skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Dear Readers: I apologize; there's one point in this article that's not quite right and ought to be clarified. Namely, when I said that a spaceship traveling exponentially close to the speed of light would collapse to a black hole: that's only true because, when the spaceship inevitably collided with some interstellar particle, the energy in the center-of-momentum rest frame would be exponential. A spaceship in a theoretical vacuum could get arbitrarily close to the speed of light without collapsing.

>However, it's important to understand that this doesn't change the computational situation in any important way. It's still true that, to accelerate exponentially close to the speed of light, you need an exponential amount of energy! And therefore, it will take you exponential time to accelerate to such a speed---unless your fuel tank (or whatever else is providing your energy) is exponentially concentrated, in which case it will exceed the Schwarzschild limit and indeed collapse to a black hole.
¿Cuál es el mejor broker CFDs?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/04/10/debunked_fran...
As often the truth got a bit distorted through translation and re-reporting. Unfortunately it's getting a bit late for me to explain in details but hopefully if you can read this article it should clear things up:

http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2014/04/11/la-le...

In short, not all workers are concerned. For instance I work as a developer for a french company but I'm not bound by the "Syntec", so it does not concern me.
>But a behemoth like Microsoft or Sony? Why pay up?

Because we call them "patent trolls" but they aren't trolling. They do have legitimate (in the legal sense, not the technical) patents.

And they CAN (and have) make a big company pay in court for their perceived abuse of those patents.
I think in France, it would be probably just acceptable to relax and not worry about having no internet or email access if an ISP or data center goes out. It's a different culture - and they value very different things.
Do you mean Dropbox is not as committed to privacy as the statement makes them out to be?
Look what I found...

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The work-at-home environment brings a lot of questions to the whole employer-employee relationship and work environment. For example, my wife works at a US government job where they have the ability to work from home 3 days a week and "liberal leave" for snow days. If someone is scheduled to work from home on a snow day, should they still work? What if their kids can't get to day care, and who will shovel the sidewalk?
And also be sure to get rich (Big-4 style) by offering to "fix" the system you helped break. Rinse, later, repeat.
New Roadmap for the up coming Apple Devices including the iPhone 6
I can give you a good EEG story, told to me by an engineering professor who was studying EEG data back in the 70s:

Some researchers set up an EEG hooked up to a computer that could display some analysis to the user (basically magnitudes of various waves). The idea was to see if biofeedback (people trying to control their EEG output in realtime) could lead to any benefits. All they got was positive feedback (no pun intended): people would tell them how it helped them focus, relax, think clearly, etc. Then at some point, one of the researchers realized a cable was unplugged and the values shown to people were just random noise...
Weev appeal succeeds: Court document
This is the journey of every success. My advice is not to narrow your vision on what you do for work. I worked at a bar, I rebuilt car engines, all while coming home at night and writing code, and building a business plan.

Find work... work your dream. If you have good ideas... keep going... keep building...

If you're not married and you want to work. Move out of the valley... You're smart and resourceful. You won't be at the bottom long, but you have to start somewhere.
Oh, come on, not those unchecked facts on HN, please...

This thing is about an agreement signed between some unions and a group of employers in the consulting business. This is not a law, this is far from generic, and this does not apply to millions of people, but at most 200k.

The agreement just reminds an 'obligation to disconnect' to preserve the daily rest period of 11 hours for workers with independent contracts... The agreement does not even mention an hour...

Indeed, some people (with a specific contract) in consulting (notably management or strategy) do not follow the hours limitations (and notably not the 35h): they are working a defined numbers of days per year without a duration limit every day... Therefore, this agreement just reminds the right (and need) to disconnect every day.

Btw, even if you stop at 6pm, 11hours gives a day starting at 5am. Most of the people in the consulting industry in France I know are more often home at 10-11pm than at 6pm...

And finally, this is a reminder, not a law, without any actual enforcement...
ServiceWorkers give you a way to build applications that work offline
You mean to say you don't understand how those lazy socialists surrender monkeys could have the common sense to make exceptions?

I mean seriously, you really think they haven't thought of that?
> EDIT: To your point about upgrading the L-1 into permanent residence status, it's typically easier and quicker on the L-1/L-2 than via H-1B.

The path from L1A, to EB-1C (Multinational manager or executive) is pretty straightforward, the requirements are very similar, and the quotas are current for every country.

An L1B visa holder, on the other hand, faces a situation much like that of an H1B.
Snow days or pre-arrange at-home work periods are not "off-the-clock".

Working 9-5 and being expected to respond to a 10pm email is off-the-clock.
I don't see how that protects the people whose data was stolen.

"Here's the license plate number and home address of the guy who just ran over your grandma. Sorry for your loss."
> You want to drive fast go to a track, on the public roadways follow the damn law.

The "jerks with fast cars" group that you're targeting is breaking the same laws that 99% of other drivers break. In some ways, other drivers are worse.

Nobody obeys posted speed limits, except on side streets. Very few people pay enough attention to their driving; they're mostly talking on cell phones or daydreaming or talking to a passenger. Jerks with fast cars, at least, are focused on driving. Collisions at those speeds may not be survivable, but I don't want to get into any collision at highway speeds; their driving patterns are more predictable, and I prefer them over distracted or ADHD drivers who make quick lane changes without proper awareness.
I've never understood theories about NSA capability. Everyone complains that Government officials are barely competent, if at all, yet when it comes to NSA, those same people think NSA staff is at least ten times as brilliant as the general population.

Everything I've seen NSA do is largely based on the same techniques Google uses, except 10 years later, much more expensively, and with much uglier PowerPoint presentations. The only thing NSA has that private organizations don't is the compelled cooperation of telecom companies.
I built a small web service/couple of chrome extensions:

- http://tab.bz

It has around 15k chrome installs and about 650 registered users (you don't need to register to use the site, just to keep editing your links)

I need help with:

- Design (it's terrible)

- Logo (it hasn't got one)

- Marketing (I've never done any)

- Making more money (it makes just enough to cover hosting)

What should I do to take it to the next level? Should I even bother? It's designed to help people share similar content through one link, hassle free.

Email is in my profile
Nice. This is really interesting. I was thinking we could somewhat automate the agent process but perhaps we allow recruiters to sign up and represent you for a revenue share. Interesting.
If it's "probably illegal", surely you can cite the law?

Notably, the FISA cell phone record orders passed information to the NSA through the FBI, so no hint of a "chinese wall" there. Secret bulk collection for 'national security', everyone bathing in the same pool of data.

I do suspect it's policy not to casually request, or become overly dependent on, such NSA-to-domestic sharing. And – as we've seen in the "parallel construction" revelations you allude to – it's definitely policy to try to obscure any such sharing when it happens.

But to reassure people that it's "probably illegal" is flimsy hand-waving when you can't name the law, and there's public evidence that it happens to the contrary.
I have a vaguely similar anecdote. A former employer of mine withheld bonuses from the entire team since I had recently given my notice. They were quite open about the fact that they would give out the bonuses once I had left, and just didn't want me to get a slice of that particular pie.
Ask HN: Are Twitter profile backgrounds broken for you too?
In short, the appeal was granted on the narrow issue of improper venue.
That's the sort of thing that I keep mind whenever I see Microsoft moving in the right direction (eg, by opening their C# compiler). I can't help but liken it to the mob giving some of its extortion money to charity in a bid to show that they're good people.
I agree, in the first 3 paragraphs I shook my head 3 times

"two people familiar with the matter said." <- so you made it up

"threatens to renew the rancorous debate over the role of the government’s top computer experts." <- you made this up as well

"Heartbleed appears to be one of the biggest glitches in the Internet’s history" <- Not even close.

"as many as two-thirds of the world’s websites" <- less than 17% of SSL based webservers, certainly not two-thirds of the entire freakin internet.

"it’s possible that cybercriminals missed the potential in the same way security professionals did, suggested Tal Klein, vice president of marketing at Adallom"

"this article is shite, suggested ikt, junior vice president of Compuglobalhypermeganet"
Can't really help but noticed a couple of typos "recommendations, [sponsorship,] bursaries and sponsorship" (our two main weapons!) and "available until 15th May 2014, after which the sum[mer] will increase" (delete parenthesised text).

How you're fitting in all you mention on your personal /about page is beyond me. I've been considering running a code club at my eldest's school : will be interested to see your review (http://www.robpercival.co.uk/tag/code-club/).
Not sure why I'm downvoted, but I'm making an explicit offer to spend volunteer time making asks to corporations to raise money for OpenSSL. I don't see too many people making similar offers, and a number of people pointing out that they have the opportunity to solve their fundraising programs through corporate sponsorship, but not a whole lot of people with the free time willing to do so.

Telling an underfunded volunteer-run organization what they need to do rarely works. They're busy, they have lives, and they can't afford to make a mistake with their time which is already so acutely demanded. So I'm making an offer: I'll run the corporate sponsorship program, just give me the option to do so. I'm a student, I could spend four hours tonight calling contacts at businesses and public institutions, working my way up the ladder and making asks. Has OpenSSL ever just asked for money before? Asking for money is hard for many people, I don't know why, but I've done it before, so why not?
What would this say on the OpenSSL code that had the Heartbleed bug? (Edit) this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7571506
So, people are definitely misinterpreting my suggestion. This is my fault, as looking back I stated it pretty badly.

The goal is to give businesses who are already in the early-warning club an excuse to write $10k checks every month. The intention was not to solicit anyone and everyone.

It would continue to only be offered to organizations who are (in the collective opinions of the OpenSSL project leaders) going to neither leak nor use the vulnerability -- exactly what happens today.

They would be allowed to (and, I'd hope, would) waive the fee if a major stakeholder were obstinate about it, because (I hope) they actually care about the security of the Internet.
The first thing, this is not a law. It is some agreement between unions or something like that and employers. The agreement itself is not about employees, it is about contractors. Contractors in France do not have 35 hours a week work time limit, they can work as much hours as they want.

Also, the agreement does not says they can not check mails after some hour, the employer must give them possibility to disconnect for 12 consecutive hours. You can expect them to be available for remaining 12 hours.

So, all you need is either employee on call or two contractor to switch turn-offable times.
https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding...
In my humble opinion, each layer should have a clear purpose:
http://www.extellisys.com/articles/docker-layer-overload
I've found this to be the case for me, whether it's going online to check if the game servers really are down, or to ask a question hoping for some quick feedback.

I rarely use Twitter, but I do see the value it provides to help businesses and customers connect.
Whether you realize it or not, the US competes with many countries for top talent, including Australia, New Zealand and the UK (which have all done more to encourage skilled migration than our country). If this passes, it's a solid step to making us more competitive.
In the 1990's it was easier to immigrate to NZ than Australia under the different points systems of the two countries. Virtually immigrant I spoke to in NZ got in because of qualification and work experience in China.
IAC stakes bigger claim over dating app Tinder – CNET
Odd, I had the opposite experience. They seemed fine to me.
I deleted my DropBox and moved my stuff over to SpiderOak.
iPad Pro Concept
FWIW, we asked the NSA and NSC; both deny:

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/nsa-denies-it-used-hear...
AgileBits Offering 50% Heartbleed Discount on 1Password
Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way
That's what on-ramps are for. If traffic is congested enough to demand merging (rather than just making sure the road is clear), you shouldn't be driving at 90mph. On the other hand, you probably shouldn't be driving at 60 either. Speed limits should be limits, not averages, or worst-case.
That is only true if assumed that the rocket will not gather additional energy on the trip.

Also the premise that the energy has to be concentrated to a certain are for the rocket to work is wrong. You can have as much energy on as large area as you want without reaching the critical mass and collapsing into a black hole. The rocket can be of any size to work.

Even so, a black hole is the perfect source of energy. Converting mass into energy without loss via hawking radiation. And the mass is collected when moving trough interstellar medium. Such micro black hole( it has to be small to radiate fast enough ) would still weight a lot and moving it would be difficult, but not impossible.
Tower

http://tower.github.io/
This outbreak is scary because it's finally hit a major city in Africa.

All you need is for one case to hop on an international flight, and things get much harder to control.
RTFA before bemoaning it, your criticism is clearly stated in the second paragraph.
> 2) Go as fast as you want - but don't be the fastest car on the road. Always let a cop-catcher run about a 1/4 mile to 1/2 mile ahead ...

There's an old, fun phrase my dad used for this years ago: "let him beat the bushes, let somebody else rake the leaves, and you sit in the rocking chair."

i.e., don't be the fastest car in sight, and also don't the last in a line of fast cars. Just sit in the middle and take it easy.
You schedule someone (or hire a service) to provide 24/7 coverage.

If someone is required to respond outside of normal business hours, compensating PTO is provided.

Actually, I'd be strongly partial to that time off being granted at a multiple scale, much as overtime and double-overtime are rated. If I'm called on to respond outside of core hours (and am not normally scheduled for those hours), I get 1.5x time compensation. If it's between midnight and 8am, weekends, or holidays, it's 2x.

From Frank Herbert's Dune, there's the Fremen desert water compensation principle of 10x price -- the idea being that if you create an obligation of others to share their very limited water through loss, stillsuit damage, etc., you must pay them back 10 times what they provided you.

See generally: http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Stillsuit

I'm also very much increasingly a fan of having engineering, not just ops, included on pager rotation:

• It increases pager coverage, and reduces any one person's pager obligations. Simply having pager anticipation is a mental burden after a while.

• It creates a stronger incentive for response procedures: what are the expected obligations of response staff, what's considered sufficient effort, what's the escalation policy, who is expected to participate, what are consequences of failure to respond?

• It makes engineering more aware of the consequences of their actions: is insufficient defensive engineering causing outages (say, unlimited remote access to expensive operations), are alerts, notification mails, and/or monitoring/logging obscuring rather than revealing anomalous conditions? Are mechanisms for adjusting, repairing, updating, and/or restarting systems complex and/or failure prone themselves?

My experience at one site, where I was a recent staff member (and hence unfamiliar with policies, procedures, and capabilities), systems went down starting at 2am, I was unable to raise engineering or my manager, and the response the next staff meeting to my observation of this was pretty much "so what" did not endear me to the organization (I left it shortly afterward).
I've been seeing a lot of comments recently along the lines that we "need" more evidence before we assume that the NSA took advantage of heartbleed. I don't get that at all.

I'd love to have harder evidence of what the NSA has been up to. I get that. But here are some things we know: the NSA believes its mission is to collect 100% of the world's data, with the possible exception of data that definitely belongs to US citizens. The NSA has boasted internally of cracking SSL implementations as part of its work. The NSA employs more people who are qualified for and tasked with finding this kind of exploit than anyone else. The NSA's leadership is willing to lie under oath to Congress -- let alone to anyone else -- about its activities. The NSA's secrets are about as heavily defended as secrets can be -- actually providing the kind of evidence requested here is widely considered treason against the United States. And now an investigative reporter with a serious reputation says that he has two sources who can confirm that the NSA knew about heartbleed shortly after it was created.

So let's assume you might behave differently in some way -- in any way -- if the NSA knew about and exploited heartbleed. You have imperfect information and you have to make a call. What else could you "need" before you decide to behave as though this article is accurate?

I think we "need" to assume that the NSA took advantage of heartbleed starting shortly after it was introduced. We'd just "like" to have a little more confirmation about what the hell they've been up to.
I just wish his molecular gastronomy tome wasn't so awesome, so that I didn't have so much cognitive dissonance about the guy.
One of the problems I have with the jobs "above the effort thermocline" (to use the author's words) is that as an engineer, it just seems like a waste of time. My job as an engineer is to get things done and to get them done effectively. If I can automate something so that I never have to do it again, awesome. If something is broken, I fix it.

I don't beat around the bush. I address things head-on and fix them. I want to be successful, and I want my team to be successful.

But in the real world, you run into this issue where addressing things head-on is a no-no. Instead, you have to compromise. You have to make sure you don't hurt anyone's feelings. This is politics. And it just gets in the way.

No wonder I'm having such a hard time transitioning from "just an engineer" to management. I just want to solve problems, and I want to lead a team that solves problems. And sometimes the "leading" part isn't about solving problems at all, but instead kicking that can down the road to make someone else happy.

Annoying. No wonder I'm not cut out for management.
"Robotics changed my life": A troubled teen finds her calling in tech
More information in the OpenStreetMap Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_Re...

Here is also a great visualization of the development after satelite images were available:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/a/a8/Gueckedou-mappi...

And the changesets:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/f/fe/Gueckedou-chang...

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229644.400-online-ar...

http://redcrosschat.org/2014/04/10/digital-mapping-volunteer...
So you pay money to hire somebody to send a company a letter informing the company of the companies problem in hopes that maybe, just maybe, the company will reward the the firm a small sum of money and you will get a small amount back.

I think you have a winner on your hands.
The title currently reads:
"OpenStreetMap and The race to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak"

It should be "OpenStreetMap and The Red Cross / MSF ..."
The problem isn't a lack of
>I'll take the grand out of my advertising budget and it's all above-board tax wise for me, and the paperwork is easy. I've bought advertising before.

It's a lack of,

>I'll call up and close 800 businesses for you and keep track of invoicing them. As well as do product management on getting something together that is something they can support. I don't need any resources.
>Jerks with fast cars, at least, are focused on driving.

Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but I doubt speed is a good predictor of attention or skill. Poor drivers have a greater risk of causing an accident than skilled drivers at all speeds. We still punish skilled drivers the same as poor drivers because it's hard to differentiate between them. Take a driver of unknown skill who's driving 1 standard deviation above the speed limit. He could be above-average, and be just as safe as an average driver going the speed limit. He could also be below-average and believe he's safe - but would actually need to go one standard deviation slower than the speed limit to match the safety limit of the skilled driver. So, we punish them both the same, because we can't know.
Use generate_series in SQL to get continuous results
Amazingly... (assuming normal distribution) more than half of them are probably correct.
They need to bring about exposure and awareness. Although I use it obviously daily in work and in life; I have never even thought of nor been propositioned to donate. I had no idea that it wasn't being supported by a large company. Call me naive, but they need awareness.

Paypal fees!? :) donates to foundation.
I don't see a byline here; is this written by Chris?
Care to post more info about it?
Meta: Shouldn't each of these be posted as an individual thread with a subject prefix of "HMO: "?