skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire workforce can give notice and quit in those conditions in Europe, with better unemployment insurance, free health insurance and much more chance of being able to extricate a financial settlement from their employer for unfair treatment.

I'm not saying nothing about at-will contracts filter down to benefit employees: US companies can often afford to pay higher salaries which on some occasions even correspond to higher hourly rates, and they can take more gambles on marginal job candidates. But it would be foolish to pretend it's a balanced tradeoff rather than a massive shift - fairly or otherwise - away from the interests of the median employee and towards the interests of the company.
None of this has anything to do with McGinn. These policies started almost 5 decades ago.
Right.. and compared to Detroit, Seattle's crime issues are quaint. Saying that SF has a worse issue with homeless is damning with faint praise.
Not really, on a desktop it is, on Amazon it's very expensive.
I'm disappointed with the current lack of details around this. For example, it's unclear if the rumoured Dalvik improvements made it in. The omission of GN support is slightly galling too, although with the variants of that in the wild it may be too complicated to deploy.

That said, a couple of things in the API, especially the storage framework, could be really good. That may provide a way forward to get apps working with the cloud or self hosted servers with a common API, which would be a great development.

Cyanogenmod usage may get a big spike when they get on to Kitkat, and that might be just what the Android ecosystem needs.
I don't know your first name, but I'll call you Alex (al1x ~= alix ~= Alex). Thanks for responding Alex. I'm glad that you have. You've brought up a number of points which I'd like to address.

1) You say "religion is a dangerous evil whose existence threatens the very future of humanity." This seems, at best, blowing something way out of proportion. In fact, you make a whole shitload of biased, uncited claims in your first paragraph. I struggled with getting the right balance between outside sources and personal stream of my own thoughts, but I think if you're going to categorise faith as an existential threat to humanity you're going to need to prove it a little bit more than just, you know, fearmongering.

2) If you don't see the power of a community, I cannot help you. To me, the happiest people have always been in a supportive group, generally focused around central beliefs. Whether it's groups of coders hanging out after work or weeaboos watching new animes together, a community seems a core component of happiness, and I view more people having a deep, personal happiness as more important than crushing faith. Then again, I don't see religion as a threat to the human race, so if you can prove (or argue compellingly) for your first point, I may have to reconsider this one.

3) Everybody always says that The Crusades were entirely motivated by religion. That is foolish; I would argue that it was another war fought for the same reason that every war has ever been fought: for power. But in this war, one of the parties was behind a flag of religious righteousness. I will again point to the fact that a bunch of people have killed, many, many more people in cases entirely devoid of religious ideologies. How many people died during the crusades? Was it less than 40 million? I did a little bit of googling, and it seems to be way less than 40 million, so it still pales in comparison to Mao or Genghis Kahn.

4) I didn't disable comments. I don't know if Medium has comments, but this is the correct forum for airing comments; that's why I posted it to hn in the first place. I've also written about the folly of allowing comments, but given your reception to this piece, I'm hesitant to link something else that might raise your blood pressure even further.

Regards,
-max golden
I was hoping for a waterproof device...
Can someone help me understand how a public-private partnership with Gigabit Squared for fiber is different that a similar project with Comcast for coax? Will there be any deregulation of the fiber at any point in time (e.g. a sunset date) or is this just trading one company for another?
>Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

What seems extraordinary to you might not be to someone else. Go be a pretentious pseudo-intellectual somewhere else.

>I don't know his credentials, so it is hard figure out what to make of it.

First of all, his credentials are irrelevant (see: appeal to authority fallacy). Secondly, they are listed in the article itself, which you obviously didn't even bother reading.
The double danger of the NSA's 'collect it all' policy on surveillance
Well that is the thing, if it were pitched high enough then no, you probably wouldn't hear it. (that is also beneficial for higher speed transfers).

What the article said was that he was seeing packets from the airgapped host (that means nothing but air around it, no wifi) which stopped when he disabled the speaker and microphone. That suggested that this was the 'wire' between the two.

One of the side effects of using peizo electric speakers (which are nice and flat so adored by mobile device makers and laptop makers alike) is that they often have frequency response ranges above 20khz. Many people cannot hear frequencies over 15Khz, although 15Hkz (which was the scan rate of CRT monitors) can be heard by some folks and poorly wound flyback transformers would drive them nuts.
Sure, but that uses audible tones; the method described in the article employs ultrasonic tones, and I think (parent (parent)) is questioning the likelihood that cheap(ish) laptop audio hardware can be reliably depended upon to generate and detect such high frequencies.
You probably want to read EFF's excellent "Guide to Protecting Electronic Devices and Data at the U.S. Border":
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/effs-guide-protecting-...

I'd expect that if CBP is asking for your encrytion key and you are not a U.S. citizen and you refuse to provide it you're probably going to be refused entry. Being refused entry isn't to be taken lightly. It may very well mean you will never be allowed entry again.

As others have pointed out it's probably better to simply not know the encryption key or to download your data after arriving. Which are covered in the guide I linked.

Your post mentioned the TSA but I'm not aware of the TSA asking for encryption keys. I'd be surprised if they ever do or have since their mandate is aircraft safety. Searching data would not likely be allowable under the search exceptions they operate under. Your concern should be towards CBP doing the search while clearing passport control/customs.
Ember's object model is really awesome (http://emberjs.com/guides/object-model/computed-properties/)
By writing our charting library with Ember we can make use of their object model while also making it super easy to use the charts inside Ember applications.

As per my example below:

{{time-series-chart
barData=barData
lineData=lineData
selectedInterval=selectedInterval
}}

By using Ember we get all the bindings for free.
Google Maps is Down
Google maps is down with a 502 error! What is happening to Google lately?
My GNex is still doing just fine! The recent 4.x dot releases have been a bit shabby, but fundamentally things work (bluetooth cough cough). I guess being stuck with a 4.3 device for testing will be ok. I do most of my Android dev and testing on the first gen Galaxy Tab 10.1 which is stuck on Android 4.0, and my consumption/games on a Nexus 10 which Google will no doubt abandon soon.

Doing dev and debug on a device I don't actually use has been effective. My most productive features have been having the device in a dock, and using wifi adb so I don't have to bother with cables.
Wow! Monoprice does monitors now? mind blown
A close analogy is: Even if you can be compelled to open a lock box, if it is filled with papers that are in an unknown language, can you then be compelled to translate those documents? That, to me, is the equivalent to providing a decryption key.
I'm impressed by bottle-pypy, and a bit surprised about the gap between it and flask-pypy.
It's LTE, so any carrier with LTE that lets you use unlocked phones, which I believe is AT&T, TMobile, and Sprint, but not Verizon.
For what its worth, I've been pleased with a comparable library called Chart.js

Official: http://www.chartjs.org/
Github: https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js
"Google have built something technically equivalent to a trusted household brand. For starters, Android KitKat builds brand power on top of existing brand power via a licensing deal with Nestlé"

You cannot accrete X no . of brands and somehow end up with more "Brand Power" unless the optics are right.

KitKat and mobile devices are unrelated save for Googles running gag on Android code names - something which the majority of customers are not aware of and don't care about.

The author is really scraping the bottom of the barrel to support his argument.
> Who has the money to go to Stanford to get a degree that offers very limited career opportunities at pay levels that will never recoup your college costs?

A lot of people. If your family makes under $60k/year, Stanford waives tuition and room and board. If your family makes more than that but under $100k, they waive tuition.
As a GNex owner, I'm a bit upset with the fact that there won't be official support for 4.4 on my phone. Supposedly, this choice is due to TI not supporting the chip anymore.
Looks great. Any idea why it uses a different font than the one used by Android?
JSF may not be a good fit for these benchmarks, as discussed in this issue on the project: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/30...
It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?
It was a lot easier back when all you cared about was the 2D performance of basic shapes (lines, circles, fills), and the animation for moving a window was just an outline.
There is definitely a need for high ppi screens as new VR devices like the Oculus Rift come out.
VODO Big Brother Bundle
Um? Have you ever spent any time in downtown Seattle? I live in Seattle and I feel no fear going down there to do things; I do it pretty much every week. You say you "don't live in Seattle" in a lower comment; do you live in the Seattle metro area at all? I voted for him last election and I'm planning to vote for him again.
Which Dialect of Lisp Should I choose?
I use Google Docs and OpenOffice since I switched to Ubuntu for Ruby development.
How much did that set you back? And how far away from it do you sit?
US Startup Visa, how long should be wait
That's a more than valid point. If you allow your faith to stifle scientific thought, you are at fault. But I truly feel that there are questions that tear at the heart of a person, like "what is my purpose" that no amount of science can answer. If you're able to answer that question internally, that's wonderful, but not everybody can. I think that if we can get past this question, we can get onto more important ones (or at least ones we are better equipped to answer).

In essence, though, you are correct: a person who allows their beliefs to stifle acquisition of further knowledge is not a person deserving of respect.
For all those interested in hackernews comments from the previous rounds, enjoy:

Round 6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5979766

Round 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5727012

Round 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5644880

Round 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5573532

Round 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5498869

Round 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5454775

Lots of solid discussion.
Back when there were CRTs, people were regularly running 2048x1536 on Windows 98 era hardware.
We were unable to correct a freezing issue that we ran into with the Rebar package manager. We removed Cowboy and Elli until this can be resolved.

See https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/49...

This less forgiving stance with respect to glitches comes from our intent to publish a round of tests every month from this point forward (assuming we have the manpower to do so). In order to pull that off, we need to be less forgiving with problems that we don't have the know-how to fix immediately. We investigated Rebar for a bit but ultimately conceded defeat, skipped the tests, and posted the issue linked above. We'll revisit it again for Round 8.
Ah nice, that must have cost a pretty penny to get that screen. I still wonder if that's not quite retina though. For better or for worse, Apple coined the phrase, and I'd tend to peg off of that to make 220ppi @ 20" the lower bound for retina-quality. Maybe 200ppi. 170ppi @ 20" is quite a step down from that.

That's 4:3, not even close to the 16:9 aspect ratio that 1080p implies... and you edited your post to take that out. Okay then!
I have honestly never heard of any of those fastest frameworks. I thought I knew a lot, but most of these are pretty obscure.
I actually chose to donate the proceeds of my book The Rapid Rubyist to Watsi. It's been pretty satisfying to know that the money will actually go for something useful! The book has been a success so that is nice too.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rapid-Rubyist-Matthew-Stopa-ebook/...
FWIW the horizontal & vertical charts are reversed in the preview images.
> So you are saying it is implausible because it doesn't make sense if you don't read the whole article?

That's a bit of a strawman, don't you think?

> Ever used a modem?

Yes. And I don't think that's applicable in this case. First, a modem is designed specifically for such a use case--second, we're talking about an exploit that would (in theory) somehow make use of a microphone to spread itself to a target host.

You would have to assume that there's some flaw in either the audio driver for the microphone, firmware, or whatever that can be exploited by sending some combination of sounds to it. While that's possible, it seems unlikely that would be the case and much more likely that the culprit is an infected USB device of some sort, which has been discussed at length in other threads here (and would take far less work). For the variable quality of consumer microphones in a laptop or other such device to pick up a signal in such a manner as to exploit firmware/driver software at range makes this theory questionable IMO.

My personal hunch isn't that Mr. Ruiu is wrong. I think he's found something interesting and potentially dangerous, new, and fascinating. What I DO think, however, is that the Ars writer may have misunderstood, misinterpreted, or is misrepresenting the information he received.
My Nexus 4 camera is better than my Nexus One and my Nexus S. Did the Galaxy Nexus have an amazing camera or something? All I heard was people complaining about that one too.

It seems your comment doesn't fit with reality. ;)
I think the idea of a "meaningless benchmark" has become a dogma. Can you possibly know all the complexities that an app will contain when benchmarking a framework? No, but that doesn't make baseline benchmarks useless. Part of the reason for including the most basic (CRUD-ish) operations as separate benchmarks in their tests is so that you can make comparisons between basic "Hello, World" operations and more complex operations, which gives you a bit more insight into the overhead of each framework.

I'll take that any day, over guessing which framework is fastest.
Actually, it's other way around. In 'JSON encoding' tornado and flask-pypy are 4x slower than compojure, for example, but in 'Multiple queries' they are 14x slower.
Thanks! It's unfortunate that it's Chrome-only. It worked well on their examples, but not on this (not a d3.js):

http://www.cluster-text.com/tmp/news.svg

Still, it's an interesting start.

Correction: It somewhat works if you wrap the SVG in HTML:

http://www.cluster-text.com/tmp/news.html

although, when I load it into Inkscape the positioning of some text labels is way off (some aren't too bad) and some hidden elements are displayed.
First?

https://www.asus.com/Monitors_Projectors/PQ321Q/
What the F*ck Should I Be for Halloween
The quickstart for grizzly[0] contains a staggering amount of boilerplate code. I don't think anyone's going to be running back to the JVM for that.

https://grizzly.java.net/quickstart.html
I like chartjs but a major problem for me is that it doesn't support hovering over points to see the value in a popover/tooltip. I remember seeing somebody had added it in an issue and submitted a pull request but the developer never accepted it (that might have changed, I haven't checked in a while).
There already exists browser based implementations of basic ultrasonic networking on github - https://github.com/borismus/sonicnet.js/tree/master/lib

Assuming decent error checking, the question isn't whether you could do it, it is just how fast would it be.
I've a Dell 2000FP that's still getting 8+ hours of serious use a day, even as it's coming up on its 11th birthday in a few more months. (And still looking pretty great compared to a current gen budget monitor.)

There has been so little movement in mid-quality LCD systems, it's nice to see some change. (Even if the 24" is ... profoundly uninteresting to me at 1080p)

Edit: Not that this changes the original point, just that, as an early adopter, I've been burned a lot less by monitors than by ... everything else.
From what I have read, the radios in the HTC First lock you into AT&T. On T-Mobile, you will only get 2G speeds.
Download a VPN app like TunnelBear (www.tunnelbear.com), and choose the country you want to appear in
What city do you live in? Have you lived anywhere else?

I work in downtown Seattle and my work takes me a-walking across huge portions of it, and my bus stop is right by 3rd and Pike. I've certainly never felt unsafe, and only occasionally have I been accosted by the homeless (or possibly crackheads) looking for money. There are some problem spots, but nothing terribly aggressive, certainly not by standards I've come to expect from my time in other major cities.

It's much, MUCH better than what I saw/experienced while living in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco or Kansas City. Seattle may have some issues with theft, but violent crime isn't out of control. Play around with this [1] Wikipedia lin or this [2] comparison tool:

Seattle is 30th in total violent crime amongst cities with a population above 250,000. Not great, but not bad. For Murder Seattle is 67 out of 75. That's, comparatively, very good.

As for your specific points, I agree with them without regarding them as contributing as much negative impact as you state. You make it sound like Seattle is some pedestrian ghost town where you're taking your life into your own hands by taking a wrong turn. Like any city, some neighborhoods are better than others for leisure activities, and there are some worth avoiding into the night. But it's no worse than most other cities, and often considerably better.

--

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...

[2]http://www.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Seattle&s1=W...
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/maps.google.com
"check the Arch News before any upgrades that may cause issues," It took me a lot of discipline to learn that rule instead of blindly typing pacman -Syu every day.
No Bitcoin donations?
You're trading one monopoly for another. There's no guarantee that the city will provide the same or better quality of service that Comcast has.

People are somehow okay when the monopoly is government, even though time and time again government does a piss-poor job when given control.
Do they list the ruby versions they use? Also, what's up with the "errors" column?
One of the things I like about my W500 Thinkpad (and my Dell D830 and ilk before that) is that it is insanely easy to swap the hard drive.

If I were concerned about traveling with certain data I would use a travel drive. Swap it in before going, and, as suggested, download what I needed once safely at my destination.

Now I'm wondering if there are other ways to carry that data with me in a format that would resist inspection. For example, on an SD card inside a camera. Or on a DVD. Break up the data into smaller files and named them variations on foo.jog or bar.avi or something, and reassemble things later.

For something like that the question might be whether I could be compelled to install or copy files to the active machine for inspection or evaluation if anyone got wise.
Using a RaspberryPi and Pebble Watch to control your home theater
Harvard MBAs aren't the "best and the brightest" [...] in
top MBA schools, there might be one or two per year who
ties me.

While I was in engineering graduate school sneering at people who entered the finance industry and made triple what I did, I had a revelation: If people dumber than you are getting paid more for less work, who's really the dumb one?
In that particular use case, what stops you from laying an actual human hair onto your screen? I just had to take one of it, so they go there out of their own volition.
Ah ok, so they are pretty much making a bad implementation public so it is easier to sue open source alternatives since now they can't deny seeing the code... nice move.
Google only works well for English content. It is broken for other languages other than English. In my case, front page is full of spam content for a Turkish keyword that I want to compete. Even some sites are stealing my own unique content and somehow they are achieving better results than me. I suspect that Google needs more semantic data about language itself. I believe it will become more sophisticated as time goes. I understand that is not easy job to classify billions of keywords combinations for all languages.
Its annoying that QWERTY Androids seem exclusive to the US. I guess Europeans demand custom layouts, and because of that we get nothing :(

Here is GSMArenas list of QWERTY androids released in 2012-2013

http://tinyurl.com/qwertyandroids

edit: interesting that almost all those devices are based on the same MSM8960 SoC
I don't know that I'd call it "petrified" -- I believe the common term is "de-policing." It's a passive-aggressive way for SPD to deal with leadership that they don't respect.

SPD has an incredibly strong union, which is where the real problem lies IMHO. A bad cop almost literally has to murder somebody before they can fire him. DOJ took note of the resulting abuses, but of course they aren't interested in going toe-to-toe with the union, and neither is the mayor.

It's a complex problem but it stems from a fairly ordinary failure of leadership, and that particular buck stops in the mayor's office.
ASP.NET/C# definitely improving.

Rails is disappointing. Slow to be expected for interpreted language framework but that is really sh slow.
If a clinical trial is failing, and the corporation decides to reassign people, then the scientists involved still have an obligation to publish a result, even if that result is a short note saying "we broke the blind and the test results are useless".

The notion of having to register early in a study is an excellent one. In a perfect world, the FDA should interpret an unpublished clinical trial as "EVERYONE WHO TOOK THIS DRUG CAUGHT FIRE AND DIED" and factor that in to the decision to approve or deny a potential drug/device/methodology.
In lost and forgotten European countries like Latvia, it will arrive much later, hopefully before Xmas
I live in north King County, outside the Seattle city limits.

I don't feel much genuine "fear," just annoyance that I have to deal with it whenever I go downtown. If I had any business interests downtown I'd be hopping mad.
Haha, that's always a nice kicker - is it the building that's more satisfying, progress and flow, or is it seeing the built product on completion and thinking "Fuck yeah, I DID that!"?
Shit, Chris Bosh has been playing for 11 years? Makes me feel old to remember his freshman year playing for GT in 2002-03 (my freshman year as well, though I'm substantially less accomplished a decade out...)