skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of rumors of shady practices at that developer - shitty hours, below minimum-wage pay, poor management, intern exploitation, threats of litigation against ex-employees, profits being poured into pet projects of the founders...

Generally, but not always, these kinds of stories aren't told about well-ran shops. But hey, it's video games, so who knows?
Google CEO: At the heart of these efforts is the goal to build a Google assistant. Yes, an assistant!
One of the pastes at that link lists thousands of real Github account emails followed by an unhashed password. Some of them have private repositories listed as well.

I'd rather not post the pastebin to remove the hassle of finding the exact one, but it was posted in the past few hours and I'd recommend that everyone check their Github emails on haveibeenpwned.com to see if it's found in the paste.

Better yet change your password immediately since there's no announcement from Github regarding the extent of the breach.
Speakers from GRPC, Uber, Twilio and More at the OpenTracing Quarterly Call
The Magnificent Seven 2016
> Well, one could argue that rise of Trump, Bernie, backlash against mainstream media etc are partially due to the surveillance state BS.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/politics/donald-trump-muslims-...

> Trump doubles down on calls for mosque surveillance

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/26167...

> Trump said Tuesday that he would be "fine" with restoring provisions of the Patriot Act to allow for the bulk data collection, something candidates such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have also called for that was banned with the passage of the USA Freedom Act, which Cruz supported.

Well I don't think I'm going to agree given the only person who made it to the GE is a guy who supports surveillance.
Is it any wonder people don't trust the establishment media when the they push narratives like that of the impending "mushroom clouds" if we don't invade Iraq? With nary an ounce of critical coverage? It wasn't long after that we found out that it was all a bunch of bullshit. But of course by that time it was too late for the million Iraqis and thousands of Americans who died, and the trillions of tax payer dollars wasted (stolen), yet somehow alternative news sources are the problem? I'll go ahead and assume that you were equally critical of the NY Times when they published, from sources with a political axe to grind, false information about the supposed Iraq threat. One must always question the sources, but that's hardly unique to alternative news outlets.

It's also very convenient to lump all alternative news source in with the Infowars and Brietbarts. The reality is that there are a plethora of disparate media outlets of varying quality that are covering legitimate stories from legitimate (at least by NY Times standards) sources - stories that are simply not covered elsewhere. People should be free, and indeed encouraged, to get their information from a variety of sources. The implication that people are drinking either full-establishment or full-Infowars kool-aid is false. People have lost trust in the mainstream media, for good reason, and they are searching for alternatives. That doesn't mean they agree with anything and everything that can be found.

And finally, please tell me, why would all the top DNC heads resign over the Guccifer leaks if they were all forged and fabricated?
How about an open source version?
Herbert Hoover! Did he do anything right?
The geographic rendering APIs tend to be incompatible with the graphing algorithms and data structures. It's better to optimize your data on the server for algorithmic simplicity and convert to a render-friendly format at render time.

Also, immutability is great when you're juggling 1000s of lon/lat arrays.
What are you talking about? The FBI investigation clearly showed there was wrong doing. She was let go saying there was no intent, not because there was nothing wrong.
I remain unclear on the consequences. I don't think they're tested. 18 USC 2709(c) is what the government cites when they invoke nondisclosure. You win a prize if you find the consequences for violating that statute. Also, NSLs can be upgraded to court orders if the recipient is noncompliant. 18 USC 3511 discusses that:

> the Attorney General may invoke the aid of any district court of the United States within the jurisdiction in which the investigation is carried on or the person or entity resides, carries on business, or may be found, to compel compliance with the request. The court may issue an order requiring the person or entity to comply with the request. Any failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by the court as contempt thereof.

So they can upgrade to a court order and then hold you in contempt if you do not fulfill the terms of the court order. I am not clear if that includes the nondisclosure term. This is the closest I've ever come to identifying "what would legally happen if someone published an NSL?" Honestly, and I'm not extremely comfortable saying this and please do not get ideas, after a lot of research I don't think there is a federal punishment defined in legislation for doing it.

Usually laws have a punishment immediately after them. As in, section A is what's illegal, section B is how to punish violations of section A. 18 USC 2709 and 18 USC 3511 don't have that, so I honestly have no idea what would happen, and I half wonder if the federal government doesn't either.

(IANAL, etc)
I used Autodesk Homestyler to take floor plans of a preconstruction condo and visualize what it looks like in 3D. But ideally, it would be much cooler to walk around with a VR headset on to really get an idea of the space (given you don't bump into walls or fall in a lake). I'm not a VR expert so I'm not even sure if Daydream supports this or if the user must be stationary.

Autodesk previously demoed their app working with project tango so you can walk around holding a tablet as a viewport.
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If that were the case, then Apple would've caved in, too.

Mayer was probably too new and too scared to deal with this, especially when she had to think about her new baby.

My point is it has less to do with "Yahoo being scared about being destroyed by the US government" and more with Mayer's own personal fear of the US government, and easily caving to such threats, whether it was because of her baby, because of weak character, or because she was inexperienced as CEO didn't know how to handle this.

EDIT: Also Yahoo's response to the story is such bullshit:

> “Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States.”

What's the law you're abiding with that says you need to implement such a backdoor? Name it. Even the FBI named the law or laws it thought would help it force Apple to put a backdoor in its phones.

So if Yahoo can't even name the law, then that law or the gag order saying they can't name it are unconstitutional. Period. It also proves once again how easily Yahoo caved.
It is however the title of the reddit post. So the poster is keeeping with HN guidelines and being overly pedantic isn't particularly useful here-- the comment amounts to the same thing. I will give the reddit OP the benefit of the doubt that they couldn't decide on an appropriate standards body to cite this paraphrase properly.
> I'd like to learn more, but there's so much hokum surrounding so called 'memory' techniques it's hard to know where to start.

Check out the book "Your Memory: How it Works and How to Improve It" by Kenneth Higbee. It's written by a professor in psychology and he uses it in his classes. The book has the perfect blend between theory of how memory works and practical skills.
> This is certainly not the case in the US. That sounds more like studying church Latin, which will be mocked if you're studying Latin outside an explicit religious context. Where are you?

I studied Latin in Canada. Foundation Latin classes are based on the "Latin of Cicero," the writer who is considered to have mastered the language during its Golden Age by most scholars. We are not taught Classical Latin til more advanced courses, as the declensions and conjugations change and so do many word meanings, and instead of learning Classical Latin the language, we learn to close-read Classical Latin literature.
Animated GIFs Illustrating the Art of Japanese Wood Joinery
This article more or less explains what I've been saying to people for years. Part of the reason cost of living is cheaper in other countries (developing/3rd world for example) is because most of the cheaper ways are illegal in our country. Repeal the laws and we can live inexpensively and similarly to other less developed nations.
First Demonstration of Time Cloaking
I'd argue that they are not. It's more about the proper measure. Monetary policy is a tool attempting to hit a moving target.
Because you're 21, and want to make video games, and live with your parents?
This is only as an employee. You're free to contract your own rate at whatever you'd like (including for free); while "salary" implies a full employment that doesn't look like the case here.

EDIT: none of what I said applies; this was in Mexico.
"google has never sold a phone directly."

They've sold the Nexus phones directly for quite a while now.
Systemically getting targeted by police because of your race vs sometimes they happen to go after you.

Bit of a difference.
There's PS4.
Yup. So that's a complete lie now (not that I actually believed him when he said it then). When you searching through everyone's emails, then you're invading everyone's privacy.
The devs should apply to the PR side of NASA or Space-X.
I too miss BoS forums, never really found another community like it, HN and /r/programming are ok but they don't quite cover the "programmer AND in business" demographic that BoS captured so well.
> I don't want to mail my phone in to a repair center and be without a phone for a few days.

FYI: I've been a long time Android user and can tell you that the process works different. And is actually not as bad as you think.

1) You call the hotline, they send you a link via mail
2) Clicking this link will place you in their shop with a promo-code
3) You buy the replacement phone
4) Once you've got the replacement you send in the broken one (or if you feel like it earlier)
5) Once they recieved the broken one, you get a refund on you purchase

Knowing this process so well is the reason I've bought me an iphone 7 now ;-)
Sure.

I think the logic is faulty because it is very specific about implying what sources to trust/not to trust - without motivating that trust/lack of trust on a logical basis.

As such the argument is open to selective application, whereby the party applying the logic decides a priori the result based on their biases about the trustworthiness of the source (and therefore the truthiness of the leaked documents).

In this case - in the domain of information warfare - hacks and leaks implicating US officials in foul activity (global surveillance, propaganda programming, election flipping, regime change, torture programs, corruption in election systems) ought not be questioned a priori less or more than leaks implicating non-US officials in foul activity (tax avoidance, e.g. Panama Papers; arming proxy groups that in turn cause accidental casualties, e.g. MH17).

Not fully stipulating - in a consistent, logical and sound format - a formal criteria for a comprehensive system to establish and evaluate a priori source trust leaves your logic wholly incomplete, unable to grapple with real world issues of information consumption and investigative reporting.

Resulting in what I had said: deeply incomplete, selectively applied logic.
> What qualifies as "new technology" by your high standards?

Well, why don't we start at the standards that Google is advertising with? It's them who are acting like this is the best thing since sliced bread, while it's really just yet another average phone.
Is part-time possible at SUSE for remote positions?
How is it not easy to discover? You flip the switch, the phone buzzes and shows you what happened. It's one of the few buttons on the phone, it's not like it's hard to find. Not to mention contextually it's right next to the volume buttons which is where it should be.
> And my point is, what good does it do to anyone?

If it is found that people from the Middle East rape much more than native citizens or engage more in certain types of criminal activity that is destabilising the society then there is something that we as a society can do.

We can send them all back. We can send our soldiers to guard the borders and not let anyone of them in. That's a simple solution that would work.

I would even approve of forcing those who committed crimes to work until they fully repaid their victims for all the damage they caused. After that put them on a plane send them home.

But this is not about equal treatment, the elite and the media feel the need to obfuscate because they know that people are not going to tolerate this if they knew the full extent of what is happening.
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It's not all about framerate and resolution.

People still get sick with Oculus because many of the games involve moving while you're sitting still.

That's why Vive does "room scale" games where it doesn't involve moving the world around you.
No, only people who pass extensive psychological evaluations.

Besides, is there excessive police violence on JP or UK?
Fortunately it's easy to work round (I have a cheap HDMI splitter, and a HDMI->VGA converter, and both pretty much ignore HDCP), but these sort of arbitrary restrictions are frustrating.
In China and Russia, it is well known that all oligarchs are corrupt.

However, not all of them will go to prison -- only those who cross the politicians will ever be tried and convicted.
How A.I. is revolutionizing today’s workplace
Why should they lose their job and salary to defend someone else? Yahoo users can go to court themselves if they feel that their rights were violated.
The Government can simply ban the use of that software without a license set at a future date (i.e. 1/1/2017).

New Regulation -> Future Date -> Ex post facto claims don't happen.

That is the process my original comment intended to imply.
I tried tt-rss but it was running pretty slow for me, and I wasn't ever sure if I just configured something wrong or if it wasn't designed to archive tens of thousands of old articles. I switched to FreshRSS [1] and it's been running much faster for me and also has the option of running on SQLite. The interface isn't as nice as tt-rss but it works better on smartphones.

[1] https://freshrss.org/
What happens to cause and effect? If you break a vase in the "time hole", will the vase be broken or unbroken after the time hole?
I think that's also the case for chinese, considering how many times it was invaded over the years.
Rich Hickey - Simplicity Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
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Best part is where you swap Andrew West's first name for Adam
> Also, I'm wondering if this story is bigger because people love to hate on Mayer. I am certain this kind of thing happened/happens at Facebook, Google, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc., so it's confusing why this is so newsworthy.

Are you serious? It's newsworthy because we have proof they did it.

If we had proof Google or Facebook did it, then it would be news, too. And probably much bigger news, because nobody really cares about Yahoo anymore, especially after its sale to Verizon.

In fact, check social media and Reddit. A story about Wikileaks hinting at Google manipulating search results to favor a certain US candidate is already being talked about. And that's despite the latest trend to hate on Wikileaks because they focus too much (?!) on exposing Clinton's corruption.
You could look on it as lexicographical civil disobedience.

If it's impossible to get justice because the killer was wearing uniform what's the value in the judgements of justice system? If so many cases of behaviour that would lead to a conviction, don't, that conviction loses starts to lose some of its meaning. If an officer is so rarely convicted for murder, at what point does it remain meaningful to use the word 'murder' to mean a legal conviction where a police officer is concerned?

Or do we look at the stats and say that police are incapable of committing murder. "There is no murder in paradise" as Stalin is reputed to have said.

(I'm slightly playing devil's advocate here but there is a massive problem)
> I suspect (speculate) that the issue is with normal vision being a sequence of saccades, wherein you don't actually see anything between point A and point B, vs most VR which is a smooth glissando between points.

Why would your eyes not saccade when wearing a VR headset? The screen isn't the source of saccades. Your eyes are.
Yes. However, that doesn't change the fact casual users that are largely harmless ended up losing years of their lives and had their ability to earn a good living to support themselves casually destroyed in the process.
This is Linus Torvalds & git
> In other words, if the designer painstakingly crafts a detail I don't care about, does it mean it is a good design?

If that detail helps them achieve their desired business outcomes, then yes. You might not like the product, but the design work is good. If you are trying to weed your garden, a Tesla is not useful to you. That doesn't mean it's a bad design, it just wasn't designed for that particular need.

All design comes from a specific set of values, and can only be evaluated within the context of those values. The notion of universal design is a fiction. It's the remnant of the colonialist mindset, where there is a presumption of universal values.
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I haven't, but even at this size the rendering is quite a bit slower than the calculation. For example, the delay on reload is almost entirely from rendering the shortest path tree.
None should, but this is ~2x the Mexican minimum wage.

I guess the question here (as per nine_k comment) becomes, if you are working remotely, for a position listed in country A, but you are located in country B, do country B's minimum wage laws apply? If so, does that mean the company in country A should pay you a higher wage, or simply means you don't qualify for the position (note that developer positions in Mexico with Mexican companies are often advertised with offer details such as the salary, in a way that is not common in the U.S.)

Edit: huge correction on the multiplier on minimum wage. For some reason I had been comparing monthly rates with annual ones and arriving at 24x. Upon careful examination, that is ridiculous, but the overall point remains. With the correction, this is actually hugely subpar wages for developers even in Mexico, but not quite illegal wages... for reference, entry level dev work at software companies might be around $20,000 MXP, which is currently $1,000 USD monthly.
Yes -- more articles from gawken.com, please.

My plan: upvote all submissions from "Peter Theil", from now on.
Farther into the article:

> To be fair to Squad, the Mexican minimum wage is about $100 USD monthly, so they weren't technically paying anyone lower than the minimum wage...
Perl and Nim
Nothing wrong with the age of an UI per se, but I think the notion of App's as silos which need to be individually opened get its information is rather old fashioned, and not ideal from an UX POV. Being able to quickly glance information from weather, email, social media does do quite a lot to lessen unnecessary UI excise.

I don't think it has anything to do with hardware, they can be engineered in such a way they don't needlessly drain the battery, nor do I think most people would feel it was useless. Then again, people sometimes don't miss something before they have it :)
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Martin Thompson busting myths about hardware and explaining why it's important to know. Mechanical sympathy makes you better, because you know how the code actually runs on the machine and interacts with different layers of memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC1EKLQ2Wmg

2
Matt Godbolt (the man behind GCC explorer) - Emulating a 6502 system in Javascript

Great talk about BBC micro and much more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WuRq-Wmw5o

3
Matt Adereth - Clojure/typing

History of keyboards and a custom keyboard written in Clojure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4

I like the 3 for their content and how each speaker presented the background and their project/hack/ideas.

Highly recommend
The Reddit thread is pretty funny with regards to shifting the blame.

Someone says it's Apple's fault, someone else says Netflix is to blame, then someone says it's all because of the studios....

How about blaming each and every one of them? Everyone involved could have refused to take part in this stupid game, that just drives people to download movies from inofficial sources.
My controversial opinion is that UI designers favored the commercial implementations because of the persuasion of wealth. But, if I'm being rational, I believe Twitter and FB are teaching people what a feed is and how it is useful. Once these ideas are concretely in the minds of most people, the open source community will have an easier time providing solutions that cater to non-technical folk.
Yup, get a OnePlus, get a Xiaomi, but what's the gain in going from one of those devices to a Pixel or the latest Samsung or even an iPhone? Pretty much nothing, a different UI, maybe a slightly better camera. It still does almost everything the exact same.

Specs are very often on par (this Pixel is pretty damn close to a OP3, less RAM and less ) and the phones are 40% or more cheaper! It's just plain stupid.
How to Use Live Chat as the Perfect Lead-Generation Booster – Tagove
End to end encryption works over insecure networks, but not with insecure endpoints.
1.5 yrs ago, I built this to show blockchain capacity. Now most blocks are full
Exhausting and pointless are obviously subjective.

As for the environmental issues and being selfish, this doesn't have anything to do with how long you live, but rather with how you live. Obviously, a society with life expectation that is so long would have to reduce the birth rates substantially (or, rather, keep them the same in the births-per-lifetime department). But if you can do that, then there's no reason why it's any more straining on the environment, whether its 1 person living for 500 years, 5 people living for 100 years each, or 10 people living for 50 years each.

You could say it's "selfish" to live one life where there could be ten, but how can one be selfish with respect to non-existing persons? How is it different from someone being "selfish" and not having children, for example? And why wouldn't it apply to ourselves with our current lifespans? Why not, say, euthanize everyone at 30, and use the existing resources to sustain more short-lived people, if the number of people having lived is the metric?
There is tons of low-hanging fruit too - it's not like you have to axe safety laws. Stop outlawing taller buildings, parking minimums, let businesses be built near housing, and so on.
It doesn't matter how the contract compliance law works now; it matters how it'll work 20, 40 or 60 years after you're dead. How can you be so sure that a law won't be passed giving the right to the family to override those clauses?
Anything by Sandi Metz.