skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a _very_ interesting comment.
There _must_ be a switch on the logic of the streaming.

If you want to "stream" the torrent, you will need to start with the first chunks
But i think we can do something nice about it. We need to add some transfer stats to the downloading and use it.

You have the file xyz.mp4 with 20 chunks.

First, you leech the first 4 chunks (first 20 minutes of the xyz.mp4 file)

Then you analyze aprox. transfer speed. Let's say you are downloading 2 minutes of movie per second.

If you already downloaded the first 20 minutes, you have at least 15 minutes until you need to start downloading the chunk number 5.

We should use those 15 minutes to download the last chunks (20, 19, 18...)

After 15 minutes you start downloading chunk number 5, 6, 7... and repeat the process.

I think this could work fine, YTS should do something about this.
From reading the article, I got the vibe that the wife may have felt innately (territorially?) threatened by the thought of a (pretty) female in the company getting close with her founder husband in a more intimate, rather than professional, type of way. Thoughts?
Looks like this was a last pass bug, not an issue with AMEX: https://twitter.com/morrisonbrett/status/445335047281709056
from reading the article, I got the vibe that the wife may have felt innately (territorially?) threatened by the thought of a (pretty) female in the company getting close with her founder husband in a more intimate, rather than professional, type of way. Thoughts?
GM crops do improve yields in situations where they're called for:

>He also told me that the overall yield data on GM crops isn't as simple as "yes, it produces higher yields" or "no, it doesn't". For instance, he pointed to a paper published this February in Nature Biotechnology which shows that GM corn sometimes out-produces conventionally bred corn and sometimes under-produces in comparison. The key is in the environmental context. The years where GM corn was producing similar or lower yields than conventionally bred corn were average years, when it came to factors like the weather, disease, and pests. It was in bad years that you can see a significant, positive, difference for GM corn. When the situation was bad, GM corn had greater yields.

From http://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/do-gmos-yield-more-food-the...

Then there's of course Golden Rice which has an increased content of Vitamin A, which you can't measure in terms of yield.
Yes, I just clicked a link that went to http://raa.name-services.com/raaverification/verification.as...
I've seen a few of these but since I'm finding them in the wild it's too hard to say whether they came from Google or elsewhere.

Super shady, especially since it's probably avoiding paying for the click!
Sounds great fun! I'm slightly nervous about encouraging highschoolers to pull an all-nighter though, will there be any rest for them?
Except that legally speaking bulk collection is even easier for NSA overseas where the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply. Given the way cloud computing works all they'd have to do is "target" the top 3 or 4 cloud-based source code hosts and get everything, and there'd be no legal defense against it.

For U.S.-based cloud infrastructure it's at least possible to take it to court (as Levison did).

So it's a pick your poison thing unfortunately. If you think you can outwit targeted surveillance then by all means use an overseas hosting provider but if they would be targeting you either way then it might actually be safer doing what The Guardian does, and using U.S. law as a shield.
The downtown of Manassas is nice enough, but almost nobody thinks of that as "Manassas". Locals almost all call that strip of old Sudly Rd. from 66 to 28 "Manassas" even though I don't think it's part of the municipality in any meaningful way and hence grew without plan or structure. I think probably the only groups with any say-so in the direction it grew were the Battlefield protectionist groups.

But all that was very much a product of the Western expansion of 66. Most of the older folks in the area remember when 66 didn't come out that far and Manassas was just the 234/28 intersection and 28 East to Manassas Park.

When something was done, we end up with bizarreness like two entirely different roads called "234", one that goes through the main strip of town, and the other that goes through countryside and bypasses the commercial center entirely...which no doubt hasn't helped the commercial interests of that area at all.

I know from growing up out there that the anti-battlefield people put a really bad taste in lots of big commercial company's mouths. For example, just a few miles away near Haymarket, the Walt Disney company was even going to open up a theme park and were basically driven out of town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America

also

http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/manassas_mall.html
Obnoxious design aside, I do think this is mostly good advice and that fact is something everyone should find worrying.

A lot of the qualities listed are nice to have, but are probably unrelated to what a candidate will actually be doing. Some of the things in this list might even prioritize bad candidates. "Convince me you've wanted to work here your whole life?" Unless you're Apple or Google, no one has wanted to work at your company for even a few months and most of them probably hadn't even heard of you until stumbling across your website or job board posting. What you are asking is for candidates to lie to you. Is that really what makes a good employee? I doubt it.

I think practices like these are way so many companies are filled to the brim with incompetent designers and engineers. If, for example, you're looking to hire a software developer you should be way more concerned with the kind of code they write than with the quality of their handshake. Both are nice to have but only one is vital.

As a semi-recent graduate who has slightly more recently become employed, my advice to new grads out there is to take the advice in this presentation, it's pretty accurate. My advice to the person who made this slideshow along with any other hiring managers who are currently nodding their heads in agreement: Unless you're hiring car salesmen you need to seriously re-evaluate your practices because you are terrible at your job.
>So by your reasoning, students caught smoking marijuana should be expelled?

Depends. If it's a felony where you are, then yes.

>What about people like Edward Snowden?

What about him? If the feds ever catch up with Snowden he'll go to jail, and that's where he belongs.

>Should he have gotten the Aaron Swartz treatment too if he were at MIT? Right, because all laws are just.

Justice is a subjective thing, and that's why legislatures write the laws. If you're going to have the rule of law you have the rule of law. The upside is people in power have to obey the laws just like everyone else. The downside is everyone else has to obey the laws too.
Throughout the various collegiate hackathons that I have been to, there have not only been a few high schoolers in attendance, but many of the winners were actually high schoolers! Our goal here is to make hackathons less intimidating to high schoolers who can't code or who are beginners.
That made it legal.
So your demand of advocates of inclusiveness is to either a) concede that their support for female participation stems from a belief in the existence of a sensory mode or organ which only females have; or b) concede that women have nothing to offer which cannot be replicated by men and therefore there is no need to include them?

You can't see a third possibility in between those two?
Oh man, sounds fun. As a high school pupil myself, I'd go to one of these if there was one here (Scotland).
This is also totally false. Any competent attorney understands how charges group under federal sentencing law; not only was he not facing a 30 year sentence, he could not face a 30 year sentence.

Swartz had competent legal representation from the jump. His counsel at the time of his suicide wrote in a postmortem on the case that he believed Swartz stood little chance of any custodial sentence, even were he to be convicted. It's not hard to see why: the sentencing guidelines for first-time offenders of non-remunerative CFAA offenses aren't very demanding.

Swartz was likely to be ruined by the cost of defending a complex federal charge, faced the prospect of potentially spending months in federal prison, and an overall likelihood of the whole incident concluding with a felony conviction on his record, which may have been problematic for his future endeavors. He was oppressed by his prosecution in a variety of ways. It's unnecessary to manufacture new ways.
I can't read this site for more than 10 seconds before my eyes start to bleed.
Maybe someone could research and patent a fungus or virus that only attacks roundup-ready plants? I wonder how much Monsanto would pay to bury that...
The microservice declaration of independence
A coworker told me of his nightmare story from his previous job, where he was accused of sexual harassment by a fellow female co-worker. The crazy part was the HR process, where he was not told who made the complaint, or what was specifically said- so he could not defend/explain himself, let alone know if it was a lie. They did an internal investigation, sided with the female and he was fired. Is this a common HR process?!
Hehehe. Someone doesn't like the `Homebrew` setting on Terminal ;).
> The only real value a share has is dividends, and dividend-like things (like share buybacks, the whole company being taken private, etc.).

This omits the value of the share itself, as a commodity on the open market. If your claim were true, people would refuse to invest in shares that don't pay dividends.

The primary reason to invest in shares is that they they might grow along with the (a) market as a whole, and (b) the company that issued the shares. Dividends are frosting.

> So yes, people are precisely buying GOOG stock because they believe that at some point in the future, they will pay dividends.

With all respect, do you really want to be pontificating about something you know nothing about? There are plenty of companies that don't pay dividends at all, never have, and yet have many loyal investors, for the best of reasons -- the company is growing along with the value of its stock. Instead of paying dividends, many companies put corporate profits directly back into company expenses, with the expectation that this will grow the company and its stock. And the investors agree.
I don't disagree with all of the advice in this, but the incredibly self-entitled tone it takes is absolutely disgusting to me. Every slide it's like he's sneering down at you (the candidate), demanding you bow down before him, tell him all the right lies [1], and devote your life and every fiber of your person to pleasing him in just the right ways during and after the interview.

Candidates are real people with emotions and a right to dignity. Some of them are going to rock, some are going to be meh, and some will be terrible, but they all deserve a much greater degree of respect than this asshole is giving them. Interviewing, and advice for interviews should be about giving the candidate every opportunity to impress you, not tearing them down and demanding they prove their worth to you.

The saddest part is that due to today's job market for most people, people are probably clamoring to work for this guy. Explains why he seems to feel like a god.

[1]: Seriously dude, fucking no one has wanted to work at your shitty-ass PR and marketing firm their entire lives.
Agree with the overall message, but don't you think they're kind of overreacting about profanity in Github repos?

What's worse is most of these are profanity filters. So what are they raging against specifically again? I've never seen a single high-profile project being sexist or racist - so enlighten me (really! I'd love to see one!)

https://github.com/search?l=java&p=1&q=faggot&ref=searchresu...

https://github.com/search?l=python&p=1&q=nigger&ref=searchre...
Usually at these type of things a lot of them actually prefer to stay up (usually the ones who also attend collegiate hackathons), but many others who need a bit more rest do generally take naps.
there are tools that let you create your own preprocessor that are far better than regexp in php.

http://createyourproglang.com/

Or you can go through sass or less source code and change things :P

cool joke tho
A thank you is far from mandatory, but not writing one is a missed opportunity to be seen as an excellent candidate. The thank you note isn't about gratitude (though it's included), but it's about an additional opportunity to reinforce the impression you made or put out any fires you started.

Smart candidates should see the thank you as a self-marketing opportunity.
This bit me kind of bad yesterday.

I was about to drive out of cell range and got a text that client's site had some strange page displaying.

Unfortunately, they repoint the dns servers of the domain, and the client had the contact email mx records associated with same domain.

The actual site gets 'dns hikacked' by icann until you fill out a captcha on your site's new page and it emails the whois email account on record with the link.

Had to log into the registrar, luckily had the client's account info, changed the email, and got it verified.

That was 3am yesterday.

Says it takes 24 to 48 hours to updated, but it was only like 8.

Still, if you had an ecommerce site or conduct time-sensitive business via email, be careful.

Because, if you do not see the email, your site will be hijacked by ICANN.
I keep coming back to this, wondering whether it's effective or not. It feels like an SAT, or really any other form of academic standardized testing, except not so objective.

"Here's a list of things to know, go study it, then come in and solve problems with it in an artificial environment so that we may grade you". So you cram in preparation, and then if you don't pass the test, you plan to retake it in a year.

I'd think the best and brightest would be the ones whose working knowledge, without cramming, allows for innovative, interesting, clever solutions. Even better if you can get away from the artificial feeling of interviews, into a "here's an actual, and unsolved, problem, let's figure out how to solve it together so I can see how you tick", rather than "here's a fake question, one with a well known, posted on the internet, solution, that if you ever faced in real life you'd solve in 5 minutes of Googling and move on, and which I expect you to recognize as a (X) problem, and regurgitate the solution from the selected readings". (That said, one or two stages of the interview seemed like they ~might~ be that).

Maybe the intent isn't really to hire the best and brightest (that's hard to test for), but really the people who want to work at Google the most; are you willing to devote hours to the mere possibility?
theorique, it's like asking whether complimenting someone passing on the street is a nice sweet thing to do or outrageously sexist. You could come up with rationalizations either way. But it's ultimately about the environment that it creates and how women (or minorities) feel in it. And that's up to the women, not the dudes rationalizing the status quo.
haven't been there in years, but I work near there and see some construction.. location-wise it's really a very good location. right off the highway, lots of businesses nearby and lots of residential too. i bet if they make a really good food court a lot of the local business folks would go there.. if getting in and out were easy. might be more of a civil engineering/architecture type issue...
What is wrong with making an effort to get a job you want?
I haven't been to SXSW in 2 years. Three years ago the technology portion of SXSW definitely felt exactly as you described this year's music. Massively unorganized. Massively chaotic. Couldn't really find anything you were looking for, even if you tried.

While speakers and talks were mostly on time, the rest of it was just pure chaos.
I suppose "Popcorn time is back" would be an ideal title, but "with a vengeance" doesn't really mean anything so there's no harm done.
I personally find it slightly awkward/annoying. Wouldn't hold it against someone, but would prefer they didn't send it.
The implementation varies depending on your framework and personal preferences.

For development, I usually use a file named .env in the same directory as my project, and then do whatever I can to guarantee that this file won't be added to my repo (or other public places). I use .gitignore_global to exclude .env files, for instance.

For production, if you're running your app on a service like Heroku, they have commands you can execute to securely set environment variables on their server (since they discourage accessing the filesystem to load the .env file).

For Rails, take a look at the dotenv-rails gem. It's pretty convenient. https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv

Here is the Heroku article on the topic (might not apply directly to your situation, but the principal is key): https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars
To the person who commented "One organizational failure in a string of massive successes doesn't sound like a data point." in the original article - that is exactly what a data point is. Maybe they meant to say it was not a trend or a pattern?
Looks to me that the wife of the
founder was doing something that is
common, 'protecting her man'. She
was getting a bit carried away and using
poor judgment and was apparently quite naive
about business, but such things are not
rare.

So, it was two women fighting, very emotionally,
and that's not rare either.

The founder needed to keep his wife 'at home'
or some such, but these days women resent
such 'controls'. So, the wife was
a loose cannon on the deck of GitHub.

Maybe actually the wife was not a big
problem except for the one woman in the
OP. So, the situation was allowed to
continue too far.

And the woman in the story may have been
a bit overly emotional about some parts of the
story.

Did the founder, the rest of management,
HR, etc. do well? Nope. But who other than
the founder was going to apply 'discipline'
to the wife of the founder? Likely no one.

So, there was some office politics, some
clashes of personalities, some social discord,
etc. Expect something else? Usually don't
expect anything that looks, so far, this bad.

But GitHub apparently has decided not to say
anything until they have developed some
good plans and a careful statement, and that
might take a while. And in the meanwhile,
the case will likely leave the headlines.

I expect that the case will 'blow over' with
relatively little long term harm to GitHub.
During the 20th century, references to the Salem witch trials were used extensively to refer to hunts for people accused of doing things that were possible. Namely being a communist.^ Unlike witches, it actually is possible to be a communist, and it actually is plausible that there were communists in the Federal government.

Comparing such communist hunts to witch hunts is not about comparing the nature of the accused crime, but rather about comparing the nature of the so called investigation.

I have seen this explained numerous times on HN in discussions similar to this one. Several times I have explained it myself. I don't know if it is feigned ignorance and purposeful obtuseness/offense seeking, or if people are genuinely unfamiliar with the history of the term "witch hunt", but either way this is getting rather tiring.

^ The most prominent example of this is Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Yeah, I can't imagine not giving context for an emergency revert. That's the time when clarity of intention is most important!
Fair Oaks mall is closer than Tysons and isn't run-down. actually quite nice. but then again I've never been much of a mall person and dont go much. I prefer Fair Oaks to Tysons though, because those malls in Tysons are _too_ packed!
It was common advice that "everyone" gave when I was in college. I've never liked it as interviewer, so I've never done it as an interview-ee.
Works from home
The email Namecheap sends out is very shady looking. I had to google around quite a bit before concluding it was genuine. The verification link leads to the domain raa.name-services.com and is not delivered over https. It looks exactly like I imagine a targeted phishing email to look.
> Governments must act to restore trust. IBM believes governments should take the following actions:

He forgot the fourth and most important bullet: The US government should stop violating the 4th Amendment with dragnet surveillance programs and data collection without warrant, reasonable suspicion or cause.
You may want to talk to Ross Penman. I think he's done something with hackathons for highschoolers in Scotland.

https://twitter.com/PenmanRoss
> So the problem is what to do about that: abandon the flat-hierarchy idea, or try to push it further into a really-flat-in-practice organization?

Given that "really flat in practice" only works for societies like ants, I would tend to argue in most cases for the former, if only because it's more in keeping with what's actually going to happen anyways.

Even at places like Valve, the whole idea isn't to be flat, as much as it's to allow for the "best" sub-teams to arise naturally instead of management forming broken org. structures. But when you use annealing to form your teams you don't just form teams, you form all sorts of other unintended (and possibly harmful) cliques as well. And once you get above Dunbar's Number or thereabouts it becomes impossible to keep pointed in the right direction.
Ass.
I once proposed handing the keys to an independent standard body, particularly after FSF complained about the process.
Were they not vulnerable to hackers now and in the past?
IR attenuates rapidly in the atmosphere and is only useful for very short range detection (short range missiles, TV remotes, "laser" tag guns). The artist's concept seems to show the standard flat exhaust intakes (first employed on the F-117) which increase efflux "surface area" (versus a circle) to promote mixing with ambient air. There might be pre-exhaust mixing too.
It looks like this is just a local web app(?). The only binary I see used is ffmpegsumo.

Given, that can't you just download the repo locally, replace ffmpegsumo with a trusted version from elsewhere, and at least know you aren't running a version that differs from what is on the repo?
If I ever saw this happen, I would reprimand the developer in the parking lot while the HR people were bringing his personal belongings down in cardboard boxes so he could go away and never ever come back.

Seriously, some professionalism here, people.