skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my initial reaction to. I suppose it has its pros and cons just like anything else. However, with recent Google (among other companies) and NSA dealings I'm looking at this with my cynical eyes as another data retention policy.
Am I right in assuming that Coinbase could pivot to or add support for other digital currencies like Namecoin or Litecoin? It seems a much safer bet to build a platform around trading/storing/accepting any digital currency, rather than just BitCoin.
No, you don't need to be able to code to understand that the team that's working fewer hours is generating the same results. You only have to understand what the business needs are and how well they're being met per dollar that you spend. In the article's example, the manager needs to understand how well his two cable provisioning systems are meeting the needs of his customers. That has nothing to do with code.

If a manager's only metric about how well his line of business is functioning is how much overtime his employees work, then learning to code will not make him any more competent. It's more likely that if the manager learns a little bit about coding, he'll think that everything his team does is easy (since he never tried to implement anything complex). Also he'll be more likely to be an annoying micromanager, since he'll think that he actually understands the complex issues that his team is grappling with.
I've had mine for a couple years. The trackpoint is not as good as the one on my lenovo, but it works and saves me from reaching for the trackball 95% of the time.
So is this a mandate for mandatory deposit on the institutional repository, even if it's not going to be under green OA right away?

If not, most paper will probably not be deposited...
This is the management style of "I just bought a bunch of oranges. Now how do I squeeze the maximum amount of juice out of them?"

Are you paying them 50% more than market for working for you an additional 50% hours?
Already knew this, already did this, already got happy. I generally agree with the sentiment of this article. If it's really news and really important, I'll get spammed on Facebook (e.g. NSA, Superbowl Blackout, Healthcare.gov, Paul Walker, Nelson Mandela, etc..).

I would honestly rather just get my news from HN because the intelligence level is a lot higher than any news organization. While I may disagree with certain views on here, it's not a sensationalized conversation. Users on here generally have concrete conjectures and thought out responses which you definitely don't get on the news.
I agree, wholeheartedly. I would also like to add this about what is going on in the UK:

There is no local news. Remember in the olden days when there were local papers that people did actually pay for? I delivered them as a child and I did find them rather dull at the time. However, looking back, you could have small ads and sports news that would reach a target audience of locals. There were also syndicated articles, e.g. new car reviews, that were okay to read. If something actually happened in town, e.g. a book signing, a gig or even a jumble sale then it would be in there. Things the council wanted to tell you were in there. Then there were letters, probably one of the more interesting pages.

The problem nowadays in the UK is not just national/global news it is also with the local news. We have the Internet and those local papers have moved online, however, it is not working.

As for the relationship the press have with the politicians, the press need access or else they cannot write anything. So they have to do as they are told to get that access.

Most of what passes for news in UK papers is stuff cribbed from the news wires. This means that it is a very easy system to game - get your story on the news wire and it will make it to print. Meanwhile, you try and get some investigative journalism of your own creation into the papers - impossible!
Actually, if they do it on delivery, it ruins the signal (since there is no longer any distinguishing factor between active accounts and inactive accounts), so the latter protects privacy more effectively.
Four people are dead. Why should he get any second chances? He made his bed, he should lie in it.
New generator creates electricity directly from heat
> the camera used to record online yoga classes must "provide a participatory view [which means ‘a view observed by a participant in the rear of the class,’ according to YogaGlo] from a height of about three feet."

Well there ya go, just make a video from the second row instead of the back row!
They patented a camera angle? Can someone patent all the camera angles that Michael Bay uses in his movies?
You've got that backward. If google fires off a request when you open the email, the companies can track whether you opened the email.

If google fires off a request when they get the email, the company has no way to track if you opened their email.

If google fires off requests to all emails they receive to @gmail.com then the marketers won't even know if it's active @gmail.com account, they'll just know that *@gmail.com is received, which isn't information, it's an easy assumption.
ReSharper 8.1 Goes RTM along with dotCover, dotTrace
I understand the author's point, but as a long time SF resident, I would say local news is very important to me. Many of my day to day decisions are dictated by what I read in the news each morning.
It depends. For instance, Borland's Turbo Pascal with its one-pass compiler was pretty damn fast. Its edit/compile/run cycle was amazing (an "ECRL" as fast as a REPL). And this with 64KB RAM.

Whereas some of today's IDEs and language-layered-on-a-VM experiences aren't nearly so fast. Granted they're working much harder. But the end-user experience is not always faster these days.
A outfit like Yesware provides rough location data w/ their pixels.

FWIW, they're partially funded by Google Ventures- perhaps there is some type of technical compromise that doesn't break geographic tracking completely: http://www.yesware.com/blog/2012/07/18/how-does-yesware-trac...
It seems the key issue here is that management can often not tell the difference between 'fighting fires' because of incompetence, vs doing it because the problem space is just very, very difficult.
Releasing the unedited video doesn't get rid of the fact that he released the edited one for 'maximum impact' that happened to obscure the truth of the situation a bit by omitting context and details. 'Lie by omission' indeed.
Agreed, this seems more like an improvement on existing teleconferencing tools than a degradation of other forms of communication.
CAAS (Container As A Service !!)
http://blog.copper.io/stackdock-blazing-fast-docker-as-a-ser...
First, including the $165M from the sale of a hedge fund in his CEO compensation is misleading. He received this for a completely different reason than his tenure as CEO.

Second, if you are going to include Pandit's full compensation, you need to include the millions of Apple shares that Steve Jobs received for his tenure as Chairman of the Board at Apple:

In 2003, The Board awarded Jobs 10M restricted shares of Apple, arguably a much larger compensation than what Pandit received: http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1104659-07-...

He also received a Gulfstream Jet from the board, valued at something like $40M: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-235835.html
British Supreme Court rules that Scientology is a religion
Keeping the Startup Spirit Alive in a Growing Company
Did you read the article? The defense presented is a bullshit justification called affluenza. Not "boys will be boys." I can absolutely guarantee there are teenagers serving lengthy drug sentences in Texas. This punk killed four people. There is no way to rationalize this at all.
Not really. There are these things: http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/201...

Bricklaying machines where bricks go into a bucket and out the other end comes a horizontal wall. You could prefab this on the floor and then just put it up ... maybe, I don't know, I'm not a bricklayer.
Yeap, one little step away from a crappy script language.
I'm productive in the mornings. I wake up at 5 am and usually work a few hours even before I get to the office. I'm usually ahead of schedule on most tasks. However, this manager felt I was setting a bad example and still felt I should keep a strict schedule and put in 8 hours of "face time". His loss.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/monster-madness-creating-g...

This is from a link in the article for more information. These Monster Madness fellows found Firefox gave them 33% of native performance, and Chrome 20%. Presumably IE would give you fractions of these figures.

I figured that, rather than citing figures from benchmarks, I'd go for the real world scenario that this release has given us.
It takes time to learn these things. Maybe after hiring A's for a dozen jobs, it will slowly dawn on you that the value they provide for your money is low, and there's always rework and cost overruns involved. At that point, if someone you know recommends a B to you, you'd be open to trying them.
Difference between procedural and functional programming explained
Only at one atmoshpere of pressure.
From what I've heard, Vimeo is even worse, disallowing all video game content unless it's a game you developed yourself: http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/01/vimeowned/
I'm surprised digg still exists.
Presumably Google would cache the image on receipt, not on open. If that is the case, then the sender has no way of knowing if you actually opened the email (unless you do so from a desktop IMAP/POP client).
I think the point missed is that you can easily look at the work done and contrast the quality of Bricklayer A's and Bricklayer B's. Concrete results will always be easy to verify and contrast immediately whereas the nebulous and vague world of software will really only show its true colors when you're ten years down the road and still able to add enhancements without crippling the system.
This is why I quit Linkedin a long time ago. Most of the requests were from people I've never even met.
>we hadn't looked at their bill in a year and because getting cable in their building is a pain in the ass.

Oh come on. Yes, the situation could be better, but this is your parents' problem. Yell at the landlord/condo board/super and get an agreement with cable or at least get them to drop a line in the basement. Cable is dying to get in every building they can.

We have a small remote office in DC and I single-handily got Comcast to run a line to the building (which isn't even ours). All for a $150 a month deal for a 50mbps line. Before we were paying almost that much for 3mbps Verizon 'business' DSL. Another tenant saw it and bought internet and TV and others will probably in the future. Its not hard to get these guys to run these lines. It takes a few months but it happens.
I am not sure how to play the game. The intro messages reads:

{"success":false,"error":"DuplicateEntryException","message":"\u0027Anonymous1900\u0027 already exists."}
There are many, many "bricklayers" out there who actually end up not laying the wall at all. They work hard for weeks perhaps months but eventually give up, sometimes leaving a half-finished wall that is so shoddy it needs tearing down by a more experienced professional before they can put up a better wall.

They may well have been paid in part already for work and you're left with nothing to show for it. In many cases they'll leave and find a new "victim" to work for.
Actually, it's a very relevant case to keep non-technical co-founders as far away from the code as possible.

Educate founders to entry-level coding skills (or below) and they will have entry-level abilities at estimating project technical scope and difficulty.
The issue here is that "does it work" isn't a good enough metric for code quality. If two engineers deliver code that accomplishes the same task, one might have made it readable, testable, scalable, etc. and the other just jammed it together to accomplish the desired result, the manager that can't read code won't know the difference.

Yes, in the long term, the shortcut taking programmer's shortcuts will catch up to him (code will break, you can't add more people to work on his code, etc.), but it could be too late for the manager.
Cardiak below said that the 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 updates fixed the camera issues you're referring to. that has not been my experience at all. The focusing is a bit better. Color is a lot better, but the shutter, if it had any improvements, seems negligible to me.

If camera is a big concern, go with the HTC One. Overall, the N5 is better all-around, though. The Moto X has a nice build, a decent camera, and "okay" specs. It seems to do well.
Cul-de-sacs are killing America
That's a great point. If a broader claim is both supported by the specification and they could get it past the prior art, they could try for broader reach in a continuation patent application. To do so, though, they'd have to file the continuation before this patent issued. Checking USPTO records, it appears they did not.
Is there a way to turn it off? I'm on a limited data plan on my iPhone and I don't want images to load by default.
It might be possible to use a greenscreen, though.

You do your photoshoot with a greenscreen in the background/part of the background, then digitally replace the grenscreen with your logo. Since your logo and the product are mixed at the edge pixels, it will look crappy if cropped, whereas you yourself have the greenscreen originals and can change the background whenever and however you like.
What is all of the piping and canals for? couldn't this just be built right next to the water way?
The full 39min unedited version was released at the same time though, wasn't it? (eg the video on youtube, shown on the 'collateral murder' webpage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=is9s...) says it was uploaded 3April2010.

Releasing source material, in support of edited content, seems a reasonable way to do 'empirical journalism'.

I have not seen a 9minute edited video - could you link to it please? The wikipedia page mentions the 17minute edited video - as is on the 'collateral murder' website. I have watched it twice, and it seems consistent with the 39minute one. i.e. it has not been edited to grossly misrepresent the evidence in the full 39minute version.
Ok, well done. :)
[Update 2: I just tested with a newly-created Gmail account and the feature did not seem to have been rolled out to the new account yet.]

[Update: I'm not sure when this feature will actually be rolled out. I think my test below automatically displayed the image because my own email address appears to be implicitly a whitelisted sender (even though "images from this sender are always displayed" doesn't appear for it). Whether Google will alter the behavior when they actually deploy this feature, I don't know.]

[Original message:]

I just tested and, yes, Gmail only loaded the referenced image when I clicked on the message to open it within Gmail. I can't be sure, because perhaps if I had waited an hour without opening the message, Gmail would have automatically loaded the image anyway. But in reply to mherdeg below, the evidence suggests that, yes, Gmail plans to opt everybody in to sending "read receipts" by default for HTML messages that reference images.

I'm surprised by Google's statement that the previous behavior of prompting was "to protect you from unknown senders who might try to use images to compromise the security of your computer or mobile device."

I realize this was a benefit, but I always thought the main purpose was for privacy --- not to betray to the email sender when I opened the email. My guess is that Google did not view this as a privacy setting, or they probably would not have forcibly changed everybody's setting.

It's doubly strange that they did so without a notice inside Gmail that they did so -- just a blog post.
You can make supercooled water in your freezer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling
Some possibilities:

-Bitcoin is not legal tender. Governments force banks to accept USD to pay debts, no matter what they perceive the dollar's value to be. Meanwhile banks have no obligation to accept bitcoin. This means that bitcoin volatility is more closely tied to perception than currency. This is a trait shared by other commodities.

-Bitcoin's finite supply. Once the supply of bitcoins is growing substantially slower than the size of the economy, there will be deflation until demand for bitcoins adjusts. With a fiat currency, money supply can be increased or decreased as the size of the economy changes. In a growing economy, a small level of inflation discourages hoarding and helps ensure that the currency accurately reflects the value of goods and services.

People say this means "bitcoins are deflationary" but that's not precisely true. It's true only if the size of the economy using bitcoins for currency is growing. In an economy that is stable and not growing, there should not be much deflation even if there is a finite amount of currency. If the economy grows, then a fiat currency can print money to cover the growth. Bitcoin cannot.

Thus, I would predict that unless bitcoin experiences a hoarding/deflationary spiral and crash into irrelevancy, it will wind up stabilizing in a particular niche of the economy, one that will likely become proportionally smaller over time as the world economy grows. This particular niche is likely to grow and contract more frequently than the larger economy meaning that demand for bitcoin will continue to fluctuate more than major fiat currencies. Given bitcoins fixed supply, this means price volatility.

Is this identical to other commodities? In some ways, I suppose, but I'm not sure that's a particularly interesting question one way or the other.
It took almost 3 years for me, ahaha. But I'm sure they just had some problems with my accounts or something.
Free/affordable quality daycare would go a very long way.
Are we still talking about real bricklayers? Because I find that rather hard to believe.
News is bad for you, except for this bit of news explaining how news is bad.
Gmail will soon display images in your email by default
Second this. Excellent random movie selection on Netflix.
"People need to work. They need to have something to feel good about doing every day. Work is a big part of self image and self worth. Any system that makes it possible for people to sit at home eating bon bons (as the Gotham Gal likes to say) is not a good system."

This reminds me about the importance of choosing our questions. The quoted piece is focused on the individual, and I presume that the feed-back would be accounted on that level too. The thing is, any given system makes things easy/comfortable for some kinds of individuals and not so much for the other kinds, so framing the problem around a generic citizen doesn't bring up in my view even a stable desirable target. (The communist system is the first relevant example that comes to my mind - they thought that they can afford to please just the limited kind of individuals that happened to form the mediocre majority. They were wrong, of course. They avoided mass unrest and violent revolutions, but suffered brain drain à la "Atlas Shrugged".) The framing level that I see relevant in this regard comprises the entire humanity and considers the effects on its entirety - what will allow us (all of us) to evolve, to get better, to "get there" (where "there" is to be continuously defined). Please note that I didn't tried to answer the question that was being implied, I merely tried to fix it.
Any engineer working on a sufficiently complex project will spend 100% of their time in meetings without a PM.

Well, that's just dysfunctional. If "stakeholders" are that demanding of peoples' time, then they are the problem.

If your culture isn't engineer-driven, you have bigger problems and the number of PMs you have becomes basically irrelevant.
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I think you actually get at the crux of the issue, inapt comparison to programming though bricklaying is. If the analogy is going to carry, we should be able to describe an interview process that will distinguish the 2hr vs. 2wk bricklayer. Yet even in programming, this reverse-engineering of interview techniques doesn't exist.
I'm (existentially/cosmically) aroused!!
Ah, this is cool. I really hope something like this grows/stabilizes and becomes the de-facto for web.

I think it takes 2 things...
1. Simple deploy of languages/services.
2. Scalability solutions (processing power / RAM / network interactivity).

I bet #1 is possible here, #2 seems less clear to me. any knowledge off the top of your head?
"But that is hard!"

Who said that being a good manager was easy? Managers also need to work hard to deserve their high salaries. Lazy managers who can't be bothered to do their jobs properly should be fired.
Most tech companies have parallel career tracks for engineers and product managers with equal "ranks" on both tracks.
Good engineers can do some PM work. But in vertical markets where the engineers lack personal experience in that field it's unrealistic to expect them to make good decisions about what customers need. For example, good luck finding an engineer who really understands how physicians use EMRs. That's why you have to bring in specialist PMs.
Tracking is currently only useful insofar as receiving a URL request for the image indicates that someone opened the email, as well as providing whatever metadata is available via the request, through geo-locating the request IP or what-have-you.

This change makes all of that impossible: Google will (presumably) always request your image URL, whether the user opens the email or not, and the request will come from Google, with their metadata, not your target.
Interesting how the author, and the woman who's the subject of his anecdote (and several here), conflate and confuse privacy with secrecy.
Not necessarily 100% a good thing for users. We don't know whether the images are pulled and cached by Google when the email hits their servers (which would cause 100% open rate from the perspective of the marketers) or wether it happens when the user opens it for the first time (in which case they can still track openings).

If it is the latter, users can still be tracked. If the former, legitimate uses that help users will now be blocked. Github, for example, uses a tracking dot to mark a notification as read if you read it via email, which means you don't get double notified on the Github UI and via email.
Yeah. Hooray for table layouting. I was at first surprised that the browser even understood tables, but it seems MacWeb 2.0 was released in 1996.
It works just fine in Safari. You know, without any special treatment from Apple for asm.js optimizations.

I was sceptical but this shows that asm.js is a much better approach than Google's ActiveX wanna be solutions.