skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only works if I already have Chrome in the foreground. If I cmd-tab to another app to copy something, and then cmd-tab back to the Hangouts Chrome App to paste it but it actually just shows me my browser window instead. There is no way to swap back and forth between the Hangouts Chrome App like every other app even though it has a dedicated Dock icon.
You may be interested in "Programming Shorthands"

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6974...

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2035
Affirmative action can't work. It isn't that kind of problem. There is no percentage of qualified female applicants you can accept that will put 10 women in 50 seats.

You have to change the culture in middle and high schools so that lots more little girls want to be hackers.
I went through quite a few recruiters before finding someone I really liked and trusted and sent me good candidates.

What I've learned is that it really comes down to the recruiting firm. The person I ended up using, their firm has incentivized them to stay and build relationships, not just go for the quick sell. They are the only person I know who has stayed at the same firm for years.

All the other recruiters I've tried have basically jumped to a new firm every 6 months to a year, they are just chasing the money.

So I would say ask talk to the recruiters/firm. Ask them how long they've been in that company, what's the average tenure.
$22m is insane. Hopefully it will be reduced on appeal to something more reasonable, like $220k.

On the other hand, there should be criminal charges against the cops.
I get short-term headaches from aspartame myself.

I don't know exactly why - but I've read that drinking artificial sweeteners may trick the body into anticipating an energetic food causing it to release insulin. The resulting mild hypoglycemia causes headaches.
Crisis based forking can pierce the Decentralized Veil of Ethereum
Easier said than done in a country that doesn't value the idea of having multiple parties (and therefore real competition between them). What do you do when one party is racist and the other protects criminal cops? Or worse, if both protect criminal cops, and other government criminals?
In a tight scope like this, `u` is the same thing as the classic "dummy variable", like the `i` in a for loop. "For a user u, do this". Dummy variables must never be given long names, because long names say, "this is not a dummy variable", which is a lie in that case.
My take? Zero-calorie sweeteners have no practical reason to exist. It is a marketer's pursuit to make us consume food in ever vaster quantities while being guilt free.

What we should be doing is reducing our sugar intake given that most of us are no longer living on the edge of caloric survival. But that's hard, and not doing it comes with guilt and health issues. So instead we create a chemical that provides all the pleasure of eating with none of the caloric benefits.

Calorie-free food is pure hedonism. Not bad in and of itself, but to the extent we in the developed world have taken it, something to be just a little bit ashamed of.
That's an interesting way to put it.
And as usual, Kindle edition is more expensive than paperback :(
The Money Letter That Every Parent Should Write
It will be hard. Zurich only issued 17000 long term work permits last year as I remember. Most of that goes to science talent in big mncs like Ciba
Yup! We have plans on doing other shows as well as selecting the time it gets delivered, but wanted to get a quick proof of concept out before the series was over.

Also, with regards to witnessing the reaction, we plan on adding a feature where we tweet responses we receive, and potentially send you an email with the transcript of responses. This will probably come after the season ends however.
So, how come none of these officers and their superiors are facing criminal charges themselves? There have to be some limits of what you can get away with while wearing a badge.
It's fitting in a way. They handed power to assholes and didn't check back.

Though if I read this correctly, some of it will not be paid by the city: "East Cleveland Police Chief Ralph Spotts did not appear at trial. [...] Of the other $12 million in punitive damages, $11 million was found against Spotts himself, DiCello said."
Question not about ANS, but patenting: Wouldn't it make more sense for Apple (or anybody) to actually patent it, and keep those patents, but make it open via licensing ? If there's patentable material and $developer passes on filing for it, doesn't that leave it open for poaching by $third_party ?
I am unhappy with her, Dick Cheny, etc. for steering the USA into invading Iraq. Turned out badly for us, and they should have been able to predict the bad outcome.
Ok :-). I just signed up for a Nomad membership as well.
Curious. Is this how it works for other professions? Like doctors/lawyers/engineers/teachers?

Sounds good at first blush.
> It seems to have already stopped growing.

Did you even look at the graph I cited? Creating 1.5 billion in revenue in the past 3 years...how has that stopped exactly?

If you're talking about the past 4 quarters in the chart, I'd encourage you to do what most analysts do and that is compare YoY growth (Q1 with Q1, etc). That growth is very solid which is why her Maven's growth is solid, not stopping as you state.
I once was offered a position for Java, passed the technical tests and all, turns out the job was all using C# and .NET, thankfully i was skilled enough to get the hang of it in a few days but it was very weird; how can people like this get paid for such terrible performance.
IBM and Coursera initiative
I'm just curious what Comcast and Google are trying to defend against. You'd think that the cases your typical home subscriber and probably your business subscriber would bring would in most all cases be litigated in Small Claims court. It would be about early termination because the connection is too poor or the uptime does not conform to contract.

Are they trying to quash class-action suits or what? I haven't got a clue, someone more familiar with the subject should clue us all in.
>Use a better language instead of caring about the names.

That's not always an option.

Also, I don't find the language OP linked syntactically challenged. C# has a similar syntax and it's much more readable than what you've provided:

people.Sort(p => p.FirstName);
Aline Lerner.

That's the only good one I know. Seriously. And I think she's turned that into a different/related business now.
Fair enough. I didn't pick up on your use of "campaign" in the broader sense.
China has different IP regimes at the city level. Haha.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/06/china-has-whol...

Yet another cell phone patent dispute. Except for one thing: "Beijing" is not being used here as a metonym for "the Chinese government." It means Beijing. The city of Beijing, which apparently has its own intellectual property authority. Do other cities also have their own IP authorities? Apparently yes:

{quotes: http://www.chinabusinessreview.com/enforcing-intellectual-pr...}

Civil enforcement of IPR in China is a two-track system. The first is the administrative track....Set up in the provinces and some cities, these local government offices operate as a quasi-judicial authority and are staffed with people who specialize in their respective areas of IP law. If they are satisfied with an IPR holder’s complaint, they investigate. The authorities can issue injunctions to bring a halt to the infringement, and they can even enlist the police to assist in enforcing their orders.

How about that? Cities can't award monetary damages, but they can order your product off the shelves.
Yes, the term "malpractice insurance" refers specifically to medical professionals.
It's a distinction without a difference -- most such large city governments are self-insuring.
Agree, and that's per actual page load. Not at the start of the app. If there's no dynamic searching for paths in the app, I don't understand why there would be even one path operation done after the first request. Templates, extra resources, etc. - you can optimise this down to assembler, but it's always going to take time. What solves this is just caching the results - you don't run the path operations anymore.
eww. gross. Either I dont understand millenials or there is such an overwhelming desire to create some sharing economy 2.0 that bad ideas are allowed to be funded. Im sure that are both of my above statements are true.
*$%! the money, the officers should be in jail.

Quote: "The city of East Cleveland told WJW television that the officers named in the suit no longer work at the department."
In the paper's conclusion, they mention another 2016 paper, 'Cache Attacks Enable Bulk Key Recovery on the Cloud', recently discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11891579

Though mitigations of this technique were introduced with Linux 4.0, they say the attack is still relevant in a shared-hardware environment, as in that paper.
Have used this in a few projects, and even contributed some patches.

There are several pain points with this lib. Don't remember them all, but for example it is not very "vueish", in the sense it works poorly with vue (for example several components requires the https://github.com/yuche/vue-strap/blob/master/src/utils/Eve...). Also, this is targeting bootstrap 3.

If you want bootstrap 4, and better code, I suggest check out another lib called vuestrap, which targets bootstrap 4: https://github.com/kzima/vuestrap/
(Not to be confused with the link in OP, which is called "vue-strap")

Myself, I moved on to MDL since. If you just want some nice UI components, have a look at vue-mdl: http://posva.net/vue-mdl/
Grace Hopper said it best 'The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way."'
Do you know how much distrust governments have for other governments spying on individual citizens. None. None whatsoever. China does not care if the US is spying on Chinese individuals and the same goes for the US. It cares its corporate secrets are protected, and perhaps when those individuals have access to those. But that's about it.
Mumble is easy to set up and you can run a server on your WRT router, droplet etc. to share with others.
The Windows build doesn't appear to work at all. In addition to getting file path too long issues, once I've accommodated the app by extracting on the root of my drive it never loads past a white screen.
In much of the developed world, sewage treatment is operated with the assumption that people are regularly putting pathogens in the sewage via their feces.
In Vim (editor, not IDE), if your cursor is on the i, then * will jump to the the next occurrence, # the previous one. In addition, they all get highlighted if ":set hls" (highlight search) is on, which is the default.

"Don't use 'i' because it occurs often in keywords, making it hard to search for" is the most outlandish thing I've head in a good several weeks, even without the Scrabble reference.
Why the hell aren't the officers involved being tried for criminal activity?
I love this format. Just a photographer and a few brief observations is so much more in touch with the truth than multi-thousand word editorials weaving anonymous sources, personal opinions, outside influences and straight up lies.
Most cities buy insurance to help them endure situations such as this. It turns out that East Cleveland did not obtain any liability insurance that might ordinarily cover them for this. I guess they figured they couldn't afford the insurance (because they're already having serious budget problems).
i did a lot of chemistry at uni - your question made me think. it's a little like programming - the field is so vast and fundamental that you may as well start with a topic you're interested in and then dig deep every time you find a word/phrase/assumption you don't get (heads up: there will be a lot).

i'd actually say that chem is a difficult subject to learn independently. it is one of those subjects that is best learned with other people and those that know - you learn lots of seemingly disconnected things that only slowly coalesce into a broad understanding. IME for most people, that coalescence takes the first several months of a post-grad project - there's something about being in a lab and discussing chemistry that blends all the bits together.

it's been 20 years but the text books at Uni of Auckland were McMurray for Organic chem, Atkins for physical chem and Atkins, Shriver and Langford for Inorganic. Personally I found Atkins a difficult read and would recommend hunting around for an author that you enjoy reading. read In the Pipeline regularly - it's a blog by a medicinal chemist that is quite excellent (his 'things i won't work with' posts are brilliant ;-). there's also a saying in chem that you learn it through your fingertips - pen and paper sketching structures and working with glassware. it's a strange blend of theory, practice and intuition - that's either its biggest appeal or its biggest turnoff... YMMV.

if you really are keen, drop me a note - i'm intrigued to see if i could design a curriculum using open source pubs and edX.
It looks to me like the "thief" has already won; it has turned into an ideological debate; I would be surprised if ~any proposal to fork reaches a majority.
Yes, good recruiters exist just got to ask around for referrals.

I'm a software engineer that is currently bootstrapping my technical recruiting business. Companies say they like working with me because:

1) my candidates are experienced (I do the vetting and they are all a part of my network which I continue to build every day)

2) I spend a lot time finding what a candidate wants and what companies want (so far 80% rate of engineers getting offers when I match albeit low sample size)

3) I don't spam (candidates or companies- generally only make 1-2 matches per company per month)

The reason so many bad recruiters exist is because the contingency payment model really makes it so that spamming seems beneficial in the short-term and makes the whole recruiting game very transactional (see real estate agents). And contingency agreements are much easier to get (vs retained search).

I'm working on finding more creative ways to align incentives better and building better sourcing tools.
In an earlier article, the city attorney said that she was never properly served, and therefore no defense was mounted.
We shut down our startup
The difference is a single police officer would have personal responsibility similar to the way any driver is careful not to cause damage to there's on the road. The city simply rolling out for settlements means officers never feel the heat for malpractice
It's impossible to corrupt a 3rd party judge (shouldn't all courts be third parties?), or 3 judges? I agree it's the best system we have today, but it won't be tomorrow.
More importantly, don't use Notepad or Pico for writing code.
JWT Chrome extension based on JWT.io
Sounds good!! Count me in.
Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal Ignites Twitter Speculation
I half-remember an article I read a long time ago about chip and pin cards that mentioned asynchronous communication with the mothership as a big win for the chip.

The example it brought up was that because the chip's identity could be verified through local communication with the chip, purchases could be logged at the terminal and synchronized at any point with the payment processor.

Is there something about the US payment processing market that makes that feature unattractive? Are businesses subsidizing more fraud protection than in other countries by making transactions synchronous and hiring more staff?
$22 million is very reasonable. There is no excuse for the behavior at issue here. The amount provides a very strong incentive to the city of East Cleveland to never let anything like this happen again. It puts other police departments on notice that things like this can destroy them.

Unfortunately, this probably will be significantly reduced on appeal.
Typescript couldn't actually do this for interfaces. Typescript interfaces don't exist post-compilation, and the only way to check for them would be to ensure that every expected property exists on the incoming object.

This has a very annoying side effect of never being able to exclude interfaces from a union type:

function doStuff(thing : string | SomeInterface) : void {
if (typeof(thing) === "string") {
// thing is still typed as string | SomeInterface,
// because there's no guarantee that the
// string object doesn't implement the interface.

// If SomeInterface was a class instead of an interface,
// then thing would only have the string type here.
}
}

Also, this is ignoring the fact that you would also need to check the parameter types on an incoming function, which AFAIK isn't possible at all.
Site without a paywall - http://www.ajc.com/news/business/home-depot-visa-and-masterc...
My honest thoughts? It's a great idea which (like most great ideas regarding police reform) will never, ever happen because of opposition from police unions.
Isn't a monad just an endofunctor on the category of monoids?
Awesome concept, can't wait to order to test it out. Can we pre-order these on amazon?
Well, every single time I've seen someone use that phrase, it hasn't been to point out that they're not equivalent, it's been to argue for the potential existence of something where there's zero evidence for it and lots of searching you'd expect to turn up evidence.

Case in point here, we are not discussing aliens in general, where that phrase might be sensible, but rather aliens frequently visiting Earth over a period of years in the form of UFOs.
http://www.plugincars.com/aaa-introduces-roadside-emergency-...
Something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11789829
Having written code to extract files from a ZIP file, it's because the header is variable sized, anywhere from 22 to 65,557 bytes in size (22 bytes fixed, up to 65,535 bytes for a comment). There are two ways to scan for the header, one is to seek just 22 bytes shy of the end of the file and start checking backwards (since the majority of ZIPs I've encountered do not have the comment) or, seek 65,557 bytes from the end and scan forward.

This fact has been used to construct pathological ZIP files where one tool will report one list of files and another tool will list a different set of files. That's why you really need to overwrite the old header.
I recommend skipping both cases of the letter O as well. I'm surprised so many people use it, especially to mean "object". Really, code that uses `my_dict[O]` where the object is a hashmap key or `O1 + O2` demonstrating the wonders of operator overloading even show up in textbooks. No scope is small enough to justify O as a variable name.
The two words are generally understood. The term might currently only be used by one industry. The term can be used by any industry. Malpractice isn't industry specific nor is insurance.
I've done a fair amount of matchmaking between companies and engineers myself. I've occasionally gotten recruiting fees out of this but sometimes companies have given me the runaround trying to collect. Often I'm just helping my friends get work and I get paid in plane tickets and/or beer, so it's fine, but it takes enough of my time now that I want cold hard cash.

How positive do you feel about this business and and how do you make sure you get paid?
I tap everywhere in Mtl. It's rare for me to find terminals where I can't tap.
Recruiter here: I challenge you to look at what the demands are of each tech company today. Everyone from Google, Facebook, and little consulting firms don't care about people either. The reason why so many recruiters suck is because so many of the organizations do not get recruiting and have put "top of the funnel" sales metrics to help solve their problems. If you want your recruiter to care about long term relationships and reputation maybe tech companies need to do the same.
There's no excuse for a dual or single-party system in muni-level politics. In Oakland, CA (and probably other cities) they use non-partisan IRV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting).
Hospital contact form publicly exposes all responses via Google Forms
Basics of Startup Funding
From my experience all recruiters suck. Some more, some less. You are just a commodity for them.

You should focus all your efforts into building up relationships with clients, small consulting companies and other consultants. The money is better and the work is more interesting.
"Do you own ethereum that will undoubtedly fall in value if the attacker is allowed to start dumping their earnings?"

No, I do not own any ethereum and have had only a casual interest in the entire project. My own investments have been in "Oh By Codes"[1] most recently :)

[1] https://0x.co
It's just outsourcing. It "depends on 3rd party applications / services (‘in the cloud’)" It's like Salesforce's "No Software".

A real serverless architecture would be federated, like BitTorrent or Bitcoin.
A game suitable to training a neural network?
Hello,
I'm currently studying machine learning and neural networks. While studying theory is indispensable, I want to immediately apply it to a fun project. I have intermediate programming skills (just no experience with NNs), so I want to write a simple game and create a neural network-controlled bot to play it. While I understand that a NN may not be the best approach to creating a game playing actor, I am still willing to do it.

I am trying to come up with a game simple enough to be treated as a set of numeric inputs for the NN. I also want to write it from scratch to have complete control. Right now I think that I should start with a Pong game, since this game can be interpreted simply as positions of paddles and a position/direction of a ball. Then I should probably move on to something like Space Invaders or Pac-Man or Battle City (or maybe even Black Jack?).

What would you suggest?
I guess there's a pretty good argument to be made that people deserve to be protected from concepts that offend them. I've just never heard it.
> There are no US banks that implement Chip & PIN

Not true - BarclayCard Arrival/Arrival+ do. However, they prioritize signature first. They can be used at automated kiosks that require PINs, though.
Uh, how common is it for police to hold people like that? Is there some racist undertone here not mentioned in the article? Or do they just bully people randomly? I know when traveling one should avoid seedier parts of town but now apparently one should avoid the police as well if and when I come visit the states...?
The form is embedded here: http://www.health.ri.gov/contact/ -- submit a response and then click "see previous responses."
We wouldn't have to annotate at all if we used authoring and
browsing tools that recorded knowledge in a more useful
format to begin with. For my ideas on the subject, see
http://onemodel.org and click on "more about om" (or "about"), then go into the future plans and vision stuff.
Once we can create & share knowledge at an atomic level, everything else gets easier and we don't have all the problems we do now, IMO.
That seems quite sensible, but unfortunately every time something is brought up, people come out of the woodwork to criticize it on the basis that it's anti-capitalist, destroys free markets, etc.
I think we should do the opposite: ban municipalities taking out insurance for judgments arising out of intentional torts, because that creates a moral hazard that insulates voters from the consequences of their decisions.

Voters have a lot of say in their communities' police leadership. In East Cleveland, where this happened, the police chief is directly appointed by the mayor. In many places, sheriffs are directly elected. If voters were on the hook for paying for the negative externalities of the "tough on crime" policies they support, they might make better decisions.