skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spanning the entire screen with no margins (or a mimimal default like 10px) is exactly what I want text to do on the tiny screen of my phone. Guess what, Wikipedia's mobile design does exactly that.

The full-width text does get a bit annoying when you're trying to read Wikipedia on a 30" screen, but in that case, nothing's preventing you from snapping the browser window to the left or right half of the screen and/or increasing the zoom level to make for more comfortable reading.
The funny thing is I had to blackhole 8.8.8.8 on my home router earlier this week because of a change in the Netflix app on the Roku. Why won't people just take my money?
Netflix always has another recourse in this situation: they could use a transit provider (like L3) that Comcast already peers with. Evidently they've decided that paying Comcast is cheaper than paying L3. If Comcast were deliberately slowing down their traffic there would be nothing they could do besides paying.
More information here[1]. It's interesting that they're giving out so many details now. They indignantly state, "We don't subvert [anti-fraud] processes because a post makes its way to Reddit or HN", yet they apparently don't mind blaming both customers and publicly providing more details about their transactions, when it becomes clear Reddit/HN anger is going to hurt their bottom line.

It seems to boil down to OP possibly oversimplifying in his understandable frustration, and essentially his word against theirs (they say there's a "good reason" his documents were rejected, he says all communication was contradictory and unresponsive, with no reason given for his documents being rejected.) If the communications OP quoted are legitimate, Freelancer deserves the outrage, no matter the exact reason OP couldn't get verified.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663726
Engineer builds his own cell phone with a Raspberry Pi
Can't you? Or to put it another way: in the face of Reason, can the emotion even remain?

If you rationalise and understand the triviality of the situation and the ultimate stream of nonsense that the App apparently is, would this affect you?

It seems one would be emotionally affected upon _failure_ to make this rationalisation.
"Boys who like computers are taught that we DESERVE sexual attention from women. We need to get over it." - what bizarro-world did this guy grow up in? Being unattractive to to members of the opposite sex is pretty much the sine qua non of the nerd stereotype.
> Some people really like attention.

Really? Like what? Can you give an example relevant to this discussion?

> Alternately, she might have not expected the harassment

Lol, I don't think it's possible to be a woman on the internet as much as she is and think something like that. This statement is ignorant of the reality of literally every woman on the internet who criticizes a predominantly male community.

> To be clear: I'm not saying either of these is the case for Horvath. Just that the hypothetical "she was knowingly lying"

Sure, I just think those hypothetical explanations are weak considering the arguments I put forward. I think Julie would have to be really dense not to know that coming forward the way she did would have consequences.
http://www.google.com.tr/patents/US5821897

> The 76-77 GHz range is assigned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for collision avoidance radar systems.

Some info on what that means:
http://www.rfcom.ca/faq/answers.shtml
The command is only:

dig +short TXT google-public-dns-a.google.com

by the way, the "http://xkcd..." part is the response, but since @asdafa didn't put \n\n after the command, it's appearing at the same line.
Maybe a stupid question, but is it monetized somehow? I mean DNS servers. After all, it's a pretty heavy load… I still don't really understand what is (is known to be) monetizable and what isn't.
it's also a DuckDuckGo instant answer (any xkcd comic) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xkcd+1361
What happens if someone gets really sick off our leftovers? A caterer of an old employer told me they didn't donate food to shelters because of the legal liability.
I think there's (pychological?) research suggesting that the prospect of life in prison is a stronger crime deterrent than the death penalty (and hence that it makes sense for countries not to have the death penalty for preventative reasons). I haven't seen that research myself though, I'd welcome pointers. But it would match your sentiment.
Another possibility you should consider is that people don't like to rain on other people's parades. They also saw what happened to Julie and probably would not have been treated very well at work if word got out that they were speaking critically about the company?
tl;dr: The culture of tech was boring compared to other areas.
For this subthread about posting online, I agree, but you realize OP couldn't get an answer on this in private, either?
Sure, they benefit by getting valuable data on Internet traffic. For another example of DNS server monetization, see http://opendns.com/.

Turns out there are clever ways of (mis)using DNS features to make money. For example, your server could hijack NXDOMAIN responses and instead direct the user to a nice page that tells them that the name couldn't be resolved alongside a couple relevant advertisements.
> commit history, push log, and all issues and pull requests

A force push will still show up in the log. Issues and PRs aren't deletable, so that lends a bit of credibility to this. Sure, said engineer probably has access to erase the push log and delete the issues or PRs directly from the database, but parties involved would likely still have email notifications related to it.
They call it justice but it's really Texas.
It depresses me to no end that even with impressive engineering advances like this, any modestly graphical intensive app on the browser redlines my dual-core Intel laptop.

Similar graphics effects in QT or other native technologies not only do not redline my laptop, they don't even raise the core temperature a single degree.

I get enthusiastic about cool JS technologies just like most devs, but I feel like we're moving backwards.
as soon as julia gets running on ARM this is going to make for some monster high-level scientific programming kit.
I would agree with you. I've heard plenty of people say the death penalty would be preferred over life in prison, but I'll bet when faced with that choice, most people would choose life. It's just how we're wired.
What could Google possibly do with people telling them every website they are visiting?

Also, at the scale Google operates, I am not sure that DNS is that big of a resource commitment, and it may allow them to do fancy traffic routing stuff for their own services.
> Is it "an accident" to take tens of milliseconds to realize that a human has fallen down in front of you?

And the answer is still 'no'.
Parametric polymorphism applied to API consumer-defined data structures (JSON)
You can have a healthy company that's shrinking because it's in a cyclical industry or removing less profitable / overly risky part's of the business. Case in point during the run up to the banking collapse several banks where shrinking during the boom because they avoided 'overly' risky loans but they where ideally situated to take advantage of the bust.
The solution is to let them be terrible to each other so that by experiencing how bad that feels, they learn to be more sensitive as adults.
On the technical literature, these are called "evolutionary Just-So stories" after Rudyard Kipling. One can.just as easily make up theories that go the other way.
Keep London moving by providing a discount to put multiple people in each car. Far better.
I guess, for Google at least, getting all DNS requests of their users is worth paying for a popular DNS server. That's how they know which sites your like even if those sites don't use Google Analytics.
I'd written Skype off as malware after it continued to put a browser extension on my computer that parsed every single page I visited without my permission. Even after removing the plugin it would regularly disappear. This behavior is not okay.
I doubt I have anything new to add to the conversation.

The things that people say "don't work" or "can't be sustained" do work for me and can be sustained for me. To wit, things people say "do work" and "can be sustained" just don't work well for me.

For example, I'm able to jump back into "flow" quickly when someone knocks me out with a question or need, and I find it hard to put something down once I start working on it, until I've reached a satisfactory end point. I find taking intentional and small, frequent, breaks during the day is disruptive and hurts my productivity (though it's probably healthy for my back and eyes, I suppose).

It's just plain silly to walk around saying "40 hours" is the magic number, or "8 hours" is the maximum anyone can work productively. Averages may be around those values, but for individuals, any point along the line is possible.
They could use it to build more accurate profiles of their users in order to monetize them.
I agree. The issue is the DOM. (For contrast, I've seen highly performant 3D worlds rendered in the browser via WebGL that don't bring my computer to its knees.)

We've been layering on years of HTML/JS additions that aren't allowed to break backwards compatibility. (Google's Blink project is one example of an effort to try to undo some of this.)
Water is VERY heavy to ship per value compared to using local water. Soda stream + 5:1 syrup a la http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Pepper-Syrup-1-gallon/dp/B0086CXRC2 will do the cola very well and last months.
Letting kids be terrible to each other so that they can see first hand how it unpleasant it is. Through that experience they will become more compassionate adults.
You are right, and it was never corrected.

You will find that most if not all of the homeless became that way after they became mentally ill and there was no or very little support available for them.

If you want to end homelessness you have to bring back a mental health system that supports the mentally ill, helps them make house payments, and can train them for new jobs when they lose them.

All of these public shootings done by mentally ill people represent less than 1% of the mentally ill population, but the news media takes delight in vilifying the mentally ill as all being violent. This is, of course, not true. But news media makes popular opinion out there. If something is popular, it does not make it true.
Theoretical objections aside, I have seen preview demos of Velocity on mobile devices, and it is surprisingly quick compared to its competitors. Even with demos involving many, many, particles.

I haven't delved deeply into all the tradeoffs - maybe it will overuse the CPU - but there's definitely something going on here.

There's a similar library called GSAP (http://www.greensock.com/gsap-js/) and they've made similar points (http://css-tricks.com/myth-busting-css-animations-vs-javascr...).
IMO if it adequately solves a problem you have yourself, that's a good start. Then, try to assess how big the problem is for others in your target market.

Really nothing other than testing (could be an MVP, surveys, pre-orders, etc.) and time can tell for sure. Don't trust anyone that simply says "That's a bad idea" - instead, get their feedback on the major difficulties of the idea, and decide if you think they are surmountable.
That troll was over the top, but your comments in this thread are also borderline trolling. We don't know why Seth Roberts died, and your repeated insistence about it is derailing the thread. Please stop.
Thank you, for caring enough to post that. Most people read what I write and just ignore it and move on.
Nope, BOM is FE FF.
> We don't correlate or combine information from our temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that you have provided Google for other services.

-- https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
U+FFFC.
More on the Fermi paradox
Most businesses look for ways to increase their margins over time, which will balance out increases in costs. If that fails, then they will increase their prices. Attrition should result in relatively flat total salary expenses (adjusted for inflation). As people leave, you promote (and give raises) from within the company, and hire new, lower paid staff.
Wow, that's really good idea. So obvious after you said it, but I absolutely didn't think of it!
See also: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
I don't like the defense I'm seeing here of "Oh, we're not talking about outright sexists, just equal-opportunity jackasses. Therefore, the claims of a sexist environment don't hold".

I've worked with very few outright sexists/racists/whatever-ists in tech (and judging by this discussion, they definitely exist, they're loud, but the vast majority of us have a consensus as to what we think of them). But I've worked with a large number of people (and occasionally/regretfully have ventured into this group myself) who can be described as "equal opportunity jackasses".

The reality is this - the damage of being an "equal opportunity asshole" is felt more strongly by marginalized groups. When a white male is mistreated by $jackass, the thought process goes like: "$jackass is being a jackass to me.". When a member of $marginalized_group is mistreated by said jackass, the thought process is: "$jackass is being a jackass to me. Is it because I'm a member of $marginalized_group?" and every future interaction with that person is tinged with that thought process: "I'm still $marginalized_group... Is $jackass going to be a jackass to me?" The motivation of the jackass is irrelevant - they creates a space where the negativity falls more heavily on marginalized groups - that is, behavior that isn't overtly discriminatory creates a space that is.

Can we please try being nice to each other for a change? Not just because it creates a more inclusive environment, but because it creates one that's a whole lot healthier for all of us. We in tech idolize a whole lot of people who can probably be described as equal opportunity assholes (Jobs, Bezos, and Torvalds immediately jump to mind), but really - let's look at what our words and actions are doing to each other. I don't think there's a single one of us here who isn't guilty of this at some point - and I don't think any of us can promise never to be a jackass in the future. But let's not call it a mark of honor -- or behavior to be imitated. If you're being a jackass, don't justify it. Apologize for it. And try to do better in the future.
Nice, how does this compare with Greensock's performance? Is it better, or about the same?
I have no idea, that's why I'm asking. And as you can see there turn out to be some pretty good answers to that already.
Asking government to come up with "counterbalancing regulations" is exactly same as asking corporations not to be ruthless in making profits. In one word: "Impossible".

There is a good reason why corporations are ruthless in profit making. It is because the people who are responsible for making its decisions have a strong incentive to make more and more profits at all cost.

Government out of all people have 0 incentive to come up with anything that acts as a counterbalance. Government employees including Mr. President have only one incentive. Keep that damn job. I worked in a department that was focused on improving certain aspect of engineering education. Very quickly I realized that our jobs and funding depended on painting a very sad picture of reality and getting lots of money from government. Improving education was the last thing we were concerned about.

I do not see what is wrong with "no-regulation" at all. In fact all the empirical evidence suggests that no-regulation leads to far better outcomes in most areas.
Of course they'd do that. But at the same time, realize that (a) all fixed-price transportation options will suffer from a shortage of some sort under the strike, be it bus or taxi or space-on-the-roads-in-general, (b) a lot of the higher prices go to pay the drivers, so that more drivers make an effort to work longer and harder to make extra money, (c) Uber's probably taking a loss on each discounted ride, and just hope to make it up with new customers and publicity.

This is, in fact, the free market at its best, and it's not the market's fault or Uber's fault if it's ugly out there. You always have the option not to use it and hail a taxi regularly. Good luck. You'll need it.
I believe you are correct: human brains have no special abilities that can't be emulated by computers.

But I also think that "human" == "brain" is far from a given, and that is an implicit assumption of this viewpoint.
The ones I know are:
http://simplecv.org
and
http://libccv.org/post/an-elephant-in-the-room/ (introduced on HN 2 yrs ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4180979 )

Anyone have thoughts on how they or other libs compare to openCV?
Sure, but you are aware that Julie called out 5 or so people on twitter with 'Do not do any business with them' and not only ruined their professional image but also caused people to man their pitch forks.

I mean if you bought the whole bullshit about a lead reverting code (highly visible thing to do) because she would not put out and not because code was.. gasp broken then you are pretty delusional your self.
Fascinating. There's so much we're only just beginning to learn about genetics and epigenetics.
This page on their website answers that: http://www.foodrunners.org/donor-liability/

"Some food businesses hesitate to donate food out of fear that, should the recipient become ill from the food, the donor could be held responsible. In 1988, the California legislature passed the “Russell Bill” which releases the donor from liability."
Great idea, but this is too limited IMO. Such a law would only protect those who sell their labour under traditional wage contracts. However there are countless other people who sell their labour in different ways - plumbers, electricians, contractors, potato farmers, etc. And where are the protections for them? These workers are all vulnerable to horrendous exploitation from the greedy consumers who drive them to work like dogs, demanding ever more toilets unblocked, wiring systems installed, and potatoes produced.

We should shield these vulnerable workers from exploitation too - plumbers could be limited to only fixing three blocked toilets per day, for instance. Electricians could only be allowed to install one wiring system per day. And what about potato farmers? Why not limit people to buying four potatoes per person per supermarket trip.

These measures would help ensure protection of quality of life, and even promote the economy. Millions more could find opportunities working in these fields, and with the load spread more evenly, everyone could enjoy more leisure and rest.
I like the erlang syntax, and think its pretty easy to reason about honestly.

The only thing thats goofy is the ,;. endings but I just stopped thinking about them after a few months of writting erlang and it became second nature just like everything else.
Wonderful.

This is one of those things that dogs me as a developer - accepting things as they are. It's something we should all look out for.

If you've ever just tacitly, passively accepted something as potable if not ideal, you need to develop an internal "Complacency Alert" alarm. I know I do. For too long I've accepted that you either have to reinvent the wheel with javascript animations or accept what jQuery has to offer.

Hats off here.
You are being down voted because people are amusingly misinterpreting the kind of "suit" you meant
The UTF-8 tool (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.html) says it's U+FFFC OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, which is intended to act as a placeholder for images, media, etc.
One of the cypherpunk jokes was "Gold Denominated Burmese Opium Futures".

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1996/04/msg00462.html
Look what ISP's have been doing to Netflix lately to force them to pay:

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/this-hilarious...

It's really a shame Netflix just gave up instead of fighting them, though.
Sort of offtopic, but has any non technical person launched a startup / business without a technical cofounder?

The company I work for gets people asking for quotes to build their "next big idea", where the person isn't technical but has industry experience behind them.. this has turned out pretty well for some people.
There are such options. Just use -mavx instead of -xAVX and it will compile for any AVX-compatible processor.
It's funny how none of the critics think about the human edge-cases. What happens when someone decides to drink and drive? What happens when someone falls asleep or gets distracted on the freeway?

The answer, of course, is that edge cases are just that. They don't impede general use, and though they occasionally cause some worst-case outcomes to occur, we all just decide to live with them.
I agree. That quote basically describes any technical attack on a service. You could write any article stating XYZ tech is insecure if you're sounding the alarm based on "future unknown vulnerabilities".
What is outrageous, but unfortunately not shocking, is those responsible for such a critical process are not rigorously measuring its accuracy. Android app developers know more about their success rate. It's from a pre-scientific age, where something that seems philosophically correct (a defense lawyer and a jury of your peers, an independent judge, dehydrating and bleeding sick people, the function of the pineal gland) is assumed to obtain correct outcomes. QED.

What is shocking is that the public, especially the great many who have interacted with the law enforcement system, continues to have faith in it. As long there is no political pressure from the public, the judiciary won't change.

Off the top of my head, two methods might better measure accuracy:

METHOD A

1) Take a random sample of prisoners

2) Re-examine the evidence in their cases in a highly rigorous way (the judicial system does not do this unless the defendant can afford it).

3) Most cases will be inconclusive (I think). From the conclusive cases, you can infer something about the accuracy of the judicial "method"

METHOD B

1) Identify kinds of evidence that meets scientific levels of accuracy, such as DNA

2) Start with the population in jail for which that evidence is available. Because most cases are settled by plea bargains, I expect it will be most cases.

3) Again, most cases will be inconclusive (I think). From the conclusive cases, you can infer something about the accuracy of the judicial "method"
I'm sure a could read a bunch to find out your answer, but it wasn't quickly enough obvious to me (as a programmer) how you ensure the scope of work is actually equal to $3500 of my time.
What are the chances that there will be something similar for Android?
Write Sequential Non-Blocking IO Code in Node.js and ExpressJS
I was reading about this: http://ge.tt/3nXdgiQ/v/0, its from Reddit

Would you mind linking to the Reddit thread that it was mentioned in? Just curious.
From the /whyapply page:

We're a site that pairs contract programmers with clients. Specifically, we're a marketplace where clients buy prototypes for $2,500.
Teachers (male and female) typically reward boys for technical competence, and girls for "effort" (polish, pink unicorns, etc).
they can put that domain under spam too
I think there are other countries that had problems and they did not listed them all.

For example I live in Brazil, I saw Herbalife going all the rage some years ago, then I saw people getting fat all the rage (ignoring whatever health claims Herbalife makes, when you take MORE food, whatever food it is, even if it is lean food, you still get MORE calories... eating your food + herbalife will make you fatter...), then people got upset with Herbalife results and dumped it.

Also I remmber very clearly that the most strong users were also the strongest sellers, the "end-buyers" usually bought only once.
Martin Jetpack