skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't that rule out any corporation, too? Not much difference between VCs and large shareholders.
I think you mean, strategically.
But reading carefully, you often find that the statements don't tell you very much, if anything.

It sounds like the lawyers earned their $600/hr then.
The RBOCs didn't "promise". They actually promised to lay fiber to a particular percentage of homes, then they actually received the benefits of deregulation and rate hikes premised on that promise, and then they actually did not lay that fiber. Prior to the deal, RBOCs were regulated like the utilities they were, so profit margins were absolutely appropriate for regulators to target. After the deal, they reconglomerated into the two-headed unregulatable vertically-integrated Ma Bell redux we suffer today, spinning off huge fees for execs and M&A specialists while UNE-Ping actually-innovative CLECs and ISPs to death. If you don't like the (really conservative) $206B figure, then propose another, but don't pretend it's zero.

Spending money on wireless rather than fiber made more sense because that segment has even less competition and consumer power than broadband. They're making money hand over fist there; spare us the crocodile tears over the capital investments.
Hope that Julie publishes a detailed account. Sources I've read so far are vague and subjective as to what actually happened.
Age of the Earth and Google Newspaper Archive
Glad to hear faster is a priority. Hopefully faster for loops will make it in.
What a crock of shit. People don't typically quit companies they built from the ground up when they have "done nothing wrong".
Yeah, I have that suspicion too, and I secretly hope a language like Julia makes all of this moot: but the question I'm trying to find an answer for is "what language should I use for large-scale-but-not-distributed matrix factorization" without giving up and resorting to Fortran.
That's the $BB++ cloud question, isn't it?

In short, many vendors go to great expense to vet, audit, and limit the number of employees who could potentially access customer data. Some will geo-locate physically separate systems under separate administration according to regional necessity.

Disclosure: works for such a vendor.
That's a little head in the sand, though isn't it? The phrase "full extent of the law" is pretty charged, I think.
I agree completely, and I think the blame rests with Ant and Java. Java's dependency management was painful enough to deal with in 'make' that Ant was built to support building Java projects. But in doing so the authors threw away the explicit file dependencies that made 'make' so powerful in the first place. Instead it got people to think in terms of a graph of 'tasks', each of which could either figure out its own dependency management, or more commonly ignore them completely. Most tools that followed seem to have gone down the 'graph of tasks' avenue, with 'graph of file dependencies' as an additional mechanism if you're lucky.

The huge Rakefiles you've seen could possibly have simply benefited from a rewrite in Rake. Rake has 'file' tasks which implement the file dependencies of 'make' but for some reason most users of Rake seem to ignore them completely.
My former field's solid-state physics and that's the same deal.
The similar US operation was cheerfully named CHASE (Cut Holes and Sink 'Em): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHASE
Correct. it depends on the type of green card. Some other countries might have a wait list, but nothing as considerable as the waitlists for chinese and indian citizens.
Foreign language learning in general has a strange emphasis on literacy over speaking.

I don't understand why we don't make people learn foreign languages the same way that children learn native languages. Children spend years learning to speak before they start to learn to read and write. It seems to work well. Perhaps older people need to learn differently, but I'm not convinced.

I have to imagine that learning Chinese would be a lot easier if you learned to speak it reasonably well first, and then started learning the writing system only after attaining some mastery of the spoken language. Instead, you're trying to learn new phonetics and tones and grammar and trying to learn stroke order and radicals and a bunch of other stuff all at the same time.
Sounds like WAP for robots. Still not a good idea.
Correct.

We borrow this model from what camera manufacturers like Canon do. When you send something to Canon for repair/exchange, you're in charge of paying for shipping and packing it safely.

Then when the work is done, they ship it back professionally, for free, as part of the service.
Actually, per the actual OpenSSL maintainers, there are precious few eyes on the OpenSSL code.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/11/heartbleed...

From Robin Segglelman, the maintainer who "accidentally" added the heartbleed bug:

"""
...
OpenSSL is definitely under-resourced for its wide distribution. It has millions of users but only very few actually contribute to the project."
"""

I really think you should try joining and open source community and contributing some code. Then I suspect you'll understand that it is just as hard as any proprietary code (like that which I work on for $day_job). The difference is that Open Source code, even critical stuff that runs the internet, is often woefully understaffed and over expected to be perfect.
That would be a privacy invasion, as users, by polling, could figure out who is on each stall, and, from there, how long everybody spends there. It also allows everybody to recreate the detailed log that this system logs.

I would be careful deploying even the original indicator because of concerns that it might break some employment/privacy law. It is hard to prevent systems from leaking personally identifiable information, especially in cases where data is grouped over a relatively small number of persons, as appears to be the case here.
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This should be a standard feature / option on all travel websites. Ready to book a flight? Checkbox for insurance. One suggestion on the pitch / positioning of this -> The current pitch makes sense if I haven't bought a ticket yet. If fares go up AFTER I bought a ticket, I feel pretty good. If they go down, I feel kind of stupid. I'd be interested in the option of having a payout when that happens so I'm basically locking in a fair market rate when I get on the plane.
An important concept that the Internet tries its level best to keep people from remembering:

If you don't know what to think about a story, you are not required to formulate an opinion about it.

I flagged this story, and the other Github stories, and the YC/DNC story. You're free not to, but that's how my religion chooses to venerate Internet Witch Hunt Freakout Day.
1. I think that's why they generally include the size of the decompressor in compression contests.
2. Great points re domain, but on the show they specifically say that the algorithm is general purpose, and the talk about using it for compressing images, documents, etc. I don't know about you, but I don't have any G#s in my excel spreadsheets. ;-)
Also, geological processes bring more uranium to the surface, and rivers are constantly putting more uranium in the oceans, at a rate that would provide 25 times our current electricity usage. If we keep our usage at that level, uranium will last until the sun goes out.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/cohen.html

Of course in the context of the current discussion we should also consider the possibility of getting uranium from various other spots in the solar system: http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/08/how-much-uranium-is-in-sola...
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>If the incentive structure were more aligned between all parties typically involved (I'm not saying what that could be because I only have vague ideas), would that be more palatable?

No. My girlfriend and I pay rent in a nice neighborhood so that we have a safe, quiet place to live in NYC. Increased risk of vermin, strangers in the hallway, and giving a stranger a set of keys to the building is not worth an extra bit of money.

It's really unacceptable.
If this is true then Microsoft will have a hard time convincing the majority of potential users to switch to OneDrive. Although I can imagine possible use cases altering data without user interaction is unacceptable. What if you had a git repository stored there? (Yes I know this belongs somewhere else but some people might want to do it regardless) Although Dropbox apparently looks at the data to create previews for the Website etc. I have never experienced altered data.
If losing one executive at a 200+ employee company "ruins the company's culture and causes [that company's] downfall", then that company and that executive have been doing it wrong!

Regardless of the facts of the case and whatever damage it may have done to GitHub's culture, if this incident and this individual's departure are enough to cause GitHub's ruin and downfall, then that's evidence of an absurdly fragile company and culture.
could become a scaling problem quick...but i suspect those are problem for future blaurenceclark to solve after the customers start flowing in ... im intrigued indeed
That was absolutely not my implication - that is an incredibly dishonest commentary on my post.
I definitely haven't read it, but it's going on my list.

How does he contrast the current unemployment situation with the boom-bust cycles during the industrial age? It seems completely different to me. Currently, we've got people being priced out of the job market forever based on their skills and what robots and asian child labor can do. That seems way different from the problems faced by factory workers in the 1900s.
First of all, if you have problem with your employment you sit down with your manager or your peers and talk about it. If you can resolve the case right there great if not, escalate. If you still think that they mistreat you, get a lawyer. Going public with accusations that you can't prove is certainly not the way. Look at her now, you think that there is any company on this planet which is going to risk the same process that was done to Github on a maximum mediocre engineer? I don't think so. This pretty much a lose lose situation as I can see it. Not to mention the post from that anonymous employee who states that in fact Ms. Horvath was starting this entire scandal due to jealousy and trying to undermine other people's reputation. You really think that this is they way to go?
I am not against raising $1 or $2. The service has been incredibly stable and fast for me, even when my internet speed was slow.

I love how they now make "Netflix original series." I hope they can release more of that with partner studios. More.

Regarding movies collections: please work harder to convince the industry to load contents over streaming. I don't care about owning a digital copy. I don't care about the whole Netflix DRM. I don't want to own that copy. I used to own many CDs and DVDs and they are just sitting there wasting space (I do care about owning my digital books I purchase, I want to own that PDF).

I just want to be able to click and watch on a monthly subscription. I am okay with new movies shown only at theater and streaming after theater. I am fine with that; I still love theater.
Too sad about this. Wish him a good start somewhere else and build equally amazing products.
To me it seems Github fired him but allow him to "save face" with the resignation story.
Have you read this? https://medium.com/p/d96f431f4e8e How are you making baseless assumptions alllllll over the thread? Absolutely ridiculous, mud-raking behavior you should be ashamed
Good point. They should have left out the camera, and made it an optional bluetooth accessory that was a full sized digital recreation of Louis Mendes's Graflex Speed Graphic Press Camera. That way the glasshole hipsters could look totally retro and would get all the attention they wanted, and people would know they were having their picture taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mendes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Graphic
From the Omega paper (section 4.2):

Mesos achieves fairness by alternately offering all
available cluster resources to different schedulers,
predicated on assumptions that resources become available
frequently and scheduler decisions are quick. As a result,
a long scheduler decision time means that nearly all
cluster resources are locked down for a long time, inaccessible
to other schedulers. The only resources available for other
schedulers in this situation are the few becoming available
while the slow scheduler is busy. These are often insufficient
to schedule an above-average size batch job, meaning that
the batch scheduler cannot make progress while the service
scheduler holds an offer. It nonetheless keeps trying, and
as a consequence, we find that a number of jobs are abandoned
because they did not finish scheduling their tasks by
the 1,000-attempt retry limit in the Mesos case (Figure 7c).
This pathology occurs because of Mesos’s assumption
of quick scheduling decisions, small jobs and high re-
source churn, which do not hold for our service jobs. Mesos
could be extended to make only fair-share offers, although
this would complicate the resource allocator logic, and the
quality of the placement decisions for big or picky jobs
would likely decrease, since each scheduler could only see
a smaller fraction of the available resources. We have raised
this point with the Mesos team; they agree about the
limitation and are considering to address it in future work.

Its worth noting that Andy Konwinski was a coauthor on both Mesos & Omega, so I'd hope they (Omega authors) represented Mesos' capabilties accurately. I don't have any personal experience running Mesos in production, I'm just going of what was written.
Fairly damning if there is any credibility to this. The issue is that most people have already picked a side in this argument (in this case, the loudest vic), and aren't looking for alternative facts to change opinion. The witch-hunt demands further executions aside from the chief witch; the anon writers realize this.
For that one line, which other explanation do you have that better fits Occam's razor?

I would have a lot of trouble finding any other interpretation than him attempting to stop certain people from saying certain things and thus suppressing the discussion, whether successfully or not.
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"it turns out"?

Are you f'ing serious? You read that legalistic statement and take that to be the whole truth and final word a priori? This is just too naive for words.
I suspend disbelief, and I enjoy the show. I am just critical of how they chose this magic algorithm as the McGuffin. I guess it's easier to write as a justification for a billion-dollar profit possibility than trying to foresee the next social media revolution. That's fine. It comes down to what is writable, but the trade off here irks my technical sensibility.
Yes...the people who put their apartments reap all the benefits, while subjecting their neighbors to increased chances of robbery, increased chances of bedbug/infestations, increased noise complaints, etc.
Another problem is that in some mail clients like Outlook.com, the "spam" button is actually labeled "junk". People clicking "junk" probably think they're just deleting an email.
Can anybody tell me what company he is starting? From the article it seems vague and probably he does not even have a specific idea yet. Would love to join if the plan is more specific.
You know what I mean, zorpner. Don't split hairs here. YC was supposed to be a business incubator for all people - people like me who are conservatives and people like most of the tech sector who lean left. It wasn't supposed to matter WHAT we believed, as long as we could build products people wanted. Now even tech is becoming partisan.

I don't want to have to hunt down incubators that donate to the RNC or Libertarian party just to keep my hard work from helping people I strongly disagree with on nearly every issue(DNC.)
Oh hey, they shut down John Smith's account with twelve listings.

[SpongebobCueCard]One Day Later[/SpongebobCueCard]

Man, that Smith family sure has a lot of listings!
Elixir isn't homoiconic, it never was, and they no longer make that claim.
Trust me you're not going to pronounce Russian fluently.

So my advice as a native speaker is: speak slowly and clearly. Speak as it is written. And good luck.
Why risk so much user trust in order to tag some files?
All the other crap aside, I kind of envy him for getting into VR now. The recent news about Oculus, and reading "Masters Of Doom", have somehow given me a renewed excitement for the field again. What if those snow crash visions could become a reality after all? (Sans the sword fighting, I think it is not possible because of the speed of light?).

I'd be excited to work in that area, but I have no idea how to go about it in a sensible way. I mean how could I contribute as a single individual, without having a company on my hands?
> The ones with the most listings are those people that have spent the most time, energy and money building out the Airbnb platform and they are having their business/livelihood wiped out with no warning.

Say that I sell pot on Etsy (which is illegal in NYC). Do I have a valid cause for complaining when Etsy shuts down my illegal business?

In the AirBnB case, the company deserves to be fined for knowing that 13% of their available listings are illegal and not trying to actively stop the offenses. The people profiting off the criminal behaviors deserve nothing.
There is a huge minefield of HR laws they have to step around. You basically can't discuss anything publicly.
No, the blog post says: "The investigation found no evidence".

Failure to find is distinct from a negative result.

You can't test for failure to find, just as you cannot test for statistical insignificance.
Excellent observation!

Sometimes I pick a car in the next lane to track and compare my progress with. Although one of us will sometimes leave the other behind for a few minutes, usually we return to rough parity eventually.
Well you are making variables mutable. This is bad. One of the great features of Erlang and generally any functional programming language is immutability that makes defensive programming unnecessary. I would like to keep that... The rest of the stuff is great but it does not give enough value to me to not to use Erlang. Actors is a basic concept and message passing is definitely the way to go if you are building a distributed system. One of the biggest problems with Ruby and the imperative languages in general that it was designed for local execution so communication and distributing computation is more difficult than for example in Erlang.
Unless you're counting money or doing long-running simulations it's often more than good enough, especially Double.
Hulu -> Ads
Vudu -> Don't you have to pay way more than $7.99 if you watch a few shows/videos a month?
Amazon -> Honestly, not impressed unless they start making it work on all platforms.

That said, I think C is always going to be the anchor that drags Netflix down which is why they started generating their own catalog. If they can get up to a HBO quality of selection/service on their current model...with the same level of original programming...who wouldn't pay $120/year for streaming everything HBO has?
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Sorry I didn't make it. Goodbye Gsoc. I will still love you tho.
Also, something about this story doesn't make sense: if she was spreading "vicious rumors" about a co-founder, why wouldn't she just have been fired immediately and escorted out of the building? That's what probably would have happened in most other companies.

And if the allegations in this story are true, why wouldn't they have surfaced when the story first came out?
We have a process for all this. It's called the legal system.

It's not perfect but it mostly gets the job done.

Has Julie Ann Horvath formally sued Github? It's not clear to me that she has.

It seems that she may have grounds for some kind of lawsuit. Why hasn't she sued the company (if in fact there is no lawsuit)?

This to me is the most important question. At the moment, it seems this is becoming a matter of public opinion.

I would rather it be moved over to the legal system where the rules of engagement are much less malleable.
I understand the price hike, but Netflix feels like its value to me as a media consumer is stagnating. House of Cards and a bit of laziness is why I've kept it, but I consider ditching it whenever I'm reminded of the fact that I pay for it.

If they want to survive they need to do 3 things imho:
1. Improve their recommendation algorithm
2. More high quality original series (preferably without extorting Maryland for its arts funding)
3. Stop losing quality content
The function to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius is a linear function of C and K?
> is it really true that hitting the "Spam" button on a site like Yahoo or Gmail informs the sender of your email address?

Yes. The feedback loop shows the sender who marked the mail as spam.

> What is a user supposed to do in the case of an accidental bump of the "Spam" button? Is there really no way to undo the damage (both to the sender and to the willing recipient)?

There is no good solution, it kind of sucks for both the sender and the receiver. When you click that spam button, intentional or not, I can no longer send you email until going through a sometimes laborious process of working with the email service to get the email unblacklisted. If you really want to receive email again, send an email to the company/person and let them know you accidentally clicked the spam button so they can work it out with the email provider.

Gmail handles this the best IMO as it gives the user ~5 seconds to click "undo" before reporting the spam. As far as I can tell most other email clients are instantaneous.
Seriously raises some questions around the whole product, and makes me wonder if we can ever trust any other third-party with any sort of "sensitive" data.

Luckily there exists plenty of FOSS options that provide a close approximation of this functionality for me, though I know they will likely never be an option for the type of companies that rely heavily on things like OneDrive.
The "best talent" would probably rather work at a company without these kinds of allegations than at one with them. They might be unfounded, but why take the risk? If you're the "best talent," you've got a lot of other options.
I agree with you, of course. Though I'd say it's not just wealth, but political clout and "connectedness" as well. There are quite a few influential community/union leaders that aren't all that wealthy, but command a great deal of political power. Both by virtue of the people who they "lead" and the contacts they have in various levels of government.

What I'm trying to point out with the above is that: We are already assuming that the wealthy have a selfish or non-altruistic motive behind their actions, simply by virtue of them having wealth. If we go down that route, then we essentially need to admit that the problem isn't that the wealthy are selfish, but that their wealth enables them to exert that selfishness much more.

You are most certainly right that this is a flaw of government, or democracy in general. However, it is not a flaw of capitalism. It is, in fact, a virtue of capitalism: that money represents our "vote". But that vote doesn't magically stay with us, it get's transferred every time we "vote", or buy things.

</rant>
Alright, so I guess her accusations are true. We can't prove it, the auditor says it is not the case, anonymous post says that too. Yet, we need to take her words against many. Simply because she said so.
> the investigator did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment.

Seems conclusive enough enough to me.