skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes it's just because you can.
Interesting story. Robert Bork said that the Constitution does not contain a general "right to privacy", which somehow is related to abortion (sometimes I think all american politics is related to Roe vs Wade) and then a Journalist just visited Bork's videothek and asked for his record.

http://www.theamericanporch.com/bork4.htm

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When I arrived that day I told the assistant manager I was thinking of writing about Judge Bork’s video tastes.

“Cool,” the assistant manager said. “I’ll look.”

While I stewed in a sudden outbreak of conscience – what if Robert Bork only rented homosexual porn…or slasher flicks…or (the…horror…) Disney? – she went upstairs to eyeball the records, returning a little glum.

“There sure are a lot of them,” she said. “Is it okay if I make a Xerox copy?”

Next day, while visiting Jack Shafer, I asked if an article on Judge Bork’s video rentals would interest him.

“You can’t do that, “ he said. “That’s illegal.”

“No, it isn’t,” I said. “Judge Bork said so.”

Okay, Shafer said. Write the story.

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Crazy!
I'm pretty sure that if your computer is for "mixed use" (i.e. you use for stuff other than developing software) then you can't use the Windows licenses from MSDN - you need to buy a regular license.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/cc150618.aspx

"Many MSDN subscribers use a computer for mixed use—both design, development, testing, and demonstration of your programs (the use allowed under the MSDN subscription license) and some other use. Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email, playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not covered by the MSDN subscription license. When this happens, the underlying operating system must also be licensed normally by purchasing a regular copy of Windows such as the one that came with a new OEM PC."
It seems likely to me that many of the possible more moderate versions of Stallman would end up advocating "Open Source where it makes sense".
Our niche is in electrical power systems. We're moving to Germany for a few months this European Summer to build some relationships and learn more about how things are run (compared to Australia). This is the procedure we've been following to make contacts before we leave:

- Find local (Australian) companies with a presence or relationship in Germany
- Take their senior engineers or managers out for coffee (a phone call or email invitation normally does the trick)
- Talk to them about their experiences with Germany and ask who they'd recommend we contact there.
- Send an email to their contact, explain that we'll be in their town on X dates would they like to meet?

In your situation. You've found a job fair participant; what do you do next?
Not necessarily true. While plenty of free software is funded (I don't think Stallman has particular issue with that).
I'm not sure how me using the Linux Kernel, GNU System, Gnome , GIMP , Emacs or any of the other free software tools I use makes me somehow a "product".
Terrafugia car with wings licensed to fly. And drive.
Even with your two eyes, you can't focus on two separate screens at the same time. So by your previous statement, any monitor setup of more than one monitor would be senseless.
I wonder if grouping everyone in the same household is a simple way to improve diversity and create an affordance in the mind of the user.

"Ah, there's my kids Dora selections again.. where's my recommendations?"
It means free as in speech not beer.
>I want indoor maps because they can help reduce healthcare costs. It costs us all money when people get lost in hospitals.

Really? Like how much money? Seems like it needs a huge "citation needed" sign.
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Wouldn't necessarily need password protection. There's an assumption that you're all living in the same house. But a 'who are you?' at the top, letting you type your name in, and 'switch to', shouldn't be too hard.

I agree, it does complicate things some, but consider

A) not every account would need it.
B) not everyone offered it would use it
C) the accounts that used it would probably be a bit savvier to start with
D) they'd get a lot of extra valuable data, not least of which how people use that feature, and could make it easier to use over time.
http://www.terrafugia.com/
I thought public school teachers in the US were considered to be underpaid? Certainly compared to public school teachers in South Korea, they don't earn that much compared to the national average salary.

I don't believe there are sufficient laws in the US to protect teachers. The US's employment laws are poorly-regarded in the rest of the Western world. And what about at-will employment states? Teachers would be fired just because of accusations of wrongdoing. Cheaper to just get rid of the accused teacher and get a new one in.
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What it will do is make teaching even less attractive as a profession. Most teachers I know value job security in exchange for salary. Take away security and you are left with little economic incentive to stay.

That's ok, there is already a mismatch between supply and demand in teaching. Apparently there is a surplus of at least 280,000 teachers, according to the Department of Education [1].

This indicates that teachers are currently overcompensated - if comp were reduced, supply would come closer to meeting demand (at least if Keynesians/Monetarists/Austrians are to be believed).

Further, if union influence were reduced, then administrators would be able to force out the low performance and keep the high performers, rather than merely keep the teachers with seniority.

[1] http://www.ed.gov/blog/2011/10/keeping-teachers-off-the-unem...
I wonder how many high quality applicants he would get if he just described what the fuck the job is about.

I often look through job ads out of curiosity, and it's remarkable how generic most of them are. Maybe they promise "high profile clients" or "working with exciting technologies". Maybe they even promise "a friendly atmosphere". I don't understand why anybody would answer such a job ad.

I'd be interested how many well qualified applicants they would get for a job ad that actually described what they are looking for: "We look for someone to work on the back end of our fizz buzz cloud service. The task will involve factoring numbers and counting digits."
Oops, forgot the "not" there. The rest still holds.
Most teachers I know value teaching in exchange for salary. I don't think teachers burn out and drop out for want of money, but because they can't stand the system anymore. That's been the case with the handful of teachers I know, anyway. And the good ones are most likely to burn out, because they're most likely to have career paths open that don't completely suck.
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Good point! Specifically, reputable journalistic outfits should implement a policy of running their materials through TurnItIn before publishing. This would allow editorial control over plagiarism. Any journalists want to comment on whether or not this is existing policy and why?
Your argument would be a lot more palatable if there weren't so many counter-examples everywhere.

I don't want to get into listing this or that counter-example, because you'll just say something along the lines of "but that's not the same at all!" I just wanted to point out that in some communities, there's a whole slew of commonly accepted examples of less money being used, less staff, teachers working without unions, and so on. In situations like that you're going to need to up your game a bit.
I'm not the best person in the world to write about TSA experiences, given that I have a prosthetic, and so the TSA's general assumption is that I'm a futuristic cyborg capable of firing bolts of directed energy from it.

That said, I've actually had different iPad experiences based on the particular iPad case I used at the time. n = oh, about 4, so take this with a grain of salt. But when I used a generic, black leather case, I had no problems leaving it in the bag. After awhile I became a bit more stylish, and I bought a case resembling an old-school composition notepad (by Portenzo, makers of awesome iPad cases). That flashy little number got my bag searched on a consistent basis, until I developed the good sense to just take it out of the bag and put it in a separate bin. Seems that the case is just clever and novel enough to set off the "This guy is up to something" alarm with TSA agents.

All of which makes me think that they're looking for anomalies. If something becomes standard enough, they gradually start to let it slip into the background. If they've never seen something before, they'll on it like flies on a dungheap. To me, this seems like a frighteningly simplistic security stance -- but what do I know?
Sharepoint has its uses. I think that unless you're committed to deploying on SP, you are probably better off not using it for a prototype. It takes a lot of configuration just to start out on it, as by default it is hard wired to look like SP. Swapping out the master page to a more useful one and creating a new style sheet with resets takes a lot of work. If you can find someone that has already done it then it might be viable, but IMO unless you are specifically targeting current users of SP (a surprisingly large number of Fortune 500), it is not worth it. The flip side to this is that there are very few products for SP and you would have a large base for each product unit sold. I am a SP developer, so I can help out if you need it.
Presumably he still qualifies for that since he is just using Windows for development. The license you quoted just refers to using their software for anything else.
Teachers would be fired just because of accusations of wrongdoing.

It would be so terrible if a teachers who rub their genitals against students, mock homosexuals and simulate sex acts, or stalk their students were fired.

Thank goodness we have unions to protect these teachers and keep them in the classroom.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/nyregion/found-to-have-mis...

Meanwhile, everyone besides teachers can be fired if they grope their customers. The world hasn't ended for them.
> If you actually want one of these things, it looks like about $450:

Why can't I get it for free?
I have also never felt the urge to post my status, comment on another persons status on or was compelled to "like" something.

You can use facebook as a mostly passive medium.
This morning's update talks about the interface and UI, and they describe it as "X-Com like"...

So excited..

No Linux or multiplayer in the first version though.. But I'd rather have a solid and detailed core product, and get MP in v2, if v1 works out..
I think most of us agree that the TSA is very ineffective at what it tries to achieve. That being said, saying they've had zero success is a little unfair, because this would be very hard to measure. After all, in the case of 'success', nothing happens - had they not been successful, something might have happened. We can't even compare the number of things that happened before and after a change was made by the TSA, because that presumes that there are always an equal number of people trying to make things happen.
btw: I just had a chance to look at your implementation. It's definitely going in a different direction than I wanted to take it. I understand the desire to match the default console but I'd like to keep the more powerful editor (along with some other features I'm looking to add).

Great work, though.
Well, someone found a hack to make it work in embedded web views that aren't iAd, but yes. It might be internal Apple testing...?
It's quicker to change the direction in which your eyes are looking than it is to change desktop.
If one were to follow the link, one would find the following:

The American Jobs Act proposes a major investment that will modernize at least 35,000 public schools, and support 280,000 teacher jobs nationwide. See what impact the Act will have in your state, and read a complete overview of the American Jobs Act here.

There is nothing about a surplus of 280,000 teachers. This is a libertarian distortion. Disgusting.
CSS3 3D transform support surprised me too. I don't own a playbook, but when I ran one of my tests (https://ajf.me/stuff/htmcraft/200blocks/ - doesn't seem to work in IE properly) on an in-store demo model I was pleasantly surprised it ran with hardware acceleration, something I've only seen Safari do so far (Chrome doesn't on the desktop).
“Although they come away with bigger losses, they’re more likely to return.”
If you want to know more about the technical details...

http://www.machinelearning.org/proceedings/icml2007/papers/4...
I don't understand what exactly they are proposing: a new computer game? The remake of an existing computer game? Or a reprint of the pen & paper RPG?
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I drive. On good days I sing with the radio. On bad days I will myself to keep the car pointed toward work.
So what happens if we pass a stack closure containing a ret into another function? For example, what would this code print out:

fn foo(f: fn()) {
log(info, "calling f");
f();
log(info, "called f");
}

fn bar() {
log(info, "calling foo");
foo({||
ret;
});
log(info, "called foo");
}

I'm not clear on whether the ret would return from foo or from bar - or whether it would be a compile error.

BTW thanks for taking the time to reply - I appreciate it!
From the nytimes article:

"But to union officials, the right to an impartial hearing is sacrosanct, to protect teachers from losing their livelihoods because a principal or a student might have an ax to grind."

An impartial hearing -- sounds good to me.

We don't know that all the teachers in that article did those things you said. You're implying that we should fire them and make them leave that career, just because a kid and his friends said they did? Kids can lie, you know.

[EDIT: After reading further in that article, I see some of the teachers did misbehave, but they were punished for it.]

Without unions, teachers can look forwards to as much protection and fairness in the workplace as your average US restaurant server. Get on the wrong side of your boss or his son? Fired. Too many complaints from customers about you in one week? Fired. No proof required.
This. Facebook is 'web scale' for friendships.
Change Background of Logon screen in windows 7.
Chevrolet Tavera Neo3 launched...
Personalization is not good for you, or anyone else. Only marketing dummies believe in it because they don't understand it but it makes them sound interesting.
If it makes you happier, Optimus has the same issues under Windows. But you are quite lucky that you can use your nvidia card at all, I couldn't get unofficial driver running.
I personally liked the early Optimus releases which allowed to turn off that damn thing in the BIOS. I'm perfectly happy with my battery being drained, I just want to be sure which card is used and how.
The thing about measurable goals in teaching is that all of them are awful. Economic psychology teaches us that bad incentives are worse than no incentives. The incentives being promulgated are things like "higher test scores" or "more kids graduating" so the system aligns itself towards teaching the test while simultaneously lowering the bar for everything else.

So let's talk about the software analogy. In software, the bar for formal acceptance usually really low. Do test cases pass? Maybe there's an auto-integration test that also must pass, and some requirements checkout QA has to do. You can write terrible code and have it pass the formal process, which is why you see a lot of terrible programmers coasting along at some of the worse companies. Some teams might have more formal requirements but that goes team by team. If you're working anywhere worth working, there'll be a much higher non-formal bar set by your manager, your team, your customers if you're in contact with them. So the incentives are there but they're personal and informal. The 'waterfall' pattern is one example of a misguided attempt to formalize the software dev process and align it with goals.

How would software devs feel if some perverse, untouchable bureaucracy measured their code according to ridiculous formal measures from the Central Bureaucracy and arbitrary rules that changed according political whims? That's what teachers are facing. I know some software devs face the same thing, but we always give them the same advice: find a better job. Teachers don't have that option because the bureaucracy is everywhere; but they can go to better (generally richer) schools, where it's a little mitigated, or they can drop out and leave that gaggle of little Kafkas behind forever.
The claim is that there are or will be 280,000 unemployed teachers. Unemployment is surplus labor. The standard prescription for surplus labor is to reduce the cost.
Isn't Terminator written in Java and cross-platform? ;-)
Because Facebook is to people what RSS is to blogs.

I have all (well, not all, but you get the gist.) info in single place. That's mostly it.
The long tenure (and prestige of the organisation) probably also contribute to the willingness of candidates to subject themselves to such a process. Getting someone who is currently employed to sacrifice multiple days of (paid or unpaid) holiday for your hiring process is presumptuous, particularly if they're actively looking for a new position and thus probably going through this with multiple companies simultaneously.

As you say, it's all about making the relevance of the process obvious to the candidate. Also, companies should be as accomodating as possible in terms of timing of appointments, etc.
I use bitbucket for my private personal projects (and github for my public projects and for work). It's fine - the interface is very much like github. I mostly just push and pull so it doesn't make a great deal of difference
So can any of here other string search algos be used for DNA mapping?
UX, It's Time to Define CXO
Or maybe IE-never. The official reason is "WebGL is unsafe"[1]. The unofficial is, of course, "We hate OpenGL and we would rather force our own, unsafe Silverlight 3D"[2].

[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Internet-Explorer-Won-t-Be-Su...

[2] http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-security-and-microsoft-...
They actually have some support for this (or at least they used to, and grandfathered some of us in).

Unfortunately, it's limited to the website, and doesn't carry over to Roku/AppleTV/etc.
That is the way I use it, I share nothing, but use it to keep in touch with some friends who almost never read their emails :).
Usually to organize old friends parties. It is kind of good for that. With a private group.
I would have preferred a Posterous group or a mailing list, but my '91 school class is not made by geeks. They use Facebook.
My answer. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3810768
I'm going to go and demand they unlock the first generation iPhone I bought the fist day they were released (for the full $600 price) just on principle. Still a bit annoyed that it was locked since it wasn't subsidized at all, although I knew what I was getting in to.
The last true hacker ... is not very welcome at the hacker community, very weird.
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People care because it demonstrates exactly how pointless the rules are. Why should we "just accept" spending however long it takes to empty a bag when to do so provides no gain whatsoever other than to perpetuate a myth?
> I feel this is somewhat core to the FSF movement, a choice for how your computer runs.

You are mistaken. RMS thinks its immoral to use or develop proprietary software regardless of anything else.
While putting teachers in the same boat as waiters, programmers and CEOs does sound awful, I think children will still wind up being educated.

Remember, the goal here is not to ensure teachers are never incorrectly fired, it's to educate children. If a few teachers are incorrectly fired, but student performance goes up, that's a win.

This is what happens in many industries. For example, if a trader or hedge fund manager gets unlucky and the market moves against him, he can be fired. Unfair individually, maybe, but in aggregate the net result is that the traders who aren't fired tend to perform better.
What if correlation is causation? What if discriminating against certain traits cuts the fat more efficiently? What if it's not just about relevance to the task, but about the bigger picture, does the person deserve to be hired, what would they be like to work with, would they fit in with the group.. Why not exclusion for its own sake, if it produces good results? We all discriminate every moment of our lives, down to the finest choices. It is a moral good.
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Does this apply to iPhones that were bought off contract? (From the Apple Store.)
Widespread Virus Proves Macs Are No Longer Safe From Hackers
Animal testing : Be nice to mice
Where, specifically, does the article conflate what you are saying?

Yes, it would be stupid to not give a teacher or programmer instructions, but we're talking about each individual school not being able to do this, right? Someone at the state level has already decided they want the federal funds tied to complying with whatever initiative and already passed down the order to each school.
If I had a quarter for every time I had an idea that was already done...
That many of the metrics the school system uses are terrible ones, which lead to pathological behavior.
Oh come on, if they stopped an actual weapon they would certainly do a full press release about it. In all the years with all the money spent, there is NOTHING?

What you are saying is they are awesome at stopping invisible pink elephants, they just cannot show them to us because they are invisible.

Every place in the USA has city, county, state and federal police with incredible laws that let they do almost anything they want, yet there is still crime. Somehow the TSA magically has no crime to show for their presence.
Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life
CEOs? Bad example there.

I am very concerned about labour rights, as that will be very important in a world of ever-fewer jobs with more competition for those jobs, for the students when they grow up, and for now, when their parents need jobs to support their family.

If students can get teachers fired with just an accusation,

* The students will end up with a fragmented education from a chain of supply teachers and replacements.

* Teachers will have to pander to students even more than they already do, for fear that a disgruntled student will decide to cry wolf. Lessons will focus on fun, not education, and teachers will be unable to stop students from disrupting class.

The comparison to a trader or hedge fund manager doesn't stand, as the market cannot decide to deliberately move against him out of spite, a need for power, or boredom.

[EDIT: Forgot to mention that private companies are more motivated to care about the product. Public school administrators would be more concerned about 'liability' and eliminating a source of 'hassle', than with the quality of the product. There's little incentive for them to work to keep a good teacher who's been unfairly accused.

The comparison to programmers is also not appropriate, for those same reasons.]