skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have heard very few argue that referee compensation would improve the situation.

Referee compensation alone? No, not at all. I think compensation would help to some degree, but it wouldn't bring an end to these problems.

What I argue is simply the point that managing editors is a very complex matter that is extremely expensive and somehow justifies what publishers are charging for it. It's certainly not as trivial as just sending e-mails (because of the, uh, human factors), but obviously the bulk of it is done by the reviewers -- and they basically do it for free. If this money, or at least part of it, were to go to the reviewers, the claim would at least be credible. As it stands now, it's simply not.

It's as if I were running a paint shop, charged clients a thousand times the sum of the paint (claiming that I do more than just splat paint on cars -- which would be arguably true), but then paid zero wages to all employees except for a few supervisors (not to mention magically reusing every bucket of paint I ever bought, just to keep the analogy correct). Sure, I'd be doing more than just splattering paint on cars -- but a-thousand-times-the-price-of-the-paint-more, when I'd basically have an endless supply of paint that I'm given more or less for free, and only have to pay like 10% of my employees?

Maybe the scientific publishing business isn't profitable enough to allow for proper remuneration (and defining "proper" is also difficult). But, leaving aside the - possibly idealistic - observation that it's probably important enough that maybe it could be worth doing it for no profit at all (or at least for something somewhat more modest that 2 billion dollars!), that's certainly not an argument for keeping it unfair, too. Surely, some payment, even if meager, would at least provide some peace of mind for some of the reviewers, and is arguably better than no payment at all

> Your industry may well be different; perhaps it doesn't have a large research component?

Hm. I guess my claim about industry isn't entirely fair, seeing how the field in which I did academic work (briefly and at a very basic level) is not quite the same as the one I'm active in (tl;dr a niche in microelectronics back then vs. computer engineering now). In any case, indeed, I think neither of these fields have as large a research component as pharmaceutical chemistry (microelectronics as a whole probably does, but what I was doing wasn't as fancy as the name of the field would imply).
FWIW, the Response object has the `ok` property [1] as a shorcut. It is equivalent to testing whether status is between 200 and 299.

If it's really that important to you, you can always create your own wrapper around fetch

function fetch2(uri) {
return fetch(uri).then( (res) => {
if (res.ok) {
return Promise.resolve(res);
} else {
return Promise.reject("Request failed with status "+res.status+" ("+res.statusText+")");
}
} );
}

fetch2('some-url')
.then( (res) => {
console.log('Success', res.status, res.statusText);
})
.catch( (err) => {
console.log(err);
});

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response/ok
My limited experience is certain types of home cooking can't be replicated in restaurants - I am not sure why.

Nucleics is easier for me to answer. Nucleics has done a lot of things over the years (like me), but these days it sells software for improving Sanger DNA sequencing. A bit of of a niche market, but one that is surprisingly resilient.

I love science and in a perfect world I would still be a full time scientist, but I would never be disappointed if my children chose another field - science these days is just too cut-throat to encourage anyone to enter.
Great Teams, Great Products
But if their way to get paid is to track me across websites I have no moral problem with preventing it.
To hack Facebook maybe first we need to understand how they do things.[1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scaling-...
This is why bittorrent should have included passwords. If everybody uses the same password (e.g., "cyberpunk"), then everybody could download each other's files, while the liability would lie purely with the leecher (because he broke into someone else's machine by guessing the password).
I don't see why a package maintainer would patch out the warning instead of just packaging the new version. But if it comes to that, it's better for the users to get xscreensaver from a more reliable source than that maintainer.
I suspect this was posted because of Delip Rao's write-up[1] (which I suggest might be a better link).

It's a nice - if somewhat controversial - summary.

40% speedup on DNN training with state-of-the-art results.

[1] http://deliprao.com/archives/134
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If that were true, the wages for software engineers would be going up. They aren't. http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-mi...
> they are lending the cash to the US entity to execute but backs

I'm pretty sure they don't do this as a loan from the untaxed or under-taxed overseas entity back to the taxed parent would create a tax event.

AAPL has more cash than it knows what to do with, but it's a huge borrower in the corporate market so that it can fund its dividend payments.
Your upstream bandwith isn't your latency. It's how fat your upload is. Swapping 15/1 to 10/5 isn't going to do anything for your latency UNLESS you're already maxing out your upstream.
I've always hated the mother's maiden name security question because my mother kept her maiden name so it's not exactly a hard thing to figure out in my case.

I think that one will go away sooner than later though, because taking a husband's name is becoming less common in a lot of societies.
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>by all means that's wrongdoing to me and I think most would be with me on that.

Well, for what it's worth, I don't agree with you.

People are obliged to pay the tax they are legally obliged to pay, and that's it. It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are. Billionaires are not obliged to voluntarily pay more than they are required to. And neither is anybody else. And it really is not a coherent position to claim otherwise, in my view.
Wording feedback like "at least do it right" makes your message unnecessarily hostile.
Maybe, but then again the media has zero incentive to report this truthfully - "bad government wasting taxpayer money" is what sells.
It took Buffet 28 years to go from millionaire to billionaire. I'm not sure that appeals to the folks who are in startups hoping to get rich fast.
You shouldn't share this around. This is going to mess up a lot of innocent people's lives.
Where does it say that?

You seem to be set against this so under what conditions could Apple (or anybody else) sell refurbished phones that would be acceptable to you? Or do they become problem immediately once they are not new?
So, this and a bunch of Raspberry Pis and we can start disrupting the cellular industry?
Pwncloud – bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
I know it's late but I wanted to add something that's been frustrating me on Facebook lately, and that is that it's almost impossible to re-find a newish post that you've seen already. The during algorithm makes you wade through tons of other posts first, even thigh the one you're looking for used to be right on top.
Why? It's a non-sequitur. Neil Degrasse Tyson said "the natural world". IQ tests are fleeting human-made constructs which have nothing to do with laws of the universe. And to talk of "scientific consensus" regarding social pseudo-science...

The whole point is to attack Blacks using techniques of so-called "scientific racism".

(And not discussing racist pseudo-science is merely protection of your own intelligence. My brief neglect to cite evidence warned me that exposure to low standards made my own slip! :)
Sure, not every data collection is going to do the sensible thing. OpenStreetMap has a proposal to document the exact sockets that are available:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcharging_st...

An app that shows charging stations while highlighting the ones that will be fastest is a really obvious thing to provide, especially while the stations are a bit sparse. So I would expect it to get easier to find stations as we go forward, not harder.

(I agree that Supercharger=fast charging is an advantage, I just don't think it is really a big deal)
I didn't see anything there that would preclude him from topping some recent Person of the Year candidates. His companies have achieved impressive things already - including a car already launched to very strong reviews.

The article compares the Model 3 to the Bolt. I think in the second phase of his unveiling, Musk will announce that the Model 3 will be self-driving. There were strong indications in his Twitter AMA yesterday that it won't be driven like a normal car.
They block one vector of tracking. They don't block CDN-based tracking: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/11/30/a-new-type-of-trackin... (note the juxtaposition of "new" and "2010")
I got some cactus under red light
As self-righteous as it often sounds, this type of fight against consumerism really is admirable. That said, I think in way these types of tools actually help people to move in the direction that you're going (or have gone).

Setting up x y and z streaming servers and downloading 38 movies at a time (because patience is a virtue) so you have a large on-demand catalogue isn't really less consumerist than having tools that are versatile enough to let you sit down and get something on the screen within 30 seconds.

Of course, you can abuse something like this or Popcorn Time to become more of a consumer than ever, but I don't think it's inherent to the tool.

On the topic of the latest Marvel flick, you really should see Deadpool. It's absolutely hysterical!
While the underlying devices themselves aren't so critical, considering NEST thermostats shut off your freaking furnace when internet is unavailable, once you do have them it is pretty critical.

Frankly this is just one more reason I don't want IoT garbage.
While the analysis was interesting, I can't help but wonder why so many people write pointless comments to what is probably some marketing person impersonating Mark.
I can't say I've had to fiddle that much. If we're talking things like deciding which packages to install, I have a script that clones my explicitly installed packages and logs them to a file, and then is able to read it and install them all on a new box.

Setting up wifi was as simple as just installing whichever manager you want and getting going, though. Contrary to a lot of peoples' experiences I seem to have a really easy time with Arch. Most of it just works after install.
But who would own it? There wouldn't be any shareholders left.
Coolest Cooler, $13M-funded Kickstarter project, needs another $15M
As others said, those are pulled from the UI Faces API at random. No personal data is getting leaked. :)
MariaDB Dropping in on IBM I to Replace MySQL
Probably because the opportunities for gross corruption is much less in the west (though Italy might be an outlier) - and there are well established legal ways to shelter your assets.
Link to Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/4d9f22/turkish_ci...
Pro tip: You shouldn't be answering those questions truthfully.
99 percent of use cases of IoT are data aggregation. Latency is not crucial here; you can still generate precise timestamps on the target side and have a very precise global view even with ridiculously large latency.
I watched a bit of that and he just says basically that you had to admit Cuba had built a lot of medical clinics. Which I agree is true. Doesn't make either of us communists.
> Among the African academies that participated in the survey, the mean proportion of women members was even lower — ten per cent. However, the tally varied widely between individual academies.

> The ASSAf’s 24 per cent makes it one of the most women-friendly academies in the world, but at four per cent women, Tanzania’s Academy of Sciences shares the last place globally with Poland.

Yet from reading the map included in the article, Poland has 30.1%-45% women
among researchers. Something is very off, which doesn't give the article much
credibility.
Mobile Usability
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Depth: Why Slack Will Never Entirely Replace Email
> This has been a UK government stance for a while

As further confirmation, it's cemented as one of the ten design principles behind GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/design-principles#tenth
> One of these vehicles offers the possibility of huge profits off rich d-bags. The other one, not so much.

I stopped reading when I reached this caption. Companies exist to make profit, not act in the public interest.

Demonizing normal business behavior is counterproductive. There's a huge gap between Goldman Sacks/Enron/etc and most companies.
Kim of North Korea or late Chavez aren't mentioned either. Is that because they are friends of the US/Britain?
Care to share further what you automated?
You justify piracy because the legal method (having a cable subscription) is inconvenient?
>They're well-made, sure, but they're foremost a luxury and status symbol.

Not sure why this opinion is downvoted, but I agree.

The Model S is quite an engineering feat, particularly the D. But the Model 3? There are quite a few cars in that segment that have the performance and "luxury" of that car for cheaper. Being electric (and a Tesla) is the only selling point, and I don't value it that much.

I want an electric car as a commuter; something that I can go back and forth to work in every day, and charge at night. A high-torque, RWD electric car is a tough sell for the winters we get here, especially at the ~$50,000 CDN it will likely cost.
An animated ad, that blocks the page and plays music as well.
What car for example? Flushing the brakes is easy low risk maintenance - if there is a manufacturer that's actively blocking flushing via ECU I would like to avoid them.
No need. They're all in Germany anyway.
To me that comes off as "Hey, I'm angry you won't let me view your content without paying for it anymore". Obviously in this case paying for it is viewing/watching ads. Not trying to get high and mighty with anyone. The whole ad-block culture just screams entitlement to me and it bothers me a lot.
He is also a US Senator's son and took advantage of his family's many connections to get his startup capital. He was also born at the right time to take advantage of postwar prosperity.

Without those advantages, it's almost laughable to replicate that career path
In FreeBSD 6 I could get more fps in America's Army FPS game through Linuxulator on FreeBSD than through running native Linux.
Things like these are why #archlinux on Freenode hates Antergos; they're not responsible for how badly other communities handle their OS. The amount of troubleshooting that comes down to "Oh, that means Antergos/whoever are completely fucking up" is surprisingly high.
Start fixing mobile first, you're killing precious battery life.
> you can actually ask for non-travel project

Interesting, thanks.
At my current job they try to staff local as much as possible, there is no formal hierarchy and we also have 20% time, so my standards are high. Traveling too much would be a no go for me.
In Finland even salary and capital gains data is released. Newspapers compile high score lists from it each year. There might be some lower limit to how much you need to earn before your data becomes public.

Here's some select tidbits from the data in English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/who_are_finlands_top_earners/8427787
I would like to see a source for that, because this makes no sense

Latency in analog circuits is a natural product AND very difficult to change either way

In digital circuits you might have things adding latency like encoders and filters and some effects of network and packaging of voice data

Unless you're blaming AT&T for not being able to go faster than the speed of light
Top talent doesn't drive average wage growth very much. My comment was specific to top talent.
> Many companies use date of birth and address for authentication.

Who does? I've seen them used as part of the signup process for some services but never as standalone authentication.
Not angry in the least. Just very cynical of suggestions banking is better than more industrial sectors. Besides it's not like Detroit or Sheffield could reinvent themselves as a banking centre without extreme subsidies to encourage mass relocations. Money neither has.

Even for ROI you'd have to go back a very long way to do worse than RBS, and will probably be sitting on that loss for another decade or more.

Banking does have several advantages - get big enough and the taxpayer will bail you out. So the downside becomes an externality. That is not good for encouraging ethics. Also through the miracle of fiat money and fractional reserve banking you get to print your own!

You have to wonder therefore how they manage to make such a bloody mess of it so often. Oh of course - greed and total lack of adequate regulation.
The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus
And which are these websites that are using these dirty tricks?
Lithium supply/demand madness, TSLA, GXY, ALB, FMC,SQM etc, what do you think
There is currently a dicussion on 4chan/biz and basically everywhere about lithium and what is happening now in 2016 that there is a supply shortage of lithium, not because there is no lithium in the world, but because the industry is not producing enough, even the biggest distributors like ALB cannot saturate the market enough to balance the supply / demand. What do you think about virtual developers, mines etc? Are you buying any stock related to Lithium case?
This is why I love this industry. He started with a somewhat "bad" idea- even an automated reply would have a really hard chance being the first comment. But, he was able to experiment and tweak the idea to do something pretty cool with his work while learning. Well done!
I have been using ad blockers for a long time I guess... I had no idea ads had gotten so big. That's gross.
This is some strange and random spew. It doesn't even add up to an interesting lie.
I don't appear to have access to edit heading now
A16z investing in George Hotz's comma.ai
Both situations are equity+cash=equity+cash.

The ownership percentage is hidden inside the equity.
Looks like akamai needs to be added to my blockers list.
Looks like Steam has similar conditions: http://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

"YOU AND VALVE AGREE TO RESOLVE ALL DISPUTES AND CLAIMS BETWEEN US IN INDIVIDUAL BINDING ARBITRATION."

"You grant Valve and its affiliates the worldwide, non-exclusive, right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, transcode, translate, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and publicly display and publicly perform, your User Generated Content, and derivative works of your User Generated Content, in connection with the operation and promotion of the Steam site."

One key difference is which services this applies to.

Steam: "in connection with the operation and promotion of the Steam site"

Oculus: "in connection with the Services".
Where services are defined as "use of physical goods, platform services, software, websites, applications, and content"
The evidence is trivially googleable in every country and language.

Most commonly it is lost internet access or fines of only a few thousands.

A few thousand is beyond a lot of people, especially in this endless recession.

It can be confiscation of equipment and has led to loss of employment.

People have been jailed for it, faced years of uncertainty over extradition.

Parents, children, teachers, grandmothers, pretty much everyone knows someone who has had at least some trouble.

That is not to mention the technological stagnation, the denial of the blind the right to convert documents to speech, works unavailable in whole countries, the trumping of fair-use by DRM, the hours lost trying to convert media, the denial of access to publicly funded science.

The invasive anti-privacy laws, the time wasted fighting SOPA, PIPA, the clipper chip, &c.

Those who stood in court up faced legal destruction akin to Jammie Thomas, in every country.

The chilling effect on innovation & technological takeup.

Napster was the killer app that kickstarted broadband adoption in the UK, nevermore.

Kids who love music would get into coding - but music startups, even highly legitimate ones are a total no go - the monopolies are too entrenched and stupid.

New cultural forms, remix and mashup are outlawed - NWA's original wall of sound was a cultural dead end as licensing the thousands of samples is impossible.

A entire new form of black American music outlawed.

The loss of orphaned works and rare episodes.

The prosecution, hounding & subsequent death of Aaron Schwartz.

The harm cause by these monopolies is vast and unnecessary.

It could be solved overnight by a blanket license and collection agencies - just like it was for radio.
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4dafji/never_e...

Most noteable:

> If the Terms Of Service didn't make you feel uneasy, try this one: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/legal/privacy-policy/
Maybe it we is the US its true but if you look at Germany they are a net exporter of manufactured goods and probably have an agricultural surplus so it's quite possible to get by in a modern economy.
Drones Are the New Threat to Airline Safety
An X hr coding test is very different than an X hour interview.

The interview process is intended to be a bi-directional flow of information. Giving someone a X hour programming test means that for X hours, the company gets to learn about the developer, but the developer doesn't really learn about the company.

The company is the one paying salary, so they set the terms of the interaction. But the feel of disrespect for the developers time is real and valid. If you chose to do a coding test, do so respectfully to avoid insulting the person you potentially want to hire.
Ask HN: What's the current state of civic technology/innovation?
Seems like a really interesting area but I can't find an awful lot of info about it online. There seem to be a few disjoint groups of people working on civic stuff, e.g. Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, but everyone seems quite stealthy atm.
What’s Your Questioning Strategy – And How Does It Affect Your Team?
So... why does that mean that they should get special exemption from a general law?

Apple can't sell in India because they are too elitist to make a model priced for the developing world (which they can absolutely choose to do with their buckets of money), so why should they be allowed a special channel into a market that they want to treat as second-class?
Pushing the Envelope [Video – Latest Blue Origin Launch]
I think you might be confused... (and if not then I certainly am). The -d flag means 'download', and the argument isn't a branch name, it's the review number from the Gerrit URL. You don't use it for reviewing code (that generally happens in the Gerrit web interface, or in gertty), you use it when you want to modify a patch submitted by somebody else. I'm not sure what a UX that lets you check out somebody else's patch without specifying which patch would look like.

FWIW I use Gerrit every day, and I don't recall ever once using the -d flag.
Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever
As a future dev it makes me sick. I have to choose either to support a business like that or never make any money.
How Secure Is Your Payment Data? Not Very Secure It Seems
Yahoo still has FreeBSD and some FreeBSD devs, but the focus isn't on FreeBSD anymore
KDE has split up most of the libraries over the last few releases, so the situation's much improved now.

KDEConnect still pulls in a few dependencies, but it's not 300MB anymore.