skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would expect some correlation with the weather: nicer weather means nicer tube trips because, with worse weather, more people take the tube, and they will wear thicker, wetter clothes. Also, if it is extremely hot, the tube can be relatively cool (depends heavily on the tube in question)

The tube also can be extremely busy (sometimes with very noisy passengers) due to sales in shopping centers or due to sporting matches, exhibitions, etc.
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And turns Thinkpad logo on cover upside down. Not a big deal of course.
Pharmaceutical industry scientist and blogger Derek Lowe put up a post about DRACO in 2011: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/08/22/dracos_new_a...

He generally positive about it (uncommon for him) but points out some likely difficulties for real-world human use.
Thank you in advance for any feedback
> Certification is nothing but acknowledgement of knowledge.

Yes and no. When I hire a Harvard grad, is it because he knows things? Well, it's because I assume he doesn't not know anything, sure. But it's also because I know he must have done very well on his SAT's, and must be a really hard worker and very mature if he was able to get the perfect grades in high school you need to get into Harvard. I also know that his network, by virtue of going to Harvard, is probably better than that of someone who didn't go there.

It's much more complex than you make it out to be.
Google has also indexed thousands of various kinds of different things
That's not quite his story either -- his claim is that he suggested to his romantic partner that they apply at Square, and was not involved at all in the actual hiring.
How did it go from state/civil to a federal case?
I'm not sure if this impossible position is given: he fucked up. He was C-level executive, his partner got hired, but he did not tell a word to HR (or company) about their relationship. Now, you have impossible position.

If the company and HR knew about their relationship then his position might not be so impossible.
I agree with the trend, and also with the sentiment around interfaces.

Mutable/encapsulated approaches(which don't end at OOP, but rather continue into language design) act to define protocols. Protocols have a necessarily stateful nature; in the best case, the state is a single value at a single time, but in many real-world situations, state change events are frequent and need careful attention. Source code itself tends to need hundreds of changes to reach application goals, regardless of the language.

Functional and immutable style, on the other hand, acts on processes that are inherently computative, and this is the "nitty gritty" of most business logic. Even if the system is designed in an imperative fashion, it can bolster itself through a combination of a few "key methods" that apply functional style, and a type system that imposes a substantial amount of immutability.

The tricky part with OOP as we know it is to recognize when you're making a protocol, and when you're making an immutable computation. Many of the OO type systems used in industry lack the expressiveness to distinguish the two, and rush the natural life cycle of the architecture by imposing classes too early.
> (2) To the greatest extent possible, avoid being alone with anyone, of either sex and of any age, who might conceivably bring a sexual-harassment charge against you

Wait. Don't ever be alone with anyone? Rough times.
The important part is:

> to come if you call them

That is very nice in the situation you described (e.g. someone is shouting threats at you, especially in the comfort of your house), but pretty useless in most other situations. Unless you have a police officer walking with you 24/7/365, when you find yourself in front of attacker, you may or may not be able to even call the police and when they arrive, they would only collect evidence around your dead body.

Yes, the attacker would be then removed from the society (usually only temporarily and only if they are found) and some possible new attackers would be deterred by the idea of being found. But before someone like that is convicted, they must perform or try to perform their first crime. Is this some kind of duty, if someone happen to be that first victim, to remain defenseless and sacrifice themselves? Also there are incidents such as road rage or crime of passion, when the attacker has no previous history.

PS: Even in the situation you described (guy making threats outside your home), the police may be, and often is, late, when the guy (or more of them) decide to get into the house. Calling the police and waiting for their arrival takes at least minutes. Unless you have a fortress, making a way into your house takes seconds. Recall the woman who had to shoot two robbers while still talking to 911 operator.
I would argue the opposite. Truth is not easy, but it is much easier than justice. Truth exists in a definite manner. Justice has to be decided and is itself perceived by many different parties in a gamut of relevant shades (what was justice for other similar cases, what will be fair etc.) Furthermore, Justice is questioned at every other decision making moment. If I was cutting everybody's hand if they steal and then decide to just cut a finger, it will not be just to the people who lost their hands.

Edit: I am referring to the canonical definition of justice, not the bureaucratic one.
Here's yesterday's discussion of a different article on the same move, fwiw: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112748
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What kind of reactivity does he describe in this article?
Was just about to ask about Stripe helping out a charity and fellow YCer. Awesome to here that they are hooking you guys up. Even with Paypal I already went through 4 donations or so, but Stripe would make the process even more addicting.
True, but I think the point stands: it's not an impossible position, because the partner never had to work at Square in the first place. If he can get a job at Square, he could most likely get a job anywhere in SF/the Valley.
I think Coursera, OpenCourseware, etc, get things backwards.

Well, they did what they can. It's very hard to invent a new institution with a trusted reputation, almost by definition.

Also, the dissemination of knowledge is the part that scales the most. Evaluation is tough and expensive, especially if you are trying even modestly to prevent cheating.

Someone could go to a MOOC to learn the stuff, then get the assessment from UWisconsin.
Absent a government-granted temporary monopoly, the market would be willing to pay very little. So it ends up a bit circular when debating government IP policies.
Why, then, does absolutely no one do that and offer it for free download?
Imagine a company with the official policy that feeding your kids is not important. Can employees off that company now starve their children without fear of legal consequence? How about beating up fellow employees - oh too bad, you should have worked somewhere with a policy against assault?
… but the certification has to mean something or else it wouldn’t work. If the certification were meaningless (i.e. not sufficiently correlated with ability) neither people nor companies would find value in it.

Now, it may be possible to trick this sometimes or for some time, but if it would be possible consistently universities would long have become meaningless.

Ideally, companies would like to just know exactly what ability you have. However, testing for that is a long, expensive, complicated and hard task. Testing for ability is a hard problem, one you probably need specialized personal for (with knowledge of what abilities exactly you want to test for and the social science chops to make an actual worthwhile test happen). That’s one of the reasons why universities exist.

But this removedness from what companies actually want is also the reason why it’s not perfectly efficient, i.e. you sometimes have to learn stuff you don’t actually need.
That is truly beautiful. Good work. One question, though: is it bigger on the inside?
It'd be cool if I could get a bit more non-trailer info by clicking the poster. I kind of expected it would bring up the poster in a lightbox at least, so I could see the stars' names. Maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but I prefer reading to watching a trailer.
the layout still needs some work

e.g., the register box is off when not in standard resolution
this is awesome anthony! really brings me back... i can remember listening to certain weeks with my buddies. hopefully i'll see you at SX this year.
Good call on logging DNS, that'd be a very nice early indicator even if no HTTP requests are sent!

I think maybe the domain should be of the format "www.encodedonlywithatoz.yourdomain.com" to maximize whatever regex parsers try to pick up on URLs (i.e, a www. prefix, a .com suffix, and no special chars). You could encode the dimensions via a lookup table to make it less verbose and slightly more obfuscated ("aa" = at&t, "ab" = verizon, etc).

You shouldn't expect data in the path info to be preserved, but it'd be a nice bonus, as you say.

Even more interesting would be some custom DNS software that replies with perhaps a CNAME or something, where you could encode a unique serial number per request. If you had a huge IP range available, you could even resolve to unique IP addresses for every lookup, so you could correlate DNS requests with any HTTP requests that show up later on. A low/near-zero DNS TTL would come in handy.
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> Why would it be a horrifying state of affairs? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand!

Well.

It would mean that corporations would exist outside of laws to govern their behavior. And we've already figured out that's a bad idea.

Society, generally, wants it to be illegal to force people to fuck you to keep a job, in an extreme example.

Generally, it wants it to be legal to blow the whistle on illegal activity.

Generally, it wants it to be illegal to prioritize profits over the safety of workers.

Being successful and making lots of money shouldn't relieve your company of accountability under the law.

> Was Square harmed?

Square's reputation would have been harmed by a protracted and public legal battle.

> I guess I just don't see who, other than the couple in question, was harmed here.

There's not a couple here. There's an accuser, who claims that Rabois sexually harassed him and that Square covered for it.

Where it gets complicated for Rabois, I suspect, comes with this line:

"exchanged intimate, personal information, as people in similar relationships often do."

This suggests to me that the accuser has sufficient proof that Rabois can't deny a sexual relationship continuing after the hire. Given the asymmetry of power between these two sexual partners, consent starts to get very muddy to sort out.

So he had to leave, given the very real legal issues this opened for the company.
Somehow this reads like every pitch I've ever heard for funding a perpetual energy machine. If you can cure the common cold you don't need funding, just like if you can make energy out of nothing you don't need funding.
Andrea Dworkin and her supporters come close:

"In [Intercourse], she argues that all heterosexual sex in our patriarchal society is coercive and degrading to women, and sexual penetration may by its very nature doom women to inferiority and submission, and "may be immune to reform.""

Though Dworkin denied it, many, including female, critics, viewed it as such:

"Such descriptions are often cited by Dworkin's critics, interpreting the book as claiming "all" heterosexual intercourse is rape, or more generally that the anatomical mechanics of sexual intercourse make it intrinsically harmful to women's equality. For instance, Cathy Young says that statements such as, "Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women," are reasonably summarized as "All sex is rape.""
promised share of the revenue

Promised by whom?
If you're straight and the other person is the same sex and also straight, you're OK being alone together. If you're gay and with a person of the opposite sex, you're OK being alone together. Anything else is risky.
good design serves a purpose , the half letters serves no purpose. If i did this on my site everybody would say how stupid it is , but because it's from "design rockstars" it is controvserial ? i call it bullshit .
over downloading music?
Yeah, our current conflation of education and credentialing has some issues (though it's by no means new, on human-lifespan timescales). It's interesting to see it breaking down.
Because Mac and iOS gaming doesn't represent such a large share of their business. The doom and gloom doesn't make sense otherwise, Steam functions perfectly well on Windows 8, as do all other desktop, non-"Modern UI" apps, so there's no other conceivable reason for him to get irate.
I used Watsi when it was first announced here. It's a truly amazing offering, a great product with great customer support and outreach, and, as a user, it truly makes you feel like you're doing something good for the world.

A few weeks after donating, I later got an email from them letting me know that the boy whose heart transplant I had funded had died. It kind of wrecked my whole day, but I was still glad I got the notification. I didn't expect to have such an emotional connection to a person I have never even interacted with before. Godspeed, Watsi.
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Yes, they do. Does posting your made up nonsense online help you believe it?
Well it is good for people in Nepal.

But what about the USA, especially disabled veterans, people on disability, people on no or low income, homeless people, and others who cannot afford their healthcare and got shafted by the federal government?

There are some charities, but they collect funds with Quadriga Art, that keeps the lion's share of the donations and little to no money goes to the charity or people in need. CNN has investigated this company http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/26/us/senate-charities-investigat... http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/24/fund-raising-company-f... http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/25/charities-in-debt-to-f...

This is the reason why so many charities are broke in the USA and the money never goes to the people it is supposed to help. We can reform this problem by starting up a non-profit web company to keep the costs low for raising money for these charities and making sure the people in need get the money and life saving medical treatments and surgeries that they need.
I find this behavior annoying. Here's why:

https://www.google.com/search?q=unicorn+admin

4th result down (wbpreview.com) is shown in search results despite blocking crawling/indexing with robots.txt. The result displays "A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more" and the title seems to be auto-generated. The goal was to de-index the listing but apparently that's not an option.
Thank you for donating! It's amazing for us to hear from people that have already supported so many patients on Watsi.
It's just a donation.
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Where are you getting the movie data from? Cool site by the way, really like it.
Relationships are nebulous, unpredictable things.

Sometimes it feels like even talking about a relationship to other people can effect the state of that relationship. It's easy in hindsight to say, hey, you shouldn't have done it this way. But maybe at certain points it looked like it was about to dissolve itself, but didn't... who knows. I can see a few reasons why I wouldn't want to say anything, especially if this person wasn't a direct report.

(This is taking the story at face value – who knows the truth and if there was a more nefarious reason behind the withholding of that information.)

It's a spectrum. Consider two extremes:

Smart and clean: Don't form relationships at the office, period.

Dumb and messy: As CEO, have sex with the office manager of your small startup.

This sounds like something very much in the gray area in between.
You don't have to do deep investigative journalism to uncover the dirty truth that republicans has a smaller state as a policy goal, and has had it for a few decades. They say so publicly at any opportunity given. So, shockingly, when there's a deficit, they'll argue that the state should be smaller to cover the deficit. Sure, GWB massively expanded the state, and republicans were mostly fine with it, so it comes off as hypocritical. Either way, Bruce Bartlett just wastes a lot of words tracing and uncovering something that's trivially true.

Krugman dwells into conspiracy theory when he argues that republicans "enjoy" the deficit and with a nice slight of hand assigns the full responsibility for it to them. From random partisan hacks, sure, that how it goes, but for someone that likes to remind everyone that he has a nobel price, perhaps, just perhaps, we can expect a higher standard?
You are the one who claimed 10 minutes. If you didn't misread, then you are deliberately ignoring what people are saying just to be obstinate.
> will lead to founders doing the easy thing and simply not hiring women.

Plot twist: In this specific case, he's being accused by another man.
Something I honestly don't grok...

These risks/warnings could apply to just about anything. A person could allege all manner of offensive, suggestive or coercive things, but none seem quite as effective as sexual harassment.

Am I wrong in the impression that allegations of sexual harassment specifically seem to be automatically taken quite seriously?

Over the course of my career, I've seen people accused of every kind of discrimination imaginable, intimidation, extortion, death threats and more, but nothing gets traction like sexual harassment.

What's the deal?
So managers should be allowed to require their employees to have sex with them as a condition of their continued employment?

I'm not saying that's what happened here; rather, the laws against this sort of arrangement are what the alleged "victim" is invoking to bring a case against Mr. Rabois.
yes why would a printer need to be externally addressable - the problem will only get worse if ipv6 (aka ipv4 with rivets as the sainted verity stobb calls it) takes off.
Interesting that the actual date of the commit is December 31, 1969.
Their yardstick of quality seems to be how tightly the company can squeeze their employees...

Some of this seems too evil to be true - that incentive bonuses paid to employees should instead go to their executives?
Stopping sexual assault isn't just an individual's problem, it is a problem for all of society. Why should we live in a culture where 1 in 5 women will experience sexual assault in their lifetime? The kind of systemic problems we face can't be solved by an individual buying a self defense item. We need to focus on defeating a rape culture: http://www.shakesville.com/2009/10/rape-culture-101.html
such a policy would make the contest for the supercar superfluous -- it would eliminate all the marginal uses of energy (i.e. where the benefit doesn't exceed the cost + tax) in the first place!

Love your work YodaBot!
I thought it was pretty self explanatory, actually... What did you want to know?
What really struck me as visually jarring was the top bar and how it permanently overlaps the title, "A LIST APART". At first, I thought it was NoScript doing something funny, but it's the same in Safari. It just feels like a temporary menu bar that should disappear after a few seconds.
It sounds like no matter what else happened, the government chose the wrong way to proceed against this property; they jumped the gun trying to do an asset forfeiture when the proper response was to establish a long track record of having local police request specific interventions to curb crime.

Since the police weren't able to present any evidence that they had requested those interventions, there was no way for the government to prove that the owner of the motel was operating negligently (though: let's be honest about that; the place is a blighted flophouse).

The outcome here seems like the right one. I'm just a lot less outraged that this process got set in motion in the first place; some intervention was clearly needed. Just not the nuclear one.
~70% of his article is discussing reactivity:

> So what is the thing we want to compose if it's not the state? It's the reactions that objects have when events flow across the system. What tends to define variation in evented applications isn't the state of objects themselves, but how they react to certain messages. Given that, we want to be able to compose these reactions to create new versions of the same object. ... Behaviors are a way of creating bite-sized, reusable reactions to messages.

Then a comparison with the conventional approach:

> The way events are traditionally done in most modern platforms, you end up with hidden collections of listeners that contain nameless functions. This hides a vital bit of information - how do you know what's going to happen at runtime and how would you change that? ... By comparison, behaviors carry more information and are bound at call time. We can freely modify their reactions at runtime just by replacing the map in the LT data structure. And if we ever want to know what an object is going to do, we just take a look at that object's set of bound behaviors.

Finally, he talks about tagging, which might seem unrelated, but then I also adopted a similar in my own reactive object system [1] for simlar reasons: I needed a way to externally abstract over objects to get them to behave in similar ways (and ya, I did dynamic mixins too, this is a fun field).

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1793...
America is a continent, you mean US. mixing both is rude to millions of non US Americans.
I guess someone could use it to check that assets were not being stolen, by the creator of the app.
Nobody is saying you shouldn't give to local people in need. There are clearly many deserving outlets for charity.
Why, because they haven't taken to a blog to talk of the emotional turmoil they are suffering through (allegedly) as the result of these actions?

If empathy is a car fueled by how vocal you are in expressing yourself, well... that's not so good.
But the sweeping nature of federal computer crime laws allowed Ortiz and Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann, who wanted a high-profile computer crime conviction, to pursue felony charges. Heymann threatened the free-culture activist with over 30 years in prison as recently as the week before he killed himself...

The Boston U.S. Attorney's office was looking for "some juicy looking computer crime cases and Aaron's case, sadly for Aaron, fit the bill," Elliot Peters, Swartz's attorney at the Keker & Van Nest law firm, told the Huffington Post. Heymann, Peters says, thought the Swartz case "was going to receive press and he was going to be a tough guy and read his name in the newspaper."
There are so many other instances where this logic is usually not brought up, but it can apply far more readily. It's as if making this man destitute and the government winning is the better thing. It's the same logic of people implying people who get an non-guilty verdict are usually secret guilty.
I really want to try this, but I don't see why we are required to register for accounts. My cell phone number is enough of an account name. Just send me a one-time SMS with a random guid that links back. I can enter a password there.

Alternately, why use accounts at all? Just let me enter my number or email and pick movies to be notified about.
It only becomes bullying if they start trying to do something like trade sanctions. Grecy is just worried that might happen. If there is no bullying, great!
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There was such a buzz/hype about it, what happened? (genuine interest in learning...)