skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's important to let people make their own decisions about them

You must be strongly opposed to the system of regulation in the US, where GMO products are not fully labelled, so individuals do not have a choice.

This is also (to be blunt) a nonsense, because many of the potential threats that people are worried about are social, and not individual. For instance, they are worried about farmers losing their ability to produce their own seeds, so the nation's food supply becomes dependent on a handful of multinationals. No doubt South and Central Americans are particularly aware of the political implications of putting themselves in a position like that - see the Copper mines in Chile, or the banana plantations in Honduras and Guatemala.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._intervention_in_Chile#Firs...

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

If you expect individual consumers to make their purchasing decisions on long-term foreign policy, you are, to put it mildly, setting yourself up for disappointment. They are well within their rights to make decisions that affect everyone within democratic decision making processes.
I took AP Computer Science A two years ago as a sophomore.

Most of the questions have to do with understanding how scopes, assignment, loops, and conditionals work. There isn't very much about data structures -- arrays (both the native and ArrayList kind) were the only structures ever covered. Most of the focus is on OOP and using the API for an app called GridWorld, which is pretty neat.

Here's the College Board site about AP CS:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teacher...
see the part 同期とは "synchronization".

I think users without prior IME experience may have a hard time image what is the purpose of sync or what does it do. It's a user trained Bayesian db where you can input your most used words/combinations very fast.

It's like auto-complete in IMEs or Google Suggest where you can get a list of "hints" ordered by popularity.

Baidu IME does the same, except, according to OP:

> ... sends users’ information even when the function is turned off.
Which is not entirely bad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...
They are actually much more difficult, as are all soft skills that are poorly codifiable. Learning to code is much easier than learning to sell, if only because you can do it alone in a basement with a PC and a book. The reason we engineers often don't get this is because under "natural conditions" more people without special training possess these skills (which means they're widely applicable in everyday life) and almost nobody has to reinvent computer science to survive.
It's funny, I can't see a world where native isn't better.

The performance is still affected even for simple apps and even if the CPU can handle that degradation, the battery won't. If the application does something, it will take more CPU time and this is bad in ANY way. Why wasting theses CPU cycles? Only because you are "more productive"?

Second argument, security. Inject JAVA into a live app, not impossible, but hard. Inject HTML, easily done... When will we start to see XSS on our applications? HTML5 is literally an eval on every single text field...

Third argument, HTML5 is fantastic? Then use it, nothing stop you. There's multiple way to do it currently, the JS api on Android is complete, you can do anything you want. If the platform doesn't support HTML5, then you can start an open-source project or even a commercial project that will allow it. If we start from the HTML5, you won't be able to go native from that point, you directly block possibilities only because you prefer HTML5.

Facebook tried the HTML5 for their apps, the performance was awful and it wasn't a complex app at all.
By far the biggest mobile-website sin for me is that a high percentage of sites that auto-redirect to a mobile version actually don't work right at all:

- Redirects to home page

- Page not found on mobile site

- Mobile version has reduced features that were the primary reason for visiting the page

- Redirecting to new mobile-specific URLs that make sharing with desktop users difficult (or impossible!)

- No way to not get the mobile version (no link, or doesn't remember preference).

If auto-redirect actually suited the visitor's needs, then in many cases it would be fine. Instead, I find that many seem to be implemented in the most naive way -- probably one of those circumstances where a novice developer said to the site owner, "automatically showing the mobile site to mobile visitors is EASY!".
Where do those javascript developers work to get that type of money?
>I could write a book on these types of tactics.

It's called the 48 laws of power. Specifically your example is Rules 6,7 and arguably 34.
USP = Unique Selling Proposition, for those who also didn't know.
Aye, it seems like a good enough idea.. I just think that they should be more accurate with what they call it. Inaccuracy does not do anybody any favours.
I got it running on my HP pavillion Chromebook 14 (stable) in developer mode using croutonized debian jessie (64-bit). It works but I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with it :)
I am all for clear language, and I agree that North Korea could not be called a democracy.

However, there is a difference between concepts that are well defined in ordinary language (like democracy) and concepts whose definition is highly contested, like anarchism. Libertarianism is clearly a term with right wing connotations for most people. When you argue against using it this way, you are going against ordinary usage, and therefore against clear communication.

And this is consistent with my earlier post, because you imply that the person who uses libertarian in the usual sense, is ignorant because they don't define it according to the literature that you consider to be relevant or important.

On the "New workers party", that is clearly an attempt by this party to subvert left wing rhetoric (of being pro-worker), a kind of culture jamming if you will. It is clearly not an attempt to trick people into voting for them or redefine the term "worker's party", which I assume has long tradition in your country and is unmistakeably identifiable with the left.
Let's see some examples.
I feel that UX designer cannot be fulltime job at some of these places
That's great propaganda. What are a couple juveniles being abused compared to curing polio?
Know any solid companies hiring Front End Developers and allow for telecommute?
Hi All,

I'm a front end dev. (HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, AngularJS and some Ruby on Rails) living in Chicago with several years of experience (digital agencies and Fortune 500 companies) and looking to change my current full-time job.

One requirement is the position needs to be telecommute/remote (I lose a lot of time commuting to the office everyday and work better at home and via teleconferencing). Preferably I'm looking for established companies or growing startups in Chicago or Silicon Valley.

You can reach me at my username at gmail.

Thanks!

P.S. I'm also looking to fill in some downtime I have and I'm open to freelance/side-project work (off-hours only).
He didn't say it's bad, but rather that it's not built out. It's true that all else equal, UChicago isn't a good choice for CS.

Anyone have thoughts about UIC? djb is a professor there, and it seems like their CS department is pretty extensive.
I was engaging directly with the flaws in the post. You might not agree with what I said, but you cannot say my post had not content or that I put no thought into it.
I have done this type of research recently and I can say that it helps immensely when you invariably get the "So it's like ___?" question. :) It really forces you to think about how you are going to answer that question ahead of time.
To give him trust might be naive, but giving him credit for the things he has done is just a recognition of fact.

He donated $28,000,000,000 to a philanthropic organization. Refusal to "give him credit" for that is just being petty. He did it.

Conversely, he engaged in anti-competitive behavior with Netscape, so he gets the credit for that too.

Loving him for the former is every bit as pragmatic as hating him for the latter, but neither act means that is who he is as a person. People are far too complex for that.
To understand any given market space, even the suggested 20-30 hours is far less than enough. Unless after several hours of searching, no competition is found to begin with.

If someone is unwilling to perform a thorough search for competition, there is a good chance that the person does not yet understand the problem he is solving or has a wrong idea about what the real problem is.

Part of the reason why it takes long to understand competitive landscape is that search engines are still not perfect, and companies often do not do a good job of explaining on their websites what exactly they do.

If a company exists that is solving the problem and yet you cannot find it, you may call it a problem with their execution, or a problem that you may soon have too -- discoverability/SEO and gaining traction.

They say, ideas are dime a dozen. My understanding is that ideas are dime a dozen only before you apply the filters - product-market fit, competition analysis, etc. If something passes through and correctly so, it is worth a lot more. I bet investors die to see something that has actually passed through.
How to upload custom images to the gallery:

Using Google Chrome Inspector, you can find out the line that is triggered in the Javascript code when the "SAVE" button is pressed (inspect the "SAVE" button element, and it will tell you what part of the code is executed when it's clicked). By looking at the code, you see that what happens is: the previous HTML5 Canvas where you draw the snowflake is rendered into JPEG and encoded in base64 (.toDataURL("image/jpeg")), then the data is appended to the <form> element inside the "value" attribute of an <input> tag. Then, the form is submitted via POST.

So if you set a DOM Breakpoint (using Chrome's Inspector) to watch for subtree modifications of the <form>, you will catch it when the <input> tag is appended. Then, you go take your own custom .jpeg, encode it into base64 (for example here: http://base64.wutils.com/encoding-online/image-to-base64/), and then paste your custom image data inside the the "value" attribute. Then you resume the script, and the server will receive your custom image data, instead of the original one.
Nice work. I wonder how this art map compares with what the guys over at http://artsy.net/.
You gotta shoot for the stars if you wanna land on the moon! :)
Every single startup I've worked for, the founders admitted that there wasn't a ton of interest until one of the big ones was interested and then EVERYONE was. While its fine to just point to this as an example of social proof, you have to wonder how good these guys are at their jobs if they get much less information from their time with you than they do in finding out if someone else invested in you...
I think part of this disconnect has to do with the kinds of crimes that people actually end up in prison for.

One of the largest single sources of arrests and convictions are the drug war -- I will not call the police if I see someone buying, selling, or using drugs. A lot of people on the other hand, will call the police because they see something "suspicious" and that suspicious behavior might not even be illegal.

In addition, lots of crimes occur with context, and sometimes the context muddles what true justice would be. If you don't know the context behind what you're seeing, it's easy to think the police will help when the reality may be anything but. If people are stealing because they or their loved ones are hungry, are the police really the best option? People seem to be more content to call the police than they are to take difficult steps to try to ensure that people are fed and cared for, and that's a problem. I want to live in a world where people are able to have good relationships with their neighbors, to know how they're life is going, and be able to offer support for them if they need it -- and all of those should be easier and come more natural than calling police on their neighbors to externalize the problem.

I could see someone hassling someone else, but for all I know they're stepping up to someone who has consistently attacked or harmed them or their loved ones. At some point - seeing someone who is being sexually assaulted, seeing people who are surviving domestic abuse, etc. - I do believe there's a moral imperative to help the person who is being victimized and if calling the police is the best way to do that then by all means. But in my view these crimes are the small minority of crimes that fill the jails and prisons, or that the police get called about.

Anyhow. Obviously there are times when I think everyone is best served by calling the police. If I had to choose between "see something, say something [to armed police who will then involve themselves with violence]" and "stop snitching" my preference would be stop snitching. Things are often more nuanced than either allows, however.

If it's a stolen wallet or bicycle I'm not going to call the police (unless necessary to get a report for insurance purposes) and it's not my job to play detective and find the perpetrators. I do believe that the police usually make bad situations worse, but that doesn't mean I don't believe there are bad situations where they can help.
Scala: Java has tons of boiler-plate code and is not "functional" enough.
So, your argument is that it's right to make Walmart employees poor in order to maximize profits because they are not nearly as poor as the poorest people in the world?

If there is something poor here, it's the excuse.
There is a fine line. Sometimes these habits are required to fend off being underrated. I've been on projects where the attempts to make people look bad are brutal and relentless.

Another scenario I experienced was where I took a contract at a company where my cousin is CIO. It wasn't pleasant, there was a constant assumption that I was just there through nepotism, and that I was overrated.
Yes, yes, I understand. I've been here as long as you have and I know where you're coming from. You do. not. like. Microsoft.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=rbanffy+m...

But you're getting yourself into trouble in this argument, because Bill Gates self-evidently hasn't abused any juveniles, but actually is working to cure polio.
Also simply that the UK is a smaller market with less competition, and UK consumers are largely used to being charged at these levels (I lived in the UK in the early '90s, and the "$ = £ for imported tech goods" equation was exactly the same then). Importers are going to charge as much as they can until people stop buying, and apparently, people aren't.

I think this is particularly the case for specialized niche equipment, as it tends to be bought only by those who really need/want it, so demand tends to be relatively price-inelastic...
Just tell him, plain and square:

"When we started on this endeavour I was expecting you to behave/provide/take care of X and you are not doing those things that we agreed on (or the results you are delivering are WAY OFF the expectations that the company had on you). You cannot be part of this if you are not helping it getting better. I'm sorry but I don't want to continue with our business relationship."

Be honest (with him and with yourself), you DON'T WANT HIM and there's nothing wrong with it. The more transparent you are here, the better you'll come out of 'the negotiation'.

The negotiation: Wether you want it or not, he owns some part of the company, even if he had just been doing jack shit the fact that you invited him to your endeavour and you are still referring him as a co-founder means that he's ethically entitled to 'something'. Now, it's up to you to decide what is that 'something' that he deserves'; again, just be honest and talk about what would be fair for him to take.

Be honest! That's the only rule here and if he co-founded this thing with you (even though you knew he wasn't worth it, or didn't knew at all) chances are that you may be real-life pals; if that's the case, just solve it like pals, after all it's always better to have a friend than a dollar.
Saint William of Redmond?
As far as I know in the US such records never disappear. Also, it seems common that for most tech jobs a criminal background check is done (I don't know how it's in other areas outside of tech).
I've benchmarked MRI vs jruby a number of times over the years on real apps and MRI usually cones out faster on average with worse numbers at 95th and 98th percentiles due to GC performance.

I never took the time to figure out why it is faster, but I assume that it is due to C libraries being faster for json serialization and my apps doing primarily json serialization after fetching from the database.

Edit: I should test the performance of the json libs, which would be easy to do
We can at least see MRI has gotten faster with each new version, but we knew that already.

Also, I'm a bit surprised that this doesn't include more implementations of Ruby. Where's Rubinius? IronRuby? REE? I hope the list gets updated.

Furthermore, the benchmark itself could be better; I won't say I am disappointed, but I am not too thrilled either.
I like this line: being in prison was a chance to learn about so many things.. Sometimes, bad things happen for a purpose. They are blessings in disguise..
The US and the UK do actually spend the same percentage of GDP in government taxation on healthcare. It's just that for the same amount of money Americans get treatment for the poor and the elderly, whereas the British get universal coverage. So, relative to the US, the UK coverage of the wider population is actually free. There is no greater sacrifice, or higher level of taxation to pay for the extra coverage.

References are quite easy to find, but here's one, from the Telegraph, quoting data from the OECD:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/edmundconway/100006775/...
Or, just take the Ada description from the original article -- it applies just as well to Scala as it ever did to Ada.

(N.B., I think Scala is a great language. But it is certainly one that has never seen a feature that it didn't like...)
I love the way you start your argument with an ad hominem. It's delightful how consistently you mention my public position in an attempt to discredit me.

So, tell me the difference in his money going to companies that abuse juveniles for profit and his money going to companies that try to eradicate polio. He is not eradicating polio himself either - he pays people to do so.
Are all of those data brokers located in the US? Otherwise they probably won't care much about US law.
I agree. It reads like a republican (lower case!) with an axe to grind. It's entirely appropriate and expected for the monarch to use such a register. What's inappropriate is suggesting that everything should be done differently because it's Turing.
Yes, but YC/investors/moving to the US is hardly ancillary to startups. And this was enough to dissuade someone from even applying!
Everytime a big company implements a feature or rolls out something, they affect companies working in that area.
You can find similar things about almost any company or person, but for some reason the bad things about Microsoft are always amplified.

For example, see how Google squashed Skyhook

http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...

Aliyun and Acer prevented from launching a phone because of the secret rules of the "Open" Handset Alliance.
http://www.zdnet.com/cn/report-google-stops-acer-from-launch...

Apple and the famed 30% cut of even sales from Apps, an example of how they used someone's OSS code in Safari and then banned them from the app store:

http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/

My point is that someone fed a steady diet of bad stories about one company while barely being exposed to good stories ends up not liking them and everyone knows how many tech sites and journalists and news sites like Slashdot and HN's bias in story selection because of the vocal minority who sometimes appear to be on a crusade of ends justifying the means.
For one thing, Richard Henriques doesn't actually invest in "companies that abuse juveniles for profit", but the foundation actually does deliberately work to end polio.

That seems like a pretty relevant distinction to me, but, hey, if we weren't arguing over private prisons, you'd be telling me how evil Coca Cola (another foundation investment) is instead, because the real point here is spelled out in your HN profile.

The Microsoft you dislike still exists, and, worse, has communicated itself spiritually to other tech giants. It is downright weird that you'd focus your attention instead on something that really is exclusively an effort to work on global poverty and disease.
Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers
My understanding is that "libertarian means right-libertarian" is far more the case in the US than in Europe.
I'm not sure what you're asking. The victim of robbery is present for it, of course. I'm pointing out that unless you're seeing something that I'm not, there's no element of a robbery that implies there's a "target house."

A common mugging is a robbery. When I think of crimes that target houses, I think of burglary.
I would be a lot prouder of Bill if he hadn't made his money by breaking the law.
It could be in the header, using the same iconography as map apps do for "find my current location": crosshair & circle [1].

[1] http://fontawesome.io/icon/crosshairs/
Ah, the SunFire. It's hard to compete with the rest of the world when you design a custom internal bus for your x86 product.

I like that the last sentence you wrote could easily describe today; many customers still care very much about the security context and the data segregation.
In the same situation I'd probably acted the same. Yes, it's likely that the actual sentence would have been much lower. But there's still a very significant chance of spending the rest of your life in jail.
Bangladeshi Workers More Concerned with Low Salaries than Poor Safety
So what? If he is a sociopath, so what? Are you trying to insinuate he has dark ulterior motives for his charity efforts?

If not, why is his personality worth a damn to the discussion?
Really great article for anyone just getting started with hosting something on Pages. Anna breaks everything down so it's very simple. I had just finished building my personal blog using Jekyll and Pages when this came out. Would have been a nice resource.

I did have a stupid issue with not understanding how Github compiles Jekyll that I totally didn't understand after reading the docs, so I posted a little thing about it for anyone else who might be stupid, like me: http://davidgillhespy.com/2013/12/18/pushing-jekyll-to-githu...
McDonalds and Coca-Cola could be perfectly explained by your comment.

But surely a for-profit juvenile detention center is a bit of a stretch? And the other private prison the Foundation invested in listed "reductions in crime rates" as one of the risks to its bottom line. Surely common sense (or better-than-common in the case of Gates) would lead you to not invest in a company that literally grows with the crime rate... I find it hard to believe that it was so hard to find viable investments that they had stoop to investing in private prisons.

The Gates Foundation is awesome, but that doesn't mean they don't make mistakes. And hopefully they might consider being slightly stricter in deciding which investments they are morally opposed to if they are currently investing in private prisons.
Oh, that came from his other comments; he said he drove someone somewhere where that person committed a robbery. I had just assumed it was to somewhere someone lived. The "house" part wasn't important to my question. Sorry to be confusing.