skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! We were heavily inspired by ActiveAdmin. We're hoping that dashboards built with Administrate are easier to maintain in the long run.
It's a particularly vicious kind of law and order conservatism, to invent the punishment before one invents the law.
It's pretty meaningless to me and I've lived in North Carolina. I have no idea what it would be like for another Raleigh to spring up there, plus North Carolina is not a nation state.

I think it's just hard to come up with useful analogies for huge-scale events like this. But yeah, it seems pretty phoned in.

Try this: imagine the crowds you have to deal with going to a major mass-market sporting event, now imagine 8 of those, now make it last for three years, and now set the end date to "indefinite".
Assuming you mean "While you're working for us, you won't work for anyone else" as opposed to a non-compete, which is another kettle of fish entirely:

Full-time work: fairly common. It is as negotiable as anything else in the employment contract, which is to say highly variable depending on the employer and locality. Anecdata: a Japanese megacorp, not generally known for huge amounts of flexibility in employment relationships, was willing to bend on this as long as the moonlighting wasn't another full-time position as an engineer.

Freelance: it is heavily again a client's legal interests to ask you for exclusivity (it's virtually dispositive of there existing an employment relationship with you and every other freelancer/consultant they have on the same paper, opening your client up to ruinous fines for failing to remit employment taxes) and against your interests for you to grant it. I'd generally take this as a sign of organizational immaturity. Your competent legal advisor will strongly, strongly advise you to not grant your clients exclusivity -- even if you're fully committed during the course of engagements you'll typically be shepherding other gigs through the pipeline simultaneously and the risk of them running afoul of the clause will typically be unacceptable.

does this clause usually depend on the level of compensation for the job?

I know $30k a year programming jobs that wanted exclusivity and $30k a week programming jobs which wouldn't dream of asking for it, so, broad strokes, not really.
In Germany it's the opposite. Any critical opinion towards immigration is immediately branded as racist. Newspapers won't report wether crimes are commited by Germans or refugees (I don't know if it's by law). The police is ordered not to reveal anything about problems, unorderly behaviour and violence they encounter with refugees.
I have also been working on an alternative Internet, which is now patented in the United States (http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week28/OG/html/1416-2...), however; I have decided to not use my patent to monopolize the technology, and open-source the idea instead. I have been working on a fully-encrypted, P2P mesh networking project, which is available on my GitHub. It is still very early in development and not finished yet. Contributions are welcome, and I'm glad to see that there's an interest in decentralized Internet technology! My GIt repositories are:
GGSuite: https://github.com/IDWMaster/GGSuite
GGRouter: https://github.com/IDWMaster/GGRouter
What happens inside the tank during the war
Being offended is not the same as being bullied.

School bullies are effective because their victims can't simply choose to not interact with them.

That's not the case here. Unless you're an actual contributor and the offensive behavior crosses over.

But realistically, this mob was never going to contribute anything anyways. The truth of most OSS projects (IME) is that they're driven by a handful of people at most. Sacrificing one of those over empty threats of nonexistent meaningful contributions is the wrong move 100% of the time.
I wonder about Mozilla's strategies for two key challenges:

1) The greatest challenge for Tracking Protection seems to me to be not technical, but strategic: How do you protect users from tracking without creating a backlash from the tracking industry and their customers (the whole Internet economy built on tracking) that will make the outcome worse or no better, and after an expensive battle. As an extreme example, if the next release of Firefox cut off tracking for all its users then I think there would be a war, including possibly lawsuits and an arms race between trackers and tracking protection. The users would be no better off (or worse off) and it would consume Mozilla's resources.

2) How do they plan to protect the great majority of users who lack the knowledge and skill to understand tracking protection? Remember that most users barely know they are being tracked, much less what that means or how it's done. Many users I deal with don't know the URL field from the search box on their home page; they don't understand what a web browser, web page, or remote server are, much less their components, requests, JavaScript, etc. They lack even the framework to begin understanding tracking. Most other end users I know would be overwhelmed by the concept and extra hassle to load a page. Also, how will most users understand why the webpage is malfunctioning, of all the possible reasons, and what to do about it? Maybe they'll think Firefox is simply broken. Maybe this is why Tracking Protection is available only in Private Browsing right now, and hidden behind a small, somewhat obscure icon (if I understand correctly); maybe that's a way of limiting it to more technically skilled users. Providing tracking protection to technical users has been done, via Ghostery, Disconnect, etc. I'd like to see it become available to everyone else. (That's not a criticism of Mozilla - this is a great, precedent-setting step forward, establishing that major browser vendors might block tracking and act in user interests over industry's, and hopefully creating some competition in that area.)

Maybe the first step is to raise awareness of tracking and the idea that users benefit from and should have the option for privacy, which can be done by simply telling users about Tracking Protection when they open Firefox after the update, whether or not they actually use it.
Millions of transactions for 20 cents
The bottleneck in genomics hasn't been cost since about 2012.

The chokepoint is analysis. Most biologists don't know how to program, and most programmers don't know biological context, neither know statistics well.

I work with so many scientists whose only thought is to sequence first and ask questions later. Usually all the real work ends up falling on the shoulders of one skilled researcher while the rest look on like some unionized road crew.

It's only going to get worse, but the good news is, if you are one of the biologists who can program and use statistics then you're in good shape. There is already so much idle data out there already, that you'll never have to spend a dime on sequencing.
Off-topic:

Wow thanks, I didn't know about that form of bash variable substitution!

It's documented under the heading:

${var/Pattern/Replacement}

at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html
>Rates for what?

Non-violent drug use - it's in the same sentence, come on.

Unlike drug use, violence is tied heavily to socioeconomic status and environment [1], which is only correlated with race, not caused by it [2]. You do know what cognitive dissonance is, right?

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449156/

[2] http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.74.8.8...
According to them you have about 1 cubic metre to move around in
I think the analogy holds. Software doesn't kill people ...until it does: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
On a perfect network, I presume. In reality, clients lose packets and strains the system differently. There is more to this than just perfect network conditions in a lab setting.
Disabled programmer seeking assistance/advice
Hi,
I have been disabled since 2009 (phobias,anxiety,depression,pain)

After 1+ years sleeping on the streets, I moved in with a friend to try to help take care of him while he waited for a knee replacement surgery. After he was doing better, I moved in with a friend who was battling cancer, COPD, and an opiate addiction.

During that time I was able to finally get my hands on a laptop. It was an 8 year old HP DV7. It never really worked great, but I managed to fix it enough that I could start getting Gentoo on it. Two nights ago the CPU died. It's had a hufe effect on my well being. Tinkering on the computer is the one thing that helps keep my depression at bay.

I am passionate about free software and Gentoo. I want to get to where I can can contribute and eventually hopefully get to where I can freelance program (I'm already pretty decent with multiple languages). I thought that maybe at some point I could find a freelancer that would subcontract out to me, having some small jobs would help me build confidence.

I'm just hoping that given that I've been repairing computers for sick/low-income people for years pro-bono and have devoted every ounce of energy and every penny taking care of two sick friends that I might have enough good karma banked up that someone would be willing to hook me up with an old laptop they've got sitting in the closet collecting dust. (A desktop wouldn't be practical because I may very well be back to living on the sidewalks in a few months.)

Honestly, if this indigent life continues to get worse every day I doubt I'll even live to see my SSDI process complete (lawyer says it may be least 1.5 years until I can get a hearing.)

Any help/advice is appreciated more than you could possibly know. (I don't have constant internet access so I won't be able to reply to anyone until tonight).
Thanks for reading, and double plus thanks to anyone who can render any form of assistance.
NFC they just need my stolen card

Apple Pay they need to steal my phone, hope I haven't remotely wiped Apple Pay, and know my long passcode or have my fingerprint
How do you possibly imagine a non-free browser competing with all the free browsers out there?
Can't you just disassemble the binary opcodes and diff with the OCR to place the comments in the right places?
It's hard to quantify how much data is left after "analysis". An assembled genome sequence, at least a certain quality, is actually useful beyond machine learning.

For example loss-of-function mutations can be detected without resorting to other genomes beyond the reference. Inversions, translocations and copy number variations can also give clues to illness.
That's an argument against patents existing at all. It's not really relevant to a discussion of what counts as patentable, because such a discussion assumes that patents are a valid mechanism.
Sure, but on the consumer side of thingsthey've been overtaken by Airbnb. I'm suggesting that it's only a matter of time until the supply follows the demand onto Airbnb.
Wouldn't the FISA exemptions for this bill be subject to the same Section 702 loophole that permits PRISM to exist?
I think you are really trying to dodge the question. Spiders often employ plenty of AI to try to make sense of stuff. It's not an API in any useful sense. For instance, automating Amazon.com. Humans manage fine because underlying changes and renamed URLs, input fields, etc. are ignored. A spider can't handle that (buying items, updating kindle preferences, etc.)

But for values of API that you know I'm referring to, where is one popular, truly REST API? Say, one that includes an SDK, if you need help with the definition. The fact that no one can really point out a good example means it's irrelevant to program writers.

Also, if you're saying the web is all REST essentially by definition, then so are these POST-only APIs, but they aren't. Or it's a useless tautology.

Plus I don't see any real difference in the web of HTTP1 vs 1.1, so that whole claim is suspect too. Perhaps you can elaborate exactly what HTTP1.1 added that really changed anything except some ease of use (host header, absolute URLs, keep alive).
The SR&ED reporting process is a nightmare. I once spent 170 hrs. defending a piddling $100K claim. Hell is spending 8 hrs. in a room trying to explain polymorphism and encapsulation to an accountant. The whole process is geared towards engineering, physical processes and manufacturing. The subtleties and abstraction of software development make it look like we take no risks.

The time-tracking requirements seriously degrade your productivity.

I joked that if you discovered time travel, you wouldn't qualify for SR&ED because you were successful, so there was obviously no risk involved, ergo you don't qualify.
The banks care for their customers? Really??

Are these the same banks that used to charge "overdraft" fees of $35+ for a $1.50 overdraft? Where was the concern for customers then??
It depends entirely on the situation - your degree will take time you could have spent doing other things (eg. apprenticeship) it will create expectations/influence the kind of job you're willing to accept and can be detrimental when applying for lower skilled jobs.
He worked to destroy some peoples marriages. Then some people worked to get him fired. What is the difference? Which is worse? I'm not asking a rhetorical question here, I'm genuinely interested in why you think the one thing is OK and the other not?
dopedesktop.com $200
For the same reason you can't start making adhesive bandages and selling them as Band-Aids, even though many people call them that: Both are proper names for a specific regional brand of sparkling wine and grana, or hard cheese, respectively.
I forgot to mention, I live int he Olympia, WA, USA area.

The idea of Seattle scares the shit out of me. Elevators are one of the phobias I couldn't handle on a day-to-day basis.

Again, thanks to anyone who can do anything to help and/or takes the time to read this.
Does Guix have (the equivalent of) package signing? Last I checked Nix wasn't very concerned about this.
Yep, I agree. Its really an education issue more than anything.
Github could use the 1-alpha, 5-production system.

At least you'd get a hint at the intention behind the release.
Apple Pay's privacy is much better. AIUI:

Apple knows nothing about your cards (they are all encrypted on-device), and nothing about your transaction except that there was A transaction (since Apple just sees a token that gets passed from you to the card provider).

The merchant doesn't see your real cc number, just a one-use token. So they can't track you unless you choose to add a loyalty card.

The card provider sees all details of the transaction. Just as now, and what you want.

And the real cc details are stored in dedicated silicon on a fingerprint-locked device.
A quick search for public genome data led me here http://www.completegenomics.com/public-data/69-Genomes/. I wonder if there will be a time when you can search millions through a rich UI, comparing your own genome with others, etc.
> It happened to be really convincing (at least to me) in the case of a small project like the one I did but I am also convinced that for bigger projects people should be very careful and think twice before going with this paradigm.

How you would have done for a larger project? And also if we remove mobile from the equation, but a cross platform desktop app?
Do you know any filthy rich people? Their money is made mostly through other people's labor and innovation. What they're good at is business, which is organizing and capturing the value of other people's labor and innovation.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I've started a number of businesses, after all. But let's not worship people whose talent happens to be particular sorts of commerce.
Serving the Underserved with Open Source Mobile Infrastructure
There is definitely still room on liberal arts side of most engineering degrees regardless the institution.

In my engineering degree (University of Toronto), we had about 4 free electives and humanities courses over the whole degree. I believe there would have been a lot more value in having more free electives whereby students could take more courses in the humanities (or for those not so inclined, whatever other topics that interested them).
For the practical version of this type of technology that you can order today and can actually be sitting under your Christmas tree in a few weeks, take a look at https://www.pantelligent.com/ (full disclosure: I'm an engineer at Pantelligent).

The reason you're seeing lots and lots of new entrants in the "smart cooking" space is because engineers are trying it and the results are really really delicious. When you can use sensors to accurately cook the exterior of foods to the right properties, and use thermodynamics to accurately cook the interior to the right properties, it brings restaurant-quality food to the hands of a novice chef.
>"I joked that if you discovered time travel, you wouldn't qualify for SR&ED because you were successful, so there was obviously no risk involved, ergo you don't qualify."

You could even be prosecuted for tax avoidance, given the vague standard.
Exposed to a wide range of topics for the low price of $23,410 per year ($46,272 in private colleges). No thanks. I'd rather go to the nearest bookstore, library or use the Internet for what's intended.

http://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/content_payarticle_tmp...
Disney to pull all Star Wars ‘slave Leia’ merchandise
I think this is it I think. Just investors who made a bad investment, more or less they are just going to have to deal with it, and take their loss.

Twitter doesn't have a means to increase its profitability by 500% over the next couple years. It will probably be fine in the sense that it will probably remain 'minor'-ly profitable and probably remain at its current size for quite a while... I think its hard to replace in that, to replace twitter you more or less have to duplicate it exactly. Its really that simple a service...
I think the currenntly more interesting application in sequencing is pathogen detection. These have smaller and simpler genomes (mostly), and tracking them and their features improves epidemiology and the choice of treatments.
I wouldn't say that's the main cause. It's more about the collapse of the previous infrastructure than the particulars of what came after.
Can you think of any major treaty in history that has NOT been negotiated in secret?
A startup succeeding is not likely. People invest in them anyway. Why? Because if it does succeed, the payoff is high enough to make it worth the gamble.

Same thing here. This is not likely to be new physics. But if it is, the payoff is high enough to make it worth looking at seriously.

Note well: This does not mean "start doubting all of physics until we disprove this". It means, yes, it's worth it to have a team at NASA spend some time trying to figure out what's going on. And even if they don't find new physics, they're going to learn something about an error factor to control for, which, among other things, might shed some light on the Pioneer anomaly.
The original long title has been truncated here - it was:

Who Knows What About Me?
A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing
to Third Parties by Mobile Apps

From the survey summary:

[researchers] tested 110 popular, free Android and iOS apps to look
for apps that shared personal, behavioral, and location data with
third parties

...

[researchers] show that a significant proportion of apps share data from
user inputs such as personal information or search terms with third
parties without Android or iOS requiring a notification to the user
Thanks for this, I just integrated it with my CSR script and now I have a SAN cert

Just need to figure out renewal now
The Google Play rating is partially because of irate Apple Pay & (formerly Google Wallet) customers. CurrentC prevents (prevented?) a retailer from using competing contactless payment solutions.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the reviews have never used the actual app, but have instead downloaded it and rated it one star in response to stories like this: https://daringfireball.net/2014/10/nfc_apple_pay
SR&ED is a terrible program that is actively hostile to software startups.

To begin with under the definition of what the program considers claimable, in the strictest sense, most software work doesn't actually qualify, but the program is so poorly administered that most of them are able to successfully claim it anyways so they try, however you are always under the risk that your claim will be denied or clawed back.

Adding to this problem for startups, first time claimants have a much higher chance of being audited, as well as any time a claim increases significantly over the previous year (think high growth company). If an audit goes poorly enough you can also have previous years claims clawed back.

Then there is the time wasted in preparing and submitting, the pedantic time tracking that startups implement which is a drag on development teams in order to file these claims.

Finally, because the process is confusing and daunting enough most companies will hire a SR&ED consultant to file the claim for them where they will likely pay around 20% of the total claim.

In short, SR&ED is a great program for consultants to siphon money from tax payers but a terrible program for funding innovative startups.
You could buy a lot of ready meals (which are just food that's been prepared offsite in bulk)

You can't buy a really good meal this way though, for love or money.

So, to the degree that technology can help average people do more in the kitchen it could be genuinely useful. I have no opinion on how likely the tech in the article is to actually do that.
Of'course humans are just not workers , but if you want to eat you need to sell something of value to buy your food from the farmers - and they most often then not really do not care about your humanities nonsense.
"there are some bad unintended consequences" != "SR&ED Hurts Canadian Innovation"
Why does Mint have to store your bank password in plain text?
Why so many Americans claim Cherokee ancestry
> "There are observable differences in the attributes of men and women that account for most of the wage gap. Statistical analysis that includes those variables has produced results that collectively account for between 65.1 and 76.4 percent of a raw gender wage gap of 20.4 percent, and thereby leave an adjusted gender wage gap that is between 4.8 and 7.1 percent."

- U.S. Department of Labor
My personal war cry is "Details matter." It's something that many people in software development don't appreciate as much as they ought to; a detail is often the difference between something that is right and something that looks like it should be right but manifestly, strongly, isn't. And, there's a lot of details in software.

But a corollary of my version of "Spoon!" is that skills matter, too. They're how you know the important details from the unimportant ones, and how to manage the important ones. The only way to get that kind of skills is by experience. To use your own example, have you seen the difference in efficiency and results between someone who's just been shown how to lay bricks and someone with 45 years of experience? Or even better, a team with someone with 45 years experience to tell the others when they're not doing it right?

Judging by the brickwork on my house, the answer to your question is "More than we have now."
Agreed. I've no idea why everyone is so hot on saying REST. I think it's just a backlash reaction to SOAP and other complicated things, and they really mean "simpler interface" and RPC makes people think CORBA and DCOM? Or maybe the fact a PhD thesis is involved makes them feel more grown up. Like the backlash of shitty statically typed languages leading to people professing a desire for dynamic types instead of type inference. Or just buzzwordy, like people were saying SOA everywhere and now saying microservice.
Where did this source code come from? There must be an interesting story about were this print-out came from, why it was preserved, and now published 36 years later.