skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is wrong and the leadership should be ashamed. Period.

They should... had they any feelings. They do not, though, and the only two languages they speak is money and violence. If you cannot speak neither then they will run you over and you will be forgotten about.

Let's face it, even with all of the NSA spying and drone attacks... how many US citizens are _really_ up in arms? A minority. The majority will continue to care more about their mortgages or where to get their next 420 high than they do about anything the government and the government's owners are want to do to the populace.

Idiocracy was a documentary.
Twitter the 900 person corporation has an extremely solid team that has released countless great open source projects and keeps innovating.

Microsoft the hot late 80s/90s company was where the best of the best went. Why do you think Spolsky started his career there right out of college?
Ha! It's shareware like WinRAR. They could just click the x button.
Path releases premium service
Maybe the YouTube app fiasco was a preemptive strike.
I agree that the term is bad taste and not really a good metaphor anyway. Slavery was about people trading and legally owning other people, and nowadays refers to a certain type of adult relationship. Both of them do not adequately describe what compsci master-slave aims to convey - e.g. an asymetric cloning strategy from an original.

I'd be happy for the term to be scrapped.
If you enjoy playing Train simulator games, you probably know this route by heart. I think this particular route has been made for every popular train simulator out there.

I don't play that much train sims, only a little every now and then but even I recognized parts of the track.

If you have not tried train sims and feel like the idea is a bit daft, I was once with you on that. I had, however, liked watching trains when I was a kid. But after a friend told he liked playing train sims, I had to try too and I enjoyed it. So here's my warm recommendation to try out a train simulator, it's really difficult and fun!
She should at least spend her week end with her child.
If you find this sort of thing interesting, it might be fun to mess around with designing your own engine in Automation[1]. I've always been interested in cars, but playing around in this (currently in-development) simulation/game gave me a bunch of new insight into various engine parameters.

[1] http://www.automationgame.com
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Well it's all told from Microsoft's perspective so they are the prime candidate. It also supports the narrative that they wanted to buy Nokia, rather than Nokia threatening to go Android or Bankrupt to force the sale.
FB jumps In On the Election Action in India
For what it's worth, I like the bevel, because (probably due to the darkness of the colors involved) it somehow manages to be almost invisible at default zoom - if I just go to http://www.yahoo.com and look at the logo, even on a Retina display, it seems almost flat, with just a hint of varying color to spice it up. It's only when I look closely that the true depth is revealed. This adds visual interest... or I may just be blind. :)
Looks like they spent more time making a video about the logo than the new logo itself.
Ask HN: Help... I just can't get excited about data structures.
I have an interview with a large Bay Area company coming up. They are big on asking data structure and algorithm questions (I've heard). I come from a physics background so I never learnt them in the first place and never had to in a couple of decades of programming.

I've just spent the last twenty five minutes studying data structures and algorithms and I'm bored out of my mind.

Can anyone suggest any materials that bring to light the inner beauty of data structures and algorithms (over and above explaining the theory)?
I found that most of the fun in this game can be easily destroyed by FAQs and Youtube. I myself get very frustrated by Sen Fortress's Bonfire that i can't resist the urge to get an answer from wiki. After read this, I find myself regretted because i had missed the crucial experience of this game. Explore or dead !

I wish I could forget everything about this game so that I can innocently play it from the start again.
> (A verbal offer is great, but nobody generally accepts a verbal offer, they have to sign some kind of agreement to formally accept the job.)

Well, you'd want to call someone on the phone and get a verbal OK before sending them the offer letter, right? From verbal to written shouldn't be more than a 24 hour turnaround.

So that's the day of the interview, the day after the interview to make the decision, and three more days (so the rest of the week) to generate and send out a written offer that the candidate may or may not have already verbally okayed. That's 5 business days, or 5-7 calendar days.

> The screening process takes a week or two (14 days)

14 days to look at resumes and do a phone screen or two? Maybe at maximum, if you have to bounce the resume between teams to find the best fit.

> and then you have to schedule an on-site interview loop, which can often take a week or two lead time (since many interviewers have to travel to SF, and you have to schedule the interviewers as well)

Why would the interviewers have to travel? Don't you interview people on the same campus where most of the interviewers actually work? Why would it take two weeks to book a couple of hours on k different people's calendars (hopefully most of them selected from a pool of size n >> k)? Sorry, I think that timeline is way too padded.
Mapping the Raspberry Pi's framebuffer to memory for direct access.
Australian opposition vows to implement Internet filter by default
I switched to linux and it was great. but one thing keeps bugging me. Every now and then, after and update my nvidia-drivers are lost, I loose my second screen and have to go nuts, while searching for a way to tell my laptop, that there is a secondary screen (that is much bigger and better and makes working with the laptop ok).

So this is the only thing in my experience, that really sucks. The rest (compared to WIN) is really, really great.
> A bad logo is evidence of a company that does not care about their products or services.

So all bad logos indicate lack of interest by companies for the things they are selling? Maybe we can trade stock on that premise!
Designing For Emotion With Hover Effects
Hmm, didn't make it past the first check mark.

"Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository." -git
You must realize that your orchestra example doesn't apply here. What they did is clean-cut and simple removal of the gender bias. Provable.

Compare this with what google is doing. It would be the equivalent of having orchestra candidates write an "original" tune on paper in 20 minutes and then talk about select topics in music theory and then submit that to a figure skating judge panel.
Since when are bevels an American phenomenon? You know that bevel is a French word, right?
Proto vs Honda
proton ? honda?
Remember, security against cracking is a combination of password strength and key derivation function strength. Nothing will save you if your password is "password". Not much will save you if your password is hashed with MD5.

But scrypt can be over 100,000,000 time stronger than MD5 -- so if you're using scrypt you can afford to use a password which is 100,000,000 times weaker. "jdtwbv" hashed using scrypt is stronger than "H.*W8Jz&r3" hashed using MD5.
The device apparently uses actigraphy, which is super common. It is just measuring movement when sleeping, same as WakeMate (RIP) and Jawbone UP. Besides that I don't see what they are doing that is special except targeting specific sectors that optimize for job safety.
Yeah, some apps suck on Android, leave unnecessary services running etc. I uninstall them, and leave a review stating why.
NSA Spying Documents to be Released As Result of EFF Lawsuit
Path's Ad-Free App Flouts Silicon Valley Conventions
And 28 provinces in China have more people than Illinois. Can you name one?
Diablo 2 was arguably terribly designed similarly - character builds required external information to progress to the harder difficulties. Not to mention what I'm sure the designers weren't intending at first - repeat farming over and over of the same content.

In the end, this became what made it such a huge hit. The fact that you had to study character builds made a sort of meta game.

Minecraft is another example where you have a wiki tabbed while you play.

And lets not even get started on dwarf fortress - the awful UI is the game.

I believe the metagame is whats at work in all these. A lack of tutorials and good ui feels somehow more authentic and rewarding.
Notice the lack of "brains" in that diagram.

Yup, nailed it.
Now here's a good website with nice animated illustrations. But it's all one giant animated GIF. It won't scale up or down and it's already running short on colors. This is something where WebGL would excel, you could get the full color palette and make it interactive. So far all WebGL demos I have seen are tech demos or simple games that look like OpenGL games did in 2004, and they have not been really used inside websites, only as a separate square.
I wonder where they found their inspiration for the design.. http://forums.watchuseek.com/attachments/f9/60332d1188163636...
Put an ad in the paper for any job and you will get hundreds of applicants. Some number of whom are qualified.
What if Apple’s iWatch is… a TV?
I was rooting for #10 as well. The selected logo looks... cheap. When you can see the bevels they're distracting, but at typical resolutions (as on the home page) they get anti-aliased out leaving the edges of the letters looking fuzzy. You end up with an image that looks like it was improperly scaled.

I'm astounded they didn't hire an agency for this. Updating the logo for a major brand is incredibly specialized work and not something for which in-house talent is typically suited. They're too close to the brand to be objective and with an agency the power dynamic is better - they can fire the client if they're being dumb. I'm a fan of Marissa, but she should leave font and logo design to the pros.
The favicon hasn't been updated yet.
Kara Swisher and AllthingsD have very good sources. They get info that no other tech journalists get. So, I would assert that this article should be taken at close to face value.
I could be wrong but ISTR seeing something on TV about Acxiom a few years ago -- something like 60 Minutes or Dateline or one of those "exposing stuff" shows -- where they were describing the massive infrastructure that they had.
There are a few native compilers for Java, RoboVM is just one of them.
FOSS Patents on this: http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/09/jury-quickly-reaches-verd...

(Usual disclaimer: You can agree or disagree with him, but he provides a useful factual context for the decision.)
OK, that I'll buy.

Do we have to make everybody go all the way through THE PROCESS, or should some rightly just skip a chunk of it?
Rhythmbox 3.0 Has Been Officially Released
Wouldn't work for germany, the limitation has to be implemented physically or enforced by the motor electronics.

Which often get replaced by teenagers, with the consequence of loosing the allowance of the bike/moped and a hefty fine if it gets spotted.

The police even picks them randomly out for checks more often because of this.

Bicycles with electric boosters are allowed up to 25km/h and 250W.

Everything above that needs a driver license in
the EU - Class M if I'm not mistaken. And of course has to have a numberplate from your insurance.

But most electric bicycles here in germany are limited to 20km/h, so that the rider isn't forced
to wear a helmet by German law.

(All km/h are meant without human power.)
Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.
Congratulations, you are most definitely out.

Unfortunately for your whims, in a free country, parents can decide to school their children however they see fit. More unfortunately for your whims, the fact that homeschoolers are tremendously better prepared for university (or work if they choose) than their peers is the subject of countless news articles over the years. The statistics favor the homeschoolers, and that includes the majority being complained about here that dare to choose Creation over evolution.

There, there, little totalitarian, it will be OK. Just move to China.
Interestingly, communities like HN and LessWrong have banned political discussion, or tried to, for its particularly deleterious effect on conversation.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/
Does anyone else here thinks the logo is much more feminine ?
It's more elegant, and the mix on bold and thin lines inside the letters reminds me a bit of fashion magazine logos ( think vogue).
No batching here, just single-partition, two cell update. Atomic, but not isolated in the way you define isolation in your gist.
What's wrong with the notion that the creator just used evolution to create things?

That is basically the modern catholic church's opinion on the matter.

The problem you are having is that the word "creationism" is not a definition, it is a summary. For the most part, the word refers to a literal belief in the genesis book of the bible.
That's always been my philosophy too.
Still a shame that people are flagging this particular article, though. This is factual and not partisan.
Whether the employees get interviewed at Google or not depends on the size of the acquisition, at least for engineering positions. That's largely for logistical reasons. The vast majority of acquisitions of software engineers involve interviewing.
Also, ZooKeeper doesn't implement Paxos.
Beautifully presented - and for an engine neophyte like myself extremely informative. Thanks!
It screams "design by math" to me. Did you see the video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0b6qaPY-CQ
wow you seem bitter. I like the new logo. It is in line with the trend toward more 'flat' looking designs.
Android is for judicious, poor foreigners and not the hip kids that would pay 4x for a carwash ordered by phone. I recal the pruce gauging by travel companies who increase airfair by 10% when an Apple brpwser was detected.
I was underwhelmed at the end of the article when it becomes clear that another interpretation of the results is "People presented with shocking results tend to scrutinize them."

A lot of Kahan's research can be read as "polarization dooms us all, careful discussion and thought are useless." I think you could find the opposite conclusion here, that communities with strong adherents of competing views are more likely to have some members discover errors in hard problems that might otherwise go unnoticed.
How To Put Big Data To Work - Infographic
Finally! Yeah baby :D
There is some truth in that.
Or you didn't read what you are responding to (totalitarian jlgreco).

Not to mention you must be unfamiliar with news of just that happening in Germany.

Perhaps we shouldn't allow YOU to vote, as proposed in this discussion for those who are supposedly seen as having poor critical thinking skills.

And we shouldn't allow you to teach your kids either, nor to have the option to send them to the school of your choice. All under the logic of this discussion. Enjoy.
It reeks of autism. You know it's bad because it forces you out of the game to look at some web page. It's basically showing total contempt for the aesthetics and fantasy of the game in favor of the endless cataloging and retrieval of pointless information.
Well that was a little condescending. If you think it's vitally important to screen people for their ability to solve Fermi problems, it's no skin off my back. I was just trying to have a conversation.
I wonder if the bevel on Google's logo inspired them to do it as well because they feel that it signals "search engine" or something.
Naive author. The president's beliefs have no meaning. The only thing that is important is what the puppetmasters want.

This "Dan" fellow, author of the article, should be old enough to know this. On the other hand, if Dan wrote the truth he'd be fired.
Lol why would they call it that.
The reason is it falls under the same law - cars, bikes, forklifts, tractors, etc. Basically: alcohol == walk. The curious thing is, you lose your driver's license for bike DUI. If not for an accident, people get canned usually for recidivism, first senteces are suspended. I've been stopped for a breathalyzer once, in the middle of the night, on an empty bike path in Warsaw.

Well, Belgium, heh, we are a bit different when it comes to bike infrastructure and roads in general. A lot of traffic goes through local roads, small towns and villages often lack means of transport in the evening, and people drink a lot - figure out the rest. A drunk biker can be a danger to himself and the drivers, but there are enough laws to punish somebody for behaving dangerously on the road, no need to get nazi on everybody who's been for a few in a pub. Well, it's ridiculous.
Prank: Watch LG Use 4K TVs to Trick People Into Thinking a Meteor Hit Earth
You should try:

git clone https://github.com/msfrisbie/mean-stripdown.git

That way you can clone repositories for reading only as well. This should be fixed in the tutorial though.
I agree. One of my priorities is to create a developer landing page specifically.

Again, really appreciate the feedback :)
I'm on your side, I think. Some should skip a big chunk of it.

EDIT: My first comment to you is mostly in agreeance with you. I think it's inarguable that school fails SOME kids, because no compulsory system is perfect. But I took your statement of "are schools really failing kids" to mean "are schools really failing the majority or even all kids" or something similar (are schools failing the most important kids for some value of "important", etc).

That doesn't seem to make it more clear, but hell, I'm trying to vigorously agree with you.
Indeed. It also assumes an overhead cam configuration, and ignores the possibility of a pushrod / lifter based cam/valve system. And showing a distributor glosses over the electronic timing systems that newer cars use, whereby they don't need a traditional distributor at all, just a crankshaft position sensor.

Still, for an engine neophyte, that was a pretty decent explanation.
I use both platforms on a daily basis. I used an iPhone exclusively for 3+ years before my first Android device. I'm working on products that help devs on both platforms to make their apps better.

Being a developer, I have solid reasons to prefer one over the other for my personal use but I know a large number of people prefer the other. If that makes me somehow "partisan", so be it.

Now, would you explain what you meant by a "task switcher"?

Or perhaps you could simply admit that you made that comment based on the name "Tasker" without having any idea what the heck it was. That would work too.
Except even if you whittle it down to "qualified" based on nebulous standards, you still get everyone applying with bachelor and/or master's degrees in Education - people who have ostensibly gone through training programs to become the best educators they can be.
Just use bcrypt :-p
Or SVG. But I don't want to take anything anyway from his effort - it's a wonderful work of art/education he's created.
Americans. Always holding out hope that the next superman will rescue them from themselves.

I blame Hollywood.
I have a feeling that final results - people like the logo most similar to the old one - were anticipated at yahoo, and entire logo testing situation "fabricated" to state "you liked us all this time, and we're just reminding you of that".
The Australian government is always threatening to implement draconian filter, censorship, or data-logging plans; luckily, in true government form, they never carry through on it.

It's a pity that such things are the only exposure the tech crowd has to Australia, instead of more compelling things like the massive and ambitious National Broadband Network fiber-to-the-home infrastructure project.
"The biggest, most enduring lesson of our system of schooling is that learning is work, to be avoided when possible." Indeed. The antidote for my 13 and 15 years old boys are being Udacity courses. I encourage them to study for school enough to get by, and to spend as much time as possible enjoying what they want to learn online. Udacity's lack of fixed schedules is perfect for them, and the experience is one of challenge and joy.
It is a good article. But putting out shit stirring garbage on a daily basis makes it so everyone immediately skips over it when their eyes grace motherjones next to the link.
Why the Internet is perfect for price discrimination
What public schools, in US cities, are teaching christian mythology as though it were science? That is a rare problem and I really rather doubt that many people are homeschooling their children because their public schools are insufficiently secular. If you have really found yourself in that sort of situation, there are plenty of organizations that would love to get involved there...

Your school doesn't have the money for fancy microscopes? Welcome to society; get involved with it and fix it.

> Does my exposure

I thought I was clear: exposure to religion in an education is not what concerns me (unless, of course, it is in a public school). The RCC, for all of its numerous faults, has their schools in developed countries teaching proper science, not religion in place of science (for the most part), and not in the same class. They are pretty damn low on my list of concerns.

My concern is with adults deciding to swap out science lessons with religion lessons. This is what the majority of homeschoolers do, and this is what many protestant religious schools do.

> If I'm doing something extreme or harmful to my child

Denying your child access to a basic science education is exactly that. Children have a right to receive and education and parents have absolutely no right to deprive 'their' children of that.

Explanation by example: You want to send your kid to Catholic School where he can learn proper biology and latin prayers or whatever shit? Cool, knock yourself out. You want to send your kid to public school where he can learn biology, then teach him that Jesus rode dinosaurs when he comes home at the end of the day? Cool, knock yourself out. You want to keep your kids out of schools that teach biology and instead only expose your child to Dino-Cowboy Jesus theory? Then you should have your children taken away from you, as you are clearly incapable of raising them.
It isn't flat as it's semi-3D. But even so, that's not a reason to feel it's good - that's just a reason to feel it's current-ish.
Depends on if both cables were the same type. Possible the monitor ports were different?
1. Because the advertised capacity was 8GB but the real capacity was <1GB. There was a lot of coverage about this a few years ago. Including Bunnie Huang who had a problem with bad, fake SD cards being in his Chumbys'. The controller reported 8GB to the OS and so as it reached real capacity the controller would overwrite the first blocks.

2. If the code works on your computer yet doesn't work on the clients computer you would be lead to believe the problem is on the client's side. Honestly, how many people actually check their storage media? I didn't debug the USB drive I ran the code from the USB drive after recompiling 50 million times.

I don't see a lot of programmers trying to run diskcheck or memcheck every time they have an unexplainable crash.
isn't that sort of info kinda sensitive https://github.com/Aaronneyer/dotfiles/blob/master/sshconfig ? I can see hosts and usernames...
I'm sorry if I come up strong but that's completely false. It would require at least 2 to 3 years of vigorous training and perfect nutrition for someone to go from skinny to looking like the second picture.