skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are those countries "far worse actors" except for you not living in one of them and therefore having a significant bias? Did any of these countries invade a country as big as Iraq based on plain manipulations? Can any country come even near in the number of dictators it supported?

Just as a minuscule example of US foreign policies, have you ever heard about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

Or use of, practically, chemical weapons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

Or something current:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/11/to_protect_...

"Now in his second term, President Obama insists that his counterterrorism policies differ markedly from Bush's. However, there are far more similarities than differences with regards to: non-battlefield targeted killings (an estimated 50 under Bush, and 387 under Obama); indefinite detention of suspected terrorists (approved by both through executive orders); broad surveillance authorities (as former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden admitted on Sunday, 'NSA is actually empowered to do more things than I was empowered to do under President Bush's special authorization')"
They forgot about Crowdhoster. Or using BalancedPayments' APIs.
Why Smart Software Teams Don’t Need Senior Developers, Tech Leads or Architects
To me Firefox wins over Chrome for interface customization.

Can't take that "One size fits all" mentality of Chrome.
There's a major point in this article that not many commenters seem to be picking up on: there's a fork in the road of careers. To one side is a multilane highway over fairly level ground leading straigh to predictable suburbia. To the other side is an uneven dirt path leading through mountains and countryside to parts unknown and has many forks of its own. Neither path is right for everyone. And hardly anyone needs to be talked into the highway, as it's the default choice and the common wisdom.

The sad part comes when some bright, young up-and-comer leaves off their interesting personal projects in less used languages in order to focus on only mainstream stuff.
> But the keyboard shortcuts mean I can ... without reaching for the mouse, and using a very limited set of shortcuts.

This is why I love vimperator[0]. I actually preferred pentadactyl[1] but development apparently stalled so I switched back.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/vimperator/

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/pentadactyl/
Makes perfect sense. If the emergency crews are attending to a situation somewhere else in the airport, there's now no emergency facilities available in the event of another emergency happening to another plane that's departing or landing. This poses a serious risk. It's safer to just stop operations and divert inbound flights to one of London's other airports, Gatwick being a prime candidate due to its distance and facilities.
I don't know why no one has answered this (it is brought up a few places in this thread) but if I had to guess why they didn't want to go this route I would say it's the trade-off of not not having your data be native. They presumably have a somewhat highly involved pipeline/topology of computations that data flows through. In the interests of good readable and maintainable code, having a nice declarative data representation is a big plus, and doing the computation with native Java data structures is apparently fast enough for their needs.
I wish support for Opus was better in popular players. I tried building a RTP + RTSP streaming server using libopus, but even VLC couldn't play it.
Only two countries directly: Germany, which clearly has a superior human rights record than the U.S, and Brazil, which can certainly be argued to have a better record.

Edit: Perhaps "Ranking", or current policy is a better phrase than "Record", but in any case, the Nazis were a very long time ago, there aren't even that many WWII veterans alive anymore, much-less in power.
Slightly off-topic, but the video of this thing's predecessor, BigDog, is simultaneously fascinating and hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2jvL...
The APU battery is towards the middle of the plane, according to page 7 of this: http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/commercial/airports/arff/ar...
Release him from prison.
Sounds like the right move. You'd hate for a chain reaction to make things worse. Things could escalate VERY quickly, in a very bad way.
Turing Test interviews.
I remember people started using gmail because it's the first free email that offer virtually unlimited space, so I don't have to keep deleting old emails like I did in Hotmail.
LinkedIn has a blog, doesn't it have guest writers? You should try for that, give them a chance first.
"The way to do it? Work to change men's attitudes and biases towards women. It can definitely be done"

Are you suggesting that as a hobby, a career, or?

Who has the time or inclination to do that?

"It can definitely be done"

As a practical matter I would personally worry more about other things than spending time reversing established thought process and bias.

Now of course if someone wants to start a movement or a non-profit toward this cause (and somehow be able to earn a living from that) that's fine. Or if they decide this is a cause they believe in and instead of spending leisure time on something else that's fine as well.
Playing the martyr card hasn't worked for Manning. The US general public still doesn't care. Snowden would be sacrificing himself for literally nothing. The best thing he can do is keep all this in the news as long as possible.
I think the takeaway is not 'use Django REST and caching' but 'profile your web api and tweak it'. Good use of profiling here.
If you mean going to the address bar, typing wiki [tab] and getting a search of wikipedia for whatever you type next, then yes. See this article on how to do it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address....
Your carousel needs to stop after a using manually clicks an arrow. I tried clicking back a slide to read it and it just kept right on spinning. I can't even read about your features.
> A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.

Did you RTFA?

"Firefox separates the address and search bars. Coming from Chrome, that sounds insane. Use Omnibar to combine the two."
Well you hope it is.

All sorts can happen between source and binary.
> anything that could bias the reviewer's assessment

Well, you could argue that list of skills, education and work experience could bias the assessment as well. There's no clear-cut line here that separates relevant from irrelevant.

Sometimes even gender is relevant. For example clerks in grocery stores are mostly women and there are bunch of good business reasons for that (even if they are based on stupid social biases, those biases still are real and business value can be extracted from them).

Also, once a shop commits to a particular gender choice, it might be inclined to stick to it exclusively. For instance, I heard a first-hand story from a local grocery store about why exactly it avoids hiring men (especially attractive ones) for clerks - because it leads to relationships forming between co-workers, which usually end with people left jealous and/or angry at each other. I can't really blame that shop for this choice, it is a rational one.

I'm not responsible for hiring decisions right now, but if I were then one thing I wouldn't want to be anonymized are names. I do believe in the concept of maintaining blacklists against well known cheaters, spammers and other evil doers, and anonymizing names makes you unable to discriminate people by level-of-assholiness ;).
Fun with The Great Firewall
They never see the qualified individual. They trained their brain to do pattern-recognition on the resume for quick filtering, and women just don't fit the pattern. They probably don't even realize they've trained themselves to ignore women like you don't pay attention to the weight of the shirt on your back. It doesn't rise to the level of consciousness.
So true. Sometimes women don't realize they are their own enemy. A worked in an office where it was the women reinforcing the stereotypes about other women and they where the majority of the HR department. This was like 5 years ago. I found it perplexing that as intern the HR women thought me (a male) more competent and knowledgeable about their organization than some other female interns with more experience. I hate to say it, but I took advantage of the biases but I also kinda felt bad about it too in hindsight.
The right thing for him to do would be to criticize Russian human right violations, especially against whistleblowers like him.

The wrong and cowardly thing to do is to praise Russia for not handing his sorry ass to Americans as if it's some sort of victory for human rights.
Hackathon in Tahoe. Interested? 
I have been contemplating putting together a weekend hackathon in South Lake Tahoe sometime in the fall. I wanted to gauge the interest first.

Would you guys be interested in participating? I have lived here a long time and could most likely get some local sponsors (maybe some ski resort prizes and other Tahoe based activity prizes), but if anyone else is interested in sponsoring such an event, please let me know. email: appraptor@gmail.com

I was thinking the focus could be adventure/outdoors/nature type apps.

Some names I've been considering:
1. High Altitude Hackathon
2. Hack Tahoe Blue

Any other name ideas?
It wouldn't be unprecedented. Symphonies regularly use "blind auditions," with the performer behind a screen, to prevent bias (typically against women). Blind auditions significantly improved women's chances of being selected, as related by Malcolm Gladwell in 'Blink'. Here's the original study he references:

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~hf14/teaching/povertydisc/readi...
Are you also critical of calling 'electrical designers' engineers? The degree I'm studying for is an engineering degree.
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I promise you, outsiders have no concept of what a programmer does beyond, "Works magic with a computer." "Software developer" and "programmer" are equivalent to the layman.

The negative association with the word "programmer" is an industry-specific thing.
Are you serious? You think it would set a good precedent that the guy who blew the whistle on the world wide spying going on ends up rotting in jail? That helps us how exactly?
Mentioned previously in this thread, better is a broad term. From a customer perspective, there are thousands of use cases to look over and examine. Maybe one use case could be worth exploring and then have the concept applied to other use cases.

Let's take the use case of 'instructional video'. My dad doesn't know how to change his brakes, but is functional at using tools. He goes onto Youtube and looks for 'How to change brakes'. He finds a video for what he wants to do with a car that looks similar to his and watches this video. He watches the video 2 or 3 times and then goes out to his car with his laptop. He begins playback until the first step is completed then he tries to complete the first step himself. etc...

The current Youtube implementation could be improved the following way: Youtube knows what car my dad drives and pushes the corresponding 'How to change brakes' video to the top of the search accordingly. My dad clicks the video and the video caches to allow my dad to walk outside, where Wifi is spotty, and watch the video. The video has several break points where my dad knows not to continue to the next step in the 'How to change brakes' video until he's completed the first step. Finally, the system is able to recognize my dad has completed the first step and continues cached video playback to continue to the next step. Finally, Youtube follows up with a video to watch to verify brakes have been changed properly. It might even be useful to show an advertisement of a local brake expert.

Just a thought experiment. There's some vision for making Youtube better and there are a lot of different ways to execute the vision.
> I have my own methods for keeping a low profile on the net.

The Five Rules of surviving today's total surveillance information personal property cleptocracy:

1) Don't think.

2) If you think, don't speak.

3) If you think, and speak, don't write.

4) If you think, speak, and write, don't sign.

5) If you think, speak, write and sign, be prepared to escape to Hong Kong.
"Although, I think that if I took some fancy photos of myself and primped myself up, I don't think it would do me any favors and I'd get some unwanted attention!"

My brain lit up on that sentence and I clicked on your profile to see what you looked like. (Happily married and all of that but men are visual)
And to nobody's surprise it becomes obvious why college labs are always TA'd by people who can't speak English. (Which in turn leads to more frustrated students quitting STEM fields...)
Is he wanted for espionage in Venezuela? He's asking for asylum from the United States Government, not from surveillance in general.
I like it: a 'pull-only' transmission system to take advantage of the tensile strength of lightweight materials.
Well, you might just be a male fan of MLP. It happens a lot nowadays!

I think it is a good thing it is harder to discriminate people on names, colors, etc. They are all superficial and have nothing to do with sexuality anyway. I think in the end just too many people care what chemical is more prominent in your body between testosterone and estrogen.
> One really nice thing about firefox is no more He's Dead Jim pages.

It took me a minute to figure out what you were referring to then I realized I haven't seen one of those in months -- since, I believe, I stopped using Flash.
I don't think it does that anymore. I haven't observed it for quite a while.
I regularly read reader comments on NYTimes regarding NSA/Snowden affair, and this is the first time that vast majority of highest-rated comments there are negative toward Snowden. Previously, the majority was overwhelmingly pro-Snowden. Very curious.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/world/europe/snowden-russi...
And if Venezuela went around spying on the entire world while having world cop complex, maybe your point would have some weight.
> Most HR departments are staffed by women for example

Do you see the irony in this statement?
Entering the Meshnet: The Internet's New Frontier
I work in Perl for the most part, and the alternative I've been using lately for functions is to assert that for a given generated sub, the text 'sub routine_name' exists literally in the code somewhere. This takes two forms in my case:

my %to_generate = (
'sub first' => { ... },
'sub second' => { ... }
);
generate_from_spec(%to_generate);

generate_from_spec then strips off the 'sub ', and errors out if it is not found.

The second case I have is a function that itself then generates a function, but is trying to look like a sort of normal function itself, in which case I end up with:

generate_sub routine_name =>
... whatever arguments ...

"abusing" Perl's => operator, which functions like a comma except that it forces stringification of the left argument, to once again make the literal, greppable "sub routine_name" appear in the codebase. Here "routine_name" is then just a standard string argument, the alterative being

generate_sub "routine_name",

which is then harder to grep for. (Still possible, obviously, with a different grep query, but only if you already know up front you need to add the other possibilities.)

Note this actually goes a step beyond what you are proposing in that it makes the declaration site clear; my counterproposal for your JS case would be

["function getPosition", "function getDirection"].each(...)

and using string manipulation to do whatever you need to do to get the right info out of the function name.
The UK could surely apply BI only to their citizens. California would have more trouble, given the 14th Amendment, though might be able to do something similar to what we do with schools, requiring that you live there a certain amount of time before you start receiving BI.

This is assuming that the influx of population actually would be a bad thing, though, which I'm not sure of one way or the other - I see some arguments on both sides that hold at least a little water.
We have to change everyone's attitudes, sure. Internalized sexism is a real thing.
An Italian freelancer in Syria
Right, and comments and documentation serve different purposes. But appropriate docstrings will greatly reduce the need for comments.
Not free though. Most people prefer free apps.
generally speaking, bail is set based on the persons means and the crime. The amount is supposed to be an amount that will make a person show up for trial, so a wealthy person will get a higher bail than a poor person for the same crime. Also, the worse the crime (and punishment expected) the higher the bail

all of that is why this is so absurd. the bail is extraordinarily high for the "crime" and for the person's level of wealth.
Best thing to come out of Microsoft this year
There is Opus support in VLC, but I don't believe that RTP is working for it there yet. (Obviously simple HTTP streaming works)
When I needed/wanted this feature, I found that Delicious (and their plug-in) was the best fit for me.
expressive power and conceptual beauty is Lisp's core strength, not code maintainability or runtime performance.

Well, Arc is actually very maintainable, and quite fast. After all, HN is powered by Arc, and it serves >100k daily uniques on a single core.
I'm curious whether if the fire is again battery related whether Elon Musk will reiterate his offer to help with the battery technology. Tony Stark (who in the movie version is partly based on Elon) surely would...
Its also sad when some bright up and comer ends working for lots of little small companies, on a tiny wage when they could be earning a seriously better life working for a large company.
What do you mean by noise? Why do you think this is a prudent activity?
It looks like the OP took your advice & did so, editing the post to link to the url you posted in your comment, at least when I visited it.
A robot that drives a vehicle can be an integral part of that vehicle, likely far cheaper than a humanoid robot that fits in the seat (and also shares the human driver's disadvantage of poor peripheral vision.)
Working with HTML feels quite low-level after having worked with WPF. And there can't be core HTML innovation because of standards.
I've been developing a backup program for a few years now, HashBackup, that encrypts your files locally, with your own private key, and sends them to offsite storage you control: your own Glacier or S3 account, your offsite rsync server (rsync.net for example), your Gmail or other IMAP account, an ssh server, or ftp server. www.hashbackup.com
"Employers are prohibited from asking such questions here in the US"

Regardless of what you can ask you can always ping people and find out answers.

You can discuss your own situation and see a reaction on the part of the person you are speaking with. Takes a bit of creativity.

I know of someone who wanted to hire only puerto ricans for his bricks and mortar store (forgetting the reason). So you can't advertise for "puerto ricans" but you can say "knowledge of spanish a plus".
Don't hold your american flag security blanket so tight, you're going to strangle it.
Effortless monitoring with collectd, Graphite and Docker
Yeah, whatever one thought of this prankster before, he's certainly jumped the shark now. Does he think this action is somehow different from anything the "Anonymous" he reviles has ever done? Whatever happened to a letter to the editor?
How to make a front-end dev love you...
Not if you think runaway inflation is a problem. With fractional reserve banking, printing $1 adds well more than $1 to the economy (look at charts of M0 vs M1 vs M2). The government only gets to spend that $1. Meanwhile, threat of inflation makes it harder for the government to borrow money, meaning it needs to print more to cover the increased demands for interest.

This is not to say that printing any money ever is a disaster, but simply that there are absolutely constraints imposed by economic realities.
I think it's because the Opus decoder in VLC expects to find a Ogg container, which is a no-go for streaming.
I'm suggesting that it be a focus in life - if it's one of your core values and you care about it, you'll naturally take the time and energy to work against it.

For example, many people on HN care about privacy and government intrusion. They don't need to be convinced as to why it's important to speak up about the NSA and the US treatment of Edward Snowden. People who care feel it's a personal imperative, so they do something about it.

I personally have the time and the inclination. Because it's something I care about. Maybe you don't care about it, that's your personal feeling, so you won't take the time. But I'm sure that there are other things in your life that you care about, and you do invest time in those things.

It's absolutely fine not to care about every social cause out there. I don't think we can expect everyone to care about everything. Just pick those things which matter most to you and work to do something about them.

As for a movement, there are a few out there that I'm aware of - in particular I am a big fan of the work of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP).
Cost of training per role is probably a pretty good metric.
The emergency services have to safely get to the incident, possibly using the extra entrances for that purpose.

Aircraft full of passengers landing at the same time as emergency vehicles trying to get to an incident of potentially unknown severity seems like a recipe for disaster.

Aviation is a shining example of how thought about risk, learning from failures/mistakes and evolving standard operating procedures can almost completely de-risk an inherently risky environment.

I came across this article after the incident in SFO earlier in the week:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777

No flight related deaths since it began service in 1995 - I've been thinking about that all week. That is some inspirational engineering.
As an American Electrical Engineering Master's graduate from one of the mentioned schools, the program I was in was flooded with international students (mostly from India, some from China, a few from Turkey).

What I found interesting is most of the Indian graduate students came for a masters, most of the Chinese graduate students came for a Ph. D. There were too few Turkish graduate students to make a generalization about.

I think this is good because most of the time, American's can earn nicely with their Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, so there's little incentive to pursue higher education. Having got a Master's in Electrical Engineering, I wouldn't recommend it as a way to further your career. The classes were interesting, but so far I haven't found a job that needed those specialized classes.
IRC interviews
It's conscious on a lot of people's parts. I've also heard "no women, no sexual harassment suits" enough from people in tech to assume that there are a lot of bigots not dumb enough to admit it out loud.

I could be going too far, though. Maybe the kind of dumb lockerroom overshare bluster amongst the employees and managers of sexually harassing companies and departments lends itself to admitting incriminating things like that to other men with a wink wink nudge nudge.
There's enough security researchers (of any hat color) crawling over the Chrome binaries that I'm fairly confident there are no backdoors being introduced. To verify, you could disassemble the Chrome binary and compare it against a disassembled Chromium binary that you built. You could also use a packet sniffer and/or MITM proxy to verify that no unexpected data transmissions are occurring.