skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait a minute - are you actually depressing the top pipettor here? (I was about to say "manually", but that doesn't sound right). That can't be too reproducible. And how is the pipettor attached?

Why not use an electronic pipet that does all of that for you? I remember using a digital pipettor years ago that was already programmable for just this type of application (eppendorf maybe?).

That's really the issue that needs to be front and center - how reproducible is this machine. For any lab that could use one of these, that is always the primary concern. What I'd like to see is something like a dye test where you diluted a dye into each well on a 96 well plate and then used a plate reader to determine how precise you are.

The second consideration is speed. How fast can this possibly be? I've used a liquid handling robot before that "only" had a 4-channel head, and it was slow enough that I eventually gave up and set the plates up by hand with an 8-channel pipet. Precision is the main concern, but speed is a close second. If you want to replace manual pipetting, you better be faster than a grad student.

And if a lab is able to use automation, the P1000 in the front page video is not going to be what they need. There are few applications where you'll want to pipet 200-1000ul in an automated manner - there are many more applications for 1-10ul. So I'd like to see more information on what pipettors are supported, and how do you change them?

As someone below mentioned - there is just too much missing information on the page. I had to resize my browser just to see the full video, which answered a couple of questions, but not all.

How many labs are currently using your machine, and for how many are these just toys to play with vs production machines? Meaning - if a lab is setup to properly test the machine, they probably have a few other liquid handlers in place. How many of their protocols can they transfer to the OT-One? And would any of them choose this over a more advanced machine?
> Your mother was a victim too.

Only in your mind, not in hers.
What are the downsides to this bash script for SSH keys?
If people come to me not knowing how stuff works and are just asking for help, I would never make fun of that person and would tear into someone who did.

On the other hand, if someone was woefully wrong about how something works and came at me as if their ignorance was my problem to solve, they can sod off. And I'd be happy to post their threatening and hilariously wrong headed emails all over the Internet, because for a lot of people being publicly humiliated is the only way they start listening.
Amazon Dash Replenishment Service out of closed beta now
I believe you. But I have a surfeit of resources on my desktop. The slack mobile app performs well, which is where performance is important, and the desktop version is good enough.
This isn't helped by the subset of CDN providers who use the enterprise sales models where they try to bundle services and set pricing based on your perceived ability to pay. It's always possible to negotiate a better deal but everyone has to burn the time needed to do that independently and can't publicly share the results.
Yes, absolutely. And if that lesson had been kept around then we might have lost fewer early passenger aircraft.
A 0-Day Local Privilege Escalation Bug Hits the Linux Kernel
The CentOS story was named 'the Tuttle hack'. Googling for 'Tuttle hack' finds relevant links:

https://lwn.net/Articles/177085/

https://web.archive.org/web/20060427011138/http://www.centos...
>Without this foreign interference Assad could have crushed the rebellion and the country would be in a more stable situation today. Why are we supporting the side that will divide the population along sectarian lines, against a government who has a track record of ruling for all religions?

Most of this isn't actually true.

- Assad wouldn't probably have crushed the rebellion in any way after part of the army deserted.

- Assad did voluntarily release some Jihadists in order to exarcerbate the sectarian aspect of the conflict
Ugh, this is really sick.
I'm from a similar background and this is unfortunately untrue. The average white household, for example, has something like 12 times the wealth as the average black household, a near historic high. What this means is that despite an appearance of greater equality in some circumstances, minority populations are still in a much more tenuous position. A white household is more likely to survey an inevitable crisis like losing a job or problems with health than their black counterpart.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealt...
I'm pretty sure there's no "intended way" to use the web. The developer of the website dictates this. If he wishes to use JS-only, that is his choice. He may lose you as a user/reader, but he certainly is using the web "as intended".

The choice to block JS seems a bit weird to me. JS, to my eyes, is very different to binary code running in userland. It is a sandboxed language with very clear restrictions to what it may do, it is easily read and verified (view source, pass it through a prettifier, and all that's left to fix is the variable names), and even hackable (we get a JS console in browsers).

What is it that makes JS so dangerous it must be blocked 100% ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta

Weta are a bit like large, nocturnal crickets. There are more than one variety, but you're probably thinking of the giant variety.

We get a relative of them here in the US, usually called cave crickets or camel crickets (here in VA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaphidophoridae
Probably related to its founders.

Aren't they of Turkish origin?
You are wrong. Sexual harassment laws are somewhat tipped in the victim's favour, but only because law in general is tipped slightly in the victim's favour. This is not about laws favouring women, it is just about how the law works.

Simply, the victim's feelings matter.

There is a difference between a wink and a wink after something sexually suggestive. If you can't understand that difference then yeah, there's nothing else I can say.
General rule of thumb is that a manager should never flirt or make advances to his direct reports, because the power imbalance and potential for confusion there is just too great.

Even if it was mutual, HR would probably have moved either her or him to a different team if their relationship had progressed.
I think this is a fair question to ask. There were so many rumors about them going under and it's a known fact that they couldn't pay wages last year for some months, losing some talent. After a secret investment though, they seem to be back on track. I wish they return back to their glorious days. My worry would be them not being able to recover with the additional funds and such great technology being orphaned. Cryengine is still as good as it gets from the beauty and realism perspective, IMHO.
If I assumed everyone at work was uncomfortable with everything I might say, then I would be the most boring coworker ever.

This isn't an absolute kind of issue.

If instead you meant "assume that everybody is uncomfortable with everything [approaching any kind of sexual tone]", then that's more realistic but simultaneously introduces a lot more gray area.
Open Data missing Layers
They could require a CLA for outside contributions. Many organizations do that.
Are you actually using "I'm stupid and oblivious" as an excuse?
According to Wikipedia [1], there was a restructuration.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crytek#Restructuring
You're missing the word "when" between the second and third of those lines. The third line restricts the scope of the second.
Ive been using Riemann at work for the past 6 months or so. There is a learning curve if you don't know clojure, that has been the biggest hurdle for me. But I love what it does and its fantastic along with the dashboard it comes with
Those aren't limited to the deep south. We have several broods here in VA. As a kid, those big brood years were always amazing - so many bugs crawling around, and their shells littering the roads for weeks. Amazing stuff.
It is almost certainly the internal monologue. I can read in two ways. One in which I have the words in my head as I read them and the other in which I just 'comprehend' entire sections of sentences at once. In the second there is never an internal monologue just comprehension. The second method lets me read most books in an evening, not sure what that works out in wpm but I was always significantly faster than anyone else at school at reading.
Not an expert on the issue but I imagine if the approached party feels sullied it's a strong case of sexual harassment.

I'm not familiar with sexual predators but I presume the day-day activities are the same as any bullies that succeed in long careers - the offending behavior is subtle and low key, but continuous.
How to Use Linux 'screen'
The founders are German-born children of a Turkish family who migrated to Germany.
Not to mention what it'd mean about watches (the dumb kind). Digital watches as a whole, even the cheap ones I'd own as a kid, never drifted that far that fast. I can't imagine that the cheap ones had better crystals in them than a laptop.

I think it may just be badly phrased. "will drift out of sync within minutes" was meant as it'll almost assuredly have gained/lost a few microseconds from what it should have, given the progression of 'real' time for its frame of reference, but that it -may- be that bad. Which, yeah, sure, it -may-. Not bloody likely, but maybe.
My friend was in the same position about a year ago, and she told her boss (directly, and in private conversation) that she's not interested, after he didn't interpret a few other subtle hints. She still works there.

Furthermore, she the boss and some other colleagues were cracking jokes about it during a team building event that I was invited to.

Edit: I realise this is anecdotal, but it feels to me like the author of the blog post immediately assumed she's a victim and panicked. Maybe the manager should've been more observant, but pointing fingers is useless without knowing what really happened. We only have her account of the story, which is probably distorted by the discomfort she experienced. This is not to say her discomfort shouldn't be taken into account, and yes I agree that HR should've sided with her, but I don't believe he should've been seriously sanctioned either.
Many browser exploits that break out of the sandbox take advantage of javascript. Disabling it prevents entire classes of exploits. Also, a lot of ad networks use javascript as a tracking tool.
What sort of projects do you take on now that you couldn't take on or didn't have the chance to take on prior to your coursework?

In addition - what's a typical day, an "awesome" day, and a "dreadful" day in your job?
Sadly the situation at Crytek is just how things are in the games industry and the only way to avoid it is to work in another industry instead.

So no, they didn't went down for following what everyone else does.

They just had some sales problems and did fire some people, just like many studios do.

This might be a pivot idea, given thant Unreal and Unity3D are also doing it.
No, I think she is a victim, but we are looking to the wrong culprit. She is a victim of her bad education that makes her feel like a victime more that someone with charisma and personality that could have easily respond. That is a big problem with women education.
LastPass mitigates phishing flaw in its password management software
this sounds like a good idea for those folk who are walking poetry references
Love your country when I was there 2yrs ago but must admit I thought the policies to inventory everything at the airport (I've never had my shoes checked for soil/mud before) was a losing proposition. It struck me that the prevailing thought was that NZ was so fragile that anything foreign could tip the scales and cause catastrophic consequences (eg. for those old enough to remember the Boy in a Plastic Bubble). Which might happen but life evolves... (which also happens)
I do need the "send mail later" feature, however I use Boomerang for this.
In Finland you have a social safety net. In the US if you're out of a job you have to pay your own health insurance, you have to keep paying down your student loans, and if you ever want to retire you should probably save and invest the money yourself.

So don't be surprised we worry about money.
Facebook lets Android users access the app anonymously through Tor
It's actually a disadvantage, since it's Clojure, and Riemann requires that
its operator actually knows Clojure (knowledge of dozen languages, even when
some of them are functional, is not enough).
Good point, actually. Sorry. I'm not a professional, so I've got less experience with that.
I never consciously inhibited subvocalization, it just must have happened at some point as I got faster and faster at reading. I think it just comes down to speed. I comprehend the word or phrase before I can even begin a subvocalisation and so I'm already onto the next section.
I don't think any "physical web" scanners do right now unfortunately, for example https://github.com/dermike/physical-web-scan (or search for mobile apps called "physical web"). This completely banjaxed my attempt to make an all front end internet beacon recently.
New military automated airdrops will use image recognition instead of GPS
> Should I want to post about some programming stuff? Doesn't belong on FB.

That was kind of my point #3. You already had Facebook for your friends so G+ became your network for your geek friends and geek co-workers. If you're not a geek, you were already using LinkedIn for that purpose. That's a small market.

OO Programmers (and biologists) are the only people who naturally think in terms of complex taxonomy.

Agreed, their real name policy made it completely unattractive for many purposes, including Mashable trying to set up an account and needing to rename it to Pete Cashmore (if I remember right). But Twitter is not tech heavy, it's tech/startup/entrepreneur/media heavy, including tech but not strictly limited to it.
Uber: we have 35% market share in China. Didi Kuaidi: LOL nope
Time is an emergent property. Ie: fundamental particles don't experience time, but things made of them do.
Do you remember 2004-2008? Maybe you didn't get to see it first hand, but in the US, it happened.
AppDynamics Weighs in with Post-CES Insight
> We are living in post democratic times, where democracy is only there as a play being shown for the people, to keep them placated.

Democracy has always been only a partial implementation of one. The Swiss come closest, every other so-called democratic country is so only in name and always has some provisions to limit the direct impact a vote can have on how society operates.

This has both good and bad side-effects, the bad ones seem to be the majority both in number and gravity. One large problem is that political systems are very slow to change once they are established, their founding documents take on some kind of religious aura and to question them and or those that laid them down is made tantamount to treason.
This is the shortest scientific paper ever published – and it had zero words
And there in lies the problem -- we are legislating about "feelings."

We have delegated to the state what our personal responsibility should have been all along.

"Hey, asshole -- keep it in your pants or I will tell the whole office that you went through an Asian-fetish. Now can we discuss this TPS report or not?"

Secondly, a wink after something sexually suggestive is a little redundant, wouldn't you say?
Seeing the Spectrum: A New History of Autism
Tricks That Make Virtual Reality Feel Real
Nope as well. It's more a stream processing engine. Icinga/Nagios or Zabbix are (inflexible) specializations of such engine.
Well, Ashe Dryden's pretty much debunked this whole line of reasoning better than I ever can. So I'll point you at that

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/dissent-unheard-of

If you're still unconvinced, you might want to start examining your own sample bias.
Why Is Your Team Falling Behind
The Gibson ES-335 has f-holes. These guitars were famously used by BB King, his own named Lucille.

When Gibson made a signature model he asked to remove the f-holes to reduce feedback:

> The most noticeable differences between the Lucille and the Gibson ES-355TD-SV on which it is based are the "Lucille" script on the headstock, the maple neck, and the lack of F-holes on the top. King requested that, to reduce feedback, there be no F-holes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_%28guitar%29

There's a very good song by him talking about Lucille:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8QxOjuYHg
To be fair, in the write-up, she says she laughed at the sexual comments made by her manager.

>I remember thinking to myself, “Did I do something to encourage this kind of behaviour?” I had uncomfortably laughed at some of the sexual comments my manager had made because I didn’t know how else to react as a junior member of the team. Should I not have done that?

And the facts about her 'harassment' are covered in one sentence in the whole article.

> In that week, I was kissed on the cheek, asked to sit on my manager’s lap, told about my manager’s sex life and virility, and told that “all men go through an Asian fetish at some time,”

She doesn't provide any context and keeps it as vague as possible. If you think about it, all/most of those things could have been light jokes that weren't specifically targeted to her. And I am certainly not defending her manager, but I still maintain that she did use this situation to her advantage. Getting a promotion, writing about it several years later in an attempt to promote her current startup.
Is requiring someone to learn a programming language worse than requiring someone to learn a custom DSL? Seems a strange assertion.
I co-founded it :-)
React.js Best Practices for 2016
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Only if it's someone you aren't interested in, if a hot guy you liked made eye contact a few times and smiled it would make your day. Am I right?
You really need to re-read the article. The female HR person did not feel she was "overreacting":

> During the HR investigation that ensued, I remember being shamed by a female colleague who thought I was blowing the situation out of proportion. She thought I was being overly sensitive, and that it was wrong of me to report my manager. That hurt. I thought she would’ve naturally supported me.

While there is no explicit mention by the author of her saying, "I told him to back off", there's also nothing to imply that she accepted her manager's advances: i.e. that she went to dinner with him alone, or actually sat on his lap.

Reporting to HR is not a "fiasco". It is always difficult -- for the reasons the author states -- to deal with advances by a superior. Not just because of fears of losing her job, but also of self-doubt about hurting the company. Pushing back against him beyond not sitting on his lap leads to fear of retribution. HR is as close to a third-party as she can get for this, and the main question is how it could have been headed off earlier.
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The really creepy part is not any particular of his unfortunate "advances", but the fact that he stubbornly continued them for few days despite the girl being completely turned off and freaked out by him.

> "Please don't, this is inappropriate." would stop most such behavior from happening again in huge majority of cases.

It depends. If there are witnesses, sure. But in private, the guy has a choice - treat this seriously and feel bad about what he'd just done or try to downplay it as a tease and continue hitting on her expecting that "things will work out". Some choose the former, some choose the latter. Some really go to great lengths to avoid admitting they are wrong.

Then there is also the question, whether somebody who behaves as if he couldn't even tell if a girl is into him or not should actually be managing a team of people.
>It's like a good firewall policy - default block all and then explicitly allow.

It reminded me of the veil (no offence to any culture). And I am sure you don't imply that. But if you advocate the other extreme, then there is always the risk of it going extreme in other direction.
Amnesty International accuses tech giants of battery bastardry
TIL Spotify is a major partner of Spotify.
I thought, in my ignorance, that it would be prudent to go after a few more specimens on the rock after they got breeding going on in the zoo?
It would be good if there was a way to bet against Blockchain technology in general. Prediction markets seem like the only option currently available...
I thought the reason we don't have an ID card system was that it was too bloody costly.

That aside, one of the identity partners is Verizon, which don't even do business in the UK. What's their incentive here? Why is giving my passport or driving license details to Verizon better than giving it to Government, a branch of which issued it in the first place? Frankly I think it's nuts and not a win for privacy.
I don't like it since the master basically does a curl on each server to get the info, so it doesn't work behind a firewall without tons of issues
No, your view is not valid. Assuming you actually read the article, you probably didn't read this part:

"In that week, I was kissed on the cheek, asked to sit on my manager’s lap, told about my manager’s sex life and virility, and told that “all men go through an Asian fetish at some time,” among other wildly discomfiting, work-inappropriate things. Then I was asked to dinner alone."

That racist comment alone is reason enough to get the manager fired right away, let alone the rest of that list.

And no, she doesn't need to say "No. I'm not interested. Leave me alone." She doesn't even have to say that.

Don't even start using "throughout history" as a justification for anything. A lot of bad things happened throughout history.
OS/2 was too little too late - by the time they realised what was going on, Microsoft was already a new major player.

Didn't stop Microsoft from going out of their way to sabotage them, though.
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Schneier misunderstood the XKCD scheme and ranted.

There's no shame in that, per se, but it was pointed out to him repeatedly in the comments, and he never corrected his mistake.

Just one incident, where he lost a lot of credibility with me. I feel he should have stuck to the technical side of software security and cryptography instead of playing politics.
Hmm, too late: https://www.triprapp.com/
From my wife's experience, older women superiors are way too busy making the professional life of younger women a living hell and they don't have much time and energy left to harass young men.
Simple drawing program with Python turtle graphics
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This will have an effect in the UK - it'll be used by the anti-eu lobby as ammunition, they'll paint it as "the EU is a terror state that supports terror and wants to give a safe space to terrorists and paedophile and bears, oh my!".

Mass Surveillance will grow in response, as the uk's logic will be that it's necessary because Europe don't do it.
> but the fact that he stubbornly continued them for few days without noticing that the girl is completely turned off and freaked out by him.

She says she laughed at the sexual comments made by her manager.

> I remember thinking to myself, “Did I do something to encourage this kind of behaviour?” I had uncomfortably laughed at some of the sexual comments my manager had made because I didn’t know how else to react as a junior member of the team. Should I not have done that?
I would look at is as ok language for lightweight scripting of Java, but some areas like how bad the tracebacks are or how well many of the clojure-specific libraries are fleshed out (or quality of docs), leaves me with major concerns about the language.