skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this similar to the property that any number taken from a natural distribution will tend to contain more lower digits than high, regardless of unit and base.

Because 100x will become >200 "slower" than 200x becomes >300 etc. With slower meaning lower value of x. x in this case is usually a random variable centered around 1.
And murders are illegal by law, so they never happen. There's entire companies whose raison d'etre is to provide foreign IT labor at cheaper prices. And they aren't held accountable for it, unlike murders; those at least are generally followed up on. Here's a source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3004501/h1b/proof-that-h-1b...

By the way, it'd be worth spending some time sanitizing your data so that it displays correctly. It sucks that the data comes in an annoying format, but it would still be way more usable if it were fixed, certainly at least the top several hundred companies. It is interesting data though -- I'm looking up some data on my previous job, and all of the foreign workers made significantly less than me. I didn't even realize that this data was available by law, so nice job on putting it online in a browsable format.
Okay, before you all start adding your data there, consider the fact that it's all made public.

In the UK, post codes are usually very specific (sometimes to a single building) and I'm seeing someone from Colindale that has put in their entire postcode alongside their salary, this would be very easy to deanonimise by doing a reverse lookup on census data and then checking the job titles of the full names you'd get for software professionals (for instance, via Linkedin or Facebook).

In that specific example, I was able to find the social profiles of the person who added their salary with just a couple searches in the UK open register; ironically, a data engineer.
I don't know about Redox, but Phil's Rust OS (http://os.phil-opp.com/) seems to manage to minimize unsafe Rust and only use it to create some low level OS abstractions that can be safely used. It's pretty neat.
Yeah, I created a new account, WITH MY REAL NAME for this as I wanted to be super transparent. I didn't want to use a scrub account that I normally post under here. All of those except for one probably fall under the same situation.

It's not a case of malice, just transparency.
We don't want to be negative about Mozilla
These things have clear patterns. King George abuses his subjects so they kick him out and adopt a constitution prohibiting the things he did. From time to time, usually in response to some kind of hyped up threat, they crop back up. Hoover's FBI, The House Un-American Activities Committee, Nixon and now the response to 9/11. They go too far and eventually get shut down, but often not before a decade or more. Then we try to pass a law to prevent what they did from happening again, hopefully this time learning from our mistakes and making the law against it airtight.

Our major mistake last time seems to have been allowing the process to be secret.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314931
Would be very interesting to have an open document listing alternatives from the PostgreSQL universe to every point in that document (a gitbook maybe?). A few minutes ago I was thinking that "database firewall" could be a problem, but then I found [0] immediately.

[0] https://github.com/uptimejp/sql_firewall
Well a car operates in only two dimensions and has one given goal of transport from point A to B, so a car would maybe be a 5 or a 6. Keep in mind this scale is how close we are to actual human simulation. Humans brains deal with setting their own goals, dealing with conflicting information in pursuit of those goals, making trade offs, a constant influx of new information that affects variables in the decision making process, etc, all of which have yet to be adequately solved by AI. As the article points out, there are lots of mechanical/hardware complexities that further complicate the software with human robotics, and don't forget the average worker has 30-40 years of life experience (i.e. Learning) that a robot would need to somehow replicate. I'm not saying these problems won't eventually be solved, but AI tech has some tools that are really useful right now, but most people don't know how to use them. Instead of trying to skip up the ladder from step 4 to step 8, let's figure out ways to introduce step 4 to more people, and then we'll have more brains trying to solve the problems at steps 5, 6, and 7 to help us get to 8. Everyone will also make more money along the way :-)
While I agree motion design is important why is it presented as "The Future"? This stuff is old. The seminal paper dates to 1995.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=974941
UNIX98, POSIX compliance?)
"This is an interesting statement, because I assumed that it was the software that ran the robots that was hard to get right."

The problem is real objects have weights and properties that conflict with one another and you have to balance those forces and characteristics against gravity.
"Thinking about music is like dancing about architecture" The two are entirely separate modes of thought, like oil and water one might say. Any attempt to mix art and logic at a superficial level is futile. You need far deeper thinking than "Motion Design is the Future" to understand how to mix the two properly.
It's like the flat / 3D shaded / flat / 3D shaded trends over the last 20 years. Bouncy animations, instant pop-in, whichever is in vogue right now, after a while it'll switch back to the other one.
They've always said that it's good to reapply, which makes sense to me personally, because they say they need founders who get things done. Having a previous application to compare your current application with must be one of the best ways to judge that.
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It's not quite clear how actor.im federates. The "username" is my email, but how does my email map to the server I used to log in?

How do other servers know how to reach me?
It is possible that Boston Dynamics is still very tight with military contractors and technologies which may prevent separation. Google made it clear it does not want these contracts and associations.

What if a chip/software chunk in Atlas was made by Raytheon and any modification needs to shared back? Or access is not even possible.
The Israeli-Palestinian problem is largely caused by the UN's toothlessness in the first place - and beyond that, like most of the shitshows that have plagued the world for the last fifty-odd years, the British and French abdicating responsibility for their colonies after World War 2.
NSA Chief Bet Money on AT&T as It Spied on You (2014)
Sorry, email domain. If I work at Bugaboo then verify my email is rob@bugaboo.com before allowing me to submit a salary for Bugaboo
The bill allows for 20%, up to $200, for "out-of-pocket-expenses".

I don't think what you're suggesting would apply.
Y'know, if reading about people being emotionally traumatized is so upsetting to you that you have to reply repeatedly then I recommend that you go fuck yourself.
Right, though I would put "scare quotes" around "proof", since from their perspective I could be making it up. (:

When things get more serious, I sometimes go over my history of compensation with them.

To me, it comes down to the question: does company X need me more than I need company X? For the right people with the right skills and the right experience, the "power" is with the potential employee.
I kind of agree with the overall conclusion, but the EFF is overstating their Youngstown Steel argument. As a preliminary issue, it's important to note that we're talking about spying that might be outside FISA but is inside the 4th amendment.

Spying is a routine military activity that is intrinsic to foreign relations, an area where the Constitution gives the President unique powers. Seizing steel mills, on the other hand, is a major intrusion into domestic activity within Congress's usual domain. It's not so clear why Youngstown would direct the conclusion here.

More generally, there are a lot of people who believe that the framers intended to give the President great powers when it came to foreign relations and the exercise of military power, and didn't intend for Congress to be able to check those powers. One of the motivating rationales of having a unitary executive was so that the government could respond to internal and external threats decisively without waiting for hundreds of senators and congressman to get on board. It was set up that way to address the concerns of people who thought that a democracy would be weak and indecisive in the face of foreign threat.
This is Gartner's famous "Magic Quadrant".
>Empires by definition are encompassing and large, not local and regional.

I am not sure empire has a good/strict definition. Its like porn, you know when you see it.
Yep, agreed. I can only scroll by using the scrollbar.
Window managers do offer a few genuinely useful applications for animation, though. For example, they often have functionality that hides part of the display, and clicking on some corresponding icon or text then restores it. A quick animation showing a just-hidden item shrinking down to wherever the user needs to go to find it again later does provide useful information in a transparent way, and is unlikely to interfere with or slow down whatever the user wants to do next.
Social Share Privacy is a jQuery plugin that lets you add social share buttons to your website that don't allow the social sites to track your users. The buttons are first disabled and a user needs to click them to enable them. So in order to e.g. like a site on facebook with these social share buttons a user needs to click two times. But in return for this extra click a user can only be tracked by this third party sites when he decides to enable the buttons. Using the settings menu a user can also permanently enable a social share button.

Repository to fork: https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy
> TimeWaste 2916 conference

note to self, trademark that conference name ASAP ...
> I've also practice stoicism and mindfulness, which explicitly trains you to not worry about things like someone insulting you

Can you recommend any resources?

Do you think it could help one become (or adopt a mindset of) apathetic, so office politics and various other nonsense wouldn't be so agitating?
UI concistency is horrible with these html-in-a-webview app.

Every app has to re-invent the wheel here, and there's a lot of native controls that don't exist on HTML.

Generally though, window management is unimportant because these apps tend to be single-windowed apps anyway.
I don't know if that's the best illustration - it seems like he forgot to include forward motion in his fitness function.
You can get paid support with Postgres : http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/subsc...
Pop culture written in logic – can you figure them out?
Paper probably was discounted due to some business reasons - but it still was (and probably is) the best app created for iOS, in my opinion. Animations smoothness was just gorgeous and also really pleasant and intuitive to use.
Typo here:
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I've pointed out some huge issues with the anonimity of this site in another comment.

But apart from that, if a site has no privacy policy, you should have no expectation of privacy or anonimity. If they added an advertising tracking tag they could easily match the data you provide to your real name, your hobbies, your online shopping habits, your marital status...
Pi is kind of a worst case, because you round it only once, every operation will add errors on the same direction. Because of that you either use way to many decimal places, or make sure you don't keep multiplying pi with itself as you said. But both are optional, and must be designed into.

A matrix of measurements, by its turn, normally has unbiased errors, what makes the resulting error grow much slower.
I think the last quote of the article is telling:

"The truth," writes Borges, "is that we all live by leaving behind."

Honestly, why can't we all heed this advice and just leave Facebook behind?

The second we all stop looking at it the second it stops being so important. I hardly ever check FB anymore.
This is the primary reason why I deleted my Facebook account. I couldn't stand the thought of being run over some day and having no way of stopping the creation of a virtual memorial owned by Facebook's stakeholders. I'd be turning in my grave.
Power Saver feature of android (or maybe just the Cyanogenmod flavor of it) disables all animation which is based on the android UI framework and besides making everything faster (and apparently less power hungry), it could also change the way a user uses an app or bypass restrictions that the app developer relies on to limit user activity (e.g. like/dislike on a series of items).
All in all, nowadays in the world there are more than 90 well recognized territorial disputes, from Tibet to Kaliningrad.

UN fixation on Israel is just another symptom of the rotten nature of UN, a mix of antisemitism and autocratic governments and UN bureaucrats.
So why does a Macbook cost more in the UK than in the US ?
Volunteer's dilemma. If everyone tells (honestly), it benefits the group as a whole. If only one tells, it would be to that individual's disadvantage, since she'll be seen as violating company secrecy policy. Some companies do set wages as confidential info.
Yeah, but at that point you might want to pay someone else...
> WTF is someone doing flying a drone at 5000 feet over downtown LA in the LAX approach path? That drone operator needs to be found and arrested.

Los Angeles has already effectively criminalized flying drones in most of the city. In October 2015 the city passed an ordinance that requires drone pilots to get "express authorization" from all airports within 5 miles[1]. This was done despite the fact that it is stricter than the FAA's requirement/advice for drone pilots to "notify" all airports within 5 miles[2] (Two months later, in December 2015, the FAA published a fact sheet trying to discourage local drone regulations that could result in a patchwork of confusing laws around the country[3].)

In January 2016, LA charged two drone pilots under the new ordinance for flying drones within 5 miles of _heliports_[4], indicating that they considered heliports to be equivalent to airports. The pilots are facing misdemeanor charges that could result in a fine and up to 6 months in jail.

The thing about heliports in LA is that they're everywhere! Probably 80-90% of LA is within 5 miles of a heliport. And not just one--if you wanted to fly your drone in the field next to the Silver Lake Reservoir, you'd probably have to get authorization from 7 or 8 heliports. It is, effectively, a ban.

[1] https://t.co/lst2RzoY5q

[2] http://fromwhereidrone.com/can-you-fly-your-drone-within-5-m...

[3] http://www.faa.gov/uas/regulations_policies/media/UAS_Fact_S...

[4] http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-city-attorney-dr...
Gawker is a major media org which had and has a lot of influence over online news reporting.

Going further than that, this judgement may be useful in determining how future, similar acts are treated by the courts.
You seem to be implying that I'm advocating you should give up working on a good UI in favor of animations, which I'm saying the opposite.

Animations are a tool, and should be applied carefully just like any other.

I chose my words carefully and I stand behind them. Animation is important, and it can be a great additional tool to improve usability of an application. It's not the only tool, but an additional one.

About my last line, I was talking about design and UI/UX in general, probably should have been more clear about that...
I'm not upset by it at all. I'm just calling people out as being unreasonably precious about it. The algorithm they use can't take into account whatever problems you've had over the year. That should be obvious. If you can't handle that, don't go there.
Good shout. And 120k GBP sounds like a lot. Is it supposed to be USD? Or is he converting a contractor's daily rate to a perm's salary?
That's true. It's hard to visualize all the costs involved with living in the bay when I've never lived there. The quality of life is pretty great here too. Thanks for the perspective!
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You are right. Barebone stuff is usually unsafe.

The point I'm trying to make is that open hardware could also be programmed in Rust, reducing the number of "unsafe" blocks in user applications. Software for proprietary hardware is usually written in unsafe C/C++.
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Which is exactly what I am advocating. Animation is a very useful tool to improve good designs, and it can become a problem if abused just like anything else.

But nobody is advocating for abuse of animation.
:)

Physics is full of dirty shortcuts. I dread every time I see somebody using a natural units system.
Funny anecdote, but "artificial intelligence" (which people misuse as a fancy term when what they really mean is task optimization) requires setting the right goals. You know, like moving from point A to point B.
Different kind of socializing, I imagine. The sort of training-wheels for life as a real adult that college tends to be. With all the "networking", which usually manifests as getting blackout drunk on cheap alcohol and bad weed three or four nights a week.
Amazon is a famous example of not maximizing shareholder value by reinvesting into R&D, no?
What I don't understand is how "motion design", or any UI design philosophy for that matter, must imply a certain fixed visual style.

Take android for example. I loved the clean and understated look of Holo. I hate the inconsistent light pastel whitespaced mess that is material design. However I'm forced to have it if I buy a <2 year old phone and what the latest security updates. Why couldn't I get the holo theme to choose from? The UI elements are the same; point is there isn't any reason to tie it to the visual design and impose a specific style.
Real life Black Mirror
I'm assuming Oracle is in the lower left?
Reno is actually a surprisingly great place to live. I think visitors see things differently because they mostly experience the casinos downtown.
You might ultimately only need some specialized "neural processing instruction set" for either the GPU cores or for the CPU cores. Or at least, I don't see any obvious obstacles to that.
The Rust implementation of ZFS interests me greatly. Going to pull this down and try hack on it.
> get over being so over-fragile

Maybe you should get over being such a “tough guy” that you can go online and victim-blame people for having sad feelings. You’re entitled to whatever opinion you want of anybody else, but when you choose to express it, you’re making a decision that can be objectively judged by whether it makes society better or worse.

And this kind of victim-blaming has been shown, over and over again, in every avenue, to make communities worse, not better.
It looks really interesting! I'm going to be looking at it probably next weekend :)
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A common reason seems to be that the person in charge of procurement puts importance some operational aspect that Oracle has that other RDBMSs do not have. For example, some specific availability scenario that Oracle RAC solves, some security feature like row level security (which Postgres does have now) or some disaster recovery thing in RMAN. Most procurement processes only consider price once all criteria have been met so a common "attack vector" for an Oracle salesman is to get some criterion added that only Oracle can provide :).

The other common reason is if you'll be deploying some existing application on top of your RDBMS and it either only supports Oracle (ie: it uses Oracle's proprietary language somehow or simply not ported to Postgres) or you already have lots of Oracle DBAs. Most big organisations are very brownfield so the technology choice is path dependent.
What don't you like about it? No ads, loads super fast, everything on one page.
The future or the past?... motion design for UIs started in the 80s/90s and gained traction in the web during the early 2000s with Flash/AS2/AS3... Denying this is knowing nothing about the history of UI design.

Browse the FWA for proof of cool UI animations starting in the year 2000 [0].

I'd say we're having a rediscovery (specially in the web) now that HTML5/JS/CSS3 allows fluid transitions and transforms.

[0] http://www.thefwa.com/site/mmorph?c=SOTM
That means you were 'bought' into thinking it was a good idea by a mere $10,000. Maybe you should have actually been paid $30k more all along - and still.
Intelligence, friends, happyness
More intelligent individuals experience lower life satisfaction with more frequent socialization with friends.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26847844
< (you have to be bottom half of the class to make less than that!)

That is a poorly worded comment. Someone can be really good but for whatever reason choose something that pays less or didn't get a great luck of the draw. To draw an absolute comparison between academic performance and salary for a whole class is laughable.
> One of which you highlighted regarding what constitutes a democracy - some could even argue that the Electoral College in the USA means it isn't a true democracy!

Well, it is a republic, not a democracy anyways.
What is this definition of "pure FPS" you're using? Isn't FPS simply First Person Shooter? If HL is not an FPS, I don't know what is. FPS article in wikipedia has a screenshot from the original Half Life.
I think "rough" is understating it. Galileo finding different sized objects fall at the same rate, knew more about gravity than we know about intelligence. By analogy, in terms of gravity, our understanding is at the "Things fall downwards" stage. The Newton's Laws of Motion for intelligence are a long ways off yet.
Yeah Facebook honestly does suck, it basically becoming MySpace.
From the book[1]: A quick grep gives us some stats: The kernel has 16.52% unsafe code, a 50% improvement in the last three weeks. Userspace has roughly ~0.2%.

1: http://www.redox-os.org/book/book/introduction/unsafes.html
Hmm.... I now want to see if I can train a neural net to play QWOP.
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I think there is also space in the middle for valid critique of gratuitous motion design. Hiding latenecy with a cute animation is fun the first time you do it. By the 100th time, it's usually just slow.

I regularly out-pace guis. For example, the simple task of using google maps to go to work in the morning. This task is visually spread out with time-slowing animations that require constant active participation. It is like 5 taps made excrutiatingly long by the fact that my car is parked just far enough away from my home that wifi cuts out and the phone has to aquire 4g. Compare to Waze (also owned by Google) one tap, swipe and dialogs auto continue without needing to be "fed".

I love animation and motion graphics, but I've seen many motion devs fall into the trap of "oh this is so cool, but they won't see it unless I make it a bit longer" -- and unfortunately most of the JS animation frameworks do not encourage async interaction, so interaction phases are often held hostage to the animation cycles.

In these cases, I think motion design is rightly considered wasteful and not delightful.
IIRC such a thing. But for the B-1, F-22, F-35, no doubt more work was needed, that is, more ideas.