skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you.

I've seen generalists with a culture and personality fit be transitioned into highly valued specialists with accessory skill sets that greatly benefited the organization.

Either somebody up top didn't think this transition could happen by ignorance or by potential difficulty or there was a culture or personality mismatch.
For those interested in python 2/3 that haven't (recently) read the (unofficial) faq, I highly recommend taking a look:

http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/...
I've always assumed that severance pay is not an artifact that is negotiated upon severance, but rather that it comes into effect once the necessary conditions vest, so to speak. Severance pay, and an employee's right to it, is implicitly contained in the employment agreement, and once the conditions for payment laid out in the employment and labour law regime under which you were hired are met, then your right to get paid automatically comes into effect. The idea that an employer can refuse to pay you on the basis that you have refused to sign a severance agreement seems out of whack with the spirit of the law to me, assuming that this is not explicitly stated either in law or in your employment terms (that your being paid for severance is subject to you signing a severance agreement).
What are you using to power your site in terms of stack if you don't mind me asking?
Yeah, it sounds like coke/alcohol is dangerous for the same reason that coke/heroin is. All three at once is a really bad recipe.
It's a tough crowd when being the authors of both the Unix and Plan 9 kernels isn't sufficient to get the benefit of the doubt on this matter!
The worst thing about active.com is that they will spam you forever once they have your email address. There seems to be absolutely no working way to unsubscribe from their mailings.
IMO, this is something tax dollars should pay for. Don't use tax money to spy on citizens, use it to spy on members of congress so they have incentive to behave in a less corrupt way. I personally don't mind that elected officials should have to transparently have their lives monitored. If I was an elected official, I wouldn't mind either. I'd rather it be the reason I was voted into office in the first place.

If members of the legislative branch are transparently spied on by another branch (in this case executive) of the government, it should keep corruption down, no?
My shallow Google search seems to indicate smart phones with IR are not common (though clearly I'm a smart phone ignoramus).

If phones with IR were common, you could just download an Assassin app or any of a variety of other apps for impromptu game playing.

Custom made IR toys clearly are a step backward in any case.
> I don't know of any language that comes close to the race-free safety guarantees provided by Rust.

STM in Haskell.
ECC tutorial
Rework and other books from 37signals team might be influential. Also you must be continuously involved in an open dialogue with the CEO or whoever takes decision on the direction you are heading. If they are strictly against the change, time to escape, then.
I think the lesson you were supposed to learn is "responsible disclosure"
Reid Hoffman on Bubbles, VC Turmoil, Diversity Issues in Tech and More
I have heard a lot of great things about Rework but haven't read it yet. I'll definitely look into it, thanks.
Indeed I have found it much easier to write a daily journal than even a monthly blog.
Most of the time, when your CC merchant account is processing cards, they ARE debit cards, but they are being processed through the VISA or Mastercard system, and to the merchant, the distinction is irrelevant.
I'm a generalist myself. I'm lucky to see this hasn't happened to me. The best possible solution for this according to me is when you have a clue that the company has outgrown you and you are not visible in the big picture, you should choose to opt out & start finding a better opportunity and be very confident that you would get one, being a generalist.
I had a somewhat similar situation, it was new year of 2012 that i had to cope up with a failure of a startup and the CEO handed my cheque with some extra bucks + salary and said "Good bye" and i didn't know what to do, confused but confident. This is no where related to the story above but i was employed one week from the time, that is because i'm a generalist.
But i have now concentrated more onto one area and it utterly sucks being specialist keeping in mind that you were a generalist before and you got many toys to play with and now its only one toy.
But hey,
Cheers! Change is awesome!
The most intriguing character of our times. I hope he portends the future.
> In general, I'd prefer not to interfere in private contracts...

One could argue that such cookie-cutter contracts are no longer "private" if they're presented to the employee as the industry's standard operating procedure. I don't know if such an argument would hold legal weight, but there's something wrong with an agreement where it's expected that only one side gets to decide what's being agreed to.
He didn't "mess with other peoples work". He looked at what his computer was executing. This isn't even like poking at a webpage and telling someone it appears to not validate inputs - the code was running on his own computer.

On top of that, why would you ever feel embarrassed? Perhaps if you posted something very damaging with the sole intent of harming that person, then realised they weren't responsible for the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_narcissism#Character... ;)
Around $500. I made a profit on ads for that time frame, so it all worked out.
Fuck everything about that. No.

I work at a big company and get sales, marketing, press, and customer inquiries ALL THE TIME, at my PERSONAL email address (which is easier to find than my work address). There is absolutely nothing I can do to help you if you contact me directly because company policy forbids it, official channels exist for a reason.
This site provides a supportive audience for your New Year's resolution
The SHA256 algorithm described in the article is not a fuzzy algorithm.
> you explained how you made a new language from scratch in five weekends with no experience in compiler theory or language design.

I agree that the term is pretty meaningless, but I am pretty certain this would qualify under the most stringent of definitions. Personally, I prefer the term 'tinkerer', since it does not come with all the baggage but captures the spirit.
Looked like they did pretty much everything right to me.
I agree. If anything, reading this analysis would make me feel /more/ comfortable about the security of this bank's software, not less It seems that they did pretty much everything right, if a bit strangely, in some cases.

TOTP and co. require a private key, just like all crypto. If you have that private key, bad things happen. This is not exactly news at 11.
That 404s for me. I did some googling, and am not able to find any tests outside of the ones linked from the contributions guide

EDIT: It looks like the integration tests reside here:

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/tree/master/integration

They're called when you run make test, via this chain:

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/Makefile
https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/hack/make.sh
https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/hack/make/tes...

It looks like the integration tests may not be running because the AUFS test failed?

I manually adjusted the Makefile to run the integration tests anyways, and here's the result:

https://gist.github.com/akerl/8251863

It appears to have a very unhappy time, primarily because the memory cgroup is not enabled. That was a deliberate choice because from what I can see there is a performance hit for enabling that (as well as the swap cgroup), and we decided to leave that disabled rather than give all users a performance hit in order to benefit docker users.
Ouch, that hurts.

Pre-internet, early 80s, I had my first computer, a Commodore 64. I was pretty active on the local BBS's and some long distance ones via an open modem relay I discovered at a local General Motors plant while wardialing.

I started using a new service called Quantum Link and hung out with a lot of shady characters that were doing phreaking and credit card number passing.

That's a path I probably would have continued down until one day I received a call from a guy saying he was with the FBI, that they new what I was doing, and were going to be paying me a visit.

Being something like 12, 13 years old, I freaked out and quickly hid all my pirated floppies and took my C=64 down to my friends house to hide it.

After a couple of weeks my patience wore out and I got my system back, but kept my nose clean after that (other than copying software, you couldn't have a C=64 and not trade with friends:).

It was only after four or five years later that I found out that the "FBI agent" was actually a friend of my friend's older brother. Doh! Probably all for the best.
Spectrum Analyzers?
For people to be inspired, they need a vision. You want to give them a vision of a better:

1. Product
2. Process ('design-driven')
3. Mindset ('disrupting, build-for-the-future')

You need to start with #1 as it is the easiest. People won't be inspired unless they can see something.

(A) Can you completely redesign the product and prototype it?
(B) If so, could you get your coworkers excited? The CEO?

If your answer to (A) is no, or to (B) is "neither", you should give up now.

If you can answer yes to (A) and can target one of the constituencies in (B), craft your strategy accordingly.
> > "If the companies didn't want you to do this, then they wouldn't let you do this."
> That is a poor assumption that is likely incorrect more often than not.

As a concrete example, I worked someplace with a nice and consumer friendly return policy... no restock fees, no hassle.

But when a customer "bought" and then without fail returned something like 40 books, 1 at a time (without buying anything else), we did have a word with them. Depending on the books, that can adds up to several hundred dollars of overstock, eating up already crammed inventory space in high-rent storefronts. Plenty of seating for those who'd like to read books without buying that won't excite our inventory count ;)
You're talking about owners and consumers; where are the workers in this?
Thunderbolt. The resolution on the TV would be awful
Docker 0.7.3 is out
You may be imagining that it will be complete OS/systems written in non-C language from scratch, but it doesn't have to happen that way.

With languages with no GC or optional GC, calling back and forth between the new language and C is easy and direct, and so writing only new (or maybe historically problematic) pieces of a system in the new language becomes feasible.
I get it, you're bearish on FB. But your comments suggest that you think the stock market should work like an algorithm. You input growth and users and past stock price and out comes the perfect number. Momentum investing isn't anymore BS than value investing. You act like there needs to be some verifiable reason FB is worth "over 200% more" than it was 6 months ago. Well, there is: There's a lot more people today that have faith in Facebook's ability to grow and create wealth than there was 6 months ago.

Like I mentioned elsewhere, I sold FB. I'm not a true believer who thinks this will be the first $1 Trillion company. But I think objectively, you're bearish on FB and I think it clouds your judgment.

This is a company with a reputation for high quality engineering. They have 20% of humanity as users. It's grown to staggering proportions. I'm reminded of the people who called it a house of cards when it hit 100 Million. And it's grown from that insanely amazing number by a magnitude.

Over the last 4 quarters, Facebook has increased revenue and profit by nearly 30%. Net income? Up over 600%. It made a billion dollars in 2013 and should double that in 2014.

I'm not trying to sell you. I'm just suggesting that possibly you are letting preconceptions cloud your judgment. It's growing slower? It has some issues with teenagers? Facebook's history gives me no reason to believe their future growth depends on hooking users at a young age. I'm not sure how you reach that conclusion.

Anyway, feel free to have the last word, I'm not one for internet debates.
That's an interesting passage. Thanks!

The inroads made by women in classical music, especially when compared with other areas of the music business, are striking. And the levels of physical and emotional stamina needed to compete on the orchestral audition circuit are _staggering_.

The ultimate coding interview. ;-)

I've never had to compete at that level. Almost all of my calls are based on word-of-mouth. But I still remember my first paid gig. Talk about impostor syndrome!
So not understanding the language you are writing an extension for is more acceptable to you than allowing a basic but useful way to accept semi structured data in http requests?
Nice desk. I recommend buying a rip fence for your saw. It will make your cuts even more sweet.

http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-302691-Fence-C7SB-Circular/dp/...
Except it's evidence of nothing. We've had severe cold snaps every decade or two since... forever.
Battelle's yearly predictions. Dire ones.
Using Google Glass
A Facebook search engine by USC students.
Studying Abroad From the Perspective of an International Student
Academics Petition For End To 'Blanket Surveillance'
Sipser's Theory of Computation is the closest thing I could think of to an all-round essential.
Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant
Another option, just annotate it with your compiler's cache alignment attribute. That way you need not redo the size for each architecture.
SnappyCam disappears from App Store without a trace
So they basically made a real http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotcha!_(1985_film) app and stuff. I wonder how many developers of the app watched the film when they were kids... I mean, if they're that old :-)
I have several rifles, including an AR-15 "assault" rifle and an Yugoslavian SKS with a bayonet and primer-fired grenade launcher on it[1]. I also have several handguns which I very often carry concealed.

I have no desire to shoot someone. I don't fantasize about power trip, fatalistic shooting sprees. I'm not afraid of being out in society. I don't pose in the mirror with my guns. I don't buy all the latest accessories I see in Call of Duty. I score way below average on all those psychopathy tests floating around the Internet.

So what's the catch? Nothing. I'm the same as the next dude.

1. Disclosure: I may end up using the grenade launcher some day. They have some great aftermarket grenade cages that happen to be compatible with tennis balls.
Show HN: LINQ for Go
It's more than that. The SVM kernel maps your multi-dimensional data into an infinite dimensional data. Because of the way the math works you can essentially learn from an infinite dimensional data without overfitting. The support vector is the data points that "support" the separating hyperplane, that is the points that meet the constraints. The other thing about SVMs is that they are computationally friendly.

Just as a simple example (stolen from the Caltech course which I highly recommend) if you look at points on a plane that form a circle and try to separate them with a line you're going to fail. I.e. your points are (x,y) and those in the circle are your fake dollar bill and those outside aren't. But you can take all these points and apply a non-linear transform, e.g. (x, y, xy, xxy, yyx, x+y, xx+y2), you get the idea... It turns out that now you can* separate the data into what's inside and outside the circle. The problem is you just increased your so called VC dimension of the model and you might overfit the data and not learn anything. SVMs let you get infinite numbers of combinations, without overfitting and with cheap calculations... Pretty neat.
they're going to need someone to be able to jump in and help the specialists out with the larger picture

Problem is, if you are a generalist (say) with <5 yes experience in total and 8 months at this firm? I'm not sure that works for anyone...in that situation.

Although, I don't doubt there is more to the story. Just would be hesitant to jump to character over other consideratiosn without knowing (any, real) details.
Why the urgency to get rid of you 12 days before Christmas? You would think that someone that is a valued employee and someone who contributed to the growth of the company would get treated a lot better than that. They could have waited until the New Year, or even given the employee an option to move to a different role. To get him out after 8 months, 12 days before Christmas certainly doesn't sound like someone who was really appreciated.
Why is he a bastard?
I take it you never played Assassins with squirt guns or clothes pins in college?
Is there a big difference between Thunderbolt and some sort of HDMI hookup?
The Beginner's Guide to Forging Your Own Bottle Opener
> Is the OP saying that she needed to feel like a hacker to feel legitimate? That would be sad.

Hi! I am not, and I agree that it would be sad. I am happy to be satisfied with who I am, what I do, and where I'm going. I may not identify with the term "hacker" due to some of its connotations, but I do feel like I get to playfully work on difficult things--one of the few definitions of a hacker I relate to and fortunately the one that I think best embodies its true spirit.

Unfortunately, many people I know who have yet to feel established in the field do feel at least a small need to relate to the "hacker" to feel like a software engineer. As there are parts of this I could relate to (even if they are not bringing me down right now), I thought I'd share my experiences.
The Meme Hustler
http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler
Couldn't you always access it over the remote API? you'd just have to throw dockers http server behind some kind of nginx/whatever authentication wrapper.
This report says Minnesota will get -62f.
You can directly post the link instead of sub linking.
“But what are the objective criteria that make iOS's design truly better?”

There is no such creature as objectivity in design. It is all privileged vantage.

When I was a young wee art schooler, we had a professor who made this abundantly clear by reframing the question of “What is good art?”

The reframing of art as language.

When we ask the question “What is good art?” or “What is good design?” we bury the privilege. Were we to ask “What is good language?” we can begin to see how displaced the very question is. Even then, it is likely our answers would be much more cautious, nuanced, and contextual.

Most of Norman's and Buxton's writing on the subject tends to highlight the contextuality of design[1]. This echoes the much more complex notions surrounding its cultural role, much like language.

And very much unlike the mucousy puddle in the original article...

[1] http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/03/tactile-vis...
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html
What security hole?
c++ smart pointers under the hood? its actually cool.. to bake some of this directly in the language.. can prevent some memory copying by playing with raw pointers indirections under the hood in the lang runtime, etc..

But you already has to think like this when you use smart pointers in C++.. "who owns this reference?" etc..

But in C++ this is a library.. not a syntax.. point to rust for this
There is a similar version that I know a friend plays at a large university. It's Humans vs. Zombies. If you get "bit", you are a zombie and have to wear something that identifies you as such (normally a bandanna tied around an arm). If you're a human, you carry a nerf gun with you. If you hit a zombie with a nerf bullet, they can't bite you for a while (next time you see them, or such).
Did you know Wu Tang signed me?  Get the scoop here
Well what can I say, they truly signed me to a worldwide digital distribution deal with worldwide promotion from Wu Tang management. They're telling me to start promoting my album promos for "Legacy Reborn" so I'm tossing you all a link to www.soundcloud.com/rel2real or www.facebook.com/rel2real to check out my music. The release date was confirmed its March 31, 2014 so check me out!
Hmm, no. The problem with posts like these is that they're unashamedly racist and sexist. Apparently it's the cool thing now to bash young white men. All in the name of some mythical "privilege". This is the stuff of cults.
The average gun owner isn't necessarily relevant to shooting sprees. Shooting sprees are rare events. Those that commit them are NOT the typical gun owner.

Easy access to gun ownership prima facie facilitates shooting sprees by allowing the outliers easier access to guns.

Pointing this out is not necessarily an argument for gun ownership restrictions. I'm replying more specifically to the idea that your experience has any bearing on the relation between gun ownership laws and shooting sprees.
Furthermore, criminals are usually motivated enough to find something else that will do the job.

The Photoshop anti-counterfeiting stuff? It just scares off amateurs with an inkjet who don't realize every page from their printer has a tiny coded tracking mark that identifies the printer, date, and time.
They also all speak Danish in Denmark. Clearly, speaking Danish is good for economy. Unlike some sorry languages like Russian or Arabic.

On the other hand in Switzerland only 9% work for the government. What language they speak? I am confused...
Very cool, but why come up with a new API schema rather than use an open standard like OData (http://www.odata.org/)? Then Alpaca would be compatible with a bunch of APIs that already exist today. In fact, something like this (generating client libraries from APIs) may exist for OData already, but if it does, I've only seen it for .NET and OData (Visual Studio 'Add Service Reference').

This is actually pretty similar to a side project I've been working on called Gargl (Generic API Recorder and Generator Lite) (https://github.com/jodoglevy/gargl). Haven't gotten around to doing a Show HN post yet, but would love any feedback or to combine efforts. Basically it lets you generate an API for websites that don't have APIs publically available, by looking at how a web page / form submission of that web site interacts with the web server. You record web requests you make while normally browsing a website via a chrome extension, parameterize them as needed, and then output your "API" to a template file. Then this template file can be converted to a client library in a programming language of your choosing.
It's likely much more than two databases. Most MSOs outsource billing and customer service to companies like Convergent. It's a mess of legacy regions and products with different vendors involved. Try troubleshooting phone number porting -- that goes through Accenture.

You can take one of my bills -- I receive two Ecobills and a paper bill!
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Maybe make them look more like Star Trek Phasers palm phaser (TNG,DS9, Voyager) and less like a gun.
http://i.imgur.com/nNAyxbA.jpg
It looks like an awesome game (though I'm a bit worried about the $0.05/bullet thing), but it's also weird enough that I wouldn't play it in Boston or anywhere else where the populace panics over anything the least bit strange.

I mean, I'd have thought that Lite Brites were innocuous (only 4 weeks until that anniversary), so I can only imagine what one of the terrified might think of a real life assassin game....
I will upload the invoice shortly that shows feb 2013 purchase from Amazon. How did you manage to come up with the part number?
Success may be the difference between taking a year, and needing a year.
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