skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much do you want to bet violating such a ban would lead to immediate dismissal without tenure protections?

Another way to phrase that would be:
Teachers can violate such a ban temporarily.

It isn't blanket immunity and that isn't what I said.
I heard from someone on the Chrome team that the reason that Chrome respects this behavior is that many of these websites will resort to "please use a supported browser such as: Safari" tactics if Chrome ignores autocomplete=off. Those were one of the worst parts of the web 5+ years ago and I'd hate to see them come back for FF users.
Looking outside the Windows: consumer smartphone trends in supply chains
Oh wow - that looks terrible - will fix now!

Update: I didn't realise transparency wasn't consistent across browsers/monitors. Is it better now?
> their primary language

I read somewhere that Microsoft settled on C89 for the Windows kernel etc. so as far as their primary language goes their compiler implements it just fine.
A voucher system that properly enabled children in poor neighborhoods (by covering the related costs) would be a good idea.
Unless it's been changed in the past couple of years, XFS can't be shrunk at all.
I'm looking to help a select few businesses with digital marketing and growth
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White seems unaware of the extent to which photographers manipulate things in the darkroom.

Ironically enough, given O'Brien's app joke, Ansel Adams made extensive use of darkroom techniques to basically "Photoshop" before there was Photoshop.

At the end of the day, though, if you have no taste, no artistic vision, then technology isn't going save you or your work.
So teachers can only teach evolution temporarily until the school board fires them and implements Creationism?
Devmapper (thin lvm/dm-thin) AFAIK, AuFS is not supported by RHEL at all.
> tenure is supposed to protect the freedom to research unpopular topics, not the freedom to be unproductive, however, I think [tenure] does confer [low productivity] as a side benefit at least as you say "in the shortest term".

Perverse incentives are intense in the research community and they're getting worse as the supply/demand imbalance in the academic labor market continues to grow. My experience is that non-tenured professors tend to dramatically overproduce flashy media-bait ("scientific debt," if you will). Tenure is the only mechanism we have to balance that out, which means it's becoming more and more important every day.

> It never made sense in the public schools, of course, and has always just been a way to transfer money from taxpayers' wallets to the Democrat party's coffers via a helpfully corrupt public sector union.

I find teachers far less objectionable as money-funnling mechanisms than the defense and dirty-energy industries.
> You have a women who has provably given birth to children that don't share her DNA, and who is bringing them up as her children.

Yes, so? Stealing someone's kids is OK if you then bring them up while, of course, on welfare?
Customer preferences for slower moving prices are just like customer preferences for lower prices. They must be traded off against customer preferences for availability.

If prices didn't move then the market wouldn't clear, and some capacity or demand (at the current price) would be wasted.
There are a few thousand users trusting us (and counting!) so I can guarantee I will do anything to avoid disappointing them !
>I would be interested to hear if there would be anything preventing ISPs from charging their customers more...

Public backlash? Large ISPs are losing subscribers on their normally profitable video and voice packages. Most have a monopoly or duopoly on the data packages, but raising prices will bring more attention to their monopolistic ways, attention they will have to buy off with more and more bribes and lobbying which would also offset any profits.

Since they can't recover profits because of complaining customers and they can't lower profits because of complaining share holders they need to find alternative sources of revenue.
This Is What Happens When You Let A Monopoly Own The Last Mile
>Price has always been about demand versus supply

True, but it needs one of the two following conditions:

1. In the long run
2. In a fairly competitive market
Ask HN: Best (up-to-date) books for learning Java EE?
I'll be beginning an internship position shortly for a large company in a Java web development position, and I was hoping some kind folks could refer me to your favorite go-to references for studying Java EE, and Java web development (incorporating the cloud)?

Thank you
Alternatively...

sudo ifconfig en1 ether `openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'`

Credit where it's due: http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/01/change-mac-address-os-x/
President Obama Hits Up The Youths On Tumblr
s/carpenter/cobbler
Some thoughts on using TrueCrypt safetly
The Challenges of Democratizing News and Information (pdf)
Thats the hardest part. I built something similar, although not anonymous (http://startupjob.me) and collecting is tough.

What I have been trying is incentivizing the candidate to also check back in if they have been hired. That way you don't have to rely on the companies alone.
Learn a new thing every day! Thank you.
Which SNP should I be looking at on the CYP2D6 gene in my 23andme?
> I think Tim painted his own feet in the mirror.

Nice easter egg! You can see the legs of the table and his feet.
Kernel code is being made C++ compliant according to a BUILD session when the going native wave started.

As of Windows 8 is possible to use C++ for kernel code (vc++ got a new flag /kernel).
> is there a fair counterargument that justifies verizon's desire to charge both consumers for high-speed access and netflix for increased network usage?

The closest approximation is "as a publicly traded company they owe it to their shareholders to make as much money as possible"
We serve the page depending on the language of your browser. Default is english. We machine translated spanish and portugese, so they probably look really awkward sometimes... French is our native language, and english translation should be good. (we use node module i18next).
We'll soon be cross-platform.
Because they don't have ready-made ubuntu images, so you have to make your own first.

The simpler solution is to use their ready-made Debian images, which can be easily configured via CLI or API.
Using Ansible to create and configure EC2 instances for Rails hosting
Visual Studio 2013 launch

http://events.visualstudio.com/eng/visual-studio-2013-launch...

At minute 18:51. Focus is C++, there are no plans for C conformance.
FTFA: The film implies anyone can make a beautiful work of art with the right application of science. There is no need for mystical ideas like genius.

The film implies no such thing. I saw the movie a few months ago and it was pretty clear they believed that a Vermeer was more than simply technique.
Analyzing data in Statwing

Select variables

Analyze

Video Tutorial

[ VIDEO TUTORIAL HERE ]
Yes. And then they eventually would get fired for it.

This isn't about protecting a progressive viewpoint against a conservative one. It is about protecting teachers from being forced to service Political Viewpoint X or lose their job immediately.
Yes, but in that case, his enemies won't be!
How can I make you more confident ? Emailing it to you for instance ? with a "send me my predictions by email" button ?
Startup literally wants to turn your tech garbage into gold
Money is fungible. Costs to service providers /must/ be passed to those paying bills. There is no logical difference between costs to content providers and direct charges to customers.

The argument provided is an illustration to demonstrate who is paying in the end.
Step #3 is the hardest. You're not going to be able to hire yourself and get a visa for yourself as an employee for your own company, except under very specific circumstances which probably don't apply here.
Google Imagines People As Applications
from the FIFA official website http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/index.html ? May I ask you why you ask this question (not sure I understood it as you meant it) ?
Report: 84% Of Web Traffic Will Be Video By 2018
Utau – a Japanese singing synthesizer application
Why is everyone so excited about deep learning?
When you say "bandwidth to price ratio is shitty in this country," are you in a country where you pay $79.95/month for 250GB quota on ADSL2+ which connects at 6Mbps?

http://www.iinet.net.au/internet/broadband/adsl/
> Say, if I publish my findings and 100 people follow and see increases in their intelligence, then five years later it is published that my methods are rubbish. Will that invalide the intelligence increases these 100 people have experienced?

If that happens, then you've learned something very useful: whatever methods and conclusions led you or those 100 people to the conclusion that their intelligence increased - is rubbish.
You'd want to do so to check for dup usernames, for instance.
You don't want Java EE if you can possibly avoid it. If this is your first time doing web development you'll probably need something specific to the framework in use wherever you're interning (there are useful general things to learn, but you need to have a base of examples before you can start to make sense of the general principles). See if you can find out the specific framework they're using, and then look at their tutorials - or better still, start writing a webapp using it.
Is it though? I know standards are important, but what does it really cost a browser maker to be able to resolve paths with backslashes? Similarly, is it really that big of a deal to support background-position-x and y? The prime example of something should have been a spec from the beginning.
We considered this pretty seriously, and it might be required some day, but we think we'll be able to incrementally move toward a more highly available, better performing architecture without a continuity break.
Regarding money, we didn't want to bother integrating it as well. We wanted to keep it simple (stay away from the hassle of paperwork for a gambling website), and user friendly (I always feel dubious regarding online betting platforms...)
This is exactly what I'm really curious about
So teachers will also eventually get fired for teaching Evolution in a Creationist school district. Tenure doesn't seem to actually do anything other than add red tape and drag out the process. Voters, via school boards, get their say either way. Teachers just get fired in two years rather than a month. Why not just mandate that all employees in all businesses can't be fired for two years after being hired?

And if you're arguing that tenure isn't about protecting radical ideas, but instead about job security regardless of political ideas, why should teachers have more job security than anyone else?
I like the built-in tools, but the two things I like in Firebug and use extensively are the DOM inspector and pretty printing JSON results in the Net panel for API calls.
Well, in practice we write programs that behave well within the type system we are using. Thus, no, you won't find those very often, but it also does not mean that there is no problem.
Sounds like there's some balance to be struck here. I imagine you would want to fire teachers who teach their students that the Earth is 6000 years old, or other crap like that (and I'd agree with you). Preventing administrators from ever firing a teacher seems like an over-reaction.
Ask HN Taking off a site that I made myself for a deadbeat client LLC
Well, the mytho that a developer get a lot of money only fly in USA, maybe?.

Outside it? Well, at least in latin america US 5000/Year is normal.

A lot of good developers I know are clearly below the hour rate one in USA get. We do it because we love to programming, but here is well know that is very hard to be "rich" as a developer.

In fact, that is why I quit my job then do my own projects, consulting and freelance: I still not get a lot of money -however, I charge more than a lot of my peers (us 30-40/h), but certainly can work with things I like more.
Hadn't seen this before but it's interesting, their 'number of weekday riders' section is similar to the way we displayed station entrances over time. Thanks for the link!
Climate change heats up 'quants' v old school forecast battle
Show HN: What are you listening to?
Yes: https://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=5765

It wasn't ready in time to coincide with Firefox 30 (which removed our default debugger interface, so our release had to go out).

You can star the issue to get updated on progress.
Python doesn't have checked exceptions.
If zip is following the 'functional' definition, it should only return a list of the length of the shorter of the two inputs. In Haskell:

zip :: [a] -> [b] -> [(a, b)]

Not:

zip :: [a] -> [b] -> [(Maybe a, Maybe b)]

If you want to allow processing a sequence of tails, you could have:

zipWithTail :: [a] -> [b] -> ([(a, b)], Either [a] [b])

Which would return a list of pairs and a list of either the tail of the first or the second input, whichever was longer.
Thanks. Believe it or not, I'm not a big fan of most abstract art. I think the problem for me is that it's too easy to hack. Instead of going through years of art training and study, you really can just go throw a bunch of paint on a canvas and it's virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
The data itself is really interesting! But the UI, gee, lots of frustration with tiny scrollbars, things not fitting on my large monitor, mal-aligned tables if scrolled right, gigantic help screen appearing everytime you close something, ">" and "$" of the values used in alphabetical sorting, ... I'd prefer oldschool HTML tables over this...
We are still in the process of deciding how/where to open source the project, stay tuned.
Angular.js Unit Testing Tricks Part 1
Cars are regulated much less than planes, yet self-driving cars are an excellent example of technology that has been delayed due to risk-averse, slow-to-change legislation.

The problem is that while legislators and rule-makers often react quickly when restricting things, they are very loath to repeal restrictions. A work-around is to permit most things by default, then restrict in reaction to specific issues.

Two excellent examples of squandered potential are general aviation and amateur radio. Both have been encumbered by nationwide rules that quickly became outdated. (Seriously, Morse code?) I'm very worried the FAA will do the same to drones. After all, that's what they're incentivized to do. They only get fired when someone is killed by a new technology. They aren't commended when millions benefit from it.

On the other hand, the FAA could drastically accelerate drone development with one simple rule: Allow cities and states to make their own laws regarding anything less than 10kg flying under 400ft. This includes commercial use.[1]

That's it. If local governments want to experiment, let them.

1. Of course there would be the normal restrictions around airports, military bases, etc. Also, temporary restrictions for VIPs such as the president make sense.
Just make sure you do it properly the first time, and don't trust the telcos when they tell you they'll "self regulate". Otherwise you'll end up with the mess that Australia has, which led to the previous Government setting up the NBN project.

Not only that, but any time a retail ISP submits complaints about a customer's service, Telstra calls the customer directly and tells them that their problems will go away if they subscribe to a Telstra plan (and the problems do go away, strangely enough).

So make sure there is a proper separation of the infrastructure and retail portions of the telco behemoth right from day 1. Otherwise you'll be dealing with a situation that is worse than what you have now.
Yup, same one. Cool.
Any idea or links on what the background of the founders is? How do you get trained in the kind of technology that a startup of this kind needs?
Iron browser = Chrome without Google.
Online data migrations are complicated and error prone. We deemed it not worth it.

All the code was tested before going live, but at some point you actually have to move and re-format all 8.5 million files.
It's not clear how one can get the serial number from the drone. ADS-B might be an option not only for tracking violators but also to solve "see-and-avoid" problem too.
You make big claims about what other people perceive. This is a straw-man. Clearly it makes /you/ rage, but I suspect it is because it threatens you with cognitive dissidence.

I've experienced this with other MSO engineers. Some MSO engineers even argue that charging a content provider to access their mutual customers is not a rent seeking behavior.
Hi joyinsky, do you happen to be in Brasil ? I realised that a js plugin was crashing in some timezones (tz_manager.js), I have to fix this...
"The quality of the local services would be backed by Amazon's "A-to-z Guarantee" which the company uses to vouch for items sold by third-party sellers on its website, the sources said."

Last time I checked, you have 5 lifetime chances to invoke the ultimate form of this ... which is perhaps enough. There's only been one time I've been tempted to do that, but decided the stakes weren't high enough.

The customer feedback system, though, is golden. I find that if I stick to merchants with a 96% or higher rating my experiences are good.
Usage-paid highways have been standard in some countries for ages - they just use toll bridges at every entrance and exit and deduce your price from entrance and exit position.
I put together a quick-and-dirty excel plot of the data: http://imgur.com/uyFkjSB

It's plotting the relative speedup of each router's benchmark vs the slowest benchmark on that dataset. (For example, Beego's performance on the GithubStatic dataset was 12 times faster than the slowest GithubStatic dataset performance)

Fastest overall routers are sorted left to right. Keep in mind that the vertical scale is logarithmic, so implementations on the left are more than 100 times faster than those on the far right.
Google Owns a Satellite Now
No, that makes perfect sense. The ones with the high SO rep are the ones that have the most time on their hands, the others are clocking up paid hours.
Two-Click Reminder 2014 Release 4 is now available
Bootstrap Coming Soon Page
There are 114 accounts that share the same lowercase representation.
I had the same experience over 10 years ago - and I was actually at SGI back then.

But that was then. This is now. I'm curious how things have changed meanwhile. I'm going to give this thing a spin.

I also remember the massive performance and effortless delivery of XFS under concurrent access, while using large files. That was fantastic. I would expect that's still the case now.
We used to run UFS and we tuned both the kernel itself and the dirhash settings. Now we run ZFS.
It's not great art, but there's a bunch of videos on youtube demonstrating it. Apparently there are English packs as well.

Here's something somebody spent way too much time working on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8GKzBhAgQo

and another

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd62XA4Tp_8
A few observations:

• There are other revenue models online. Notably, Amazon, Apple, Google, eBay, and Etsy are all employing direct sales. This cuts out the role of advertising and focuses instead on intent. It's also directly monetizeable. I'm watching to see who can apply this to main street, offering a hybrid online/offline shopping system (I'd like to be able to research and order online, but pay and/or arrange for delivery offline). I'm struck by how small online sales are having consistently undershot growth forecasts in recent years. Federated retail is one such approach. http://redd.it/22om3p http://redd.it/243in1

• Advertising is a hugely negative experience in many, many ways: http://redd.it/24107v

• The medium is the message. Both technolgies for information and entertainment, and the business models supporting them, have had tremendous levels of influence on what forms of media are available and provided. A quick off-the-top-of-my-head listing: http://redd.it/278e2o

• Advertising has severe perverse incentives on media. Much of the present weaponized clickbait, viral media, and other misfeatures are a direct result of ad-optimized content. The faster it dies the better: http://redd.it/23twec

• Mass-marketing advertising itself is largely a creature of a number of accidents of history. Consumer culture (dating to Wedgewood China and mid-19th century England, see James Burke, The Day The Universe Changed: 6 "Credit Where It's Due"), broadcast media in which content was widely distributed (now rapidly fragmenting into microchannels, though costs remain low), a proliferation of consumer goods for which demand had to be engineered (possibly ending, and while the 3D printing / micromanufacture model may be overhyped, it's one possible avenue out), and a growth-oriented economy (as well as a financial system which absolutely relies on it).

• For content, at least, there are several ways out. I'd be particularly interested in seeing a broadband tax or content syndication scheme (the first is a proposal of Phil Hunt's, of the UK Pirate Party, the latter my own) tried. To a first approximation the dollars work out. http://redd.it/1vknhc http://redd.it/1uotb3

There's also Don Marti's observation that a key function of indiscriminate advertising is a brand-strength signalling message which is lost in microtargeted advertising. The waste is the useful part: http://zgp.org/~dmarti/business/targeting-better-is-worse/

In a sense, advertising becomes a Veblen good, signalling status: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
hmm, but didn't Chrome start ignoring autocomplete=off for password fields[1]? And Safari was already doing it, and now it's not even an option to turn it back on.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromiu...
I don't know how Netflix figures out that it's Verizon that's slow, but lets say it's with some software that anyone could use. Wouldn't it benefit the entire Internet to open source that software so that anyone could use it? Or, barring that, provide an API that anyone can query.

This way, any company can use the software and report the same thing to their customers. Lower the barrier to entry for Amazon/Google/Hulu/your startup to join the fight and inform the people.
Or go completely other way and get the most basic MIDI controller and play around with Pure Data, SuperCollider and other fun stuff. Not saying that would better, but might be more approachable by the HN crowd and probably cheaper too.
I don't see either the font file or the vector artwork in this distribution
As someone with debt and family and school obligations... It can be very hard to act on something like that. I feel trapped.