skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting a months-long notice period is required by law though. She hasn't mentioned doing anything more than just what she's legally required to do (oh except expecting a terminated employee to be on-call 24/7 and work unpaid overtime on request)
Martin Odersky: Scala with Style [video]
Your average is the average score for all of your posts, submissions. I have no idea what it means if it is blank.

Your best bet is probably to submit a bug report:
https://github.com/HackerNews/HN
It looks like kogir responds to bugs pretty quickly.
I wish there were a premium 911 smartphone application for the public or maybe even somewhat-trained members of the public.

Rather than a single number to call, show me the resources available in my local area, in realtime -- distances to a level I/II trauma facility, hazmat, fire, police, tactical, etc. (some of this might be restricted for security reasons, but "infinite" resources like a police hq or hospital wouldn't be).

I specifically want to be able to report a traffic accident in e.g. Pleasanton and get connected directly to CHP, rather than going through local PD first.

Voice is great, but I'd also like to get updates on ETA, and the ability to send more accurate information to the first responders than goes through 911 dispatchers -- specifically, the person on scene should see exactly what is being sent to the first responders to check it for accuracy. (maybe not so much in security/police, but in fire/medical) Sending photos and essentially a map could be really helpful.

The easiest commercial market is probably regulated-industry safety professionals (power plants, chemical plants, etc.) which have unique needs. One option might be deploying it within radius of these facilities to the general public so they can get updates on things like gas releases or accidents.

The longer the travel time between first responders and victims, the more useful this would be. In Palo Alto, you're going to get police/fire/medical quite quickly. In a poor city like Detroit, calls get triaged, and in actually remote areas, even more so -- yet, people often do have smartphones and at least 3G now.

It would also be a big win in markets where private ambulances and other options exist (i.e. most of Asia); knowing that you can get a private ambulance for $30, or take a taxi for $10, or wait 2h for state services, would be really useful.
We're on top of both issues, stay tuned to the store for an update!
The syntax is straightforward, but the standard library is large, and some of the forks are mutually incompatible.
The only taxes you're allowed to raise in the US any more are on poor people.
Yes, but what was the original point of climbing Everest?
but.. Who hasn't done this?
How Exit Intent Triggers Can Improve Conversion Rate
It applies to all creative work, but I've had good experience with "forced alternatives." That is to say,
Forcing myself or my team to come up with three options for architecture even if the first one seems to work. The process often leads to great instead of good outcomes because in scenarios 2 and 3 you're free to moon-shoot as you have the safety net of a workable option #1.
The site is cool, and the Idea is more cooler than that, but below are the views IMHO,

What your site does and how it works can be more informative..
1) I have read it top to bottom three times but still unable to get a clear picture out of it.. A short video of how it works could be included...

2) Make the user's feel they will get more incentive for using the service..

3) create some extra pages, a blog would look good, and along with some pricing details would be more nice to have..
Extending life by a certain amount isn't bad, it's bad if only the rich can have it.

And we're back to sour grapes and envy. "If I can't have it, nobody should be able to have it. Hmph".

Even if what we're talking about is not a football or a piece of candy, but life itself.
I am very dismayed at news that Facebook acquired Moves. That's one less app I will be using on my phone. However I have to stop to think is this just a knee-jerk reaction?

Most of my friends, when I talk to them about how much information is being collected by FB/GOOGLE, just do not care all that much. Responses range from "I got nothing to hide from anybody" to "I think targeted ad is just fine". At that point I don't know what to say. Since in my case I just have a visceral hate toward company who attempt to collect all data about myself. Is it actually that bad?
They talk a lot about cell phones, but another source with no location is a VoIP call. In some areas the operators are forced to collect location info and pass it on to local emergency services in case they are queried, but in practice... who has ever updated that entry? This is the case for the UK's ITSPs at least.

You can't easily query those location details quickly.
No Apple fan here, but to be fair they give some apps back (eg: cups)
Is this what you are looking for:

http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/
Any argument that may tangentially, hypothetically help enable surveillance, with that being very far from the aim, along with only being possible in a terrible implementation, is not automatically surveillance propaganda.
I can recommend Impact.js. It's a commercial engine for 99$ but so far, I enjoyed working with it. It's canvas-based and optimized for tile-based 2D-games, but you can do other 2D-games as well with it. It comes with a nice level editor.

You can get near-native performance with Ejecta, which is something like a WebGL enhanced Canvas-only version of a web browser to put the game on the App Store.

http://impactjs.com/

(Note: not affiliated, I just like the engine)
This seems like a problem that really shouldn't be a problem.

How can the cell companies share data with the NSA against the wishes of their customers, yet not share information with 911 which is clearly in the best interests of the customer?

I just don't get it. Do corporations really don't give a shit about whether people live and die?
Do you have some data on that? I'd be somewhat surprised to hear that 1/3 of all WhatsApp users had now left, for example.
...so you're saying that you don't buy the statements of both the people who started the systemd project AND the person who was running Upstart at the time, about what prevented them from collaborating?
"First, is it Haskell that drives you toward well-factored, reusable designs? Or is it functional programming?"

In my opinion, it's the purity, and the general simplicity of the individual pieces which forces you in certain directions. Since this conversation is dead-ish now, it's probably not a big deal to link to my longer musing on this: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2908 Even functional languages that make impurity easy and available end up making it too easy to jump down the escape hatch.

"Second, have you ever seen Haskell deployed in a large, long-lived production code base?"

I personally have not. As I said, where I work I tend to tamp down on any efforts to use Haskell, and there's not many! But I trust the people who have and do, and who knows, perhaps may join them someday.
The point was that the benefits, added together, would function more like free money and less like free school. If you don't apply some eligibility criteria, you would see a massive influx of "students" who want all the freebies.
Saying that systemd service files are complicated because you need to take systemd's internals into account is like saying sysv init scripts are complicated because you need to look at the source code to "cat" and "grep"; ie, no :P
Good for us (tennesseean here).

I sincerely hope these colleges are providing quality courses and lesson plans. This could be a major win for the state's workforce/ future hiring for our company here.

I also think this is a great outlet for TN lottery money - but I very much hope can trickle more into early education as well to provide much better starts for young kids around the state. Its much easier to start strong than catch up later (cough, Memphis/ Shelby County, allow casinos downtown and use money for elementary education, please).
If all that discriminates you from another employee is the weekend's work then you don't deserve promotion anyway.
I see him two rows ahead but unless I'm missing something he didn't speak yet. It was the chancellor, Wendy Hall, and now Christine Borgman
They probably got what they deserved.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/30/everest-climber...
Aside from both being very successful and dynamic leaders, there's a world of difference between them.

Kejriwal represents a secular future for India that has clean, effective institutions.

Modi, whatever his other admirable qualities are, is an instigator of communal violence and represents a rejection of a cosmopolitan, tolerant, multicultural society.
Why would someone leave a company immediately if it was under good terms? Or is it just the case that this wasn't public until today?
Vic Gundotra, man behind Google+, leaving Google
Pushed out for sure
This is good advice. I've been freelancing for 7 years. When you're talking with potential clients, it's reasonable to spend an hour or so talking about the project requirements and the client's needs and expectations, not to mention discussing your own background experience, to see if it's a good fit. I might then spend another hour or two looking at the client's specs and putting together an estimate.

But I don't do unpaid work for them. If they don't yet have a spec and are still exploring options, I let them know that one service I provide is consulting on a strategy and helping write a spec, creating wireframes, etc. They can hire me hourly to do that, and then decide later if they want to hire me to build it out.

Now, when you start bidding on much larger projects, you may spend more time reviewing specs. And you'll have to decide whether you want to get involved in the RFP process that some clients require. I typically opt out of those because they do require lots of unpaid work upfront. (I saw one RFP recently that wanted design mockups; no thanks.) And sometimes it seems as if clients have already chosen their vendor but need to do the RFP paperwork to make their decision seem legit.
Google+ should have launched secretly and conservatively, instead of big announcement and smash/crash into every feature. There are some aspects of it that are very appealing (mostly the nonsocial ones...) that I find useful, but due to my initial repulsion to the 'major change' I am less likely to invest in using.
How is it an "exclusive"? it's all there in public posts:

Vic: https://plus.google.com/+VicGundotra/posts/MFrDF3W4RJL

Larry: https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/A2gm48nzitx
Perri Gorman on Breaking Down Brick Walls and The Art of Sales
A great many people put all sorts of things that don't exist (ideologies, dreams, wishes) as more important than the suffering and death of real live actual humans who are really here on earth and really alive.

They're insane.
Stacking Cards
> Is anyone working on something better than signal strength triangulation for cell tower based positioning?

First, cell towers do better than mere signal strength triangulation -- they use signal arrival time and round-trip time to get a pretty good fix on a phone's location. Not nearly as good as GPS, but reasonably good.

Second, smartphones have GPS receivers, and some of those allow the GPS position to accompany the outgoing call. That's much better, but it sometimes requires that the call be placed outdoors.

I think in the future, all cell phones will have GPS, and a few other improvements will come along to allow much better positioning.
The google cache is still up:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Atechc...
Some other big names at the conference too...Alan Kay, Jaron Lanier...if I'd known about this one in advance I'd have been tempted to take the day off work!
there is a limited number of permits (http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hdpermits.htm) - a few friends and myself hiked whitney (got lucky, middle of the week, few applications) then drove to check out half dome but was not as lucky
Personally if i knew it was "need" then I would be saying "Ok".

I have also heard the sentence "I need a new dress"
In my experience, bug bounties are most effective when targeted at a specific component of an application. You get less of a gold rush mentality for simple issues that existing toolsets (such as fuzzers) can find.
They had the story under embargo... looks like recode posted the same time as Vic did.
They have their own Unix.
> That's not a problem with funding open source. That might be a problem with getting money if you start doing open source and expect money in return.

This is a distinction without difference. If you're not getting money for doing open source development, your open source development has no funding.
this is literally happening in this thread
Amazon Tests Its Own Delivery Network
"Verify all assumptions"

I swear I should just have a sticky with that on my monitor. Would really save me a lot of time.
You don't understand, the graph itself is a nightmare, in any format.

EDIT: there are 1101 edges in the graph produced on my machine.
How to refer to sexuality in a fictional universe of 1 sex? (Minecraft animals)
"This is a group of people who built social at Google against the skepticism of so many.”

Well, he does have a sense of humor. They sure built it, I see many obscure names ranking on search engines...only to see an G+ empty page (along with a Youtube one--also empty. Looks like the Android signup process.)
There are plenty of upsides to decoupling authentication from your app codebases. For instance, in an enterprise where you have a single sign-on solution implemented as a web server module and a mix of third party and bespoke web apps.
It should be the other way!

Smartphones should have an emergency button. Pressing the button should automatically call 911 (or 112) and speaking using a Text-To-Speech TTS software (Siri, etc.) the name of the phone owner and the GPS coordinate, street address, etc.

This technology is already built in e.g. Ford cars (using Nuance/Microsoft speech technology, using automatic Bluetooth to call via the phone) - at the same time as the airbag goes off the car calls the emergency number and speaks.

And there are a number of (smart)phones that have an inbuilt emergency button that calls or SMS a predefined (but editable) number (like relatives).
Setup a Ruby on Rails Development Environment on OS X
Speaking of the 1% and living longer.

Would we ever find out if there is a real life Howard Foundation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_families
Not correct, though intuitive. Consider each offspring to be 50% of the genes of the parent. A parent with three children is competing with hir own genetics, and losing.
Keep in mind that this generation of startups is delaying IPO as long as possible. The main reason appears to be a desire to delay public company reporting requirements, not a lack of capital needs. Since the IPO market remains strong, a set of new investors has entered the market to play this "public/private arbitrage" opportunity, buying private stock shortly before IPO for apparently* sure gains. This group of players includes hedge funds (Tiger Global), mutual funds (TROW), and private equity funds (TPG). Traditional growth-stage funds are starting to pull back as this competition is pushing up valuations. Note that the arb players are betting on near-term market reception to the stocks that they are buying, and less sensitive to absolute valuation. Without commenting on current valuations, I will say that these dynamics certainly have the potential to create significant overvaluation in the private markets.

* I call them apparently safe gains because if the IPO market collapses, these investors will be stuck with some very large, illiquid investments.
Woz is here too. It's pretty epic for a room of 45 people
How can doing this in purely in "the cloud", "the web", possibly be a good idea?

Yes, there's a real problem this is solving ... until a shift change happens at the same time the hospital's Internet connection is down. Surely you could put a small, generic machine or two running your own software on the hospital's net that does the local work, or takes over if the Internet connection is down, etc.

Or do you depend on cell phone tech as a backup for the hospitals? In that case, the infrastructure at your end had best have some serious redundancy ... which is fortunately fairly easy and not that expensive to arrange nowadays.

Why I'm obsessing on this detail, besides normally rock solid AT&T have a long outage that might have covered our entire town or more yesterday? I live in tornado country, and know how easily services can get knocked out by weather of all sorts. Here's an extreme case I avoided by luck and preparation: http://stormdoctor.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-response-mode-...
Impressive work! I guess I ought to FOIA some Danish universities...
As a Midwesterner, when I hear about medical tech companies saving people's lives, I immediately think of Epic based out of Madison WI. Is Medisas going to be going toe-to-toe with Epic? Epic is one of the very few Midwestern companies that I can liken to what I hear about the silicon valley mindset: Don't hire anyone over 30, don't ask about work/life balance, and you can't have the day off because we're saving lives, dammit!

It's really weird knowing and hearing about companies and products you never knowingly interact with.
The big announcement was fine. The problem is they hardly let anyone in after the big announcement. I remember there being a huge hype for Google+ when it was announced. But almost no one got invites, and those that did couldn't do anything on it so they quickly lost interest. It's hard to get excited about a social network when none of your friends can be a part of it.
Have you used them? Like anything, odesk/elance/etc require an investment on your side to make successful.

We've found good people through odesk to take on tasks we weren't good at -- front-end javascript, document translation, audio transcription, to name a few.
I'd submit that "obviousness" relates not to the general concept of the solution, but to the implementation of it, something that's absent from virtually every software patent out there. The hindsight bias is an important factor, but only at a very abstract level.

For example, RSA encryption is conceptually simple and fairly obvious (prime factors of large numbers, of course!), but the implementation is exceedingly tricky. Patenting RSA does not preclude people from patenting other encryption methods, but it would if the patent covered "prime factor-based encryption".

It would be a lot better if a patent application was rejected until a workable implementation was described, one that included enough detail to verify that it was a viable solution to the problem. No code, no patent.

For example, if the patent being reviewed here included a specific way of encoding the date and time with the photograph to facilitate some kind of easy sorting, then patenting that specific, non-obvious (e.g. proprietary) method wouldn't be so disruptive.
Not 100% on this, but I don't think phone gap has a hardware accelerated canvas, and I'm pretty certain it doesn't support WebGL. The WebGL part doesn't really apply to this article, but it's important to note.

Ludei built CocoonJS with games in mind. It's definitely not perfect, and somethings can be tricky to debug & figure out, but I think it's the better alternative out there.

Me personally, I'm just not big on using unity. I think it's a really awesome tool, but it's just not for me.
Vic Gundotra is leaving Google after 8 years
This isn't correct, you can use auth_request when authentication agent needs to talk to the user. I can't even see how it could be used without such communication.
Which taxes on poor people have been raised?
he actually has a clj version in the src. https://github.com/tonsky/datomicscript/blob/master/src/dato...
Will there be calendar functionality beyond google calendar? I would love to be able to use my caldav/fruux calendars with IFTTT. I saw a tweet from the folks over at fruux who mentioned willingness to help out wit that.
you mean you had hopes that Google would use a unique account for every application again? Or that they use a different commenting solution in every app?

Sorry but that will never happen. If you're lucky they remove the '+' at some point.
That explains it: this is a Schabse bug. He reports bugs like: when you have 4 levels of nested generics with an overriden indexed property going through ComImport, the modopts are incorrectly copied into the method signature, causing a runtime crash in the CLR.

It's like having another tester on the C# team :)
I guess there are challenges more interesting than cat pictures to be solved elsewhere.
There are already private Docker registries out there. My company uses https://quay.io , for example, and Docker has its own private registry. How does Gandalf compare to these existing offerings, besides on price?

Security for Docker images is just as important, and in some cases more important than it is for code assets. What protection does Gandalf offer against unauthorized downloading of images/layers, and tampering with images stored in the repository?

Does Gandalf plan to support features like building images from a Dockerfile, ideally sent via GitHub repo hook? This is a great workflow convenience offered by both Quay and Docker.
Vic Gundotra leaves Google
Tech Giants Unite to Prevent Next Heartbleed
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Those are stories about what idiots other people are. Not as interesting, and predictable after a while.

Good debugging stories, like the OP, are mysteries.
That was one of the best articles I've ever read, with regards to new information and excellent story telling.
He's been there nearly 7 years.
Oh dear god yes. Norway and Switzerland are mostly funded by oil and banks. I've paid €90 a night for a youth hostel in Switzerland, and a friend paid €11 a beer in Norway.