skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure he mean't private entities looking out for their own selfish interests without collusion from the government.

As it is we have an imperial fuck-ton of entities looking out for their own selfish interest, both private and government. Doesn't really seem to me like things are improving for the people that pay the corporations and whom the government purports to serve.
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Copy pasting is a feature which we haven't solved yet. It would definitely be a huge productivity boost when making traces.

Console output is in our backlog but currently we focus on more important issues.
Broken password field bug in Foundation CSS
Since the hardware is an old ARM9, would it be much faster on say the newest ARMv8/Cortex A57 chips, rather than on an x86 chip?
You should realize that the kernel doesn't have image and other assets that FB might have. And the repo obviously is the right place for them.
Netflix researching "large-scale peer-to-peer technology" for streaming
Take a look: http://developer.marvel.com/docs
Probably not. The tower is used for horizontal transport and erection to vertical, for loading power and propellant to all stages of the rocket up until a few minutes before ignition, and for protection against strong winds. And, perhaps, loading last minute cargo (like people).

So you kind of have to have it in the current configuration. And since you have to use a prepared range and pad, it's not that much additional infrastructure.

One could perhaps design such a rocket, with storable propellants (liquid oxygen boils off, which is why they keep supplying it for as long as possible) and ground-level power connections. And on Mars the wind isn't really a problem. But that's a different rocket.
The ArsTechnica title is misleading. The FTC post they link to specifically claims it's the opinion of three employees and does not represent the FTC itself.

That said, I agree Tesla should be allowed to sell directly.
I had a problem so I decided to use versioning, now I have a combinatorially exploding number of problems.
Article is very cheesy and full of journalism, but whatever, nothing unusual about it. It's something different I really don't like about that story. He's called "genius", "mathematical marvel" and such, but I don't see any reference to what exactly did he do to be called so, aside of self-promotion. Telegraph.co.uk article says "He is now recognised as a leading maths thinker." Hm. Maybe he is, but what about any references on by whom he is "recognised"? His book title is "Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel". Yeah, I know, marketing is dirty stuff, but have you ever heard real mathematician call himself a "genius"?

Anyway, something even worse: searching for "Jason Padgett" shows many results on some journal sites, facebook, amazon, fineartamerica.com, whatever. And guess what? Nothing on arxiv.org! Searching for "site:arxiv.org Jason Padgett" results are filled by works of "Deborah Padgett, Jason A. Surace" and such, and no "Jason Padgett" on the first 2 pages! Weird, huh.
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> So, if it came out that an executive at some company had donated money to the KKK, they should be somehow forced to keep him on?

What if it came out that an executive at some company had donated money to the Republican Party?

But either way, no one is saying Mozilla should have been forced to retain Eich against their will. Rather, Mozilla's Board had decided he was the best guy for the job, despite his thoughtcrime, until enough people and companies started ganging up on them and threatening the viability of the project.

Expressing your speech is one thing, boycotting is one thing (indeed, think of all the people now boycotting Mozilla), but trying to burn down a project a là OkCupid is a whole 'nother bag.
Investors arrive at an amount based on their estimate of the company's value and the share of equity they receive in return for their investment. If the founders then get commitments from additional investors, the company would have to attain a much larger value at exit time (i.e., IPO or purchase) for any of the investors to get a reasonable return. When done with consent it's called overcommitting. When done without consent, it's called fraud.

Disclaimer: IANAI
How is someone being a daydreamer an illness?
Gobot looks really slick. Here's a link to our liveblog of their talk today at GopherCon. All the code examples for their demos (Game of Life using Spheros, AR Drone with LED light, AR Drone controlled by PS3 controller + EEG device around the pilot's head) were under 100 lines of Go code. Can't wait to play around with this.

http://gophercon.sourcegraph.com/post/83843443678/gobot-go-p...
Depends on who you ask. Some people are advocating just that.

https://medium.com/tech-culture-briefs/a1e93d985af0

>Get women hired. Make your workplace give a fuck about hiring diverse teams. You are in a wonderful position to advocate and agitate for more diversity in your workplace. Draw attention to your company’s demographics internally, bring in speakers on building team diversity, start a committee dedicated to auditing and improving the hiring process. Oh and make sure this doesn’t just end up in a position where you just hire a few white women and call it a day. Not good enough.

I don't agree with diversity for the sake of diversity. So no, I'll hire the most qualified candidate regardless of race/gender.
Hearables – the new Wearables
FB had previous scaling problems with git which they discussed in 2012 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189...

It appears they are now using Mercurial and working on scaling that (also noted by several others in this discussion): https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
We're currently providing a way to reuse the beginning of trace in other traces. Most traces start with logging in to the app, so you can create the login trace, and share it to all other traces. So you end up defining signing up once.
I think what you are looking for is done, to some extent, in angular.js with their resource library. The future object is returned from the resource and can be put directly into a template, which then re-renders when the response comes from the server. The problem I have found is that it does not clean up your javascript code as much as you would think. For example, error handling is still complicated.

I have had good luck using javascript promise objects to clean up complicated async calls.

for example, making multiple calls and waiting for all responses looks something like this:

promise = YourFavoriteAsyncLib.all([new Promise('/restaurants'), new Promise('/shops')])
promise.then(function(res) {
// res[0] === restaurants
// res[1] === shops
});

...or we can wait for one to finish and then make a couple more calls...

promise = new Promise('/restaurant/1');

promise.then(function(r) {
return YourFavoriteLibAgain.all([
new Promise('/restaurant/' + r.id + '/patrons'),
new Promise('/restaurant/' + r.id + '/menu')
]);
})
.then(function(res) {
// do more fun things synchronously
});

The details change, and some libraries act a little differently, but once you break they async calls into steps it becomes easy to read.

I think the point of all of these responses is that async cannot look like regular statements because they do not act like regular statements.
Don't tie yourself to a Framework
It is heartfelt, but using it does feel a bit overcooked in this context. Perhaps the author has the blessing of youth, and must suffer its one or two disadvantages as well.
Having only the code wouldn't be enough. You need to also replicate comparable maintenance staff & data center capability. Even then you'll just have a clone of the tech, but nobody will actually use your service. There's so much more that makes facebook what it is. I think they may even be able to open source their tech with a net positive effect.
They built their own build system because once you are dealing with top engineers NIH sets in quickly and you write your own everything.
So effectively someone could build a marvel wiki entirely off this api.

HOWEVER the geek in me wants to see the "comic graph" and someone map the hell out of all the cross appearances and so forth.
When I was travelling I split off from my friends for a couple of weeks and had to eat alone. I quite enjoyed it actually.

Doing a bit of discreet people watching is always interesting (to me at least) and it was even better being in a foreign country where you can see the differences between your own culture and theirs.

I did feel a bit embarrassed at first but once you sit down and order what you like its fine. No one pays you any attention at all.
There's a difference between knowingly and willingly malnourishing people and doing so out of ignorance. In order to perform a double-blind you have to do the former. The people making Soylent might accidentally do the latter. Supposing the two are the same sets an impossibly high bar.

Furthermore since it's not a double-blind the people who choose to participate go in with the knowledge that it might not be done yet and that they face risks.

I don't really care about this one way or the other; I think Soylent is an interesting idea but I like eating a variety of food so I'm not participating. But I don't think that the people in charge of Soylent are a hair's breadth from war criminals either, ethically.
That was my point, more or less - without spelling it out. The feminization of young men is a huge issue, roughhousing for example is a normal activity for adolescent males.
Lets say you managed to sneak out the code from facebook. You take the logo, draw a red cross over it and scribble "ProAmbook" below. You push it live.

Now what? How do you get users? "We are just like facebook - only your friends aren't here" probably wouldn't get users excited.

And if you somehow DID manage to get users, don't you think there are "watermarks" in the code, that they could detect and sue you to death with?
When I was learning C++, it was conveyed that structs were more for combining like data that didn't necessarily require a class because it had a bit less overhead. An example would be a lot of variables that are related, but have no methods (such as a creating a node data structure for making an implementation of a linked list or tree).

Though the above was related to C++, that's generally when I use structs for C# as well.
pretty useful
You're welcome! I really liked the 'push karma' too.

I liked this idea too : "all engineers who contributed code must be available online during the
push. The release system verifies this by contacting them automatically using a system of IRC
bots; if an engineer is unavailable (at least for daily pushes), his or her commit will be reverted."

That way, they are be able to react very quickly in case of a problem.
God complex of executive recruiters
So, I have been working with exec recruiters in the Valley to land a VP/Director type job in SF startups. Seems like most of this recruitment happens thru' exec recruiters, who act as brokers between founders (mostly hackers with little management background) and candidates. Seems like in the name of "coaching" the founders, a lot of BS goes on.

Exec recruiters focus on how many direct reports the candidate has managed.
As a guy who has managed ~50 engineers, the number doesn't matter (except in big company political disputes). The key issue that is relevant is if a candidate has managed managers ('cos thats when people learn how to delegate).

Recruiters don't really care about the candidate's tech chops. To be fair, they are not capable of evaluating people from that angle. "Code talks" and if a VP Engg can't code, don't think the company can succeed. Knowing scrum process is good, but process is not the output of a company (product is).

Recruiters also represent multiple clients at the same time, so there is an incentive mismatch. The focus is on maximizing commission, not getting the founders to talk to the right candidates.

Seems like the exec recruiting business is stuck in the country club mindset and outdated notions. Wish AngelList does a better job w/ handling exec positions.

I m using a temp HN a/c, since I am in the middle of interviewing & dont want to offend anyone.
Anyone familiar with the project able to understand why it so much faster?
As a recent hire, I'm interested in learning more about this...
Webby Awards 2014
It seems likely the the USAF would specify first-run rockets for the best chance of success, so the USAF would not see a cost reduction unless spacex were to re-purchase the recovered booster or similar (or offered a credit that equated to the same).
Yeah, there's a lot I would give to have those abilities. Especially the one about not needing as much sleep. (Assuming they actually don't need it; waking up after four hours still exhausted would be less fun.)
All the relevant articles about Vic Gundotra and Google+
If you're interested in the deployment process at Facebook, look at the link of a Facebook engineers paper I submitted in my other comment in this thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648802

"The deployed executable
size is around 1.5 Gbytes, including the Web server and compiled Facebook application. The code
and data propagate to all servers via BitTorrent, which is configured to minimize global traffic
by exploiting cluster and rack affinity. The time needed to propagate to all the servers is roughly
20 minutes."
I don't think it matters what people call it. If G+ works for you, who cares if people call it a ghost town? Your G+ certainly doesn't sound like one.

If we wanted to have a substantive discussion about how well G+ is doing, we'd need to know a lot of specifics about G+ (as well as define what 'well' means in this context). Can 540 million active accounts be a ghost town? Depends on what 'active' and 'ghost town' mean. If we're just going to throw around labels without definitions or data, people just end up supporting the idea that feels right in their gut.
Kinda confusing page, the font is unreadable and took me a while to figure it out what it's all about.

TL;DR on the bottom you can download Virtualbox and Parallels VMs to test IE7 thru 11.
ssl:endpoint add-on
> Each time you log in, Facebook’s algorithms choose from about 1,500 possible posts to place at the top of your News Feed.

No it doesn't. Facebook Purity re-orders my timeline by most recent.

No ads, no games, no Trending, no nonsense. The way you would have Facebook if you could choose.

http://www.fbpurity.com/
That sort of research could be invaluable to the CDC and may in fact be worth researching more closely
Yes, "trying to get paid twice" is what "extract more rent" and "rent seeking" means in other replies including mine.
Note that this does not run Go on the robot, it runs Go on a host computer and communicates with the robot with Firmata.
Hey, NSA is quite big :-) I remember reading how one branch of NSA tasked with strenghtening of TOR crypto was angry at anothe branch of NSA that tried to covertly introduce vulnerabilities to it...
> What if it came out that an executive at some company had donated money to the Republican Party?

Then... people would be free to boycott them? The company would be free to decide, like Mozilla did, whether it's worth keeping that executive on?

I agree that the OKCupid thing was a little distasteful, but that's mostly because it was so blatantly a ploy to get themselves some of the press surrounding the situation. I still wouldn't want to enact any policy that would ban them from doing so, however.
SpaceX sues federal government
Stanford U enacts adaptive password policy
Panel discussion with Go team members
Kevo – Bluetooth Electronic Deadbolt
The way we board airplanes
Loved the movie, you should definitely watch it!

I first visited in 2010 and it was nowhere as gritty as seen in the movie, but also much safer I guess!
Meh. I'm working on a comparably small project (~40 developers), and we're over 16GB.

Mostly because we want a 100% reproducible build environment, so a complete build environment (compilers + IDE + build system) is all checked into the repro.
How about a restaurant where you are always paired up to eat with a stranger (or maybe two strangers). Get to know eachother and its a set price - so you always both pay exactly the same amount; say $25.
As the other replies say, Perforce is dominant in commercial game development.

However, Perforce does have Git integration now, allowing for either a centralized or distributed version control model. Considering the popularity of Git, I wouldn't doubt smaller Perforce-based game projects are going the DVCS route.

Also, hypothetically speaking, consider if you had a game project that would eventually grow to 1-2TB in repository size. If you spent $100 per developer to augment each of their workstations with a dedicated 3TB hard drive, you would have an awesome level of redundancy using DVCS (plus all the other advantages). I know it's no replacement for cold, off-site backups, but it would still be nice.
Ah. That wasn't me, that was deftnerd. I didn't read the subtext in their words that you did. Then again, I agree shopping with kids is a greater hassle than shopping without them, so I probably just skimmed over it without any mental triggers or bias.
KerberosV removed from -current (OpenBSD)
For the record, I don't like either piece (cards on the table, I don't really care for Sara's either). Jeff thinks we shouldn't drink at work functions, because men + women + booze = sexism or something, and Shanley wants us to reverse the (perceived) discrimination with some sort of affirmative action for ladies.

I was just pointing out that the two pieces have the same topic and the same 4 word title (because Jeff was being snarky. If that's a crime, lock me up now). Otherwise, they couldn't be more different. Shouting "plagiarism" in this case seems pretty disingenuous, and feels like people are manufacturing outrage just for outrage's sake. Being that this is the internet, I can't fathom why I expected anything different...
(Disclaimer:I'm not a current employee, and I don't remember how it is supposed to work but,) check out the docs on the ERC pages about RSUs, I think it goes through it there. If I recall precisely, it's actually _performance bonus_ RSUs that are subject to this, not the RSUs from the regular grants.

EDIT: thinking more specifically, here's what I recall (I browsed the doc as an intern last summer):

I believe that performance bonuses (which vest over a year?) are given a cash-value target in addition to a fixed # of RSUs to be granted. If, at the end of the year, the value of the RSUs (at time of grant) are less than the cash-value target, additional stock units are added to cover the difference.

This is the hazy memory of an intern, so, take it fwiw.
DVD-RAM discs were much more reliable than DVD-RW, and the chemistry has only gotten better since then. And write-once BD-Rs actually use melting metal instead of dye, so they are extremely stable with some companies advertising 50 year shelf lives.
One would think you could sign up using ones github/bitbucket account. Would probably make it easier for them to showcase what devs have made using the api over time.
Telephone companies did not get by without subsidies.
http://paulhammant.com/categories.html#trunk_based_developme...
I'm from the US. My mother also has anxiety which influenced me a lot.
The advantages you ascribe to monolithic repos aren't due to monolithic repos, they're due to comprehensive tests.

The multiple copies of a shared library argument is straight-up nonsense, because in the multiple repo scenario, there would be (one or more) repos of shared libraries. There wouldn't be copying. Unless the devs were morons.

Builds in multiple repo environments are clearly identifiable, it's just by a combination of SHAs instead of a single SHA. In practice, this is a non-issue.

Version clashes happen in every scenario. Unified repos create a horrific dependency hell, because it's impossible to have one service using version X of a lib while another service uses a version Y. Instead, if you want to update from X to Y, the entire codebase needs to get the update, no matter whether it needs it or not. It's a boondoggle.

These decisions, as near as I can tell, are not made because they're good or bad, they're essentially arbitrary, related to what the first few engineers did. If it starts as a giant ball of code, it will always be a giant ball of code. If it starts out well-organized, it might remain well-organized.
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> #define union struct /* keeps code correct, just wastes some space */

Not always, though...
I suspect if you asked a DoD gal if it was more critical that, say, a military commsat got to orbit than something that measures solar flares, she'd beg to differ with Elon.
Order cannabis from your phone
Walking the Tight Rope
My husband and I met online, so maybe tech over nature is a perfect symbol ^_^.
when you're scaling any given variable, the stock solution is almost never good enough. you end up hitting all kinds of limits.
Legal situation?!? You're creating a matched impedance point in space.

RF energy harvesting is a bit of a hot topic, there are a number of modules on the market atm. Just search for it on mouser or farnell to get started.

Thanks btw for that LED schematic, so simple. I'm currently tuning a harvester around a BQ25504 and super caps. I'll give it a test next week.

http://uk.mouser.com/Embedded-Solutions/Energy-Harvesting-Mo...

This one contains other energy sources as well:

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2002+225290&Nt...
Five Famous First Tweets
Thanks! We are having a fun time liveblogging and are glad you're finding it useful. We got complaints when the blog image did NOT link to Sourcegraph, too. :) It's almost the end of this conference, but next time we liveblog, we'll have 2 separate header images, or try something else to make it less confusing.
Could it be it contains a DB of all their users?
The Social Consqeuences of Everything
Let me know if you have any questions about it or want an application waiver, I love answering questions about WGU.
Already exists (2011): http://exposedata.com/marvel/
The stock is down from when it was up, but it's still up from when it was down!!

In all seriousness, 8-10% is a big move, but definitely not "seismic", especially after an earnings release. Apple went up that much yesterday. Today YELP fell 8% and TWTR fell over 7%.
I posted a "reply" but it wasn't threaded here -- hope you do see my question for you in the main comments. Thanks.
I've been actively programming in JS since it was in beta and this proposal seems really confusing to me. I can only imagine what a new programmer would think when they encountered `var a = future`.

And I know this seems petty, and for that I apologize, but... "excape"?
> you need to strip and re-build the thing

That's how politically-designed boondoggles like the shuttle work. It's not inevitable, if you actually spend the engineering effort on reliability and repeatability.

If NASA operated an airline, they would probably be tearing down and rebuilding every jet engine after every flight, and a ticket would cost $100,000.
Manners are a solution to the problem "Disagreements escalate out of control and only come to harmful resolutions." There were expectations of civility long before there was a concept of an aristocracy.
Why would you ever back up lossy, compressed copies of your irreplacable pictures? If you're going to do that, you might as well just put them all on Facebook.
Why USB sucks (2005)
>you're dependent on Russian supply

and my understanding that this supply is limited to the what had already been manufactured long time ago. Beside the inventory issues, one can easy imagine Putin saying "bad Americans, no more gas ... err... rocket engines for you"