skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My level of depression while walking outside significantly reduced once I moved away from San Jose.

San Jose has a beauty reminiscent of Houston, Texas or Melbourne, Australia.
MSDOS 5 used to come with QBASIC. Nibbles and Gorillas were great games and they included all the source code.

I used to play Gorilla's all the time when I was a kid. That was how I learnt about angles. My Dad drew a picture for me "This is 90 degrees, This is 45 degrees" it used to sit beside the computer.

I learnt a lot about programming from the DOS environment come to think of it. Our home PC used to have a text based menu program it would boot into. In order to add a program to the menu you needed to edit it, using something like a markup language. My Dad used to sit over my shoulder and talk me through adding programs to the menu.
They sure bankrolled the heck out of the Iraq War, didn't they? To the tune of around $80 billion starting in 2003.
Source: I'm a teacher in Texas.

Here is the payscale for my district: https://docs.google.com/a/roundrockisd.org/file/d/0B13hERGxq...

Each district determines its own payscale. That's no different than a union state. Teachers in Boston have a different payscale than teachers in Springfield, MA even though they are both part of the MTA.

CTE Teachers (Career and Technical Education) do get a $2000 stipend but they also have an extra week of work plus extracurricular duties during the school year, so it's not just "extra money".

There is no negotiating over salary or benefits.

"Employees are paid in accordance with administrative guidelines and an established pay structure. The District’s compensation plan is reviewed by Human Resource Services each year to include comparisons with other districts, an analysis of market data, as well as cost of living information. The compensation plan is adjusted as data dictates and the budget allows. The Board of Trustees approves the compensation plan on an annual basis."[1]

This is the Dallas pay schedule: http://www.nctq.org/docs/DISD_2015-2016_Salary_Handbook_FINA... (page 9)

They do pay more in Dallas but there still is no negotiation over your salary.

It looks like Dallas is replacing the "years of service" schedule with a pay-for-performance schedule (page 8) where your salary is adjusted up or down according to "performance, student achievement and student perception surveys."[2] That went into effect last year, I believe. I wouldn't be surprised to see that spread.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B13hERGxqDqDR19OcW1WRHpEd0U... (page 15)
[2] http://tei.dallasisd.org/current-teachers-2/
> In 1985, fresh from moving the Macintosh to the x86 processor family, Steve Jobs asked Intel to fabricate the processor that would inspirit the future iPhone.

2005 maybe?
This post made me realize the human effort behind all of these tools that I use and love like SSL Labs but I take for granted. Thank you for your work and to all the other free tool authors that go unrecognized.
Before the Iranian revolution, Iran under the Shah was the USA's staunchest regional ally. And before that, the British and Russians spent centuries wrestling over influence inside Iran. There are sound geopolitical reasons to court Iranian friendship, and undoubtedly the days of Anglo-Persian cooperation will someday return. Though perhaps after regime change.
This is inline with what Stanford professor John Ousterhout says about the evolution (and necessary death) of software :

"The most important component of evolution is death
Or, said another way, it's easier to create a new organism than to change an existing one. Most organisms are highly resistant to change, but when they die it becomes possible for new and improved organisms to take their place. This rule applies to social structures such as corporations as well as biological organisms: very few companies are capable of making significant changes in their culture or business model, so it is good for companies eventually to go out of business, thereby opening space for better companies in the future.
Computer software is a counter-example to this rule, with ironic results. Software is incredibly malleable: it can be updated with new versions relatively easily to fix problems and add new features. It is easier to change existing software than to build new software, so software tends to live a long time. To a first approximation, software doesn't die (compare this to the hardware in a computer, which is completely repaced every few years). At the same time, it is difficult to make major structural improvements to software once it has been shipped, so mistakes in early versions of the program often live forever. As a result, software tends to live too long: just good enough to discourage replacement, but slowly rotting away with more and more problems that are hard to fix. I wonder if the overall quality of computer software would improve if there were a way of forcing all software to be replaced after some period of time."

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-profound-life-lesson...
I don't know what is going on here but my bet is it has more to do with rich people doing tricky stuff with money than a vote of confidence in Yahoo, its products or potential to make money

If I was saddled with a dinosaur like Yahoo I would split it up and try and get some cash then rename what was left and I still think you would just be delaying the inevitable. The Yahoo name has about as much value as Netscape or Novell. It pretty much says outdated, failed technology company that has been overtaken by the competition.
Every city has its underbellies and backsides -- most of them for more unappealing and unsalvageable than SF's. Meanwhile, very few large cities in North America (and I've been to basically all of them) have much to compare with in terms of architecture, character (up until the current boom, anyway) and charm.

And in terms of the stunning beauty of its geographic surroundings -- precisely none of them.

On balance there's basically no contest.
Not sure I like the idea of a vigilante groups having a large influence on society any more than large banks.
RIP twitter
Threads can absolutely help you in an I/O-bound system where concurrency is possible and desirable - specifically, in a RAID environment. (You can't max out RAID throughput with a single thread - try it.)
Why does that make GAAP deceptive?
You can now get those instructions in concise form from the simple widget at https://certbot.eff.org.

Let us know if there are any tweaks you'd like to see made to them (or send a PR to https://github.com/certbot/website, the instructions are in _scripts/instruction-widget)
What I think is that education systems will evolve eventually that will be a reality for the ordinary person.

Text from educational materials can be optimized for readability, and explanations/illustrations can be enhanced to be more interactive and immersive (e.g: VR).
SF, a city so keenly aware of environmental issues that we built a dam in a national park to get some water.
Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source
> a race to the bottom in quality?

There's your issue.
Certbot supports both use cases; "certonly" stops after getting the cert; "run" installs it if there's a plugin available for your webserver.
Yup, open offices primary benefit is surveillance and control. Management is happy to sacrifice individual productivity for more control over workers.

Surveillance is a useful tool for sucking surplus value from our minds. Open offices make ordinary workers (slackers) uncomfortable because of constant surveillance by management, but work isn't about making workers content. Work is about dominating workers so they produce.

An added benefit of the panopticon pen is that it's harder for devs to slack, sabotage, and organize. A watched worker is an easily controlled worker.
GAAP contains a whole host of components that describe the company, not just profit. The reason they have that market valuation is because investors can see all of the other components of their business which describe a much more favourable outlook.

I can make any company's market value look ridiculous if I hand pick just 1 component in GAAP.
From the article:

> corporations exist to make money.

I'm so tired of hearing this. Contrast this with Steve Jobs's quote:

"My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products . . . the products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything."
Sticking the free in a destructor doesn't help you at all with memory safety, it just makes it easier to avoid leaks.

Simple rules are, again according to the evidence, not good enough. There are simple rules you can follow in C as well. The benefit of Rust (as far as memory safety goes) is that the compiler enforces those rules.

In fact, the mechanism by which it does this (lifetimes) is typically what makes Rust seem more complicated to beginners. But the fact is, that complication is still there in C and C++, the compiler just lets you deal with it all on your own.
No one deserves to fail because of challenges they couldn't have anticipated in the future.

We call that "learning".
I'm talking about the SF of 2016, not 1923.
Setting up a build watcher in Grunt/Gulp/etc is really worth the time savings, especially if you use Live Reload. I make a change to a file in vim, and the page reloads with the new build.
JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
> both are probably similarly identifiable

OkCupid's data has to be identifiable because of the nature of their service. Reddit accounts don't need real data. I doubt they are similarly identifiable in the common case.

However, this isn't very important. Regardless of how personally identifiable the data is, it is extremely rude to use it without specific consent.

> What's the significant difference?

They data was provided for dating purposes, not research. Context and intent matter. Maybe someone doesn't want to give data to that research, for any reason. Or maybe they do and would be willing to provide more data to the research if asked.

> prohibit research institutions

The same would apply to anybody using the data for a different purpose. The data was provided under a certain context, for a purpose.

> pulling data if they can in a way that doesn't violate any usage agreements or user expectation.

Why isn't asking permission the first step? Just take the data because nobody has legally prohibited that specific situation? That's how bad regulation happens. Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean it's a good idea. When enough people get pissed off about bad behavior, they tend to pass laws or regulations (which may or may not actually fix the problem).

TL;DR - "This is why we can't have nice things."
What does this have to do with how successful Apple's computing business in the outside world?
> Iran still funds terror groups, much like Saudi Arabia.

The US itself also founds terror groups. The more interesting question is, when was the last time an Iran backed terror group blow up anything in the US or Europe?
The title seems misleading. People with marijuana in their bloodstream != stoned drivers. Marijuana use is detectable for a long time past the point of impairment and the data only reflects that they HAVE used marijuana vs being stoned at the point of driving.

Maybe instead of breathalysers and drug detection kits we should have standardised attention/reaction tests to determine if someone is safe to drive (you could probably even run them on a tablet). This would also weed out (pun intended) tired drivers.
Wood and concrete are perfectly valid for low rise construction. It isn't exactly "cheap" but reasonable. In fact, wood is much better than concrete in handling earth quakes.

If it wasn't for earth quakes, you can get up to about 30 or so floors with concrete, which is the standard in China (a bit overbuilt on wall/floor thickness, but quality is less than the states). Anything higher, you should go with steel, and anyways, I'm guessing steel is standard for high rise construction in earth quake prone areas, right? The biggest problem with steel is that the skills needed to work it are much greater, so you can't just through surplus farmer labor at it (which is why China doesn't use it very often).
Symantec/Norton Antivirus Remote Heap/Pool Memory Corruption CVE-2016-2208
Yes certbot-auto should work on Raspbian 7 but note you'll need a large swap file enabled in order for it to succeed at building the recent version of python-cryptography that it depends on:

https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/1081

This is resolved by .deb packages; they're available in jessie-backports, but I'm not sure if/when those will ever make it to Raspberry Pi land.
I'd be inclined to think this would be successful if Google used it internally. As a Google Apps admin I spent quite a bit of time arguing with Google product folks about hangouts and Google+ only to find out they didn't use either of the services internally. It's the only way you can explain some of the terrible ideas about either of those products.
Bug 259229 – TLS handshakes fail when DHE params exceed NSS size limits [2004]
Show HN: Feeling Lucky button to open up the cheapest taxi app
This is nice. But I still think platform features in WebKit such as webrtc and fewer bugs in indexeddb would be a better place for them to focus... Service workers too
Amazon goes open source with machine-learning tech
I don't see the regime in London changing anytime soon.
Mega-companies will only ever end up eventually creating a G+. 300 smaller companies each doing a few things well. That is true growth.

Every time you use the word "growth" to describe "success", you will find that you only have new mouths to feed.﻿
Exactly. As usual, it's some overhyped BS about a publicity stunt. These banks make their money on investments, loans, transaction fees, and non-transaction fees. Mainly. They didn't disrupt any of that.

Instead, some working to middle class IT people were running around panicking about what to do given their management didn't care about DDOS mitigation. Past that, nothing happened, banks kept making money, and rich are still rich while probably never hearing about this. Stuff like this from Anonymous actually shows how resilient elites are despite activists with more weapons and tech than ever. Quite the opposite of their goal.

Note: If they disagree, they can feel free to bring all the Goldman and government crooks to justice for 2008. The names of certainly guilty parties are known. Let them use their activist and hacking power to put Goldman's elites in bankruptcy and stock at nothing. I predict they'll stay rich and working hard on next, profitable crisis. ;)
But then you lose control, and that's a lot more valuable than money.
Github interestingly used to be profitable "We bootstrapped the company on a few thousand dollars and became profitable the day we opened to the public and started charging for subscriptions."

They seem to have ditched that for the VC funded, hire loads of people, swing for the fences model.

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/03/29/ten-lessons-from-gi...
American bill money
San Francisco looks positively pro-development compared to places like Palo Alto. At least they allow townhomes, not requiring detached houses with large lots. If more of the Peninsula were even near SF levels of density, the housing issues would be a lot less severe.
My problem in the open office plan is that I can't wear headphones for extended (or even short) periods without my tinnitus getting set off.
Alchemy? http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/entity-extraction
Media attention is often driven by raising and spending VC money, rather than running a profitable operation.
I think the "sabotage" techniques suggested by the author actually benefit companies whose main product is built by intellectual labor. Companies care a great deal about controlling workers: to get them in line, to squeeze labor from them, to weed out motivated folks whose interests don't align with profit, to shut down rabble-rousers, etc. Since the dawn of work, workers have resisted working, and Agile, etc. are just the new strategies management use to control this new group of creative workers.

I wish the author had addressed worker sabotage too. More on that here: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/manual-override/
Yes i understand what your point is. I do not need to know/remember certain rules because compiler is doing this for me in Rust, my point is that if someone knows those rules in C++ and have good static analyzer he can get similar safety.

I will try third time with Rust, i just feel sometimes like in shackles in Rust, i would like to say to compiler hey i know what i am doing, like i can do in C++.
> Nobody thinks it's ok to drive with a BAC of 0.4 but 0.04 is generally considered legal.

Unfortunately, even 0.04 can get you arrested in California.

The BAC limit is simply when the DMV automatically pulls your license. You can be convicted of DWI/DUI at any BAC in California.

Now, you aren't likely to get pulled over at BAC less than 0.05, but if you do get pulled over, you can still get convicted for it.
Simplifying the Chinese Room
Fsociety.
Fantastic project! The resources are very nice. Thanks for posting them.
>"But the point regarding cancer is that it just really ISN'T a single disease."

No, this is just a recent meme people started repeating because it said in a documentary or something. It is just as much "one disease" as many other medical issues grouped together as "one disease".

It is an awful meme too, because it discourages looking at commonalities and gives poorly performing researchers an excuse for not figuring anything out. Both of which slow the process of understanding cancer.
You beat me to the best examples. Especially GE. Anyone acting like big companies can't innovate haven't really done any research at all. I'd also cite the major defense contractors like Honeywell, SAIC, Lockheed, and Boeing. They do plenty of dumb stuff that basically generates jobs and bribes but a good chunk of their work requires smart people inventing new stuff. Maybe Siemens, too, along the same lines.

Also, thinking of the various jokes, how big is IKEA? Just their assemblies and pallets probably should be considered innovation in some way haha.
Kissing their ass suggests they're getting more from the relationship than America which - while certainly not impossible - seems an odd assumption to make.
Since Australia is a few major cities and many many small towns, even 22% is a pretty remarkable number.

That said, that oddly traditional roadtrip from Adelaide to Melbourne is 727km (451 miles), so not the kind of trip you're going to be able to take in your Tesla.
Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Procurement Consultants to Register as Lobbyists
We considered it 12 months ago, but there wasn't yet a compelling Python GraphQL backend.

Our architecture has quickly evolved in that direction however: Higher-order React components mediating almost-declarative store accesses with all the back-end fetching, optimistic updating, etc handled transparently by common store logic. All objects within a store are flattened down into an id -> object immutable map with conventions for indicating a given object is loading, loaded, in-error, etc.

We'll be having another serious look at it soon. It will be interesting to see if we'll have an impedance mismatch between how we've built our data model on the backend such that GraphQL isn't a good abstraction. The idea of being able to declaratively express what you want to have in a given React component without having to write any store logic, etc, is super compelling.
Threat is poor word choice. If blockchains don't provide good distributed service, then they simply won't be used, in which case they aren't much a threat. Maybe author should have use the thesis that blockchains aren't the end-all-be-all of the distributed internet.
https://xkcd.com/932/
Iran is nominally government by the people for the people, including guaranteed Jewish representation in parliament(!) and elections that don't appear to be completely rigged. This makes them a considerably more natural ally in the Middle East than almost any of the other states.
Hardly anyone talks about revenue as being part of the "worth" of a tech company (maybe with retail, that makes sense). The Apple stock analogy is dead-on.
Great anecdotes! I still have a real soft spot for 68000. It's definitely the IS that made this whole "how computers work" thing make sense to me, and I still often imagine what my programs are doing in terms of what they'd be doing in the 68000 world, even though I know it's actually x86_64 (or ARM, on my phone).

Question for you, if you happen to come back to this: what's the best documentation on ARM that you've found? Every time I try to find some, it seems like I'm supposed to pay for a license, and I get confused.
It was a Bloomberg article[1] of rather disappointing quality. The authors apparently just took the market values of BABA and Yahoo! Japan, multiplied by Yahoo!'s percentage stake, added some unsourced number for cash and assets, and arrived at -$8 billion. They even included the statement, "The implication: Everything you think of as Yahoo—apps, websites, employees, computers, buildings—has a negative value."

It's terribly sloppy logic that led to this, as a pass through Yahoo!'s balance sheet[2] demonstrates. "Long-term Investments", which I presume includes their stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan, is listed as $34B (not the $38B in the article). Adding all other assets gets to a grand total of $44.1B. However, that is gross asset value, not book value. Now you have to take off the liabilities. Yahoo! apparently has $13 billion in deferred income tax on the books. It has about $13B in other liabilities, cutting its book value to about $28.4B and giving Yahoo! a price/book ratio of 1.21, not 0.81 as that analysis erroneously concluded.

You can't just compare gross assets to stock price and expect anything meaningful, and you sure as hell can't compare the values of a couple cherry-picked assets that sum up greater than the net equity and claim the entire rest of the business is worth a negative amount. I find it pretty shameful that Bloomberg actually published that clickbaity bullshit.

Yahoo!'s problem right now is not that their traditional businesses are unprofitable. Their problem is the massive liabilities they have on their books.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-yahoo/

[2] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AYHOO&fstype=ii&ei=...
"Long standing" makes me think it's an open issue, but it was closed as WontFix the same day it was filed, in 2009.
You don't need to grow to provide a decent dividend to shareholders. You just need to reliably produce a profit. If your dividend represents an acceptable ROI it doesn't particularly matter if you are not growing.

Of course having a good dividend AND capital growth would be desirable but shareholders won't complain too loud about a company that just spits out dividends year after year.
Imo, it shows that, like many of us, they don't really understand why Twitter became so popular. That being the case, they don't know what they can and cannot safely change.
NAKED: I’m Going Naked for the Sake of Beauty and Humanity
Another speculators' playground!
>Me: "Are you suggesting Haskell can generate object files, shared objects, and binaries for my systems without compiling to C or C++ first?"

You: "Of course, that's what ghc does by default."

And it does that. And that has nothing to do with the random nonsense about magic and knowing nothing about formats you made up afterwards. Your dishonesty is remarkable.

>Unless you can explain how me naming the systems I support has any relationship to whether or not some Haskell implementation has the ability to generate human-readable C code?

It has a pretty serious relationship to whether or not some haskell implementation has the ability to generation objects and libraries and binaries for it. You know, the thing you are still harping on dishonestly?