skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, if I witness a scene on the road, take a picture and post it online, then I'm judge, jury and executor. I might be right or might be wrong in my assertion that a crime has happened - but that's not for me to decide. If due to me posting said picture somebody looses his job or gets into any kind of trouble with a lynch mob, that's the consequence of my actions. And if I'm wrong, or overreacted in the course of me prosecuting a perceived crime, then I'm at fault (and potentially liable).

Now, if I take said picture and hand it to the police, they investigate, then I've done the right thing: The justice system gets to work and the decision about the appropriate punishment is made by a neutral party in due process. This is how we handle things since we've become a civilized society.

Don't get me wrong: The OP may be right and the guys made inappropriate jokes - but she's at least partially wrong as well. She didn't give them any chance to hear their side, maybe clear up any misunderstanding - instead she called for the lynch mob. That's the point I'm criticizing. The way I see it is that she's to blame as well. It's a pity since she's right in what she wanted to achieve, but her means didn't justify that goal.
Loyalty is reciprocal. I've never understood why companies expect complete loyalty while simultaneously showing none in return. I also think that it's very unlikely they are 'good employers'. They may pay well, but that's a totally different thing to being a good employer.
The complaints from people at each hop were also a major issue.
"...believe it should be a more active area of research."

8000 papers so far:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/
It is not Clojure, it is Java, also the way Clojure is pretending to be a Lisp, being Java with parenthesis and immutable collections.))

It is not illegal to be a purist.)
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Oh, and naturally they're heavily limiting the rate at which free users can download their own files from the service. Almost goes without saying.
Gene selection isn't that simple.

Population members aren't useless to preserving genes once they're done having babies.

Elders use and share collected knowledge (particularly skills that take a long time to master), care for babies while the parents are hunting/etc., help with gathering/cooking/cleaning/etc.. If they are all sick & dying instead of doing this work, your group isn't going to do as well as the competing group whose elders are in good shape.
Genetic Programming is closer.
You've just re-invented Grammatical Evolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_evolution
You can easily. Rice, olive oil, frozen vegetables, almonds, bananas, oatmeal, cheap bread, salt, sugar, margarine, cheap spices, multivitamin. You can even splurge on canned soups (chunky even) once a day, with real meat in them. If you had to you'd figure it out.

Junk foods should not be buyable with food stamps. Though food industry lobbying results in that restriction not being abided by in a lot of cases.
This doesn't feel like it's a major sexual harassment case in the making but if it is then the damage has already been done and sacking someone can't remove that liability.

I hope I'd also look at the cost and difficulty of recruiting decent developers, the opportunity to possibly salvage the PR situation (which I think a constructive approach might get us, unlike sacking someone) and the fact that there seems to be genuine remorse and that the individual in question seems like a reasonable guy who did an unreasonable thing rather than some arsehole.
Can anyone link to the harassment/threats he mentions? (Mostly the latter, I'm sure there was much harassment but I have yet to see any real "threats").
Time for some perspective in the free-to-play games debate
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> On a typical day, I ate 3-4 normal breakfasts throughout the morning (a bagel w/ cream cheese, a smoothie, 2 or 3 eggs and toast, maybe a bowl of oatmeal).

That's a lot of different things to prepare 3-4 times a morning... but my guess is you meant all those things to be 3 or 4 breakfasts, rather than an example of a normal breakfast.

When I'm trying to lose, I do low carb or intermittent fasting, or both. But if I'm not paying any attention, my diet might typically be three meals and some snacking: an cheese and bacon omelet with coffee for breakfast, a 4oz bag of avocado-oil kettle chips and plate of rice and chicken curry for lunch, a quart of chicken lo mein and three spring rolls for dinner. The snacks might something like 10-12 double-stuf Oreos, or a pint of peanuts, munched on over the course of an hour or so.

It's really easy to exceed 4000 kcal, and not hard at all to exceed 5000 kcal, all without ever feeling too full (or ever feeling hungry, of course...).
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My girlfriend used Formspring a lot for the photography related posts - would love to know if there was a simple way to scrape posts for future reference. She was upset when I told her FS was shutting down.

Good luck for the future, FS team!
Personally I quite like the idea of IBM buying Microsoft, say, in the early 90s. However, Microsoft was very much about not being IBM, where Google is very much about not being Microsoft, so these are acquisitions that would only have been in a rather weird other dimension.
No, I will not tell you it sucks (because who knows). But I will definitely ask you how you plan to make money. People who count on going viral to get some organic traction through a freemium model don't seem to have the slightest idea of makin a real sale.
should I focus on encouraging and motivating them to realize how cool it is to create your own product

No. You shouldn't have to motivate someone to see how cool something is. Expose them, yes. Motivate them, no. If they can't see how cool it is on their own, then they shouldn't be doing it.

should I help them create a product that has a chance to succeed?

In a hackathon? Really? What is the purpose of a hackathon, to create an outcome or to enjoy the process and the compansionship and maybe even learn something? Personally, I can't imagine a worse environment to create a successful product.

it could be devastating for a newbie

That's a pretty perverted use case for the word "devastating". A serious accident? A loss of a loved one? Those are devastating. Being told your idea sucks? If that's devastating to you, maybe you don't have the backbone for this and should be doing something else.

I was always very gentle with this situations

Don't be. You're not doing them any favors by coddling them. They need brutal honesty. If they don't get it from you now, rest assured that they will from someone else later.

it's almost impossible to succeed with wrong assumptions, too big scope or incomplete team.

I would rephrase that "it's almost impossible to succeed this time". They will likely learn much more failing on their own than blindly taking some mentor's advice. When you taught your children to walk, did you ever let them fall? Personal failures provide the best feedback to toughen up and grow. Don't take that away from them.

They wasted the weekend

You can waste a weekend getting drunk and watching TV, but you can't waste a weekend at a hackathon. Lighten up.
Yes, this is EXACTLY the response that we are looking for.

Not that the company is necessarily in the wrong to ask that the open source code be taken down, but that the community should persuade that company that it is in their interest to keep the code available. (For reputational reasons AS WELL AS all the other benefits of supporting open source.)
You're looking for "Evolvable Hardware", and it sounds like you're referring to the work of Adrian Thomson.

This was done in the 90s, btw.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/adrianth/ade.html
Indeed, the (London) Science Museum suggests that campaigners at the time thought steam might inhibit slavery, but there's no evidence to suggest that actually happened.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/energyhall/page88.as...

And inventions like the cotton gin may have increased demand for slaves, because they enabled more cotton to be grown.
That just shows how ridiculous the laws in UK/US are. Around here, what you're describing would be expressly against the law.
Knowing what we know today, attacks against RC4 are not yet practical, and thus there is no reason to panic. But we must act now. Given the huge incentive for researchers to continue to break RC4, it's reasonable to expect that the attacks will continue to improve.

Yes, SSL Labs will start to penalize RC4 at some point, but not just yet. Later today we will start warning people about the problems.

I've just published the recommendations here:

RC4 in TLS is Broken: Now What?
https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2013/03/19/r...
I mention at the start that casting to double is not allowed. The motivation for that restriction is to allow the solution to generalize to double/int64 or even quad/int128.

In a more practical sense, casting to a double is a good solution. Both int32s and floats can be represented faithfully as a double, and that's what I used to test my implementation against.

However, the unreliable extra precision is still a problem. Casting to double may or may not remove it. You're still exposed to false positives and false negatives, depending on where and when precision is available. You should still run the float through a volatile float field, if you want consistent behavior.

(Note: the volatile field doesn't have to be static. You can use a struct on the stack. That just took more code, and seemed like a superfluous detail. In C, instead of C#, you can just do a cast, instead of storing it in a field.)
Yes, this matches my experience, though I've lost more weight with fewer health problems: I once lost about 100 pounds in 3 months, but I was 19, and probably couldn't repeat that now at almost 40.
That sounds pretty good, actually! I do love good peanut butter.

It can be even cheaper than $30/month as well, since the manufacturer allows local production of the paste (in peanut-growing locales) with no license fee payment required.
I'm really looking forward to that future. See for example task.js:

http://taskjs.org/

Also, if you want to see generators in v8 (spidermonkey has had them for years now) watch the issue:

https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2355
I agree that he may have gleaned something (possibly even a substantial something) from it. As I pointed out, it's easy to learn the applied parts of differential geometry in a day or two: curvature, fundamental forms, etc. are fairly simple, fairly intuitive ideas for someone with a good grasp of multivariate calculus and differential equations, particularly when you're restricting yourself to three dimensional manifolds.

I'd note that that's different from having a rigorous understanding of arbitrary dimension differential geometry, and being able to rigorously show new (if simple/uninteresting) results.

I wasn't trying to imply that you can't read a textbook (or any math text, for that matter) and not learn the material at as deep a level as anyone who's main reference is that text. It's a bit like reading someone's code after very heavy optimization, though: it's easy to miss little parts of how or why the algorithm works, and if you go over it once, without trying possible inputs/etc., then you're likely to miss something.

Instruction and interpretation are like comments in code when you're dealing with specific proofs (they make it easier, but it isn't impossible without them). The thing that is harder (but not impossible) to get without some sort of feedback is a deep understanding of when a proof is rigorous and mathematical aesthetics.
I can't see a problem with a currency gaining value by the hour. If you hold a currency that keeps gaining value, then your purchasing power keeps increasing. Why is that a bad thing? Everyone would be happy to trade in such a currency.

Everyone would be happy to sell in such a currency, but why on Earth would anyone want to buy with such a currency? The only currency that is good for both sides of the equation is the one that is stable in value.
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This is also related to the fact that there is no static >Internet<. It's changing every day. In 1995 you won't have thought of >banking in your pocket<. Today, as so many people use the internet, everything can happen.

To innovate you have to be far-seeing. Besides of other circumstance, you have a good chance to be successful with an idea.
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Delusional psychosis? confirmation bias?
I would suspect a lot of the harassment/threats was through things like e-mail, etc. Given the wide range of emotions this has prompted all over the place, I can find it believable that some people might send what could be construed as threatening messages, especially anonymously.
I, personally, wouldn't say 1 million and 1 BILLION are "similar offers". That's a pretty enormous difference.
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It was hinted at (at least with regards to Yahoo $1B offers) - "His only partial rationalization at the time was that in the history of Yahoo, it had made two $1 billion offers that were also turned down. And those were to eBay and Google. "At least I could actually make a pseudo-scientific argument that in every case Yahoo offered $1 billion and it was rejected, it was the correct thing to do," said Thiel."
You da man, rdw.
http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N7/hoax.html
To the people who make decisions like this, it's all 1s and 0s. I mean literally there will probably be some policy pertaining to "software", or some manager freaked about "software" being released. No-one will stop to care about the deployment model when making this call.
This is one side of the argument. The other side is that attempts to own the code the employee does outside of work hours may constitute restraint of trade.
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Not related to to carrier lock-in, but Kindle Fires are sold at a subsidised price, with the money made up by advertising in the OS. This advertising can be disabled for a fee. If customers were allowed to alter their device in any way they wanted, they could simply remove the ads without paying, and this business model would not be tenable.
"I'd just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have."

That's like what Jerry Buss always said about why he wouldn't sell the Lakers. If he had all of that money, he'd just want to buy the Lakers.
If (and this is hypothetical, obviously) the guy open sourced something uncomfortably close to one of their products and uncomfortably close to what he does for his day job, I don't think this is unreasonable.

I am a huge fan of Open Source, but not every company is, and I don't think it makes them a bad employer to have acted this way, given these supposed preconditions. You're correct that pay is only part of the equation, loyalty and respect are also very important. This action doesn't necessarily mean that these things are lacking.

It may well do of course, the world is full of assholes :)
Very exciting, will use for sure. Enjoyed your Ruby book, btw.
Sure, it is not hard to do money laundering, and the risk of getting caught isn't that high - but my point is that even if you technically stay below the reporting limit, you're still facing prison if you get caught in the end; so it's not a trivial decision to make.
Let me explain. My company's employee manual had a clause stating (and I paraphrase here) that any intellectual property (patentable invention, copyrightable materials, etc) created by the employee was owned by the employer.

Technically, this means that they own the bedtime stories that I make up for my kids. And certainly any open-source code that I may write in my free time, even if I used absolutely NO company resources and worked only on evenings and weekends.

But this story has a happy ending: I signed it (I like getting paid), then went to the company lawyers and raised the issue. I used the "you own my kid's bedtime stories" example and provided alternate language they could consider. (My alternate language said they owned it only if it was written using company time or company resources or if it related to the line of business the company was in.) The next year, they changed it to a variant of my proposed wording (actually, they used "only if written on company time or using company resources" which was an even more expansive exception).

Of course then a few years later we got bought by a new company, and they had a different clause. So I started a conversation with THIS company's lawyers. . .
That's what a CEO does. A CEO sets the direction of the company. If that direction is leading them astray, it's the CEO's fault, no matter who else is to blame. Systemic issues within the company are a CEO's problem.
The reason artists have agents is so they can get work. Because there are more artists than paid work. Programmers are in such demand that one does not need for such thing. Thus, this kind of service popping up signals that there is so much frees money flowing around (the bubble) that people are looking for ways to grab a bunch and runaway.

Let's be honest here. Aside from the ego stroking of having an agent, what value do these people provide?
Adria, and most women, are tired of asking people one by one not to offend. This is her asking everyone to think about what they say in public.
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Guido has been resisting the stackless stack slicing assembly technique since I first learned about Python and Stackless Python in 1999. That's obviously never going to change.
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That would make sense, but doesn't appear to be what they actually said. They didn't mention that if the party buying your bitcoins for dollars is itself an exchange, the miner is exempt from regulation.
Read http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/Objecti... and on a related note, read http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html too.

You only need to synthesize when you access the variable directly.

I always access via properties unless I'm within a setter for that property or if I want to bypass my own lazy loading getter code. So I'm left with only a few occasional @synthesize statements in most classes.

And in Xcode, run Edit > Refactor > Convert to Modern Objective-C Syntax. I don't think it helps remove unnecessary @synthesize, but it sure helps with those super-double-extra-verbose-old-style container subscripting accesses.
I don't think the point of earth hour is to make any kind of difference. I think it's more for awareness, lights are a visual guide to power consumption, if the whole city loses power first thing you notice are the lights.
Could a site like Hackernews use the software to detect spammers, bots and trolls? Or are the user patterns solely meant for fraudulent activity?
Yeah I did a bit more research. Looks like the cotton gin did greatly increase demand for slaves but that's not really related to steam engines.

Combined with the fact that one of the primary applications of the steam engine was faster transportation of goods in the North (South had little in the way of industrialization until post Civil War), I'm almost certain that the steam engine did not decrease the need for slaves. Once the North began expanding European trade routes post War of 1812 and the entire continent started demanding Southern US cotton, it was an avalanche (that did not get tempered by the ban on international slave trading).
Why does anyone use that piece of turd? http://filecloud.io/ has more features and hell even has bitcoin option for us geeks
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Coming from the FoxPro days, I'm a huge fan of SQLite.
The first time I low carbed on Atkins, the cravings and bad feelings built up for about a week - but then on the 8th day, it was like I had passed some invisible line. I felt great.

It's really worth pushing yourself past this point - for no other reason than to gain the experience of what it's like to burn fat as your primary energy source to see what people have raved about.
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Except that pretty much every video contains additional information about which facility it took place at, and the company that owns that facility. It would be pretty easy to falsify if the video was staged.

I imagine your friend's dairy farm is very well run, and the animals are treated well. That doesn't reflect what happens at larger industrial operations though.
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Turning down $1 Billion does not say he is a great founder. He was just not so much into money, and Facebook was his thing, an idea in his head which HE wanted to give a future. He was just passionate about it.
But it's just the tiniest bit of monkey patching! A wafer thin monkey patch!
This is only a link to http://www.miakulpa.com/mars-curiosity-rover-finds-all-but-1... that is a copy of http://guardianlv.com/2013/03/jd-mars-curiosity-rover-finds-... . Is this blogspam^2?

The article is not very clear about what is missing, but I'm afraid that

> The missing piece of the puzzle for the discovery of previous life on Mars is water.

means that the missing "element" is water. (But water is not an element!)
To be fair, I was poking fun at the encoding in the document.

That being said, where I live this is called E621, but I probably wont rush out in search for it, I dont even particularly like mc food :\
I'd say that if nobody thinks that the idea will fail, it probably will. If it's so obviously good, why didn't anybody succeed with it yet?

That said, you should tell them. You should also tell them that they can change their idea any time they want, and that they don't need a great idea, a good one with great implementation is enough.
It would be helpful if you were more specific than just "Around here".
OP is apparently in South Africa according to his twitter profile
I don't see what's so radical here. It sounds like any other branded clothing/etc. sales-based job, really.
If it has generators it will make it easier. I remember being happy about finding out Twisted has inlineCallbacks. I basically let you not have to split your logical function into multiple functions simply because it has to to do some IO.

Before it used to be code like:

def processShoppingCart(...):
d.addCallback(_cb1)
return d # (d is a Deferred)

def _cb1(...):
d2.addCallback(_cb2)
return d2 # d2 is a another Deferred

etc.

Which with generators and inlineCallbacks turns into

@someDecoratorThatEnableUsingInlineCallbacks
def processShoppingCart(...):
.. do some work ..
yield <some_io_function_like_check_db>
.. do some more work ..
yield <some_io_other_io_function>
....

You get the idea. I am not too familiar with Node.js but I imagine it will help quite a bit.
Yeah Ive seen videos of their management and its definetely a hippie-style cultish cimpany, that doesn't mind starting their prices at 90$ for a pair of pants!
And women love paying that since its stylish and hifgg quality
Could that be a byproduct of doing much assembly?
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Have you tried going on a low-carb diet? I found that after passing through the induction phase, my very healthy appetite was dramatically reduced. It was like flipping a switch. Suddenly, a normal salad felt satisfying and enough to be considered "a meal".
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They should leave existing users data, if they wanted to keep any respect in the community I'd say. It is sad watching all these companies giving "free" services away, just to remove them again.

Don't trust anything free, because nothing really is.
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