skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought these might be D3/SVG visualizations, but it looks like a custom chart library developed by NYT themselves, with drawing done in a Canvas element.

I think a browser might choke on this many visualizations in SVG but I'm not sure. I've seen libraries take all sorts of approaches, but I'm leaning towards Canvas for really fluid and precise graphics.

Edit: I'm baffled why someone would downvote this.
But weapons used for defence are still cool, right?
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>It can be argued that one could just do those things on Windows / Linux instead

Unless you are stuck in a Mac Only workflow. I've been using Logic since it was called Notator on an Atari ST. It did used to be available on windows, but I never used it there. That has long since been killed, and not it is Mac-only. There are plenty of other people in similar situations. I could go out and learn Cubase or similar, but I'd rather not.
I support this argument. Not sure why the downvotes, but it's the most truthful answer in this set of comments.

Cheers to you sir, just because people don't like the truth does not make it any less truthful.
You've got it backwards: this is the context. It probably wouldn't trigger a lawsuit on its own; it's the reason you'd lose that lawsuit, or have to settle on very unfavorable terms.

Look at the cases the OP mentioned. Each one has a concrete injury (getting passed over for a promotion, etc.), plus evidence suggesting that gender discrimination was the reason for the injury.

Now imagine that a well-qualified women applied for a job with this startup, and was passed over. Given the breastaurant photo, it would look very plausible that the applicant wasn't hired because the founders hire people they like, and they like guys they can see themselves hanging out with at places like this.
No Siri (still), and I'm fairly sure I heard no 3D maps.
There's nothing preventing Microsoft or Oracle from doing the work else where.

There are just about zero limits on capital mobility.

Here's the list of biggest H1B employers ...

http://www.businessweek.com/table/08/0305_h1b.htm

Read'n'weep.

Infosys, Wipro, Satyam, Cognizant, Microsoft,Patni ....

Overwhelmingly outsourcing firms and one owned by the richest convicted monopolist in the world.

There's no evidence that H1-B is necessary and it's a ripoff of American labor.
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Very cool. Now all you need is bunch of robot-basketball players with this data plugged in, and those guys' asses are kicked to high heaven, lol!!
The early Romans had some good success with temporary emergency dictatorships to cut through the deadlock in times of emergency. This didn't really stop working for them till they faced the threat of Hannibal, and appointed Fabius Maximus who spent a few years studiously avoiding direct conflict with Hannibal, and the Senate got impatient and wrested back control.
I hate to use the cliché, but: weakest link. SMS and dial-back systems rely on the security of the telco, who are dis-incented to secure their users' accounts. These systems do not use encryption! Of course they are going to get owned.
You actually can hang out at the Twin Peaks cafe in North Bend, Washington:
http://www.twedescafe.com/

Unfortunately it's been gutted and the current owners have no sense of nostalgia nor style. Wish I could re-design the place. Angelo Badalamenti on the stereo, Red Room bathrooms, pie display case... the possibilities for a nice campy tribute to Twin Peaks are endless.
I haven't read anything in this thread yet, but my eye caught 1984 and wanted to second your recommendation. Brave New World is without a doubt, one of the best books I've ever read. Hard to believe it was written 80 years ago.

I like to listen to audiobooks (when commuting), and BNW's audiobook (produced by BBC) was also great: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012QED5Y
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Your intent isn't important - it's the intent of the person licensing the software.

I publish my shark+laser beam integration library in the hope that other evil geniuses will use it and improve on it. Together we can produce an opensource shark+laser beam system that is more secure and reliable than the commercial offering. When you are an evil genius you have to worry about these things.
They get it. They get that no one's using their voice and SMS near as much as they used to, and need a convenient way to sell more of it (that won't even be used, likely).
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Exactly. I remember hearing similar ramblings from Symbian and Windows Mobile 6.5 users when the original iPhone was released. Or how the iPhone would never achieve market penetration in Japan because it lacked all the bells and whistles of their feature phones (built in TV tuner etc...).
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App and API compatability. New apps using iOS 6 APIs will still run.
I think there's two factors here. First, the cost. If you're only going to offer 2-year-old hardware, it's hard to justify keeping the same price (especially when the base price was a bit high to begin with). Second, the Mac Pro is lacking hardware that would allow it to be future-proof (SATA III, USB3, Thunderbolt, new socket, etc). Basically, you're buying a dead-end of a computer at this point.
Most netbooks don't even support 8GB of RAM. This device is clearly intended to be much more powerful than your typical netbook or Raspberry Pi.
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I really wish that were true, but it's not what I've observed in general.

Granted, the "hacker culture" I'm most familiar with is the "security-type" of hacker (as opposed to developers/makers), but its culture is rife with every kind of 'ism imaginable (sex, race, what have you).

I suppose there's some solace in the fact that at least the discrimination isn't exclusionary.
First, that's not a tautology. Second, that's not my point. The OP is wrong in saying that Amazon are being price-competitive. That's not their strategy; you can see it by comparing their VM costs to just about anyone else out there. Amazon's strategy is to out-feature everyone and lock customers in precisely so that they don't have to compete on price.
Aside from Hooters, what are other examples of "these places" that should be avoided? Our startup's engineering staff is all male- any advice that will keep us out of such embarrassing situations is appreciated.
In my team(at a company in SF bay area), We have tried to hire an entry level engineer and also a senior level engineer who can tackle software development. We've not been able to fill any position with qualified candidates.

Only reason is that the supply of jobs is abundant. Though there could be a huge number of american engineers, it simply doesn't match the demand at present. There is nothing terribly wrong in education system in the USA. The way you can solve this problem is by telling every freshman to major in Computer Science (However, many tech jobs don't require CS degree), which is not possible.
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You can still press "don't have your phone?" and send a code through SMS, unless there's a way to disable that.
This is the first time I've heard of it. I was expecting something along the lines of cherry pie at the "Double R Diner".

On topic though, it boggles the mind that staff would go to strip clubs as a work social activity, but it does happen. I used to work with some characters that got in trouble for it.
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The same reason why Apple has not changed iOS devices' aspects and "virtual pixel count" since day one. Android did allow random resolutions and screen aspects, and look at the mess it has caused.
If your team has a documented history of this sort of thoughtcrime, any woman with a grudge and a lawyer can use that to fry you. Whatever you think of the ethics, it's blatantly self-destructive behavior within the US system of employment law.
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That has come up a few times and there is a non-military clause for creative commons. IIRC it was in the code for a digital radio system.

But even assuming the bad guys would abide by it - it gets tricky:

Does the police count? What about SWAT teams, what about the FBA, the CIA?

Is the coastguard part of the Navy in your country? Does that make SAR "military"? Could they use it only on rescue missions but not on law enforcement?
Ha! Everybody knows that laws for mortals don't apply to the defense industry.
You can now have a different signature for each email account on your iOS device, WOW

I don't think this is possible with the stock ICS IMAP/POP mail app. It doesn't even have mali threading?
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Have you looked at Ice Cream Sandwich at all?
As others have pointed out, the way iOS limits the reach of certain things, it was not even possible to have a third party app do some of those things. So, while these features may not be built into ICS, the Android architecture allowed for a third party app to implement it already.
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The joke has been re-written and re-told with new aircraft names many-many times - it dates back to at least Korea.
There were more than two features announced.

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/
> If a smartphone application exploits an image rendering or
> font library, it doesn't gain any additional permissions.
> It can't do anything with a vulnerable library that it
> couldn't do otherwise.

Haven't phones on both platforms been rooted via local exploits, just like the ones you describe?

> The important attack surface on smartphones is local kernel exploits, which are rare.

The important attack surface on Chrome is sandbox model exploits, which are rare.
I'm a big fan of George Carlin, but that point was still irrelevant and largely self-defeating when he first popularized it.

For such an astute student of language, with an eye toward practicality over formality, I don't know how he could see a difference between his complaint that the colloquial 'save the planet' implied rather than explicitly expressed a human point of reference and his many rants against unnecessarily precise techno-jargon. (see: PTSD, pre-boarding, etc)

The only useful value in highlighting that 'save the planet' implies 'so we can still live here', is to draw attention to how the knee-jerk response to such slogans and policy suggestions [1] is the height of arrogance/ignorance.

But rather than exposing the absurdity of that knee-jerk response, his little rant has served as ammunition for that response, shifting the expectation of evidence of lasting harm to an intellectual game of pointless abstraction. [2]

As such it started, and continues, to bother me.

So, again, if you find any legitimate comfort in the idea of the planet continuing on without us (As Carlin may well have) there's no good reason to stop at that level of abstraction.

And if you just want to complain about colloquial language, generally speaking, that pursuit winds up on the receiving end of the bulk of Carlin's analysis of language.

[1] In short: dismissing any potential for a legitimate concern about defending life as we know it by casting conservationist policies as the work of extremists or dismissing any potential for damage by humans by suggesting that we're powerless to truly harm nature.

[2] E.g. "We may turn America's breadbasket into a dust bowl - but after we all starve to death, things will grow again!" As if that matters to the conservationist or their opponent, being as they would both have starved to death.
Interesting pitch. Even better solution to that problem would be not starting idiotic foreign wars.
Ah yes, good old feature checklists. Those have been working so well for us these last couple of decades.
As programmers we should be well aware that our customers' "needs" are bounded by what they a) know and b) believe is possible. Guiding them to technological enlightenment can and does provide rewards (financial and otherwise).
Facebook and Twitter are not features.
I find it kind of humorous that we used to hear a lot of "but the App Store has way more apps than the Market" as a "feature" that made iOS more desirable. Hell, Apple even used the "There's an app for that" campaign for quite a while. And now we have people saying, "Well, so what if there was an app for that in ICS. Third party apps don't count". Oh how times change.
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The source of this is: http://courtvisionanalytics.com/

Kirk Goldsberry does these. He's been doing this for a while. The NYT may have developed the library that they're using here (I'm not sure), but the idea and the data visualization concept are his.
I love how the community on the Internet can come together in an hour to squash complaints like this. Matthew is beloved and there is no way that we would let him fight this alone.
I'm a pretty big fan of the rolling token 2-factor authentication model, with the app on your phone presenting you the rolling token. The Blizzard login app is the biggest single example that comes to mind. SMS really isn't secure, I think something like this could be a good next step to phase in.
This seems prudish. This is a restaurant, not a strip club. There is no nudity. They have national TV ads. If you go in, you'll find families with children. You can find that questionable if you want to, but clearly many people don't mind bringing their children there.

Most restaurants hire a lot of female servers. Most have very nice looking women. This is not a coincidence. Most have them wear clothes that in some way accentuates their sexuality, even if it's just nice form fitting attire that shows no skin. They're not given burquas.

Why do good liberal folk rail against the supposed repressed sexuality of the United States, holding up European countries as some kind of enlightened ideal, and as soon as a woman decides to empower herself by working wherever she pleases, including a place that shows her midriff, we all suddenly prude out and talk about lawsuits?
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I think a bigger asymmetry than "hackers vs. governments" is "defense vs. offense" -- the state of computer security is laughable enough that the attacker will probably win, whoever he is.

If non-government hackers were building offensive tools, vs. defensive, and only had to win periodically vs. essentially all the time, they'd be able to put up a better fight. Government doesn't have a particular monopoly on competence, and internal politics and budget issues probably would allow a relatively capital-poor non-governmental enterprise to do pretty well vs. a contractor/government team.
Hmm, like the layout, presents a lot of info well, but really not a fan of the font they've used for that top section. It's just on the edge of being hard to read, not quite, but not clear. And the main headers with the gradient effect just look a bit blurry to me.
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FYI, quantum teleportation does not transmit information faster than light. You'll notice from the explanation in your link that some information still needs to be transmitted through a classical channel (ie at light speed).
Instead of "Share Everything" call it what it really is, the "Fuck Everyone" plan. Verizon gets to charge way too much for 1GB of data, and well fuck everyone else.
No strip clubs and porn shops obviously, but that's apparently not far enough.

No place that hires attractive women or even hints at human sexuality as being a positive thing, apparently.
Not all the features of ICS would work on all phones if you could actually upgrade them. You're clutching at straws.
There are no power-IOS-users :)
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As someone who's never used Mac OS, I much prefer Mint over normal Ubuntu. With Mint everything seems pretty natural to me, and it doesn't feel like I have to relearn almost anything at all. With Ubuntu, my first experiences with it were pretty frustrating, and I was even complaining to a more Linux-loving friend that I find it even less intuitive than Windows. Mint actually seems more intuitive than Windows to me.
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It prevents human engineering of the phone company. One might hope that Google would be better at the security implementation (i.e. the BT operator apparently "validated" an incorrect password, which indicates to me that it was a quick hack, probably just a field in the customer record about which the operators weren't trained).

Also: I'd hope that Google wouldn't allow a complete account reset based solely on the backup device. That should be a backup for your second factor only, you should still need the password.
I think there's some merit to being able to solve crimes more effectively after the fact --even if they don't prevent them as much as desired. That police can upload an image of a suspect and see if they have been captured on camera somewhere is of value. They do that in Japan; it aids the police in tracking a known criminal, so long as they're not careful (which is very difficult) -ie take taxis avoid walking in most urban areas, etc.

More effectiveness means fewer people are needed to police a given population, that reduces the cost --which is typically what people are most sensitive about. You may be more sensitive about other aspects, but you might not align with most people in that regard.

There is also Shotspotter technology, it helps in driving police to a firearm discharge, rather than prevent the discharge. Never the less, it helps police manage crime better.
> Remember when the first iPhone was announced? The bullet list after
> it was announced had touchscreen at the top of the list

No, the LG Prada was ripped off by the iPhone. Don't let apple fanboys rewrite tech history. Same with the iPod. Sure, it was a more polished product, but they were not the first with the feature set. Apple rarely is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada_(KE850)#iPhone_controv...
Ok, they either changed the rules or I misread them.

But it's why an opensource solution is the only thing that would work. Netflix aren't going to have good Youtube support and Amazon aren't going to do a good job of Netflix, neither will do the BBC. And when some online service marginally changes its system - a cheap HW maker like Logitech isn't going to put effort into an update.
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I don't think it's a contrasting view at all ... perhaps we'll see those with the grand-fathered unlimited data plans stay with their current plans and those with metered plans will upgrade.

Either way I think this is a good move by Verizon. I like the idea that my ancient (Bell mind-set) wireless company is trying to compete with the more innovative new-comers.
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Nice theory. Please try to convince people like Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan and Massoud Ali-Mohammadi that this theory is true.

Oh, you can't. They were assassinated by a western-backed democracy. (There have been many more, those were just the first two names that turned up of Iranian nuclear scientists who were assassinated by Israel.)

As much as you'd like to believe that assassination does not happen, it does. In the very same conflict that gave us Flame and Stuxnet. In fact I would not be surprised if information from Flame was used to target assassinations.
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> I see a lot of hacks of voice mails and then requests for Google to use the second factor to reset the account...all by baddies.

(Disclaimer: I work for a telephone and software-based 2factor provider)

If your telephone-based 2 factor authentication is being thwarted by voice mail hacking, the problem lies in the implementation of the phone call itself, not necessarily the method. Unfortunately, certain solutions are built to be "quick and dirty" and just play an automated message that spits out a temporary password 3 times and hangs up. These make it easy for attackers to scrape them out of voice mail boxes.

Properly designed solutions will actually require call affirmation (for example: the user will be asked to press a randomized DTMF digit before a temporary password is spoken). Certain locations (like North America) can take advantage of features like call-forward detection, which can prevent sensitive information from being delivered if a number is determined to be forwarded.

Ultimately, it may not be a silver bullet, but when it's done right you're left with something much more effective than a minimum effort/lowest possible cost approach.
The success or failure of the new technology may well determine the fate of A123. It will also render an early verdict on Mr. Obama’s broader push to promote electric cars and build a domestic industry to develop and manufacture advanced batteries to run them

This sounds like a pretty good reason not to believe anything you hear, one way or the other, about this new "breakthrough" battery technology until either (a) you see it parked in your driveway or (b) it's 2022 and you don't.
There are actually 3 types of H-1B candidates:

Bodyshoppers - Faux consulting companies that recruit H1B workers from overseas with promises of a life in the US and a Green Card and place the "consultants" at US corporations to fill developer positions. Usually while they are paid the "market" rate as per DOL guidelines the companies sometimes deduct "fees" from the salary for the first year or so giving the candidate not much to live on. The green card never materializes and the candidate is usually threatened with having to pay back all the fees if they leave. Some are really good candidates who come into the US this way and usually jump ship as soon as they can if they can find a US company to sponsor the H1B. There has been a crack down on this over the last several years so body shopping isn't as common as it used to be.

Outsourcers - Companies who specialize in transferring work development overseas. "Consultants" come to the US on a H1B for year or so to learn the process and systems then head back overseas to setup the development team offshore. Was very in vogue a few years ago but seems to have slowed down as more companies realized it doesn't work as well as advertised.

The third category is companies who genually are seeking the best candidate for the position and cannot find anybody locally. Really these companies should be sponsoring the candidate for a EB1, EB2, or EB3 green card however the process takes too much time (1-2 years+) and doesn't give the company as much leverage over the candidate as bringing them in on a H1B. If you are coming in on a H1B these are the companies you want to work for, but make sure you get any promises for Green Card sponsorship in writing otherwise it probably won't happen.
Well said. The issue is being considerate to people in general.

Anyway, the point of the story is to organize your company outings, if you must have them, at someplace everyone will enjoy.

Do you mean on a case-by-case basis though? IOW, if you had a group where everyone was happy going to Hooters, would you do it, or are you saying that one should always stick to the "safe" choice? If the latter, I wouldn't really agree, as that seems very limiting and likely to lead to a bland experience.