skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's a single Internet community that you can participate in that isn't mostly liberal in voice. If you want to get away from it, you have to visit explicitly conservative sites that revolve around conservative discussion.
> I test on a staging environment, that duplicates(as much as possible) the prod infrastructure.

I believe it's possible that nobody ever logs into any instances in the staging environment, but if that's the case then your organization is an exception to the rule. Plus you mention it's "as close as possible" to the prod infrastructure rather than identical.

The point is: don't act superior by feigning ignorance that most shops still have people who occasionally log into Linux hosts.
Can turkers be asked to install a chrome extension or run javascript in their consoles?

Also can you include javascript in the HIT HTML file?
That's an interesting legal point.

I wonder if they could avoid trouble by proving that two or more employees were campaigning on exact opposite sides of an issue - e.g. employee A participates in a rally for more gun control and employee B participates in a counter rally calling for legal Open Carry in San Francisco.
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I was going to make this its own "Ask HN:" post earlier, but thought I'd post it here instead:

Is there a good central resource or listserv or something for developers who would like to volunteer their time on political projects?

I'm thinking of a jobs board that says "This organization is looking for a few hours of help on their website," or a combined Git Issues board, or something.

Reasoning: I am a developer who would like to volunteer my skill set for 3-4 hours a week to causes I support, but I have no idea which organizations could use 3-4 hours a week.

I imagine that there are many others like me, who may vary in the number of hours they are willing to donate.
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Facebook loses its VR case, has to pay $500M in damages
And the only reason it's getting this level of scrutiny is because Thiel has taken "unpopular" stances.

It's not because of his "stances", or because they're "unpopular." It's because he's very close to the new administration, and was instrumental in allowing it to come into power (in fact, crucially so).
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35-60k... euros? That's kinda low even in pound sterling. Is this what folks get paid in The Netherlands as a "software engineer"?
Many other requirements have been instituted from iOS version to iOS version that require substantial work to bring old code up to current App Store standards. Among them are things like screen size support and retina-resolution assets. Meanwhile, many of these apps still work perfectly fine on iOS 10, even if Apple won't accept those submissions today.
I dont disagree that he wishes to ban them. Just by the numbers its rather innefective as a Muslim ban if so intended.

https://i.redd.it/jh4nz1fm48dy.png
Because Oculus (now part of Facebook) was built on the NDA breach. (It is the court's opinion that) Luckey misappropriated trade secrets, formed that misappropriation into Oculus, and then sold that to FB. IANAL, but I suspect it's a 'receipt of stolen goods' argument - FB should have known through it's due diligence that what they were buying was stolen property.
If you can clearly demonstrate that you are not competing with your employer, using their IP, working on their time, using their equipment then these types of non-competes should be null and void. And yes, I quit a job over that kind of contract. If I invent something on my time it's mine.
> so what you mean is that, even after throwing facebook scale resources at java.. it is possible for a <10 people team to get 10X performance over java using the features that you mention.

That is not what I mean. Writing a userspace TCP stack isn't a feature of C++.
Facebook bought Oculus for $3B [1]
16% of the purchase price for infringing on an NDA is pretty damaging.

I believe that'll be a good deterrent in the future.

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-actually-paid-3-billi... (thanks for the correction, Cozumuel)
Seeing as it has been established that Tinfoil Hats would acutally amplify brainwaves, could/should the "Tinfoil Hat" concept be modified to connote a person who is overly-paranoid, and adopts lifestyle choices that unintentionally amplify their perceived risk?
ONE news organization had 99%. More reasonable and measured ones had 60%.
Ruby is perl-minded folks reinventing python without understanding it. The result was: ruby is python-done wrong.

This is something said by someone who has no clue about the Smalltalk influence on both Python and Ruby. (Though Guido was very critical of certain things Smalltalk did, and made a point to do certain things very differently.) Ruby is very much Perl redone by someone who very much wanted a Smalltalk-like object system, but with much more syntactic sugar.
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Jury Awards Zenimax Half a Billion Dollars in Oculus Lawsuit
Absolutely! Doing this a lot for learning and see what patterns I find and what systems I can build. Thanks for the support!
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Weird. Thanks for the note!
Just out of curiosity, would deliberately hiding polling data showing Trump was taking the lead help Trump or help Clinton? I'd assume it'd help Trump, given that showing Clinton slipping would tend to encourage her supporters to get out and vote.
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Ok. And what's the harm in that?
I agree that we don't want more racist, sexist and anti-democracy people here. I don't believe Thiel is.

But rich people I have nothing against, I welcome wealth coming into the country. And suing a private company, well let the case stand on its merits, I don't take issue with that.
"Of the $500 million, Oculus is paying out $200 million for breaking the NDA and $50 million for copyright infringement. Oculus and Luckey each have to pay $50 million for false designation. And Iribe has to pay $150 million"

Interesting to see how this is spread out to the various parties - There is apparently blame to go around.
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>the loss wasn't just technical––it was a landslide

1984 Reagan/Mondale, Reagan gets 59% of the popular vote and 98% of the electoral college -- that is a landslide. Trump getting 46% of the popular vote and 56% of the electoral college sure doesn't seem like a landslide.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democr...
But but but the old MacBook Air had one MagSafe and two USB ports (and SD card and Thunderbolt), so it had strictly more ports, and I could charge it all at the same time (except now AirPods).

But yes, the problem is not USB-C per se, the problem is the small number of ports unless you pony up for the TouchPad model.
Banning unpopular views hardly sounds liberal. Or does it?
If a "form of paid vacation" is available only for campaign work, or granted preferentially for campaign work, then it is substantially different than people taking vacation that the company grants neutrally and choosing to work on a campaign during that vacation.
Not that I think this is a bad idea but by the current nature of tech it's somewhat biased. Give more educated white males more time to participate in politics.

I would rather see the money spent on time off go to compensating part-time working minorities to participate in politics.
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dotnetcore has it as an option, as well.
Peter Thiel openly wrote that he thought it might have been better for democracy if women didn't vote. I don't think that's a great place to start.
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Sure it takes a while to load and there's bloat, but the bloat is everywhere now.

This is exactly the kind of development culture that produces heavyweight, unresponsive tools.
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I wish they'd do this in Canada.
I've been counseled that an employer cannot compel you to sign a new contract after starting a job, unless there is an incentive to offset any rights/benefits being forfeited. There's a huge gray area in terms of incentive/benefit value, but it's clearly illegal if there are no advantages offered by the new contract and it only benefits the employer.

In other words, it would be clearly illegal for an employer to say simply, "Here's the new employment contract identical to existing but with a new, more aggressive IP ownership clause; sign it or you're fired." Contracts signed under these circumstances have been struck down in court.

However, it would be legal for an employer to say, "Anyone who signs the updated employment contract (with aggressive IP changes) gets free lunches and can work from home 2 days a week." I don't understand the caselaw enough to know what would happen if they provided the incentive and added "or you're fired."

In general, I think the idea is that you have a lot of freedom with new employee agreements, but you cannot just change out an employment agreement on existing employees to strip them of rights.

*IANAL, and it may vary by state.
Remember the Bush (43) "Stimulus" cheques everyone got? Those were fun.
Well, today is Check your Backups day (http://checkyourbackups.work). Everyone should have a backup, Peter Thiel is no exception ()

So what if he "bought" his citizenship? Is that illegal? If not, that "makes him smart". There are plenty of places that will grant you, if not citizenship, then permanent residency, as long as you bring in cash. Or will at least have a fast-track path.

On that note, if you are young, try to get citizenship in more than one country. Or, if you have kids, do that for them. That way, you limit the amount of influence a given government can have on you. If things go south, you have a backup plan.

() Disclaimer: I dislike the guy, but I feel this piece of news is weak.
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I agree. But the proper response shouldn't be "that's illegal," but instead, that the interior minister should be stripped of that power.
I don't think those two scenarios are comparable. The safety features are in use on an airplane constantly. Backups are only needed when a disaster happens. It'd be more akin to B/A announcing that some emergency system like the air masks isn't functioning. Still incredibly troubling, especially if there was a cabin depressurization scenario, but not to the level of all safety features being broken.
I note what you picked (newspapers and news magazines, plus talk radio and Fox). But you left out MSNBC, CNN, and even the New York Times for some reason...

That is: Yes, there are center-right or right-wing press organizations. Despite that, it is still true that the bulk of the "mainstream" press is no longer center - they have become biased, and sometimes even actively helping Democratic campaigns. That's not what "mainstream" used to be.
I think this is fundamentally unfair as well, but at least it tries to ensure that the applicant has an ongoing interest in the country.

It's not good but it's not quite "here's a million dollars, now make me a citizen."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USoWpLll4Cg

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/29/expert-says-obama...

http://glitch.news/2016-12-29-real-forensic-investigation-de...

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/12/arpaio-proof-fake-birth-ce...
The Nextcloud Box case study
> It doesn't matter that people's batteries CAN last a long time without being charged, most people simply don't do that unless there is no other option.

Zero sympathy for anyone whose laptop is destroyed tripping over the power cable while charging a half-full 12-hour battery at a coffee shop.

Charge-over-USB beats one-side MagSafe for nearly all of us.
Software Modeling Goes Mainstream for Chip Makers
removing the chemicals would make the food liners not work anymore. then the people who make the liners will find something else. It's not clear there is anything else that works as well, or is as safe.

in this case it's almost certainly true that food liners do not contribute enough of the toxin to have an effect- below a certain dosage the body simply mops up all the toxin and there is no cumulative harm. On the other hand where people are exposed to massive amounts, they develop obvious and clear health problems.
I think you're missing the point of some people's disgust: why does one of Trump's figure heads need citizenship in another country to begin with? If he is so in with the Trump administration, why this move?

Frankly, I lost all respect for Thiel joining forces with Trump. Granted, he's a capitalist and that's fine, but throwing your lot in with a bigoted administration escapes me. If the party you are part of represents openly a disdain for gays, immigrants, and women, what is even the point of belonging to that. Seems like you could find or form your own pro-capitalist party minus all the divisiveness.

I think like many that voted for Trump, Thiel will probably see that he was not so 'smart' when he threw his lot in with such a devicisive and destructive administration.
How is it?
Well, maybe stop violating the HN guidelines. 'Most stories about politics' is the very first entry in off-topic discussion.
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Uh what now? I'll admit I'm not plugged into the gaming world but E/ASDF sounds ... odd.
Part of the stream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0hPGerSd4

Not sure if we'll be able to get the full 8+ hours up.
Of course it's the case. Corporations are by law amoral and only allowed to pursue profit for their shareholders. Not to mention all the people who run corporations are billionaires, and billionaires are basically all monsters (if they weren't, they wouldn't still be billionaires.)
Is PowerShell not considered a first-class .NET language?

I thought it was on deck to take over default Windows shell/scripting status from hellish Batch
>Similarly, money should not allow you to become a citizen of a country you've never lived in, on a whim.

Why not? NZ gets a bunch of money and never needs to do anything for it (especially if Thiel never lives there).
If there are no masks or mattes, the animation is drawn directly to the canvas and no bitmap allocations are necessary.

If there is a matte, an 8 bit bitmap will be created and if there is a mask, a 32 bit bitmap will be created and drawn to.

An animation can only be at one stage at a time but you can easily create multiple animations. If you want to have several copies of the same animation, there is a composition caching option that will prevent you from having to deserialize and parse the composition again.
I totally agree that captive portals suck and we should name and shame anybody using them, especially ones that are poorly built.

But, there has to be some reason that these exist right?

To get rid of captive portals, there needs to be this functionality in the underlying protocols:

- Requiring Terms of Service

- Showing a special site from the service provider (like the page Starbucks takes you to after "Accept and Connect")

- Selecting what kind of connection you want (like at airports and hotels where there's free and paid)

- Login to some system the service provider controls (also airports and hotels w/ paid plans)

- ... and, potentially other things I haven't seen

Edit: Somewhere else in this thread, kelleboo mentioned this [0]

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7710
That's like asking to point out some concrete examples of humor in the complete works of Mark Twain. It's there, it's everywhere. Asking someone to point out concrete examples is a waste of everyone's time. If you really want these examples (and I don't think you, or the countless redditors who I have seen make this exact same argument, really do) then I would advise you to go read the Washington post or the New York Times. Pick an article at random.
I work at Fauna, and the first thing that came to mind at my house is volunteering in my kids' school. I'm in the habit of doing my political organizing on evenings and weekends, but that doesn't work for all civic engagement.
That's like asking to point out some concrete examples of humor in the complete works of Mark Twain. It's there, it's everywhere. Asking someone to point out concrete examples is a waste of everyone's time. If you really want these examples (and I don't think you, or the countless redditors who I have seen make this exact same argument, really do) then I would advise you to go read the Washington post or the New York Times. Pick an article at random.

EDIT - Even though I said link sharing was a waste of time, fuck it, this one just gets my blood boiling https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/feari...
I hate to be negative, but this feels like an invitation for very poor bug quality reports where now you have to debug an application AND an OS (the container).
Many, and I mean MANY, of the people relaying/pushing the story did it with the caveat 1) it's completely unsubstantiated and 2) this is EXACTLY what the right did to the Clintons for 2 decades.

When did the people pushing the N Clinton conspiracies every say "this may or not be true..."???

So, your statement is disingenuous, at best.
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I think we've just witnessed the birth of a new technology portmanteau on HN- "Cheep: (noun) Member of one or more online herds of users who are exploited for personal data". I like it.

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Yup now they charge $2 and made them legal after years of illegal pickups. They aren't very safe and stop in the middle of traffic on main avenues. Reckless driving as well. But guess NYC figured they might as well tax them if they werent going to stop -even with fines. I hate them but they are very popular by me in Brooklyn.

Edit- also, they are still not regulated well as I know of someone who was driving one and he does not even have a drivers license.
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