skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of state schools where 30 grand or so will get you a BS in CS. 15 years ago when I went that route it only cost 20k. That makes 20k for what's effectively one semester seem pretty pricy. Still I suppose it's the same as a semester at a expensive private college.
Monitorbook – From side project to profitable company, a journey into sales
why not?
There are lots of existing scaffolding having authorization setting up using passport
https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport

You don't even need to write code if you use https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon, firebase, or similar services.

For client side, you can reuse previously written code for authorization logic and just write user interface based on requirement.

40 hours are too much for such work
Melbourne: Marketplacer secures $11M in funding to drive global expansion
Android No Longer Fragmented
Difference between res.send and res.json in Express.js
If Gawker hadn't acted in a manner opening themselves up for lawsuit, the billionaire wouldn't have been able to do anything. News organizations have some serious legal protections already.
Maybe Gawker should have thought of its employees then.
No - I'm saying that when she said to the border agent 'I'm going to give a talk at a conference' the situation became 50-50.

He could have nodded along and said 'I hope you have a good opening joke' or he could go down the route it ultimately went.
Any URL off localweb.is has a geographic boundary of about 2 miles. So you can go to localweb.is/warhammer and post about warhammer, but only others within range can see and reply.

Why on earth would we do this? Because we think the local space fundamentally sucks.. and its too hard to find others in the area with the same interests.. and no one needs yet another app.. and we love the web.

The "front page" of the local web, localweb.is is a list of the urls people have created in the area sorted by activity... basically, whats trending within walking distance.

If you are in SF or Boston, you might see something on the front page, if not, you are likely the first person to view the local web in your 2 mile radius.

Ideas on how to use the local web? 1000ways.org

Open to all questions/comments. We don't really know what the local web will be, its a bit of an experiment.
> Sometimes I wish PostgreSQL supported a shortcut syntax like Oracle's CONNECT BY.

The commercial PostrgreSQL derivative from EnterpriseDB does support CONNECT BY, but since Oracle compatibility seems to be a big part of what they sell and SQL standards compliance is a big focus of the core Postgres product, I don't see it likely that that would get contributed back to the core. (And CONNECT BY is, IIRC, substantially more limited than standard recursive CTEs, so not having it, while it does hurt migration from Oracle's proprietary dialect, avoids people heading down the CONNECT BY path and then being forced to burn it down and start over with standard CTE syntax when they run into a wall. So there's a case that its better just to have standard CTEs.)
IMO, Thiel did not bought the justice, it only worked out fine for him because a just judge ruled that Gawker was wrong according to the law.

And those who think he de facto bought the law; they should fight for the justice system itself to be reformed, not shaming or trying to regulate who pays the lawyers bill (although I think it could be a public information).
I like Lifehacker and Jalopnik (except for their political posts). I used to like Gizmodo years ago, but they got too political for my taste back then. It would be nice to see Lifehacker and Jalopnik survive.

I also like The Consumerist, but it was sold off to Consumer Reports and was doing okay until it was hacked. Now it's only a shell of its former self. What really made that site was the user contributions, but that died off after they closed the comments after the attack.
Those people knew what kind of garbage the site published and decided to hitch their wagon to it. If I join a company that is in the news for doing things that sound like it might get the shit sued out of them and they eventually get sued, should I be surprised?
I think they may have meant 'precedent' in some colloquially sense of the word, not the legal definition. Maybe "Successful action which encourages others to attempt the same" or something like that.
Lenovo wants consumers to take Google Tango for granted, so does Google
Why?

It went to Court and went through the due process, that process hasn't prior to this case and it wont after this case and the constitution remains the same.

If you publish, you deal with the repercussions, whether positive or negative.

The only thing I dislike is that it takes a billionaire to help a millionaire financially to give the case a fair chance while the less wealthy are powerless and without aid to even start a similar battle.
A startup really only needs a good business model. With this, you can last through the hard times and the good.

The problem is that too many rely on VC or piggyback on one single bigger business (like FB or Twitter) and then get crushed when anything changes.
I find it kind of perverse to champion a company based solely on their profitability. Gawker was a profitable media company because they were one of the the only ones debased enough to resort to muckraking for their tasteless, voyeuristic audiences.

Good riddance, I say.
The real precedent is obviously "don't piss of billionaires because they have many ways they can crush you".
I'm confused: [42] is an invertible matrix with integer coefficients, right?
Yes they are. this whole thread is about mathematics being accessible to people outside academia. the greatgrandparent poster posted that they could follow mathematics despite having skipped university in a thread about mathematical maturity and being accessibility outside of formal training. someone pointed out that you could cross disciplines but this isn't what we were talking about as this builds on top of a classical training in university.
Yes, the junk will hopefully diminish when we get a micro-payment framework that actually works and people will use. Websites are bottlenecked into ads for revenue, to everyone's detriment and sorrow.

Unfortunately, it won't do much to decrease Javascript abuse, unless NoScript becomes some kind of a default.
If you were a kid in the 80s you for sure knew that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father before you had a chance to see Empire Strikes Back. You couldn't get away from it. A good film maker knows this. That's why reveal has a face-off duel and Luke losing a hand and taking a plunge of death. It is enjoyable to watch the character learn and react to the information
Ha! I opened HN after Slack went down. I guess I should get back to work.
The justice system in any democracy should be a level playing field in the eyes of the law, not a pay-to-play free for all.
Sleepers are agents specifically embedded with future actions in mind. There's no such thing as a second-generation sleeper agent - that's called a citizen.

And if you have teenagers, ask yourself how likely they'll follow in your crufty old plans.

Sleeper agents are movie-plots.

Essentially, if you're thinking about security and you recognize yourself thinking any terms you've heard on CNN ("Lone wolf", "sleeper", "radicalized", etc) you're doing it wrong. Those are silly TV terms and are usually after-the-fact descriptives, not warning signs.

(ie, you only catch one guy with no leads to others, so the media labels him a Lone Wolf. That's useless wrt finding him in the first place.)
Is this the Clerks "contractors on the Death Star" argument? [1]

They knew who they were working for. Lie down with dogs, etc.

[1] http://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html
A company pursuing what's best for itself instead of what's best for consumers (I was going to say customers, but in this case it seems like Walmart is the customer) and creates a bad product. Glad to see it didn't take off. Even credit cards are more convenient and come with anti-fraud features.
Editor’s Morning Note: Line Wants a Billion for Its Billion
I've done the same (US employee going to Canadian office).

Interestingly enough, me and my colleagues were pulled aside for additional questioning because two of us didn't own cars (we both live in Seattle and bus everywhere). For some reason the Canadian border agent simply didn't believe that people in the US don't own cars! We were able to go through after the manager of the team we were going to meet had been called to verify our story.
During yesterday’s introduction, Lenovo repeatedly emphasized that this new technology could win mass adoption when the novelty of a machine’s human-like understanding of 3D space was forgotten—replaced by the usefulness of the right app.
> No one really seemed to have -big- issue with this until Thiel was in the picture

That's because, with Thiel's involvement, the case became about something else: a personal vendetta. Regardless of the outcome, many of us are dismayed that Thiel was able to weaponize the justice system using huge amounts of money.

> why should a media publication like Gawker not be held accountable?

The tape of Hogan had racist comments on it, which are arguably in the public interest (since Hogan is a business(man) and consumers should be able to know about his character). It was stupid and possibly illegal of them to include the sex part of the tape, but was it worth $100M? Did that part of the tape harm Hogan at all?
Gawker can say or publish whatever they want and the Feds won't come throw them behind bars, but free speech doesn't make someone immune to ALL repercussions. You are free to go tell your boss whatever you want, but it might impact you financially. You are also free to spread rumors about whoever you want but you might get dragged into civil court and fined if you unjustly harm that person.
Since it's an HTTPS request the GET request won't have the secret bits available for anyone else to see.
Good riddance. They took a gamble and lost. That's business. That's life.
Unrelated to content: anyone else (on mobile) find bloggers "gesture detection" to go back/forward in the blog to be bloody annoying and never desirable? I find as I scroll I often inadvertently am now on a different blog post from that linked and then I'm having to fight it vs safari in navigating history.
Agreed. I don't understand the media's response. Gawker clearly violated the law. The headline they posted the Hulk Hogan video under admitted they were violating the law (or at least going against the council of their attorneys).

The only way this case is dangerous is if people start issuing bonds which are just a collection of partial settlements of still undecided lawsuits, funded by the purchase of said bond. This doesn't exist (as no banks are backing/issuing these bonds).

Its just media FUD due to them being held accountable for violating personal privacy laws.

If you are concerned the case cost to much here's a new issue for you to care about TORT REFORM.
But that's always been a precedent.
Let the Koch brothers sue whoever they want. They can in this country. If they want to waste their money on frivolousness and get thrown out with contempt + paying the other side's legal fees than so be it.
That isn't obvious to me at least. It was morally, ethically and legally wrong to publish that video. Now they pay the price.
I think the 'beneath' part (and then calling it out in parentheses) is precisely what makes it more than just a Thiel reference. Very clever!
First we called them programs, then we called them apps, now we call them AI.

People (paradoxically) really want to live in the future right now, but I think all of this is very premature.
Ah ok, that is not something I've seen mentioned anywhere else.

Still, Gawker is/was big enough that several frivolous lawsuits would've been unlikely to cause bankruptcy if none of them resulted in an adverse judgment. I have to think Thiel's goal was more to fire multiple shots and hope one finds its mark.
Every time I read one of these articles, the author invariably ends up recommending solutions that have glaring holes, just as large as the ones he spends the entire time attacking.

In this case, the author begins the entire essay by telling us that we shouldn't hire on the basis of what someone already knows. One of his first solutions later presented is the exact opposite of this: find out about their level of existing knowledge, regarding specific technologies and frameworks.

He then goes on to rile against "team fit," because of its potential for bias. But his entire solution basically comes down to behavioral interviews, which are notorious for how bias-prone they are.

His solution basically tells us that we shouldn't consider fancy degrees or companies. And yet, in the span of 30-60 minutes, we should be able to form accurate judgement on how much talent and drive someone has, and what they will be able to do in the next 3 years? Sorry, but unless you're the Steve Jobs of character reading, there's no way you can do the above accurately. Everyone lies on interviews. They pad their accomplishments, and inflate what they have previously done. The only thing you achieve through such a discussion, is figuring out how good a talker someone is.

The following article sums up everything that is wrong with almost every "Hiring is Broken" critique ever. Every single approach people have ever thought up, is broken in so many ways, as ably demonstrated by many others. Unless someone has hard data to show why one technique's pros outweigh its cons, such discussions are almost always pointless.

http://www.thecaucus.net/#/content/caucus/tech_blog/684
I absolutely agree with this. Moreover, this basic approach of giving the candidate a reasonable set of requirements, a quiet space, and as much time as necessary is hands-down the best way I can think of to asses competency. It's how I was assessed by a company at which I just accepted a SRE position. There was a homework project, a few "personality" interviews, and then a work day for which I was compensated. I was stressed out with performance anxiety leading up to this naturally, but it ended up being a blast.

I was looking for a couple of months before I went through the process with my current employer, and some of the experiences were just horrible: one company put me through 7 interviews with a single engineer each time, lasting 30-45 minutes, and then brushed me off with a two sentence email. Another wanted me to design an algorithm in 20 minutes while they watched via screen share, and if I couldn't do it in 20 minutes I wasn't good enough for them. Several asked me to take timed tests with prominent counters flashing in the corner. It's just stupid.

So I think personally we should support employers who understand how software is made, and are willing to create the right conditions for you to really practice your craft, and then judge what you've made and how you interacted with potential team mates.
An app that would let someone quickly animate a some dialogue in the style of South Park/The Simpsons/Family Guy would be an instant best seller. It would become the "Supernormal" of the late 20-teens. You could even do it by only outputting the equivalent of Wally Wood's 20 panels that always work.

http://www.comicbookscriptarchive.com/archive/panel-1/panel-...
Yes, and Gawker had purchased insurance to deal with the ramifications of their actions.

Bollea's lawyers, as funded by Thiel, then decided to specifically drop the claim that would allow the damages payout to have been made from insurance. That's fairly vindictive.

Especially given Thiel's motive that "they outed me" - come on, Thiel's sexuality was probably the worst kept secret in the Valley. When you pose shirtless on a gay cruise, I think it's fairly safe the rest of the world didn't need Valleywag to tell them of your homosexuality.

I think a lot of what Gawker has done is repugnant.

But this is analogous to me making a bad mistake (even breaking the law) and causing a lot of damage in a car accident. In the civil trials that follow, I'm sued for damages, distress, medical bills, and the like. All well and good, as I should be.

And I have insurance. As I should have.

Except you don't like me, because I previously attacked you verbally.

So you say "Actually, your Honor, we're dropping all claims that are proximate to the accident itself, and only suing for everything that happened after the fact." which ever-so-conveniently takes my insurance off the hook for its ability to pay.

And you only do this -after- being assured you'll win, so no-one can question your real motivation (apparently, there was all this damage and distress you suffered, and you want recompense. Except now you don't, because you're removing the only realistic mechanism for you to obtain any recompense).

I don't think "secret motivations" and secret financiers should be a part of an open court system (and indeed, secretly financing lawsuits used to be and in most places is still illegal because it raises more ethical and moral questions than it answers).
It is my fault for not being clear. I was making fun of the bumper-sticker, oversimplified statement. I have no quarrel with the idea that everyone has something unique to bring to the table. Also I was upset by the fact that it seemed to put all the burden on the individual, when in reality discovery and fostering of talent is as much a job of the society.
What I find annoying is that most of the websites that have the features consuming the broadband that you are describing ("autoplay videos, huge JS libraries, giant pictures, etc.") are just showing some text and a few pictures and video, and there is no need for them to require things like sophisticated js that make them slower - I am OK with a website that does 3D animation in js being slow, I am less tolerant with, say, quora's scrolling being slow.
This has been true in America as long as the robber-baron class has existed.
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> Why is it different in this case?

The ACLU is a charitable organization, and its cases have an ideological consistency. Thiel was just trying to find anything he could on Gawker (or just bury them in frivolous lawsuits if he couldn't). The cases didn't have any ideological consistency except "kill Gawker".
Because the fourth estate sees this as a threat to their interests.
Good thing it was just Gawker then, instead of a principled news site. Yes I understand there's collateral damage under the corporate umbrella. It happens.
I hope Jalopnik survives largely intact. It's one of the better/more entertaining general car sites put there.
It wasnt illegally made, it wasnt stolen, it was in the public interest (hogan is a very public figure, and has gone on at length about being faithful, not cheating, loose morals of young people).

So... Reporting on that seems like actual information that should be public? Compare to the pamela anderson tape, which was with her husband, was literally /stolen from their home/, and was sold for profit. Judge ruled that there wasnt anythig they could do.

Meanwhile, Thiel who was using hogan as a proxy has literally just demonstrated that you cant afford to post opinion pieces about tech billionaires and their occassionally delusional comments about how people should behave.
I have programmed professionally but that was a long time ago. In my limited experience I believe one advantage programming has over mathematics in terms of self learning is that in programming one is more likely to know that a program works/doesn't work versus knowing whether your conception of an abstract definition or theorem is correct. It seems overall easier to believe a false notion in math than in programming. I might be wrong in this perception. I think your last sentence is absolutely correct.
Because the ACLU does it in the open, rather than in secret?
This is a two sided problem. The massive page sizes and the sad state of rural internet options. Everyone loves to complain about Comcast and the other big providers (I'm not going to defend them either) but honestly, you don't know how good you have it until you've tried to find a good provider in a rural area.
The real issue is that money shouldn't play as much a role in court as it does. Many other problems discussed here like billionaires buying influence are really just corollaries to that.
Why Rust for Low-Level Linux Programming?
>It's sort of like defending the free speech of terrible groups like the KKK.

There is a difference between protecting a group from being silenced by the Government and holding a private company liable when they release a sex tape under the pretense of freedom of speech/freedom of the press.

>I believe this will have a chilling effect on the media in the US.

As well it should...its not exactly a slippery slope: sex tapes don't become newsworthy just because the subject is a celebrity.
So how do you propose preventing that without outlawing, for example, the ACLU, NAACP, etc.?
> sremani != ZenoArrow

Apologies, my mistake.

> Hope that clears it up.

First paragraph on the Wikipedia page for Functional Programming [1]:

"In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data. It is a declarative programming paradigm, which means programming is done with expressions[1] or declarations[2] instead of statements."

I'll stick with my definition.

Hope that clears it up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
I've heard Thiel holds a grudge against Gawker for having outed him without his consent; the latter certainly happened [1], the former I wouldn't know how to confirm.

[1] http://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people
Yeah, there were definitely other instances of lines being crossed, but for which Gawker would not have been sued, because the subjects didn't have Hogan's celebrity (or Thiel's backing): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3488027/Gawker-edito...

As much great journalism Gawker has produced, we can't ignore that such work was mostly loss-leaders, and not likely what drove its revenue and popularity. The decision to post the Hogan video was just a symptom of that culture, albeit a fatal symptom.
I don't sympathize, but it does reek of "jackpot justice". That's a horrible thing to do, but is it so horrible as to warrant an effective "death penalty" for any company that does it once?

And what about all the other people that were the victims of such an invasion of privacy, but didn't get a reward big enough to retire on thirty times over?

The core problem is that the "justice" system is so capricious that only a few victims get made whole, and when they do, it's bizarrely over the top.
Everything you're saying is entirely true however the normal mechanisms that would have protected Gawker were skirted here. They structured lawsuits perfectly so that insurance never kicked in.

Should the company be penalized? Most definitely. Was it worth shutting an otherwise okay running business? Questionably.
> Learning Mathematics in a classical, structured way really does change the way you think

Yes! I bashed my way through an Applied Math degree in night school. It hurt my head, but it rewired my thinking permanently (for the better).
How is this different than the ACLU looking for an ideal test case for a civil rights issue?
From what I know the Common Travel Area with Ireland would almost surely not be effected by a Brexit. In fact, it predates the countries' EU membership by quite a while.
What jackpot? They could have gotten the insurance payout. Except they dropped that part of the suit specifically so Gawker could not use the insurance it had purchased for this reason.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11877774
Except that I can't communicate with my dev team.