skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" But for Google to say that unionization information violates their terms of service [1] may be defamatory"

No, it isn't.
Because that would require google having said that.
Google in fact, has said or written nothing as far as anyone can tell.

"On top of that, Google's action may violate the National Labor Relations Act.[2]"

No, again, it almost certainly doesn't. This is a pretty ridiculous claim, backed up by roughly no case law. It's pretty easy to see it would swallow pretty much all law if it was read the way you are :)

"So Google could have a hard time in court over this, since a pattern of illegal anti-labor activity has already been established."

This would pretty much be inadmissible in court to show anything, as evidence of "bad character" is not permissible to show someone did something in a different case.
Popularity is certainly important for open source stuff, and personal code samples that you put online for "resume" purposes. Hell, for that use case you might as well be posting your code on LinkedIn.

But for the use cases in which people actually pay money (i.e. private repos that you don't WANT outsiders to access), then how is lack of popular visibility a downside?
Note that all of the computer generated pieces were created by this impressive deep net algorithm (paper prepublished in 8/2015): http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576

Somehow I cannot believe how fast they got the idea to create profit from it: http://deepart.io/
I think this was a joke (along with all the other details of Knuth that have been lost or confused in the intervening 17,986 years)
> A malicious sensor could, hypothetically, steal fingerprints from an iPhone user unknowingly. This could be used to unlock the phone and make purchases through Apple Pay without the owner's permission.

Why in the hell would anyone bother with this, if it's trivial to get persons fingerprints and reproduce them to unlock the device ? [1] Even if you lack the touch ID, the device is still encrypted by the PIN and is functioning (and is secure) normally without it.

Either it's really over-engineered or is what it is - scare tactic to bring people to Apple repair centers.

I wish they'd use rather this media attention to inform the public that fingerprint authentication isn't there for security, but conveniency first. Apple Pay would function just fine without it. But would it have it's appeal of easy payment ? Probably not.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u4ZLGsw1zo
Handoff is a really useful feature (when it works).

Also SL mamed Expose (that weird non-proportional grid view) that was reverted to the Leopard-style in Mission Control (of which Mavericks/Yosemite had the best implementation, and they've now broken its utility in ElCap thanks to hiding thumbnails by default. FFS.)

But apart from that... I think I preferred the Apple apps back in 2009-or-so.

To be honest, I think the latest Apple release cycles have been more about "remove a feature so that we can add it in again and sell it to our users again". Think multi-monitor support, something that worked perfectly in SL and earlier, and then broke fantastically with the full screen apps in .. Lion? ML? One of the two.
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How to fix it, eliminate it.
Not only are the US firms abusing H1-B, the consulting firms from (for example) India are setting up a US footprint & using H1-B to get low cost folks into this country. The quality is not there, but the low cost & quantity is.
There are many Americans that can fill these positions, but the US firms don't want to pay a living wage.
But that's the problem. The majority does not necessarily determine how the country will lean, only the loudest, the most vociferous, the most passionate, the most eh..., "patriotic".

The Nazis were not the majority, but they had a plan, and were loud and uncompromising about it.

McCarthy and Co were not the majority, but see how they managed to shaped the laws of the land. The majority didn't care enough to resist.

Presently, the right wing of the Republican party are not the majority in the party, but see how they are helping to define who gets elected to represent their party. By being the loudest, they've marginalized the "moderates" within their party.

In the waning days of an empire, which kicks in long before the empire loses complete grip on its sphere of influence, the empire tends to veer right. And that's because those who consider themselves the most "patriotic", who believe they know how to "make the empire great again", tend to be the loudest.

And they tend to be in the right wing of the political spectrum.
The day would be rather bleak if paypal had monopoly on who can donate to whom. I would on principle never donate to such project, and hope that they would at least consider opening up an alternative method like bank transfer or bitcoins.
How do bad interview processes prove that meritocracy doesn't work?
This is definitely not normal. For 20 users, 8GB is more than enough and it should not require constant restarts. Please check out https://about.gitlab.com/getting-help. Message me on Freenode #GitLab @ dblessing or Twitter @drewblessing or @GitLabSupport. I'm happy to help.
I have to with with C files that have single macros that weigh in at 5+MB.
Hey, mods, did the top level comments get resequenced in this thread? Up until an hour ago, iza's comment was the first comment; now it's the fifth.

I understand that the post itself may be inflammatory but the resulting discussion actually avoided a lot of the diversity v.s. meritocracy ("it's my side or the highway!") that some of the other comment threads are focusing on.
One of the most chilling videos I've seen in a great while.

That kind of an ambush can happen to anyone. And by all appearances, the driver was doing the right thing (swerving off the road to avoid skidding and hitting the officers).

You also have to love they one of the perpetrators blatantly lies to his colleague right afterwards: "We told him to stop, he hit the gas and came right at us."
An example date format is 2016-01-25T22:15:43Z. Also note that you don't have to manually configure and sign the requests yourself, you can simply use CloudKit JS with Node.js. A sample script has been published at https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/samplecode/CloudAtla...
Yeah absolutely. Snow Leopard's multi-display was great. As was Leopard's, Tiger's, and Panther's.

Then Apple broke it massively in Lion, and only finally resolved most of the (severe, productivity-destroying) issues with Mavericks.
Generally, - use the contact form, esp if you have a paid account.
How about George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, who shot Trayvon Martin, a Black. CNN called him "white": <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/12/cnn-white-hispanic_.... So did the New York Times: <http://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-demotes-george-zimmerman-from-....
Looking for a technical co-founder
Looking for a technical co-founder. Seriously. I know this is super hackneyed/cliche, but I found the more honest/blunt I am, the better.

Must:

- know iOS/Android/Windows/UI-UX
- want to break the rules
- love to travel. A lot.

Who am I?

Well, I can't code. At all. I've tried, but I just can't seem to get a hang for it. Maybe you can teach me?

I can do other things else pretty well. I used to work at NASA. I have 17 successful launches to the App Store. I am a licensed pilot. I've completed an Ironman. I went to Everest Base Camp to raise money for children with heart disease. I love to have fun. I tend to break rules.

What is the app?

Think: waze meets yelp on a red-eye to tokyo.

Frequent flyer dashboard...

Mini-games to play while you wait for your flight...

Crowd-sourced TSA waiting times...

Badges/rewards for checking into airports and contributing to the crowd...

Why haven't I found anyone?

I'm looking for the right person.

Is that you?

Do you know someone?

Serious inquiries only, plz. No trolls.

Thanks! :)
Did you adapt this from the similar suggestion for college admissions that made the rounds a while back? I liked the idea.
So I should place "critical race theory" squarely in the camp of theories that do not have the elements of a scientific theories. Redefining words with a commonly accepted usage to further an agenda is academically dishonest, IMHO.

In other words, "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
The actual analogy would be:

"We need to start learning how to simply NOT THINK about slavery, and NOT MENTION IT."

Do you see why this would not be an effective way to eliminate slavery?
There are plenty of not so well trained dogs that just do as they please as well.
> Stash (Bitbucket Server now) lacks a ton of features that Bitbucket (and Github) have

CEO of Atlassian here. Can you list the features you deem missing? I want to check them against our roadmap, as I don't believe we have many gaps, and a host of things better.
As noted by a commenter on reddit, this was not released by NASA. The archives were always available, but it took an independent guy Kipp Teague to go through and digitize them.

Comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/44gm12/so_nasa_got_si...

Kipp Teague:
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/kipp.html
It's sad as hell what the alma mater is doing these days... Guess there was nothing offensive about the speech in the library a few months back.

Outragism certainly pays a lot of salaries for mid-level administrators there, though.
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Timing is my guess. Maybe Twitter felt like getting the team and the technology now and then was worth exponentially more than MAYBE having it a few months down the road.
I didn't really spell out an argument in detail so let me try to clarify my argument and then we can productively disagree?

1. There are lots of people who would be better off (using any reasonable definition of better off that you chose) working as an H-1B worker in the US despite all the potential for abuse (real and exaggerated) that the status entails. They'd be better off because the pay would be higher. They might be better off because they like american culture better than that of their home country. They might be better off because their is greater scope for career advancement. They might be better off because they might learn more from their peers in the US. Etc.

2. H-1B workers do have the option of quitting their jobs and going back to their home countries if they decide that the abuse is too much. I understand that this is complicated by the fact that they might have taken out loans, or developed attachments to America. However, I don't think that, on net, this justifies banning them from the US labor market.

Perhaps the strongest claim I'm willing to make is that the vast majority of workers ( >90%? ) currently in H-1B status in the US don't wish that the H-1B option wasn't available to them. And that the vast majority of wannabe H-1B workers would still choose to come to work in the US even after they are made aware of all the abuses.

I'm aware that I'm only comparing H-1B as is to no H-1B at all and that numerous other hypothetical arrangements exist that would be better than both.
This sounds cool! Any MVP's? How long have you been working on it?
I've found w3schools very useful when I forget fundamental little HTML and Javascript things.
Perhaps it's related to self-identification? People don't self-identify as cancerous, the cancer (or disease?) is an external actor invading the body. Whereas a disability is a feature or aspect of one's body.

(I don't have first hand experience with either, so I'm just musing too..)
There is an MVP in the App Store. Ranking #3 for flight info and #8 for flight tracker. 1 year. Send me a PM. :)
Discrimination is fairness. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
DoL already has a process for determining prevailing wage for a given location. There is no reason why "sorting by wage" can't mean "sorting by ratio of wage to local prevailing wage".
In the Demon Seed (1977), the master isn't killed, but the mistress (played by Julie Christie) is assaulted by their smart home.
After the 2008 election (i.e., when Obama was elected to his first term), the Democrats controlled the House 257-178 and the Senate 57-41. After the 2014 election, the Republicans controlled both houses, 247-188 and 54-44 respectively.

After the 2008 election, the Democrats controlled state governorships 29-22. After the 2014 election, the Republicans controlled them 31-18.

After the 2008 election, the Democrats controlled 62 state legislative houses, with 36 for the Republicans (98 total -- Nebraska has a single, non-partisan legislature). After the 2014 election, the Republicans controlled 68 state houses (the highest number since 1928) and the Democrats controlled only 30 (the lowest number since 1860).

"Moving left"? In a pig's eye.
P "something" stations, almost like "pleasurestation". Hard to make out.
I eat their dog food
Nah, more like screwing your neighbor makes running your business a bit easier.
It's embarrassing that you don't think this is something worth having a discussion about. You're basically suggesting we abandon critical thought. There's clearly more to this than white privilege.
Well, its form could conceivably be different. "Generally accepted medium of exchange" is one definition. But in the case of national fiat, it's also the unit of account and store of value. More broadly, it's an accounting device for intertemporal coordination of savings-investment decisions. Private currencies would be especially apt in the latter case.

Certainly some systemic cooperation would be in order to maintain reflux, but it's more reliable than deposit insurance when people's equity is at stake.

Social safety nets can be ensured from a myriad of techniques.
> I chose to compile Earl Grey to JavaScript

Some programming languages generate code much deeper down the abstraction stack, e.g. Haskell generating machine code, whereas others generate code to a much shallower depth, e.g. most languages generating JavaScript. A language generating lisp code from some syntax could even be shunting code up the abstraction stack.

How deep does the generated code need to be down the stack for some syntax to earn the name "programming language"?
>make it a single-issue campaign focused around the slogan "no men in women's bathrooms".

I don't have all the background knowledge on this and I'm admittedly not an expert on LGBT, but that's actually pretty brilliant. I have no particular feelings on LGBT stuff, but I certainly wouldn't want anyone that still has male genitalia in the same bathroom as anyone's wife or daughters.

Not because I think those exact people would be harmful or aggressive, and this is more than likely going to be met with accusations of me being a bad man- but I don't know who else out there is going to pretend they're trans to creep/spy/abuse women.

If they've gone far enough to do the operation and use the other facilities then I see no problem. That shows more commitment to the issue than I'd ever be able to muster.

There's also a lot of Hispanics in Houston (I'm Anglo but my wife is a native-born Mexican; mother in law is Mexican in Mexico and has a 2nd home in The Woodlands; my cousin's family are Chicanos and own a non-profit publishing company in Houston; and my wife's aunt is a semi-famous LGBT Chicana author/professor, enough for a Wikipedia page, at the University of California). In my experience (probably extensive compared to the average HNer as I've lived in Zapopan, Jalisco; speak Spanish and married to a Mexican)- Latin Americans born there tend to be socially conservative and economically liberal, while Chicanos are just average Americans with some hispanic cultural background when you get down to it. Similar to how some folks run around saying they're Italian-American, they're just American but it makes people feel special (the real Italians, just like the Latin Americans disagree those Americans have anything in common with them).
You have put your finger on a key pathology of software development in general, not just H1-B: Mediocrities with terrible ideas about software love to have their bad ideas implemented without question. This explains why companies can easily end up paying more for H1-B labor. Egos get stroked. Nobody is asked WTF. Bad software is piled on top of bad software.

Not only is this a source of wage depression and age discrimination, it results in the kind of horrible-but-expensive IT that runs banking, health care, government, etc. and makes it much harder than necessary to apply technology to reforming those sectors.
Widescale utilitarian logic would be a slippery slope to massacres of the homeless.
> if you didn't fetch the file at the right time, you will lose some history after rotation

Very true, and that's a trade-off, not unlike what Twitter does today. In my pseudo-code I didn't make the -n part of the url (it easily could be, but that'd add changes to the client). So I agree with your criticism, but a "since" lookup would be a fairly easy extension of the client (i.e. part of query, so unsupported frontends still work), as the data file already contains date.

> Before you know it, you have reinvented the WWW

Yes. :)
Terry is a messiah - he is the equivalent to Jesus Christ walking on earth today, except in cyber space. TempleOS, Terry, and HolyC are the father, son, and holy spirit - the divine trinity. Accept templeOS into your heart so that you may be saved from CIA nuggets.
This is true but irrelevant to the situation at hand. This isn't about blocking transactions done over VPNs, but rather blocking purchases of VPN services.
You're wrong. People don't hire people like that.

I hire developer where I work, I hired white, non-white and women, and every time I make my choice by testing their skills and asking about their past experiences because that's how you get the most competent employees. And every tech company want best employees...
The major examples the article raises at the start are all major race outrages that quickly fizzled out. Moral outrage is not a sustainable foundation on which to build a movement to the left.
Widescale utilitarian logic would be create a slippery slope towards massacres of the homeless.

All immigrants, regardless of their value, should be treated equal.
Indeed it has: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Chipophone&sort=byDate&dateRan.... We added 2010 to the title.
You made me feel a bit better that I wasn't alone in this.
One of the things about OS X is that most of the time it's put on high quality, but non-exceptional hardware. So things like bad RAM, flakey power supplies, bad GPU drivers etc are almost never an issue with a stock machine.

Windows, not so much. The only stability issues I've had with windows have been related to poor drivers, almost exclusively from nVidia or ATI/AMD. The equivalent hardware for Apple machines either didn't exist at the time, or was running much less ambitious drivers.

I probably have more issues with my Macbook Air (relating to sleep, hibernate, and wake-up) than I do with my Windows machines these days.
> If your idea of fairness requires we become systematically biased against certain majorities (white, heterosexual, male, cis-gender) for your cause then I don't want to be part of your cause, and moreover I find that cause discriminitory and dangerous.

Exactly. As mentioned earlier, in the case of Github the cultural transition appears to be from prioritizing meritocracy to codified diversity for the sake of diversity.
Google's AI System to Take on 'Go' Champion Live for $1M Prize
It's a good article and definitely supports its claims on social movement to the left. I think this is generally true. More and more people are taking the attitude that people should be allowed to do with themselves what they want.

What it doesn't do a good job is movement to the left on financial issues. Equality etc., beyond some reference to socialism. The idea of upward mobility is so strongly ingrained as part of US's dogma, even pushing it a little to the left is always going to be hard.
Diamonds Are Bullshit (2013)
Facebook is like that, except it doesn't show you all the stuff you've subscribed to, and when it does it's out of order.

The relationship between human users and "pages" that don't represent a person is even stranger, given that "like" means "subscribe to this, but only a few percentage of subscribers will see posts unless the page owner pays us".
Being considerate of other people is Stalinism, is that what you're saying?
I wasn't very successful, but I tried to use "uniformity" criteria - if it looked like there are portions of the picture that were being omitted or abstracted away, I assumed human and vice versa.

I wonder if the algorithm could be improved if it had a sense of what is "important" in the picture, and then choose a different algorithm to process important and unimportant portions.
"...based on the premise that over-representation of some group in some industry or position constitutes a serious problem and probable conspiracy."

Ah, ok, so you don't think representation is an issue. Most people of color that have dealt with white gatekeepers will disagree with you. If you care to examine the part of you that holds that belief I'd suggest reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, followed by some James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Frantz Fanon, and bell hooks to start. Hate read it if you must, but give some experiences orthogonal to yours a chance.
It took me a while but I managed to find a scan of the original Insect Literature translated by Otani. (Of course, missing the extra stories) It was published in 1921 and the author and translator both died more than 70 years ago, so it is in the public domain in the US. (The link is US-access only though):

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000053294629

If someone is at one of the affiliated universities, It'd be great if you could download and rehost the pdf.

Found from here: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?...
> You're calling a situation that I have personally encountered and provided a detailed accounting of to back up my assertion "made-up" and comparing me and my family to Amish?

You've exposed your father to losses without explaining to him that BTC is in fact not USD and USD/BTC is a floating exchange rate. I don't see how this is problem of BTC and not your own personal screw up.
Let's help this psychotic Smart Home kill its owner
Well, more accurately, you can't pay a foreign worker less than some floor set by the DoL for the given job description and location. It is unrelated to how much a given company is paying to any one of their other workers.
Having done this in a small niche to some success, here is my advice:

- start with a product that solves one or two pain points of the incumbent tool.

- compete on price in the beginning and as you add value, raise prices for new users.

- you can do things that don't scale early on like offer great support. Your big customers have the founders phone number. That sort of thing.

- find some shelf space you can own by targeting seo in chosen, winnable verticals. It's hard to do successful sem when you're small. You don't even have enough traffic to split test easily. Acquiring free traffic sources is necessary.

- remember, saas is a ramp up. 10% month over month growth gets pretty big before too long.
History of Artificial Intelligence, Part 2
The local money is the lubricant that would drive various plans to use the local capital stock. Municipal governments would certainly play a discretionary role in the short term precisely so as to negotiate with existing property owners.
You misinterpret proc0's comment: they are saying there is no excuse to treat Neil deGrasse Tyson as a shoplifter because of his race, that there is no excuse to ever decide that all people of a certain race or any category are all something or share something (in their comment "assholes" in yours "shoplifting").

Basically racism (using this definition: [1]) is never OK, regardless to which race and with which attributes.

[1] https://www.google.ca/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=define+racism&gw...