skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It matters to the people you leave, too. When people spend a lot of energy recruiting you, doing due diligence on you and you on them, it (hopefully) builds a fair amount of trust and mutual respect. When you leave after a short time, that trust is violated, often in both directions. Barring something somewhat unusual (cough Clinkle cough), people are generally going to be very transparent with people they hire to help with a turn-around. When you have every opportunity to determine whether or not you're up for a challenge and then 3 months later are like "nah, actually, too hard" it will probably have some effect, at least with people that were closely involved in your hiring.
Its neat because its a desirable car I guess and because its WebGL, but right now you can download Unity3D, build whatever, and push it out into WebGL trivially. This seems a year too late to be impressive. I think a lot of the people impressed by this haven't been keeping up with WebGL. If you want your mind blown you should see this game that runs in WebGL:

https://ga.me/games/polycraft
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What's more common is that the large multinationals get a targeted carve-out only usable by large multinationals, with the tax burden shifted to individuals and small businesses. A small business cannot practically take advantage of arrangements like "double Irish with a Dutch sandwich".
Interesting, but I think that the psychological basis of the belief in cryonics (to the point of paying for/investing in it) is far more so.
That's an opinion. There's a whole debate on bundling vs sharing, and neither opinion is canonically correct. That said, it is only a 'technical error' in your view that shared libraries are the only way.
> Well I guess I don't see free and open as being opposing to each other.

Orthogonal means independent, not opposing. You can have free and open, you can have free and closed, you can have non-free and open and you can have non-free and closed.

> IF someone takes grant money from the government the research should be both free from fees and not behind a paid wall.

Be as it may, even with mostly volunteers running a peer-reviewed journal has costs, so unless governments start journal grants of sorts...
It doesn't seem that any of the people who left were remote workers. I mean--maybe they had felt some solidarity with their remote-working coworkers--but I suspect that Yahoo's problems run a little deeper.

The company promised a turnaround that hasn't happened. The people leaving largely seem to have been in positions to have a strong sense for when and how such a turnaround would come to fruition--and their actions suggest to me a lack of confidence.

I do agree that the memo didn't really help the company in any notable way. Whatever it could have helped was surely more than offset by what it could have--and did--hurt.
> * The various iterations of Zune, even though commercially unsuccessful, laid the groundwork for both the "Metro" UI language and Microsoft's in-house hardware design.*

I think this is key. Microsoft has been selling keyboards and mice for a long time with probably a small team, but organizationally the Zune (and Xbox 360) efforts allowed them to staff up and work out a lot of the logistics.
This is really cool. Am I correct in drawing the inference that this is solely a "view" system, for viewing and querying the database?
It's understandable that the information is there and accessible. But, again, it should never be communicated between employees, only between employee and account holder. Maybe such policy is not common practice for businesses? It seems like an obvious security measure.
You should have a section of "Why not?" in your readme:

- Google cannot crawl by default (Google is crawling JS websites now, but I bet it doesn't run JS on any website it founds).

- Writing your posts in raw JSON is crazy.

- If you need to write HTML you'll need an external tool, and this breaks your argument against Jekyll and other static site generators (I don't like the fact that Jekyll needs Ruby and a lot of things, but there are a lot of other static website generators with very little requirements out there).

- Why not write raw HMTL in raw HTML files instead? This is much more "what you see is what you get" than writing everything in a big JSON file.
I think you're overestimating the amount of times that data needs to move across borders to complete a transaction.

As an example, you're buying an airline ticket to a foreign destination. There is a check box next to the purchase button. The check box says that to complete the transaction you agree that information will be transferred to the destination country.
Exactly. Programming was once all about numerical analysis and simulations. Now these take about 1-2% of all programming-related activities, but we still use these
highly specialized optimized data types everywhere! It's just a mental inertia.
Most SPAs I've used handle the routing with JavaScript, making your URL sharing use-case possible. It's not very hard to implement either, that stuff is covered quite early in most AngularJs resources out there. In fact, creating a large SPA without some sort of routing sounds like a nightmare.
There is quite a bit of (non-university) educational use of Lisp variants in education. See Logo and Scheme. There are lots of publications about this topic.
This reminds me of the tiny house movement that avoids building regulations w.r.t. minimize size and grid hookup by putting wheels on their semi-permanent houses.
That was before GPUs. GPU is a modern co-processor.
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Eye tracking have been around for quite a while and it seems that even normal cameras can track the eyes and eye focus (Tobii being world leader).

If they use the technology mentioned here, it would be very high resolution (4K mentioned in the demo video) at a short distance (mm's) at full focus.

But - just as you say, no one yet knows how Magic Leap reads the environment to do proper mapping and focusing on an object in real life (rather than on a screen like some VR headset do) should be very unpredictable.
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Who was John Titor, the 'time traveller' who came from 2036?
Money is an option. Vendor lock-in isn't.
I implemented Gaussian elimination on the Cell for my uni coursework... that was fun.

SPE portion:
https://gist.github.com/gigablah/1c72acbe718844310b10
It appears you couldn't have Googled for more than 2-3 minutes.
The people leaving according to article are quite high ranking. I don't think they would care for work from home and in case they do yahoo would make exception for them.
Hate windows, but windows 3.1 was ground breaking for the tiime and was primarily the reason why computers took off.
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> Google (as opposed to Alphabet) really only has Ads, everything else is just to help get those ads in front of more people more often

Actually they have like ~1.37 Yahoos worth of non-ad revenue[1][2]

[1] https://investor.google.com/earnings/2015/Q2_google_earnings...

[2] https://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=92308...
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Three person marriage is likely next.

It avoids incest taboos and the groundwork has already been done.
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A jetski.
Yes, we're mainly focused on making it easy for non-technical people to pull data out. We have had embedded applications that hit a REST api to expose actions on the data that was embedded though.
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You can do all kinds of nice DANE-like things. For example keys for SSH, IPSec, OpenVPN, NFS, etc. "We already have something for web browsers" isn't a big counterargument.

I agree they should add confidentiality. That shouldn't be too hard since all the key handling is already taken care of.
> SCOTUS acts like a classic common law court: the law exists independently of the courts, in the people, and the task of the court is to discover it.

That's true in many important Constitutional areas, in many cases because parts of the Constitution are generally read in a way which incorporates that view (its particularly true, e.g., of things like 8th amendment "cruel and unusual" standards, 4th amendment reasonableness, 9th amendment nonenumerated rights, and 5th and 14th amendment due process.)

That is, the ways in which the Supreme Court "acts like a classic common law court" are because certain written sources of law like the Constitution or particular statutes are understood to require the court to do that to apply the law as intended, because the text itself invokes considerations that require consideration of the social context to apply.
Maybe this is a problem with your government, rather than government in general? The government produces quite good services in many European countries, especially in northern Europe. And large companies generally have very poor service.

Example: I used to live in Denmark, where the healthcare system is run by the government, and now I live in the USA, where it isn't. For me, the Danish system was far more user-friendly.
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Fuck with my car.
Ember 2.0 came out after 1.13, so there's 4 versions between 1.9 and 2.0.

1.13 added a bunch of deprecation warnings to all the features they were going to strip out, and 2.0 only removed code previously marked as deprecated. So maybe not far ahead of the curve, but they're at least taking steps to reduce their imprint.
I feel like the content submitted has been on the decline, particularly in comparison to content submitted even just two years ago. I must be on the HN-decline equivalent of a nicotine patch.
Interesting perspective, thanks.
Wait, but between n and n+1 there are also an infinite number of rational numbers, but the cardinality of all rational numbers is the same as that of integers (or that of all rational numbers between a fixed n and n+1).

So, while what the gp wrote is correct, it's not an explanation of why there are more real numbers than integers.
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Yes Professor Smith, and Thank You!
I don't think the summary in the comment is correct, though. There are also an infinite number of rational numbers between any given integer n and n+1, and indeed an infinite number of rational numbers between any two rational numbers, yet the cardinality of the rationals is still the same as the cardinality of the integers.

Diagonalization is brilliant, though!
Good idea. I'll add a pitfalls section. I usually write in notepad and copy it over. I don't write straight in JSON. Why would you need an external tool to write HTML? Sure, they help a ton, but I can get the job done in notepad.

I did consider using raw HTML files, but I wanted everything that needs to be updated in one place, in one file.
It definitely was a little disillusioning when I learned that many famous hackers were not technical wizards (like bunnie) but in fact basically con artists.
I'm not saying that no changes are needed. What I am saying is that the proposals put forth by Smith are more complex than necessary and that the purpose of the added complexity is to benefit his employer and not individuals.

In many jurisdictions, some rights cannot be legally signed away

In those jurisdictions there would have to be changes to allow individuals to provide permission to move their information across borders.

Lastly the US government is currently trying to coerce Microsoft into revealing data stored overseas, so even storing data in the country of origin may be insufficient protection.

Which is why I said "Let each country have it's own set of rules and have all countries respect those rules for data located in the hosting country."
Shouldn't there be like a department in the CIA that scraps all of that stuff for agency employees?

I know that some other agencies, and even private corporation do that.
"found in all of 64 children" "also found in vehicle exhaust"

Are there several definitions of nanotubes, one of them including a lot of carbon chains?
As with everything, it depends largely on your genetics and natural inclination to becoming insulin resistant. Insulin resistance (IR) can occur in normal-BMI individuals. This is typically accompanied (caused?) by a large amount of visceral fat (internal, around your organs), which isn't what we typically see when we look at an overweight individual. IR is really just the first step to full type 2 diabetes.

Exercise and youth can negate much of a bad diet, but it will likely catch up to you eventually. Better markers than your weight might be HDL (should be high), triglyceride levels (should be low), and fasting blood sugar. If those are optimal, you're probably doing fine, but there isn't really a case to be made that you should continue to eat poor food choices if you can avoid it.
I'm not going to pretend I have answer, but I'm just going to repeat what I said; that celebrities have been trying to solve this problem for a long time. They hire security, have security installed in their homes, etc. etc.

Plugging our ears and saying "LALALA the bad guys need to stop being bad" won't solve anything. Because yes, people will hide behind proxies.

You don't need to leave the platform. You don't need to move states. But you do need to do something. You can't just sit around waiting for someone to come to your rescue.
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So... the right solution is just to do it again the Right Way, you say?

https://xkcd.com/927/
I'm bookmarking this thread for exactly that purpose.

My bet: before the end of next month someone will cite it on HN as evidence that social network cause poor functioning.
When talking about a diet you want to break it down into several dimensions.
1) Does this diet lead to weight loss? This boils down to burning more calories then consumed. As mentioned in a different comment you can lose weight eating only twinkies.
2) Sustainability of diet - can the diet be maintained over the long term, and this plays in to the psychological challenge you mentioned.
3) Long term health effects - does the diet promote overall long term health or have potential negative consequences. Something like the twinkie diet most likely does not. i.e. does a twinkie have enough vitamin c to prevent scurvy
4) Interactions with personal health conditions - how does the diet affect your own current health condition. I am sure a diabetic would not fare well on the twinkie diet
That's certainly a hypothesis, alright.
For those wanting to actually build NFAs (and test them as they go), PDAs and other defined machina, try jflap: http://www.jflap.org/
This is 2015. The idea that we need to make sure a company is steeped in ill-gotten profit so that information can be disseminated is absolutely laughable.

The internet has brought a new method of information dissemination, a free method. not only are for-profit scientific journals outdated relics by now, but they're clearly aware of that fact and grasping for straws to stay relevant.
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This is the 10th article today about sexism/feminism/rape culture/woman's issues etc.

What's going on?
And perhaps putting extra emphasis on educational background over talent and achievements is running things aground.

"Mayer, who habitually asked deputies where they attended college, balked at hiring her as a contributing editor for Yahoo Food. According to one executive, Mayer disapproved of the fact that Paltrow did not graduate college."

http://www.businessinsider.com/mayer-refused-to-hire-gwyneth...
I mean, come on! Proprietary C compiler on AIX?! Hardly sounds like "progress" to me.
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Looks great, bookmarked for later reading.

Can you give us some insights in how successful is the business model of releasing a book free to read and paid at the same time ?

I've seen this trend before and I was always wondered if the authors are satisfied with how much money they get this way.
So....it's basically a technology that duplicates the retinal projection in Star Trek TNG's "The Game"?

Interesting if it works that well. I could see people using this far more than the others coming out.
It's not exactly a tiny house movement invention, the Roma have been doing this for a very long time. There are also tax advantages to having wheels attached to your house, in plenty of places that means you're not paying property tax for the dwelling.
It appears that while he technically may have one of the most reproduced faces, it's only because his face is an emoticon on Twitch that is constantly used, something like 800+ times/minute. So those unfamiliar with Twitch (like me) would have never seen this face or recognize it.

Also, fivethirtyeight is using the phrase "IRL." Is this in the dictionary or something now? I thought it was slang and not generally used in more reputable sites.
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I'm not entirely clear on the EU's legal structure. Does an Italian citizen have ways to hold the BND accountable for accessing their personal data held in Germany?

I assume an Italian citizen can't vote to change Germany's legal system.
> Three person marriage is likely next.

> It avoids incest taboos and the groundwork has already been done.

It actually hasn't; any two-party marriage uses the same infrastructure without problems, the differences are simply at the front door.

Multiparty marriages need ground up redesign of the rights and privileges, which are all based on exclusive dyadic relationships.

There's quite usable outlines of how the legal infrastructure might support many aspects of multiparty marriages (especially in terms of things like dissolution) in, e.g., the law of business partnerships, but the context and details of the rights and privileges tied to marriage are sufficiently different that there is a lot of work to do define even what a multiparty marriage would mean legally.

Its not a simple equality step that can be addressed largely at the front door like interracial or even same-sex marriage.
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I'd also like to hear about this. Unfortunately, the problem is as much legal (zoning, building codes etc.) as it is technical.
> sports change over time or die

Why do you believe this?
Bundling involves shared libraries. I'm not sure where you came up with this distinction.
I've been reading magazines and books on tablets for a while now, and while I agree that 4:3 portrait is naturally more suited to reading, most magazines are printed at an actual size of A4 paper or larger. So even on a 9.7 inch iPad, the content is being shrunk to "fit to vertical height".

This can make the content harder to read, as you're not viewing it at the actual size it was designed for. The alternative is to read it in landscape mode "Fit to horizontal width", but with visual clarity, the trade-off is having to scroll to read the whole page, which is annoying, and reminiscent of scrolling through a web page.
This is why I hate "all-in-one" systems. Systems that try to do it all, end up being hard to work with, and just introduce multiple points of failure. IMO, it's better to decouple systems and have each of them do one job, and do it well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy). Then moving things around isn't as complicated or impactful.
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There's a lot of creepos out there in the industry, Brian.
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The parent commenter was implying that the public wouldn't stand for having recreational drugs being manufactured by regular pharm companies, because they were somehow more dangerous. I pointed out that pharm companies already manufacture dangerous chemicals, that include these recreational drugs.
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For me it'd be to move through water mostly submerged under muscle power without significantly altering the length/leverage of any limb (trying to avoid tiny boats with oars or something here). Things like diving/'mermaid' fins I'd be willing to allow since they're not significantly amplifying the swimmers power just making it easier to apply it.

It's a fuzzy line for sure if we're trying to define where it starts being more of a boat than a person moving through the water.
Two schools of thought, with the assumption that as you said no secrets, keys etc are in code.

Open sourcing it allows the people to provide you with feedback how to make it more secure or help find vulnerabilities so you can address them right away.

Not open sourcing it, prevents people from finding vulnerabilities which they could use to compromise your site, or other sites based on your code.

My own two cents, if you want to open source it, I'd do it and just value the feedback you will get and make things as tight as possible. A lot of times code doesn't get open sourced not because people are afraid of security but afraid of being judged by what they had to hack together to get 1.0 out, and then how long that code sometimes hangs around. Speaking from experience on this for sure.
Something like this?

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zosQ90T3srs/UeqiEbif-kI/AAAAAAAAB...
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Insomniac R&D has a great handful of presentations on the crackheadedness of programming the Cell.

One of the most annoying things that we ran into was that it was basically impossible to buy a system to learn Cell programming on--you either had to somehow root a PS3 (which still didn't let you get all cores), or you had to buy something from Mercury Computer Systems (I think it was?) that was super expensive.

It was a niche embedded processor, and hobbled because they didn't make it easier to develop for. :(
Add to that how poor the feedback mechanisms are; by the time a parent sees a child become an adult it may be too late to apply that learning to another child.

Child-rearing is a hard problem.
Haven't you heard? Being a woman in the US nowadays is the worst thing ever, basically the equivalent of being a slave in the middle ages.
It's pretty clear that reacting to trolls only means you'll attract more of them.

Sexism is an important issue, but posting this article (as opposed to the previous one you posted) will likely attract more negative comments than the discussion you intended to start.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2939 may explain the vocalization of negativity on your blog post.

I'm sorry about what happened. No one deserves that. Pay no attention to the haters. Just write about your experiences and ignore those who keep you down.
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I don't know if that's true. The first few iPhones were very expensive unlocked and on contract, required signing up for a $70-$100/month phone plan, which was close to double what dumbphone users were paying. The iPod Nano, iPod Touch and iPod Classic saw updated versions each year, slowing down only once iPhones and Androids became mainstream and replaced dedicated music players.
I didn't read the article, and I'm no chemist, but I wouldn't be surprised if combustion produces carbon nanotubes. Buckyballs were discovered to be present in candle soot.
I've taken on myself to customize my social network experience using injected CSS with extensions such as Stylish or Greasemonkey.

Simply adding a noisy background to my Facebook feed (a sunset, really) made it so I spent about half the time I used to there. I also changed all the hues of blue to be red.

I don't seem to mindlessly surf Facebook now.

They tailor those internet "drugs" very well and messing with a few values will remove a lot of the addiction. It's some pretty interesting psychology that is going on and social media won't hesitate to manipulate us in order to get more ads view.