skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The agency is asking the makers of animal drugs to voluntarily alter their labels so that farmers can no longer buy antibiotics to promote animal growth (a fairly common practice).

I was under the impression that growth is secondary to supplementing the animal's immune system, especially since factory farms are terribly unsanitary.
This is a duplicate of another thread started an hour earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7057495
I never owned an Amiga, but I thought one of its key features was its modularity? Wouldn't Amiga-on-a-chip inherently be a contradiction then?
No, what we have here is a SV megacorp practicing blatant racism in its hiring (or internal allocation) practices, and then firing the guy who blew the whistle on it.

It's not about the Irish guy, or the Indian guy.

EDIT: for "internal allocation", above.
Tiny screens, especially high res ones, are fine for coding. But working on laptops all day isn't great.

If you code all day, you will probably develop back problems if you don't sit with good posture.

You need to sit straight in a good chair, and look at a monitor at eye level about 2 arms lengths away. You need to type on a keyboard with good typing posture.

If you don't, then you will be okay for a few years, and then you won't.

I've seen RSI write off good programmers. It's pretty horrible - they build their lives and self esteem around a job, and then they can't do it. Bad RSI means that you can't touch a keyboard.
The problem that I've found with engineering managers who don't code anymore is that they are stuck in the mindset of the last project they worked on. I've spent a lot of time talking to managers about decisions that they make which I think are poor, but they "know better." They aren't on the front lines when it comes to knowing about libraries, languages, infrastructure and lots of other development related topics. I agree that if managers stayed in their lane, it would be great; but that rarely happens.
This is all essentially an implementation of "Open ID". http://openid.net/

I was using Open ID through a particular website to log into about 10 different sites. That Open ID provider decided to shut down since so many social networks were offering the same service. Now I mostly use Google and Facebook (depending on what each site allows). If either of their log in services become compromised, we have bigger problems.
The proper salary for an oracle employee is probably several million dollars per year, based on their sales

Oracle only pulls in 300k revenue per employee. Interesting how that makes each one worth 'several million' a year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation
The Jews etc. were the scapegoats of Germany, and the party and their leader rose to power because Germany was the scapegoat of WW1 (justly or not). I don't imagine that Hitler and his party would actually have gotten such a foothold if it wasn't for the fact that the German people were resentful for being under everyone's heel, and that Hitler's leadership brought Germany out of a slump in the 30's.

No? My knowledge of history is rusty.
Feds Can't Enforce Net Neutrality: What This Means For You
As long as we're cataloging Clinton's sins, don't forget repealing Glass-Steagall.
Totally possible
Have a look at this http://tactustechnology.com/
It seems that I've got years of experience with third generation haptic technology then.

If you plugin a laptop into an outlet that is not properly grounded and move your fingers across metal surfaces of the thing, one can experience it first hand. A sensation of friction, like moving your fingers over ripples because of the current running through them. This should work with a lot of electrical appliances that have metal surfaces.

Not really pleasant though :)
I'm a little bit confused of the workflow they are suggesting.

I'm a web developer with "good design taste" but I definitely can't design myself, I always pair up with a designer that does the PSD.

But of course this doesn't mean that when I see a navbar that has a gradient I copy a paste the image of the navbar in my website with a <img>, my job is porting this images to HTML, CSS and JS.

If you're actually putting images from the PSD, you're definitely doing it wrong, but in my case, I still need a highly detailed design that I can make a website, otherwise I have to design it myself, wireframes only get you that far.

When I'm working with a good designer, that knows about how the web works, I feel it's a great workflow.
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High quality image magnification
There are some economic/social theories that suggest homelessness is an adequate and necessary deterrent to poverty.

However, I'm not going to address a flaw in your logic, namely that the only role of taxation is deterring undesirable behavior.
thats a creative title
But if I don't mind arriving later to pay less for a ticket, why should I be prevented by the State from doing so?
I can't agree with this more, especially when it comes to ebooks. I've been mightily disappointed in the way public libraries have adopted Overdrive, which is - and this burns me - technology put in place to make consuming ebooks more difficult, and to charge libraries exorbitant fees at the same time.

I'd love to see homebrew projects like this one be successful:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24567880/douglas-county-mo...

http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/sep13/Sendze_Van-Court--Own-...
20 Mobile Industry Expert Predictions for 2014
Mass die-offs, plagues, civil unrest ultimately culminating in the end of first-world civilization?
The thing is, even if that's the case, each improvement still decrease the time it would take to get to the next improvement. Also computer hardware can be improved as well. Imagine Moore's law where instead of improving every 18 months, the scientists designing the computers are also getting twice as fast. Now imagine they are also getting smarter from improvements made by code optimizations. And then economic growth as well (more and more computers running the AIs or bigger factories to make them.)

Even if progress does plateau, it doesn't have to happen anywhere near human scales. For example computers already have millions of times more serial processing ability than human brains. Any optimization that can take advantage of that, even if for only some problems and domains, would automatically give them a massive advantage over us.
How is this different from a recall? I've had a number of recalls on various vehicles and it usually just involves the dealer replacing some part or another. The fact that Tesla is mailing the part to customers in this case makes it not a recall...?
Him switching from being neck-deep in compiler issues to actually using the language in anger on whatever it is he's doing now might end up being really good for the language. His twitter stream has started filling up with wtf's and really good bug reports.
You are looking at a picture of the surface of the silicon chip with the circuits etched on it. I'm not sure what the holes are, there are too many of them to be wire pads, perhaps this design uses holes to aid in heat transfer. The colors are post-processing added to the image to highlight different functional units of the chip - I'm not sure what they all mean in this case, but on CPUs, the largest/most uniform areas are always the L2/L3 cache.

If you pick up a packaged CPU, you can't see this surface unless you rip the package apart. In a package, this surface is mounted face down on a tiny PCB which connects the wires to pads or pins for the socket that the CPU is inserted into, and also, a metal lid is slapped on top of the silicon chip (with thermal paste in between). Then a heatsink is slapped on top of the metal lid.
Finding good stuff is so damn hard. I'm listening to that stuff whenever I do anything that doesn't require too much focus. Time that adds up.

Three I can recommend:

http://shoptalkshow.com/ - Webdesign and development mostly

http://javascriptjabber.com/ - If you're interested in JavaScript development

http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/hharchive - Free older recordings of history podcasts. He adds a lot of emotion and perhaps bias to every story but as a result they are never dry and often from an unusual perspective
Seems poor practice to attack the symptom instead of the problem, though.
Because it's Dr. Dobbs Journal. They have been a joke for the past 15 years, imo.
How the Friendship Paradox Makes Your Friends Better Than You Are
The DC Circuit may have three vacancies (I'll trust your representation) but it also has the lightest workload per judge in the country:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230393690...
"For the 12-months ending in September, the D.C. Circuit had 149 appeals filed per active judge. By comparison, the 11th Circuit had 778 appeals filed per active judge for the same period... The national average of appeals per active judge is 383."

These things matter.
It's the adapter that plugs into the charger as opposed to a part on the car.
loader.io

For ongoing monitoring/testing, I recommend our tools (see profile). Though I'm a little biased.
I'm actually of the thought that k-series CPUs are just regular CPUs with a non-working IOMMU, so instead of throwing it out they unlock the multiplier and sell it as an unlocked CPU.

Binning is a hell of a thing.
I think you mean 18 months: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3468085?hl=en
Maybe, but there's not enough info in the article to conclude that. The Indian guy was already an employee remember. I simply don't know what the relevant laws are on inter-company transfers.
'Practicing' doesn't mean manufacturing physical objects. ARM spends money producing things its customers value: processor designs at various levels, and software.

Given that the Acorn RISC Machine came out 28 years ago, I'm pretty sure someone could build a patent-unencumbered processor for that instruction set if they really wanted to go it alone.
Startup Institute preps wannabe startup employees for the culture shock
"It can be unsatisfying, incredibly wearing mentally and physically," says Duncan McCall, CEO of PlaceIQ, a startup that uses location intelligence in marketing. "You don't often get a lot of clear leadership. There's a real challenge for people who don't know what they're getting into."
Perhaps the AI's "like" keyword based domain names more than Google's current algos.
iOS: Trello, Hackers (HN client), Heyday, Gmail, Chrome
Its amazing money for someone living in India, but the guy in question was moving to America. If he's good enough for them to want him to work in the U.S., they should be willing to pay him appropriately to do so.
I think he's hoping if all ISPs become highly regulated common carriers, then all neighborhoods will have to be supplied with uverse, cablemodems, and long range wifi/wisp service, instead of just some.

So there's one and only one highly regulated cable provider, and one and only one uverse , not sure about the WISP thing...
Let's agree that recall are not what they used to be for most of the car industry. Calling or not calling it a recall is a PR matter. I love tesla, but if an adapter is being changed, it's being recalled.
The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS
I think that it's everything together. Basically, giving animals antibiotics means that you have more animals (and animal weight) which can be sold at market. If it were more expensive to give antibiotics to the animals, farmers might rethink the equation, deciding to instead raise more, smaller animals in more sanitary environments.

Michael Pollan's excellent book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma," describes at great length the way in which non-factory farms operate, and why he believes they don't need the same sorts of sanitary rules that the government places on factory farms. I have no way of knowing whether he's right, but there's definitely some logic to the claim that antibiotics are addressing the symptom, rather than the root cause.
Yadi yada is dead..

I also think web designer should have a basic understanding of css & html,

but too many time I saw average web dev saying no to a designer because, well they did not care or did not know how to do it. If you start limiting yourself you limit what the designer can create.

Another thing is now there are tools to make PSD to HTML much faster like CSSHAT that provide you with the exact CSS for each element of your design.

Also, designing in photoshop make design iterations much faster. By the time you design directly into html&css a design I could have iterated 2 times & have a much better end product.

I'm not saying Photoshop is the tool for web design, there is place to be taken there, but tools like photoshop & sketch makes design works go much faster.
Before we get too carried away. All the Supervisor needed to say was "for someone coming from India" and suddenly the context is non racial and hugely illuminating. Perhaps they terminated the guy because he showed he was too emotional and incapable of dealing with the way the company worked globally when hiring and promoting and transferring employees etc.

So hard to know if he was just making a fair assessment of the realties of different regions or saying Indian's deserve less than Caucasian's simply because they're Indian.
Scala adoption by enterprises
It might be my fault, I tried with the 'dotcloud' user.. It worked fine until it stopped.
Was that article thrown together in 10 minutes? It's filled with typos:
"But federal safety regulators on Tuesday classified as a recall Tesla' move to provide upgraded wall adapters and charging software, citing the risk of fire."

"involving a Model Sin Irvine, California, which the "

"Separately,three road fires in"
You're looking at a very high level picture of the CPU. The different coloured sections represent the different logical segments of the CPU. I can't tell you specifically what each section is and maybe someone more informed could clear that up but among there will be: registers (memory), alu (math), CU (control, brain), buses (transport), the GPU, and some other miscellaneous sections (IR,PC,etc..). For the holes, I don't know what they mean I have never seen those on a cpu die.
center a div both vertically and horizontally to the viewport; also it should stay center when resized.
really weird. I saw that post and your reply too when I was browsing the 'new' section after posting this.
Well, we can feel bumps 13 nanometers high, as long as they are 760 nanometers long :)
Why EIA, IEA, and Randers’ 2052 Energy Forecasts are Wrong
Besides the valid points already raised in the discussion it also shows that the US isn't considering the German intelligence service as a threat. Either because they expect German politicians not having the balls to order it to spy on the US government or because they consider it too incompetent to do so or because they have it in their pockets.
In my opinion it may be better to do practice SRMs/Codeforces contests instead of project Euler. Topcoder rank imo tends to mean more, since it is timed. If someone says "I solved x problems on site X" you can't say if he done it in days or weeks of effort. If someone says he's red on topcoder you can say he's awesome.
it is not possible to really get Iris Pro on the desktop

Current iMacs come with Iris Pro, and of course as you mentioned there are integrated products with it: While you can't buy it as a discrete chip at retail, you can certainly get Intel-equipped desktops with it, which was the point I was discussing.

Which is certainly by design by Intel, based upon an understanding their market: They put higher performance graphics in their mobile and FCBGA chips because those markets are where it is actually likely to be demanded -- from companies like Apple, or on a mobile where it is the primary graphics. When they sell a chip retail, it is overwhelmingly likely the buyer is going to be coupling it with a stand-along graphics card, so there really isn't much of a point.

Which is going to be the issue that AMD is going to come up against. They are selling something as an enthusiast chip while providing graphics capabilities that lie in that no-man's land of being overpowered for a standard business desktop, but underpowered for the market that is likely paying attention.
Fair point; just because you like a politician doesn't mean you'll like their judge or all of their decisions. Heck, maybe if the panel for this case had been an Obama, Clinton, and Reagan appointee, the Obama and Reagan appointees would have sided against the Clinton.

The DC Court handles all of these big, Federal cases that make the top of HN. A President's impact on the DC Court is almost as important as their impact on the Supreme Court.
Thanks to this article, today I learned that there's a name for the thing I have, "delayed sleep disorder."

I became an entrepreneur at age 22 not because I wanted to change the world, but because I just wasn't able to wake up early enough for a "real job." I figured there had to be a way to make the same amount of money I was making at the time, but keep my own hours. I always tell people I have "vampire hours."

I'm 38 years old now. I typically go to sleep around 4am+ every night and wake up around 11am or noon. I usually don't take meetings before 1pm and have unknowingly designed my life and career around this disorder.

I was also diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, which, according to Wikipedia, is linked to this sleep disorder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
Absolute Horizontal And Vertical Centering In CSS

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/09/absolute-horiz...
Play Tetris backwards with Sirtet [launching today for iPhone]
Just launched my game Sirtet for iPhone. Sirtet is a puzzle game that deconstructs Tetris by recycling rows of blocks back into the tetrominos needed for the classic falling block game. In Tetris you place falling tetrominos into rows. In Sirtet you insert those rows back into the board to recreate the tetrominos. [iOS]
http://playsirtet.com
>I think it's mostly driven by the recession

That and there's still a "it's easy to find php developers" amongst business people IME. Not that I mind php, I've used it long enough to work around it's issues.
I think the key-value pairs vs typed objects for something like an HTTP header is a holy war we'll never hear the end of.
Depends on how good the open source drivers for GCN are. At last check they weren't great performance but worked well enough for day-to-day tasks, while r600 worked almost perfectly.
I agree, hate is too strong a word. I was reacting to his very emotional presentation. I could feel his pain.
MORE CSS - Write some more
Just glancing, I'm not sure anything new was learned here. Seems to just confirm what sales types have known for a while.
Nice name. A majestic river in South India.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaveri
Bootstrap is javascript.
No he won't. He'll see the same shift 4-5 times with different marketing buzzwords attached. Anyone who got his first management job managing "systems programmers" 40 years ago will be perfectly au fait with "devops" today. Anyone who did ASN.1 will be perfectly comfortable with XML or JSON. Anyone who did IMS will be perfectly comfortable with NoSQL (in fact anyone who did IMS in the 70s would find MongoDB laughably primitive). I could go on and on...
This is absolutely what happened in most cases.

Once they quit programming back in the 2000 and they did not learn the newer techniques, they're out of touch.

A simple example would be when it comes to test automation. Back in the 2000, automating GUI tests with _high_ coverage might be acceptable. Fast forward to today, we all learned that there is a very high cost on end-to-end functional testing that involves complex UI so we tend to write 10% of UI test automation, 20-30% of integration tests, and the rest falls into the unit-testing bucket.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Other areas of improvement ever since: dealing with build, dealing with continuous integration, continuous deployment, source control, etc.
Net neutrality rules nixed by appeals court
In house developer's time certainly should not be spent converting a PSD file in to a full HTML/CSS website. If the designer can't build an HTML/CSS site its likely that massive chunks of usability knowledge is missing as well.

The thing that hit me about abandoning PSD mockups (coming from a 15 year Photoshop user) is not responsive design but high DPI displays. A lot of big companies still have terrible upscaled raster images on their sites. It is bad enough for logos, even worse for the site's UI. Sticking to HTML5 & CSS (with a backwards compatible design for the few users still on XP of course) is easier to build and ends up looking a lot better.
Thanks! loader.io looks like it's pretty simple to get something up and running without any scripting.

cheers!
The Story (with numbers) of Code Pilot - the world's first plugin for Xcode 4
Regardless of how you feel about the political implications of asm.js, this is a fascinating technical article on the challenges of implementing a world-class Javascript interpreter.
We can also see a candle in complete darkness from 50 km away so just a handful of photos are enough for a sensation.

"The researchers found that the emission of only 90 photons could elicit visual experience. However, only 45 of these actually entered the retina, due to absorption by the optical media. Furthermore, 80% of these did not reach the fovea. Therefore, the human eye can detect as few as nine photons."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_threshold
> but until you get some optional typing

The schema library form the prismatic guys should be what you want, its pretty powerful.

https://github.com/prismatic/schema

Aria Haghighi - Prismatic's Schema for Server and Client-Side Data Shape Declaration and Validation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_jtwIs2Ot8&list=PLZdCLR02grL...)

For static type checking: https://github.com/clojure/core.typed

> possibly another syntax baked in

Not needed in my mind. I would rather have less devs then C syntax. Not trying to be elitist but clojure will never not be a lisp, and if somebody can move from a(b) to (a b) then let him do python.
I had no idea there was actually "logic" to the naming. Thanks.

Still stupid names, but at least with a goal in mind.
For those interested I keep a list of these sorts of things at https://github.com/technoskald/coding-entertainment.
Is there a known method for documenting an interaction in a design mockup?
In the eyes of the consumer it feels much less obtrusive.

Hearing that 30,000 Model S owners have to take their car back to the shop to get a problem fixed feels much worse than receiving a part in the mail.

The latter makes me feel like it's a simple fix since I don't have to have a mechanic do it and that it must not be that serious if they trust me to do it myself.

Semantics aside, as far as PR goes there's a huge difference.
I'm sorry, I guess there was a misunderstanding based on my bad choice of words. I ment the Bundeswehr bases. Because of that decission many german soldiers are forced to move or travel a lot. Currently the new Defence Minister tries a more US approach on military bases by intergrating some kind of infrastructure within the bases.

And yes, the US (as well as german) bases pump really much money into local economies. And local economies are suffering from closed down bases a lot.
How an emulator-fueled robot reprogrammed Super Mario World on the fly