skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To respond to the grandparent first, suppose the laptop had been used for a day and then returned. We really don't know for certain what criteria Apple uses when it decides whether to have a returned item go on the shelf or into the refurb process. The important thing is that we trust apple that when we buy one labeled "new" we are getting an unfettered piece of hardware with a fresh software load and no measurable wear and tear beyond what is typical for a new device.

The certified pre-owned programs are a way that the automotive OEM tries to add respectability to the used car business, which is often a bit shady. When a vehicle has been certified it's been looked over by a mechanic but most importantly it comes with a warranty that rivals a new car warranty.

The OEM is taking on financial risk by insuring the vehicle against defect, in order to increase the market price of its used vehicles, which improves leasing residuals and makes it possible for the firm to lease new vehicles less expensively.

You've hit upon the key issue, which is that it takes the OEM being willing to (in some way) embrace the used item and take responsibility for it the way it does with a new vehicle. Because of the focus on sales numbers financing that is actually a marketing program, once the vehicle has been sold once the OEM has no incentive to own/sell it again, since it is already "sold" as far as wall street is concerned.

So in order for this to change, OEMs would have to make financing and warranty products available that addressed the consumer concerns with a vehicle that someone else drove for a day, week, month, etc.... such as, for example, insurance against the realization a few weeks after purchase that the previous owner had spilled milk on the rear seat and it's now going sour (essentially giving the vehicle a permanent bad smell unless the seat is replaced).. etc.
Their robots.txt [1] prevented archive.org's Wayback machine from crawling their Privacy Policy at https://www.homejoy.com/privacy

I would have assumed that I'd be notified if sensitive information on Homejoy was sold to a third-party or "partner", but I should have probably read their privacy policy more closely when the shutdown notice came out.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20151023153644/https://homejoy.c...
FYI, if you're interested in USING Weather Company data & building apps with Bluemix, Devpost just launched a new online hackathon all about that (and Spark!) with $30K in prizes.

http://sparkathon.devpost.com/
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> EV certificates add green buttons with company names. Registrar checked that this company indeed exists and legal. So you can be sure, that you didn't mistype URL. And may be some users are comfortable with HTTPS scheme.

Yeah, but those are companies that might as well have non-hidden websites, or be serving .onion mirrors of their regular domains.

The main "use case" for .onion domains are people for whom EV certificates would defeat the whole point.
Let's make it more fair: instead of men and women changing jobs, ostensibly causing a great deal of chaos, let's go with a parallel universe where your conditions are already in place.

Or even better, let's use industries in our own universe that already has those conditions: education and child care.

What sort of "special treatment" do men get in those industries? Well, in many day care services, the male employees are not allowed to be alone with children. In education, male teachers make it a deliberate point not to be alone with students, because a single false accusation would end their career permanently.

But are there cries for more "positive discrimination" from the men in those industries? Not that I've heard. Equal treatment would be just dandy, though.
If you think IBM may be unaware of the nature and consequences of chaos theory, you might want to look into Benoit Mandelbrot's employment history.
Does anyone know if it asks for these permissions on install?
If you could have a Q&A with a tech entrepreneur, or brand, who would it be?
Hi everyone!My name is Beth and I help run AskMeAnything.Me. It's a members-only platform that allows users to ask any questions directly to successful person or brand in Q&A format. http://www.askmeanything.me/

We have featured a lot of interesting people on our site like Ashton Kutcher and the founding engineer of Pinterest, Yash Nelapati and even got the attention of marketing guru, Guy Kawasaki. We even featured rising silicon valley startup, TINT with their co-founder Nikhil Aitharaju.

However even with our evergreen collection of content, we are still looking for more people to be featured on the site. I want to know from all of yall what person or organization (ex. Buffer, Zenefits, etc.) that you would like to be featured on the site with ? Heck, even a commentator and their brand can be featured!
It is weird that discrimination is a four letter word when it is absurd to try to treat everyone equally.

But... either we can discriminate based on gender or we can't. If you have an all male team where most members are extremely shy around women (like bad enough they probably should see a therapist), then it would make perfect business sense to only seek another man for that team. But discrimination based on gender isn't allowed, so you can't do that. And for the same reason, even though there is business reason why special treatment is justified, you can't discriminate based on gender.
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They didn't claim they were featured. They simply displayed the logos. Lots of affiliate marketing sites do the same thing.

I'm not defending the practice of course.
This site appears to be hosted on Heroku according to the DNS information.

www.flymaids.com.	3600	IN	CNAME	cleanerconnect.herokuapp.com.
cleanerconnect.herokuapp.com. 300 IN	CNAME	us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com.
us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com. 60 IN	A	23.21.224.165

Would the author have a case for emailing Heroku's abuse address and asking them to look into it or would this fall outside their purview? My hypothesis is that they'd want to know if their services were being used in a fashion that was creepy (for lack of a better descriptor).
As much as planning for failure is dumber than regular planning, sometimes failure really is inevitable and you have no choice but to accept and mitigate it.
Yes, you got it right, this is exactly what it means. Yeah, there are some rare use cases for on-the-fly processing (think a WYSIWYG editor where the user can choose the size of the image), but for me upfront definitely works best.
I agree when we're talking about that extreme, but I don't think we have evidence that their CEO was a total fraud. He was just the figurehead of a scandal that may or may not have involved him, and if it did involve him that doesn't necessarily mean he held sole responsibility. In fact, this notion that he wasn't performing his agreed upon duties might be spectacularly false if the whole executive team was in on it. For all we know his resignation was simply a PR stunt to make it seem as if the company is recoiling in shock at the revelations.
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Blimp down, tore up in some trees :(
Yes, I think that news is about as big as the news of the acquisition itself. Very exciting news! I have been trying to get the leadership of WU and TWC to do this for the last 3-4 years, and I'm very happy they are finally doing it. In the beginning[1], they made comments suggesting that they thought it was a dumb idea or a waste of time, and that the barometric pressure data from smartphones could never be used in a weather forecast model. I was flabbergasted and could not understand why they wouldn't even consider trying it.

Well, four years later here we are! Finally. We are at the beginning of a revolution in how we understand our atmosphere. There are now billions of internet-connected barometers that can be used in weather models - this should provide a revolution in our ability to forecast short-term mesoscale events like thunderstorms and tornadoes, among other things [2].

[1]: http://gizmodo.com/5851288/why-the-barometer-is-androids-new...

[2]: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2015/10/apple-computer-could-r...

Some startups working on this are Sunshine, PressureNet, Weathermob, WeatherSignal:

https://thesunshine.co

https://pressurenet.io

http://weathermob.me

http://weathersignal.com
See this HN discussion a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433025
Thanks for clarification. Sadly I'm not an expert in copyright law and post of "jnky" about GPL_ONLY probably explain better what I attempted to say.

What I wanted to say is that GPL_ONLY exist and does what it's intend to do: make it clear to driver maintainers (Nvidia as GPU vendor) that certain functionality shouldn't be used within proprietary code.

Of course this isn't actual legal limitation, but Nvidia also want to have open source drivers for Tegra and certainly don't want to get a finger on their next pull request.
So after all the years of misusing and redefining "hack" they are now jumping ship to "doxing" to misuse that when their redefined version of "hack" is acceptable? Gah!

Thanks for the explanation. I do agree companies should be held responsible when they are too lax on identifying people as who they claim to be.

OTOH, I can see customer complaints about slow service and constantly having to prove identity w/ 4 last of SSN and such. It's an area where idealism and reality don't meet very well.
I'd be interested in reading this. Can you point me to a specific book?
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I don't see how it's not type covariance.

Go's slices are generic to the extent needed, and the subtyping of Go's interfaces fits the requirements for ordering of types well enough.
All I'm saying is that so far the only tangible reason you've given is that it makes doing javascript selections easier. I'm not saying using data-* liberally is a bad idea, I'm saying that is a bad reason for it. You've also mentioned semantics, which would be a good reason, but I'm still unlcear what the semantic argument is. To use the stripe row example, 'class="alternateRow"' seems just as semantic as 'data-rowtype="alternate"'. If I'm still missing something, I'd like to learn more. Again, additional examples would help. Discussing this kind of thing in the abstract is a recipe for miscommunication.
Ah - the article didn't mention that. Seems like a design flaw really... the single tether.

Furthermore, why is it shaped like a blimp with an obvious front-side, when it's designed to be stationary (wouldn't a simple balloon work?)
Yeah, I did. This is not good.
Yes, uncertainty in regulations is really damaging because businesses can't plan for it.

If the research has already been done and supports your desired outcome then why are you fighting it? The argument is not that these laws were enacted for a reason therefore they're good laws that should be kept. The argument is merely that you should understand why they were written before you argue against them. If you already understand that context then you're already doing what's being suggested.
RodericDay:

Language design decisions by superstars like Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson (the creators of Go) that may seem inconvenient or annoying when working on small to mid-size projects could very well make life much easier when working on giant projects which take years and do not fit on any single person's head.

I'm reminded of this insight by Lawrence Kesteloot of Dreamworks: "What’s particularly hard is having technical discussions with someone who hasn’t broken through as many walls as you have. Breaking through these walls means making different trade-offs, and specifically it means making a decision that seems to make less sense in the short term but will help later. This is a hard argument to make—the short term advantages are immediately demonstrable, but I can’t convince anyone that a year from now someone may make an innocent change that breaks this code."[1]

Unless you personally have led Internet-scale mission-critical software projects at a place like Google, as the authors of Go have, I don't think you're in a position to judge their decisions too harshly. Neither am I, BTW.

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[1] http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.html
That'd be great! Does anyone know if the data is available online?
>one cannot call positive discrimination "reverse sexism" or "sexism".

Positive discrimination for one person is negative discrimination against another, of whom the discriminator has power over the discriminated. So it still fits as being a *ism.

That is assuming you even accept the whole 'power + mistreatment' bit.
> *.txt.gz is not exactly a modern data format.

You know what you get with a format that's not "modern"? A huge, mature set of tooling that works. For instance, without trying because just responding to this whinging is barely worth the wear on my keyboard, I'd be disappointed if OS X wouldn't cheerily open the file, and unarchive it into the original directory structure simply by typing "open weather_data.txt.gz" from a terminal window. In other words, one could script it. I'd show you how, but holding your hand leaves me with only one hand for typing.

> HTTP GET some JSON and immediately do something with the data

Well, that's the magic of JSON: any code I write just wondrously knows what to do it without me telling it how to parse it. How can poor ol' ASCII text possibly compete?
Specific permission to access the barometer is not required by Apple or Google. The weather app already does ask permission for location services in general, so yes it is already there. Since they have already been tracking your latitude and longitude, the barometer gives altitude as well - along with current atmospheric pressure trends.
I'm having trouble coming up with a meaning for "non-artificial market". Do you mean a market free of all forms of non-participant manipulation, coercion, information-assymetries, etc.? I don't think we make those on this planet.
Nobody is questioning her ability or qualifications, only your decision to offer her opportunities and incentives based on her gender which her post implies were not also available to equally qualified male members of her team.

If you want to put the conversation to rest, simply clarify that point.
This one has knocked out power. Its cable hit some power lines.

https://twitter.com/iduncan/status/659451147955150848
Card's already canceled. Thanks though.
> Drivers are necessarily derivative works of the kernel and have to be licensed under the GPL anyway.

It can be a grey area. Quoting Linus himself

> But one gray area in particular is something like a driver that was originally written for another operating system (ie clearly not a derived work of Linux in origin).

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/gpl_modules.html
The minimum wage that can be paid for a tunnel hand in San Francisco is around $34/hr plus overtime and benefits. See http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/pwd/Determinations/Northern/NC-02...

You have to remember that tunnel jobs are almost always run by a municipality which means that they're almost always union. I would imagine it is similar in Switzerland.

Tunneling is a niche industry and commands a high price.
In Go, if T implements interface I, T is not a subtype of the interface type I. T can be converted to the interface type I, but it's not a subtype.
That's what I thought too!
Uninstalled.
Ugh this is how furniture works in the UK, honestly it's very frustrating to find the right bed or couch and then have to wait 8 weeks for it to be assembled and delivered.
It's the rip-off that put me over the top. I was so pissed I had to write the article.
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Well, the weight of the tethering matters. So they probably can't just have 2 of the strength of the one that broke.

I believe it has a front side because then it can point into the wind, making it easer to stay stationary for the given volume (and hence lift capacity).
About the "assertiveness" part - no, I think most women have it totally wrong on this.

When you say that men are assertive and women are not, you are in fact talking about a subset of men - the extroverts - who are assertive. In reality, and in particular in the software world, you'll find a lot of introverted men who are much like you - they don't feel comfortable speaking up. It is just that they're not very visible because they aren't heard.

In my opinion, assertiveness is more of a personality issue. And it is ridiculous that we expect everyone to be assertive - it does not improve your ability to code in any way.
Another very long trans-alpine railway tunnel in construction 250 km to the east: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenner_Base_Tunnel It's nowhere near completion, though.

Length: 34 mi

Cost: $11.5 billion

Construction: 2007 - 2025 (est)
This thing is stationary, always. Why not use a couple of ropes for the "just-in-case" scenario (aka. "Just plain good engineering"). Imagine this happened during a deployment in an unfriendly country.
It's entirely possible that including the logos is a trademark violation.
How can they prevent this virus from evolving to replicate in non-cancerous cells? I wonder if that's why they started with a benign virus like herpes.

Very cool, but slightly scarey at the same time.
Thank you for that reply. I always favoured meritocracy, but im currently running into this "outside" world, the challenges the outside world poses are fascinating. People are so complicated, it should be a science.
I almost forgot: generic type variables are used very little outside of generic libraries. We have a 20KLOC codebase which doesn't use type variables at all and has only a single in-house written dependency [1] that declares functions with type variables.

note: This is about declaring generics, not using them. You'll still have to write Array<string> and Promise<MyType>, thats true. But its hardly any different from ArrayOfString or PromiseOfMyType in terms of readability.

If I may be so bold, I'd really encourage you to give it a spin. You just might find that your fears about readability are exaggerated.

[1]: https://github.com/doxout/promise-observer
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> This is in the embedded world, unfortunately the gdb for this platform is rather limited and watch breakpoints don't work as expected.

Thanks for sharing. There is nothing like a JTAG debugger with this kind of bugs. Good luck that it does not resurface later on.
He talks about this in his book Linchpin, but he talks about it in a bunch of other places as well:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22seth+godin%22+dafen&oq=%2...
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I'm not aware of any efforts in that direction. As far as the review link, I don't think that would defeat the newer countermeasure involving 3rd party sellers shipping an empty box (which never gets returned.) It still looks like a verified purchase. Second-parties could require all items be shipped through them (meaning they receive the item and inspect it, then reship it to the customer), but the added expense seems like something they'd be unlikely to spring for.
http://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html

^ I really like Raskin's piece on intuitive UI. By all means we should leverage the conventions that users have worked so hard to learn, but sometimes 'intuitive' isn't going to provide the best long-term experience. His quote about the mouse, which we today assume needs no introduction, is illuminating:

"My subject was an intelligent, computer-literate, university-trained teacher visiting from Finland who had not seen a mouse or any advertising or literature about it. With the program running, I pointed to the mouse, said it was "a mouse", and that one used it to operate the program. Her first act was to lift the mouse and move it about in the air. She discovered the ball on the bottom, held the mouse upside down, and proceeded to turn the ball. However, in this position the ball is not riding on the position pick-offs and it does nothing. After shaking it, and making a number of other attempts at finding a way to use it, she gave up and asked me how it worked. She had never seen anything where you moved the whole object rather than some part of it (like the joysticks she had previously used with computers): it was not intuitive. She also did not intuit that the large raised area on top was a button."
Cool. I'd call those two choices "upon upload" (instead of 'upfront'), and "upon first view" (instead of "on the fly"), but I'm sure my terminology would confuse someone else too.
When I still used PCs I bought/used business PCs (and laptops). While they were better than pure consumer models, they still had a lot of the same issues and design decisions.
>I reiterate: if the industry sees a glut of women speakers who are there only because they are women, then the industry will have no choice but to acknowledge their token status.

This is exactly the problem that goes ignored when people argue that "reverse discrimination" isn't a problem. Treating people differently because of their protected status only serves to further divide.

The interest should be on making sure boys and girls get the same opportunities and encouragement growing up. in US universities, we have 30 male STEM majors for every female STEM major. We aren't going to see the industry change until we fix the root problem - that men are 30x more interested in STEM jobs than women.

No amount of Social Justice Theater is going to level the playing field when men are being raised believing they can be whatever they want, and women are raised believing that marrying a wealthy man and becoming a stay-at-home mom is the greatest thing they can do with their lives.

Women are lacking in STEM not because STEM is sexist, but because few women ever consider a future in STEM. Introducing pro-woman sexism into STEM is a paradoxical way to "solve" the problem.
"Let It Burn" is not the most airtight of analyses of a complex economic system.
Based on some of the culture control ideas in this article, online piracy doesn't seem far fetched. Pirates Bay could totally be a CIA backed site in the end. Also bitcoin maybe? Wikileaks? Reddit? Hacker News? The Simpsons? Clear Channel? Adbusters? 4chan/8chan?

Those are my guesses, I bet I got at least one right.
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Huh, I keep hearing more and more about it in places I'd never suspect.
Wow, you guys really missed the point.

Why can't we ask for nice things, even if they are "free"?

How are you going to get a kid interested in programming historical weather analysis when he's got to figure out how to configure an entire stack just to query your dataset. If you really want my opinion, this should be an AI problem, not yet another tedious MVC application.

Furthermore, when I jump into projects, I am most definitely appreciative that there is a responsive system on the other end, no matter how much I'm getting paid. I'm not some noob and yes I have imported gigabytes of minimally-structured data into my own applications, but I don't want to have to do that every time. Especially just to tinker.

If you're not thinking about how your software development experience can be made quicker, more direct, and less painful, I pity you. Shit on JSON all you want, but I'll take a populated native object and a blinking cursor over FTP'd text files any day.
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Eh... I dunno how accurate this is.
Edgy. What if I tell you your entire phone is a tracking device? You reply with "Trashed."?
Why? Do you find your barometric data to be particularly sensitive?
Looks like the domain was registered on Oct 8th and I can't find "Fly Maids" or similar names on the Delaware Division of Corporations. (Maybe it takes longer for it to show up?)

Either way super weird and creepy.
Loose military blimp dragging cable, causing power outages
I make some good points