skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
call it competition then. it'll become higher and salaries are lower.
Cheaters definitely rationalize. I myself never had anyone else sit exams for me, nor used anyone else's work as my own, nor copied homework answers. I think cheating is common but there are definitely people who don't do it. You just don't hear much about them.
Is this not basically what Autopilot is doing for driving in general?
I thought it was illegal to videotape and audiorecord someone without their knowledge?
Sure. But the bet on finding something paid off when others would not have made the journey. The outcome was something nobody expected. They were both wrong.
Interesting, but the open source SkyDB seems to be dead:

https://twitter.com/benbjohnson/status/590626780173721601
It was still a gamble where the outcome was entirely unexpected. They were both wrong about their expectations: finding the indes, or finding nothing and running out of resources.
Please wait, updates are being applied... :D
Seattle isn't in the top ten on any list in either of these categories. Doesn't mean it isn't great there but that's not what your saying.
Nice! I've been wanting a tool to do exactly this for years.

Trying it out now. One question, what does the "training brush" do? Everything else is intuitive so far.

Edit: Just tried this out on a song with acoustic guitar + vocals. Worked OK. There's lots of bleed between the tracks, but they are separated to a decent degree.
I wonder whether Hogan/Bollea was advised by "his" counsel about the ramifications of dropping one of the pieces of litigation - a piece that would have increased the ability for Bollea to collect that damage award.

As it happens the particular tort that was dropped was the only one that would allow Gawker to use their insurance to cover the liability of the verdict awarded.

Thiel's goal is to destroy Gawker. A Gawker that is less able to pay out a verdict (because the verdict was $100M, but Gawker's revenue is only around $40M/yr) is going to go bankrupt, versus potentially staying in business if their insurer pays out.

What's Bollea's goal? To destroy Gawker? Or achieve recompense? Or indeed both?

Given that the counsel used by Bollea in this case is the same lawyer/law firm that Thiel is also channeling significant other money - and clients - to, for exactly the same thing, how clear is it exactly who the firm's client _really_ is - Bollea, or Thiel?

And if Bollea and Thiel's goals are not the same (because as Thiel says, Bollea couldn't afford to do this himself), whose is going to take priority? Was Bollea briefed on the consequences of dropping this part of the suit (thus risking the ability for him to be paid/paid as much)?

If so, was he okay with it? Is he expecting external compensation? Do the lawyers have a conflict of interest here? Is Bollea a knowledgeable/willing partner, or a semi or wholly uninformed pawn?

However reprehensible Gawker is in this, there absolutely a wide crevice where there are perfectly valid ethical questions about Thiel's involvement and motivations in this whole debacle.
Do people actually defend the Fappening? I mean, I expect they are happy it happened, but that they know, deep down, that it was wrong. Kind of like peeking at your neighbor undressing through the curtains or what not.

Am I being too optimistic again?
I think support is still new, but F# runs on .NET Core which will give you much better performance and have more support going forward than Mono.

It also has "modern" node-style command line tooling and is hosted on Github for easy community contribution.
I did this recently when I noticed a way into a company customer database that had name/address/phone/purchases. Initially I contacted 3 different employees who I had emails addresses and nothing happened. Some months later when I saw nothing changed I contacted the CEO on Linkedin. Surprisingly he wrote to me saying thanks and this was really bad, rather than the expected no response or legal nothing to say response. He also said someone would be in contact to thank we and then some days later I got a call from the CIO who asked 'what do you think I should do to fix'... very strange call.

Most importantly I made sure on the email sent to the company clearly stated I had accidently found this error in their systems, only told them and worded it in a way that if by small chance they went legal on me I would post the correspondence on social media (they are several very large brands) and get the relevant attention that would likely make them back off.

I aslo found one that I feel is, while less relevant, a breach of data trust with Google but they believe this is a 'feature': I posted about this one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10591980

Personally I find it strange Google would confirm an email address exists and share my first/last name with anyone.
I can speak to F# being a joy to program in, though I have not yet taken the plunge into transpiling it to javascript yet. Websharper is another option you can look at for that, which may be more nicely integrated.

.NET Core is coming to Linux soon and will give you another option for compiler/runtime which will be good. Performance will be better, but mono has been working fine for me so far.
Xenophobia is defined (by one source) as "intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries."

Maybe comparing this commenter to "a lot of people who don't want brown people" is ham fisted and inaccurate.

The commenter seems more interested in the culture, the freakiness or weirdness, of the people who come in, and not so much which country they came from. I do not see where the commenter mentioned race or skin color.
no... more like a white supremacist paid $20 to a bunch of foreign "SEO" hackers who cross linked any data they could to protect the original white supremacist.

i guess you'd have to be a white person to understand.
It's a LOT of work to open-source something which has been evolving at a huge pace and is as complex as the Realm core.

Even just announcing the work of the Xamarin C# team that I'm on got some complaints from the public about this representing a "loss of focus". So yes, you could say there was a "business reason" of protecting the core team whilst they got to 1.0.

If you look at the C++ portions included in most of the Realm open source you can see we have moved code gradually into the open source codebase. There's not yet an official C++ API either for the same reason - it would lock in too many decisions and tie up the team.
(disclaimer - these are opinions and observations from a remote contractor, not Realm management!)
Ask HN: Who is renting? (May 2016)
>certainly the best legal system in the world

Citation/argument needed
what correlation between GPA and performance? Has one ever been found?

Google has not found one.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-hires-people-2013-...
Large radio antennas can create electromagnetic pulses like what you'd get from a nuke blast. I lived not too far from a site that tested them[1][2]. Just before it was decommissioned there were a lot of news articles written about how they did the testing. I can't find any photos now, but they're out there somewhere.

It's now a wildlife refuge..

[1]: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/woodbridge.h...
[2]: http://eservice.pwcgov.org/library/digitallibrary/hsdw/A_Fol...
VCs can make millions from owning houses.

They can make billions from funding startups.
The issue is that Bollea dropped a part of the lawsuit that would have allowed the award to be paid out by the insurer - that reduces both the likelihood and amount of money that Bollea will receive, on the face of it, acting in a manner contrary to his own best interest, and in Thiel, lawsuit financier's, stated interests.
> I chose my words carefully

Not carefully enough. "Or the meds are working" was a nasty cheap shot and more than enough reason to flag your comment.

I've had to ask you repeatedly to stop posting uncivil comments to Hacker News. Perhaps your experience moderating huge forums has blinded you to the differences between those and this one, but please follow the rules here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
People with more resources win more lawsuits. Do you believe that this is because they are more frequently wronged?
Interesting idea. There is a typo in the first question - 'intresting'.
Which is the very definition of a chilling effect, however shitty Gawker's original activities were.

Best hope we don't piss off a m/billionaire who seeks to see us destroyed.
Where on earth did they get Singapore's 47% from? Here's a land-use map: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C3jx_8qnyo0/UQvXDH4ksdI/AAAAAAAABL...

The light green bits are barely a quarter, and a good chunk of that is agricultural (mostly greenhouses), not "wilderness/open space".
It's amazing that any large firm who business heavily relies on security doesn't have some kind of report a bug or bounty system easily findable. This should be as standard as a 404 page.
Yes, this is what Nix offers. You can trivially have have multiple versions of stuff installed without conflicts. Personally, I have multiple versions of the GHC Haskell compiler, Clang/LLVM, Go, Node, etc. In fact, I keep shell.nix file in each of my repositories at work, and all I have to do is $ nix-shell in each project root and -- like magic -- I have all of the compilers/environment-variables/etc setup for work. Meanwhile, outside of that terminal window, my system is untouched.

Nix is quite different from just about any other package manager out there. If there's something that seems unfeasible or impossible, please feel free to ask specific questions to challenge my assertions. Nix is so different that it will be tempting to think "surely he means... no, that can't be possible, he must be mistaken... but how would that work?" Rather than silently thinking those things, please feel free to skip right to asking "how?"

(For more details, see also my long post to your original statement/question)
>The saddest part is, this city kinda sucks. It's not even a good place to locate a business.

San Francisco is the second-densest city in the country, and is one of only a few cities (and the only city in the West) that had a large urban core designed in the pre-car era, which means that its infrastructure is already designed to accomodate dense urban development moreso than any other American city west of Chicago.

Contrary to popular belief, making money in the Bay Area isn't that difficult or unlikely. I think the comparison to a gold rush is more of a meme than a representation of what's actually occurring (>95% of new arrivals are not entrepreneurs).

The good news is that tens of thousands of people from impoverished countries have been able to move here, become US citizens, and live a first-world life they might not have had access to otherwise. The sad part is, they're not cool -- or "weird" -- enough, so they have to live 90 minutes away.
It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be above average. To me, at least.

And given how drivers have gotten WORSE since smart phones hit the scene, I'm ready for these robots right now. I don't feel safe on the roads at all anymore.
Chrome auto added Github search in my url bar - g<Tab>search.
It was too large for the ships Columbus took, provisioned as Columbus provisioned them. And everyone who ridiculed him knew that.

Magellan went out with a larger fleet and two years' provisions laid in.
"Just move to the suburbs" is a solution that sounds fine, but it's really not. Wealthier folks feel entitled to central living because a market economy distributes scarce goods to the wealthiest. But the middle class is perfectly capable of outbidding the rich for housing: they do it by buying cheaper homes on less land. Four middle class families in a fourplex spend more on housing than most Central Austin families, but those are illegal to build. Every single family homeowner got a leg up in the housing market because it was illegal for the middle class to bid against them.

Our affordability crisis is a charade. It was manufactured by selfish people looking out for their own interests without caring about the consequences. They have segregated our cities by income, and pushed people away from jobs and communities that would've improved their lives. Our cities must be desegregated. This injustice must end.
According to a NYT time article [1] they can already do that. I'm sure by this point they can model other vehicles behavior in common situations like this. But ktRolster brings up a good point, there are many situations where a glance is all that is used or needed to signal intent. In the article they mention that at four-way stops they do this by just inching forward and testing the waters, but obviously you don't want to inch forward into a pedestrian or bicycler. Makes me wonder if we might want to standardize the method of communicating intentions to pedestrians across all self-driving cars.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/technology/personaltech/go...
Illegal? Most employment in the US is at-will. You can hire or fire for any reason or none at all, as long as you're not selecting based on race, sex, religion, etc.

Where is it illegal to require a degree in Marketing for a job in Marketing?
Funny, I've been running it on my laptop since Fedora 18 (current on 24 Beta). I might notice it maybe once every few months when a script or some software I'm futzing with tries to do something out of the ordinary:

[jeff@omniscience ~]$ sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: targeted
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Max kernel policy version: 30

And yes, my nick is a throwback to Security Enhanced Linux, but when the next exploit for some common library or software comes out and I'm not affected due to SELinux, I'll smile. Can you say the same?

A few quick examples I pulled up:

https://blog.namei.org/2008/01/08/selinux-mitigates-remote-r...

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/10131.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1xdokz/selinux_saved...
> It was renters living in the Mission who were (not incorrectly) terrified that new development means they will get evicted and displaced.

This is such a bizarre idea.

How exactly do renters get displaced by adding more housing?
>They are productive assets, much like houses produce rent

The rent houses produce is very different from the money robots help you make. Rents (in the economic sense) are good to tax, can't be passed on to the tenant, and has no bad distortionary effects. If you tax robots, and don't do anything else, all that does is raise the prices of the goods produced by robots. It harms the consumer the most. If you tax robots enough, you can incentivize the owners to not use robots and hire humans instead. But then we're missing out on all the benefits of having a society where robots do the hard work, there's got to be a better way.

One solution would be to tax robots, and redistribute the taxed money back to the consumers. Everyone should benefit from the fruits of automation. This would probably work pretty well. The biggest issue here is that the government isn't known for being very good at redistributing tax revenue. So there are proposals like basic income to keep the process as simple as possible. There are probably even better options, like taxing the rents only, and taxing them very highly, and then paying that out as basic income. Theoretically this might target the people you want to be targeting, without harming the consumers. Obviously, theory only goes so far with this kind of thing. I think the point here is that taxation is tricky, and the burden of a tax is not necessarily on the person/company you're taking the money from. So "tax the robots" might not be the best thing, even though it has populist appeal.
I see a myriad of threads about interviews on HN. They all say that you can't really code in an interview. You don't have your favorite tools nor any real projet or familiarity with a codebase. These threads will say that the interview should, at most, be there to help you see if there's a culture fit.

Now you have an interview where the guy asked questions that aren't related to programming and everyone is up in arms. Maybe it's because he did his homework? Maybe he already checked M. Adeagbo work and decided he wanted him in the company?

So now I suppose the interview isn't supposed to be used to check if someone is a good programmer... but it also shouldn't approach any subject that is emotional, because by gosh you wouldn't want to know how someone will react on a sensitive subject.

You guys must have the weirdest social interactions ever. Within an hour of meeting someone I usually "size" them by throwing curved ball designed to see what makes them ticks. That is exactly what I would expect in a well designed interview, especially if you are looking for culture fit.

Frankly, I find that these questions are well designed. Look at how I immediately answered them:

>“Why do all the Black kids sit at the same table at school?”

"Same reason Asians or Whites will do the same thing under the same conditions."

What can we deduce? Not much, except that I'm aware of basic biology/human behavior. Better luck in the next question...

>“Why is it no longer okay to say nr?”

"It is okay, but you need to be of the correct race... and apparently that's not racist. (with a hint of sarcasm)"

Bingo! Now you known that when I talk of sexism and racism, I use the dictionary definition, NOT the new "minorities can't be sexist/racist" version.

And just like that, you know if I'm a good fit. (If it's in SF, probably not...)

>"/dev/color is a community of black software engineers who help one another reach career goals."

This is literally a racist club. ---> A group who discriminates based on race.
Now, I have nothing against that... but you can't say a word if white clubs are created.
It seemed like Imgur has been getting ready for this for awhile. The experience using it hasn't been that great since direct linking stopped working on mobile.
It's surprising that Tesla made that choice.

BMW's anti-collision system is on even during manual driving.[1] BMW will brake even if the driver is pressing the accelerator.
So will Volvo. Top Gear compares the various systems as of 2015.[2] Volvo did best; Mercedes didn't stop soon enough and hit the dummy car. VW's city car only does this up to 18MPH.

Maybe Tesla has a false-alarm problem that BMW and Volvo have overcome.

More to the point, this behavior needs to be standardized, or people shifting from one car to another will do the wrong thing. The National Transportation Safety Board is working on this.[3] In a few years, anti-collision may be as standard as anti-skid is now.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7494989/bmw-i3-self-parking...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHM6PVTjXo
[3] http://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-recs/recletters/H-15-008-0...
TIL people think Gawker Media Group Inc, a Cayman Islands corporation, is entitled to First Amendment protections under United States law.
I am hardly going to google and investigate what is totally culturally irrelevant to me :-)
just thinking out loud here, but since it seems that people with the disease can have a "break through", does that suggest that it's potentially reversible?
Right, exactly - question is how aware of this was Hogan? If he was aware, it's still not great. If he wasn't, that raises significant questions about SLAPP from Thiel, if not malpractice from his lawyers (whose direction are they fallowing, their apparent client, or his financier?).
Not really, unless there's a reason for a more thorough background check/investigation. My thinking was that such a situation would be the sort of thing people would talk about. Investors would be upset if a leak harmed their interests, founders would be pissed about a betrayal, other companies would talk about it as a "this is why we need that clause" anecdote, reporters might stumble on court filings, etc.Word gets around, and in a lot of ways, the startup/tech communities are still small despite their size.

That said, it's just a hypothetical and there would be a lot of factors at play in real life. But if it were at a startup with any sort of profile, or it had well-known investors, I wouldn't bet on the news staying a secret.
> I'm in favor of how "building in the Bay Area is approved by discretion", I call it having some power over what gets built. "Democracy" y'know?

That's what zoning laws are for, which the proposed legislation doesn't affect. The kind of thing Governor Brown wants to get rid of is Nosy Neighbor Syndrome being able to block or stall reasonable development that follows code.

I grew up in the bay area, and it sickens me how many people here are more interested in making sure homes have a front lawn than making sure homes can be affordable to people outside the upper class.
On academic publishing
>acting in a manner contrary to his own best interest

Hogan is a famous, well-liked millionaire[0] already. And he almost certainly doesn't like Gawker.

So maybe he thought, "I can give up some of these millions and these parasites will not publish another damned lie again". In return, he also gets the eternal gratitude of people who hate Gawker (all decent human beings).

Seems like his actions align quite well with his interests.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_Hogan#Finances
Funny isn't it, how some people only have one idea, which is, whenever there's a problem, the culprit is always "too much local oversight." "Too much interference in the free market." Let the forces of supply & demand straighten everything out as they always do, right?

Except how did it get this way in the first place? How did SF come to be? How did it become as it is now and get to have the problems it has now? Supply & demand, baby. The free market. Oh sure, the community having the audacity to block certain developments might've slowed it a little -- like shoveling seawater against an oncoming tide. And now the city that's overcrowded because of free market forces, will have all its problems solved by even freer markets? Good luck with that. I'm not saying a centrally-planned city would work out any better, but don't be surprised if this initiative produces more than a few unintended consequences.
> Around 65% of the population in SF are renters. If it were simply homeowners vs renters, renters would win in a landslide.

Yes, but many renters are covered by rent control, and thus immune to increasing market rents.
Because it is a good indicator when studying in an English speaking country.

If you can't understand the lecturer, the tutor, the homework, the assignments, the exams, the study material, other students etc, then you are incredibly unlikely to be learning a whole lot.
Hey, thanks for taking the time for the informative response. I see the difference now.
Is it wrong for me to be amused at how much I dislike all parties involved in this story?
In my experience, a lot of the cheaters do, in fact, believe (or want to believe) that just about everyone else is doing it too. Don't buy it.

I wasn't aware of anyone in my circle of friends or even friendly acquaintances who cheated in college or grad school. (I heard about occasional incidents involving people I didn't know. But if there was an active cheating subculture, nobody talked about it when I was in earshot.) And my experience as a professor is that there are an awful lot of students who I work with one on one and whose homework and exam grades are right in line with my firsthand experience of their work.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11768155 and marked it off-topic.