skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disturbingly creepy to think that stores would even think of doing this, but on the other hand it's also an indication of how clueless the general population is about the amount of identifiable data they're unconsciously "leaking" through personal, (nearly) always-on devices. My laptop is setup with a random MAC precisely to prevent this sort of tracking.

Interestingly, the unbranded Android phones I have (one looks very much like an iPhone, ironically enough) all came with this "feature" of a random MAC every time the WiFi is turned on/off, although that was more likely the manufacturer not bothering to give each one a unique MAC.

All the more reason to keep the WiFi turned off unless you're actually using it, and this might be a bit on the paranoid side, but I do the same for the cell radio (airplane mode) - it's on only when I'm expecting a call or making one.

At the other end of the scale, this tracking via MAC almost invites making them think several million customers have suddenly entered the store...
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Honest question: would a union help protect workers here?

I know many people here don't like unions in practice (corruption, stagnation, etc.), but isn't this kind of thing exactly what unions are for? It seems like employers are adding these because the feel they have more negotiating power.
Noncompete clauses are bullshit.

We already have an extensive infrastructure in place to protect the intellectual property and trade secrets of companies, including NDAs and those clauses assigning ownership of anything you produce to your employer. But the idea that companies can overstep this bound and place restrictions on how you can use your brain and your general knowledge to produce new, creative work that has only a secondary or tertiary relation to their IP is utterly vile.

If the technology existed to erase memories from brains, would these employers insist in their employment clauses that employees who resign must have any professional knowledge acquired on the job erased from existence? This is almost the same thing. If you are an engineer in a niche field, in particular, being barred from that field for a year or more is tantamount to rendering your professional knowledge obsolete.
Many non-compete clauses already do this, especially in finance.
I am currently in Wisconsin under a non compete clause, I couldn't find many laws that help support inventors or software developers.
Right; I'm guessing, however, that those covering hair stylists or summer camp counselors typically do not.
You'd be surprised how easy it is to negotiate around this, assuming you're in such a position.

In either case, always make sure you review the terms and really think about where you'll be if you're let go or quit in the next 2-3 years.
The first nuclear pile of note was under the University of Chicago's stadium, if memory serves. I wouldn't sweat it.
IME the most reliable way to do this is with a udev rule.

Here's my setup (Fedora, so YMMV).
/etc/udev/rules.d/51-macchanger.sh:

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="iwlwifi", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/change-mac.sh wlp0s1"

/usr/local/bin/change-mac.sh:

#!/bin/bash
(
if [ "$#" != "1" ]
then
echo "mac changer script must be given iface name as argument: $@"
echo "Using default of wlp0s1 instead."
iface="wlp0s1"
else
iface=$1
fi

/usr/sbin/ifconfig $iface down
/bin/macchanger -r -b $iface #change to any random MAC address
/usr/sbin/ifconfig $iface up
) >/var/log/change-mac

Note that you would need to specify the correct interface name in the udev rule (or figure out a way to get it dynamically--I never bothered). This also only works for Intel WiFi cards that use the iwlwifi driver; other cards with different drivers need their udev rule changed appropriately.
Yeah, D has it too. It's a good feature.
Sign the strictest non compete you can - if it's too strict in most states, even the less strict clauses are voided immediately. Research first but that's usually true.
It should be a crowd-sourced service like Yelp where people rate individuals and individuals get a star rating from 1 to 5 stars.
I have extended the list to include 1065 sites + 2 calibration sites. It's also now much faster and much, much more accurate.
I'd prefer if they were just banned like in California. I struggle to believe the fact that California is the only place where non-competes are much harder to enforce isn't a major contributor to the success of the tech (Silicon Valley) & film (Hollywood) industries. Even here in the UK, companies offering zero-hours contracts have started to try and impose non-competes.
Actually it's the opposite - GM crops often build natural resistance in the plant (bt for instance), which reduces the use of pesticides (chain saw, many farmers overuse) often resulting in a healthier ecosystem. All the bugs that don't eat / harm the crop survive except the pest that eats it. Pesticides kill a lot more.

Ultimately, each plant makes tens of thousands of proteins. PROTEIN! Each one of these is made from the exact same amino acids all life is made from. a GM crop is genetically modified to have proteins it didn't have before... so all it makes is extra protein, again, from the exact same amino acids that's your flesh and blood.
As dbaupp said it's only an optimisation. So you should be able to use mainline LLVM now. Therefore using PS4 with Rust wouldn't be too complicated.
This seems like an extension of the growing trend towards believing that ideas are property. Given that ideas can be developed independently, ideas are not property in any real sense, and therefore require state support to enforce.

But anyway, this is a bad, bad trend.
You may have been lucky, but I'd suggest looking at http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do

There's been plenty of debate about whether this rapid DHCP behavior is desirable (e.g. Is the improvement in user experience worth the potential for conflicts and/or other issues on networks not expecting this?), but, either way, I don't see how that behavior can be fairly characterized as polite.
Would a Google car sacrifice you for the sake of the many?
The main non-compete that unions are worried about is making sure non-members can't compete with members, or members without a particular occupational classification can't compete for jobs which "belong to" other members. For example, if you're setting up your startup's booth at a unionized conference hall, be prepared to be told you cannot plug in a Macbook because you'd be competing with qualified union electricians.
Managed to invade a square that had 3 castles on it.
Only got one of them as a vassal though, which was quite a disappointment.
This is mostly one city that has already filled an ecologically sensitive river valley and is completely surrounded by mountains. The expansion has to go somewhere. There are plenty of problems with this proposal and execution so far, but the most obvious alternative of continuing to develop along the river is worse by far.
it's production ready — however it's still very early in the life of the framework, so expect the unexpected.
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The writing is optimized for skim reading. The idea is that, whether you choose to read just two words, twenty words, or the whole thing, they'll still get their message across.
You mean Netscape.
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Writing can be fun, grammar is just one constraint we leverage during writing, and easily bent to meet primeval rhythm requirements. Writing is like composing music, it is written conversation that flows as if you were talking through the paper, with additional constraints to match the medium.

The best way to become good at writing is to do it a lot and receive lots of critique. Style and grammar guides aren't very useful.
Haskell does have an Any type, but because of it's functional nature it's not as useful as in an OO language.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6479444/is-there-a-type-a...
I don't know exactly how Eugene works, but I am quite sure like most chat bots it simply reacts to keywords or preprogrammed patterns. Basically it's Eliza [0], but with more scripts. I believe most people here would not give it credit for winning an intelligence test.

There is actually more than one bot, which has been claimed to have passed the Turing Test before. Cleverbot is one of them [1]. There are also several competitions, but I believe the most reputable and long standing one is the Loebner Prize [2]. The bot that currently holds the Loeber Prize is Mitsuku [3].

Anyway, you can chat with Eugene at [4], I gave it a try. I believe there is one thing that the creators of Eugene got right. When chatting with other chat bots, I usually in a situation where the bot says something, I ask I followup question (like "Why?"), and it gives a generic answer like "Because I say so" or "I don't know". Eugene does the same but will ask a unrelated followup question right together with the response. That way at least there is not a weird pause in the conversation.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

[1] http://www.geekosystem.com/cleverbot-passes-turing-test/

[2] http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

[3] http://www.mitsuku.com

[4] http://www.princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp
I dislike things like this. There are tons of FREE, valuable resources online about grammar and writing.

Why pay for this book? There is no reason. There isn't anything special about writing for "creators" -- and if there is, this author hasn't shown capability. Just look at the bullet points. They all end with a semi-colon. While that can be grammatically correct, there are many accepted versions here and a semi-colon won't do anything but simply confuse most users.

Follow best practices from the big players' splash pages. This book looks unworthy of a reading even if it was free.
SpaceX open positions
> The core difference is that programmers do new things every time.

Boy, it's just as well human biology is so perfectly deteministic and well-understood it can be trivially mapped out, unlike the vastly more complicated field of software development.
Do you REALLY know JavaScript?
They do a pretty good job of regulating government.
Some more information from Gizmodo:

http://gizmodo.com/5921698/what-its-like-to-judge-the-turing...

(linked from http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-computer-in-history-to-... )
> If I could have a tool to 1) remove all styling from a site, 2) reduce it to fundamental semantic markup (and here the HTML5 standard actually does provide a solid framework), and 3) apply my own preferred settings (fonts, margins, font-size, foreground/background colors) to every damned page, with minimal styling allowed, I'd be far happier.

You might like to read the web in Emacs.

For just reading long articles, it's great.

If you want to read Twitter or Tumblr or whatever, it's got modes for those too, in a nice experience.
there is a movie about that
While I don't agree with the simplistic neo-conservative view of just try to spread democracy everywhere, I think your critiques are unfair.

> corporations are people, my friend!

Of course they are. Corporations are groups of people pooling their resources. Why would people lose rights by acting together with other people?

> less rule of law (if not by voting, by actions: be it sexual misconduct -- from rape to child molestation

I don't think there is any wing of American politics in favor of rape or child molestation. I'm assuming this comment refers to a particular event that I'm not aware of.

> or outright abuse of power for personal monetary gain

That's just power + human nature. I don't think it follows party lines.

> less individual rights (from gay marriage to the surveillance state).

I agree, conservatives have been stupid on gay marriage. Why would the same people who always advocate family values want to prevent people who care deeply for each other from forming new families?

As for the surveillance state, that seems to be about the same on both sides of the political spectrum.
> “Noncompetes reduce the potential for poaching,” said Mr. Hazen, whose company makes scratch lottery tickets and special packaging. “We consider them an important way to protect our business. As an entrepreneur who invests a lot of money in equipment, in intellectual property and in people, I’m worried about losing these people we’ve invested in.”

Then do everything you can to keep them (pay them well, create a workplace where autonomy, mastery, and purpose are the norm, etc). Spending that $$ on your people instead of lawyering up to take away a former employee's livelihood when they find a better opportunity is a terrible way to run your business.
You mean...'even if it WERE free.'
In a country where everything is measured by GDP growth, it isnt surprising.

Mountains actually do affect climate as well...couple with deforestation and making huge dams...
While we can acknowledge that the more expansive definition of "garbage collection" includes ARC, we can still simultaneously hold another definition of "gc" to not include ARC when discussing Apple & Swift. That's the way Apple documentation and most others are using that term.

Apple docs:

"Garbage collection is deprecated in OS X Mountain Lion v10.8, and will be removed in a future version of OS X. Automatic Reference Counting is the recommended replacement technology."[1]

[1]https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/objecti...

[2]http://lists.apple.com/archives/objc-language/2011/Jun/msg00...

If we don't use the more common understanding of gc, Apple's documentation doesn't make sense. If we do a substitution of Apple's verbage using ARC==GC, we get nonsense such as:

"Garbage collection (which includes ARC) is deprecated in OS X Mountain Lion v10.8, and will be removed in a future version of OS X. Automatic Reference Counting (which is also part of garbage collection) is the recommended replacement technology."

With the insistence on ARC==GC, we'd have to parse that sentence as garbage collection is being removed and replaced with garbage collection.
There may be some room to negotiate as an engineer. As a hair stylist or a summer camp counselor, the terms usually tend to be closer to the take it or leave it variety.
Using iBeacon wouldn't really be a solution for this, unless the store could depend on a significant proportion of users both installing their app and clicking the "yes, you can talk to iBeacons" option when it first runs. For most stores this won't be the case.
Unlikely to be true; non-competes, like most other contracts, include clauses that explicitly allow portions to be invalidated without invalidating the whole. In any case, if you're in a position to have to worry about that, you're likely already in court.

Consult a lawyer, and don't sign anything you're not prepared to abide by.
I think astroturfing would work best if you did something like a targeted Onion like site, where the cynical members of the population of the people you are trying to turn wrote the propaganda themselves in a "Mother Night" [0] sorta way.

The turfers would think they are writing satire when the are really the steel cut gears of vertically integrated oppression.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Night
I thought that was an obvious example of a computer system, as it was a labored and overly detailed description. I would have immediately flagged it as a computer system, and not a human.
Thanks for playing and the feedback!! Found a few major bugs. I'm going to fix them all then reset the game in a few weeks.
How Weta Digital used MoCap to animate Bomburs bouncing barrel
Probably the fact that IMSI-catchers are illegal.
Many (and I would guess most) don't.
Noncompetes except in the most specific of cases is categorically stupid. And even in those rare cases, still feels nasty. I do understand where its useful in keeping a major dominant player/nigh monopolist from picking up key talent from up and coming competitors, but thats about it.
I do agree with the general point that at least they should pay the employee bound by such agreements, so as to eliminate frivolous use. If it's really economically important to a firm, they are more likely to demonstrate that by paying a cost.

But, is there really any reason not to outright ban them? Specifically, are there any strong economic arguments for allowing these?

It seems like everyone is worse off in an economy when talent has to sit on ice because these contracts, even if they still collect a salary they are no longer contributing to the wealth engine of society. It discourages more efficient uses of labor when people are effectively married to a company. It also seems like an inherently unfair practice with at-will employment being the rule.

This sounds like one of those ideas people hold up as protecting small businesses or start-ups from big corporations, but really doesn't end up being an advantage.
I think that's rare enough now that strong encryption is readily available for wireless, but yes, it would be a problem.
Send me a chat in the game and I'll rename you.
The semicolons only work for short sentence fragment bucket points; the last points are a bit long for semi colons. It is generally started by a colon (you will learn: not what you will learn), and the last semicolon should include an "and.' They should have just used complete sentences for each point here with periods rather than semicolons.

I agree that the leading text doesn't provide me with much confidence, but I'm not in the market for such a book. It might be useful for those grasping at something to get started, but free sources are available...or one could invest in a well used writing style guide (my advisor suggested this approach, it didn't work for me).
Perhaps you'd like to share?
These are always fun to watch. Here's one of Apple's versions if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bjve67p33E

Microsoft still maintains its "home of the future". I think they update it every 3-5 years or so. Here's a newer one I found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vsoBsgqoEg. It's pretty funny to see how the set, from what I can tell, is basically identical.

And here's another Microsoft video about the "future of productivity" made back in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0
Are you sure this isn't a router problem? A number of routers have an issue where they occasionally drop their table of DHCP allocations and just start again; this mostly only manifests when a new device connects.
Well about half of all Jews speak english better than you or I.
I was bothered by that too.

I also noticed that the adverb form indicating skill is spelled two different ways on this page.

There is also a lack of parallelism in the bullet lists.
That's a good point. The problem is applying noncompete clause to every employee of the company, regardless of their position.

I guess enforcing noncompete is just easier than NDA because it might be very hard, if not impossible, to prove disclosure. I understand noncompetes for executives, etc. People who could seriously harm their employer with their knowledge (client list, etc) if transferred to a competitor.

But yes, applying noncompete to every employee regardless of the position is a bit silly.
Great tech, but am I the only one who noticed "administrated"?
Short-sighted thinking. Environmental and structural concerns aside, what about the irrevocable destruction of natural beauty? When I visited China, its massive rolling hills, peppered with rural farms, were one of the most beautiful natural vistas I'd ever seen.
Ask HN: Is there still demand for Smalltalk programmers?
The fact that you need a large area is largely (!) irrelevant, what matters is the cost per energy unit. Except possibly in Seattle, most American single-family houses have enough roof area to generate their annual electricity usage, including that for a hypothetical EV, using current PV panels. Add area used for parking, and you have more potential in densely populated areas. Storage is still an issue, though.
That would be a popularity contest, not a fact checking service.
ALL of them need reclassification to common carrier status. Then their exec staffs need to be Clockwork Oranged.

We are a laughing stock against the broadband in almst any other industrial state AND we have these mendacious toads astroturfing pure nonsense.
> But do non-framrate limited games and regular apps need ref-count GC? I suggest no, they do not.

Practically the first piece of advice usually given when someone asks "how do I make my Android app non-laggy" is to avoid allocation wherever possible; even a single frame drop due to a GC pause when the user is scrolling a list, say, can be noticeable.
Thanks for the advice! It was on my list of todos, but I was more interested in getting to the point where I could experiment with a federated leadership.

I started implementing checksums (on uploads and replicating) and found an error in my upload process, so it's already been useful. At some point I'll add it to the download part and start background scrubbing. The cluster already re-balances on-the-fly, so it'll just need a background routine to remove the files and update the node state.
You can apply this argument to literally any technology. It's worthless. The world would not be better off without GMO crops than with, and it would be even better with alternatives like planting more milkweed.
even if it is on vibrate?
The increase of genetic complexity follows Moore’s law (2013) [pdf]
Good luck trying to find a judge that would enforce a non-compete for basically any employee below a C-level title.

You can't sneak a non-compete clause in with no compensation for it and expect it to hold up in court.
That would be true in an ideal world, with no greed and where every employee loves his company.

But in our world, dealing this way might get nasty with some people. "Pay me $$$ or I am leaving for XYZ tomorrow". Wouldn't call that kind of employees toxic or something. Just everyone has a different number.

It's especially true for niche businesses, like scratch tickets. I guess finding a technologist (or whatever) for such a company is a bit harder than finding a jQuery or Rails guy :)
I remember visiting a walk-through of this house back in the day here in SF. Amazing how so much of it has come to fruition, yet Microsoft has been responsible for so little of it.
I think he/she means Paycheck: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338337/
You seem to not know that assets, not just income, are used in the determination
From the article:

"Daniel McKinnon, who had been a hairstylist in Norwell, Mass., lost a court battle with his former employer who claimed that Mr. McKinnon had violated the terms of his agreement when he went to work at a nearby salon."
Which apps did you use? I have a difficult time unfollowing people. I try to purge my following list often, but I never make much progress.
Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(film)
This is interesting because in CA, a non-compete is almost pointless - its illegal under state law, no matter what your term-sheet says. I think there's an argument that in some cases it may make sense, but those situations are the exceptions, not the rule.
Mistakes happen because of people following (or not following) processes, according to their training, education, and experience, enabled or hindered by controls, according to currently available information and courses of action, acting within a system of incentives.

Punishing people for making mistakes might motivate the lazy, but it will not fix systemic issues.

>Also, the reason pilots have less mistakes is because a computer pretty much does 99% of the work. This is not the case with surgery and medicine. Humans still do most of the work.

A number of recent high-profile crashes were blamed, in part, on pilots' manual flying skills getting rusty due to the prevalence of automation. If anything, automation is a leading cause of pilot error.