skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually have had the opposite trajectory. I was rooting for Microsoft in the Windows 7/8 days, but Windows 10 is soooo ugly and soooo compromised in terms of privacy that I refuse to use it.
Nintendo Switch will have a “wide array” of hardware add-ons and accessories
Which is a great reason to also invest in a Roth IRA.
This is only for DNSSEC signing for the root zone, right? If you don’t use DNSSEC, those 14 people don’t affect you in any way.
"as a young researcher moving to the private sector, he’s had to prove himself all over again."

This is true and is worth anyone making the switch keeping in mind. Commercial companies want a commercial track record before they trust you with important decisions.
Heh. New meaning to "put your money where you mouth is." Perhaps a corollary.
"the Elders of the Internet"
I ask a dude standing on a corner to give me directions to a place. Now,the dude is supposed to publish his logic as to how he arrived at those steps in the directions?
'Invest in AI, don't worry about your jobs'
APIs versus Services – Simple Examples to Understand
Meanwhile, what this is really about:

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/27/angela-merkel-caught-on-hot-m...
Fake Mermaids Are Making Real Money
I was referring to becoming a parent before you're ready. That's like an overweight person getting on a treadmill for the first time and cranking it to a 6 minute mile pace. Of course you're going to be miserable, it's your own fault, you were foolish.
Don't companies with that size have budget-salaries which are equal for all employees on the same rank / position / experience level?

I doubt that BMW has an engineer that earns more than his / her colleague at the same position.
Someone has got to write Lord of the Keys.
Really? A lot of governments are one of the few employers with more than 100k+ employees, and have a lot of open salaries for civil servants.
I agree with you about the web. For entertainment I like the model of paying Netflix and Hulu.
The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing. ;-)
Containerize Windows workloads with Image2Docker
I guess you can do that even with a simple Windows Forms application that has a full size web view?
So the person who gets told to simply find another job in a few weeks is better off than the supervisor that has to develop a plan to systematically fire their best employees over the course of months all while also not being sure when their boss will do the same to them?

It sucks all around. No one enjoys having to downsize.
I will always support the ACA, for one big reason: friends and coworkers of mine who were denied insurance before can now get insurance.

I am more than willing to pay higher premiums (or tax penalties) if it means that people who need treatments can now have access to those treatments without going bankrupt.
Lots of Clinton supporters here, with their powerful donwvote clicking :)
BigData and ML Example and Framework Weekly Roundup – Oct. 27, 2016
It's common for ranking to change, even wildly, when significantly changing a website. Especially changing its address!

So what's the theory, Google waited and waited, watching and hoping that protonmail would change their address, to give them cover to change the ranking manually?
Finding new revenue models is a good idea; one that deserves many attempts.

The internet gives us the ability to discover for ourselves. Broadcasting commercials to everyone is the old method being applied to the new medium.

The amount of tracking on the internet by the advertising industry is damaging to our privacy rights.

It can(does) lead to poor quality content being published on the internet in hopes of more advertising revenue.

I applaud CoinTent for testing their idea.
The way I read it was "It's naive to think that companies (like people) are just black and white, and that nothing good can come out of an evil company, or vice versa. The fact that I like some of its technologies doesn't necessarily mean I agree with the company's direction."

Although, M$ (woo) has changed significantly over the years.
How to make epic pancakes with your Japanese rice cooker (2014)
Why would it be a disaster for a big company?
Why?
Certainly one would expect the form of the discussions to be a bit different - eg, as part of a performance eval tool, instead of a company-wide discussion - but I don't see why it would be a disaster.

In fact, given the number of people who said this would be a disaster for a company of 25 people two years ago, there's an even greater onus to provide real reasons transparent salaries couldn't work at other companies.
Broadly speaking, the search engines aren't disclosing these algorithms because we know then people will abuse them. Disclosing them publicly may have the paradoxical effect of introducing even more distortion into the system.

The only solution I can see is just ensuring there's more competition, and even that isn't a perfect one.
Kinda funny that a +1 with no verbiage is still rated.

I will note I am enjoying reading these comments especially the ones that have real data points, real implementations and considerations of database structures/architectures on both of the products vs. gripes of the brands.
Exactly this, and not the parent. Linux gave me a lot - I learnt about sockets, system calls, shell, perl (I've forgotten all the perl), Python and worked for Red Hat & IBM's Linux group, and I wouldn't change that for the world or tell someone they'll "understand eventually" - I'm not that rude nor do I believe that at all.

I still deploy on Linux. But I hack node all day on a Surface Book, using ConEmu/posh and it's rad.
In regards to advertising, I believe they do more harm to societies than good, or will in the future. I'm not 100% set in my ways, but definitely lean the way of ads being harmful.

I believe that advertisements have been a requirement of humanities growth (related to the world's economy). I agree that at the moment we need ads. However, I believe the world needs to move to a transparent economy and ads as we know them may not have a place in that sort of economy.
Could be worse. Back in the day, it was somewhat common to do inline JavaScript in HTML by:

* Using a script tag,

* Whose contents began with a JavaScript comment,

* With the remainder of the JS-commented line beginning a CDATA block.

Then at the end of the script you'd have another JS-commented line to end the CDATA block.
wow least intelligent comment ever congrats
The domain name system functions fine regardless of who has the DNSSEC root keys or what they do with them. The private keys could be posted to Pastebin today and --- I mean this literally --- nothing important on the Internet would break.

"Ceremony" is a good word for what this stuff is.
+1 for worrydream.com. I don't mind the scrolling, once you're in a post it's fine. It's an experiment in UX after all.

This is the best one I've read: http://worrydream.com/#!/ClimateChange

The visualisations and interactions are really helpful in aiding understanding. It's nice to see people trying out new ways of presenting information.
It's a little grayer than that. If there was a breach of the root servers, then it would be trivial for most DNS administrators to change to a new set of DNS root hints once new root servers were put online. Since most consumers use the DNS servers of their ISP, there would likely be less impact than might be thought.
Looking forward to this!
> There's a lot to be said for generalists, or "T-shaped" people. Every single project requires a large breadth of skills all up and down the stack... and a lot of moving pieces (client, server, markup, JS, CSS, blah blah blah) that work together.

That's not really the meaning of T shaped, as I understand it. The point of the T shape is that you have a lot of breadth (the top of the T) as well as a deep depth in an area or two (the stem of the T).
I'm a PhD student, and I doubt I could have said it better. And depending on the field you're in, your only choice might be working as a postdoc until a suitable academic position opens up. Thankfully, there a way more options post-PhD in engineering.
One Slide Deck – A Startup/TED Talk Inspired Improv Game
An Introduction to XPath: How to Get Started
I am a graduate student with similar goals (though already have a job)

Here is my site:

http://www.akshaybhat.com

I optimized it for following:

0. Responsive

1. Easy to understand layout

2. Images to highlight projects

3. A professional picture.

4. Contact & email information.

Don't bother fighting email collecting bots, they already have billions of them due to breaches and most likely yours if it appears on Have I Been Pwned. Rather I recommend optimizing on usability and making it easier for human reader to send you an email.

Note: The design looks slightly different on desktop and mobile. E.g. on desktop it loads institution logos and uses a two columns or efficient use of the space.
Great article. Data driven.
In '96, NYC told Trump he couldn’t put his name on the Columbus Circle globe
Flipcode Archive
I'd recommend the travel writing of Richard Francis Burton: adventurer, spy, scholar, and all-around erudite Victorian badass.[1]

Burton was famous for being the first non-muslim to see Mecca and Medina (which he did in disguise), when the penalty for non-mulsims entering the holy cities was death. He did the same in other dangerous places as well, taking similar risks. Burton also wrote a famous translation of the Thousand and One Nights (aka Arabian Nights)[2], translated the Kama Sutra and other works.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton

[2] - Burton's is by far my favorite translation of the Thousand and One Nights. You can read it for free at Project Gutenberg.[3]

[3] - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3435
The Reality of Getting Started with Test-Driven Development
Seriously? You'd be like "Oh my god! Your [boobs|penis|whatever] look nothing like the picture you sent me! We're over!!"

I can't honestly think I'd care.
While it's good to critically revise such concepts, there are a few things worth nothing:

1. there is a spectrum of wealth. of course it's better to have millions rather than spiderwebs in the bank, but it's inappriate to use as reference, in reasoning, the exact opposite.

2. quite subtle: everybody has a boss. even if you're the CEO, it may be the board; or it's the clients (don't think that because you have a very successful product, the market demand aligns with your wishes); or it's even the managing position itself (what will happen two weeks after completely disconnecting from your ten thousands people company?).

3. people's standards increase with the salary, therefore everybody has to work to mantain such standards. you won't see a millionaire living in an 80 sqm apartment in the suburbs or moving around with bike (so to speak); therefore, even a millionaire will have to work.

there are so many other small subtle misconceptions, but I think 2. and 3. are very important to keep in mind.

don't get me wrong, it's been said and studied that a (minimum) position of middle/upper middle class relieves from many of the problems of the likeness you reference, while at the same time giving enough freedom in one's choices, but I think it's wise to separate the ability to prepare/make life choices which give freedom, from the perceiving wealth as the source of freedom.

All IMHO!
If only I had a dime for each time a politician tried to explain their own downfall through supposed distortions of reality, or people's inability to swallow a particular narrative.
I hear that line of reasoning frequently and Im not sure it has a leg to stand on. Telegrams by their nature are going to be terse and infrequent certainly not a ponderous essay you can mull over. And are we seriously arguing that in the, comparatively, "larger" world of the early 20th century where many communities could be completely isolated from differing ideas there was some how greater access to a wider variety of information?

My personal hypothesis (although Im not as familiar with more rigorous investigation into the subject) is reactionary culture in the "first world" is less to do with content accessibility and more to do with availability of time as compared to the signal to noise ratio of our information sources. It's not that people are becoming less informed than the past, just that we have many more tools at our disposal to find conflicting information.

It's certainly a dangerous thing to put on the rose colored glasses and look to the past.
How Our Workplace Culture Results in a High Percentage of Female Developers
Do you ever feel that maybe you shouldn't talk about things you don't understand?

Working a prop trading firm is nowhere near "making rich people richer via gambling in the financial markets".

Furthermore, the majority of software/engineering jobs out there are not doing "something more beneficial to society". How many companies are really just ad-driven, marketing-driven.

Yes, it would be nice if the entire world could focus on "something like curing cancer", but other things need to get done. And the majority of people have bills to pay.

I am very similar to the OP, except I bailed halfway through the PhD, because I realized that, in academia, I will work 80 hours a week for $40k, or I can go into finance and work half that and make multiples more.

I can now donate/spend my money to causes like "curing cancer" or "making art" and let somebody who really wants to devote their life to that craft do so.
After you define salary ranges for positions the only variables left are promotions and experience within the role. I don't think it makes sense to have people that are not working with a person decide that. I think the direct boss of the person should decide after getting input from others and subject to approval by the boss' boss.
Making Devs, Architects, and Managers Happy with the Static Analysis Tool
I think i'm about to follow your academical steps, can i ask you a few questions by mail?
(the one i found is for an (ex?) UC professor)
Trump gets 200,000 more mentions per day than Clinton on Twitter
NativeScript for the .NET Developer
New Instagram notification feature when someone screenshots your stories
Yes, and the way to do that is to let free speech be, and completely ignore the GTA/Samsung parody video.

Separately, IMO it's very much Streisand Effect here, as there's no way I'd've seen the GTA video without the takedown notice.
>Tell me if you think you can make the claim that "religious people understand the world less" from that.

You just quoted the demographics of the study... the argument cannot be made from just the demographics. Here is the actual claim.[1]

>The title should be 'Christian Finns understand the world less compared to non-christian Finns"

Why? Are the Finnish so different from the rest of the world that we can't accept these results? Are the Finns so far removed from the rest of humanity that we can't use them as a sample?

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/acp.3248/ful...
True, but it seems like they have a system where everyone can share feedback on whether someone else gets a raise or not. That's certainly not the case in the US Govt.
Not just that, the descriptions you find online of how it works simply don't prepare you for the reality of using it. It's a bunch of boxes and arrows when what you really want is what to do when things inevitably don't work how they are supposed to.

I mean, everyone who has written a guide to rebasing must live on Mars. They show how your branch used to point to this box, but now it points to THIS box! And then what you really get when you actually try to use it is a bunch of conflicts between changes that affect files you haven't done anything to and a shit ton of confusion.
this thought process is pure brainwashing by the left
I understand it for consumers. If it was Home edition only, fine. The problem is when Microsoft issues a cumulative update that A. fixes a critical vulnerability and B. breaks network printing, as an IT administrator I have to decide whether I want to leave a gaping security hole in our network until Microsoft fixes the printing issue, or push the update and break everyone's workflow until Microsoft fixes the printing issue.

In the past, I'd simply hold the update that breaks network printing, and push the security update.
"Anti-abuse" in practice is revenue-negative; regardless of whether you think it's a good moral position, kicking people with tons of followers off the platform for starting inter-celebrity drama (or sometimes for no clear reason at all) reduces platform engagement.

If they really wanted to, they could provide cost-free tooling that would let people prevent seeing "abusive" tweets (email spam prevention is a solved problem after all), but putting humans in the loop is done so they can decide at a whim the spectrum of acceptable opinion (try merely insulting a Saudi-affiliated account & see how quickly you get banned, now that the KSA owns more of them than Jack does).

So given that they're losing money & the position is revenue-negative, the scenarios are:

- Bought by Google or somesuch, which has their own robust content filtering teams, making you redundant

- Bought by hedge fund as a moneymaking venture, making you redundant

I would not sign up.
No idea if this is legit yet but I'm following it up. Can see this causing a lot of bloody drama in the future if it is.
Usually the pay for a job is within a range. This range can be quite large so you will have people with the same job making different money.
The Martians Are Coming–and They’re Human
23andMe has given up on NGS
Yes, many variations of that exact thing! They always want to find X such that you'll take the job for X+1. Never be the first to say a number!
I'm not on the forgive train yet, but with the Apple computer ecosystem (as in things that look and behave like a PC-esque device) becoming increasingly hostile, I'm actually seriously considering going back to Windows.

The deal breaker is having a unix shell. I have worked on a system with a native unix environment for a decade and a half, going back to to the windows shell is not an option.

Thankfully, the Linux Subsystem for windows works pretty well already and with some further iteration I think it could become viable for most of my development needs.

When that happens I don't feel any loyalty to apple and will happily move over.
> simply install Linux...

What kind of hardware are you "simply install[ing] Linux" on? Was it really that simple?

The reason I ask is because every single time I try to install Linux on actual hardware, it's a nightmare.

Meanwhile, everywhere that I install Windows - it just works.
His advice is damn close to saying that you should invest all your money into lottery tickets because, hey, it worked for him. Sample of one. It's great that he has been able to prosper that way, though I do wonder how he got by during those times he was broke and whether that same support is available to others. Statistically, his approach would be a disaster for most people. The only point worth remembering is that some people really are blind to their own luck and privilege.
I made my own song up something about ...little baby falls asleep so dad can go back to bed...
Adblockers reduce the amount of requests a page makes, the amount of resources dom elements use up and the amount of malware that gets served to users.

Being served static ads or sponsored content (already happening anyway) is still an improvement over that.
The Cintiq also isn't HDR and has a different aspect ratio, making the square inch size difference much greater than just a 1 inch diagonal increase would imply.
Is this based on OpenCV? You say "machine learning models", but the Github org says "computer vision as a service". Screenshots would be nice too :)
Isn't this the old meaning of "put your money where your mouth is"? What other meaning does it have?
Anyone have any success/tips using webpack with django collectstatic?
Ten months in the air without landing
Now I'm smiling that smile too!
But what about infamous Win10 data collection, forced updates, etc.?
All these cognitives biases actually tell you that your instincts are not working properly, they are biased. Sure it will be faster (your biases, your prejudices will guide your decision), but not necessarily better.

If you see a spider, your instinct is to kill it, it's not necessarily the better solution.
That did cross my mind, but I couldn't really ask it anonymously. Indeed, 20 minutes after posting, I got a kind and funny Twitter DM from the hiring manager offering to discuss any concerns people here raised.

Based on my experience with the people there, I figured they wouldn't mind. You can't really work at Twitter without believing deeply in honest public dialog as a way to solve problems. Indeed, I heard about the job through a retweet and I responded publicly, so for me this has always been public.

And it's provided some unexpected benefits. I've already received some great emails from people, including encouraging ones from within Twitter and from people I respect who might want to join me in solving the problem.
Shipping, delivery of a product/useful labor, is my definition of value far more than experience. If you're a nobody but I can trust you to Get Shit Done (tm), you are more valuable to me than a greater number of "Steve Jobs" who I can't rely on as much. As such, the last thing I want to do is remove a hugely meaningful incentive someone has to push hard and differentiate themselves.

Now this certainly has moral pitfalls, if you use it as a carrot to get people to keep upping the ante on each other, but at some point we have to trust the autonomy of our workers to be able to say no. (I believe that management can help with this as well concurrent with keeping salary-based differentiation, by things such as enforcing not working outside of work hours, mandated vacation time, salary transparency and clear metrics for what achieving more/success means, etc)
Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
Much more rewarding to be an asshole on the internet, I'm sure.
How to recreate the iOS camera button?
Do you mean everyone in the same role, or everyone in the company? I guess you could argue that everyone contributes equally in their own way, but it sounds like it would be hard to deal with market rates. For example, if the market rate for a support agent is $30k and the market rate for a developer is $70k what do you do?
Here’s What Slack Needs to Do to Become an Operating System
It's sad that this is true.
Proofing something wrong for the first time is not valued as it should be- and blunt honesty is neither.
The honesty of "the results where inconclusive" is still murderous for a scientific career in some fields.
No, it's probably commentary, but if you'd like to explain to me how by definition it's a Parody (based on the Four Factor test) then by all means I'd like to read it. Otherwise you're just asserting a point without any grounding, re: Fair Use. As in, what your opinion of Fair Use is may not be aligned with the law so let's have a look at that.

The EFF is still a habitual abuser of language relating to Copyright, and I suppose that ticks off some people, but I fucking hate propaganda and they're guilty of it on a routine basis.
This is an artifact of evolution - mental shortcuts enabled faster decision making, and species that got to the conclusion fastest survived. Of course, there is an error rate, but as long as it was small, the faster decision makers won.

Logic is simply a way to systematically eliminate these errors in wetware (and ultimately hardware).
Damn. As a 4th year PhD student, this hit me hard. You've worded my feelings on academia better than I ever could.

Edit: I see Cyph0n has beaten me by a few minutes. Oh well.
is there a better way to get server side rendering rather than a whole dependency on node for a django project?
It's potentially a risk - after all, there isn't and can't really be an equivalent of Steam on Android or iOS. But at the moment it doesn't seem likely.