skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fictional short story involving a fictional poetry contest centering around the theme of Snowden. It's not an article or even an opinion column. Nothing wrong with fiction, just wanted to point this out as an FYI.
In light of the recent (fake?) news about contending camps in the deep state, interesting to consider if Edward here was a CIA asset doing damage to an adverserial NSA.
> It's pretty likely this is a shove-back for Trump aggravating China over Taiwan.

[Citation needed]

Is this Trump's fault too ?

Obama administration files trade challenge against China

Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:48 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid new tensions with China, the Obama administration on Thursday launched its 15th challenge against Beijing at the Word Trade Organization, escalating a long-simmering debate over practices that U.S. officials say limit American farmers' ability to export rice, wheat and corn to the Asian powerhouse.
He could have gone to the IG: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/nsa-inspector-general-...
Is that a comercial product?
"Folks"?
Where are these carbon taxes? The only one I was aware of was in Australia, but that got repealed.
Unfortunately, even where it is common and normal language, "girl" to a woman holds implications that "guy" to a man doesn't. Specifically, that the woman is in a lesser position of power, since they're being referred to as a term that is used for young females, while the men are being referred to using a term which affirms their difference from young males.

There's a point in the language that we use where boys with little power become guys with some power, but there isn't a point where girls with little power become [some word we don't really have outside of regional vernacular].

Our language is not perfect (even mine isn't) - the things we say on an everyday basis show all sorts of things we as a society implicitly believe, often without realising it. That our language reflects our society, and vice versa, is a very old idea, and part of modern feminism and the academia which backs it tries to bring that to the forefront.
Whoops, I missed your reply (and you'll probably miss mine).

Apparently so. I just went there one day and it was gone. There were rumors like a fit of rage or the owner no longer wanting to be associated with cheat coding, but as an outsider to the scene I really don't know what happened.
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 2
The game gets good when there are only two players left. One of them can kill the other and go to jail, but would still win. This might end in an interesting black-mirror-ish social drama, in which public opinion could become a factor.

For example, what if both remaining players were trying to kill each other, does the winner deserve to go to jail?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/16/politics/chinese-warship-under...

> Although it's unclear what the motivation was for the Chinese, the seizing of the drone comes on the heels of other provocative incidents that have happened since President-elect Donald Trump received a congratulatory call with Taiwan's President, a violation of the US's agreement with China's "One China policy". China publicly voiced their disapproval of that incident and contacted the White House at the time.
They decided not to upgrade most of their mobiles from wp7 to wp8. They promised not to do that again, then did it again when they decided not to upgrade most of their mobiles from wp8.1 to wp10.

Windows 10 is rubbish for reasons I'm not even going to explain because we all are well aware of them. They also have inconvenienced millions of people to make us upgrade even if we didn't want to.

They got rid of all their QA. Quality of all of their software has gone downhill since then. They don't care.

They put ads in their OS which we already had paid for.

They are doing all they can to get rid of win32. That's going to be their bane, as win32 is the only reason most of us still use windows.

That's all I know of the recent Microsoft.

Fuck Microsoft.
Is he also part of the Rebel Alliance?
Can you provide a source for how President Obama ignored the Republicans for his first two years in office? Or are you suggesting that because Reid moved to invoke cloture a record number of times in 2007, this is an indication that the Democrats are ignoring the Republicans because more filibusters are being broken than ever before?
You'd be surprised! I've interviewed many "veterans" (and worked with a few!) who just don't have the chops.

In the world of web development, the developer who knows just enough to skate by without a proper understanding of algorithms and design patterns seems to be the rule rather than the exception.

Kudos to him for acknowledging it and trying to do something about it.
If not 5 or 6.

#Countries with little tech jobs where one MUST have a master's.
Hey, remove that link, please. News about M$ must be paid news.
I would bet you that the mechanism of state surveillance continues to expand, and that none of the people who created or expanded it are ever brought to any account.

The NSA's take-away from the Snowden revelations was that they have to be more careful with their IT staff. The NSA is not pulling back on their unconstitutional surveillance.

I am advocating for a complete stop to the violation of individual privacy, not just a meaningless token gesture.
That is not remotely what the free rider problem is.
Everything is an expression in Ruby, yes. Even `class` and `def` and `module`, for example. Though class, as a specific example, returns nil, so it's not terribly useful that it is one.
There is no quote that can translate that context well. And it was sexist, perhaps even meant to be complimentary and not necessary. But it was not evil. What he did was not the point. The point is what followed and how it was handled. And every employee has more than one supervisor. I feel like you are totally missing why I wrote this piece by focusing on one sentence.
Older workers are a protected class but younger workers are not. So specifically recruiting older workers is actually no problem.
Not far. My last car was a Toyota Yaris 2001, and the display (center top) only has percentage, and it's not very fine-grained: http://i.imgur.com/ESXap6F.jpg
I approached my management when the situation escalated, who directed me to HR. Instead of helping me, HR embarked on a defensive and confrontational script.

For better or worse, HR is there to protect the company, not the employee. This is why many times they report in through legal. It's not fair, but it's the way companies work.
It's terribly long and incredibly riveting. I read the whole thing.
sounds like your approach complimented his as much as his complemented yours!
The Government Finally Has a Realistic Estimate of Killings by Police
Interesting. I agree, not having to reinvent wheels is always good. In my experience there's a lot to fight with frameworks like Foundation, Bootstrap, and even Material. If you're all in philosophically then I suppose there wouldn't be much to change, but if you disagree on certain UI principles there's going to be rough times ahead.
Morocco and Algeria are definitely Arabic countries.

They speak Arabic officially, they belong to the 'Arab league', they are Muslim (because of Arabic colonialization).

I'm 100% aware of what the Berbers are, save your insults for Reddit.

They were colonized by Arabs 1000 years ago, and they fit quite fundamentally into the Arab sphere of influence.

Obviously, they are all different, and 'more different' the further you get from the Gulf ... but most Arab countries are in fact, quite different as well.

Geopolitically - they are basically M/E countries. Our approach to them has nothing to do with 'the rest of Africa' and everything to do with the status of other M/E countries.
I asked about this about once before, and I thought the comment from dfraser992 [0] was interesting.

> the UK, culturally, regards software engineers or those similar to be little more than educated manual labor. You're not in management, so you're labor.

I agree there is a pronounced two-tier culture in British business. In most companies, confidence and leadership are seen as more important qualities than technical excellence.

Ultimately software development is seen as a cost to be minimised wherever possible.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987583
You mean the IG that is facing termination for retaliating against other whistleblowers?

http://www.pogo.org/blog/2016/12/intelligence-community-land...
> When people call females girls they are not infantalising them.

Yes, they often are. And this is often the way it is received, regardless of intent.

edit: And, for the record, "females" is also a favorite objectifying shibboleth in certain circles. (Not accusing you, necessarily.) Just use "women".
The Pyret style much more closely follows the abstract (divorces from any particular PL) analytical, contract-based problem solving approach taught as central to programming and as properly preceding actually writing code in, e.g. How to Design Programs (which uses Racket as the concrete programming language.)

So, for a curriculum based on that basic approach that starts with the analytical methods and then adds concrete programming on top of it, the Pyret approach -- which requires and gives effect to elements of the analytical product that Python would not require and provides no convenient means to clean express that also gives it concrete effect -- is probably both simpler (as the two-way correspondence between code and analysis is better) and more productive.

It's probably not particularly useful to discuss the quality of a pedagogically-focussed language outside of the context of an approach to pedagogy.
I didn't even work with him directly - he was just there and decided to pick on me, yes. And yes, that was the gist of the experience.
A dead man's switch with a very short time-out would make that kind of attack a lot harder.

For the extremely security-conscious, it could even be a kind of fail-deadly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-deadly) feature that wipes the phone.
Encrypted messenger Wire adds usernames to limit what you share with contacts
> So, I wonder if it's just a universal Spanish proverb?

Probably! The older exact match I could find in Google Books is from 1846, in a Yucatán periodical: https://books.google.es/books?id=VNgtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=%22p...
Please, let's not turn this into a discussion where you work out the best way to "get laid". Be respectful.
How Google's search algorithm spreads false information with a rightwing bias
It's ok if the other does it?
Automated Inference on Sociopsychological Impressions of Attractive Female Faces
The question was paraphrased from the Hawking quote:

"Why are we here? Where do we come from?"
Thanks. Yes, I get it. I had read part of the Ousterhout book. And also Don Libes' Expect book uses Tcl, since Expect is written in it. Had read a lot of that too. Both very good ones. Didn't get to use Tcl in projects though. I'd read some years ago that Tcl was used heavily in the electronics / EDA industry.
My guess is immigration was the main reason those tech executives accepted the invitation. My bold bet is Trump removes or significantly hinders the H-1B system but enacts a new program giving green cards to any foreigner that earns a masters degree in the US, which is basically the nightmare scenario for any Trump supporter.
> Agreed. It's a bit naive for a bunch of AI researchers who know nothing about VC to be judging a few VCs for showing interest.

I see no reason the VCs shouldn't keep some technical experts on staff to make these kinds of evaluations.
You mean those where people are forced to join the union whether they want to or not? Because those are very much a thing. Try becoming a public school teacher or police officer without joining a union.
The Silk Road reference--is he saying he was working for Chinese interests? Where was the sensor data coming from?

I understand it's probably a painful story to tell, but a lot of little details are missing here, and they'd probably help both the author's friends and new readers like me understand what happened.
New Fast “Programmable Tooling” Tech Rivals Continuous DLP 3D Printing
> sysctl -A | ag watt

Gives nothing. Why it's not shown? rMBP late 2013, macOS 10.12.2.
That's one I often use. It's truly gender-neutral. "Alright folks, let's get this meeting started." vs "Alright guys, let's get this meeting started."
TLDR: "Java SE is free (for desktops, notebooks, smartphones and tablets) but Java SE Advanced Desktop, Advanced and Suite are not."
I wrote a battery meter (BatteryBar) 8 years ago that uses a more complex algorithm to calculate an "average time remaining" rather than instantaneous. Basically, my software keeps track of how long the battery has lasted in the past and uses that to inform the current time remaining (with adjustments based on current discharge rates, etc).

I'm not sure why Microsoft/Apple haven't done something similar. I've even sold licenses to Surface Pro sales reps that they use to show off the battery life of the Surface to potential enterprise clients.
And free food all year along!
Oh, CNN. Not a credible source, that's just editorializing.

Can you quote a member of the Chinese govt. saying so ?

"Motives unclear" yeah ok, must be Trump's fault.
The lawyer was correct. If you have reason to suspect the FBI is watching you, they already have what they need. The men-in-black routine is meant to alter your behavior, to cause you to do something rare like empty an account or contact a distant friend. This was federal investigation 101.

Walk past the car and photograph the driver. They really love that.
Posting because this is making the rounds on my social networks with conversations mainly landing in "this is despicable, but how can you police arXiv which is not peer-reviewed without impinging on academic freedom" and I thought this community might have some good thoughts and insights.
The idea that a contractor is going to be unbiased when they're getting paid by the corporation is sort of absurd. They know where their bread is buttered, and it's not from employees filing complaints.
Everything get prefixed by the package namespace, so things pulled from github.com/group_name/package ends up looking like `github_com_group_name_package_class_funcname. This why why "rebuilding" the function names was a good way to quickly filter out the "known" code from the malicious functionality.
Self-driving cars: Uber's open defiance of CA shines light on brazen tactics
Yes because why would we want someone to be able to choose whether or not they want to give part of their paycheck to a third party?
state law might have different wording too...
Issues at work can become serious. Even before there was attention on sexism/racism related issues, burnout was a well recognized mental illness.

And the thing with stress is that it doesn't need to build up overnight. Even a constant low level source of stress can build up to something big over time. Since we spend a major portion of our waking lives at work, it shouldn't be surprising that our jobs can cause mental illnesses.

Also before we can say "it's just a job", are we in a position to remove the necessity of jobs? So that we don't have to worry what will happen if we don't have a source of income or if we don't a career?
And some people use the perfectly well defined word "literally" to mean "figuratively". Because some people are idiots.
I would say that passing Obamacare without a single Republican vote in either the House or Senate counts as 'ignoring the Republicans'. I would also say that Reid's alteration of Senate rules (A.K.A. 'the nuclear option') was done to avoid compromising with the Republicans.

There are many other examples of this sort of behavior, and I am not saying that either side is 'better than the other', just that President Obama was not an innocent victim of mean partisans.
Save yourself a lot of pain (and money) by choosing your AWS Region wisely
Technically, the Common Lisp standard leaves it up to the implementation what to do with type declarations--in practice, I get compile time warnings for violating them (as well as for violating inferred types). Type declarations will not lead to runtime checks, you need to use CHECK-TYPE or similar for that.

Typed Racket is more extensive and gives errors at compile time. I don't know very much about how it works in Clojure.
Beyond Tweetstorming
Please go in to some detail on how the actions of Congress excuse the actions of the President.
Nadella didn't campaign on it, and it benefits tech companies to have a ready supply of cheap workers who can be kicked out of the country if they quit.

So I imagine it was pretty easy for him to say that.
He's talking about the Silk Road marketplace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
> Kudos to him for acknowledging it and trying to do something about it.

That's a bad strategy for himself.

He shouldn't acknowledge it and he should go to work for one company that do not care about that.
Why isn't it fair? Can you imagine an HR department that advocated for an individual employee if their needs directly contradicted the needs of the larger organization?
Finally real smooth scrolling on Linux with the touchpad and Chrome 54
0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt
I try to let new grads know this and they still fall for it. Just like when Goldman Saks comes calling. They just do not see these companies and the experience for what it is.
Yeah, ten year ago it was very innovative.
True, but mods lean heavily towards original titles vs editorializing.
Ask HN: I have been sued by a patent troll what do I do?
I run a website development company and have been sued by a patent troll in the Eastern District Court of Texas for supposedly violating a patent on building websites using online software. What do I do next?
Let me try. Send me your info i'd love to chat about it.
What were the drones doing in South China Sea? If anybody sends a drone in my backyard, I would shoot it down righteously.
The Scorpion Express
A whole career of very short jobs isn't great though. One particularly valuable kind of experience is seeing a project through and understanding how early decisions went awry later on.

Some older coders I work with might not have obsessively learned the latest framework, but they can identify issues like "that's the kind of subsystem that one person ends up maintaining, and then they leave and it's awful", or "We did something similar in the 1990s, and it didn't go so well because it is overly complex. Is there a simpler way to do this?".
How much of the revenue from these mistakes is facebook going to return to the advertisers?
You are right. I was thinking of the price you get when you buy it off the shelf (which is also now cheaper as it used to be).
This is awesome! Any plans for TypeScript support?
I think if you focus on their mobile apps and services, rather than their mobile phones, the statement has some pretty serious merit. E.g., Azure's mobile services are used very heavily by iOS and Android apps, I see Office all the time on phones, and so on.
These comments contribute absolutely nothing to the discussion. Are you trying to be inflammatory?
While I appreciate the trolling, it just feels like people in general are abusing the most important idea in the history of humanity.

Exploring the possible early components (DRN, GAN) that could lead cumulatively to AGI is not a joke. It's going to be more powerful than nuclear or bio weapons. Are those funny?
As someone who has been at the same place, my two cents.

When I developed my first app, my knowledge of css and javascript as very basic. I could identify working code and worked by cut/paste.

I was overwhelmed by the number of options available compared to backend dev, which is pretty much stable. I posted on HN and the consensus of the majority was to use bootstrap as it was widely used.

For a beginner learning on your own, you need to have lots of support when you run into walls. Because of the large community, Bootstrap has a wide userbase and most usecases are covered by some tutorial or a question on stackoverflow. JQuery is well seasoned library, so less bugs and more support.

Also, your need is to release your SAAS app as soon as possible. A framework or library that does not throw you any surprises and has a good coverage of components is your best bet.

My javascript interactions were not too detailed, so I stuck with JQuery. Your mileage may vary.

Now I have had some validation for my product, and I realized that legacy browsers form a very small part of the visitors but a reasonable portion of them were on mobile, I have set down the path of making the app mobile friendly.

Armed with the knowledge gained from bootstrap and jquery, I have a general plan of what layout and interactions I need, and also how to go about achieving them. Currently I am reimplementing them in sass with a few libraries and vanilla js. The page size has come down from 312Kb to 35Kb. But if I had attempted pure js/css at the start I believe, the project would have been mired in unnecessary complexities.
tyingq, your line of inquiry reads as a rather aggressive litigation of someone who is a self-identified victim of harassment. I can't speak to your soul, so I don't know if it's intentional or not, but in so doing, you're actually contributing to the harassment in some small way. Other women who read this story and these comments could see the way you're doubting and questioning the author on her experiences, and easily take that as stay silent on her own negative experiences. Think about the effects of your words; defer to empathy over suspicion :)
Something wrong with this guy...all this future Googler talk with disclaimer asides about "what if I don't get hired"...and yet he's talking about how you can do it and your success plan.

Anyhow, in general it's getting really weird hearing more stuff like "Google is the best" and "I just have to work there". I question your judgement if you are making these sort of statements as an outsider. At least join the party before you drink the koolaid.
>the attacker will simply wait until the laptop is unlocked.

A potential counter measure is for the machine to periodically encrypt itself again and prevent use until a password/key is supplied ("clamming up"). This would prevent an attacker who snatched a logged-into computer from having unbounded carte blanche access to the machine. I'm envisioning something that every 10 minutes locks itself.

Does anyone know of such a solution?
Todo:
1) Electrocute a dog
2) Electrocute an elephant
3) Electrocute a man

All to prove the dangers of AC power.

http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-tortured...
I'm not trying to be pedantic here or unnecessarily argumentative when I disagree and say indeed, in-app purchases are inherently problematic.

They open up pandora's box and allow game devs to focus on superficialities to increase revenue (such as a bonus level, ways to skip level, etc..). Were the playing field completely even -- no in-app purchases -- gameplay would necessarily have to win out and people might spend more time reading mobile game reviews.

When you can be angry bird and get on the top grossing list for a long, long time because you got in-app purchases, I believe it skews the data and as a result, many are poorly informed as to which game truly is the best.
You either commit to fighting, or you capitulate.

If you fight, it will be expensive, but you will likely win, and establish a precedent that's good for the whole world.

If you capitulate, it will be expensive.