skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it's been quite amazing to see the relatively rapid movement in the US on marijuana and gay rights in the past few years. I'm not quite sure how it happened."

I see Obama's election as a harbinger of these changes (I'm not giving him credit for these changes but instead saying he was an early symptom/beneficiary). To put a demographic spin on it: the baby boomers (Clinton/Bush/Obama) roiled the pot but, as in the 60s, didn't really change a lot themselves. But the folks behind the boomers _did_ make a difference, taking advantage of things to encourage change.

And, as much fun as I have making fun of "stoopid 'mericans": anti-intellectual conspiracy nuts, anti-evolution folks and the like, I do think the bulk of Americans are basically good people. So when a lot of kids are willing to stand up and say "hey, this isn't fair", plenty of others will agree, even if shamefacedly, and change their vote to be less unkind even when nobody's looking.

It will be funny if Hillary Clinton is elected president: likely the first and last baby boomer presidents will be Clintons. I wonder if the country will become more conservative again. It seems like it progresses in a systolic fashion.
You misunderstand. There is no optimizing, he built a non-idiomatic library that people love. It has pros and cons -- he is going to maintain it. There is no "fixing" it -- what makes people love it is it being NON-IDIOMATIC.

ADDITIONALLY -- he has built something that is idiomatic and looks to solve the same problem set as the original tool. This is a "have your cake and eat it too" situation.
In my opinion I think the author did try to address the big picture. He brought it to his boss, and his boss's boss. If ideas are commodities worth trading then why was the market closed from the top down? This is a lesson in corporate culture which I think the author explains quite well.
Intel unveils its new brand typeface
This is Intel’s first font renovation in its 45-year history and is inline with the wider trend of corporations abandoning twentieth century geometric typefaces in favor of a more contemporary calligraphic influence.
Thanks for the link to Gocraft, cool stuff.
Running a Design of Experiments on Rescale
Heartbleed is a vulnerability with a CVSS score of only 5.0/10.
FTA:

> It has long been one of the fundamental pillars of our system of law that when one commits a crime against another, they are made to give restitution to their victims.

Except it isn't. I'm not sure where he got that idea. We punish convicted criminals, of course. But questions of crime are entirely between the accused/convicted person and the government. There is neither a tradition nor a mandate that a victim gets restitution; this idea is certainly not a "pillar".
When I worked for a consultancy in about my second year I got a great review. A few days later my manager called me into a meeting and apologised and said the grading had to be reviewed as the country manager wanted it to be lowered. This person didn't know me and didn't know what I was doing. And so it was lowered. This did affect my pay rise I believe, that was all. It did annoy the hell out of me at the time though.

I think my manager made a mistake in letting me know the rating before someone who didn't know me approved it. This probably happens a lot, ratings getting downgraded, and people don't know.
With these types of integrations plus the seemingly never-ending advances in Javascript engines [1], we might only be a couple years away from history repeating itself: web taking over OS-dependent apps. Same that happened 10 years ago in the desktop, we see now in mobile. This is amazing folks.

[1] https://www.webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-...
You have to start somewhere. Sometimes an incremental approach is the easiest to get rolling. Framing it as a national issue likely makes it more complex, however.
The article is very vague on the actual specifics of this termination, and I don't claim to know any more details. However, to at least play devil's advocate to this one sided story, what incentive does Google have to fire someone "arbitrarily" if they have been performing satisfactorily, especially considering that Google has been on a continuous hiring spree for a while? Doesn't it seem plausible that the said employee wasn't doing a great job in the first place?

If Google fired the lowest stack ranked member in each team every year, we would have heard about 100s of stories or lawsuits by now. I don't know if Google is clean in this particular case, but something smells fishy from the story as it is currently portrayed in this article.
EPCOT was intended to also be a place to live, no?
I've glanced at the PLDI paper and would definitely consider Elm to be FRP, more in Conal's vision than say Flapjax. But I don't get what new contribution Elm makes to push-based FRP beyond being a nice implementation of it?
I'm in the Houston area and haven't had these issues.

- You get small new companies popping up all the time and dying through mergers and acquisitions: to some extent this can be mitigated through your choice of provider. I haven't gone through one merger/acquisition, and I've used 3-5 different providers in ~10 years.

- If there's a problem theres's nobody to call and nobody whose responsibility is fixing it: I don't remember how it was at my apartments, but since I've moved into my house, I call Centerpoint to fix all power problems, regardless of whose service I'm actually using.
Just a friendly reminder that ReactiveCocoa is not FRP! For an explanation of Conal's conception of FRP, please see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5875929/specification-for...

I use ReactiveCocoa very heavily at work, and find it very useful. Just want to avoid confusing the terminology with an existing concept which is well-defined and totally different.
3 ways to design an infographic that stands out from the crowd 
Infographics aren’t new. And certainly, interactive ones aren’t either—but with the launch of recent data-driven news sites such as Vox, Fivethirtyeight and The Upshot, they’re becoming more popular.And since viewers are seeing those infographics on tablets, phones and desktops, building those graphics in HTML5 is the way to go—it’s likely the way your clients and co-workers will ask you to build!
I don't know your situation, but the good thing about spineless uppers is that they are often as unwilling to work against you as they are for you. This PM is not actually this irrational. He behaves this way because hes become accustom to getting away with it. I don't know how much you "need" the job, but I'd try just telling him how its going to be and then sticking with it. Unless he has direct firing authority (that he actually has the political capital to use), he'll likely complain to upper management and get the same disinterested shrug you received. "He seems like a good employee, I'm sure you can work it out".

Caveat emptor of course. I have a sample size of 2 in my personal life and its worked for me once (but wonderfully so). The other time, it got me out of a bad situation that I should have been working harder to leave anyway (with good references even).
Lazy.js – underscore with lazy evaluation
That's why you throttle Comcast customers. Can't it go both ways?
Font size isn't exactly comparable across different font families. In the case of DDG they are using DDG_ProximaNova, while in the case of Google they are using Arial.

Arial is much easier to read on Chrome for Windows over DDG_ProximaNova.

I also just noticed that we can change the font on the settings page, just feel like it shouldn't be necessary.
Twitter backed out of talks to buy SoundCloud
I always figured that meant "given a difficult bug, a group of developers working on it will make it easier to solve." Not "with enough developers, all the bugs in this software will disappear."
Thanks! I'd totally miss the themes functionality if not for your comment. Just switched to Dark to match my desktop theme and it looks perfect. I hope more themes will be added in the future.
The Black War
For lazy evaluation with io/streams, also check out http://highlandjs.org
The Surface Store is also not trivial to buy from. I live in a country where Surface Pro isn't sold officially (a
blunder in itself, if you ask me) and I failed to buy from MS Store. I transferred funds to an American friend and they failed too! They even spent half an hour on the phone with useless MS tech support person, who doesn't acknowledge their fault: (it must a fault on be bank's, Paypal's site, but not MS') I gave up and bought on Amazon; still waiting for shipment (the issue with a particular seller).

I have mixed feelings with regard to this new release. I didn't expect MS to announce it that soon and it's kinda frustrating to have a new model be announced while you are still waiting for the previous one, but I'm not sure I would like the newer, larger form-factor, digitizer, design and color better. I own a 12" ThinkPad now, and I want to try switching to Surface in part because it is smaller, which ThinkPad is refusing to be over the years. Would it kill MS to make a newer, smaller, variant, along with the larger one? OTOH, I kinda expected MS to back away from what good it came up with, with their tablet. Microsoft is not known for sticking to their ingenious innovations, like Lenovo and Sony and unlike Apple.
Comcast's customers have no idea what a CDN is. All they know is that the internet is slow, and Comcast is the internet to them.
Pretty neat. From solely using that the prepopulated example input, my main gripe would be that it doesn't get a/an correct in the "cursed up" version of the sentence.
2014's Internet belongs to cord cutters
Context Cards: A Peek At Facebook's 5-Year Plan
I've tried DuckDuckGo a couple times before. Today I decided to give it one day and see if I felt more comfortable with it. I was having a really hard time parsing the results so I did a search side by side in Google and DuckDuckGo. I looked at Google and thought "yeah, I know I want link #3" then I looked over to DuckDuckGo and saw that the same link was result #2 but I couldn't identify it as the page I wanted just by looking at the results page. Further analysis helped me to understand the process I use for parsing search results. It turns out that the most important part is the URL and I've trained myself to look for that in the format Google renders it (right after the link). When I realized that this was what I was actually looking for, it all became much easier.
Dr. Dre, Beats and The Source of Hip Hop Wealth
It's quite likely that some kind of hidden structure emerged.

However, could you explain what you mean with 'political' in this context? Because 'political connections', in my mind, also includes reputation and knowledge of competence. And that doesn't seem like a bad thing.
But they're not asking for L3, they're asking for Netflix. So maybe Netflix should hire a CDN that can play ball with Comcast, instead of L3, who is apparently being shut out.
This is what I see on DDG search page: http://i.imgur.com/Ec4sCKp.png

Everything position seems relevant, and first 6 are good sources of personal contact info.

Not bad.
Level3 should drop the same percentage of outbound packets from Comcast, that Comcast drops on the inbound. If every tier 1 did, Comcast's internet service wouldn't look all that good any more, would it?
> Dog slow as well, I suspect it's USB!

What, the Ethernet doesn't give full 100 Mbps throughput?
Keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, back here in reality, iOS dominates the enterprise:

http://media.www1.good.com/documents/rpt-mobility-index-q413...
Wow this looks great. Just set it as my default search engine. Thanks Gabe and company!
You mean 0.4 versus 1.3?
If Level3 can't give Netflix what it promised Netflix it would deliver, maybe Netflix should use a different CDN.

Other CDNs aren't having this problem, because they're willing to work with the ISPs.
I've debated doing just that, but in the end the environment and expectations have become completely toxic, so it's more important for me to find another job. Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, there are a lot of constraints, so I'm putting my energy into my own start-up.
Google Responds To Link Removal Overreaction
* It was the user who decided to use a particular version of libss, not Solaris.*

That is exactly why I don't think there is a violation. Sun didn't ship code that linked(dynamically or otherwise) to GPL code. The end user did something to make that happen. It would be a violation by the end user if they shipped their combined product.
Despreneur Turns One Year Old
I'm not sure I see why hashing is necessary nor why it provides any "proof" of what was changed. Perhaps it's the git analogy that's tripping me up because you can easily forge commits to appear as being from any user at any time.
>As far as I can tell the surface pro 3 is still not lap friendly

Huh? Din't they demonstrate that on the video? he was using it on his lap at multiple angles and including his legs stretched. If they missed that part watch it here[1]. It starts around 41 minute mark.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/may14/05-20w...
No, I don't. I mean laws governing the relationship between workers and employees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_law
Do you think that placing legal reins on employers' ability to do whatever they want with their employees is akin to socialism?
I'm probably in a rather small minority here, but I believe documenting things you know are very likely to change can be irresponsible (or at least unwise) if you know the resources needed to update the docs are unlikely to be available.

This situation is very common at startups, for example.
Not that it matters for anyone outside Finland but "Pano" means "Fuck" (ie, to have intercourse but a dirtier word) in finnish.
Announcing oozled
While I agree with your comment, one could note that there are non-US alternatives that are not offshore banking havens.

I'd guess that Switzerland, Sweden and Germany would (probably) all have provided a better judicial environment.
L3 is pushing to maintain its contract with Netflix. L3 is pushing, because L3 isn't the only CDN responsible for Netflix traffic. "Comcast" (it may not actually be Comcast and in fact I doubt it is given Netflix's recent agreement with Comcast) can just use Netflix's other CDNs, and traffic will continue to flow normally.

L3 is not necessary here, and everyone who's actually involved knows it, including L3.
Well one could argue that when 'an ordinary guy' running a startup gets threatened and raped by the biggest (evil) 3 letter agencies, it might be quite normal to have 'flaws in your response'.

I personally think he did remarkably well.
We just released Stratworking last night! We leverage bluetooth to find people around you. This strategy makes the most sense if you are in a setting where the density of people is high (networking events, conferences, etc).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meetupslid...
Which CPUs are there in Surface Pro 3?

I was sure the Broadwell Microsoft won't release them for another half a year, because Broadwell CPUs are not announced yet and are expected early next year, or for Christmas season at best.

I wonder whether they are the same Haswell CPUs as in SP2, or did MS get a very special treatment from Intel for Broadwell CPUs?
Levison eventually complies by printing out key in 4 point font. I'm surprised he didn't mention that in his defense.
> > The government argued that, since the "inspection" of the data was to be carried out by a machine, they were exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment.

> That's insane.

It's also immaterial. In this case DOJ got an Article III warrant (if not several), which was specific in what was to be seized. This is the system that Snowden claimed to be trying to defend by revealing "warrantless wiretapping" working exactly as designed.

DOJ got a warrant for the exact thing they wanted, and all of sudden Constitutional separation of powers became inconvenient to Levison (even though he complied with such warrants before, and eventually offered to comply in this case for cash).
> Today I decided to give it one day and see if I felt more comfortable with it.

I tried that myself several times, and never quite managed to do it. It only stuck when I forced myself to do it for an extended period, at which point I finally started being able to reliably differentiate between "good results" and "results that feel like Google". I found it disturbing to realize how much I had conflated those.
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It is, of course, not communism unless there are communes involved. But I suspect you don't actually know what either "socialism" or "communism" means.

Edit: Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case I remind you of Poe's Law.
Thanks, very much appreciated!
Some tech text becomes very amusing: http://goo.gl/FzVBBv
> Doesn't it seem plausible that the said employee wasn't doing a great job in the first place?

Playing ong with your devil's advocacy: there are ways to fire someone who is not performing well. Europe makes it harder, but not impossible, to fire under-performing employees.

Certainly in England it's pretty easy to fire people, especially in their first two years of employment. (Just avoid any hint of discrimination against the protected statuses).

Also: I'm curious. Don't you trust the Irish courts?
It could easily be exploitative in the opposite way. What's to stop a developer from treating it as an all-expense paid vacation where they hang out on the beach all day and give lip service to the project they're hacking on? It sounds like BeMyApp is counting on the possibility of getting a job with them as a sufficient carrot to get free innovation, but unless they write a certain amount of time & results into the terms & conditions for their offer, there's no way to ensure that developers don't just take advantage of it.

It's sold out, anyway, though, so it's a moot point (and we can't seem to view the actual terms and conditions).
Funny we didn't notice that!

Yes, that's true. And that's a fairly poorly written example.
I'd like to see this as well. There used to be a single link for the results page to report bad results, though it didn't allow adding any details or flagging particular links. And even that seems to have disappeared.
Then someone would have been able to explain objectively why his solution was less good. It wouldn't have been this wishy washy political struggle that only hurts the department and technology.

I'd prefer to lose a job that was caught up in such a scuffle. (Of course, I say that in times when a job can be got).
>We switched away from Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) because Value is a bit more confusing than Lightness.

That's funny to me because I've always found HSV colors and color choosers to be a lot more intuitive.
That's the opposite of Facebook's mantra that "code wins arguments". Which has worked well for me.
I'm pretty sure Netflix just paid Comcast, and maybe I'm not keeping up with the issues as they arise and I'm really uninformed about the current state of things, but if Level3 is still having a dispute with Comcast, and Comcast blames Level3's actions on Netflix just because they need to blame someone who their customers will recognize...

Forget about the gigundous case for libel Netflix would have against Comcast on millions of counts... those Netflix payments that Comcast just earned are going to stop, and their first high-profile experiment with double-dipping payments will have failed abruptly.

I assure you Comcast does not want that.
Is this an x86 or ARM cpu?
I had hoped that adding communism made the intention of my maybe too subtle post more obvious.
you can use powershell ISE. you can make the terminal full screen with no issue
>I do not accept United States dollars, as it is the preferred currency of criminal organizations such as the FBI, DOJ, ATF, and Federal Reserve and I do not assist criminal racketeering enterprises.

And yet Bitcoin, the preferred currency of Silk Road, is OK?

Edit: Also, LiveJournal is still around?? Go figure!

Edit pt 2: Timothy McVeigh, a patriot? Yeah, you're bucking for a trip to the loony bin here, weev.
They are rolling out FTTC, however slowly, and there was a lot of fighting, bureaucracy and political bargaining to do so; in addition to ruling out widespread FTTH rollout (only available to new-builds and selected rural areas).
None of those exploded. If you claim exploded, prove it!

Energy density is still useful for hybrids, especially PHEV. Earlier Prii use a very small lead-acid as 12V battery, but have a very large and heavy NiMH as the main pack. Doubling that weight is not a useful thing.

Telsa battery costs $20k because it goes >200 miles. What cost and weight would these batteries have in that same circumstance? (oh, it doesn't matter because they're only useful for hybrids, so why bring up Tesla?)
The way esr created the open source movement, he made it sound as if open source was a superior way to ensure fewer bugs in software. This is not demonstrably not true: proprietary software developers are not incompetent, and just because you have visible source does not mean anyone is going to read it, or indeed, that you will get more people reading it than if you have a paid team of developers reading it. There are many, many proprietary packages that are far less buggy than free alternatives [citation needed].

TCATB just promises but doesn't deliver. There are reasons to value free software, but practical reasons as "a better development model" or that it produces better software are hard to justify.
XLTE leaves test phase as Verizon announces mobile data speed boosted
But I fear that we are waiting for the perfect opportunity - we are seeing these rights erode, and waiting for a unsullied cause, before we spring into action.

Yes Levison had mixed or uncertain motives. Yes he complied at first, then played a strange game. But at some point he did say "no" to any further requests that to him seemed unconstitutional / illegal / against his conscience.

For that I (a whiskey priest) applaud him.
For future reference the `--no-failed` is a good idea when you want to paste the output of sslscan. Especially if you update your sslscan. I ran the same command as you and sslscan listed 150+ additional cipher combinations that were failed/rejected.
Relevant Colbert Word of the Day: http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/z1aahs/the-word---wiki...
Reminds me of this Google Docs phishing scam, that uses a Google domain to look legit http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/google-docs-users-targ...
Fusion Power By 2020? Researchers Say Yes and Turn To Crowdfunding
That largely depends on what "we" you are implying when you say "our". Civil law places government in the position of mediator and arbitrator, whereas criminal law has the government as prosecutor, investigator, and punisher. I am almost entirely certain that he meant our system of civil courts, based on Anglo-American Common Law. But that system is not deployed automatically for all crimes, and is especially tricky when the government itself is the defendant.

A few years alternating between legal land and solitary confinement can knock a few screws loose. Even if the guy was the scummiest of black hats, I tend to frown rather severely on the government breaking its own laws for the purpose of severely punishing an individual for something routinely ignored when done by campaign-contributin' corporations.

In short, the government abused its power to capriciously and arbitrarily stomp on somebody, and that somebody should be compensated for his damage. As is obvious from the writing, he's due for some psychological rehabilitation and therapeutic shoulder de-chipping.