skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happened in Germany. Believe me that no executive wants to fight with Bernd Osterloh and there isn't a single engineer who doesn't now how to fight back with the labour union as a backup.
Battle hardened ecosystem for quickly starting Protractor test project
How recent is your device? Is it scheduled to get Windows 10? I'd say our best bet at this time is to push for a Universal Windows Platform app.

How good is your C#?
> That very idea is the most profound, insidious form of patriarchy there is. Think about it.

No, its not, and, you know, its pretty ridiculous to make that claim in a venue where the original text is accessible, so that it is obvious the way that you had to deliberately ignore the whole preceding and following parts of the sentence to even make the attack on the phrase you excerpt taken out of context remotely plausible.

Recognizing that patriarchy exists, and that certain associations exist in the context of patriarchy is not, itself, patriarchal.
Not the original comment author, but I thoroughly enjoyed taking Penn's undergraduate compilers course, which used OCaml to compile a basic OO language with single inheritance and dynamic dispatch. http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis341
Do you wear a tattoo openly at work?
Wait, but what's the test condition? What results should I expect from your experiment if I'm hypoglycemic or not?
This is not to say the earthquakes are not a problem, they are. Just don't assume that this data maps to school damage see so far.
> Also, how do you suppose Uber would become predacious monopoly?

In a way Google has de-facto search engine monopoly - by offering the best service that's hard to replicate because of scale effects, and by being a globally recognizable brand. Add to that Uber's eagerness to actively sabotage competition by means literally taken out of spy movies (burner phones and CCs, really?), and I can see them holding a monopoly for a while once they get it.

(And "for a while" is enough; Uber is perfectly aware that self-driving cars are coming, and is in fact preparing for it.)
No you are right. ES2015 support is an open issue.
Chinese-built zero-emissions electric bus prepares for service in London
Injection based on snake venom that stops bleeding in 6 seconds flat
Brussels plans to strip Schengen nations of authority over borders
One good reason, which I think may still have an impact in long-run is bandwidth.

At office or home on your cable/DSL/whatever you really don't care about bandwidth.

However on mobile, blocking ads has a bigger impact beyond aesthetics and basic UX

* Pages load much much faster

* Mobile users typically have data-plans with limits

I have an old unlimited plan with AT&T. I've just installed the ad-blocker from Mozilla. Previously when I had Peace I say my data usage drop by 30% (that I can account for. It may be higher). I typically use 3.2GB a month. It was down to 1.8GB (again, there are other factors)
Make C++ in Android Phones
The printing press was one of the main factors making the reformation possible, which later on led to the thirty year's war. So it's actually a good example of how technology has unintended consequences.
when you get laid off like this it is normal to get between 2 to 3 months salary as severance. if you quit you get nothing, i have seen people stick around in companies after mergers for weeks knowing they are going to be laid off but just waiting around for their severance check because waiting 2 weeks to leave a job can be a difference of ten of thousands of dollars in your pocket
Monitoring for fraud and publicizing good and egregious bad actors probably goes a long way against swindlers.

For example, these posts are critical of Heifer International:

http://blog.givewell.org/category/heifer-international/

But they are mostly concerns about the whole concept of giving livestock, so it's probably still an effective strategy for someone that wants to give livestock to give money to Heifer International rather than trying to do anything more direct.
The Bitter Truth About 'Employment at Will
I teach computers and technology (basically stuff like Arduino, Twine, Scratch and so on) at an elementary school. Obviously my experience is just my experience - yours might be different - but there seems to be a fervor right now for applying technology at every level of education.

To me - the problem is not enough programmers willing to come into teaching. Programmers just want to be in startups right now.
Health insurance being tied to employment is a result of government wage and price controls during World War II. A simple improvement would be to provide the same tax breaks associated with paying for health insurance to individuals rather than companies.
The two companies cultures are incompatible.

Dupont has an "employee-first" attitude that permeates the corporation and dates from its early years when the manufacture of gunpowder proved to be so risky. The Dupont family owners recompensed families of injured/dead employees by providing housing and supporting them for the remainder of their life. Safety became paramount in all operations. The attitude remains today. Despite the recent indiscretions in the LaPorte, Texas plant, Dupont is probably the safest chemical company on the planet.

If Dupont culture dominates, then this will likely prove a Renaissance for Dow. OTOH should Dupont culture be subjugated, it will ruin the value of the merger and we will all lose a company (Dupont) that has been possibly the best-run, most forward-looking corporation that has existed.
It's not a Ponzi scheme if startups donate stickers for them to give away.
Startup Acadine picks up the torch for troubled Firefox OS
Yeah, I'm not sure where they got that part. Besides obviously not inventing the actual element, neither Dow nor Dupont were the first to produce chlorine, nor even the first to produce it on an industrial scale. And they didn't invent the main process by which it's produced (chloralkali process). It's kind of a throwaway sentence in the article though, so I doubt much research went into it.
I have read that there is some DNA damage associated with MRI, but I don't see where that comes from. Any ideas?

ex: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009912011...

PS: Ands yes I mean MRI not CT.
>there do exist conditions that cause people to carry too much weight even with a "normal" diet

Then they should eat less than a normal diet. You can get all the right nutrients without as many calories.
Sen. Ted Cruz wants minimum H-1B wage of $110,000
The 3 Rules of Contract Drafting
That's not enough. The keys could be distributed later when it's not obvious. System or network timing channels can be used. Subversion is a very difficult problem to deal with. Having the source code is a start on it. Not having the source code is a no-go for trustworthiness if malicious insiders exist.
One of the things I find so fascinating about him is that he was also one of the leading English mathematicians of his generation (his "Mathematical Preface" to the first English edition of Euclid would've made him important even without any of the magic/occult stuff) and according to one book historian he also had one of the largest private libraries in all of Europe. So he's important as a Renaissance polymath and not just as someone who thought they were channelling sprits. Which in turn sheds light on why someone like Newton would have a similar range of interests. The British imperial stuff was going to be my focus though, because of the fact that he was an original partner with Sir Walter Raleigh in his attempts to settle colonies in the New World. Plus (along with Merlin) he's essentially the archetype of the wizard in pop culture!
My own work has never needed to, nor do most scientific papers. Most observations are made by machines. In my current projects they are made by javascript in the browser. In past experiments they were made by things like CCD cameras or MRIs.

I do parameterize other observer properties. For instance, the example of time parameterization is exactly what I'm working on today. Parameterizing space/time in an MRI is an area of active research and is vitally important in the big machines.
When in git
You don't need to bribe all the media, just blow the whistle in one major outlet and rest will follow the shues for maximum coverage.
Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself with 3.5M-Year-Old Bacteria
> adblocking apocalypse

on Mobile.

It has already happened on desktop. Ad blockers have severely hurt the bottom line of publishers.

> the vast majority of web users are non-technical people

But these non-technical people aren't dumb. I showed my mom how to install ad-block on Firefox, she then showed that to her many friends, who then showed it to their friends. Installing an ad-blocking plugin is easy.
I think it's a little more complicated than that. The primary goal of trademark is to prevent consumer confusion. Mickey Mouse is so closely associated with Disney and used with such a dizzying array of products that calling something Mickey Mouse, even something NSFW that Disney wouldn't want to make themselves, seems likely enough to cause confusion.
I don't know that anyone has really solved that problem:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4170

Honestly, maybe the solution is just to look at the problem a different way, and use an attribute grammar instead, like Ted Kaminski mentioned.
Your right it is -- I didn't quite catch that when I was pasting, but it does sound a bit unfair, out of context.

So: apologies to the original author.
QuantLib Python Tutorials for Fellow Quants
Are there a lot of quants in the US that use QuantLib? I see there is a large community in Europe and Canada. Would like to hear from fellow quants in the US on their experience using QuantLib.
I suppose it depends on where you live, and what you do. I live in Boston doing software, so I can always find another job without moving. It will affect Midland more.

Midland is an old company town, and there isn't a huge amount of chemical industry in the state, other than the Dow support system of suppliers. The other employer in town, Dow Corning, was a joint venture but (as was also announced today) is also being absorbed back into Dow.

The house prices in Midland will collapse, as lots of people move out of town together. There just aren't going to be enough open jobs in the chemical industry. I think most people will either have to retrain or retire early.

I know that's how the world works these days, but it is sad to see my hometown come to such hard times.
From investors to customers, perhaps. Definitely not investors to drivers though.

Uber are subsidizing rides in the hopes that they can squeeze out the competition, at which point they will jack up prices and milk their monopoly as hard as they can.

Whether there is an actual wealth transfer going on depends on whether Uber's bet will be successful.

That in turn depends upon whether they can keep classifying drivers as contractors.
Hi, no the course isn't on a MOOC platform. The website from last year is available here: http://cs.mcgill.ca/~cs520/2015/
Of interest to Europeans is also that the group "died in 1945" also includes Aldof Hitler. Up until now the Bavarian government (as the copyright owner) blocked any and all reprints in Germany and wherever else they could. I'm looking forward to reading it, admittedly primarily because I'm curios whe they were so hellbend on keeping it away from the general public.
That's a huge sample bias there. Cool idea, but 'startup' in the name was a bit confusing at first.
Ask HN: Is Windows store development viable?
I am looking for an area to begin making programs in. Android / iOS store is overpopulated and is hard to make an impact. Web apps are an option but I'm also looking for something where I can generate revenue.

Windows store is an interesting option for me because of the increasing sales of the surface tablets increasing the Windows user base. Are these tablet users looking to download windows apps? Or are they just using the web and using it like a desktop. (not meant to be answered, just a question).

My question is: is it worth the time and effort to learn Windows app development?
I can understand why. You measure talent by looking for a proven track record, maybe not in the marketplace, but at least in results verified by others. College grades, awards, projects all point to a talented candidate.

On the other hand, determination without talent-indicating accomplishment points to an applicant that doesn't have his head in the right space and that isn't likely to succeed. I've met plenty of people with "do or die" attitudes that neither did nor died. 5 years down the road they're still looking for someone to just give them that chance they know that's all they need to start rocking and rolling.
The problem is the issue of choice. Going to sleep in a choice most of the time, but if you stay up too late your body will make that choice for you.

With eating, while it isn't as drastic an effect, having high stress and having the body demanding calories will alter how your mind makes choices related to food. It takes higher levels of willpower to not gain weight when you have more stress. And many people can't just increase their willpower to compensate.
Any study that asks people what they would do is basically worthless.
One of the main stoppers of the wider OCaml adoption, I think, is a poor Windows support. For example, missing Unicode support [1] or lack of the opam [2] on this platform.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/153

[2] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2191
> To me - the problem is not enough programmers willing to come into teaching.

Its not really surprising, considering that programmers can make significantly more (even before considering the lure of the potential upside of equity) in the private sector (startup or not) -- or even as programmers in the public sector -- than they could hope to teaching, and without paying for the additional required certification and credentialing requirements to get into teaching.
I don't see a problem here. When asked to implement the interface, you don't have to know and implement every single method off the top of your head.. Sounds more like an opportunity to discuss what operations are important for the use case and implement a few.
Sure, but I'd hardly characterize them as "normal epistemology".
No other auto maker sells diesel in us? Is VW the lonely seller? I read your comment, it seems you not. Or VW is the lonely seller and you are right :) Anyway drawk has a point on this
According to their web site it's going to be hosted by Apache by February of next year.
Kill the Clones: Temporal Coupling Finds Design Problems in Large-Scale Systems
I wonder if the children who had forgotten their original first language would learn it again more easily than the children who had never learned the language at all.

That would be an interesting study.
Merchandising it on a large scale would be...

But you probably mean making it for personal use. I'm not the original poster, but I'm going to have to look into that.
Discourse Selected for Mozilla Open Source Support Program
Awesome. Any tips on order and production systems?

And totally with you on the employees - they know way more than I do and are the ones who built this business!
The original commenter specifically mentioned the use-case of building clients from the source. Your comment doesn't counter anything that was said. Btw, most backdoors are disguised as 0-days for corner cases for deniability. They are primarily errors breaking memory safety or side channels. One can also exploit compiler properties but I've never seen that in the wild. Would be easier on iOS, though, due to standardized tools & platform details.

So, no, sniffing packets or stepping through code isn't the best way to do it. Best way is combining docs, source code, covert channel analysis, execution traces, and looking at them all for issues. That's still not even minimum requirement for high assurance security but how many problems are caught that exist in low-assurance source & binary distributed software.
I always find it in stores, just in the water section instead of the soda section. That said, I never see it in gas stations and the like.
DuPont is "employee first"? https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti... may be of interest...
Yes. Water, water, everywhere but only a handful are allowed to drink. We live in a contradictory age where more capital has accumulated than ever before (and thus can be said to be plentiful), but where it has at the same time become increasingly concentrated within a relatively small socio-economic network. Capital continues to evaporate away from the 99% to the 1%, but no longer precipitates back out.
it's much much faster. It's not perfect but I usually get my soylent in about a week.
Just one shift. Haven't done the benchmarking so far. Has to be improvement opportunity just given the walk through from my eyes.
Thank you very much for this summary. Terrible science reporting is really getting out of hand recently. "Chomsky was right, we have a grammar in our head", what non-sense is that?! I blame this partly on TED which effectively promotes the misrepresentation of research to increase main stream appeal. Nowadays, science needs to be sexy and I see more and more research that appears to be designed to "go viral" on Twitter and Facebook.
None at the desk. I have a nice gel floor mat and comfy socks.
How are "muslims", over 1.5 billion people with wide ranging beliefs and practices analogous to one individual who leads a small group? If you were to apply this to a particular muslim with a following, who you believe has advanced particular beliefs with a negative effect, then the sentiment expressed by johann30 would make a lot of sense, and even the most heart-bleeding of liberals would agree.

I don't have enough information to agree or disagree with johann30 specific claim, and I can't comment to the negative effects he says he had witnessed on himself and others (all I know is that Yudkowsky is neither a philosopher nor an expert on the subject), but your analogy did not resemble his idea at all.
Publishing the unredacted SecureDrop 0.3.4 audit report
No, I don't see that particular line of thought as progressive and empowering for women in today's world.

So you reject Standpoint Theory. I guess we agree about that.

Yet you also (seem to) accept the notion of "situated knowledge". But, without any recourse to Standpoint Theory to be able to privilege any claim over another, that necessarily commits you to relativism --and a rather extreme form, at that.

So you either reject the very notion of "situated knowledge" (and thus a great deal of feminist epistemology), become an extreme relativist, or accept Standpoint Theory.

I, for one, reject relativism --so that commits me to reject "situated knowledge"-based feminist epistemology (i.e. pretty much the whole discipline).
The irony of this pivot is that Andreas Gal, one of the creators of Firefox OS,[1] has already tried to do IoT with Firefox OS[2] and failed. His startup is now doing IoT with NodeJS.[3]

Li Gong, former executive in charge of Firefox OS,[4] also has a startup focusing on Firefox OS smartphones.[5] Having raised $100 million and poached dozens of Mozilla employees, he is looking for even more funding.[6]

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/mozillas-new-cto-javascript-firefox...

[2] http://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-os-in-flux-as-mozilla-loses...

[3] http://www.cnet.com/news/startup-aims-to-make-home-devices-s...

[4] https://www.linkedin.com/in/ligongcn

[5] http://www.cnet.com/news/startup-lands-100-million-to-challe...

[6] http://www.cnet.com/news/startup-acadine-picks-up-the-torch-...
They aren't laying off the entire workforce, only 10%. The 6300 and 100K per employee figures are accurate.
But 10% of 63,000 is 6,300, which are the ones affected and probably on the receiving end of severance pay.
I had the same issue and I've just seen this:

https://www.quora.com/Hacker-News-How-come-I-cant-reply-in-a...

I think that's a pretty good lesson from PG!
Microsoft Makes Concessions to Disgruntled OneDrive Fans
Bleeding Hart Libertarians isn't left wing by any stretch of the imagination. They endorse the same kind of "free market solutions" that are peddled by the republican libertarians: privatize all the things and then hope that the billionaires are generous enough to share their wealth with the peons.

I mean, come on: http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2015/08/rich-plutocrat-...
Now if only we had this back in the 1600s. We'd know if the Mona Lisa really did have a different person featured in it during its earlier 'development'!
Does this introduce an attack that is likely to happen? Is this easily exploited by random bad guys? Only exploited by nation states with huge computing power? Only exploitable in theory? I can never figure out just how serious things like this are with my rather limited understanding of crypto.
On the other hand, talent also does not mean that his head is in the right space.
For this reason, as consumers, it's in our long-term interest to use Uber competitors instead of Uber.
I think there's some room for a next Gen language somewhere between the two.
Darpa used a robotic hand to restore a paralyzed man's sense of touch
Little Bites of Cocoa #145: Fixing Code Signing with Match
Given we complain about the oligopoly price setting powers of various groups which have less than 40% of the American market in a given industry...

Yeah.

You are being a bit too literal.
Don't believe the reviews.

I was considering a position there, and did some research into the company culture (because everything else about them just seemed impossibly awesome, with the exception of pay). Apparently, they had a fairly low review rating about a year ago which was hurting recruiting efforts, so company leadership "asked" employees to write reviews and a bunch of 5-star reviews popped out in a very short period of time. They all sound like PR copy, all cut from the same mold, and the "cons" of the company aren't really negatives but disguised positives. If you click on the "rating trends" next to the overall star rating you'll see when this happened.

Totally creepy and a bit cult-ish if you ask me. Some of the other reviewers actually called them out about this, but since they're an "engaged employer" on Glassdoor, it appears those reviews are getting buried in favor of the ghost-written ones. You can still find them fairly easily though because they'll have 20-50x more helpful tags than the kool-aid reviews. Turned me off completely to them, and makes me think there are some serious issues going on underneath the surface.

I also found this blog post written a while back about their business model which I found quite enlightening: http://kellblog.com/2011/06/27/why-palantir-makes-my-head-hu...

It's a little dated, but I think he hits the nail on the head in a few places.
The number of people who Do Things That Matter is just dwindling - most people are basically seat-fillers. This is especially true of say, a Congrefsperson or other equally high-profile functionary like a CEO. Even high status professional work like medicine and law is just rubber-stamp boredom with moments of sheer terror.

Things That Matter are more or less on autopilot - see "How It's Made". So the differentiator becomes rent-seeking in nature. This makes things volatile - how is there anything like a "fundamental" to Snapchat - and this increases uncertainty. But “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - B. Pascal.

Preferences are real and we don't understand them ( in the sense of "I cannot understand myself" in Zen). But we can certainly see their aggregated effect.

and in a way, it's worse even than that - cure cancer. Now something else comes along to replace it. Maybe that's Alzheimers. Cure Alzheimer's? Something else.
Why is there image and whitespace that takes up >50% of the width of the page? It makes it so obnoxious to read.