skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, all things mentioned that you would expect as reasonable -- this was strictly my decision, I didn't ask this of anyone else, and indeed I'll take some time because I could use the rest.

The candidate still wasn't accepting of any decision. Frankly, I don't think it was the timecrunch that really bothered him -- it was the effort associated with it. Purely a hunch on my part, but I think there is a question of adaptability, task-switching and dealing with re-prioritization.

As for expectations I set with my employees, I insist on work/life balance. Several on my staff have kids (I do as well). A few are in soccer leagues. Others do only knows what in the off-hours. My expectation is that time away from work greatly enhances productivity when at work, so it's a payoff for us. We have long-term goals, and I want to keep the crew we have around us happy and hungry (for success.)
Anyone for Qwerty? Tyuiop? Qaz? I prefer Wert myself.
That's not quite what is going on. I had to do a paper for class recently that was looking at economic indicators. If I needed data on "Agriculture & Rural Development":

http://data.worldbank.org/topic/agriculture-and-rural-develo...

Down at the bottom is a link that will give you a csv file:

http://api.worldbank.org/v2/en/topic/1?downloadformat=csv

I thought it was really easy. I ended up having to visit multiple download links, but stitching the data together was simple using Python.

Without looking at the paper, I'm not sure what exactly they have. Have they just done the stitching already and are providing the complete data set? Or is there additional data not covered in the csv downloads?

Edit: Having looked a the paper it looks like the data they scraped was not in the CSVs. But I really cannot tell. If that is the case, I don't know why only some data is available as a bulk download and other data is not. So...back to your original point.
For Reference:

David Graeber's original article: http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

David Graeber's Book, "Debt: The First 5,000 Years": http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290/
Cro-magnon specifically refer to early human living in Europe, seems fair to make the comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-Magnon
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I've found OSGi to be an absolute nightmare. Classloader hacks is not the way to solve Java's dependency problem, it needs to be baked in the language IMO.

I think it's one of those ideas that sounds great in theory, but in reality it all falls apart.

Even if it worked as advertised, fact is many 3rd party libraries have all sorts of issues with OSGi. For example, my company is stuck on Jersey 1.x because 2.x doesn't work properly with OSGi.

Testing is much slower and harder to write. Testing seems to be an afterthought....

I think you can get most of the benefits of OSGi simply by using proper dependency management (Gradle). Use the Single Responsibility Principle and IoC and you'll get good modular code. These are much easer to do, have low risk, and are easy to test.

JMO
That obtuse language still scares me, I think it says a lot that the word ads is not written a single time in this blog post and he seems to use the word logos instead.
The Case Against Killer Robots
Annual Dota 2 world championship crowdfounded 1 million USD in 12 hours
Man this is cool. It's a little scary here in the US when you could be shot, or at the very least arrested, for a similar act.
It's not like this is novel. Every person with any knowledge of the situation (and no financial ties to ISPs) have been calling for the telecommunications services classification for years from the FCC. As I remember it, the FCC neutrality rule strike down would have been totally avoidable if they had set the classification to begin with.

Will Mozilla "officially" proposing this make any real waves? I guess as a large organization, maybe their example will at least open up the door for other companies to join Mozilla's proposal?

Edit: I get the "last mile" distinction in their proposal, but if the entire idea of Internet delivery was classified under common carrier laws, that would cover last-mile.
And the page linked has large number of files that appear to be relevant to other papers but not this one.

However, this link

http://www.cgdev.org/section/publications?f[0]=field_documen...

leads to page that has two papers listed by title. Click the second of the papers. Click Data and Analysis tab, and you can download the CSV files they obtained. You don't need a log in but you do need to agree to sensible looking conditions.

I can't seem to link directly to the agree terms/download page.
Did she live in a house made of yellow paper, and eat yellow paper as well? Who paid for the yellow pads? And how did her scribblings on the yellow pad become a best-selling novel? Did she just leave the pad in a bookstore and charge people to read it there?

Maybe starting a business doesn't require much capital, but running it until it becomes self-sustaining (or fails) sure does.
Could this be used to type on a keyboard? Or if anyone knows of a hand which would allow the wearer to do that?

I really like the general progress in this field and I can imagine in 5-10 years they will have completely functional prosthetics.
Have you ever unloaded a truck with a group of teamsters? I did one summer. I was shocked how aggravated they became at me for hustling. I got sent back to my department because "at that rate we'll have it unpacked in an hour and we've got 4 hours to do it."

Nothing special about white collar jobs here.
> The grandparent comment was quietly asserting that the "perceived fear" was actually Mozilla's plan, and that they reversed course.

Except nothing in the original announcement came close to the perceived fear. Essentially, people were extrapolating in such a way that this[0] comes to mine.

[0] http://xkcd.com/605/
A virtual universe
That does not make sense. Newspapers are a primitive medium, that does not offer a lot of customization, yet in many ways they are superior in content to news websites. In any case it does not really matter how "dumb" the presentation of content is, if the content itself isn't "dumb".
If 70% of their reports are downloaded only a couple of times, ever, I would guess that the answer is that nobody is interested in them. Have you ever read one?
The Dark Side of Java 8
Do you realize that what Mapbox gives you is Openstreetmap data ?
First of all I should say that I've been following camlistore and if it reaches its goals, I think it's going to be amazing.

However, it's nowhere being user friendly yet and the command-line based API changes all the time.

I suppose you could use them together because you can mount your files in camlistore to the file system with cammount but it would not be easy to make them sync tags and metadata.
Thanks. We've changed the url to that from http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~weise/unix-haters.html
BTW, I started my business with nothing more than an ordinary computer.

Really? Nothing more? You were out in the middle of an empty field, with a computer that you somehow acquired for free, and with that you were able to start a business? What kind of business was that?
Bigasoft Video Downloader Pro v3.3.0.5241
The story in the article has nothing concrete to do with NSA. Nothing actually happened. OTOH, the mentioned "value" of pregnant women vs. non-pregnant persons to marketers is interesting.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7713586.
Google Maps seems to think so.
Pen.io is down
I think you guys sent me some mail when you added Volafile.
It seemed very impersonal and automated to me, which is likely what you're doing. The other reason I pretty much ignored it was that the site didn't really appear 'curated' to me, just filled with stuff a crawler would've found out about me.

Off the top of the head I have three ideas that might help:

- Maybe make it possible for users (not webmasters) to edit information about pages or at least let them leave some feedback.

- Send personalized mails to webmasters, to give them some incentive to actually help you pad the little information you have about their sites. Or even better let me just reply to your mail with a short description of my site and directly put that on Volafile's/Whatever's profile. That would basically take away all of the friction I'd have to endure while 'claiming' my profile. Replying to a mail isn't hard and you could be pretty sure it belongs to the rightful owner.

- Just pull some reviews off other sites, like Google does with reviews for restaurants (only the first few lines with a link to full review)

Use these suggestions however you like, they're just my few cents but they might help to pad the little content you have on each page with something more useful to the user. Currently stuff like this: https://starthq.com/apps/volafile-io looks empty and cheap to me, like something created by a machine. Not many people will be intent to discover more stuff on your page if the information they'll get is so little with each click.

Even I, who wanted to discover 'alternatives' to my own service got bored after a few clicks. I didn't feel like I was finding out anything useful about the suggested alternatives and related services.

Plus you don't seem to refresh the 'stars' very often. Volafile doesn't have a lot WoT ratings, but they don't seem to warrant 1 star. Why don't you let your users rate service by clicking on the stars? It works well for most other online 'market places'. I actually thought the stars would be clickable at first. Looking at some other services I don't think the 'stars' they have make sense at all. Most have 1 star throughout the bank and others have 4 times 1 star and one 5 star 'gauge'. They look pretty random and only confuse. Maybe you should try to work out better conditions on when to display them. Services with not enough data points available seem to get 1 star by default, maybe just gray them all out?

Okay that's all I noticed. Maybe you should take my opinions with a grain of salt as I'm not really your average user, but I know how valuable feedback can be to small websites (running one myself, unsurprisingly)

Edit: I can't seem to claim Volafile's profile. Just takes me to some launcher.
> I'd consider the reception of a software product update to merely be "positive" if there was generally praise, basically no negativity at all, and people expressing that they are now significantly better off.

I've never known a company to pull that off. Even Apple, praised for their design sense, has, according to you, never had a "positive" release of any software.

> A lot of people are not happy about Australis, and justifiably so.

The same exact thing can be said about the previous UI.

> And we wouldn't be in this position had Mozilla listened to all of the past feedback they've been given

That's a fairly selfish attitude to take. What you are really saying is that you'd rather piss off many other Firefox users who don't share your opinion.
well they sure have a point. then i work from home (telecommute then) i dont work "as long" but i certainly get much more done AND i am also happier.

thats mainly because i dont have to "look busy" or "browse sites for a moment until my brain is able to function decently enough to work again"
instead i can go for a job, do the laundry, what not. works much better than sitting on the computer.
Correlation Doesn't Mean Causation
It's ok to make a small number of reposts if an item hasn't had attention in the last year or so. But posts without urls are penalized. You'd do better to re-submit this with the GitHub url.
Yeah, me too. I don't quite get the appeal of the tags living in the file name. Yes, it means that there isn't any need to maintain a database, but it also means that a) things become very unpleasant if I want to use anything but TagSpaces to browse my files, b) if I want to use anything to rename my files (especially automatically, i.e. a script) I have to take extra care not to muck up the tags, and c)if I want to share files with other people or organize files that I don't strictly own, then everyone else has to deal with me trashing their file names for my own convenience.

So, yeah, show stopper. Also, what's so bad about a database? Yes, the file system is very good at keeping track of files, but there are databases that largely don't get in the way, like sqlite, cdb, etc. They will sync across servers reasonably well with things like dropbox, as long as you don't have lots of people trying to concurrently do stuff from multiple places. If that's what you're doing, this kind of tool isn't right for the job anyhow.
Yeah, I experienced a similar timeline. That's when the Maps API stopped working for the Java app on my feature phone, roughly. Then the cascade or rot hit the PC / tablet experience, piece by piece, until it was just completely terrible. Which brings us to today. =)
This is a stopper. I don't want to pollute the filenames with this information. Using a sqlite db or something even simpler would have been more preferable imho
My reply was a bit of a joke, because while in Europe it's normal to earn royalties off radio play (especially from businesses that play the radio), it's not an accepted practice in the US. Artists in the US don't make any money off radio play.
Why is software licensed under the AGPL a no-go for you?
Just curious, why is that? Why AGPL would prevent you from using this?
If you are hiring math PhD's I would think most of them would find the question almost insulting, or at least assume that you had tougher questions to throw at them once they spit that one out.
this is sexist!!
He was part of a Grammy Nominated band in 1992.
True, but for example if I'm posting an article I wrote it's much more efficient to save space using my erclgrgn.us short link because it's usually ~20 chars which is less than half of what the full URL is.

Unfortunately, sometimes brevity is a necessity.

edit: original comment mentioned twitter, then I remembered twitter automatically reduces a URL's chars to 20 or so.
Citymapper is excellent, especially their mobile app's get-me-home feature (ideal for instant bus combos after the tube's closed). However, it's not designed for the vaguer queries -- nearby cafes, haberdasheries, etc -- at which google maps used to excel.
AFAIK, the arm runs one of several types of gestures -- modes -- that the user selects then controls. So It's not a general purpose hand. For typing, perhaps it'd be better for this thing to have a USB port, and plug in as a keyboard?
Yes, it should really default to "http://" though.
It's de facto law based on previous Supreme Court decisions. If the facts of this case are very comparable to previous cases the Supreme Court has heard (or decided not to hear), it's reasonable to assume the outcome would be the same.
Octopus opens jar from the inside
Looking at the source right now. Noticed comments in the code along the lines of "selenium is really slow traversing the dom" etc.. Also noticed the script implements the non-headless Firefox WebDriver. Wouldn't it have been much faster to have used GhostDriver or some similar headless solution?
I believe it's fairly well established [1][2][3] that protanopia does make it harder to see red traffic lights, and increases reaction time. A couple studies I looked at indicated that using the position of the light as compensation is quite effective, but it doesn't seem questionable that it is, in fact, more difficult to do.

Color is remarkably useful for fast recognition of objects. Take this famous experiment [4] that showed the existence of synesthesia. People without synesthesia take much longer to locate the 2s in the field of 5s. But people with synesthesia who perceive numbers to have color can find them trivially.

Anyway, as for this being offensive to you -- how is it any different than other facts like "short people have more difficulty reaching objects on high shelves" or "people born without a sense of smell cannot easily detect gas leaks?" These are simple facts, and there's nothing offensive about stating them.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2002....

[2] http://www.ltrc.lsu.edu/TRB_82/TRB2003-000250.pdf

[3] http://eprints.qut.edu.au/29558/1/29558.pdf

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Synaesthesiatest.jpg
People seem to prefer if the money changes hands quietly. They don't want to know that someone is slowly turning up the heat under their little pot of water.
McCarthy and Poe Argue on the Ideal Length of Fiction
This is exactly why I started to use basic html version of Gmail on my desktop computer. It provides almost anything I need (well, that is to write emails and reply to them), it's fast and responsive (no, not that responsive, just that it actually responds to my mouse events ;).

From time to time when I need someting more than basic email stuff, I use the standard javascript interface...

Try it for yourself: http://mail.google.com?ui=html :)
Kind of.

If you fully understand Microsoft's portfolio it makes more sense.

Desktop Windows 8 is a scenario, but not a very good representative. While
64-bit JIT time can take a while and CLR startup time can be really long, both
of these things can be addressed in a variety of ways in vanilla Windows
machines, ranging from NGen improvements to CLR pre-loading strategies.

The real killer is alternate platforms. Every time you JIT in a mobile device it
wastes time, CPU power, and battery life, all of which are much more limited
than in a desktop machine. CLR startup can be mitigated somewhat, but resident
memory is an especially precious commodity on mobile.

The last real kicker is that security concerns mean that many platforms (XBox)
mark a lot of their pages as NX, making JIT-ing in these pages very difficult or
impossible. Moreover, better security infrastructure means doing this on more
platforms more of the time, so this will become increasingly problematic.

All together, this makes a very compelling case for AOT compilation.
Rowling was an unemployed divorced single mother who had to rely on welfare to support her whilst she wrote Harry Potter.
She is quite socially conscious and has always supported the welfare state that gave her a leg up.
Luckily there is TabulaPDF https://github.com/jazzido/tabula (Open source, made with a grant by the Knight Foundation)

A lot of praise from journalist in their twitter feed: https://twitter.com/TabulaPDF
Yeah. I mean. Thank you for your reply and interest. Unusual at this thread depth... But what I'm saying, very simply, is that it used to do what I want. I used to double click, in my usual manner, nothing unusual, and Google Maps did what I wanted. It zoomed in. This now doesn't happen anymore, and it sucks, because I liked it. I hope that's super clear.

My behavior has remained exactly same, this behavior used to be linked to a positive outcome, and this behavior--unchanged--no longer can be reliably linked to a positive outcome.

In the context of this complaint, it simply does not matter if there's another way (which I do know about, by the way). That's mixing concerns. Right now, it's just purely about double click.
MirageOS: A Unikernel For The Xen Hypervisor
So my statement was a bit too short and not quite accurate. For a reference, the closest thing I could find within 10 minutes was this mailing list thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/flhYG39Oc...

It starts off specifically about the removal of Yandex as the default for the Russian localization of Firefox, but touches on the greater question of why Google vs anyone else given our differences on tracking users and such. For context, the Harvey mentioned is Harvey Anderson, who was Senior VP of Business and Legal Affairs at the time.

My personal summary would be something like this: Mozilla has a mission defined in the manifesto. We have a ton of projects that are supported by the funding provided by Google and other search engines. There are several factors being balanced in the choice of search engine: usefulness to users, respectfulness of user privacy, and sustainability of the project, to name a few.

JohnTHaller's got it right: Sure, we could switch to DDG and max out the respectfulness of user privacy aspect. In return, the usefulness to users goes down[1], and the sustainability plummets. We'd be sticking perfectly to our ideals, but shooting ourselves in the foot (assuming we want to continue doing all the different projects we do).

In choosing Google, the leadership of the project decided that Google as search provided offered the best balance of usefulness, respectfulness, and sustainability. You can argue that they're really bad at respecting user privacy[2], but they'd argue all the alternatives offer an even worse balance. They think that we can provide a greater net good to the world by going with Google than we can by going with DDG or someone else.

Mozilla tends to favor pragmatism, IMO, and sometimes that means focusing on sustainability (a nice word for making money to pay for our other activities). Hence why we considered directory tiles, among other ideas, so that we can pay the bills and keep making the web better.

(I'm intentionally ignoring side-arguments like "Why does Mozilla need so _much_ money?" or "Why do VPs get to make decisions without consulting the community" because one comment isn't enough to address a complex topic like this :D)

[1] IMO, I find DDG's results to be worse than Google's, and although I'm fine with that in return for their other great features, not all users are.

[2] And I'd mildly agree, not being super-knowledgeable about the specifics personally.
So why did you choose to go along with it?

Have you considered you might be making an appearance in the next "Borat" film, or some other similar spoof?
SQL is an API originated by IBM. Postgres' primary stored proc language is a close clone of Oracle's.
> Once hardware begins to turn against you, there seems to be nothing anyone can do to protect themselves. Encryption doesn't work against an adversary that has access to your computer's memory.

In the future (or today, depending on your setup), IOMMU. In the present, there is no evidence that baseband backdoors of this type actually exist (as opposed to hacks). When the adversary adds backdoors deeper in the hardware? ...well, we'll see if that is discovered someday.

To editorialize a bit, I guess it can't hurt to worry about and try to head off anticipated future threats - it's not like anticipating different threats is mutually exclusive - but still, I somehow can't shake the feeling that people's emphasis on secret backdoors unduly weights threats that are easier to romanticize over more pragmatic but more dangerous ones.
Or alternatively (more accurately?) praying for the good fortune that someone will invest in your idea. Who knows how many almost-Harry Potters there are in the world?
To an extent that's true. But as a counterexample look at how certain communities of deaf people get... very strange about the condition and would even reject a free fix.
AniJS – Declarative handling library for CSS animations
> patenting the idea of taking photos against a white backdrop with certain ratios is ridiculous

Is that really obvious? I haven't studied the patent from top to bottom, but I did look at the claims, which seemed extremely narrow. I'm only an amateur photographer, so I can't rule out -- at least not on a brief reading -- that this particular combination of elements might produce some novel effect.

Anyway, of all the bad patents coming out of the PTO, this doesn't seem to me to be one of the ones to be most concerned about. It's extremely narrow, and on top of that, how would they ever detect infringement? Is there any chance they could tell, by looking at an image, that it was produced exactly this way? I rather doubt it.

The question I always come back to is, is the cost to society of granting a monopoly on this technique outweighed by the intellectual contribution of the idea? In this case, the cost seems so small that I'm not even sure it's worth my time to figure out whether there was any intellectual contribution at all.