skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the experiment you mentioned, the fine is small enough, that it doesn't produce any significant revenues. The goal is to minimize the number of people who show up late.

Imagine if the day-care made the "fine" high enough that they actually want people to show up late. Ie, think credit-card interest rates and late-payment fees. In that case, regardless of whether tardiness goes up-or-down, the daycare would win either way.

Let's compare this to Ben Horowitz' situation. Imagine if it takes him 5 minutes to read and send a cookie-cutter response. That works out to a hourly rate of $240/hour. Even for a VC, that's a pretty damn good hourly rate. If Ben stops getting spammed by people, I think he'd be perfectly happy with that. If he were to get flooded by spammers willing to pay him $500k/year to send cookie-cutter responses, I think he'd be ok with that as well. It's a win-win for him.
Ask HN: Facebook is listening to your conversations
This happened in last 5 minutes.

Was speaking to a friend about Wix website builder.
And within a minute in my FB news feed - I see Wix relevant link (link was from techcrunch: http://tcrn.ch/2jdnFeM)

The news item is published on Jan 19th i.e 6 days ago! I haven't seen that link in my last week of social media browsing. How did it all of a sudden became relevant ? Freaky!
Rohan,

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking for, but I'll try to give a few helpful answers

1.) You may not have the ability to effect change for the entire organization, but if you do, you may want to look into software specifically for human resource functions: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492792,00.asp

2.) For a pragmatic approach, and if you have a small team, you may want to do a mid-year practice review with your team members. This will do two things: (1) it will ensure they fill out their reviews properly and (2) it will make sure they know how they will be judged before it's time for the formal review.

3.) If you have a large team, I would schedule a meeting where you show team members the correct way to fill out the spreadsheet. And then schedule an hour on their calendars for alone time at their desk to properly fill out the reviews.
>most people don't see POSIX threads are an inherently broken abstraction.

o.O

> A thread? Cooperative code sharing data. But how do you cooperate? You send signals.

O.o

> Threads (and implicitly signals) on the other hand are convenient fantasies that we would like to exist but are actually just fantasies.

O.O

I'm not sure how this relates to python but it was entertaining at least.
It was quite a few years back but I don't remember it as being a big deal after I was briefly laid off post-9/11. As I recall I filled out forms to be covered but never actually paid in because there's a grace period and I got a new job after about a month. All things medical can get complicated, but COBRA should just be a continuation of your existing coverage.
Tbh, my definition would be based less on fact than feeling. I lived in Brooklyn, and not terribly nice area of Brooklyn, so to me, "rich white people" were the ones who lived in nice apartments in Manhattan, or in really nice neighborhoods in Brooklyn. So I'd doubt all of their parents made more than 1mil/year, but I'm sure some did. If I had to ballpark, they probably made ~500k/year on average.

> I certainly didn't met any kids in high school that had any kind of money to flash (a fancy car or other expensive things to show off).

I've never met anyone that's similar to Hollywood movie characters. I'm not sure they really "flashed" their money, but it was clear they had access to nice things. Their clothes were definitely nicer, their parents would take them out to plays and expensive dinners.

It's possible this is the case because I grew up in NYC as opposed to the suburbs. The stereotypical "rich white person" in New York is exorbitantly rich. Maybe I'm just referring to those who were upper-middle class
You can test the video resolution you're getting from Netflix with this video: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70136810

The resolution and bitrate is burned in for each quality level they stream. I'm topping out at 3000kbps/720p in Chrome. I don't have a Windows machine to test on, though.
I think http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/20/writing-advice/ is not really what you're looking for but is on the same continent.
Way to much hate here. I run an app with ~30k users and I never get any complaints about lag or comments on the stores that reflect negative on the performance. All criticism I've received has been by my own missteps.

Ionic 2 has given me two platforms and a great development experience. The few times I've had problems they have an amazing responsive team on Slack that's helped me out right away.
Hey this looks great - but this is what I see in Australia: http://imgur.com/H62UBYE when I search the appstore.
If you restrict yourself to calculable numbers, you're capped at the busy beaver number[1] for the number of rules you're willing to allow in your Turing machine.

[1]: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
And, as I can attest first hand along with more than a couple other employees, a highly incompetent boss can result in talent fleeing and the collapse of an entire functioning team responsible for millions in project bids annually.
Students 'Given Dose Equivalent to 300 Coffees' in Botched Test
I read last year accusations some android apps were in trouble for undisclosed listening to identify ads on television, that might be a good starting point for more information, it's technically possible something was listening.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ftc-android-developers-a...
Finally hopeful for better dependency management! I was digging through the source code and see it works with mercurial, git and bazaar using a hash or tag (so you can lock a package down to either): https://github.com/sdboyer/gps/blob/master/vcs_source.go#L22...

I'm guessing gps will be merged into the stdlib at some point.
Stockpiling to an extent makes sense, in my mind. Things like food and water to last at least a few weeks, ideally months or a year, are quite practical. Because the moment a problem is obvious, it's too late to get them. If you've ever lived in a hurricane area and let your toilet paper supply run low before an event, you'll know what I'm talking about ;) Alternatively, if you've ever been sick and not wanted to leave the house for a week, or lost a job and wanted to limit what you're spending, etc.

Also, stockpiling should be done smart. If fuel doesn't last long, make sure you're using things like fuel extenders to keep them usable. And ideally, make it part of your daily life. Stockpiling 5 or 500 gallons of water in your apartment or house is a great idea (when the water main breaks after an earthquake, would you rather be the person who can help others because you know you're taken care of, or the guy who's fighting off dehydration while he waits for the red cross to arrive?), but keep using it. Don't buy one of those blue tanks and just leave it in a corner, buy 10 and use them, replacing them as you use them. Same thing with food, and fuel.

Going to extremes, of course, give you diminishing returns (like anything). So stockpiling several million rounds of ammunition and more medicine than can be used before it expires doesn't make much sense.
These new methods appear to best suited to be used in the pet world sooner as the ethical and legal issues will be a bit less stringent than in a human context. May be that is where things will start to change.
Why tabs are clearly superior:
http://lea.verou.me/2012/01/why-tabs-are-clearly-superior/
I'm a little curious... why?

It is much harder to visualize, I don't think it is appreciably shorter to write, it isn't necessarily clearer.

I suppose you can do interesting things like parameterizing parts on the value of other parts, but I'm not sure that is particularly useful.

If this was going to be the underlying core of a graphical netlist generator, I could see it being useful for that...

So, anyone have any ideas what is the big reason I should use this over KiCAD or similar?
Thanks and don't worry 1 bit! I love this conversation and the insightful questions you are asking.

1 - Email blast! And it depends on the type of company. If you are a property management company with lots of employees you're right a lot of people won't use it. Then UpKeep becomes a more internally facing tool for admins to enter in requests and dispatch jobs out. BUT if you are a maintenance heavy company (industrial, manufacturing, etc) you are used to submitting work requests and tickets in every single day.

1b - Yes! So basically the requester normally has the most information. If they can take a picture and send it in with the work order, it is soooo much more descriptive and helpful to the admin user. They can also call it in, and UpKeep works in both ways. But it adds additional overhead to the admin users to be manning the phones at all times.

At the end of the day, UpKeep works in both scenarios and it really depends on the workflow of the company! :)
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Why Data is the new Oil (2016)
Startup Interns Anyone?
You can also Exit Big Picture from the shutdown menu to just exit Big Picture mode but leave the Steam Link stream running. You'll get access to your full desktop this way. If you have a keyboard and mouse hooked up to the Steam Link, they'll work for a pretty nice remote desktop setup.
I was a TreeStyleTabs-diehard until I discovered Tabs Outliner [1] for Chrome.

It is a separate window with a tab tree for my entire browser session (= all windows), has a much better keyboard support, supports the unloading of any subtree (makes The Great Suspender obsolete) and you can sync your (sub)tree from an other computer to the current computer's session just via drag and drop.

In the linked screenshot [2] you can see my current session with collapsed subtrees and the grey captioned subtree isn't even loaded. With (shift+)tab I can (un)intend tabs to make them into childs or siblings and with ctrl+up/down I can reorder them. This can be also done with the mouse and compared to TST it actually feels deterministic.

Going back to Firefox with TST would be a downgrade. :(

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...

[2] http://imgur.com/a/1HZSi
Obviously, the usage of the words 'own' and 'wealth' in the title have evoked assumptions/interpretations/implications that may or may not have been intended.

I do believe that there is a 'basic'/fundamental human right to retain the benefit of one's own labor.

The situation is complicated through trade. E.g., one might trade their labor for paychecks that can be exchanged for further trade opportunities. A government may provide various protections in exchange for taxes, levies, fees, etc.

In spite of those details, I also believe individuals have a general right to defend their ethically accumulated property/wealth from various re-distribution/re-negotiation/fraud -schemes which sometimes include inflation.

All of that leaves plenty of room for further debate about e.g.,

* What constitutes ethical accumulation?
* In which direction is there a balance due for services rendered?
* Were said services actually agreed-to/contracted/requested?
* Etc.
The trend over the last 10 years here in Canada has been exactly that. There are now multiple tests one has to take before med school admissions, all of which are designed to weed out "bad" candidates. The desired candidate seems to be a good human who has the required stamina and intelligence to complete the curriculum.

However, since there are so many applicants, schools have no choice but to cut all below a certain GPA. This has an effect on the pool of applicants and the schools are trying to mitigate that.
"The calculation had been done on a mobile phone, with the decimal point in the wrong place, and there was no risk assessment."

Sloppy. Calculation and dosage are points where mistakes are made.

"The students had volunteered to take part in a test in March 2015 aimed at measuring the effect of caffeine on exercise. They were given 30g of caffeine instead of 0.3g,"

Drug enhanced performance testing?
After version 50.0 I switched back from Opera. The deal is to get the e10s multiprocess windows on. It might be disabled because some of the addons. You can try to enforce it or like in my case with only uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger installed, it was on by default.

This browser is seriously fast now on Linux. I couldn't be happier with it. I've used it for weeks already, browsing a lot and it's still as snappy as when I installed it.

Good job. And soon we'll start getting the Servo stuff...
Yeah, that screenshot comparison is like comparing a basket of mixed apples at a market to a vast field of apple trees.
> Added support for WebGL 2, with advanced graphics rendering features like transform feedback, improved texturing capabilities, and a new sophisticated shading language

Can anyone explain that last bit. I know WebGL 2 goes with GLSL ES 3.0, but that seems to be the same ol' GLSL with a few tweaks. Is this "new sophisticated shading language" just overblown PR, or is there an actual new shading language?
Radio host says Bell Media station fired her for mental health issues
Not if the teachers aren't adequately able to teach the gifted children. All you then end up with is a child with a lot of wasted potential and a teacher losing patience with a bored child.

As for me, programming since the age of about 10, when I went into secondary school (age 13), the level of IT (in)competency amazed me. I was reprimanded for finishing assigned work quickly and studying independently. I was kicked off the network for writing code because it wasn't understood. Nothing got better, yet I was forced to waste 5 years of my ~81.5 years on Earth (~6.13%) of my ALE, getting a pointless state education that from that day on has not once helped me.

Further education wasn't any better. I joined a course at a local vocational college, one with certificates of excellency, with the prospectus stating it would teach the fundamentals of computing; data structures, networking, algorithms, through to applied computing including ASM, C, C++, et al. In my three weeks there, they taught (very poorly) VB.NET and had students design flyers in Publisher. I was refused entry to the one-year pre-university course as I didn't have the correct number of education goody points. The response I got to quitting was that you can't always have everything you want in life.

This is why education in the UK sucks.

I think if you see a child who has potential, let them explore that potential. There are hundreds of other children who will go through the standard educational system, get their GCSEs and A Levels and useless degrees, before getting ordinary jobs. Let the ones with potential do something different.

Reminds me of the kid recently whose school refused to let them take the time out to work on an acting opportunity, due to the loss of education that a week would present. I'm sure the child would have learnt a lot more about their most likely future career in that week than they did in the classroom.

Anyway, rant over. Standardised education sucks.
A belief is not an argument.
> Black money is clearly a problem in India

Why is it a problem? I understand that it means untaxed money. But what good will do just removing that money from trade entirely?

If they had inflation to stop removing money from the economy would be good idea but if not they'll cause inflation to drop, maybe become deflation.

Or do they want to print money in place of the one destroyed and distribute it in legal parts of the economy?
> I use the Steam Link + Steam Controller to play games from my PC in my home office on my TV in my living room, a lot.

Way off-topic. I got round to setting up NVIDIA GameStream on the Pi (with Moonlight-embedded). What a pleasure. NVIDIA's work with being able to change game settings has paid off - my projector is 1024x768 and all games that I've tried automatically run at that resolution. Steam plays very nicely with GameStream, too (I just wish Valve would release a client for the Pi). This type of setup is definitely the future of couch gaming.
> Imagine you start to write about a topic. Start to think small. “Decide on the corner of the subject you want to bite off.” Cover that corner well, be satisfied by that and stop. Make it a complete experience for your reader. Don’t nibble on another corner of the subject and leave the reader with an incomplete reading experience.

Huh? Shouldn't you provide a birds-eye view of the topic first? Answer questions such as: why should the reader be interested in the topic in the first place, and quickly scan over the relevant issues, make it clear what issue you are going to discuss next, and why.
But also, you'd feel guilty for making people wait for you, but with this you'd just think "Oh I won't make it in time, but no worries, it's just 5 more dollars [or whatever the rate is]."
I agree that better contractual language could be valuable for business continuity on the employeer's side. But, state vs federal laws and precedent would probably make that pretty difficult to enforce in lots of locales.
how is

"curl https://www.teleconsole.com/get.sh | sh "

Still considered even a remotely acceptable method for installation?
Q. How do you secure your infrastructure Google?
A. We hire thousands of programmers to write custom software. There are no known vulnerabilities. No. Known. Vulnerabilities.
Three steps to make sure you get more than 1 or 2 days out of it.

1.) Make it very crappy, and put it live for the world to see.

2.) Be embarrassed that this thing you made is so crappy.

3.) Use that embarrassment to make it better.

However, I suspect that the problem might be something else.

They say you should always be working on your best idea. Maybe you are jumping from project to project too fast?

Maybe you need to take more time to think about why you're starting certain projects.

Maybe the answer isn't finding more time working on projects. Maybe the answer is spending less time working on projects and more time thinking about possible projects.

Some random thoughts here. Sorry that it sounded a little Seth Godin-ish.
Microsoft didn't restrict what software you could install on Windows. That creates a different market.

That's not the legal distinction. What got Microsoft in trouble is that they told PC OEMs that they would lose their volume discount for Windows if they shipped another browser alongside Internet Explorer. This was troublesome because, at the time, Windows had a 99% marketshare of PC operating systems, which was judged by the courts to be a monopoly.

Apple has nowhere near the same marketshare in phones. Therefore, Apple is free to do whatever it wants with regards to its OS, as consumers are free to switch to Android.
He means the difference is not in the coffee — that "gourmet" is a price tag modifier, not a food modifier.
The main evidence is to take these companies at their word instead of assuming they're trying to cover something up. They're willing to allow payments for 90% of fetishes but exclude the other 10%. Are they really drawing the line based on the rates of fraud in each fetish?

Cases like the FetLife are illustrative. You can also look into f-list, a furry website which ultimately had to decide not to take any payments when every major processor rejected them. The key point is that companies are required to distinguish between "pornographic" and "obscene" content using a vague case-by-case smell test. So you sit down with a lawyer and kinda guess what's OK and what isn't and cross your fingers the credit card companies swallow it. That's exactly how this story was resolved. You can learn more about the law yourself by looking at an example ToS from Square and some guides to federal obscenity law.

https://squareup.com/legal/ua

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-fede...

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/pornography-obscenity/
Should we (as tech folks) start something to protect the climate?
It seems like our new government is hell bent on removing science from our world. What can we do to make sure it doesn't get removed and can still be found and trusted by those intelligent enough to not just blindly trust their president's words

I see these Twitter accounts as starts, but there is surely more that this band of people can do?

https://twitter.com/RogueNASA
https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer
All of these which are very appropriate for a company who wants to sell hobbyist kits to kids who already know JavaScript, so they can built IoT toys quickly.

I understand your point. These tools aren't appropriate for serious embedded systems, but they're also not meant for them. They're meant for people who want to have fun and want to play with things quickly.
My anecdote conflicts. I found that being in an institution, following a learning path, designed for the average child, meant I progressed less than I could and had my potential wasted. Poorly behaved children or those who aren't academically minded will have one teacher each, trying to force them to climb that academic tree, while high-potential children will be left to rot and told off for wanting to do more.
Auto translate. I live in Japan, but my reading ability isn't that good. So I have to rely a lot on translating by the browser.

I use FF primarily on my smart phone, just chrome when I need to translate.
Who the hell is Ben Horowitz and why would I pay money to contact him?
Sorry I was confused between your experience and the opening post which was moving from Scala to GO. So I assumed you were working for Movio and used their numbers. Therefore my post does not make any sense :)

Then it was a Java to GO move. I wonder where your compiles take the most time. For our work building the jar files are the most expensive part. Javac is about 20 seconds all in for about 3000 files to compile on my 2009 macbook.
So much BS in this article but let's start with these 3:
1) "Products based on disruptive technologies are typically cheaper, simpler, smaller, and more convenient to use." How many more benefits can he put in that sentence? He's basically saying disruptive tech is typically cheaper or better.
2) "Make something the mainstream market doesn’t want now, but will want later." Trying to predict the future is just betting on luck.
3) That random functionality vs time graph. What is 200 Functionality?

Bonus: "If you want to get ideas for your $400 million startup, subscribe to my newsletter."
I guess that depends on whether or not you were planning on asking permission.
That's about as good as actually having studies, right?
Cisco snaps up AppDynamics for $3.7B right before its IPO
As a web developer I find Firefox(Developer Edition) more useful, I mean sometimes I see Chrome/Chromium fix some HTML/CSS "bugs" automatically, but Firefox seems stricter and force me to catch bugs earlier. Also is easy to install on Linux unlike Chrome Canary that still doesn't support it.
Also worth a read (and also in the original articles comments): http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
yes and no. There's malware out there that can get credentials from browser password stores. So, I agree that an external password manager introduces an additional attack surface, but it partially removes one as well.
Then I guess you don't remember it all that well - even at the introduction people made fun out of the lack of 3rd party apps and consistently criticized it. Symbian smartphones were already pretty popular (at least her in EU).

And to counter your anectode - pretty much none of my friends wanted an iPhone and they're not programmers either ;P
I don't like using the TCP functionality of ngrok because it seems to always use the same hostname (0.tcp.ngrok.io) with a random port. So anyone can just scan for open ports on that domain and start trying to connect to things. The HTTP forwarding at least gives you a random subdomain.
this just scares me: if they think this is acceptable, have they thought about security elsewhere?