skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it's potentially worse still.

The marketplace won't necessarily value the angled measuring cup inventor as a nurse at all, indeed it may value them negatively (eg by reducing patients who attend a clinic because this person is a nurse there). That would mean that on a market based evaluation, for a person who makes a bad enough nurse, the availability of the cup "improvement" would have to be detrimental to measuring-cup users in order for the market to value the person as a nurse above them as a measuring-cup inventor.

As you note there's a big problem with working out how the market values the item in the first place. Just because something costs more doens't mean it's better value, of course. In a way if the cup costs less than the traditional measuring-cup it's a better product; in another way if it costs more but the same number buy it then it's a better product. You have to make a cost-benefit judgement.

If people say they wouldn't buy a new angled measuring-cup just for the USP, but that they would replace a broken traditional cup with the new style one, how then do you establish the value? You have to take in to account the person's value judgements on disposal of working items. I don't think you can genuinely make an objective market-based analysis here?
So what's their microwave for if you can't heat up food?
Prohibition solves nothing, as we can all see. I wonder what other mechanism might instead prevent this kind of thing from happening. Education? Psychologists? I wonder if we spent all the money used in law enforcement of drug laws on therapists instead, how would that turn out?
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>But why not just have two devices?

There's some convenience to not having to sync data between devices, which is why a lot of people ditched their desktops when 10 or 15 years ago it started to become affordable to get desktop-like power in a laptop form factor.
From my reading of the fastställda tingsrättsdomen I note that they mention this excpetion being granted on a case by case basis, and considering Sunde is not a reformed alcoholic with a debth from a accident caused by his addiction it seems unlikely the case you refer to proves more than the existence of the exception.
I dunno, it's still pretty debatable, since e-mail isn't guaranteed to be encrypted over the wire, which leaves people open to MITM attacks.

So consider a situation where someone receives a password in plain text, and the password never expires and never gets changed by the user.

All things considered, a token is a token, so whether the "password" is sent in plaintext, or whether a nonce hex key is provided by e-mail, anything sent by e-mail should have a shelf life, even if it's a relatively long one of like 30 days.

Ideally, it should expire in hours or minutes. If they don't get around to it fast enough, you have the user's e-mail, just tell them you need to send them another, because the last one expired. That way, you're forcing a live user to interact with the system, and act quickly, to establish proper authentication credentials.
What bothers me almost as much is that an actual, bar-card-carrying attorney demanded that a company cease "copyright infringement" on the basis of a trademark.
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>Indian food isn't BO.

Didn't say it was. I was speaking on sensibilities.

> I sucked it up and got used to it. That's what cultural sensitivity is.

Cultural sensitivity is not telling people to "suck it up." That's how you create problems. We're speaking about the workplace, a professional environment that should be culturally neutral as possible so that cultural particulars do not affect the working conditions of others.
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I find your attitude confusing.

Yes, America has its own culture. Yes, it's often different in many ways from what's typically found in India. But none of this is a secret.

Anyone who travels, whether for a short term or for much longer, to a country with distinctly different culture and customs should be prepared to adapt somewhat. Or at the very least, they should not be offended when the culture conflicts with what they're accustomed to.

I don't think it's unreasonable to request that one staff member not cook food that others in the office may find to smell bad. Such a request isn't about race or gender or anything like that, obviously. I don't doubt that the same request would be made to an American who chose to cook the same food.

The same goes for celebratory alcohol consumption after big events. It's just part of American culture in general. It happens when celebrating accomplishments of all sorts.

It's one thing to avoid overt, unjustified discrimination. But I don't think that American companies should have to bend over backward to accommodate people who don't want to accept, or at least tolerate, the basic aspects of American culture, either.

I say this as somebody who isn't even an American, by the way. This should hold true regardless of the company, where it's located, and where the foreign employees are from.

If you want to work in a foreign country, you should be willing to adapt to their established cultural norms. If you don't like American culture and customs, for whatever reason, maybe you shouldn't live there.
What is the reason to keep free and potentially dangerous traffic private?

If users want privacy - they can pay for their privacy.

Payment information would also make users traceable and therefore responsible for their private traffic.
No. Here's what you wrote:

> By that standard, the U.S. liquid measures could also be described as "metric"

The ratio has nothing to do with metric. The base sizing of the A0 page is, on the other hand, defined as having an area of 1m² in that regard, DIN/ISO paper sizes are _based_ on metric. However, _never_ did I state that they _were_ metric.

So no, by the standard that I gave, you _couldn't_ say that US customary measurements for liquid measures could also be described as "metric".

Go back and read my original comment. The first sentence was this:

> They're not part of the metric system, simply based on it.

Here I was making reference to A0 sheets being defined as having an area of 1m², thus the sheet sizes are _derived_ from metric, not _part_ of the metric system.

The next sentence was a _completely_ independent statement about the utility of the page ratio used in ISO/DIN paper sizes:

> The 1:sqrt(2) ratio used is extremely convenient as it scales up and down nicely, and the other series are such that an Ax sheet fits nicely into a Cx envelope, and a Cx sheet fits nicely into a Bx envelope.

I can't fathom how you somehow got from an innocuous pair of statements about paper sizes to powers of two in US customary measurements for liquids somehow being "metric".
I agree. In particular, the following line really turned me off GitHub's upcoming culture:

>We’re in the planning stages of designing a diversity and communication training curriculum for GitHub employees with input from Hubbers and external experts. Topics will include diversity training, effective communication, giving and receiving peer feedback, and conflict resolution.
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Heating up food that doesn't cause odors that enough others in the office apparently dislike, obviously.
They should only keep content for a week if there is no views.

Having an additional recording is convent, now people have to record locally at the same time as streaming.
I guess I'll just hold off until I stop getting browser updates then. It's a major hose-off flashing a USB disk, rebooting, clicking partitions, etc. Best to avoid that.
That is factually inaccurate.

You didn't really mean that, did you? US real income by quintile since 1967[1]. Income in real dollars has been stagnant for everyone but the wealthy.

I can't find household debt by quintile but if I do I'll include it here. It's gone down a bit since the financial crisis (part of the cause of the ongoing depression) but had been growing.

[1]http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/charts/census/hous...
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Considering what school systems pay in fuel bills I am surprised there isn't more effort made at state if not national levels in the US to come up with an affordable if not subsidized by the Fed electric school bus.

It would eliminate the hazards of diesel/gasoline fumes for students; it has been measured that inside the parked bus actually can be worse than outside so many districts forbid parked buses from idling. Throw in the sheer amount of fuel used and they should recoup their costs. However I expect some to go the natural gas route as its known and cheaper.
That's still 10-20k tops.
The first sentence of the post is "In January 2013 the IEEE Xplore digital library began hosting digital copies of 400+ books published by MIT Press". I don't think he personally agreed to anything, the publishers IEEE and The MIT Press must have decided to do something with some books which they didn't need author consent for.
There's a documentary also called "Touching The Void", which has fairly in-depth interviews with both climbers involved.
> The same goes for celebratory alcohol consumption after big events. It's just part of American culture in general. It happens when celebrating accomplishments of all sorts.

But do you think it's fair to force somebody to partake it this kind of thing? If somebody's a teetotaller, why shouldn't they be allowed to opt out of this kind of thing?
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But it's often not clear what the outcome of research will be -- unexpected results can start off as being simply the next iteration of an existing technology.
Do lawyers face any repercussions for representing frivolous cases that are used as an abusive tactic?
I'm concerned you don't know the difference between the LAPD and the LA Sheriffs department.

http://file.lacounty.gov/lac/cms1_146766.pdf
http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr69.htm

Iraq on the other hand had a population of 32.6 million people and 171,000 US troops over 168,753 square miles.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/12/02/Deployment-of...

So we have as many LAPD and LASD officers per square mile (roughly) as we had troops deployed to Iraq per square mile.

LA County:
25,000 officers. 4,752 square miles. About 5 per square mile [higher population density, so we'll call this roughly equivalent to Iraq]

Iraq:
171,000 Soldiers. 168,753 square miles. About 1 per square mile.

So, if we are going for equivalency, are you declaring LA county to be as dangerous as Iraq? And if so, why?

Please understand that these 25,000 officers are equipped with a budget of around ~5 billion [200k per officer]. I didn't total up all the little cities, I'm just extrapolating based on the LAPD+LASD budget.

http://useconomy.about.com/od/usfederalbudget/p/military_bud... Pay+Benefits per soldier is $110k. I doubt it costs $90k to equip a police officer every year. So, in theory, the LAPD+LASD should be properly equipped for a domestic policing force unless you think 90k/officer for support costs isn't enough?

So when you say things like "Backup is 25 minutes away", I'm going to call bullshit.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LAPD-Emergency-Respo...
Also? Backup is about 6 minutes away.

I think what you are seeing is not 'They are in shitty situations' but rather 'the budget is not being properly handled' combined with some prioritization like 'maybe we need to focus on providing the human beings with the equipment and care they need vs surveillance spending'.

So, with all due respect, you are wrong.
Personally, I'd rather have a drone land on a car and plug up the tailpipe than have a high speed chase carried on through a populated neighborhood.
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Peter Suber's book on Open Access is really great, but I think it lacks perspectives on the use of the Open Access movement to fight bibliometrics. If you speak French I recently wrote a detailed introduction to the Open Access movement which points out the relationship between the two movements and how Open Access can help to go in the right direction wrt fighting bibliometrics. It available at http://pablo.rauzy.name/openaccess/introduction.html.
as culturally neutral as possible, and welcoming of those who are a culture fit?
I've believed for a long time that unrestricted international trade, and having well-paying jobs for people with minimal education, are fundamentally incompatible -- it's an either-or choice. There are simply too many poor people overseas that are willing to take lower wages and out-compete domestic workers.

It's nice to see someone with economic credentials who agrees with me. Which end of the either-or proposition should we take? That depends largely on your politics.

I think global free trade would be a nice thing in the happy imaginary world where having a seat in the UN means your country always puts the interests of the whole of humanity above your own. But the simple and obvious reality is that most countries look out for themselves first, and so if we make policies and choices based on our happy imaginary world instead of the darker (or at least greyer) real world where we actually live, we're going to be quite sorry about some of those choices sooner or later.
A lot of good things came out of Heartbleed. First and foremost, public disclosure and subsequent remediation of a serious vulnerability. Heartbleed gave us the LibreSSL project and the Linux Infrastructure Whatchamacallit funding of work on OpenSSL.
School did.

When I was a very young boy, 2 or 3, my parents did everything in their power to ensure I could read. They would read books to me, I would read books to them. It is the very reason I am so well spoken and intelligent to this very day. Books were awesome. I loved books.

Note the past tense. Loved. I have not been able to will myself to read a book on my own since the third grade. It was Lois Lowry's The Giver, that is the last book I can confirm to you that I read, in whole, because I wanted to.

It was in the second grade that I had to do my first book report, and the entire concept of reading a book not for joy, but for work's sake, was a concept I could never rationalize. Even while I was reading The Giver, a book I had selected out of the elementary school's own library through my own volition, I received snide and discouraging comments from the library staff and teachers. "He shouldn't be reading that book." "That book is too advanced for his age." And on, and on.

Something changed. I lost my will and my zest for books. Even books I would've very much liked to have finished and I found interesting, such as Mick Foley's Have a Nice Day!, his autobiography about breaking in to the wrestling business, I have not been able to finish. I have no will left inside of me to crack open a book, to even lift one off of the shelf. I feel like my love for books was steadily beaten out of me at a young age by the very institution whose job it was to educate me with them.

At least this author seems to be on the right track. In all of my years of watching society ask "What is wrong with the kids today?" so few have bothered actually trying to ask the kids themselves.
How are they "not the same thing"? The only difference is the chip architecture. That's like saying a PowerPC Mac and a first-gen Intel Mac are "not the same thing". That's ridiculous. That they placed artificial limitations on the ARM version definitely is a black mark on the Surface.

I really don't get the love of the Pro though. They are heavy and don't get good battery life. That's fine for a laptop thing, but not for a tablet. And because of the compromises necessary to make it both, it just strikes me as a poor laptop and a poor tablet.
I'm having a hard time believing you aren't trolling, but in any case - nobody is taking American culture away from you, or forcing you not to drink your ass off during celebratory events. Notwithstanding that this was a professional environment, where alcohol during work hours is illegal in some places - why pressure someone who isn't into those things to do them? Many Americans are vegans. Will you force them to eat Turkey during Thanksgiving, or else get the fuck out of America?
> They're discounting thousands of Indian and Asian women

Aren't Indians also Asians?
Everything about this idea sounds like an awful experience for the user. My phone is my phone, not an advertising platform as so many developers seem to wish it was.

I don't want or need a bunch of adware installing itself onto my device without my consent, using my already limited bandwidth and wearing down my battery for no other reason than to increase Banana Republic's bottom line.

No thanks.
Sorry you experienced that profile update headache. If it's any consolation, we've fixed that. Some of the employers want you to apply on their site, we understand that but we do encourage them to accept applications through Jr.DevJobs.

Also, we're getting ready to roll out JobMatcher which takes your profile and matches it to jobs we think you'd be a great fit for. Basically, we'll find jobs for you. So your profile is used for more than just sending along with applications :)

Thanks for the feedback and again, I know how frustrating it can be to fill out a bunch of info only to lose it. My sincerest apologies, hope to hear from you again.
"bend over backward to accommodate people who don't want to accept, or at least tolerate, the basic aspects of American culture"

Drinking shots at work is not a 'basic aspect' of American culture.
Cheers mate, thank you for sharing, it illuminates the discussion well.
Not sure how much I should say. Advertising analytics. Fairly small cluster (<100). More for ad-hoc theory testing rather than anything regular.
Well, encryption with unknown back doors is better then no encryption, I suppose.
So if I don't like bacon and ask you to stop bringing it to lunch, will you do it? Why, because this is "your" country? My friend is actually a US citizen. If the majority of my coworkers are devout Christians, and they ask me to take off my desktop wallpaper because it contains elements of Hindu symbolism, is that permissible?
I gave a two-inch "proof" elsewhere in this comment thread. You don't need a thesis to reason about even numbers.
In the American context they're usually spoken of as separate cultural groups.
Did you read the comment I linked to where I provided those details?

Here it is again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826443

And if you want a longer version of that, you can go here: http://blog.okturtles.com/2014/02/introducing-the-dotdns-met...

> I'm no expert on CAs but saying their certs are not securely authenticated is worrying.

Yes. I'm glad we agree on that. :P
That always confused me too. In the UK Asian typically refers to South Asian. In the US I think if you called us South Asians and what you're currently calling Asians East Asians it might make things a little less confusing.
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Just on a point of fact, you can worship/reflect/meditate anywhere, of course. It's like being at a pop concert in some ways, the imagery was commissioned with a purpose - which at least in part was to aid worship of God - if everyone is waving cameras around that inhibits that purpose in a way which is easily remedied. Cutting back to the thread start I was offering a reason to prohibit photography in the Sistine Chapel that I felt was better than some others, that's all.

Second point: The Kaaba, in Mecca is only accessible to Muslims. There are Umrah/Hajj costs to pay to get anywhere near the Kaaba.
It didn't have to cause any harm; Zazzle did not have to react the way it did.

Yeah, maybe their lawyers advised Zazzle "not to risk it" and take down all the pi products. That is what lawyers are paid to do, but that doesn't make it the right business decision.

Lawsuit are not the only risk; by acting so foolishly, Zazzle pissed off a bunch of customers and generated a ton of bad press for themselves.
I think you need to do your research. Those guys are pretty packed. Their DC alone is money making like crazy. I know few folks that actually used their hosting services ~2 years ago - their pricing is among highest in industry.
Also they have dozens of small projects running.
TPB is running ads etc - what would be cost of running, 10 dedicated servers? And what would be the income? Around few hundred thousands?
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What makes you think they "forced" it on her?

The earlier commenter wrote that "her teammates pressured her".

While I don't know the particulars of this situation, it sure doesn't sound like they physically restrained her, forced open her mouth and poured alcohol down her throat, or anything that extreme.

It was probably just verbal encouragement to try something she apparently hadn't done before, delivered in a friendly, although perhaps overt, manner. This is pretty common within American culture, when facing somebody who hasn't indulged in something that most Americans have. They'll encourage you to try it, and if you resist, they'll still encourage you to try it.

Yes, somebody who isn't used to this aspect of American culture may consider it to be a form of "pressure". But the intent is probably good-natured, and it's more about helping somebody try new experiences rather than control.

Most of the Americans I've dealt with, especially in a work setting, would not truly force the consumption of alcohol on somebody else, of course. Explaining to them that you don't drink, for whatever reason, will very likely put the matter to rest quickly. They may still playfully poke fun at you because of it, but that's just part of American culture.
Bill weekly, offer a 10% discount for 100% pre-payment or you take at least 50% of the initial engagement up front. That cuts out clients for whom you've either a) not demonstrated enough value to or b) weren't going to pay you anyway.
I can't change the past, I can only change the future.
Sure, somebody has to ring the bell. But rest assured, this case was standing on its very own legs.

People have this tendency to jump to the "big questions" that the law and judges simply aren't concerned with. There was very clear evidence here, and your opinion of Amazon doesn't factor into it.
it's funny to consider trying to hide one of those bricks
It is not the role of work colleagues to "teach" people how to be American.

They should be tolerant, inclusive and understanding of people's differences. What you're proposing is the complete opposite and quite frankly it's people like you that are the problem in our industry.
Am I misreading this or are you actually advocating in support of monoculture? I don't think a comment could be more stereotypical of the attitudes at the heart of this problem.

> It's one thing to avoid overt, unjustified discrimination

Right, the more covert, justified kind is really what's best.

I also hope you don't consider deploys a "big" event. I do this multiple times a day (and I know Github does it even more). I'd have liver damage if this was normal.
Whoah, talk about burying the lede! TFA says that the root cause of the bug is Skype is adding tens of thousands of certs to the Trusted CA store on certain Windows boxen. Not sure what's worse, if it turns out that's a Skype bug or if it's by design...
This reminds me of he guy who hacked to prius to run on the Muni lines in SF --

http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/4717-hacked-prius-runn...
In the UK Indians are Asians.

In the rest of the world Asians means Oriental and are separate from Indians.