skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people complain about being tracked by Google and loosing privacy, they get told that they should simply not use it. If Google Classroom is used, students/parents are effectively given no choice in the matter.

If the Google decides to ban students gmail account (because students name does not sound real enough or without explanation), the student is f-ed.

But mostly, my primary reason why not to use it in school would be that you never know whether Google close the project next year or not.
Klout's ad clearly tells women that they don't want to hire them. There is no part of "bro" that implies gender neutrality. More subtly, it expresses the idea that women are probably not worth hiring. Even more subtle is its message that gender-specific hiring is acceptable. Klout outdoes itself in undermining the clause, common in many hiring documents, that the company "will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, or age".

I don't know that this can be expanded to characterize the overall culture of the tech/startup sector – I've never observed it (thought it does have a reputation for misogyny). In any event, the author's intent is to respond to the "bro" discourse that actual employers and companies included in their public-facing materials, by satirizing it with similar language.
Speaking as someone who got owned even when using SSL client certificates (made mistakes setting things up, long story), I think patio11's suggestion is better. Put it on a private network, seriously it isn't that hard.
Brazil passed a bill which, among other things, includes net neutrality.
Follow-up: They renewed me. I downgraded my account. Rather than give me until the expiration of my term, I've now been downgraded immediately to the free tier. Now I'm going to ask for a refund.
Hmmm, I think you're right. That's less dangerous, especially when people don't really know what they're doing. I'll push an update.

That said . should be specified per manpages:

> If no <pathspec> is given, the current version of Git defaults to "."; in other words, update all files in the current directory and its subdirectories. This default will change in a future version of Git, hence the form without <pathspec> should not be used.
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There is some truth here. In a large organisation, the people running it will not understand the problems they are solving as well as the people under them.

The Head of Sales (US) understands the US market better than the Director of Sales, who understands it better than the CEO. So, the CEO can make an impact by choosing people, understanding their motives, skills and the relationships between them, and giving them a chance to shine.

When a new president is elected, and imposes policies he came up with in opposition without access to treasury data and expert advice, something is wrong. Shame it happens every time. Big company CEOs are trying to make money, not get re-elected, so they should manage not do.
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This mirrors my own experience with IMDB -- it is of dubious merit for big budget recent releases, and I've always suspected (based upon nothing but a sense of "what else could it be?") that Hollywood has long understood the value of crowdsourced metrics like that.
He was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes by the Bangladeshi International Crimes Tribunal. But many Bangladeshis found that sentence too lenient, and more than 100,000 of them gathered in Shahbag Square in the capital city of Dhaka to challenge it.

It's interesting that so many people gathered solely to express "we want this guy dead, not imprisoned." I wonder if there's more context?
qemu can run portable, no root/admin necessary.
Contains the best author disclaimer I've seen:

Data analysis by Eugene Bialczak. Also, a disclaimer: the author wrote much of the IMDb Trivia App.
The US Lawyer Bubble has Conclusively Popped
Vendoring is also a practice that Google and other large tech companies use extensively. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
I've been doing a little bit with .dk lately, and I kind of like their model: DK Hostmaster handles almost everything. Due to lobbying from various hosting companies, there is an arbitrary restriction that you can't register a domain initially with them, but instead have to go through a registrar (same as in .com). I think this is mostly because it gives various hosting companies a chance to upsell you on email/Wordpress/whatever, since you have to go through one of them to get the domain. But then once you have the domain, you never have to deal with them again, because you subsequently do your yearly renewal directly through DK Hostmaster. You just log in, pay your $8.50 fee, and that's that. And unlike GoDaddy et al, they aren't trying to sell you a dozen services every time you try to renew.
Very, very sure. I can pay far, far less than AWS and Microsoft charge for bandwidth in any US datacenter managing my own equipment.

Meanwhile, HN-darling Digital Ocean charges their VPS customers just $0.02/GB on overage. That's right, for overage above the 1-9TB they include with their plans, DO charges less than I'm estimating the cost to be for massive providers to exchange traffic at far larger and more cost-effective scales.

Linode charges $0.10/GB, and that's still less than AWS charges for the first 10TB. And again, that's after the 3-20(!)TB Linode's plans include in the base cost.

Bandwidth is cheap. The US has all the fiber capacity between POPs that it needs. Adding or upgrading interconnects between Comcast and Cogent/Level3/whoever is not laying fiber across the countryside, it's buying switches or turning on ports and running cables from one cage in a datacenter to another cage in the same friggin' datacenter.
Did you forget the "based on US" clause for REMOTE workers or simply changed your mind? I ask because I might be interested in your company but I'm an unlucky European developer.
The article isn't using that picture, it's mentioning it. It has to mention it in order to complain about people who are using it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction
You got a point. Let me add that little objects allow you change inheritance for composition more easily.
That's too bad. It's not hard to set up, it's just harder to use.
I interpret the article as a finding that there exists some "bland/mainstream vs novel/unique" scale that actually is objective - i.e., corresponds to measurable and consistent preferences for groups of customers.

There actually was a finding that the analyzed customers historically preferred novel-flavor products over mainstream ones. This means, that if those customers really like your product, then that's some evidence that it may fall into the same group as the other niche products
COGS = cost of goods sold
The Chinese government may threaten Alibaba’s payment platform in a big way
LinkedIn Gives Up On CardMunch, Inks Deal With Evernote To Migrate Users
Thanks, though it's a shame that all the graphs and pictures are missing.
All good: http://link.olivierlacan.com/image/2q0g2b3i1n0g
He means "we are going to leave the language [alone], we are done [changing it]." There is no expectation that the community will change the language instead.
Critical, IMHO, is not "critical to man kind" but "critical to the organisation that uses the data". We should ask a teacher that his/her class was banned, all access is blocked and he/she finds out that there is nobody to talk to, and he/she must find this cousin who's friend worked for google last year maybe they can help to reach out somebody.
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Glad you think so Mike. Did you have version control experience or Git experience prior to it?
blockchain? :)
Thanks, OP here. Not sure why the server went down (I have a caching function enabled), will see what I can do to put things back online... :P
No, it was not $200 billion in tax breaks. That's 100% wrong.

There's actually a book about this, which is online: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/broadbandgrants/comments/61BF.... Read page 210-223, especially page 222.

The number is calculated by starting from the premise that telecom companies should be regulated as utilities, and make regulated returns on their investment. It also starts from the premise that the price of features should be proportional to their cost.

From that premise, it computes $103 billion as the "excess profits" when the telcos are compared to other utilities. Another $78 billion is chalked up to "excessive depreciation." This, in turn, is based on a calculation rooted in "[a]ssuming that depreciation rates should have remained constant after divestiture." (Page 220). Of course the assumption that the depreciation rate should have remained constant before and after the internet boom is ridiculous. Another $25-50 billion is "cross-subsidization overcharging for long distance, DSL, and wireless." This estimate is based on the claim that the telcos added charges to phone bills that should have been accounted as costs to non-regulated services.

None of this amounts to getting a direct subsidy or even a direct tax break in return for building fiber. The whole point of the 1996 changes in the law was deregulation of the industry. The whole idea was that deregulation of the industry would lead to higher capital investment, which it did (just not in the areas people expected at the time). Nobody hid the ball on the fact that the 1996 law was about deregulation--everyone referred to it as such. Well, in a deregulated industry, if a company raises prices, we don't call that "excess profits." If they cross-subsidize their business lines, we don't call that "excess profits."

Did the telcos make a ton of money between 1996-present? Yes, they did. Demand for internet exploded, and demand for mobile exploded, and they invested the money to build the infrastructure that made all that possible. That's why they made all those "excess profits."
FWIW, a model aircraft would have more payload, longer air time, and require less software to build than a quad rotor...

Quadrotors are cool, but severely limited in the range, time aloft, and payload categories.
I get the feeling that they didn't get many female applicants to the position... That's a bonus for those who fit the 'culture' though, because they had a better shot at getting a job.
As an engineer with an MBA, I can tell you that an engineer breezes through the hard sciences part of management. It's all about modelling, and that's the core training of an engineer. The social sciences aspect of management is not so easy, but if there is underlying aptitude/informal training present, the jump from engineering to management is not that hard.
Would you mind describing a bit more how this works? I've never seen a double-entry system in Excel that I found workable and sufficiently self-checking to ensure data integrity, but I don't really understand yet how you do it. Where do you keep per-account ledgers? Are that your columns in the sheet? What exactly is done with the macro?

I might have a hard time imagining because I need to translate the terminology from Dutch - am I understanding correctly that 'account' = something like 'Expenses - utilities' or 'Taxes to claim'? How do you make a profit and loss statement, and a balance sheet? Do you use some sort of annotation for your accounts?
IMHO no single website should be used as a definitive source for the quality of peer-reviewed content. Instead, averages should be taken from different sites, compared to the types of movies usually reviewed as high or low on those respective sites.

Each site has its own user base, and those users have their own biases. A review from Rotten Tomatoes will vary greatly from those of sites that include only noteworthy critics or only crowdsourced opinion without the "community" aspect. Some communities will be more critical, while some will be less. Like most online reviews, the criteria for rating is completely subjective; one user gives it a 10 because it had their favorite actress in it, while another user gives it a 5 because there was a scene they didn't like. What's awful to you may not be awful to me, and crowd-sourced data or aggregate generalized polling isn't a great way to distinguish that.
This is a slightly misleading title.

Matt Cutts: for the next few years links are not going anywhere and will still be used for determining reputation.

But overtime, Google will rely a little bit less on links for reputation purposes.
Lies, deceit, and hypocrisy
Fairly trivial article which fails to state its primary assumption: it is talking about mass-market FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) which want immediate success. This is why we have tens of varieties of instant coffee but no 'cold concentrate' type liquid coffees.

Claiming that niche consumers are the kiss of death is obviously news to many makers of luxury goods (and companies like Apple who do not cultivate mass markets but end up creating them because the niche users ended up being right).
This is a customer group that would be really good for an online service.

For a physical retail store, items that are well liked by a 0.1% of population are a failure - since they carry much of the same fixed costs as a similar item liked by 40% of population, and extra variety costs them; and the best target audience of a physical retail store is "everyone who lives close enough" or "everyone of socal demographic X who lives close enough".

An online store can serve only that 0.1% audience based on their flavour preference. If there are a million people worldwide who really like Diet Crystal Pepsi? Great, there's a lot of money to be made on that product - even if it's unprofitable to stock it in Walmart and expect that a Diet Crystal Pepsi fan will wander in today.
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This kinda happens already, or at least it used to many years ago; you have to be an active user for your vote to count.

The most obvious effect is movies that drop in the rankings 30 days after release; people who just saw a movie give it 10/10 and then stop participating, so 30 days later they are no longer considered 'active' and their vote stops contributing to the overall ranking.
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Robot CEOs! What a good idea!
Don't believe the standard trope that pharma prefers treatments vs. cures. I worked in oncology R&D in big pharma. Every single person there from management on down sincerely believed the drug candidates they were identifying and working on might be cures one day. The oncology drug development process in a strange way mirrors the experience cancer patients themselves (and I speak from experience-- lost my dad to pancreatic cancer when I was just starting out). You have these really good days, where you have data that says you might be on to something. That things are looking up. Maybe this time it will be different! One in a million chance! And you have those bad days, where it all seems to be falling apart. All the while through the ups and downs you know in the back of your mind that inevitably (well something like 98% of the time anyway), the data from the first clinical trials will come back, and the drug you thought was going to change the world isn't any better than anything else. Maybe if you get really lucky, the drug adds 3 months to patients' lives so it's not a total failure.

So you pick yourself up after 5 - 8 years of work, and start all over at the beginning in the hopes that this time will be different. That is the reality of cancer drug development in a pharmaceutical company. There is no smoke-filled room where the managers say, "oh no, we can't pursue that it might cure people!". Even if people were so warped as to think that way, you can comfort yourself in knowing that biologists are so ignorant of the basics of cancer, they wouldn't know how to distinguish a cure for a mere treatment if they wanted.

The reality is that cancer is biologically complex and ferociously difficult to cure. People seem to often use the "war" analogy (as in "the war on cancer"). If it's a war, we're still using pointed sticks and rocks and cancer has intercontinental ballistic missiles, special forces, and fighter jets. Every once in a while, someone stumbles onto a stronger piece of wood or a heavier rock.
We used this tutorial at a Girl Develop It workshop last year. It worked really well! I also learned jQuery via Code School on my own time the year before that. Keep up the good work!
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The conclusion is that if you make a new product, you should ignore data from "typical early adopters" but look at "boring people with strong habits".

If people who ordinarily don't try new stuff are buying your product, then it will be a mainstream success.

If they don't, then noone cares if the consistent early adopters think that your product is great.
When a startup become fuckup
I just want to tell everyone that when you have joined a startup and realising that this startup becoming fuckup, please run away ASAP. Below are signs that a startup become fuckup:

1. employ CIO
2. Employ CFO
3. Employ CTO
4. Employ COO
5. Employ CPO
6. Employ CCO
7. Use clock in and out device to monitor your time in office.
8. 5 months and only developed 4 webpages and yet still buggy.
9. Using bunch of unnecessary framework and library to build the system to make it look complex and highly sophisticated.
10. Management 12 people and technical 5 people.

Cheers (-:
Mark Thien
You've been the victim of the Dilbert Principle in action. It is quite common. Do not jump to management because of this. Jump companies. Some seem to avoid the Dilbert Principle, although I know none that escapes Peter's Principle.
Landlines phones generally aren't metered but it works...
Yeah, and they even remove the Samsung branding on Galaxy S phones... you just see it at the boot screen but nowhere it is written on the actual phone.
No, it's not, but if they can increment prices once, why not again? If they can announce extra billing for "infrastructure upgrades" every few years, why not more frequently?

Boil the frog as fast as possible. After all, where would it go?
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if you use imdb as a general indicator of a film's quality you're much better off entirely excluding the scores of films produced by india and turkey
article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7706274
Something that wasn't mentioned is command & control. 1st tier militaries will have satellite communications, and be able to operate their drones world-wide. 2nd & 3rd tier militaries will have nearby ground-stations, with control capabilities limited to just-over-the-horizon.

Again, control of the high-ground is key.

With regard to PRECIPITOUS HEIGHTS, if you are
beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy
the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him
to come up.
So it's the korean version of whatsapp ? funny how such 'simple' needs are the market driving force.
$8.50 still seems quite high given you're paying them to let you use their interface to increment the expiry date on the domain. With the volume they have and once the system is set-up there's got to be almost no action to take beyond the maintenance of a few servers?
The entire logic chain of this article can be summed up as: author likes copy left, heartbleed is still a timely topic, OpenSSL was copy middle, ergo if OpenSSL had use the license style the author prefers we wouldn't have had heartbleed, ignore copious easily obtainable counter points at every link in the chain.

Some software thrives in copy left, some thrives in copy middle, some thrives in copy right. If you are an empiricist, it remains eminently unclear which license style is best suited for which kinds of projects in the long term.
Congrats! I hope there's a gorilla on there somewhere.
? I'm not smirking at other people's misfortune, just at the idiocy of an economic system engineered to shackle the people that have to live their lives under it to workarounds like this ('this' = use assets that could otherwise be used economically productive as stores of wealth), and at the arrogance of claiming a centrally-led economy can provide both prosperity and freedom - two things I find axiomatically fundamental human rights.
Terrorists only use the tactics their people can execute effectively which is why terry talliban use crude IED's and target soft civilian targets and don't go toe to toe with the SAS.

The IRA did experiment with RC planes as an attack vector they decided that it was not worth the effort - Car bombs and improvised mortars where a better weapon more bang for the buck

Why exactly do you think my comment was silly?
An update to the advice is going up that will show `git add -A .` instead of `git add .` and explain:

> You can also type `git add -A .` where the dot stands for the current directory, so everything in and beneath it is added. The `-A` ensures even file deletions are included.
Newlines are important, but that's true of pretty much every language. Go does have more stringent requirements on where open braces are placed, but it's not a hard rule to remember (they always go on the same line as the code that opens the new scope). Also, this rule makes your code significantly less prone to breakage from errant edits and merges, since inserting a line can never separate your brace from the line it goes with. In this way, Go is actually more robust with respect to whitespace than almost any other language.

Note that in languages that don't mandate the open brace be on the same line as the code that opens the new scope, this can happen during a merge:

// original code
if (foo)
{
printf("foo is true!")
}

// after the merge
if (foo)
someFunction()
{
printf("foo is true!")
}

Now this code will always print "foo is true!". Because Go requires the open brace to be on the same line as the if, this type of bug is impossible in Go.

Gofmt will never change the behavior of your code, so you don't have to "worry" about what it will do. It only makes cosmetic changes to code, never functional.
> US infrastructure is woefully behind compared to other nations

Reconcile your claim with Akamai's State of the Internet, which shows the U.S. ranked #10 globally, at 10 mbps average connection speed: http://www.akamai.com/dl/akamai/akamai-soti-q413.pdf?WT.mc_i... (page 23). That number would put at about at #6 in Europe (see page 29), ahead of the U.K., Germany, and France, and not far behind Sweden and Ireland.
A lot of engineers would make terrible CEOs because they don't understand the basic tenants of business. Most software engineers don't like charging appropriately or spending appropriately on things that make the company money. There is a huge aversion to sales, marketing, and advertising.

If the CEO doesn't make sure the company makes money, the company will fail. I see this a lot in smaller companies. Larger companies probably don't let engineers get to the higher ranks unless they can make the company serious amounts of money.

Ultimately a business is about making money, and the CEO has to make sure that happens. Otherwise, you aren't much of a CEO.
I used to think my iPhone (4) screen was big enough. I could do anything on it that I needed. But now that have a larger Android phone, everytime I test someting on the iPhone, it seems so little and toylike.
the V1 had far less controllability than a model rc plane but was an effective UAV back in ww2
Can't blame him for that statement. The number of watchable movies released in Bollywood is very low.
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