skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds pretty impressive to me - I think you're underselling yourself.
How would the lack of permission after the Miller test?
Indeed. (Though who's to say the man wasn't shapely.)

I remember the Shapley-Shubik power index [1], used to measure someone's voting power. Roughly, you imagine the voters vote one at a time, imagine all possible orders in which they could vote, and count the percentage of permutations in which your vote is the one that makes the step from "less than majority" to "majority". (The subject of the vote is a binary choice.)

I remember thinking the Banzhaf power index [2] was better. I learned about all this from a CTY summer class called "Game Theory and Strategy". I didn't know how to program back then, and I might profit from rethinking the concepts...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Shubik_power_i...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzhaf_power_index
How we use logs in production
There is the possibility of being bought by a larger company. I've known technology startups have this as the main exit strategy and succeeded.
> More sites offer delivery, more content is available.

Which is wonderful if you define your quality of life by how often you can get things delivered to your house and how much heavily-funded Hollywood-produced video you can watch.

In much of the rest of the world, we do things outside our houses - I'm not sure if Canada is like the US for cities, but I can personally be in my city centre in 20 minutes by bus, and hang out with friends or see a film with my unlimited cinema card or check out the new cafes or find a new tasty Belgian beer. I can get my bicycle out and cycle with the cycling club - or run around one of the parks.

These things matter much more to my quality of life than what I can access instantly at home - I don't like being at home very much long-term.
Distributing naked pictures of someone without their consent has never been legal.

Which law prohibits it?
CHFI and Digital Forensics Tutorial [Part 2] – AutoSpy Case and MD5 Calculator
Let's not forget SSam's greatest contribution - a copiously lubricated revolver that shot in 1us of clicking a button and with a very satisfying * thump * :)
The GPL version of the Quake II engine has been used to make a few games:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_II_engine#Games_based_on...
I'm a technical college graduate, so I have no pretensions about this stuff. But I view the bootcamps as part of the current frothiness and dysfunction around front-end development in general.

The idea that one is prepared to grapple with software applications development without AT LEAST 2-3 years of intense study is absurd to me. After school, I still needed a year of interning to get up to speed.
New reporting App for Shopify – feadback please?
What is it you'd want from YC? The businesses they most want to work with are those that are in a position to get the most out of it.
Never heard of Benin... and after reading the article, I "knew": lost without trace, great culture, great wealth and great security for all its people..., great artists.
And in the end - destroyed by the Britains.

Hm ... so after reading Wikipedia, I knew, it is not lost without trace, but the great Kingdom of Benin was also the great capital of slave trade, with human sacrifices(in the end about 23 a day) and all in all a deep despotic society, etc.

But the artists are indeed great.
> the market economy is already 'planning control of lives'

Not (entirely) centrally (yet). If you piss off the wrong individual, or stand out to whatever degree, you still have a shot at a somewhat decent life. There's nobody outside of work you have to obey for threat of losing your livelihood.

I was agreeing with you - basic income only works if everyone gets it, if there isn't a test for getting it, so that there's very little way it can be denied.
> The Soviet economy was perfectly functional until the very end.

You have never spent much time in the former Soviet Union have you?

The Soviet Union could only survive because of its reliance on natural resources. They could not export exept to people they keeped under millitary controll and all of those tried to get western stuff if they could.

The Soviets themself always imported lots of tech from the west, with the exeption of select industries like space they were behind. Read:

- Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1917–1930 (1968)
- Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1930–1945 (1971)
- Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1945–1965 (1973)

Internally the Soviet economy never functioned as claimed. The only reason it could survive at all is because illegal market makers would travel around and exchange resources between different factories.
Ask HN: We spontanously decided to apply – video with all founders not possible
Hey guys,

we just decided to apply for the next YCombinator batch but moved to different parts of Germany last week. It is not feasible for us to come together for the 1 min application video due to several circumstances.

What do you prefer:

1. One founder tells something about the idea and the team - should be enough

2. Everyone should introduce himself in 20 seconds. Merge 3 video snippets (3 founders) into one

3. If you can't make that happen regardless your situation - back off

Thanks in advance
He stole another's lifetime of enjoying it.

It was a great story to read anyway.
And breaking ranks on an issue like this could be the mess up that gets the rest of the press to report against them in the future...
Not an FPS, obviously, but your mention of fast paced games reminded me of this insanity: http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/2015/03/01/score-rush...
It is defined at first use :

Here I try to depict the various categories of undefined behaviors (UBs)
No Goals?
I'm curious how you think a webcam will be able to read your facial expression when you have a VR headset on you face.
Can you get more concrete? "a technical demonstration of some component" isn't really an example.
I stfw'd a little and found these links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_Sta...

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/revenge-porn-...
Migrate to Shopify
I'm owner of the http://ukrainian-shop.myshopify.com store looking for a tool helpful in measuring my shop results: selling, traffic, adwords etc. in a quick way. I prefer to use mobile devices so it has to be compatible with them.
Could you recommend me something? I don't need something like Google Analytics or Adwords, I have already used them. It should be something equipped with all those features.
I have recently found pretty good app called SimplyTick - https://apps.shopify.com/simplytick. Have you ever tried it? It will be nice if you download this app and share the feedback if there is a something better than this one.

Thanks a lot!
P.S. I really interested sell with shopify and I moved my shop to the new system form globalshop.me.
With 3-5 years experience (was at the job for 2 years) I was making £46k, so it could be worse. ;) I was getting 20 vacation days a year, plus public holidays, plus some number of sick days.

I talked to my friends at FB and Google in London and they all said they were paid less than if they were working in SV.
It's really cool to see an old game engine released like this for historical purposes. Not to mention, it's nice to be able to experiment and see other games become derivatives.

Still, I can't help but feel that the game industry is always a bit behind in FOSS. They don't usually open source anything until a decade or two after the tech is irrelevant. Perhaps it's to prevent competition.

Another thing that bothers me with these releases is how little documentation there is. They put up a repository without much intention of helping/building a community around it, which is a shame.

All that said, they still have the right to approach in this manner. It is their property and they are still generous when making releases like this.
Rubbish. It is exactly because the situation regarding Palestine and Israel is so atrocious, so unendingly violent, such a blight on the region that the issues keep resurfacing.

The UN doesn't focus on every other country in the world because no other country in the world is occupying a territory it has no claim to and randomly destroys the infrastructure of the occupied territory and uses lethal force against its people.

source: I heard an ex-Israeli soldier who is proud of his country speak about this at length. http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
Exactly and that new right is actually very important. We should not expect the average person to have enough legal training to know their rights at all times.
So the logical extension where I can't see the link is that cavemen way way back must have either have been slaves, or had better lives than everyone on today's slavery spectrum. Is that right?
I hope they open source their drivers. :-/
Ants can turn colony ant enemies into allies
Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust
Phone Zombies, the Luddite Backlash, and Familiarity's Uncanny Valley of Contempt
At some point, people will indeed continue "living" online. It will be a gradual process, I suspect. People will increasingly rely on AI to handle routine stuff. To fake paying attention. And gradually, those AIs will become indistinguishable from their owners.
Geoff Hinton on AlphaGo and the Future of AI
Can Life Ever Be Perfectly Adapted to Its Environment?
Its very typical and not just for power. It happens with water as well.

The pattern is simular, unstable supply leads to private infrastructure. Demand increases when supply is available, leading to more instablilty. Quality goes down because private infrastructure is usually second rate.

In egypt water quality is way down because of private storage in water tanks.
This sort of glib disregard for the legitimate function of government plays into the hand of those who benefit directly from a dysfunctional government.

Put another way, it's YOUR government. When was the last time you engaged with it constructively as a citizen? Especially at the local and state levels where individuals can make a constructive difference without becoming full-time activists, lobbyists or politicians?
Social Network for Interests and discoveries
http://www.revolutr.com

"revolutr" is an interest based social network helps you connect with like-minded people who are just like you.
It also lets you discover a lot of things based on your interests.
I wasn't sure at first, but now I think you're being actively dishonest to try and ...? Who knows.

> Selective service is a back-up plan that has not been
> used

Right. Except for WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam, which drafted collectively 15m people, when has it ever been used? Either you knew that, and lied, or you didn't know that, and decided to speak authoritively on the point anyway. It would have taken you 10 seconds with Google to know either way.

> It's in 'weird news' for a reason, it's not there
> because this is the normal state of things

Right, because the Apple case is run-of-the-mill? The Apple case is "the normal state of things"?

You said it was a new low for the courts. It's not even close. That's my point. You're twisting yourself and your words in circles.
Why incomppetance? People seem to be really competente at using corruption to their benefit. If it would benefit them to be competent, they would improve, but they have no insentive to do so.

So I think its wrong to say "above anything else, gigantic incompetence", its more like "above anything else, bad insentives".
if you don't mind, what was your path from undergrad to your current position? what project(s) did you do in your undergrad? i'm currently in the middle of undergrad and still wondering what is the best to do. thanks.
"Since there is no way to know at compile time what addresses are going to stored at a place"

Well, this is exactly what LLVM's (admittedly limited) mem2reg pass is for.
A Week in the Life of a VC Intern/VC Intern AMA
I wish I were that idealistic. But I appreciate the sentiment. In a similar vein I had a Peters† Projection map on my wall for a very long time.

† http://www.petersmap.com/
(the Mercartor Projection makes the political north look way larger than it actually is, the Peters Projection is an area accurate map. Specifically, Africa and Brazil are waaaay bigger than you'd think folks!)

Link to UN Declaration on Human Rights. Let's all be a little bit more idealistic :)
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
On the density of SQLite's tests, Hwaci owns a test suite with MC/DC coverage[1][2], that Richard kindly loaned to John for this experiment. MC/DC coverage is used as a criterion for safety-critical software testing. Before hearing about SQLite, I had never seen anyone commit to MC/DC coverage without being forced to by a safety standard.

This test suite is how John found so much stuff, and that's also how one can trust that the binaries produced by compilers tested by Richard Hipp work correctly even if there is some undefined behavior in the source code.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_condition/decision_co...

[2] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html#mcdc
Using MozJPEG via Docker
In Europe, it is much higher than a month in many countries.

E.g. in Norway it is near impossible to give less than 3 months notice for permanent positions without providing additional compensation, no matter how junior the position, except for a typically 6 month trial period.

Before I'd moved to the UK, I'd never even seen an employment contract with less than 3 months.

In practice, shorter notice is often mutually agreed on with or without compensation when both sides agree it suits them, but it's very common to serve out the full 3 months.
That is false. The people in power have an insentive to keep current policy. Yes, maybe if a totally different government is put into place, things will change, but before that, no western coopration will make huge capital investments.

So for your solution to work the government would have to remove itself, and they want.
Hey if the creator is here -- you should write "optional" or mark which fields are compulsory ... or somehow indicate it's all optional.

I was hesitant to enter the "Employer" details because the combination of all this info would make me personally identifiable ... I abandoned the site, but then came back after thinking "maybe it's optional"

most people wouldn't come back!
> Also, the issue would not be resolved by force and the U.S. has an agreement with Taiwan to defend it if necessary.

To further clarify, the Taiwan Relations Act requires the US to give Taiwan the ability to defend itself; whether this would bind the US to directly intervene in a conflict on Taiwan's behalf is somewhat unclear, and that ambiguity is a not-insignificant part of the truce.
>A branch of physics used to be taught a long time ago called "numerical analysis" to deal with this issue.

Freshmen engineers had to take a year-long Numerical Analysis and FORTRAN programming class at my undergrad university. We would learn various iteration methods for solving equations and the homeworks would be more problems to solve with a program or two to write too.

This stuff is still taught, it just might be out of a different department than physics.
And this is, in fact, both true and one of the few pieces of guidance around peer bonuses. The other is that you're not allowed to peer bonus someone who peer bonused you [in the same quarter], for obvious reasons.
First look inside Tesla's gigafactory
There's a recent rant about it here https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/4akqt9/you_are_pr...

Obviously it depends a bit on the details but if you think of the big hits, saying say Alta Vista is crap let's build a better search engine or Myspace is crap let's build a better one of those wasn't worth much for the basic ideas because hundreds of people no doubt thought that. Now the detailed algorithms may have been worth something. But it's mostly in the actually building the better thing that counts.

I guess knowing which ideas are good would be valuable. If someone had said you'd make a fortune doing myspace with real names and no flashing nonsense that would have been useful but just having a list of a 1000 ideas with no testing is probably not worth much.
Deflation, not inflation, steals from the poor and gives to the rich. Deflation depresses wages and increases the value of assets (including outstanding debts! rich people use debt, poor people have debt.)
In the places I've used PIP's we used them mainly on staff we hoped to get to a level where we could promote them. We didn't waste time on proper PIP's for people we wanted to manage out - for those people HR simply mandated no raises ever. They'd leave or gradually get cheap enough for what they delivered to be worth having around.

EDIT: It's worth noting that in these cases the staff in question also had clear evidence in the form of signed reviews rating them that they were performing well. E.g. the guy I spent most time on a performance improvement plan for was ranked "exceeds expectations" in every criteria three years in a row while I was there, and was given 15%+ raises each of those years. This was in Europe, but for a US company.
"and Germany has extracted commitments from social media companies to summarily expunge anything that smacks of hate speech."

That's -- at best and very generously speaking -- an inaccurate description
It is difficult because on one hand we need a free press as a cornerstone of being a free country. On the other hand they do blatantly abuse that power by printing rubbish that hurts people just to make a buck, and in a lot of cases just outright lie (see current presidential primaries coverage as an example).
Testing practices are orthogonal to the cathedral vs bazaar idea. Linux is a great example of this. Anyone can checkout the code and work on it, but upstreaming the changes requires coordination and approval with the community.

The lessons by Raymond are also given in the context of OSS. Unfortunately it would be extremely difficult to find a team of developers that are passionate about the kind of stuff that SAP is written to solve, for example.

The lessons of Robert Martin and others are about how to be a professional developer. When you are writing software for someone else to use and they pay you money to do it, it is your reaponsibility to think about quality, extensibility and maintainability. It is not your job to express your self.

My take is that the point of TDD being so rigid is that a professional should always follow best practices, not just when they feel like it or when it is easy or convenient to do so. But TDD is an ideal and sometimes, or maybe even most of the time, there are externalities that make you fall short of that ideal.
How hardware startups stop commoditisation
Im a libertarian as well and I dislike Rand quite a bit. I think its horrible that Objectivism is seen as the only philosopical backbone of libertarian society. While in reality I base everythng on Burke, Hume, Smith, Hayek and many others. These are complete different and hole incompadible with Objectivism.

Not to say that she did not have some good observations on some of the things she was against. Her modern followers by and inlarge horrible idiots that I don't want to be associated with.
100M Reach Challenge
5 easy way to speedup your phone
Really compensation has nothing to do with skill. Compensation has everything to do with a demand for that skill. A highly skilled photographer doesn't make as much as a dev-ops engineer simply because everyone with a camera can "take pictures" and to many people the difference between a Pulitzer-winning photo and a decent Instagram feed is marginal. Yet, most people that can open Illustrator or Sketch and "design" something, while most people can't simply open Vim and write an application.

My theory is that the value of a good designer is equal to the value of a good developer because they serve critical, though separate roles in building a product people both want to use and are technically able to use.

The problem though is that it's very easy to "be a designer" because it actually doesn't take much technical skill. (Let's not get into a flame war about the technical skill required to use Sketch or Illustrator -- I get it; I'm being relative.) It's less "tangible." Is design A better than design B? The data-driven among us could certainly quantify A vs. B, but generally designs are subjective. With developers, it's mostly objective: does the product do X when I click this button. If yes, pass, if no, fail. (Us developers know that's not all there is to it, but in the C-suite, that's really the key metric -- does it solve the business problem, many could care less about code quality or even maintainability, until the dev team starts demanding resources to solve technical debt!)

So, back to your original question, should a developer get paid more than a designer? While, I would argue good version of both deliver equal but different value and thus they should be paid the same, the reality is affected by supply and demand. There are more "ok" designers than there are good developers. Yet ok designers are often good enough because frankly many people don't know good design even if it slapped them in the face with a trout. So an ok design has the practical effect of being a good design. Meaning: the measurement criteria is simply "do I like the way this looks." While with developers, it's much harder to find a developer that can actually execute. Thus an "ok" developer isn't competing with an "ok" designer because "ok" developer could potentially not execute the project at all, or at least not efficiently (thus costing more time,) while even a bad designer can create something that is good enough.

Which means, ok designers are in high supply, while good developers are in relatively low supply -- which makes the price for those resources adjust accordingly.

All things being equal -- yes, they should be paid the same. However, all things aren't equal. Supply and demand and perception of value are major factors at play.
Yeah, I think this happened to the Guardian to a certain extent after they broke the phone hacking story a few years ago.
You can not change the definition of words to suit your idiological needs. Inform yourself about what words mean before going into a politcal discussion.

Their are some words that have many meanings, when you want to use those, you should provide the appropirate addition to communicat your idea.
Maybe he wanted his kids to learn the lesson first hand?
> How so?

Because the employer is at a massive advantage. For an employee having gaps in employment is a major thing when it comes to future employment, and can have massive effects on personal finances. For the employer, losing an employee a bit earlier is rarely a major issue (and if it is, they can generally convince people to stay a bit longer by throwing cash at the problem).

It is less relevant in high-paid positions where employees generally have the ability to put aside more of a cushion, but for lower paid employees it can be dramatic.

There's a reason the long notice periods in large parts of Europe are a direct result of decades of union pressure.

> That's leaving aside entirely the issue of how at will employment gives companies confidence to hire since they know they can shed employees if things go south.

If this was a real concern, then we ought to see a persistent problem of high unemployment across the countries with long notice periods, but to my knowledge we don't.