highly sensitive to initial conditions. Recipes vary from bean to bean, machine to machine, and based on personal preference, but they all generally specify the same 3 things: the mass of coffee going in ("dose"), the mass of the resulting shot, and the time for the extraction to complete.

I typically am pulling shots with Madcap's Third Coast blend. In their shop they target an 18.5g dose yielding a 31g shot completed in 25 seconds (with no pre-infusion). The dependent variable here is the shot time. Anything +/- 4 or more seconds is dumped in the sink as completely undrinkable. The difference is not at all subtle - the shots are awful even to a novice palette.

The reason we have PIDs (and rotary pumps, heated group heads, calibrated tampers, doses measured to the 1/10th gram, etc) is to control every last variable that will impact this process. Every variable here can and will create wild swings in the resulting shot time, so we fix everything we can as accurately as we can to avoid dumping $1 worth of espresso down the drain. With everything else fixed, what we then control as the independent variable is the size of the grind.

This then is how espresso is tuned to land within the time given by your recipe. Grind finer (smaller particles), the process will take longer. Grind looser (larger particles), the process will run shorter. Anything more than 3 seconds one way or the other is another dollar bill down the drain. Very small changes in grind size can yield very large changes in the resulting extraction time. Every time you miss the mark, another dollar bill hits the sink.

As a result, grinder performance is probably the single most important piece of the espresso puzzle, and it's easy to quantify the difference.
Think in terms of branches of government. The executive branch investigates crimes, and the judicial adjudicates them. The exclusionary rule is designed to punish the executive branch for abusing the Fourth Amendment. But if it's the judge that's mistaken, it's the judicial, not the executive, at fault, and the incentive behind the exclusionary principle ceases to exist.

(If it helps: the US's exclusionary rule is significantly stronger and more consistent than those of European countries, particularly the UK.)
Read further down the FAQ:

Q. Will Red Hat open source all of Ansible's technology?
Most of Ansible is already open source today. Red Hat has long shown its commitment to open-sourcing the technology it acquires, and we have no reason to expect a change in this approach. Our specific plans and timeline will be determined over the coming months.
"We all" = ....?

I certainly don't, and would enjoy insight.
Something that bugged me as a kid trying to learn electronics: everything is connected to ground, negative is on ground, so we're dumping electrons onto every path in the circuit. It's the job of the resistor, capacitor, transistor, IC, etc, to direct those electrons, putting their energy to use, and then dumping them back to positive.