skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UPDATE: I am hearing from many people in America, "this looks tough." I am hearing from many people who have seen other Chinese factories, "this looks pretty good." More on this too -- and while I'm saving "what it all means" comments for later, I'll say that I've seen enough other Chinese factories, rural schools, villages and so on to recognize that these are on the higher end of the spectrum.

It might seem bad, but Foxconn is actually one of the better choices for outsourcing in terms of working conditions. People in the US sometimes chose situations like that simply to send more money home.

PS: Or for the extreme version, hot bunking is still a thing for US subs. Where people on different shifts use the same bed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_racking With more than one crew member assigned to a rack, it is possible that a crew member returning from a duty shift will lie down on a rack immediately after it is vacated by another crew member about to start a shift. The rack is therefore said to be "hot", that is, still warm from the vacating crew member's body heat. The term could also apply to individuals who get into the rack right off of duty without showering and smelling like a "hot" mess.
It's possible it's a reference to her voice. But not having met her, I don't know. It's also possible, that were she a big burly guy they might not have treated her the same way.

Either way, it sounds like the place handled it appropriately, which is awesome.
Like I said it's not about the average person, it's about someone with something to hide. Those with something to hide will always go the extra distance.

The issue I take with the FBI approach is it will have no effect on those that have stuff to hide but destroy any semblance privacy for those that don't.

Terrorists will use GPG, citizens will use their backdoored iPhone full disk encryption and everyone but the terrorists lose.
My argument was merely that it is not unreasonable to be in favour of positive discrimination if you believe that this evens out some handicap. And if you don't think that merely being woman it is a handicap, I would ask you to ponder what caused women to suddenly begin winning auditions for symphony orchestras when blind auditions were instituted? (http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/b...)

That said, I don't think I stated that it was my personal opinion that positive discrimination was the best way to solve this problem. I don't think I would rule it out in all cases, but I much prefer a solution like the blind auditions. But obviously this is not a universal solution.
I mean, to play devil's advocate, the Constitution was created in the 18th century, too, but we still follow that and uphold and strike down laws based on that.
L All HN posts titles and comments should start with letter L!
> A lot of us here in the United States who are pickled in news about electoral politics at this time of year don't appreciate stories that are purely about electoral politics creeping on to Hacker News. The guidelines here say, after all, "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Look, if you're going to cite the guidelines, read the whole thing. A little further down on the page:

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click "flag" at the top.
It would be interesting to see top developers list their favourite computer programs.

Would you revise your list to be sure the lead developer on each program made a certain distribution amongst different characteristics sex/age/location/first-language? Should a Uni degree including dev ensure that amongst the programs/theorems/languages studied that some were from a particular group/sex/ethnicity/whatever?
> especially with tools like Babel making many future features available right now and libraries like React actively making use of them.

You get all of this with Typescript, as well as optional types. If you're writing any Javascript at all, technically you're already writing Typescript.
I copied and pasted everything into a new google Sheets and froze the column/row myself

It also might not be possible to freeze columns/rows on the read only web view. You can actually see the thick line below the first row that indicates OP did in fact freeze them.
Just that it's a very, very difficult problem. :P
I know from direct personal experience that you can have fun games, and even be reasonably competitive at the university-club-level, without ever explicitly counting points in your head.
Very nice work but it seems like some companies are not in the right category. Like Zenefits is in Fintech category.
I see this objection raised so frequently, and I feel it really misses the point badly.

The tech community tells itself that it won the first "crypto wars". You cannot win "wars" against governments in that sort of sense and the first crypto war was never actually won at all. I think in light of events in recent years we need to reinterpret the events of the 90's in a new light - the tech industry didn't win, rather, after realising how awful and worthless the software the cypherpunks produced really was, the government simply got bored of playing.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, gives one tiny shit about GPG. GPG is so bad, such truly unusable software, that terrorists would literally rather die or risk lifetime imprisonment than use it:

http://privacy-pc.com/articles/how-terrorists-encrypt-threatscape-overview.html

Governments don't care about GPG now, they don't care about some theoretical open source program that you could install from abroad, they only care about the encryption their adversaries actually use which - given that 99.9% of the FBI's adversaries are not crypto experts - turns out to be whatever ordinary people are using automatically thanks to tech companies switching it on.

This is especially true because often people don't meticulously plan crimes out ahead of time: they either commit crimes of passion, or they make basic mistakes. So if you have to plan ahead and convince not only yourself, but all your accomplices, all to install some exotic and awkward to use piece of technology ... well, a lot of bad guys won't do it.

So. If the FBI succeeds in breaking the encryption used by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and a few other big names, then they've got 99% of the guys they want.
Make works well for me...

TMPDIR=$(BASEDIR)/tmp

THEME=$(BASEDIR)/theme
THEME_CSS=$(THEME)/css
THEME_FONT=$(THEME)/fonts
THEME_JS=$(THEME)/js

VER_BOOTSTRAP=3.3.6
VER_FONTAWESOME=4.5.0
VER_JQUERY=2.2.1

updatedeps: $(TMPDIR) bootstrap fontawesome jquery

bootstrap:
curl -L -o $(TMPDIR)/bs.zip https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases/download/v$(VER_BOOTSTRAP)/bootstrap-$(VER_BOOTSTRAP)-dist.zip
unzip -j $(TMPDIR)/bs.zip bootstrap-*/js/bootstrap.min.js -d $(THEME_JS)
unzip -j $(TMPDIR)/bs.zip bootstrap-*/css/bootstrap.min.css -d $(THEME_CSS)

fontawesome:
curl -L -o $(TMPDIR)/fa.zip https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/assets/font-awesome-$(VER_FONTAWESOME).zip
unzip -j $(TMPDIR)/fa.zip font-awesome-*/css/*.min.css -d $(THEME_CSS)
unzip -j $(TMPDIR)/fa.zip font-awesome-*/fonts/*webfont* -d $(THEME_FONT)

jquery:
curl -L -o $(THEME_JS)/jquery.min.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-$(VER_JQUERY).min.js
I was born in a place like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagdad,_Arizona

Shuts down social mobility. Acme helps raise the children of coal miners to be the coal miners of tomorrow, etc. They know how much you make and how much you can afford to spend, etc. There are a lot of reasons this model is a historical footnote.
Oh. I misinterpreted what you were saying to mean "it doesn't matter because we have GPG."
Only terrorists.
I don't like the no JS approach, it kills an important part of the potential in the web, including polyfills for things like srcset.

Instead, I'm using Policeman ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policeman/; similar to uMatrix https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/releases, but the first is easier to use for me ) which blocks 3rd party anything by default.

If they serve their own JS from their own servers, let it be. Others (Facebook connect, GAnalytics an Twitter seems to be _everywhere_): walk away.

This obviously renders most of the sites to bare HTML due to the excessive and unneeded use of CDNs, and is a massive pain to use for the first weeks, but after a while the whitelist gets you to a friendly web level.

uBlock also runs in the background, just in case things leak through, or I quickly want to check something and I need to turn Policeman off.
Show HN: GitHub Omnibar
Ask HN: Are there any 'honest' crowd funding sites?
By 'honest' I mean those that would do 'proper' background checks and ensure there is a refund process in place. Just heard about the Dragonfly laptop - https://igg.me/at/dragonflyfuturefon/x/9192747 and am beginning to think that Indiegogo doesn't give a damn about the backers. Kickstarter too seems to be having its fair share of scams.

So are there any other good crowdfunding sites that I can confidently contribute on?
"They are not asking for the ability to unlock any phone at any time for any reason."

When he was asked by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”

Director of National Intelligence and Admiral James Clapper: “No, sir.”

Wyden: “It does not?”

Clapper: “Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly.”

^These are the people you're saying "aren't asking" for the ability. They are asking for a universal lock picking kit and the legal authority to strong-arm any manufacturer into allowing access to the keys for their devices as well. If you honestly believe that they wouldn't use these tools for other cases beyond this one phone, I've got this amazing bridge you may be interested in.
his response was a larger release of the list [0] which added 8 movies and 5 directors.

[0]http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/spike-lees-list-of-95-ess...
Chipmaker behind Google’s project Tango powering DJI’s autonomous drone
Would it be possible to provide crypto as an open source "interface library" to commercial applications? So instead of the application doing the crypto (eg. Apple iOS) it would be farmed out to an optional library of the user's choosing.

Apple could make it easy for a user to install such a library and then say (truthfully) that the cryptographic functions of their OS is not in their hands, since that feature is handled by a third party open source maintainer.

At that point it would be an infinite game of whack-a-mole for the FBI to try to get backdoors in open source crypto interface libraries which could be maintained outside of the US.
Just those that have a lot to hide, such as the terrorists the FBI wanted to catch in the first place.
Needs more Comanche ;-)
Agreed - I didn't, the article did. It is a fatuous distinction. In fact - that categorizing is an example of the complete lack of imagination that I am talking about.
Federated Sharing – What’s New in OwnCloud 9.0
I'm not convinced that a lack of understanding isn't borne from a lack of giving a rat's ass to begin with. Why learn about something when your vote and influence are already bought and paid for?
This Entrepreneur Earns Almost $100K a Year Selling Bananas
It is about the future of encryption. If the FBI wins and gets Apple to unlock the phone, will Apple be held in contempt later when they make a phone that they makes them unable to comply with a court order?
Nice and easy way to find images !
The lives of elevators
When a parent loses a child..(Death of a child) by, Evon Latrail
It Is Time (When a parent loses a child) by, Evon Latrail
http://youtu.be/R44fh1DCE0U ‪#‎evonlatrail‬
I know Creative Cloud used to allow downgrades, I'm assuming it still does.
You are assuming the vast majority sees CNN, etc. and/or reads the NYT. That, I think, is too bold.

I don't think there is anything in common between the two, from personalities, party affiliation, to how they conduct themselves in public.
If Elm didn't also exist, I'd almost agree with you.
> Please dont masquerade your opinions as facts by using terms like "likelihood" and "improbable".

By using... words?
I suspect Toronto's the most multicultural, international city on earth, and it's high on my list of places I'd live if I wasn't married to someone with zero tolerance for snow.

Unfortunately, Toronto still manages to suffer from a god-awful housing market made worse by insane NIMBYism in the most affluent and attractive neighborhoods. I think "I got mine, time to dig a moat around it" is a pretty universal phenomenon.
Does Flow offer type definition files?
You're the one who describe a perfectly reasonable title as a let-down. Maybe you're the one who should go back to Reddit.
How 'Assassin's Creed' or 'Fallout 4' Might Help Make AI Smarter
Speaking of lacking warnings in Google Inbox...

If you connect other mail accounts to Gmail/Inbox, Inbox will NOT warn you if it looses connection.
When this happens in Gmail, you will be greeted with a big yellow warning.

My private mail server were down a day and Inbox apparantly never reconnected to it. Fast forward 10 days and I missed an important mail until it was too late, because I never noticed Inbox were disconnected.

I love Inbox and how easy it is to keep my mailbox clean, but due to this and also because I can't customize signatures to my different mail accounts, I went back to Gmail for the time being.
The fact that it hides the signature also annoys me because I always HAVE to make sure it's there by expanding the [+] sign... I simply don't trust it :)
This doesn't seem to work anymore for a good number of people.
Household Wiki on Raspberry Pi
So ... can we men get a gender neutral term for "mansplaining" ?

Men are not the only ones who do this. Yes the name comes from a male biased behaviour in the tech community but I have witnessed plenty of this out in about in non tech fields... "oh your an man, there's no way you would understand" or starting to explain something before asking if I need an explanation how it works, because why would a man ever need to know how a thing, like say a sewing machine, worked...

Calling it "mansplaining" (which is in my iPhones dictionary!?) does nothing to help stamp out this behaviour as undesirable. It arguably provides excuses for women to engage in the behaviour since they aren't "men" how can they be "mansplaining", and contributes to its continued existence by allowing this "mode of interaction" to continue regardless of gender.

Other than that. Awesome company, and I hadn't heard of the product despite having a need for something like that. So I may buy that milling machine in the future which is pretty cool.
Remember how New York’s (physical) master keys became easily accessible[1] despite the fact that they were supposedly so carefully managed? All that effort, all that trouble, and now not only is there essentially no security at all but the master keys created a security hole that did not need to exist.

The security of encryption is similarly proportional to the security of keys. The fewer things you have to secure, the easier it is to keep them secret. The “master key” concept in New York only served to create something of great value that people wanted to acquire, and massively increased the risk when that fell into the wrong hands. Obviously the same thing could happen with an encryption key, except it is worse because you don’t even have to be in the same country as the source of the key to acquire it or use it.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pols-public-outraged-sho...
The linked "Four Amendments and a Funeral" doesn't have much to it, but Taibbi's "Inside the Horror Show that is Congress" from the same visit to congress is my favorite non-music thing to ever be published by Rolling Stone. In it Bernie shows Taibbi how the congressional sausage is made, if you don't what the House Rules Committee does, give it a read.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-horror-...
> The point I'm trying to make (repeatedly through this thread, which everyone seems to ignore) is that this is a pretty reasonable request.

So when Apple makes the iPhone 7 such that even Apple cannot unlock the phone what happens?
Hack a Chromebook, Earn $100,000
That's a problem too. Right now people with something to hide don't stand out amidst a background of similar encryption. If they suddenly have to switch to something relatively more exotic, that alone would be a coup for people in signals intelligence, don't you think?
It's been a while since I've re-read it so I might not have the finer points correct, but one of the main lessons is how the authors approach to motorcycle tweaking differs from the couple he is traveling with. He has a old bike that needs a mixture adjustment as they change altitude and he enjoys the act of figuring out how to make the engine run just right. In contrast, the couple he is traveling with has a new bike that makes all those adjustments automatically. The author takes great pains to point out that neither of these views is wrong, each one is enjoyable in its own way.
How Automation May Affect IT Security Jobs
I recently wanted to show my wife a video game I enjoyed when I was younger. The game used SecuROM DRM which I was unable to work around in Wine. Apparently, it requires an insecure driver in Windows, which has since been removed. I really wanted to play this game, so I was forced to manually enable the disabled driver in Windows 7 by following this guide: http://www.howtogeek.com/230773/how-to-play-pc-games-that-re.... The SecuROM driver has apparently been removed completely in Windows 10.
There is a tug of war taking place here. TeX is nice because the documents are formatted for whatever your reading situation happens to be. PDF is formatted for exactly one situation, the A4 sheet you targeted.

But on the flipside, the TeX document will often be ugly no matter how you are reading it, and the author can't easily apply tweaks for aesthetics or readability--many try, hence the TeX markup horrorshow.
Presidential Delegate Count Visualized
London. Agreed, next 10 years who knows. 7 years is interesting because it's just not long enough.

Pre 2008 I was surrounded by contractors all citing the benefits of the extra money. Then things thinned out. I remember one day looking up and I was sat with loads of empty seats around me and I realised just how many contractors they had let go over a period of time.
"common defense" is being used as an elision of "common defense of the People". The entire phrase is a noun phrase. But " defense" is a verb within the noun phrase.
The news are explaining it for me.
i think it's mostly historical baggage. as soon as gce gets as old as aws, the offering variations they have to offer for historical contacts and what so ever will be as confusing as aws today
Any of them have this information available in some form - openmary, festival. For example in Festival, you can access synthesized utt markup with utt.something functions like this: (utt.save.segs (utt.synth (Utterance Text "Hello world")) "out.seg")
This was my reaction upon reading the title of the post, having not used TypeScript. Mostly based on my experience and frustration with CoffeScript, mainly frustration at its existence.

But if TypeScript is an abstraction of Javascript that adds type security, then I'm pretty much all for it, even having been burned pretty often by unnecessary abstraction. I would say that the lion's share of my own javascript bugs spring from type uncertainty.
Oh yeah? Just like coffeescript was a couple years ago? Give me a break.
Apple Releases Its Proprietary Apple News Format
Aren't the presentation slides are too cliche? Would love to know something about the conversation with the VCs instead of these useless slides.
#feelthebern?

http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-privacy-and-digital...
You would've been kicked out of the room with that deck in the valley!!
I had exactly the same reaction - a robot breathing oxygen, hahaha. Why is his body tired?!
Are you implying that AI research in the past decades didn't have any "real" results? This is a popular meta-narrative these days, but it's mostly a product of marketing that tries to magnify the significance of current work at the expense of everyone who worked on similar things in the past.
If all US crypto is backdoored, the rest of the world and the criminals will use non-US crypto.

The FBI also wants to infiltrate communities of human rights activists. There are many reasons not to overly trust them.
This sounds like the equivalent to the TSA approved locks for luggage. Just decoration and no real protection at all.
Argh, that definitely sucks. That's not how it should work :(

Some of that seems bank related: my Australian bank emails me fraud notifications, I can add international cell numbers for txt if desired. Their website / app lets me tick off individual countries I'm visiting, and log-in to update it if I change my travel plans. If your US bank is using SSN for verification, that's dodgy :(

I feel you though, and I still take a (small) cash reserve when I travel. But I also take backup preload cards: Travelex offers Cash Passport, and both Qantas & Virgin offer Mastercard tap-to-pay built-in to their Frequent Flyer card (which also earns points). All three support Japanese Yen natively, so should work in Japan, but China and Korea are probably a no-go.

Some countries suck, though. Denmark has many misconfigured payment systems that block overseas cards (they misinterpret "Address Verification Not Available" as a decline), and you probably don't want to use cards in countries with high skimmer fraud. So we're not cashless yet, no :)
Replace AsyncTask and AsyncTaskLoader with Rx.Observable
>We've seen this in 2008. Banks behaved insanely.

It's not 2008 anymore. Things have changed substantially. Banks became much more risk-adverse in the wake of the burst of the housing bubble and subsequent economic crisis. The era in which loan officers are incentivized to skip risk evaluation has passed.

My point was not that there's some grand conspiracy among banks. Merely that any loan that uses real estate as collateral will be riskier if real estate prices are declining, than if real estate prices are increasing. That means that construction loans are going to be harder to get when prices are decreasing. Which suggests that the ability to use construction loans to lower the absolute price of housing is self-limiting.
Um, most Soviet-era apartment buildings in Russia are setup like this. Many isolated bedrooms sharing a shower-room/bathroom and a kitchen.

I have to give it to VC's in the Bay Area. If anybody can take Soviet-style housing arrangements and sell them as "the next big thing", it's these guys.

I mean, it's terrible. But it is impressive.
Finally we're trying to teach algorithms to feel anger! I love it!

EDIT: Just to be clear, this is a joke based on the game being flappy bird.

Seriously, though, this is awesome. I love this kind of stuff!
40%? Trump is closing on 50% of delegates... We might not agree with his message, but he's bloody good at pushing it through (and around) media skepticism.

"Intertube" candidates had no real chance 8 years ago, were ridiculed 4 years ago, and today they are real forces. In 4 years' time, they will be favourites.
I've used it, sure if its your thing, go for it. But don't impose it on everyone, deja vu from the CoffeeScript fan boys, where are they all at now?