skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It will be an expected part of the design process just like people will begin to expect this level of activity and character in software."

Which design process is this? Maybe at places at Google or agencies handling Fortune 500 companies, but the majority of jobs simply don't have the budget to experiment in any considered kind of process. Therefore, any animation is just a tacked on after thought.

Have you seen the web? The majority of it is completely shit because clients don't have the budget or balls for us to do interesting stuff.
Try reading more casually... such as just the headline.
I wasn't clear. I couldn't figure out how to express my full point concisely, so I left it short and potentially misleading. I had hoped the meaning was implied, but I see now it wasn't. Thanks for pointing that out – I definitely didn't mean to say attractive women are less intelligent!

When I said "less likely" I meant "less likely than if you were looking for intelligence specifically".

So maybe, odds of intelligence when looking for it = 25%
Odds of intelligence in general population = 10%
Odds of intelligence when searching by attractiveness = 10%

I didn't mean attractive women are less intelligent. I meant that by searching for attraction he's less likely to find intelligence than if he were searching specifically for intelligence.
I think "works" can include digital artifacts — to my understanding, this was part of the Mozilla Foundation's rationale for exemption. But Mozilla's "public work" was the Internet as a free platform, not just some piece of software used by some unidentified group of people. Mozilla compared the Internet to a public road, and depicted its role in maintaining the Web as a free and open platform as being similar to ensuring that roads are well-kept and accessible to everyone.

Yorba's application appears to have been more along the lines of, "We make free software. Poor people can use free software and other programmers can learn from it." (I'm basing this on the IRS's response — I can't find a full copy of Yorba's application anywhere.) So I can kind of see why that appears less compelling from a "public works" perspective to the IRS.
Oyun Oyna – Oyunlar – Zeka Oyunları
En güzel ve yeni oyunların adresi oyun42.com sizleri eğlendirmek için bu sektörde en yeni zeka oyunlarını ve ateş ve su oyunlarını oynayabilirsiniz.
No need for a blacklist either, I don't believe there's been a single example of a malware using a purely DNS based C&C (e.g by utilizing TXT records) instead of using DNS to get the IP address for the C&C server.

Of course there's always an exception, in this case there exists DNS beacons included in pentesting suite Cobalt Strike, but that doesn't seem to be something widely used.
Isn't free open source a public work? It seems to meet the criteria as almost everyone has a computer...
I'm no fan of the current system (being an immigrant worker in the US myself), but I don't understand your proposal. Are you saying that immigration officers should have the authority to selectively apply rules because someone is a "social entrepreneur" instead of, say, a farm worker?

That sounds like a recipe for corruption and disaster.
Soulection originally uploaded their shows to MixCloud, but made the move to SoundCloud about a year back. :(

http://www.mixcloud.com/soulection/

..if any HNers enjoy these tunes, the live show is every Saturday at 10am pst on rinse.fm.
I usually go back to the original source, and use something like http://fontprep.com/ or http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator to subset and generate webfonts. But check the font license, some fonts don't allow you to do this.
Thank you, that's what I meant. I just wrote a paragraph in another comment, but you expressed it much more concisely.

Searching based on looks rather than (traits likely to signify) intelligence is likely to lead to less intelligence found, even if the subset (attractive women) is equally likely to be intelligent.
Was this a false positive?
That was after I left :-)
Some of my bugbears in no particular order:

"Locked Slingshot" in Facebook's slingshot app [1] is an interesting one. Not the worst dark pattern in the world, but quite manipulative nonetheless.

Forced continuity services where they make a recurring membership look like a one-off purchase. Justfab [2] is still at it. Arguably they’re playing this card more than ever right now.

The way payday loan companies like Wonga [3] represent compound interest to target customers. They only present a a “best case scenario”, using sliders to imply a control, when in fact there no modelling of missed payments and true APR is hidden.

The relentless series of pre-checkout upsell pages you get with most domain name registrars (e.g. godaddy) and low cost airlines.

Abuse of html controls to make them behave in unexpected ways, e.g. Airasia [4].

Requiring cancellation of an online service by phone, and making you give reasons / listen to a long script / jump through hoops before allowing you to cancel (e.g. The Times of London).

1. http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/129454-hands-on-slingshot-ap...

2. http://www.justfab.com/

3. https://www.wonga.com/

4. http://usabilityhell.com/post/74591297913/airasia-com-bad-us...
I sympathize with this lady. Not because I don't have my paperwork in order -- God willing, the 100 pages currently sitting at the immigration office will again meet with their approval -- but because if you hit any snag it is an instant Kafka-esque nightmare.

If the IRS accused me of underreporting my income by $200,000 and threatened me with jail time, I'd be stressed, but I'd call my accountant, get some paperwork together, and be assured of vindication. If the most junior employee of the Ministry of Justice has a bad morning and decides I look shifty, he has an instant Ruin My Life button on his computer. The appeals process would take place with me being across an ocean from my family and de-facto homeless. The threshhold for him hitting that button is not even "articulable suspicion." And that is with all the social advantages which come along with being, relative to most immigrants, rich, educated, savvy, and connected.

This assumes that the agents you're dealing with are merely zealously applying the law with regards to the facts as they perceive them. This does not describe 100% of the interactions between agents of government and people subject to their administrative authority. Immigrants have a uniquely difficult problem in the failure cases implied in that sentence, because they don't have access to many of the toothy, enshrined-for-generations remedies that citizens have with regards to overreach by agents of the government.
suddenly seems like it was a bad idea to bill my nonprofit (details in profile) as an effort to make open-source pharmaceuticals.... My application has been in the queue for more than a year.
See my, and user henningo's comment elsewhere in the thread. The dehumanization, and being treated like cattle can happen due to overly wide flagging and/or technical glitches even if you hold a valid work visa. These are false positives.

The outcome (hopefully) ends up better than the author's.
American Immigration and American Healthcare are two of the most F*d up systems in an otherwise "developed" country.
The rank hostility with which the CBP treats visitors continually amazes me - having traveled to China, Japan, Australia, Most of Europe & South east Asia.

Is it the volume of people that arrive in US vs the smaller number of CBP officers available to process them that makes for such a system?

Or is it some training aspect or something else?
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I expect that they aren't claiming a scientific purpose. More likely they claim to be educational, or that they provide a public work.
What is the utility of data leaks of non-billing information, truly?

Blackmail. Deposit 10BTC at address X, or we'll tell everyone you have $condition.
Plenty of people claim they won't use Python for its whitespace. Not quite the same, but it seem that elements of syntax are influencing peoples decisions.

I would also recommend Python to new programmers, partly for the syntax.
ISRAEL TARGETS EMPTY BUILDING
Both Grails and Gradle ship with the Groovy Language, and are its main two products by number of users - if they disappeared, Groovy's only use of any significance would be short scripts manipulating and testing Java classes. (Though I'm not sure if I'd describe Gradle build scripts as "using" Groovy, more like 50 lines using a tiny subset of Groovy's grammar and functionality.)

And of course Grails is promoted by VMWare and Gradle by GradleWare. There's no info about GradleWare's true owners in the verbiage on their about page. Either they want to be bought by VMWare, or they were started with seed money from them and effectively controlled by them.
Do you have any specific questions? I teach in a PhD-granting department and do research in energy economics. (I'm an associate editor of one of the energy field journals.)
I'd love to get y'all's feedback on a related question: did you receive any training in your CS degrees that had anything to do with testing, dev-ops, continuous deployment, and the like? I teach in an MIS department and have started to include some of these concepts in the capstone course, which was originally more of a project management course.

From talking to the employers who hire our students (and the CS department's students), I got the impression that CS students are taking four years of programming classes but are never taught how to write tests or even to use version control. Is that the way it is? Is that the way it should be?
I didn't know the 'hierarchical' norm of implied references and, instead, thought that all the posts were about or at least in the context of the OP unless carefully stated otherwise.

For the guy with his Chevy Volt, fine.
There are many feminists institutions, that guy got kicked out from FEMEN Sweden. Others got kicked out from campus groups or web forums. If you want go to MRA forum and just ask.

Perhaps you have no membership card because you never applied anywhere. But some people are more involved.
Why do online pirates continue to sail the web?
Google killer-robots.txt
I'm sure it's sarcasm. I just have a hard time understanding what the point it's trying to make is.
As a practical level, I agree with you completely. On an ethical level, however, I find it difficult to put much blame on the OP. To quote Madison:

"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?" [1]

Mistakes are human and they happen. It should be the responsibility of our nation's immigration officials to help people through the inevitable difficulties and mistakes that happen in a system as complex and Byzantine as our immigration system. Yet the post-9/11 trend seems to be that immigration officials see themselves more as a pseudo-police force rather than civil servants. As such, the default suspicion of any non-citizen and "guilty until proven innocent" attitude the OP describes is not surprising.

Even if whatever mistake she made is a critical one that should prevent her entry into the US until it is resolved, I cannot see any justification for deporting her and forbidding her from reentering for 18 months.

When people try to live and work as productive and positive individuals in the US and our legal system actively treats them in a hostile and suspicious manner, justifying it by a minor clerical mistake [2], we have a duty as citizens to recognize the real problem and work to correct it.

I find it ironic that in an earlier age we (as a country) ridiculed the "papers please" culture of Soviet Russia and assumed that we (as freedom loving Americans) could never become such a country.

[1] Federalist #62

[2] A visa is a piece of paperwork. If immigration officials were deported every time they made a mistake on their paperwork, prevailing attitudes towards immigrants might be very different within their ranks.
If you didn't get the crawford reference, you need to play Siboot[1] right now. It's middling in terms of how fun it is, but interesting to see how much it was possible to model social interaction 27 years ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_%26_Betrayal:_The_Legacy_...
I think the key is in whether these languages get the backing of a Big Institution. Tech people are simultaneously sensitive and oblivious to the political nature of what technologies interest them: For example, all the coverage of Swift is because Apple is backing it. All the coverage of Go is because it has some famous people behind it plus the tacit support of Google. All the coverage of Rust is because it's backed by Mozilla. But when asked directly about their interest most coders will proclaim that it's simply because the technology in these things is better, even though there were plenty of languages that had similar features and implementation quality beforehand. Nobody - especially not people caught within the politics of their own company - has the time or depth of experience to be completely confident about what they would need from a new language and why, so social signalling and appeal to authority tends to rule the day: "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." And so, intentionally or no, people come out of the woodwork to position themselves as early adopters of the "next IBM."

That said, in the long run I think the APIs and tooling experience matters. Free Pascal basically hangs on because Delphi did so well as a third-party environment, even though it was always marginalized on Windows for not being a Microsoft-anointed language. But the Delphi experience was related to the era of the Windows desktop application, and when the market's interest moved away from that the magic was kind of lost. Ada likewise has hung on because it has that gov/mil influence behind it - and its ecosystem is still mostly centered around commercial development environments.
Ah so which of the 52 states plus federal employment law does this refer to? - and in that case why is it rather hard to actually enforce a non compete without payment.
I do this "for a living". Reputation Management is when you pay someone like me to make that result fall to the 5th page of Google so people searching for you only see the happy fun stuff you have done.

What is missing from the implementation from Google, that Google really needs to be "fair" is an OPT OUT.

You see when I go in and fix a reputation by outranking bad stuff with good, the bad stuff is still there if you know what you are looking for.

BBC JOHN DOE KILLS BABYSITTER is not going away, just not showing up when you Google JOHN DOE BABYSITTER because I will have place the top 40 results with things about How awesome SUSAN THE 16 YEAR OLD is who is now JOHN DOE's babysitter.

If Google did an OPT OUT, you would be able to say, "I am John Doe of Hicksville, IN" here is my picture, remove me from the interwebs. And nothing about you would be there. No good, No Bad.

Is this just me having sour grapes that my business of shaping reality is going away? No. If anything this is good for business. People will want what the EU has and flock to me.

For those who think I am a bad person. Yeah, I know that http://www.blackwaterops.com didn't pick its name because we thought we were the good guys.

But at the same time a lot of what we do is good. We work with organizations that share the name with bad people. You know how hard it is when you share the name with a serial killer to get a job even after that serial killer was executed?

You know how hard it is to recover from stuff 20+ years after the the Jack in the Box ecoli outbreak?

Or being named Play Boy's Hottest X and then trying to get a job working with kids? Even if you didn't ask to be associated with Play Boy?
Despite the linkbaity headline, this article actually adds new information and context to the controversy.

Also, NSFW Instagram images.
Jonathan Swift is slow-clapping somewhere.
Having worked there, I'd say that is an excellent plan.
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surprisingly deep sentiment
Please describe the story of Counter Strike, because I've logged hundreds of hours on the game and have no idea what you're talking about.
OK, thanks, that makes sense. That said, I worked on some prototypes of multi-player racing games and "dicing" with friends around a racetrack has a bit of the appeal you mentioned.

I do watch a few fairly violent movies a year, it is just the violent games that I don't enjoy.
How can it help defend against this type of scam?

It seems what is needed seems out of band confirmations?
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>forcing you to talk to explain what you are thinking is a skill that I've never seen used in the real world

You've never once explained your thought process to a coworker? Explained how you arrived at a conclusion? Tried to elucidate your reasoning on a piece of code to someone?

These are absolutely real world skills and they are absolutely applicable when working on an engineering team with other humans. I understand what you're getting at in your comment, but it really feels like you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Can interviews be improved? Absolutely. Does that mean that there is no value in these kinds of interviews? I certainly seem to glean some value out of them. Whether that is the right value is a hard question to answer.

But I want to address something. Your whole comment is about why these kinds of interviews are shit. But you offer no alternative methods, no ways to improve these kinds of interviews, and really no constructiveness. You seem so sure that interviewing this way is wrong, but you don't say what's right. I would love to hear some realistic ways to interview people that can help me find better candidates without rejecting people because they're bad under pressure.
> ...and the use of queries to search for the communications of specific U.S. persons within the information that has been collected.

So it seems that they are collecting everything, then getting a warrant to search through that collected data for the target. Why don't they need a warrant to collect the data in the first place? Seriously, I'd like a straight answer.
What else can you do that would be an accurate simulation of their job that only takes 1hr?

First 1/2 hour: Discuss their code samples in detail -- asking pertinent questions about each as to what they do, and why they did things they way they did. Drill down for detail, ask how they might have done things differently for different use cases, etc.

Second 1/2 hour: Bring out some of your own production code and do the same (allowing them space to ask questions this time). Works best if you let them see something that's a bit "raw", i.e. quick and dirty, which you know you could have done a lot better if you had more time or knew better about the requirements (or perhaps you're simply older and wiser now).

In both sessions, nuance (both in what they can observe, and how they chose to express themselves) is key. And it'll come out a lot more freely than in in a whiteboard interrogation precisely because they interaction will be natural, uncontrived and unforced.

Simple, non-confrontational and 100% reflective of what engineering work is like. That's what we do during the day, 99% of the time -- digging up (sometimes woefully) less-than-perfect components of production systems, and trying to make them a little bit better.

But as to how often we drag someone to a conference room, throw them at a smudgey whiteboard with creaky pens and no eraser, and force them to solve some abstract problems while we boredly look at our watch, and interrupt them with hints?

Basically never. Except, that is, in coding interviews.
Does anybody else see the irony in the contrast between this story and the current US-Mex border situation?

We expend so much time and effort to harass people who fly in, while every day thousands of other people simply walk over the border without permission and are then relocated within the US with very little threat of deportation[1], and eventual amnesty in the cards. I'm not for a border fence or massive forced deportations, but the imbalance here sticks out to me like a sore thumb.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140...
Irish court ruling says defacing Facebook and physical property are the same
Isn't it? It's about event streams, right?
We should simply provide a searchable resource to add and record the 'removed' articles. Not a search engine. Simply a searchable list.
Interestingly, even extremely graphically violent games on the surface can be felt as non-violent in a competitive setting. I recall this "playing to win" essay, talking about Street Fighter. (If characters punching each other to unconsciousness is not violent, I don't know what is.)

In fighting games, competitive players tend to concentrate on the structure behind punches and suffering. They see a game of anticipation, dexterity, and timing. They talk about hit boxes, priorities, frame advantage… Those players would probably enjoy an abstract version of those fighting games.

Hmm… we could even test that: could we make a game that have a similar structure to Mortal Kombat, only it doesn't even look like 2 characters punching each other to death?
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The first part of this post is rather lame. In his complaining about putative tracking, he quotes their new policy. This policy says that they're collecting non-identifying info that can be opted out of, and if you sign in with Facebook or Google, they'll take note of your gender.

None of these things they're declaring gives them the ability to track who you are, or correlate it to what you're doing.
Ask HN: How do YOU make money from open source projects?
I am not looking for tips, I am just genuinely interested in what methods people use- Flattr, Gittip etc.
How do you go about getting remote clients? I am keen to work remotely for a few reasons. Seems that you need a portfolio, but all my work is in house (though I am working on a small app to show I can code to a decent standard).
IMHO, I don't think violence is the main point of Resident Evil, it's more about the horror/suspense.

A bit different than mindless violence as in e.g., GTA, Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc.
Anyone interested in Gradle already knows about Gradle 2.0's release, or will when they next read their email or twit feeds. This announcement on Hacker News is an attempt to market Gradle. The announcement submitter's username was created specifically to submit the article.