skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One simple way to break in to the industry is do QA. QA is typically sorely needed and teams don't spend enough time on it. Just show that you are detailed oriented, can find bugs and document how to reproduce them. I just hired a QA intern who, similar to you, is outside the industry and trying to break in. He has been a tremendous help to the team simply doing QA three times a week.
In Jenkins, does the Court construe the Defendant's not immediately coming forward about the incident as "silence", or are they talking about his not answering the State's questions prior to his arrest for the incident?

Because, if it's the former, that seems reasonable to me: if I kill someone someone with mens rea, I'm presumably less likely to go to the police about it. Contrariwise, it seems to me that jurisprudence's notional "reasonable person", having killed someone in self-defense, would want to inform the authorities immediately, precisely in order to avoid suspicion.

Based on some quick study, it seems that is indeed what the Court is taking "silence" to mean: that he stabbed a dude, and didn't come forward about it immediately. SCOTUS didn't say that remaining silent in the face of police questioning prior to an arrest is somehow different from doing so afterwards. They said that his "silence" (i.e., not coming forward immediately about having killed someone in "self-defense") is something that the State can bring up in cross examination, in order to impeach his affirmative defense of self-defense.

Again, IANAL, but Jenkins doesn't seem dispositive on the specific question of law at issue in Salinas. Any actual lawyers playing along at home want to tell me where (or whether) I'm wrong?

EDIT: a bunch of clarifications and such.
I have mixed feelings about articles like these. On the one hand, I can see how a more broadly integrated community yields benefits for everyone. On the other, you can't help but feel that the author has a very recriminatory tone. One wonders if he didn't have it out for the Downtown Project from the beginning.

The use of self-deprecation and the "I'm no better than the people I'm criticizing" apologism seems to justify the use of a broad range of ad-hominem attacks. There is a lot of condemning the current approach of the Downtown Project, but I'm not sure how it should be better run. The people that the author suggests be consulted are by his own admission, "human scum." Should Hsieh and co, build more affordances for poorer people? Should they also build charitable social housing? Is merely being transparent enough?

I assume that Hshieh aims to build, essentially, a community that he himself would be happy living in. If such a community is antithetical to the needs of the current tenants of that area (which seems almost tautologically true, sugarcoating by all parties involved notwithstanding), how should this conflict be resolved? I think the core of the author's complaint is that Hsieh and his compatriots are able to do what they like because of their wealth. I submit that this is at least no worse than our other standard approaches to solving conflicts at this scale - complaining or cajoling.
It's not just the App Store, it's the entire iTunes store experience. It often takes half a dozen seconds or longer to load each page, and the search is bad.

Two anecdotes: I wanted to buy an Iain M. Banks audiobook. I misspelled his name Ian M Banks, zero results. No hint that he exists. I wanted to give my dad A Game of Thrones for father's day, also on audiobook. The other entries in the series were there, but it isn't. Apparently it's not available? Even following the direct link from the author's site to iTunes doesn't work: https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/game-thrones-song-ice-... (this may be excusable, if there's some weird negotiation thing going on or something, it was just surprising)

There's a lot that they do right, and I spend a lot of money in the iTunes store, but I never look forward to it because it's so slow and I experience so many errors.
Is this a cliche you've actually encountered? I have a hard time imagining anyone actually believes such a ridiculous generalization. Although if you worry about such things, you probably want to give a second thought about how you generalize about others, be they French or Japanese.
Probably the right answer is some combination of

- editorial (although this can be gamed in a different way - a bunch of PR/marketing folks with strong relationships with Apple employees would suffice),

- reviews/ratings (also gameable)

- some algo for how long users continue to own/open/use an app after they download it (almost impossible to game, because it's linked to fundamental use).

With this combo - the rich will still get richer, but at least they will continue to be quality.
Well...

Yes and no.

For instance, you can give a team full access... and at the same time have access control only grant that full access when two different people enter their credentials.

Also, audits should be more than cursory... and should be performed by a DIFFERENT organization.

They can operate in a more secure fashion than, I suspect, they currently operate.

But when you consider the full matter..

You begin to see that the message, on a national level, is being managed in such a manner that "solutions" presuppose the EXISTENCE of these databases. If it were up to me, I would try to keep the conversation squarely centered around the deconstruction of this surveillance infrastructure. But we need to find a Senator who can credibly do that in the absence of Feingold... and this is a problem.
I'm a SOD1 researcher and my heart goes out to you and the many patients suffering with this terrible disease and their families. Though rest assured, we're working hard to uncover why this happens and what we can do about it.

I just wanted to clarify some points. I'm not sure what you mean about "the mutated gene". SOD1 mutations definitely cause ALS. It's just that there isn't a single SOD1 mutation that's responsible. Over 100 different mutations of the same gene can lead to the disease. Other genes are also implicated in ALS, such as TDP-43 and FUS. Sure there are other genetic factors responsible for ALS, many of which are yet unknown. But these are known factors.

I would be very hesitant to sequence my SOD1 gene to be honest. Let's say it came up with a new mutation. Not all mutations will lead to disease. So while this may not cause you to get ALS in the long run, it may lead to you worrying incessantly as you get older. Furthermore, most of these 100+ mutations have only been found in a single family or even a single patient. It's quite possible there are other genetic polymorphisms in these families that make these patients susceptible to their SOD1 mutations. Also there are examples of SOD1 mutations that aren't 100% penetrant. That is if you have the mutation, you aren't 100% guaranteed to get the disease. For instance, in scandinavian populations the aspartate 90 to valine mutation is recessive.

Basically there are a lot of complicating factors. Even if your SOD1 gene comes back as the normal sequence, you couldn't know you were safe. That is unless you knew that your grandfather and aunt actually had SOD1 mutations. Of course these are only my opinions as a scientist. I am not a physician.
I find myself agreeing at a basic level with these arguments (which have been around as long as such lists have).

However, I've yet to see anybody back up their emotion-driven claims with enough facts and data to actually make a conclusive argument (ie to prove their position).

Over and over and over again these types of posts / articles pop-up, and say things just like this: "It encourages shallow, least-common-denominator apps with rock-bottom prices" --- and proceed to not actually provide any data. A single subjective statement isn't good enough.

My point is, from a subjective / emotional / weak-on-data standpoint I agree. I don't regard that as a valid argument for change however, as this is a big deal for the apps business. Bring the truck-load of data with you next time (and every time you make such arguments) and let's really end the discussion once and for all. I've seen various relevant clips of data floating around, with a narrow focus; I have to believe someone could put together a comprehensive, overwhelming data-based argument if these claims are in fact true.
I edited the item to add articles indicating that Yahoo! has had a history of problems with email compromises and now none of the links are clickable.

It's frustrating to have my attempt to cite sources trigger the anti-spam function.
I wasn't comparing them in terms of app stores per se but the fact they don't really seem to be aggressively optimizing the UX on the store the way Google does with most of its (other) products. If Apple were doing it right, after this much time and this much data had been collected the App Store should basically be fast as hell and reading my mind when I log in, like Amazon does.

I worked at Etsy for a number of years which has many similar attributes as the App Store, and lots of slow, steady progress was made by running many experiments and aggressively maintaining performance. I'd be licking my chops at the low hanging fruit if I were the one tasked with starting to hill-climb the App Store UX. There are so many things you could try, and with the type of traffic the App Store gets, 1% experiments could almost certainly get you sufficient data to really drive up conversion rates without negatively impacting many users along the way.
Yeah, I got that at the 12th paragraph. :(
Right. We don't have a perfect model of the solar system, or Earth for that matter. Of course, with a perfect model, we could predict orbits (or any other physical phenomenon) perfectly.

I think crypto, being a digital phenomenon, is way more on the science side than orbital determination.

Now, crypto on satellites poses a unique challenge, due to the interaction of solar radiation with electronics.
Facial recognition: State photo-ID databases become troves for police 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/state-photo-id-databases-become-troves-for-police/2013/06/16/6f014bd4-ced5-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
A "Despotism" can be run by an oligarchy, which is what our ruling class has become. And "absolute Despotism" is a reasonably accurate description of where we seem to be headed, given a minimal allowance for rhetorical flourishes.

Quite seriously, re-read the Declaration if you haven't lately, history does tend to repeat itself, for people remain people.
I mean this in a friendly way, but it's nice to see that it's not just Python that has issues with major version bumps.
I'd like to differ slightly: the job of a good tech lead is to be an effective first among equals.

If you're working on a talented team, there should be no presupposition that the tech lead is necessarily the best developer on it. But you should be good enough to break ties and set direction. I've worked on a lot of teams with talented developers who aren't especially interested in leadership, or former leads who've decided they want to go back and hack some more. You cannot, and should not, boss these people around. But you can block management up, and unblock team down, by keeping management out of everyone's hair, and keep the developers from tearing each other apart over complicated technical questions or obscure business ones.

If you're working on a team that embraces pairing, that can ease a lot of the pressure on the lead to do reviews as long as the pairs are well-chosen. Trust but verify.
The only part I would disagree with you on is that SF.com isn't a significant cost - that's 500 x $100/month or $50,000 a month or around $600k a year. Now I know there would be significant discounts - but you get the idea.

But you are right that the switching costs trump the costs.

For the switch to make sense, I think you need to offer 4x the value to make up for the switching costs. So that can be some combination of cost savings and better functionality.

Salesforce.com is a perfect demonstration of the power of the network effect - the product, in my opinion, has really isn't that great. Yes, it's fairly flexible but feels very dated and the reporting is slow and cumbersome. In theory, their system should be relatively easy to disrupt, but none of the competitors can match the number and level of integrations out there.

A good article about the economics of SaaS:
http://pandodaily.com/2013/06/15/what-the-data-reveals-about...
Mapping multidimensional data to one dimension and making it searchable - is this possibly one of the technologies behind Euclidion's infinite detail?
> If those assumptions are correct, then I can't help but think that I would have taken a few phone calls with me on my way out. A few mp3s featuring Dick Cheney and his family would make quite a point if released now for example.

He obviously has more than he has shared (and has shared to the Guardian and Washington Post more than we have been privy to). The fun thing is that the Feds have a high certainty of what he has and can't say or even use it as evidence lest they do the leaking for him.
Just wait. When memristor technology matures it should be possible to create FPGA-like devices with feature density and clock speeds similar to ASICs (e.g. gigahertz, gigatransistors) with reconfiguration times on the same time scale as memory writes. That ought to cause some fairly significant ripples in computing.
The buck stops with him, and honestly most people who support Obama expect at least a little better from him. This is why his approval rating is at an all time low this month of 47%.
> The best one at the end of the year becomes the official app store.

The best one defined as top 1 in app stores for apps category? :-)
GPS maps reveal where cats go all day
Protests in Brazil’s Largest Cities
What would be a good approach to implement a web server in an fpga ? (verilog or vhdl? xillinx or altera? ...etc) It is something I have been thinking a lot lately.
Just a religious nutjob craving attention. Everyone who's not delusional should know by now that anthropogenic global warming is a fraud.
Okay, maybe buses.
The problem I see is that you have a lot of new SaaS startups where their is not a low marginal cost to add people. This is particularly true in the developer space where there are any number of startups that will record events from websites and mobile apps for anything from performance monitoring to analytics. Each free customer they add has a cost in terms of data, infrastructure and building code to scale massively. Thus, they are forced to raise ever bigger amounts of money from VCs to keep going. Contrast this with 37signals - where adding another free client really did have very little cost.

And at the same time, all these services are, as the article points out, becoming commodified. Thus, recognizing that they really can't make money in the SMB market with such low switching costs, they decide to move to the enterprise market and thus the whole economics of SaaS are blown up, and they look very much like a traditional enterprise software business - and SaaS becomes a delivery methodology rather than business model.

My own article on this issue (shameless plug): https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a2cc0d5ba431
Yeah having almost 700,000 apps in the app store. A search engine would definitely help.

How about spiders for apps. I mean they can look for high page rank sites that links to an app for example. they can then score these based from the inbound links.
> It’s a lot like the Android market. Nobody — not Google, not the manufacturers, and certainly not the carriers — gives a shit if you hate your Android phone or put that cheap tablet in a drawer after a month. They’re optimizing for “top” lists, so they compete on price, flashiness, and huge retail incentives, usually at the expense of quality and long-term satisfaction.

I don't get how or why Apple cares about users using their product more than Google. Because they provide support? Apple support for iTunes is terrible. Try getting a refund for an accidental buy by someone else.

However, we do have a case in point -- Instapaper on Android. I plunked my money when it came about thinking that it was going to be a great experience. A couple minor updates and Marco didn't care less about the pain it was. He played his self fulfilling statement for sure.

These random Google and Android are <insert random expletive> because they don't give a(n) <insert random expletive> statements are unbecoming and disappointing. =(
The West Wing on privacy (1999)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745704/

I'm amazed at how accurate this scene from 1999, 14 years ago, predicted today.
Am I under arrest?

No? Walk away.
Yes? Please read me my rights.

Problem solved. Don't answer half the questions, immediately ask why you are being detained, and if you are under arrest.
When will motherfucking Scalia and Thomas just god damned die already?
We used MS word with revision tracking on my VFD. Of course if the file is lost or corrupted- out of luck.

Have you all tried using some of the features built in to the editors like revision tracking or history a la google docs?

I know I'm starting to go apples to oranges here- but just tossing that out since those features are sometimes overlooked or forgotten about.
The alternatives presented are either not easy or not very compelling, especially given that they would reduce Apple's income.

I'd be happy with a few more category levels. Exile the pay to win games to their own corner and hopefully introduce some sensible limits.
You can, but then key management is a bitch.....
I've actually read the Declaration recently enough to have linked a good part of it into one of the innumerable HN discussion threads around here.

And if this is an absolute despotism then I'll need to know what word to use for what despotism meant when Jefferson wrote those words, so that I can keep my thoughts straight.
Pharma is a great example of what happens in commoditization. Patents allow the Pharma Co. to charge a large amount in the beginning of a product, then, when the patent expires (and the Pharma Co. has finally given up fighting it), the generic manufactures step in and take the price to the bottom.
In this passage the author is using satire. Of course it wouldn't be that bad, but describing literally how it would be, wouldn't be that funny.
Hanlon's razor fits really well here.
"Don't attribute to malice what you can to stupidity."
The critical problem here is the police response to an attempt to walk away. This may lead to an arrest that is aggravated by a charge of resistance. One might be able to fight that away in the courts, but the state of policing over the last few years leaves me feeling quite uncomfortable with the prospect of walking away unscathed.
Counter-example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZdJ_FIyRM

Maybe it was more practical than pretty, and there are probably good reasons it got changed since then. Still, I was so impressed (once the images were done loading, it was very smooth for me, nothing like in the video), and that's even with the cheesy photographs of grinning tourists.

I ended up making my own little js thingy to change CSS based on scroll and mouse position, but I haven't found a really good use for it. Except maybe having a big fixed header at the top which shrinks a bit when you scroll down, that effect I like. Other than that, anything I can come up with seems dumb on further inspection.
I didn't have it out for the DTP from the beginning, honestly. I was excited as anybody to see something new. But as I say in my piece, I'm disillusioned by the inability to work with the existing community -- not just the super-poor people in Downtown, but even the local cultural scene, whose input has largely been ignored.

My anger comes from this: I don't believe that any community built upon going in and tearing out an old one is a good community. I believe the key is integration, not disintegration. Don't tear out the only local mini-grocery and replace it with an expensive gourmet market. Consider everyone in the community, not just the VCs and startup kids you're trying to attract. Especially if you're ambitiously tearing down much of what was there long before you arbitrarily decided to move into the area and start playing Sim City.

I don't think that's too much to ask.
Father of Edward Snowden urges son not to commit 'treason,' to return home
Apple gives zero fucks about Developers. ZERO point ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO fucks. Developers are part of their sweatshop app store that makes billions for apple. We paid over a billion dollars out to app developers, says Tim Cook. Yea, and most app-store developers are working for $0.002 an hour. Nice. Fuckers.
How do you anticipate a charge of resisting arrest occurring when the cop isn't arresting you?
I wasn't arguing about adding more features (since a competitor can also do that) but rather create an additional value-add that meets your customers or potential customers needs.

Whereas SaaS currently tries to say "this is the solution" it needs to be flipped to focusing on actual customer pain points (since the current solution may not actually meet their needs) which you can the re-create a slightly new solution which becomes your unique selling point and defensible base (which is why it's important to go beyond competing on features). The reason I'm arguing this point is because, SaaS is becoming commodified in that they they winning SaaS in the SMB space start getting pulled upstream to the enterprise market where their margins become much greater and SaaS becomes their method to provide you with the product than their actual business model.

Your examples actually reaffirm my point - Walmart has added value by offering "everything under one roof" so instead of going to 10-20 store you just go to the 1. Their value is convenience alongside this they also compete on price to protect their market from disruption and ensure they're the dominant player (its a 3 pronged attack which Amazon is replicating on the web). On the other hand Tiffany's offers you a more personal experience than a Walmart does (in my opinion) which is their comparitve value-add alongside their actual products.
Another great tool (disclaimer: I've contributed a bit) is Phabricator (http://phabricator.com).
It's still got some rough edges. I've had trouble with the Android app in particular.
^^^^ This. Apps are a great user experience but App stores really suck for discovery. And given that Google previously worked at solving this problem, you'd think they'd be all over it.
You appear to be one of those tedious people who think entrepreneurship is the solution to everything. I doubt it's worth my time, but I'll point out that that's fine for people who have not only the economic but social capital to become entrepreneurs. Not everybody has Mommy and Daddy to pay their bills while they dream up some retarded app, nor are many people even taught that that's something that they themselves can actually do.

Hence teaching HTML classes in the ghetto, to try and help people without those resources that entrepreneurship is even possible for them.

But since that won't change anything, I suppose that only middle and upper class folks should have the ability to change the world.

Also, something to consider: if power is the only way the world works, whether we like it or not, what is human civilization for? I mean, I'm fairly sure I could kick all your fucking teeth down your throat if I wanted to...is that okay, because I have the power to do it?

Or do we not behave in such a fashion, because we understand that might makes right is a philosophy only fit for hunter-gatherers and jerk-off geek libertarian fantasists?