skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the authorities should charge him with harrassment, privacy invasion, extortion, copyright infringement (of the photo(s)) whatever is applicable for the things that are described in that article (or anything else) that he has done.

Do not sentence him to 41months for the fact that AT&T breached its customers privacy and Weev let the press know or for accessing unprotected URLs.
My job is in jeopardy for presenting this document in a code review. Most of the communication at my workplace is through teleconferencing, even when people are in the same room. I wrote this in response to the lack of specifications or outcomes for projects which has lowered morale. I'd talk to the CEO or CIO about it, but after working here for over 4 months they have never come in yet, even though they live relatively close.

HN's thoughts?

- s.a.xanadu
Spark is a micro framework for Java[1]. I plan on trying it some time in the future.

[1] http://www.sparkjava.com/why.html
Please add it to the list of sites like HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399879
Having an operations team that can keep things going through adversity is a competitive advantage that doesn't come cheap.

True, but I don't think you can afford to have 100% uptime. Basically nobody can do that. Even in the heyday of the Bell system, Ma Bell couldn't quite guarantee 100% uptime. 99.9999999%, maybe, but do you have any idea how much engineering effort and work went into achieving that?

I won't be signing up for this.

What, acknowledging reality? Look, I don't think the OP was saying that you shouldn't compete on reliability and uptime and other quality guarantees. But if something extraordinary happens to a competitor - which could just as easily happen to you - then it's silly to launch a specific, targeted effort to try and steal away that competitor's customers in reaction that specific event.

There's a difference between a demonstrated pattern of better uptime/reliability, woven into a consistent marketing message over time, and a predatory attack reacting to a moment of weakness.
The discrimination will come in the form of standardized examination. If you aren't born with the intellectual ability to pass exams you can't go to harvard.

It's not always easy to pass for upper class when you are not, this is especially true in the UK where you will be judged on your accent.
I don't understand what this means?
You're completely correct, great points. It's very easy to fall into the trap of 'human-like intelligence will fix it' when thinking of better machines, but it's fairly clear that human-like intelligence has a lot of failings too.
What makes sites like Ask.fm, Amirite.com and Reddit grow so quickly?
I've noticed many of these sites receive viral growth - how does this happen. I've been working for years on my site but traffic only goes up momentarily.
In case of live streaming, the video is only encoded once and then distributed to a whole bunch of users. If you were doing unique watermarks, you'd have to encode an individual stream for every single user. Encoding is much more taxing than decoding. The end result would be that you'd need a metric crapton of additional processing power, and the quality would be worse since you'd have to use sufficiently fast encoding settings to be able to do it in realtime (as opposed to being able to use a lot more expensive options when the encoding is done just once and separately from the actual streaming process).
What you've outlined is the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" policy. You can read some about that history at http://amyshirateitel.com/2012/03/06/should-nasa-reconsider-... .

The basic problem is that it costs something like $2,000/kg to get something out of earth orbit, and 1 kg doesn't get you much. For example, a literal "ton" of redundant sensors would cost $2 million. Just the launch cost for Galileo (to Jupiter) would have cost $50-$100 million or so of its $1 billion cost.

Instead of having "tons of fuel", the cheaper option is to use complex orbits that take advantage of gravity boosts. This allows more weight for sensors and less for boring fuel. But it can take more time.

There's little need to self-destruct. It's expensive to carry a bomb out to Jupiter. Instead, we 'deorbited' Galileo into the planet when its mission was over.

The spacecraft isn't the only cost. There's also time on the Deep Space Network to be able to send and receive messages with the craft, and people to maintain things and analyze the data.

You could make it cheaper on the ground by using a higher power communication system. However, that makes the craft heavier, which costs more money, and reduces what else the craft can do. Rather than having enough power to transmit flyby data live, it's better to use a lower power system and send the data over several weeks. After all, in most of space there's a whole lot of nothing going on.

There is no drag in space. Shape doesn't make a difference.

You can see now some of why mission planning can be very complicated. More fuel means fewer sensors and less transmission capability, but can make a shorter trip or give more maneuverability at the end. These can all affect the mission goals.
I agree completely with your anecdotal experience. It has been my experience as well.

However, I'm quite sure that the speed difference we've observed here is not due to the language implementations at the interpreter level. The two languages are similar in performance in that respect (Python being maybe incrementally faster, but not enough to notice most of the time). The faster speed noticed in this anecdote has got to be almost entirely due to the superior efficiency of the code in the tools we're using. Bundle is just slow basically.
I think "Neo-Luddism" is a very poor description of people who are against Google Glass. The original Luddites were against modern machinery because it destroyed their ability to make a living with the skills that they had. The opponents of Google Glass think that this technology is an invasion of their privacy, which has nothing to do with their ability to earn a living a feed themselves.
welp, an argument you can't win! Time to insult people!
>Tiananmen square. Murders against any form of civil disobedience.

Kent state shootings. And lots of similar actions, from the Wounded Knee incident to the Wako siege.

>Secret and non-secret alliances with North Korea.

Secret and non-secret alliances with Pinochet, Videla, Saudi Arabia and pretty much every corrupted government and dictatorship on earth.

>Occasional acts of aggression on Japan.

Constant acts of aggression towards any country that doesn't bend down backwards for their interests, from Vietnam to Iraq etc. The only nation to drop nuclear bombs on civilian towns.

>Great firewall, general suppression of information from citizens.

Patriot Act, data retention, DMCA, general suppression of information from citizens, J.E Hoover, McCarthy

>Massive amounts of political corruption.

Haliburton, Wall Street ties, paid-for senators, gun lobby, etc etc

>Human rights violations aplenty.

Death penalty for teenagers (one of the only 5-6 countries in the world to do that), Guantanamo, waterboarding and other torture, medical experiments on unsuspecting humans (by the US in Guatemala), sponsoring the Death Squads and other favorable dictatorship practices, seggregation (until 1970), disproportionate percentage of the black population in jail, ...

>Causing an environmental catastrophe. Fucking up the entire planet in the process.

The same. Refusing to sign world treaties on the matter. Dumping their waste on poorer third world countries. Leading the "la-la-la-no-global-warming-la-la" paid-experts denial.

>Tibet, Taiwan, etc etc

Vietnam, Korea, (...) Iraq, Afghanistan, (...)

See how it looks from the other side of the looking glass?

Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.
Yes, there is software as well. Forgot about that.
Feels weird defending a competitor, but Samsung has officially announced details of their new phone's US processor choice that conflict with this post. What this company witnessed was probably an engineering sample with different hardware than the eventual shipping version.

Makes me wonder about how solid the rest of their information is. Carriers have test labs that can deliver any sort of signal to a phone. So maybe some of the test results are just from an LTE node at a test lab and have nothing to do with that being a launch city. If something isn't announced it may never even see the light of day anyway.
please increase the font size on your site. a lovely read for it's content, but painful process of consuming it.
The older I get, the more I realize two very fundamental facts:

People are remarkably different.

Like Clementine in the referenced comment, I'm continually astonished at how different the experience of being someone else is from mine even in an ostensibly identical environment. Just walking in a room can be a remarkably different experience for someone beautiful, ugly, female, disabled, etc.

People are remarkably similar.

I see people do stuff that seems patently dumb are totally counter to how I would do things or how I feel. But as I learn more about the person, I invariably realize what they're doing makes much more sense in context than I originally realized. Much of the difference amounts to differing priorities or background. Much of the core human psychology leading to the behavior is the same.

I'm still trying to figure out how to reconcile these two observations, but the big one for me is to try harder to learn where someone is coming from, what their experiences and background are.
The last two are usually combined to HATEOAS or semantic media-types.

Most REST things I see only talk about the first 4 points, but rarely talk about semantic media-types. Until then, it truly isn't REST; only RESTlike.
We already have posts like that.
Funny, slightly off topic, but still relevant fact: When I google my name, the first page is about a sex offender living in Texas.
This is probably beyond the scope of such a thread, but configuration automation via Chef or Puppet is where you'd start.
Thanks. I'm not a legal student, I'm an attorney doing some research on the issue. I was just looking for some help understanding the more difficult math concepts. Sorry that I don't live up to your standards.
I agree, however, that's not what the person I replied to was implying.
:) hahaha every one makes mistakes .. even google
Facebook Turns Off Website Internally To Force Mobile Development
"my fellow co-founder who just happens to have a lot more experience in the field of hacking and getting hacked"

I see irony in the "getting hacked" part. But seriously, if he is more experienced, then why do they have machines unpatched like that for 6 months?

"it seems it was indeed a kid who did not understand how to install a proper rootkit and cover up his tracks"

It is rather bold to be posting about how you just got hacked by not applying simple patches, and to then bash the "kid" who couldn't install a proper rootkit.
OP is talking about kicking someone when they are down as the result of a random catastrophe. You won't gain many customers doing this, and the ones you do gain won't be very loyal.
Sure, but when relating a personal story about it, you have to go with what you got.

For the record here's mine:

I was the white employee at a hip hop club. The owner was black, as were my co workers. The clientele of the club was mostly black. I was a manager, but the owner was there most nights too - making me not the senior person. The cops were there a lot waiting outside to harass people leaving. I saw an awful lot of cops fucking with people for minor things, that the same cops didn't even glance at in other parts of town [1]. Incidents like fights were met with forceful reactions by the police - full out "lay on the ground and get cuffed" responses to small brawls, but worse fights at the other bar, the response was "hey break it up, go home, and don't come back tonight". This gave me an inkling to privilege.

Then one night some hoodlums were causing a lot of mischief in the street out front and the cops initiated a full on riot response. Woah - tear gas, arrests everywhere, 40+ cops. Again, the last time I saw something on the same scale of disturbance on campus, it was 5 cops, a couple of arrests, and a "disperse and go home" on loop on the PA. During the riot response, I was standing in the entryway with my boss, the club owner. The cops came up and tried to usher me to safety and arrest my boss for loitering. It took a lot of effort on my part to find a cop who would listen to the fact that the guy wasn't loitering, he was standing on his property for sane business reasons. That was privilege right there.

The other thing I constantly encountered was that delivery people, job applicants and so on, always assumed I was in charge, no matter if I was sweeping or counting money, and no matter if the boss was sweeping or counting money. In well over 75% of cases, it was just assumed I was the boss. Again, privilege. (I mean seriously, I dressed like a bum, and the bos had style. It was absurd).

[1] All my cop behavior comparisons are based on the job i had before that working at a college bar in the same town, closer to campus, where the clientele was mostly white college kids.
My take on the issue is that she tried wearing two hats, the hat of feminist activist and the hat of company spokesman, and found that the two are quite incompatible.

Aria will be fine, she has quite an audience, as her blog shows, and she will be continue to be invited. I am just not sure that I like her methods.
PagerDuty is looking for a Data Scientist
It seems like they are scoring a lot of really big power players from other great companies. Does it seem like everyone is going there until it goes public for the payout?
But anyways, let's assume it gets funded for $1M+. Here's a few thoughts:

- The workflow from design->buy should be a lot simpler. I was expecting more of a CustomInk experience. (1. Pick the type of sock, 2. Design, 3. Buy in ANY quantity).
- Buying socks should definitely not be an email-only experience, and definitely not with a minimum of 500 pairs. I understand making, say, just 10 pairs is much more expensive, but if someone is at the point buying "Sock Swag", they're probably willing to pay a premium.
- Please autosave.
- Use a better way to delete an 'image'. I selected an image and pressed backspace which took me back to the home page.
- The hash you're using for a saved design URL is tremendously long. If Google docs can get by with shorter unique URLs, so can you.
- I just made a sock with pictures of my face. Just because I could. Is that going to be publicly accessible through any sort of gallery? Please make the privacy options more clear.
The conclusion is that you're misinterpreting that number. Small businesses are 99.7% of employers, but do not hire 99.7% of employees and do not represent that fraction of business activity. "An employer" is not a meaningful unit of economy because it varies so wildly in size.

This argument is like comparing the United States to the other 199 countries in the world and concluding that the US should represent 0.5% of world economic activity. It's mistakenly treating entities of vastly different sizes as equivalent in the same population set.
Authorized service for Apple products coming to Portage
I already have written code for this several times in the past for the basic constraint types, but not the where clauses - I'll check it out. Thanks!
> it arguably violates the spirit of open source. Open source software is meant to be free and available to everyone.

Open source means open source. There's no implicit requirement that the developer must have received no monetary compensation for developing the source.

Besides, a whole lot of open-source software is written by developers who, while developing it, are getting paid by a parent company.

Consider Apple, who has contributed open-source software as an outgrowth of their work on OS X. Do you think they demanded that their developers work for free, so as to avoid tainting the spirit of the open source movement and complicating the ethical calculus? Of course not.
That is indeed the case - both players in this match were not careful. We are open about our shortcomings and also think that the other player was not too careful to say the least ...
I think the irony was that legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand.
It's been known for a long time that the Hippocampus works that way, helping memory generalize by extracting patterns.
This. Is. Awesome. I know what I'll be doing this weekend.
Hear hear. I learned a great deal about the IPython Notebook and Python 3 this year. Pycon was a great time.
There's also http://pypy.org/
Anyone keen for Perth, Australia?
Yeah, but I was responding to someone who was browbeating someone else because their tee-shirt didn't support Girls Who Code.

I have no problem with the group itself, but if you start acting like people are bad if they don't support the group then I'm going to call it out.
So, your answer is that java isn't cool enough? Did you see the part of the essay where he wrote that he wasn't looking for the cool kids flavor of the month?
> POST has no useful semantics (more correctly, its semantics is just like those of "do"/"execute" verb) and should be used only if no other verb matches.

While POST is often used as a generic "do"/"execute", its actual defined semantics in RFC2616 are for the server to "accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line."

So, aside from fallback uses, its explicitly the correct verb to use for a request that is intended to create a resource where the client doesn't know the identifier of the resource to be created, only its parent. This is particularly likely to be the case anytime the resource to be created is of a kind that will have a server-assigned key that will be part of the URI.
Hi Arhorak,

Thank you for the reference. I think attributing the authors is a good idea. I've created https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pull/3303

What do you think? Is it ok to attribute to the full name?

Best regards,
Sytse
I have, but it doesn't seem to discuss how mining works, for instance.
That is not how capitalism works. You should take advantage of every opportunity you can to get people to try your product.

What a load of bunk. Nothing about capitalism per-se prohibits a firm from having a sense of ethics, or from having principles. Promoting this way of thinking is the reason so many lefties find so much ammunition to attack capitalism.

Firms (especially privately held ones) certainly can choose to withhold from certain kinds of behaviour while competing fiercely, and succeeding, in the market.
Women Are Not Men
>I'm not going to win friends here, but it's much like talking with an Israeli.

Or an American, for that matter.

Americans still believe they are a "progressive" and model nation for freedom.

Segregation was merely 40 years ago. People go to jail for decades for procession of marijuana. They execute teenagers. They execute (period -- almost all western countries have stopped this shit). People still are told (and ...believe!) that Truman dropped nuclear bombs on civilians "to end the war" and that "his hands were tied". The number of incarcerated people is record breaking for any nation on earth -- and the vast majority of them are black. Plus -- people still believe they have the right (or even ...obligation) to intervene, that is invade, other countries, either to "bring democracy" or because they have "strategic interests" there.
There are lots of ways to be diverse, its not just a matter of race/gender. Personally, I think diversity in race is a pretty week indicator of general diversity.
Dmitriy merged my change and updated http://gitlab.org/
It's not as straightforward as "they're doing things right." As a Web developer I have all the major browsers installed, and even in that fair fight I prefer Chrome.

There are certain things I like about FF better, but Chrome's minimalism really appeals to me. There are only two total rows of UI elements and each row contains only the bare essentials. I love that.

I won't speculate on others' reasons for switching, and certainly bundling has served Chrome's market share well, but I can't really feel sorry Firefox is lagging when I don't even personally prefer it on the merits.
Stop the BS
I'm not American but don't you have the same problem with rich kids whose parents donate buildings to get their kids through school?

If so, do you also discount the trappings of success of every person that looks like he could have rich parents?
I would checkout Scala-Migrations for guidance. https://code.google.com/p/scala-migrations/
Furthermore, "gentleman's agreements" like these are fundamentally anti-competitive.

That's quite a stretch, given the usual definition of anti-competitive. A "gentleman's agreement" to not lower prices, or not to expand into a certain market, etc., would be genuinely anti-competitive. This is simply an agreement to not kick somebody when they're down. That's just good sportsmanship and integrity. Personally, I think more companies should display this kind of thinking.
Sure, and not every person in a high risk group will get cancer, that's statistics. Yet we still check those people in high risk groups more carefully.

It is the same with privilege. You may not have every single benefit associated with you're statistical peers' privilege group, that doesn't mean you don't have privileges. Just by being in a statistically privileged group, you get some privileges. People assume you qualify, and therefore you get opportunity that isn't extended to those who don't. You get the benefit of the doubt,.
What I'm beginning to think is that the "make life easier" and more convenient isn't the primary reason for doing what Google is doing nowadays.

Sure, these things make your life that much more accessible, but as opposed to that being the selling point of the product, it is a sort of a hook, an enticement.

It seems to be that by capturing more parts of our personal lives, Google will be able to develop better human language algorithms and sentiment analysis algorithms.

I think what we say and correspond in public is a filtered, impersonal language highly adapted to the audience we are speaking to. In addition, language deals a lot with the environment and a lot with contextual and non-verbal clues, more, I suspect, than linguists think. Hence it is difficult to develop accurate human language models from impersonal, public correspondence.

But by going into the home, Google will have a better opportunity to directly observe the emotional core that shapes the deepest beliefs and opinions of its consumers, and serve targeted ads to the categories of people who will respond best to said targeted ads.

Of course, the data collected have more value than targeted ads. But I think it's well worth keeping an eye on the advertising industry and taking note how their advertisements shape (irrational) demand.
Does this mean anything will happen with Oracle?

I know that I'm perhaps the odd man out, but South just doesn't work reliably on Oracle, and I really, really miss it.

Alternately, if I were to donate a running RDS instance with Oracle on it, would that help in any way? I seem to remember an issue (that affects me) reported, and effectively disregarded with a message similar to, but not necessarily that you don't have Oracle, so it wasn't likely to get fixed.
RSS A Firehose Of Raw Sewage
Optimizing software for speed usually involves changes to the source code that make it more complex, or harder to follow. Making the Python or Ruby interpreters more complex for speed would make them harder to change and maintain, which would not be so good for such open-source projects.
I wrote a explanation in lay terms on my blog a while ago:

http://snowedin.net/blog/2011/04/05/bitcoin/