skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is fine for Sam to post something like this. It's not illegal and people will think twice before opportunistically suing companies that are backed by Sam.

Anyone with power that flexes it will be accused of abusing it. In this instance, I don't think it is abuse (although I can also argue that any use of power is an abuse of it). I appreciate that Sam is willing to flex his power to protect companies he is vested in. It makes me clear on his values.

I also don't think the appropriate response to legal action should be to "leave it up for the courts to decide". Legal action is meant to right injustices, but in the real world people use legal action for all sorts of other reasons, and you're handicapping yourself and living in your ideals if you think people don't use legal action for their own benefit. You're defining a marching formation to go to war and you'll get trounced by people who don't constrain themselves in that way.

Legal action has results well beyond the courtroom. In this case, it can stop a merger. It causes libel. It defames reputation. Even if you win the case, you lose. If you settle out of court, you lose. And there's almost no recourse for unquantifiable damages or loss of reputation caused by the claims.

I'll admit taking legal action is one of the few ways injustice can be righted and that is a value that should be upheld. But, by nature, a system that makes sure injustice is dealt with fairly also is really easy to abuse by pretty much everyone else.
Wait, no on else knew about this?
Why couldnt someone just reverse engineer the source code? It seems to me conditional jumps would be a good start and maybe work backwards from things that look like auto wins.

I doubt the team had the budget or bytes to obfuscate the bytecode.
The older Kindles, like the keyboard one I have, simply put the buttons on both sides. Seems like a more sensible solution. ;)
Yup, and the whole point of doing it right now is that it gives him the most leverage. No one wants to stop the merger and the longer you wait, the more risky it gets (buyer's remorse, another startup comes up with a competing product, etc.) so you might be willing to pay a small but substantial sum to make the problem go away.
Bill Frist... famous for taking $20,000,000 in cash from harrahs to staple the UIGEA (online poker shutdown) to the PORT act with 1 minute left in the session, which by some fuckup of logic, automatically becomes a law without a single person ever seeing it.

he is scum. he deserves reckoning.
It would be useful if it had a tool to convert MIDI files to source code (ideally with some sane automatic structuring). I've sequenced some 15 megabytes of MIDI files, and would love to have them in a form suited for version control.
Apple UI design has jumped the shark
Kobo used to sell an itty bitty e-reader (4 or 5 inches?) that would slip into a pocket. Seemed perfect for travel, but I never ended up buying one.
... although once the first datacenter once again announced the prefixes into BGP, those networks would have been reachable again, from everywhere. I imagine this is what happened at 19:27 -- the first datacenter came back online.

Of course, the traffic load might have overwhelmed that single datacenter but that would be alleviated as soon as additional datacenters came back online ("announced the prefixes"). A portion of the traffic load would shift to each new datacenter as it came back online.

It could have been hours later before they were all operational again but, as far as the users were concerned, the service was up and running and back to normal as soon as the first one or two datacenters came back up.
It is simple. If nothing in writing, then you should assume that it is a no go. Yes the hiring manager may really want you and verbally confirmed but there are a lot of "behind the scenes" factors that impact hiring.

Of course, if you do finally get the offer in writing, good for you. The question is should you wait or move on. That will depend on where you stand. If you need a job asap, then keep looking. If not, you may wait for the confirmation in writing.
Plenty of the popular comics in Italy are published in b&w too, color was only used for premium/special editions.
They make social viruses, they figured out what worked and hasn't worked, hires kids for the low rates and talent and teaches them to also make social viruses.

If Facebook is social layer OS then Buzzfeed was the stuff McAfee and Norton would warn you about.
Can you create a trigger on any continuous query
read more closely. The company is suing, not the other way around. The outsider is refusing to settle, so the company and founder took the logical and necessary step of bring a lawsuit for declaratory relief. On the facts as presented, the only bully would be intransigent pseudo-founder who worked with the real founder for six weeks more than two years ago, well before any funding rounds or even seed investment.
I also disagree with things like "taxi medallions", I'm just saying that Uber throws out the baby with the bathwater.

Right now, there's a real risk they'll put legit taxi companies out of business, and then those people in wheelchairs who need transportation are simply screwed. But nobody at Uber cares, of course, because the company is run by complete jerks.
Right there on the github page.

https://github.com/bloomberg/bucklescript#more-examples
I think that was the point of the analogy -- to illustrate how silly it is to compare the two based on that. They are different mediums. Books are books, and ebooks are ebooks.
Not an expert. My guess is that it is about ranking available slots. Like given a wealth of available times for you to do X task, what makes some block X more "optimal" than block Y?

Also there's some constraint satisfaction. You probably don't want to do your thing twice in one day. You probably don't want to do it during established office hours. Maybe you want your framework to learn what office hours are (to implicitly support people without that office lifestyle). And you want to aim for having something be done N times a week.

Also, you can use the times that tasks are actually completed as feedback into new suggestions. I.e. if historically you've committed to your hobby every Tuesday night, then we should be that you will continue to do that, ergo, keep scheduling for Tuesday night. Similarly, Defer actions for the same times of day could be taken as an anti-signal (i.e. office hours).
Who made this game? hahahahah
Mac positives:

- searching... sweet sweet searching magic

- reloading your state after reboot magic

Mac negatives:

- Mac hotkeys... slowly drives you insane, remapping doesn't work, 1/3 applications won't respect it or are broken by it.

- Finder / file manager is just awful. Awful. I could probably argue Win 3.1 file manager is better.

- not a Linux UNIX core...

It drives me nuts that desktop OS isn't a solved problem, given how many people use it and how much CPU horsepower exists to emulate the crufty old stuff. Why Google never grabbed Linux and made a genuinely usable desktop OS is beyond me.
As a non-vegetarian (for now), my standpoint is that I/we should try as hard as possible to ensure that the sourcing of food is sustainable, humane and ethical for the animals involved. In the usual agricultural animals this is usually straightforward and easy as a consumer — think organically-fed, free-range chickens.

I agree with you that social norms (esp. in your dog/pig example) put irrational values on propensity to use certain animals for meat, when we use intelligence as a deciding factor. But my point was less about intelligence of an animal being the deciding factor of whether or not I eat it, but really about how my grief for that animal intensifies when I find out it has been mistreated, and especially when used in 'delicacy' cooking (my sushi example where the mistreatment of squid can be painful to watch).[0]

There's something inherently saddening in thinking that an animal who has the ability to 'escape' from its tank and slide down a drain pipe back into its habitat could be re-caught and sliced up into little bits in front of tourists. If we know it's that intelligent, then what is going through its mind? — Perhaps we should wait for better AI so we can run a neural net and figure it out! ...But would that be unethical, too?... Uh oh, I'm not going down this rabbit hole tonight. ;)

[0] — NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkAqdh_kLbs
"I'm not out to destroy someone's career, I'm just calling his actions one of the least sensible professional situations I’ve ever been involved with. On my very influential blog."
Our society has decided that there are a number of drastic consequences for cannibalism and murder. If someone honestly was ok with all of them including things like telling the persons' family and spending their life in jail for the cost of a meal, then that's fine.

Note that my conditions make people on the hook for everything - the treatment of the workers that prepared the food, the environmental impact of delivering it, the treatment of the animals constituting the food, the health effects of choosing what to eat ... all of that.
It was obvious to a great number of other diagnostics firms that this technology was hard to scale down.

I was at one of those firms 25 years ago and they were working on it back then. Either they abandoned the effort, or are still trying, but they haven't launched a single microfluidic immunoassay.
1. The idea of a meta-bot that the OP puts forward doesn't require user to add any bot. If user had to add every bot manually then it takes away a key advantage of a meta-bot. One bot to rule them all.

From what I (mis)understood, a meta-bot would internally have "friended" other bots and user only adds the meta-bot and interacts with the meta-bot which then sends the queries to its friended bots. Though now that I think about it I probably did misunderstand it. :)
Is there a Rust->C compiler? (I'm on phone or would check myself). That seems like it would provide the best of both worlds, no?
> I'm a founder/director, and have 40 people directly dependent on me keeping going for their livelihoods

Don't think making yourself literally insane is the best way to help those people.

I'll second the recommendation of stopping with the coffee. And seek help. (And no, choices do exist - we are not completely free, but not completely unfree either. You can make your life better.)
They're not surprised by that. They are surprised when one of the rules that has held true for the eternity of cities: that you can be semi-anonymous in a crowd, is no longer true.
The fascinating life of Elon Musk, captured in one giant infographic
Google Chrome 50 Released with Wayland Support
This is huge. Finalization of the module loader spec is usually what's cited as the last remaining blocker for full implementation of modules in V8 [1]. Combined with HTTP2 being available nearly everywhere [2] and native ES6 support soon reaching most mainstream browsers [3], it means that web developers will soon be able to drop a large portion of the current JS stack, including spriting, Webpack, and Babel.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=1569

[2] http://caniuse.com/#search=http2

[3] https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
The book is the "Liar's poker" for startups. Biased, cynical take, but worth a read if you are into startups / > 30 / work for an unicorn startup.

I am disappointed with the post above, they did not address the FBI part of the question. What did Cranium do to get fired? How badly did they mess up Dan Lyons' life?
> why there are still people that enjoy working as if their computers are using a 25 year old developer experience.

The carbon footprint is much nicer.
> the amount of books still not available as ebooks

And the retarded pricing. Its regularly at the same or higher as mass paperback. Unless shipping costs have turned negative thats just bullsht.
> I am not really confident, but I think it's a close up of a cat.

Hello kitty: http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/024/750/i02/tarantula-...
An investor who also has at the very least a strong personal motivation in proving that SV and YC are capable of creating value in "hard tech": http://blog.samaltman.com/hard-tech-is-back
Innocuousness is not a transitive property of shared data. Any individual act of sharing may be OK, but if everybody does the same, then it's easy for much more insidious things to happen.

You can't generalize from the particular to the whole because large differences in quantity add up to qualitative differences, and machine processing makes laborious correlations and connections easy to tease out.

There's similar problems with automated number plate recognition, public CCTV, non-cash transactions, etc. They all add up to massive potential privacy violations despite being fairly innocent in isolation.

Give someone your phone number, and they can't do much more than phone you. Give them a phone book, and they can phone someone given a name and address. Give them a phone book's worth of data in CSV, and they can deanonimize phone call records. Give them a list of phone numbers that have e.g. called a suicide helpline, and now they know the names and addresses of people who are likely to kill themselves. Without machine processing (i.e. with a book rather than CSV), this would be difficult; without people sharing the relatively innocuous detail of their phone number, it wouldn't be possible (leaving social engineering aside).
...optical scanning to read the results (what else might you use?)

There's been some research into using piezoelectric elements coated with antigen or other reactive surfaces.

A positive result (meaning antibodies are attaching themselves to the substrate) would change the resonant frequency of the surface.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003267000...
Space initiative of Facebook with Stephen Hawking to explore stars
This describes almost exactly the world of the video game Watch Dogs. Didn't necessarily use a photo though, just a connection to the other person's phone.

In the world of the video game, people did adapt to it. However, there was a faction that actively tried to destroy that system.
Software development through visual collaboration
And how is this sexism? Or are you suggesting they professors should treat women differently?
I was half way through the article before realizing the author was female. She could have been anyone, and have the same issues. And then we find out the professor encouraged her.
That would make the lender lose money.
Well, this bug took down the entire system. What happens when self-driving software hits a similar bug? I don't think that there is any precedent for that sort of thing with manually driven cars. The scale could easily be larger than 100-car pile-ups due to poor weather conditions.
I posted a photo of Just Read The Instructions, got: "I am not really confident, but I think it's a yellow motorcycle.".

-.-
For one thing, such a scenario would typically involve the uploading of said picture or facial data or faceprint data to a third party. You have no idea how that third-party will use and/or share the information.

Some people will not have a public profile picture but they too could be subjected to it.
No, the traditional cab companies do not have to cover this market by law. I am aware of only one cab company in the DFW area (Yellow) that offers wheelchair vans as an option. A quick search shows that there are plenty of cab companies around the US that do not have wheelchair capabilities at all.

Also, for the record, small cab companies were allies of Uber here in Dallas.
I live in France, I have a one-month total break twice a year.
Search in ‪#‎Samba‬ and ‪#‎SuseLinux‬ security bulletins with vulners.com
Only those with the title "Director" are board members. Only about 3 people are directors. None of those you mentioned are directors just advisors.
"Seriously, $50K/yr tuition for Stanford? my undergrad would cost less than two Teslas."

This might be a nitpick, but this is a bad analogy. If you have $50k * 4 years sitting around to pay for it, sure, it's probably worth it. That's not how it works, though.

You have a giant pool of 17-18 year old kids with 0 assets and minimal skills. These kids, in general, need to borrow to go to school. If they have to borrow $50k/year for 4 years, that's $200k in loans, plus they graduate with accumulated interest over those 4 years.

The better analogy would be selling an 18 year old kid getting a loan for a $200k car that they get in 4 years. Where this isn't accurate is that after 4 years, you can repossess the car if they don't make payments. With a college degree, there is no tangible asset. If the kid decides after 4 years that he wants a bicycle, he can turn in the car. If after 4 years at Stanford, a person decides to do something that doesn't pay the bills, now what do you do?

And, since the loan is up-front, all of this risk has to be accounted for. Right now it means saying that the loans can't (easily) be discharged. To me this seems somewhat fair, with the argument being that nobody forced the kid to go to Stanford (pay $200k for the Porsche), they could have gone to some state school (the used honda civic).
I think there's plenty of evidence to question their honesty as a company :-P

You're right there are a few labs they do on commercial hardware that does work, and I think they're allowed to provide a test (for Herpes I think? could be wrong on specific test) that is inherently based on very small sample sizes. As I recall though, none of those tests use any new tech at all, and if it's an old blood test then it's not going to require less sample, therefore not that much less painful re. needles anyway.

Take that all away and you have a nice app and pricing experience. Pluses to be sure, and I'd love those things to happen more in medicine, but not very innovative or well positioned to take down $10B megacorps.

Lab tests aren't 100% reliable either, it's true. But the nature of that unreliability is understood and the value of the resulting tests are well established to be related to a clinical outcome. The main criticism of Theranos is that they never put themselves to that kind of test or scrutiny.
As as doctor I can attest that all these surveys and linked to them Medicare payments (ala HCAHPS Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey, also known as Hospital CAHPS), have really detrimental effects on health care delivery and morale of doctors and nurses. Government BS at its worst!
But these are super punches by the boss that may knock the player out in one hit, so it isn't a common punch for the boss to use. If I remember correctly, the timing and number of times the super punch is used is loosely based on how well you are doing. I remember feeling that if you are winning handily the super punches come out sooner and more often.

I would suppose an easy test is to go the full round without attacking the boss and see if that spectator does the head nod at any point other than during the super punch.
Bitly is using Let's Encrypt to support SSL on branded short domains
I agree, a substantial premium attaches to all of these points. The differential between that premium (Gold, diamonds, R&D and Swiss labour) and the price used to be relatively small.

There is a magnificent analysis of this process of "luxurification" here : http://www.ablogtowatch.com/rolex-prices-past-60-years-revea...
Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed Man Control His Hand
yes. was paying about 10 cents a click back then.
This is the sort of blog post I'd write :-)

My spidey-sense for business works like this (probably wrongly); as a geek I assume it's normal for investors to screw me over if I haven't done due diligence of contracts and also for every single former employee to come back if there is a chance for a pay day.

It's sad but I don't find it that surprising; I'm surprised we don't hear about this more.
As a fan of Vsauce, CGP, and several conference channels (JSConf) this looks promising. I definitely see the value in having live chat alongside the video.

But instead of YouTube videos, I think this is a better fit for watching shows like Netflix/Hulu live (not sure if they allow embedding). I regularly tune into new episodes on Hulu - this would fit perfectly.
"Great, I'm excited to start. I've still got some other interviews lined up, I'm going to keep going with those until we sign the offer letter and get a firm start date."
Run, don't walk, from cofounders who refuse a cliff.
Take my $1000 genome, please
You don't need self driving cars for such a scenario to happen -- cars are increasingly drive by wire, and driver assistance features being added to cars (automatic lane keeping, automatic breaking, smart cruise control, etc) mean computers are already capable of taking over cars.
In my opinion you still can. What makes this possible? You need a database linking images to names, as well as the face-recognition data.

People are freely giving away the images for the database linking it all to further personal data. If they did not do this, creating such a database would still be a massive surveillance effort, albeit probably still possible if someone really wanted to do it and had the sufficient resources.

I say it's still possible to stay anonymous if you want to.
> Sure, the books couldn't sit on a real actual shelf, but do they really need to to be understood as books?

If Cooper is to be believed, then yes, we should.

> The current configuration allows for three separate moments of understanding: recognizing the symbol, seeing the letters, and then seeing the books.

If there had been no pretense to the second two elements being recognizable, then it would be no problem. Abstract symbols are more than acceptable. The issue arises when designers invent a story about a representation which is hardly represented at all. Until it is explained, most readers will not get to step two or three.

> Ultimately, its important to remember that the logo is neither the brand nor a stand alone work of art. It is only a part of a system.

True, and yet it's still important to design the logo intentionally for when there is no contextual system. If the logo is to be abstract, great. If not, that's also great. But no one should fool themselves about where they are on that spectrum.

> I think ultimately the pitfall of the don't make me think school of design is that it is susceptible to joyless, by the numbers design but I understand its utility. Also, ironically, one could probably say the same thing about modernist design.

Absolutely. I don't count myself as a member of the former school. I assert designers should merely be honest about their intentions.

> Your article brings up some interesting points and valid criticisms, but I just don't personally agree with all of your values when it comes to design.

That's the fun of it!
I personally would be pretty disgusted if someone used it on me. If someone doesn't remember my name or their last interaction with me, maybe it's for the best. The last thing I need is people faking nice and friendly after they just scanned me without my consent.
You can also do

import * as jquery from '/js/jquery/jquery.js';

or maybe better, set up your server-side rewrite rules so that instead of that you do

import * as jquery from '/js/jquery';