skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some facts are greater than others, and sometimes there's a stalemate and ones bias makes the preferred fact win.
The UDRP process is a joke and they got lucky with one panelist. Best go with three and an attorney.

They're easily leaving over US$ 500 a day on the table, for many years. Even if you hate advertising, take the money and donate to some charity. There are many who can use that kind of funds.

Wasteful.
Thanks for the info. I didn't know it was that easy.
> It feels like somehow the failures modes of "bad government" are less bad than they could be

eh compare to italy where instead of overbuilding they either cheat on the materials used or skip controls and evaluations...

again http://www.leggo.it/photos/HIGH/61/62/1726162_studente.jpg

and again https://bl24-bitrecallsrl.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/...

and again http://www.meteoweb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/terremoto-...

every time a quake strikes some public building goes down and almost every time nobody does a day of jail, unless it's small fishes.

so well there are bad failure modes as well.
That might have something to do with US citizens having freedom than Russian citizens. I mean, a guy like Snowden walked out with scores of documents and went out of US, I don't think anyone can do that in Kremlin
> Do you trust every app developer to do those right (if they even use HTTPS!)[0]

If I'm running an app that includes native code and accesses data from the outside world then I'm probably trusting that app developer to write C code that doesn't contain arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities, which is much much harder than using HTTPS right.
Microsoft's speech libraries are easily accessible thru a .NET-clr language, such as C# or Powershell. I made a voice-bot as a weekend project last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11663029
It's important to note that the US constitution is just law like any other; it's just harder to change. Get enough people agreeing (hard in the current climate) and you can change provisions in the constitution. It's been altered 27 times so far, and #21 was rolling back the changes in #18.
One little secret of retail/sales industry is that everyone knows that best salespeople are pathological liars. So I really doubt that they will be out of job, being con artist is just a plus.
Turns out algorithms aren't just for clearing the customs!
>You either have to submit to the tyranny of group identification, or go forever lonely.

I think the solution to that is to have more group identities and subcultures, and better ways to discover them.
You can easily use many seo tools which are available online or you can also hire an expert for your seo audit.
>a family and some still find plenty of time to blog or write >books. How is this possible? Are these people super-human? >How are you all doing or managing if you have kids/family?

I only write blog. To answer your original question, kids are great stress reliever. I work from home and often get irritated by their unwanted shouting and screaming but then I don't work all the time. I do give them time, eat with them and play with them. For blogging/side projects etc it does not take much time, specially if you are organizing things around you.
Yeah, there are some glaringly simple things Skype For Biz has trouble doing. Try to figure out how to view your chat conversation history.

The established standard UX across IM apps is that you click on the contact you are interested in, and scroll up in the chat window to view your old IMs. Not on Skype for biz.
He had a talk show on RT in 2012.
Well, I don't know what happened to me, but I became a father in July, and this is my GitHub: http://i.imgur.com/EZSE03y.png

I still spend a lot of time with my child, and have a great balance. Anything is possible, if you're smart enough to arrange things properly.

Not super human, but I do spend about 8 hours working, and about 6 hours doing non-work, but I intersperse it with taking breaks to play with my kid or to sit and eat breakfast.

You will find it hard in the beginning, when you're not getting much sleep, but it does get easier, and I imagine it's just going to get easier.

I had people tell me my life would be hell. They were wrong. Just because they mismanaged it and lost their passion, doesn't mean you have to.

Good luck!
Not quite like a 5 year old (but if you want that, I can/will - just tell me again!).

Open Source is your brand/value, which means it is your (genuine) marketing/evangelism. Being the news/story item itself gets you ahead of your competitors, who may be the advertisement along side your article.

Use this traffic to create an edifying, positive community. You will be surprised at how high quality of people will show up at your doorstep (if your message from the previous step resonated well) - governments, enterprises, investors, employees at startups, compatriots of complementary technology.

Now curate and start building relationships with the most promising of those people, such that they like you better than their own workplace. They are intimately aware of the problems/needs of their organization, and you help them build a solution to that specific need/pain-point on top of your Open Source developer tool. Now that an inside sale is happening, make some moves:

1. There is no need for that person to give his/her custom solution to their employer away for free.

2. Have that person leverage the solution as a massive role promotion, such that they are (or already were) "in charge" and can sign off on large recurring support contracts directly for your technology. OR

2. Have that person require their employer to pay license fees in order to use their customized solution. Guess who now needs outside help/leverage to enforce/deliver on that contract? Your friend, who if the employer doesn't purchase the contracts, will be poached by you.

3. Poach them anyways, acquire the rights, and make them the PM for your customer so you keep happy ties. Now that you've cracked that market open, expand to the rest of their competitors.

4. Fund raise based on all this progress.

Of course, it is slightly different depending on what their role/position is, if it is an enterprise or not, etc. you have to make your best call/judgement as the CEO. Like with everything.

It is working for us. :D
We as developers have privilege to work remotely. Don't excuse yourself saying "I need an office and people around". That's just not true, as you gain so huge amount of perks when you find a remote job it's madness if you don't even try it for a year or two.

If you really go crazy alone you can always find coworking space almost anywhere in the world.

Moreover, constantly look for opportunities. I recently heard very wise words that the best time to change your job is when you are perfectly happy with current one.
It created us didn't it?
>For every study that says coffee is bad there's 10 more that say it's good, simply because people want it to be good

Or, maybe, it actually is good. Why do you assume some agenda on behalf of the 9, not the one?
Yes, give us wall time please
If there is no hypothesis, the idea cannot be proved or disproved. In that case the approach equates with faith and it cannot (scientifically) be taken seriously.

The article has a strong title, yet at least to me presents no arguments to support it's claim.
Also Sweden does not extradite anyone that has a chance of facing the death penalty.

And Assange said he would allow himself to be extradited to if Manning was commuted. She was, Assange is still in the Ecuadorian embassy.

The UK has much favourable extradition treaties with the US than Sweden has.
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Agree with this. I too have a 2 hour commute daily and treasure this alone time.
After years of hard work, it is finally done!
Noteb.com is a search engine and online database that can help you find your perfect notebook.
Thanks for sharing it.
I will be watching this thread for comments and feedback.
The same as we apply it to living beings: we are made of specialized cells each doing their job to keep the whole system working, some of them are made for reproduction. Maybe planetary reproduction starts when one of its products colonizes another one (like us, humans)?

I know that's a very far-fetching idea/concept but I like to think in this way.
Designing the wheel of a car to detach as a safety requirement for the offset crash test, yet never fall off in regular use has got to be tricky.
Is this really a thing?

If you were in the Hitler Youth in 1941, and you were 14, and it was mandatory, people will still bring it up 72 years later when you are literally the Pope [1]

Is it fair? No. Will some people do it anyway? Absolutely.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/International/pope-benedict-dogged-naz...
On the Emotion of Users in App Review
>How long something has been around is often a good way to determine how much longer it will be around in the future

This mode of (purely statistical) longevity argument is the "Doomsday Argument". The classic version is about predicting how much longer human civilization might endure. The crux of it is that there's only a 5% chance that we're currently in the first 5% of humanity's total timeline, and a 95% chance that we're in the last 95% of it.

If we assume that 60 billion humans have been born so far, it can be estimated that there is a 95% chance that the total number of humans ever will be less than 20 × 60 billion = 1.2 trillion. Assuming that the world population stabilizes at 10 billion and a life expectancy of 80 years, it can be estimated that the remaining 1,140 billion humans will be born in 9,120 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
Before I had kids, I considered myself to be a busy man.
After my first kid was born, I realized how much spare time I actually had when I had no kids.
After my second kid was born, I realized how much spare time I had with only 1 kid.
After my third kid was born - you get the picture (we stopped at 3).

My point? your life is full of unbelievable pile of unimportant things (and by 'unimportant' I don't mean important in some objective, cosmic way, but important by the core values YOU have that can only present themselves when under pressure).
Having kids (or, in a more general way, having much much less free time) will force you to become much better in separating the wheat from the chaff - which is a great thing.
I always thought different paradigms suited different problem domains rather than different people.

I'm not a software engineer by trade, but just for example, I've recently been mucking around making my own videogames and the object-oriented paradigm using the components pattern seems like a very natural way to conceptualise a videogame. E.g. Objects in the game (NPCs, environment) start as a basic object and are given specific behaviours by adding components.

Alternatively, I sometimes have to write R code for data analysis and in that case the style of using pipe operators to chain lots of functions together is perfect for readability and for reasoning about the code.
AKA If Prince had been an internet entrepeneur
Super fund for millennials backedby Mike Cannon-Brookes will launches with $100m
When you said, "There appears to be a alchemical transformation that results in people's minds, where "<Obnoxious Statement X>" on its own is obnoxious, but "I know it's politically incorrect to say so, but <Obnoxious Statement X>!" makes you a Free Speech Martyr and a real deep thinker.", you were implying that free speech shouldn't protect obnoxious ideas, but that's wrong. Free speech exists specifically to protect unpopular ideas.
I haven't looked at it very carefully. As I understand it, it's a leak about a leak. That is, a bunch of CIA stuff got leaked to some hacker community, and then one of them leaked parts to Wikileaks. So the real leak is arguably far worse than we'll ever know. It'll mostly show up as criminal exploits :(
I won't actively do that though I suppose some bias will seep into my judgment for every company whose work I admire.

But I think it's important that other people are able do it.

Also I picked "poor programming skills environment " to mean everyone there has poor programming skills.
Most jobs?

I work for the uk office of a finance company, on a contract basis, on target to pull in roughly six figures* this year.

My CV consists of C in the main, with a little C++11 and a smattering of right-up-to-date javascript and python.

"Most jobs" seems like a bit of an overstatement.

(*for Americans, the UK market does not pay like the US market, rates of pay here are generally awful in comparison to the US or Australia)
Actually, here's one way of putting it: the Mint developers would write this exact same marketing copy to describe their app. That means that as a user, I'm unable to tell how you differ. What would you say about Penny that Mint would not say about themselves?
In either case, "political correctness" is only an exchange of tokens of respect. A transaction of political capital. "If you speak in a culturally respectful manner then I'll listen to you. Otherwise, I won't."

You're using a different definition of political correctness than used in the article. It's very easy to make something sound bad if you redefine it.
I know; was just an example of an available 'Catch-All' solution.

Back in the day™ I wrote a C# dll to add the functionality to my Exchange server (was not an option back then; don't know if it's possible out of the box now). There are many solutions once you know what to look for (e.g. the phrase 'Catch-All')
I suppose that if markets were working in a very ideal way, the IPO stock price wouldn't matter much to the stock price half a year from now. Instead, the share price would be a pure function of the internal value and prospects of the company.

In the real world, market psychology and all, I think it's better for the medium term stock price to start off as something which the media will frame as a success story. I.e. better start at $80 and quickly rise to $100 than to start at $120 and quickly fall to $100.

Disclaimer: opinions based upon voices in head, not upon any kind of research.
There is always time here and there. Its about decisions and doing what fits you. In my case, I work for one uninterrupted hour after my kid goes to sleep. Is that enough? Yes. Im blogging, writing a book, and learning F#. Im not smart or special.

Stop believing the stupid shit other people say. Do what works for you and to hell with the rest.
Those are not easy to find, it's not really something they advertise and you need somebody to publicly catch them.

The only reason I know they do is because some of my friends working on mobile video games regularly complain they can't get some features because they are private while google and facebook do. They analyzed some apps to try to copy said features and realized the unfairness of their situation.

Those are lunch chit chats, not hard facts. But they got seldom reasons to lie.
Realistically, if they've written their own native code that parses their updates then almost certainly. If they're using an established library then maybe not (likewise if they're using a decent language, but unfortunately no-one does that). I'm reminded of the example at the bottom of http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/194772/dirty_game_deve... where the game had a buffer overflow in displaying its own EULA.
Curing the Vulnerable Parser [pdf]
$100 CPMs? No way. With 5k uniques per day, maybe he'd make $5 a day with low quality, quick-leaving traffic. Unless he were to do shady stuff like affiliate redirects to gail.de or something.
Before taxes, I guess?
> Even if you hate advertising, take the money and donate to some charity. There are many who can use that kind of funds.

It's terrible, all these people with houses in prominent traffic locations and people driving vehicles in high density urban environments, who refuse to place advertising all over their property. So much money being left on the table - even at low ad rates - they could be helping the less fortunate with those billions of collective ad dollars.
The truth is, despite its widespread moniker, Gaia is not
really a hypothesis. It’s a perspective

Yes it is. However, the article does not explain, at least to me, what it means to take that perspective 'seriously'. Everything that is described as something that can be seen from that perspective are also reported by people that would not describe themselves as looking from the Gaia perspective.
now we have to trust you to deliver that code safely to the user without being manipulated in transit.

You have to trust app developers anyway, since they run native code on your machine. While there are security concerns, these are not the real motivation. Apple is gradually closing down their platform, as many people have predicted in the past. You can also see that in various subtle changes to Gatekeeper and the Sandboxing features.

For me personally, the red line is when unsigned executables can no longer run on MacOS. If Apple ever disallows unsigned executables, I will immediately discontinue my application on MacOS and redirect customers who rely on it to Apple's customer support.
Well for the last 4 months, MSBuild alpha has been out with the option to use "dotnet migrate" to migrate a project.json to a project.csproj file.

The other 6 months I agree has left people in a limbo. Only people following the discussions closely would have an idea of which direction they were going.
Sci-fi books on music
Exo/planet colonization? Terraforming Mars, for example, will create a Mars that will (eventually) look like Earth.
Life is a human construct. The rest of the universe just exists. We only place value in water based reproduction because it's what we are.
To be more precise, the idiom is typically “ride roughshod over” rather than “run ...”, and roughshod is typically written as one word.

Roughshod means the horseshoes have their nails sticking out the bottom to help prevent slipping, so you can imagine trampling someone with those could be painful.
I agree with this oh-so much, even as a non-parent.

There's more to life than working every hour you can, and preparing for more work in between.

Go out, see the world, spend time with your favourite humans and other animals. You'll have a richer life.
There are a shed load you can block without interefering with updates.
I don't see how they relate biological homeostasis to climate. If homeostatic systems are functioning, like in blood sugar or oxygen control, their values are kept in a very tight range near the setpoint. In contrast, temperature has varied greatly over the millennia, as have ocean acidity and other variables, thereby showing Earth is very much not like an organism.
Its one thing to be busy and its another to be productive. Be productive.
In this case though, and with the Democratic party. I have the original context that you have omitted. It would be a simple matter for me to release that context that proves my innocence. This clearly was not the case with Podesta's emails or the DNC or that's exactly what they would have done in response.
From the description, it doesn't seem like a hypothesis - more like a way of looking at things.
Why stop there when by the same reasoning we can claim entire solar systems and galaxies are living? At what point does that exercise become pointless?
So what you're saying is "you don't. People with children will not be as good".

Great. That means I should not feel bad about any hypothetical statistics that show parents paid less than non-parents. You're saying parents are, on average, statistically, not as useful as non-parents to a company.
"You write regular Objective-C methods that are callable from JavaScript," - the objC function that I am calling from JS can be capable of calling a private API received by it in an argument - that breaks the entire claim of reactNative not supporting calls to private API. React Native must also go down.
"HTTPS is sufficient against MITM, until someone disables all verification to use their self-signed cert, or adds their poorly-secured "CA" cert to the allowed CA's for the download, or adds a weak cipher to the list. "

Or that attacker controls or can coerce a Certificate Authority in the OS's root list - like, say, just about any nation state...

Most apps - I suspect - are not pinning their TLS certs. Apple have already gotten onto a very public fight with the FBI.
I do find this whole situation a tiny bit crazy, I often think software engineers are often taken for a complete ride by employers. We shouldn't have to feel like we each have to take responsibility to be up to scratch on the latest tools, we should be encouraged to factor that into our day to day work.

I don't think this is a question you should ask yourself, but you should talk to your employer about. I don't see any brick-layers practising new brick laying techniques in their spare time, or car mechanics expected to find out about new cars and engines at the weekend. Obviously you have interests, and you like to know about the latest news or craze but this should be a recreational activity (ten minutes here and there). If blogging, research and trying new technology benefits your work then it should be supported by your employer.

Incidentally I am a full-time senior engineer with two kids and many years experience. You shouldn't be expected to juggle like this.
This is software... saying there's "no way" is usually incorrect.

For example, you could root the device and disable the encryption.

Or, you could perform experiments in a controlled setting where you play a series of identical recordings to Alexa and measure the statistical similarity in the outgoing data for each. The encryption scheme probably provides more entropy than just the audio, so maybe statistical analysis wouldn't help, but it's a start.
LA has a light problem. I don't live in LA, but I have driven there: Why wouldn't they put green arrows to let people waiting to make a left go first? After those people go, then traffic can flow as normal. I remember the light kept turning green, with no green arrow, and I had to keep waiting and waiting until there were almost no cars. Had that left arrow been there, this could have cleared up traffic along with the 20 cars waiting behind me to make a left as well.
> In which case we should all marvel at the virtues of capitalism and the free market, which take our selfish desires, and convert them into environmentally and communally beneficial actions

I'm never sure whether people are writing sentences like this ironically, or whether they're unaware how much like Maoist propaganda it sounds.
The n-gate summary of this one is richer than Soon-Shiong:

"A reporter catches some rich guy laundering money through a university, but not in time to stop him, or have any other effect. Hackernews spends some time being nonprofit fiduciary experts, until someone reminds us that Beatus Graham publicly espoused the holy virtue of Naughtiness, at which point the wagons are circled and the Doublethink Cavalry defends the pioneers. Meanwhile, the money launderer is being considered for Federal office."

http://n-gate.com/
The use case mentioned in the readme seems perfectly reasonable and there is little that you can do to fix it. AMI building at AWS just takes time. The only party that could reasonably fix it is amazon. Travis provides the capability to extend build times as well but the function provided makes it hard to tell if the build process is actually running - so this seems like an improvement.

However, never timing out stuck builds clearly is an issue, so I filed a ticket for it.