skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment may be factual, but you could have skipped the "you should be thankful" bit. It's quite a rude thing to say to someone you don't know.
Why does anyone think technology is something other than a force enabling centralization and consolidation?

Because decentralization and democratization were central to the vision we saw in the 1990s when we discovered the public Internet that universities had been building. The early days were all about independence and progress.
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In short, "it doesn't work the way you think it does"

People keep digging in this area because it's hard to measure accurately so we're not 100% yet, but the current consensus is that the interaction between entangled particles, isn't faster than light and should not be faster than light.
What utter nonsense. Do the Romans likewise owe reparations to the Turks, French, Spanish, and English?
Enlitic and magic leap
I'm reasonably certain all communication with the routing servers is done via https. You could double check their source on GitHub
None of the other sensible men like Napier gave such a pithy and powerful quote on the topic.
According to the figures in this[1] article, whites are technically under-represented at Twitter relative to their percentage of the general population, yet both it and the NPR article take for granted that there is a lack of ethnic diversity at Twitter and other tech companies, despite non-whites collectively being over-represented at them.

While certain minorities (blacks, Hispanics) are indeed under-represented at tech companies like Twitter, others (Asians) are over-represented, and to such a degree that whites actually end up under-represented. Yet a careless reader could easily be misled by these and other articles into believing that whites are crowding out minorities, which is demonstrably not the case.

I doubt this deception is accidental.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/07/twitter-diversity-st...
This is one of those "econ 101 in a vacuum" scenarios that I find entirely tiresome. Look at this graph:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

I'm pretty sure that capitalism wasn't invented in 1970. Was the market totally malfunctioning before 1970, when women were excluded from a variety of professions? Or was there possibly, maybe, potentially some sort of relevant factor outside the banal bounds of commerce?

There are more things, Horatio, etc, etc.
I'm absolutely enamored with http://imgur.com

- They continually refine the product

- They are careful of feature creep

- The community they've cultivated seems to feel incredible ownership of the product.
Stuff usually gets "net" slapped on the front after some attempt has been made to specify or regularize it, that way the documented/maintained version doesn't share the name with any classic implementation, which helps to avoid all kinds of ambiguity.

Not sure where this idiom came from, but seen it used a bunch of times
In his defense, the last sentence is sandwiched between two ads, not exactly the most reader friendly place to end your article.
Why trust it when you can sell it to someone else and buy equivalent equipment?

Then the FBI will be knocking down someone else's door.
It is arguable that India benefitted from being under British rule compared to be in under the rule of mad Moghal emperors though. I'd say gp was not a false dichotomy. Of the options available, British rule was not the worst possible outcome in hindsight.

To my Indian friends, please be wary of ultranationalism and the far right. It never does anyone any good. Just look at us and learn from US' shortcomings.
> This is about pride and self-image; there's zero reason to believe that restricting your hiring to certain universities, certain previous roles, etc. gets you a more effective engineering team.

If the description in the article is accurate, the document said they recruit from particular schools, not that they restricted hiring of new graduates to people from those schools. Is anything publicly known about what they do when someone from a school they do not recruit from sends them a resumé?
I'm currently taking a class taught by the creator of Chuck, Ge Wang. Great guy. He always tells people that Chuck "crashes equally on every platform".

I find ChucK to be a pretty easy language to get into. It lends itself really well for algorithmic composition and live coding. I have quite a bit of fun with it!

A big downside to ChucK is that it has a very limited set of unit-generators for sound, and it's very hard to do any sophisticated synthesis and sound design. That being said, it's pretty easy to build third party chuck plugins (called "chugins"). I really like working with Csound, so I built a Csound chugin: https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/ChuckSound
What's your opinion on settling bogus litigation?
Fermat lived into his 60s and died of natural causes AFAIK, wrote in the margins he didn't write down the marvelous proof for lack of space.

Galois died in a duel at 20, writing down his mathematical testament the night before he died and scribbling in the margins 'I have no time'.
I object to the racism and sexism in the sentiment, but it is a sort of privilege to have access to computers and time to create personal projects on them. But, it's still a good predictor for job success, so unless it results in discrimination against protected groups, it should still matter for hiring.

On the flip side, even if personal projects don't matter for hiring, everyone interested in the industry should be pursuing personal projects, even if it takes buying garbage computers (as I did as a kid) and repairing them to get a learning platform. Personal projects and open source are more accessible than people might think.
The one we set in CSS is a fallback for devices that doesn't have Accelerometer / Gyroscope or support the APIs used. The values set in data attributes are for the plugin to make use of in order to apply the effect. I'm working on picking up the blur / color from the box-shadow property dynamically, but it appears to be a bit tricky as we can only get the complete value set to the property and not just blur and color.
I guess Kipling's knowledge of this had a practical basis, since he was one of the chief apologists for the systematic extortion the British Empire used to enrich itself.
I've only messed with a single tunnel at a time. However, there's a whitepaper from Intel from several years ago that says that multiplexing over 6-12 tunnels should possibly work:

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

The question remains on how to perform routing for this. It appears that running Quagga on both end points, speaking BGP to each other, will allow ECMP over the 6-12 IPsec tunnels. Each individual stream will still be capped at ~1Gbit, but at least the total throughput could be used and there's no traffic between the two endpoints that's not encrypted.

However, getting Quagga + BGP + ECMP + multiple IPsec tunnels + pinning tunnels to particular cores + setting up the RSS flows from the NIC to particular cores... Well it was a bit more than I could bite off at the time. The pieces feel sooo close to working, but it becomes a Rube Goldberg machine of systems software, with each piece operating at the limit of its design properties.

And honestly, I kind of want two orthogonal encryption technologies; TLS has bugs every other day it seems, and IPsec has always seemed a little bit suspicious, and really who knows if my random numbers are really random, so I wanted two layers.

Please do share if you make any progress!
4. It's doubling the 40 hour work week.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-busi...
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This is a desktop application that helps anyone make a basic web page for you startup. It'
s Free. Made for Mac and Windows.
Certainly people cook less these days but if you get out of the young, hip, affluent areas of town to where the majority of people actually live - it doesn't seem very likely that home cooking is going anywhere.
I find that ironic because communication technology plainly facilitates centralization. Society was less centralized and grass roots democracy was much more important when people had to ride a horse all day to vote and you didn't have national media markets. The Internet in comparison is going to be what enables World Government.
Yeah, the assumption that all low-income neighborhoods have problems that you should be afraid of "spilling over" is a poor one.
That seems like a cartoonish summary, or maybe they're just a cartoonish person. But I think there's some truth in there.

It's undeniable that open source is mainly white dudes. There are plenty of women who will tell you that they don't feel welcome in open source, and so don't participate or have stopped participating. So if you use open source participation as a hiring filter, it will have a bias.

Personal projects are a sign of having time and money. That is also correlated with being a single white guy. Parents, and particularly single parents mostly just laugh when you talk about free time. Making humans from scratch is their personal project.

That's not to say that these aren't good things to look for. I look for them myself. But if you use them as a filter (as opposed to one of many positive signals), then you definitely are biasing your hiring to middle- and upper-class white males.
Something that matches what you're looking for was just posted above: https://github.com/mroth/scmpuff
This essentially what the various emacs version control interfaces give you (e.g., psvn for svn, vc for generic any-vcs support, or magit for git), but right there on the command-line. Very cool.
Hopefully, someone answers. But to add, it will be nice to have weekly AMAs also. That will be pretty cool.
I love what Taiga.io is doing. They're making an Agile/Scrum solution that's a pleasure to work with by focusing on UI first. They're even open-source.
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Any experiences with Postmates? I keep ordering with them everyday and things are great so far.
Mechanical drawings, materials processes, and electrical designs that might have taken thousands of man-hours to develop, test, and refine are actually valuable

Sure, but even these things are not valuable unless you can actually use them to start a successful rival business within a reasonable amount of time. In other words, if there are 10 idle factories tooled to copy your product for the same price or less and your only security is "nobody else has produced the same ballpark product yet" then you are walking on thin ice (even without internal bad actors), since market demand, reverse engineering and technological change will ensure your current sales run is short-lived. This was my point. Technology businesses often need a combination of reasonable speed product evolution, good client/partner relationships, adequate capital and good name and legal standing to effect a greater sense of business security. A single rogue employee is unlikely to have all of these, and thus appeal to clients.

To look at it another way, if your perspective of evil rogue employees duplicating products was correct, how do you think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YKK_Group survive? There's no crown jewels to walk away with, and there is significant anti-Japanese sentiment from the Chinese government.

Security through obscurity refers to computer security processes

Much knowledge is transferable between different types of complex systems... apologies for not appealing your terminological preference.
How is driving hands free different from being the lowest common denominator? The people in those videos weren't doing much more than taking their hands off the wheel. Sure, one was holding other items, but he could have dropped them and grabbed the wheel in an emergency. What would you be doing with your hands if they're not on the wheel but still be more safe than this?
Let's say you are making a computer game. You've hired a team of 10 people. That team will work for you until you have a finished game, and then copy all of the source code, assets, etc and go sell the same game you just paid them to make. And it would be the majority of the staff. Maybe they'll swap out a name and few art assets to make it 'different'. And you can do shit all about it in china.

This story came from a coworker who worked in china trying to make a games business there for a year. I don't know if it was him or someone he knew.
Can you share some of the comments?
Your secret server sauce could show up at another company with source code, documentation, comments and everything.

If you rely on "secret server sauce", you are probably sunk anyway, since a half-decent reverse engineer can probably replicate your business just by looking at it as a black box system from a client's perspective.

Many times they'll even use your logos and deliver a lesser product based on your brand name.

{{citation-needed}}
Why do you assume the equipment was trustworthy prior to seizure?
If you managed the staff differently, nobody would have a complete enough view of the system to walk away with anything functional. This is how they do it in the defense industry, and it's fair management policy in unknown environments with unknown staff. There is a saying "trust is the availability of effective recourse"... if you have none, act accordingly.
Author here. Two important things. 1)We had two babies in diapers when that was taken so it might actually be realistic. 2) It wasn't a real tally, we started it one day after a particularly bad morning and then as a joke I added a bunch. Hadn't even thought about it when taking the picture, but wanted to show the shoe rack.

One less important thing, we used cloth some too, for pee it is great. If/when your baby poops reliably, you can save a lot by using cloth during pee times of day and disposable when poops occur.
Asians, according to this article[1], represent 29% of Twitter's workforce overall and 34% of its technical workforce, despite being only 4% of the US population, while whites are significantly under-represented at 59% and 58% of their overall and technical workforce. Twitter's candidate pool is plenty diverse already.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/07/twitter-diversity-st...
Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking" is a great book to read (it kicked off the popularization of food science), and Alton Brown's "Good Eats" was a fantastic cooking show full of great kitchen geekery. I've also heard that "The Four-Hour Chef" (yes, God help us, same guy) is actually a good starter book. Also, "Cookwise" and "Bakewise." Great books.

More personally, let me say that the best way to learn how to cook is to go to the market, find some stuff that looks interesting, and then figure out what to do with them. Pretty soon you'll have an intuitive idea of techniques to use with almost anything you can find, which is when the fun stuff really starts. Don't get intimidated! If you can cook pasta without ruining it, you have it in you to make duck-egg carbonara with house-cured bacon and Swiss chard over homemade fettuccine.

Oh, and get some good knives and keep them sharp. Trust me.
So it's replacing MDA as the Canadian version of SpaceX?
For others inside China, I discovered the other day to my surprise that http://translate.google.cn/ works fine. Very handy.
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The new numbers match what I said on YC the last time this came up.[1] Although uBeam's web site talks about megahertz ultrasound, as I pointed out, that won't work - air will absorb all the energy in less than a meter. They have to operate in the 40KHz - 100KHz range, where everybody else does air ultrasound and where the attenuation is moderate. Sure enough, they're now saying 45KHz to 75KHz.

As I pointed out last time, if you put together a 1 meter square array of off the shelf American Piezo ultrasonic transducers, about 4000 of them, you could get to their claimed 155dB level. But it would take about 2KW to drive the thing, comparable to a small clothes dryer. Their new figure is 3KW, a medium-sized clothes dryer.

They claim to be able to deliver 1.5W (not KW) to a device, for an efficiency of 0.05%. The rest of the 3KW will heat the air. The energy has to go someplace.

As I pointed out last time, this thing can potentially transmit some power, but it's an insanely inefficient way to do it. It can also double as a space heater and steerable ultrasonic welder.

I'll bet we'll see a demo of this at a trade show, with about a 2-3 meter range, a transmitting array about a foot square, and some mobile device with a special case as the target. The demo will work. The transmitter will draw about 300W, and deliver a few watts at the target end. It will have enough smarts to turn off if you put an obstacle in the beam. You could build that right now from off the shelf parts. As a deployed technology, it's unlikely to be useful.

Remember that guy who demoed power transmission over a few meters by ganging up enough WiFi transmitters to get some real power? Whatever happened to him?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10421628
Honest question, would you rather fight a much larger person than you and could break your jaw with a single punch or someone who had 20 years of martial arts training?
It is north of San Francisco and rains a lot
A webapp in golang to segregate images into folders
I've found slow change tends to be lasting change. Really glad you enjoyed the article, I put a lot of thought into it.
The funny thing about the FCPA is it doesn't apply in the foreign -> USA or USA -> USA interactions, only with USA -> foreign interactions as far as I can tell. Foreign and american organizations can do actions that would be illegal in the FCPA itself with the american government. It's pretty funny.

Like a Canadian oil organization can pay huge speaking fees to an American politician and then start getting favorable treatment in the USA. But if an American oil organization started paying huge speaking fees to a Canadian politician and then start getting favorable treatment in Canada, they would probably have a winnable FCPA liability against them.

Either that or the american politician makes sure the law doesn't get enforced in that case.
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Can confirm. My life is awesome.
Realistically, I think this policy probably makes sense at a company the size and visibility of Twitter. They probably get enough applicants from the schools listed to fill their needs. I worked at a company of comparable size, and they actually stopped giving referral bonuses because it stopped being useful to pay people bonuses when they had 100+ people apply for every available position.
That was my first thought when I read about Josephine. It appears as though selling home-made food recently became legal in California[1] (after the cook has passed an online course). I imagine most other states won't be so amenable to passing legislation that lowers food safety standards. New York, for example, allows home production of only a few category of foods and explicitly prohibits direct internet sales[2].

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/01/29/c...

[2]: http://www.agriculture.ny.gov/fs/consumer/processor.html
"The idea is to introduce real-world entity to UI/UX"

No, that should be REINTRODUCE. The whole point of a GUI is that it's intuitive. The depicted controls should bear essential visual qualities of real-world objects, like buttons. Does the button look like it's sticking out from the background? Then it's not depressed. And so forth.

"Flat" UI is an idiotic regression that has set GUIs back decades. Come to think of it... did they ever suck as much as "flat" UI? Now we have entire interfaces that are an Easter-egg hunt. It's pathetic.
Or what Travis Kalanick thinks of taxi regulations.
Personally I can never get behind any of these food startups, just because I find that they offer extremely little value.

Sort of like grocery home-delivery, after awhile you realize the premium you're paying for something you can easily do yourself.

I feel like this class of startups are needlessly attempting to add services on top of existing things that people can do themselves for much cheaper.
Learn basic techniques (how to make an omelette, how to saute food, etc.) and extrapolate from there.

You can also just look up recipes and read them beforehand to see if they're too complicated. Lots of delicious things are actually pretty simple to make. For example, you can take some chicken thighs, pour some olive oil, salt, pepper and lemon juice on top and stick them in an oven at 425F and you have a meal in about half an hour or so.
You're making an assumption here, which is that diversity does not provide value in and of itself. Yet there is ample research that shows that more diverse teams are more creative in problem solving and have better outcomes with tasks that require such creativity. Therefore, picking someone who can't whiteboard quite as well as another guy, but clearly has the skills necessary to do the job and adds diversity, is potentially a net win for the company.
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Plex at https://plex.tv is an amazing startup that has created an ecosystem of media players on multiple devices

"Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox (Xbox 360 & Xbox One), Playstation (PS3 & PS4), and other Smart TV platforms (currently Samsung, VIZIO, & Opera TV)" [0]

The clients play media you host yourself on your home computer or server.

They're self-funded and remarkably successful in the cord-cutting community.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex_(software)
Take a project-based approach. Pick a dish or cuisine you enjoy and find yourself eating frequently, and attempt to replicate that dish. Try to understand the techniques used to achieve the results you like, often this requires doing some extra research.

Pick one or two things and try to make it every week and improve upon it, or add in slight variations.

Look at the processed food you buy and see if you can come up with tastier and healthier homecooked versions.

Since you said you already know how to boil pasta, learning how to make your own tomato sauce or pesto is satisfying and easy.

Borrow cookbooks from the library and read them. Since Mark Bittman was mentioned, his "How to Cook Everything" is a good general reference, and he's also a good writer.

It also helps to have the ingredients with a longer shelf life on hand, such as spices and other staples, so you have everything you need.

There isn't a bad place to start when you don't know much. I recommend against starting with the "technique-first" approach unless it appeals to you personally, at least until you get some experience. You really want to do something that captures your interest so you stick with it.
I definitely agree on there not being a total ordering. Part of it for me is the mix of strengths thing. But I noticed two other factors:

One is just the small amount of information gleaned. Last time I hired, I ended up spending ~5 hours with each candidate who made it all the way through. But that's 0.1% of how much time I hope to spend with them, and it's them attempting to put their best foot forward. Any score I might give them would have big error bars.

The other is the extent to which ranking candidates is personal and nearly arbitrary. This time we did blinded reviews of code and it amazed me to see how often each reviewer valued different things. We would eventually converge with discussion, but I don't have a lot of faith that the parallel-universe versions of ourselves would be particularly consistent. And that's without reviewers even knowing the identities of the code writers.

The whole "lowered standards" thing strikes me as built upon a fantasy of clarity that is nothing like my actual experience of hiring.
I really appreciate you opening up like that. The world is a more beautiful place when people do.