skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, I think letting individuals/teams figure it out is the best option. Some projects, and even specific times within a project, call for being physically with the team and other times i am more productive being able to just focus on a task at home.

Also I find that my time spent in the office depends on the season. During the Spring and Fall when it is a perfect temperature for being outside i love going into the office and being able to go out for a nice lunch outdoors somewhere with coworkers.
isn't uber already on shaky legal footing nearly everywhere anyway?
That description does not exclude you from either of the categories I described.
HTC's Vive will cost $799, ship in early April
Reddit: Lessons Learned from Mistakes Made Scaling to 1B Pageviews (2013)
Any more?? I haven't been waiting a year - but I've been waiting eagerly if anyone has any!
What I loved when I worked from home was...

PROs

- Wake up start working no shower or long drive in traffic

- Can work anywhere I want either sitting or standing

- Can take breaks anytime I want to go to doctor appt, go for a long walk/hike at various parks close by

- With my last two points I kept a healthier lifestyle .. didnt gain weight.. actually lost a little

- Not a plus for me completely, but my output was crazy high and my co-workers randomly gave me kudos for the work completed.

CONs

- Pay was a lot less then say working at govt. office

- Hours I worked due to the above was anytime between 10am & before I slept, but I got things done & more.

The job noted above was great, but I went on a reality TV show and they wouldn't work with me (show or job ... which i work remote so i didnt understand their position.. possible ego thing). Now I am back working at an office, fighting traffic and fighting the unhealthy aspects that come from working at an office. Overall, I love what I am doing at my new job more then the last (the actual work), so it's a trade off.
It looks strongly influenced by Python, probably to ease novice users into it.

Edit: Not to be confused with another Luna Language: https://github.com/luna/luna
Collapse of a gas station? who cares
I make it an effort to respect all living things -- I'm adverse to killing anything that doesn't pose a threat to me or my family. I catch lizards and bugs and mice in my house -- I take them outside and let them go. Most spiders are welcome, but the venomous ones do get the boot. I sometimes will try to capture even the dangerous ones and take them far enough away that they are no longer a threat.

I don't take it to an extreme -- I regularly splatter bugs on the windshield of my car. Though, it's fun to view it from the prospective of a potentially conscious bug, fighting the invasion of the scourge of the giant genocidal automobiles, bugs suicidally hurtling themselves at the attackers in a futile attempt to defeat them. I also don't extend the courtesy to plants.

Why? Life is precious and rare, regardless of what form it's in. Just the fact that we don't know if these creatures have a consciousness is enough for me. Someone with an IQ of 1 deserves to live as much as anyone else.
They also ignore (at least they used to) DNS servers from DHCP and use Google's public DNS servers completely oblivious of why users might not want this.
>The point is that even if such people are a minority, we should treat them with the appropriate discretion and be sensitive to their psychological needs.

Which should not involve radically changing the "commercial software shop" because some individuals do not do well in that environment (or worse, blaming it systemic abuse) as the article says. The only role that businesses should be doing here is keeping the issues confidential and allowing them to get the help that they need.
Because the upsides, properly managed, outweigh the down.

My lifestyle, as a piece of anonymised health data, along with my genome can benefit medical research as well as my own health choices

who I meet or converse with, who is nearby, who is willing and able to purchase the same product as I locally to gain discounts, who is looking to hire someone with my skill sets, who is looking for sex.

So many options exist once We all place our digital life up on a publically readable board that it is hard to imagine we will refuse it.

But there are about four options

1. Police state. The only people with access to my digital life are the police. China is currently looking at a digital credit score, incorporating party loyalty amoungst other things.

2. Private walled gardens. AOL, Facebook, health insurers, driving insurers. All of these private companies collect my digital life right now. Some of not all can or are compelled to give the data secretly to 1. Above. Even if they were not, the total utility of the data is dramatically reduced in walled gardens plus why is trusting Facebook more sensible than trusting my government with the same data.

3. Anonymised and public. So no walled gardens but lots of open protocols for sharing data, and anonymising that data. This means my weight and most recent meal can be used by medical researchers.
However, anonymising data sets sucks - there is little chance I will remain as anonymises as the idea of "privacy" indicates

4. Totally open. Just stick the raw data up and let cottage industries come tell me something interesting.

It's most probable that "good" societies will find a balance between 3 and 4. Some my even be the societies currently seen as developed democracies, but there is no guarantee.

The advantages of data are such that a society built around the right precepts for big data will win big time - like a society that wrote down its precepts 250 years ago, "we hold these rights ..."

The only protection against being blackmailed for being gay in the military is to not make homosexuality a criminal offence and then have all the gays in the military come out.

This is the same protection we have against all the mass surveillance - that we know everyone's business. Is it going to be really hard to manage? Yes, and that's why some Socities will make it and many won't. Most have not grasped modern democracy.
The idea of rating the news makes sense. I'm not sure reporting the average of ratings is better than displaying their range.

It might make sense to encourage descriptions of the ratings. Knowing why a person made the rating provides context for evaluating it's relevance to me.

Over the long haul, it may make sense to pick a theme for the stories [as is the case with Hacker News]. Something more factual than politics, maybe?

Good luck.
To be honest I did not. I am happy with the procedural/OO code I write in Python. But whenever I even see functional code, I can't even read it.
> FYI, the primary political folks promoting encryption were small government, libertarian republicans. (These folks mostly don't exist anymore.)

We exist.

More of us though are handing in our Republican membership cards. If Trump wins the nomination, I'm done with the Republican party.

I hear John McAfee is running for the Libertarian party ticket? That might be fun.
Sorry I just saw your reply. Glad you got one.

I still have a bunch more, if anyone else wants them.
If Django replaced their very limited ORM for SQLAlchemy, I'd agree.

There are just so many apps that end up requiring queries complex enough that with the Django ORM you have to resort to raw SQL. With SQLAlchemy, you can express any SQL you want without giving up composition.
Android doesn't support Java applets. The site uses JS.
Linux Mint: All forums users should change their passwords
Bruce Schneier – Questions and Answers
A counter-anecdote to your anecdote:
When I was in Taipei my friends and I tried to get a cab to Jiufen. The cab driver told us there was a special fixed rate for the trip and quoted us a number that seemed reasonable but was actually around a 50%-100% markup over the mileage/time-based price. So we called an Uber and saved about 50% vs what the cab quoted. The driver couldn't change the price and trick tourists.
If only it were so easy to use party affiliation to identify adversaries on this topic.

Those in favor of government power to compel Apple to commission software, laws to weaken encryption or safeguards such as rate limiting, and spending public funds to aid closed research to crack encryption have one thing in common. They are statists. They believe in the absolute authority of the state.

Guess again if you think it's a dysfunction of government when parties disagree. Extra scrutiny is required when they agree.
Reports: Uber driver behind killing spree in Kalamazoo
Well, I've been programming for 20+ years across dozens of languages, and I can't understand what a single one of those diagrams is actually doing.

But I can grok the "textual code" example almost instantly, so fast that the difference in effort is almost laughable. I find the mental overhead in understanding the diagrams vs. "textual code" (that phrase makes me mentally chuckle each time I read it) is orders of magnitude higher. Sorry, but I simply don't buy what they're selling (and I say this as someone who lives and dies by the whiteboard).

About the only thing out of this that looks actually useful for real-world software engineering is the visual profiling piece. If I were them, I'd probably throw out everything else they are working on and focus on that single piece alone, because that could be pretty useful.
They didn't have to avoid any reminders. They were most likely just asked "how" it could be done, not to do it. The law comes into effect now, where the FBI is trying to get the courts to order them to comply. Simply telling someone how to potentially do something illegal is not illegal itself, and really doesn't cross any boundaries in my opinion. A white hat hacker uses many of the same techniques that a black hat hacker uses, but in one instance it is legal and in the other it is illegal.
"a certain numbers of hours in-person to maintain accountability"

At GitLab we think that accountability doesn't require to be in-person. We see the value of regular 1:1 conversations with you manager but those can happen in a video call.
Who said he made anything up? I think the conventional wisdom here is that he is just wrong.
It's also available in a video game called - Jackbox Party Pack under the name Fibbage 2. It's absolutely hilarious to play with a party of 5 or 6
During the 90's I started off as a Clinton-supporting democrat. At that time, support for encryption was primarily a position held by the "black helicopter" crowd. ("Black helicopters" refers to allegedly paranoid fantasies by right wing militias that federal agents will come for them in black helicopters.)

Note that I'm not attempting to promote any particular party - note that I said the folks who promote encryption don't really exist anymore.
I didn't mean tumblr is complicated, I meant explaining what tumblr means for people is complicated. It's the ultimate long tail site which means it serves very different purposes for different groups of people.
Sorry to suggest you are a paid commenter. I would just like you to be be able to live in a civilised country.

To quote Amnesty:

The government severely restricted freedoms of expression, association and assembly, and cracked down on dissent, arresting and imprisoning critics, including human rights defenders. Many received unfair trials before courts that failed to respect due process, including a special anti-terrorism court that handed down death sentences. New legislation effectively equated criticism of the government and other peaceful activities with terrorism. The authorities clamped down on online activism and intimidated activists and family members who reported human rights violations. Discrimination against the Shi’a minority remained entrenched; some Shi’a activists were sentenced to death and scores received lengthy prison terms. Torture of detainees was reportedly common; courts convicted defendants on the basis of torture-tainted “confessions” and sentenced others to flogging. Women faced discrimination in law and practice, and were inadequately protected against sexual and other violence despite a new law criminalizing domestic violence. The authorities detained and summarily expelled thousands of foreign migrants, returning some to countries where they were at risk of serious human rights abuses. The authorities made extensive use of the death penalty and carried out dozens of public executions.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-a...
backups I can see being a problem. Though just because you can prevent people from using duplicate passwords doesn't mean you can reset it to that password. Just use a hash.
A Kinder, Gentler Inquisition (1998)
Purposefully argue or debate a position, seeking its resolution, as if before a tribunal.
Balderdash![0] I'll be the judge of what's called "The Dictionary Game"!

[0] https://youtu.be/mFlCnohRzJ0
For what the site says, there must be lot of infrastructure needed to run and profile a program.

Will that distributed runtime be open sourced as well?
Can't really understand how can a body of an animal, which wastes energy on heating itself, digestion, breathing, brain function, be efficient enough to produce antibodies. They must be pricing the antibodies like they're diamonds.

It's hilarious to think how much of a disruptive entity one could be by just inventing a -no-animal-middleman- production process, since almost everyone seems to be insane enough to do it using animals.

edit: thanks for all the explanations...

and downvotes.
I love the idea of graphical programing, but whenever I use one (nipype, labview, or puredata), I end up with an unreadable mess.
Yep, even their website has a page for Bangalore.

https://www.uber.com/cities/bangalore/
My metaphor is likely wrong.

Like the apologists for the FBI (and other enablers of authoritarians), I'm trying to gleen the real technical story from the public misinformation.

You may know about FileVault's password protected volumes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileVault

Does the (pre-Secure Enclave) iPhone 5C which the FBI borked store its data the same way?

I now believe that by changing the password, the FBI also borked (lost) the recovery key, so now neither the iPhone nor its backups are readable.

You and the FBI want Apple to create a one-off patch to better crack the keys of an encrypted file, presumably one of the iCloud backups.

Um, good luck with that.

If you know better, please clarify with your understanding of the actual systems in use, vs arm waving apologia.
That behavior has been changed in Chrome quite significantly.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/discuss-webrtc/_5hL0...
Yes being a startup founder is stressful. Before joining YC I ran through my 401k, my cofounder almost lost his house and we had two little kids each at the time. To join YC we left our wives and kids in Portland and moved into an office next to drug dealers (YC only gave 5k per founder at that time), etc, etc.

Not everyone can handle stress like that...I'm not sure I could ever do that again. You have to know what you can handle and what you can't.

I'm sure there are abuses of engineers in the valley, but it's not indentured servitude. This article makes it sound like these people were slaves with no options...that's categorically untrue except maybe in Aaron schwart's and Turing's cases.

Also, how many software engineers in the valley or other places are happy with their jobs? I bet it's a higher percentage than say work at McDonald's....
Such practices are extremely common in mainland China as well, despite various degrees of regulation.
> accelerate the proliferation and acceptance of locked-down, user-hostile devices.

We're already there. Can you read the Windows 10 telemetry?
Because it would be nice to run a web server on my phone? I'd love to have something like sandstorm in my pocket.
> ... the near-monopoly they're seeking ...

They will probably not get anywhere near a monopoly. Their businessmodel is flawed: anyone can start a similar service. In fact, many similar services already exist in Europe.
That behavior has been changed by Chrome and FF (I think) quite significantly. Please read https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/discuss-webrtc/_5hL0...
Here's what Elon Musk showed me about (extreme) success
How about just serving the CSS directly? It could even be generated from JS with a tool like this one. Now you don't even have to serve the JS that generates it.
it's

A) Not transparent

and

B) No longer supported by mozilla.[0]

[0] - http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-scraps-thunderbird-deve...!
I'am the author.
I already translate the web dashboard into english. There remain some document in chinese, and will be translated in next few days
I don't think so. The important point is to get it discussed in the media. It's the media which acts as the main arbiter for public discourse. Politicians are more or less free to act as they wish so long as the media does not amplify the voice of dissenters. Actions which bring the voice of the people into the mainstream media are of use in bringing about change. Hopefully this public discourse can happen through debate alone, but if a legal but questionable method like a botnet that targets corporate greed is required to get the debate going (and/or provide impetus for change), then so be it.
If John gets the nomination, it might be entertaining, but would be another example of the LP shooting themselves in the foot (he's great guy, but not a politician). This election cycle is the best chance they've had to date to become a major party, and I hope they pick someone that at least looks and acts mainstream so they get TV airtime (while keeping LP culture close to their heart)
In the Irish case yes, not I think in the UK case, the French case, the Italian case...
Context: pre-OSX when Mac OS had no GUI.
Etoys and many others have tried, maybe a good language and good IDE could have sufficient benefit, but I'm unsure how a UI would ever map to complex algorithms better than textual-interface paradigms. They can try and see, even if the likelihood of failure is unfortunately very high (until it's not). VPL seems currently like an utopia, apart from dashboards, configuration of control systems which naturally map to the real world and interface builders.

One interesting VPL I ran into is a free fractal editor on iOS which lets one build up visual LOGO execution pipeline(s) of operations.
Yes, but nobody really picked it up then (apart from one person who tweeted about it back in October).
Please read https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/discuss-webrtc/_5hL0...

The new Chrome behavior should alleviate the need to disable. Basically, the behavior that caused the concern has been changed significantly.
Work for a company that sells visual programming tools. Our customers absolutely love the functionality.

A number of very large organizations are using it: from the military, to Netflix, HP, NASA, Pharmaceutical companies, and so on.

The major benefit is that it lets process owners/managers, who aren't programmers, see and understand the code/architecture behind their processes, and suggest, or even make, important changes to those processes.
Why is that weird? You don't think different religions can be more or less supportive of violence in their foundational texts? What would be weird is if that weren't possible for some reason.
LabVIEW?
I didn't mean the viewport. I meant the page eg the full height of the rendered window content including everything outside of the viewport's scroll region.
False. They have said their goal is to be competitive against public transportation and to keep dropping prices. Not engage in a monopoly and become fat cats like the taxi industry.
Use Network Link Conditioner When Testing Your App
Why is this a thing? Your local ip address can be easily guessed. Also, secrecy is not security. I think 'exposing addresses' is a red herring, in such a small address space.
Only seasonally in the future though:

"At the new Noma Redzepi plans to eschew the "predictable progression" of a tasting menu in favor of a "reverent adherence to seasonality." In the fall, the menu will focus only on dishes made from wild game and "foraged autumnal ingredients." In the winter, Noma will transform into a seafood restaurant. And in the spring and summer where "the world turns green," Redzepi says that Noma will "become fully vegetarian," with most of the produce coming from the restaurant's farm."
Some people said that Nexus phones that default to encrypt local storage was user hostile as there was a perceptible performance penalty. I don't think that is the case. GNU and fsf want freedom for the user. I fully support the freedoms. However, I also think that users do not have a right to force their wishes on vendors.

I think it is fair to say if you don't like the options we give you then maybe you should fork the project and build it yourself.
> Non-human animal activities should not provide a logical or moral foundation for our behavior

Why not?

What should provide a moral foundation for our behavior?

That's a trick question. There is no objective basis for morality. We can make it whatever we like, preferably optimizing our value preferences. As for me, I like meat, so I will continue to enjoy eating animals. On the other hand, I personally dislike unnecessary cruelty, so I am not adverse to treating farm-raised animals better, up to some point where the tradeoff between lots of cheap meat and well-treated animals starts looking bad for me. There is, of course, no objectively "correct" value-preferences either, but since humans are social animals, you should probably abide by the norms of your social group if you want to fit in. Morality as herd instinct in the individual and all.

> More importantly, we recognize that unlike animals, we cannot justify taking the life of a sentient being for no better reason than our personal dietary preferences.

Sure we can. I want to, and that's all the justification I need. What is your basis for claiming that I need some special justification?
Also it's legal in Nevada as of last year. This article is really poor reporting.
>Why isn't he out there starting his own firm

Probably because access to capital, connections, luck and the ability to sell are more critical than good ideas.

You don't think that Uber could have been you if you'd 'just written a ride sharing app' in 2008 do you? :)
> Who is behind this?

The bottom of the page says © New Byte Order 2016. This appears to be their website: http://www.newbyteorder.com/ Not much extra info on there, though.
>That's the kind of thinking that when extended by induction, supports killing of all sorts of things.

And that's totally fine. Nature also kills "all sorts of things", has all sorts of things killing each other, and could even wipe out the planet tomorrow with a huge comet or something...

Note that every time you wash your hands you're killing millions of germs...
I wonder if there might be a way to generate a dictionary definition based on a word2vec vector? It would be cool to generate a word that's halfway between two other words, or to complete an analogy.
info/exclude
you can put the files you don’t want git to deal with in your .gitignore file.

Since .gitignore is committed itself this is very useful.