skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The informants claims turned out to be completely wrong.

>But the claims and allegations may have been blown way out of proportion. After police obtained a warrant to search Winters’ home based on information obtained from a confidential informant they were probably surprised that not only did Winters have no explosive booby troops set up all over his property as had been claimed, he was also far short of having possession of the fifty high-powered rifles that police said he had been stockpiling.

The police claimed he was crazy and plotting an elaborate confrontation with police, but there was no confrontation and the guy turned himself in peacefully.

They are only charging him with building some unspecified "destructive device" without a permit, which he has plead not guilty.
As I recall the Mormon religion states you should have a years supply of food on hand so it's not that suspicious. Presumably it also has some constitutional protection as it's not inherently dangerious or damaging to society.

Edit: Might be 3months https://www.lds.org/topics/food-storage
Not sure when you last looked, but it gets a performance boost from invokedynamic on JDK 1.7 [1] and another from @CompileStatic [2]. Groovy 2.0+ is much better than previous versions.

Related, Grails 2.4 adds support for using @CompileStatic in controllers and services, whereas previously you had to keep that in separate classes in src/groovy.

1. http://groovy.codehaus.org/InvokeDynamic+support
2. http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GroovyJSR/GEP+10+-+Static+c...
yes declarative animation. That is a specific test in acid 3 and you need declarative animation in svg to pass 100 on that test.

script animation is actually not supported when svg is used from an img tag. only declarative.
IMHO - Google's role is to get people to spend more time online. They make their money from search...so, the more people online, the more money they make. Phones, glasses and cars are all designed around this objective. If you aren't driving a car, then that is more time that you are spending the net and thus, more money that they can make from you.
Your last comment got me to wondering - how does one tell if workplace follows the rules, etc. from the get-go? Perhaps a Joel-like list of questions to ask? If most of the employees during the interview can explain the difference between 'quid pro quo' and 'hostile environment' harassment, then they probably have a good understanding of EEOC guidelines.

As to your first paragraph, I think you're right, except that it's also a numbers issue. For example, Title VII case law and EEOC guidelines are very clear that complaints about illegal discrimination are not required to go through formal/predefined channels. But in my discussions with people, many believe that it's okay for management to ignore complaints made outside of channels. (Some even think it's okay for management to punish those who didn't go through formal channels.)

My optimistic belief is that if 95% of the people knew the law, instead of 5%, then it would be harder for management to carry out those illegal actions. Not impossible of course, just harder.

I think your comment "create a work environment of distrust" is interesting. I would think that breaking workplace law also creates a work environment of distrust. Why is it often that the employee who complains is accused of distrust, rather than the lawbreaker? I recognize that it's common, but I don't know why.

I can't see it as simply an aversion to rocking the boat, as the employer started the rocking, not the employee. My first thought was that it's simply a power asymmetry, but I think there's also a dark side even in egalitarian teams where people don't want to face up to the dirty laundry and prefer denial ("no one talks about Uncle XYZ's 'problem' with little children").

It's essentially the same with those who report fraud, waste, mismanagement, illegal activities, etc. Many have written about reasons why whistle blowers are often reviled - something I also don't really understand. ... I'm therefore somewhat relieved to know that no one really can explain why. The 2011 paper at http://www.vu.nl/nl/Images/Artikel%20Paul%20van%20Lange_tcm9... says "We have no evidence based answers" to the question of why some people blow the whistle instead of obeying.

Thanks for your comments - coming up with a response helped me understand my own thoughts better.
This is not the exact same by any means, but reminded me of a story my dad told me. Sometime in the 60s a radio station had a contest where you had to guess the top 5 songs of the week in the proper order (1-5) and the winner would get $1000. To make a guess you had to mail in an index card numbered 1-5. Maybe 10 or so songs were likely to be in that top 5, so my dad guessed guessed every permutation. The cost was the price of a stamp for each index card but he did end up winning.
Trademarks don't expire as long as you keep using them - and you don't have to use them in necessarily very conspicuous ways (that's the reason all iMac boxes have "Think Different" in small lettering on the side[1]). I wouldn't be surprised if Ford still maintained the Model T trademark.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different#Product_packagi...
The AEC is supposed to be non-partisan, and not have much to do with the parties themselves, IIRC (although they do report to the government at the end of the day).

Your point is well taken though. I'm thoroughly disgusted with the fear-mongering, technophobic way our government has conducted itself.

If you're interested in applying your technical skills to furthering the democratic process in Australia, volunteer with the Open Australia Foundation (which is what I'm doing). They've got everything on GitHub, and accept PRs!

https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/
No it isn't. Musk isn't a co-founder either. He came in on Tesla's A round.
Thanks. Sometimes I miss that kind of stuff because the image is cached on my compu. I'll fix that in the next release.
The first advice I'd offer is, find out how much you are actually worth. You mention that you are overqualified for your current position and that your options are limited. Both of those things hint at an employment situation that is in your employers favor. Find out if your current skill set/job market are actually weighted that way (I'd be surprised if that were true given most dev job markets currently, but it might be).

Go out into the job market and talk to people who have jobs you are qualified for and find out how much they make. How does that compare to what you are making? If there are no people in jobs like that near you that is also a signal.

Once you know how much you are actually worth, negotiating for that level of compensation is usually pretty easy.
I've been saying this to my co-workers over the past week as I've gotten into modern day assembly (ARM, but still): It's basically a high level language at this point! It's amazing how much structure you can actually give yourself with modern tools.
I'm offended it was assumed the commenter was human.
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Take the "promotion", be sure to put application manager and "promoted to senior x" on your resume and leave to get your raise after three months. Done.
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Relying on IBM for enterprise support? My expectation is they will not be able to live up to the level of quality expected when Apple's name is attached. Much like HP, IBM has outsourced a lot of their support arm and companies I know who had moved their IT support to HP are now bringing it back in house. I expect the same pattern would hold if one adopted IBM.

Cringely is very clear about the charades IBM is playing to maximize the short term buck.
I can talk about Ireland, as I've been an election observer there. The way we do it is that ballot boxes are locked and sealed with tamper-evident seals after a polling station has closed. Elections observers; including representatives from the political parties may request to add their own seals. In some particularly contentious districts this is done, but for the most part people are happy with the official seals.

The ballot boxes are then transported by the police force to the nearest "count center". The next morning, the seals are inspected and those ballot boxes are opened. All of the ballot boxes in a constituency are counted together in a secure, but open area. Here's a flickr set with a good number of photos showing how it's done:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/redmum/sets/72157600270850764

the counters are within the fenced area, and the observers - including many people from the political parties, surround the fence. The entire process is easy to see.

One particularly important part is what happens when the boxes are opened. The contents are just dumped out on the table and one by one each vote is turned to face up and towards the observers. The observers then "tally" the votes and mark which candidate (or referendum choice) the voter marked as their first preference.

All parties participate in this tally and it provides the first take on what the result will be. The margin of error on the tally is < 1%. Some tallies with enough tally-takers also count the 2nd and 3rd preferences, but most tallies just project the transfers (we use a transfer based voting system) and that too is generally accurate.

Contentious votes with identifying or ambiguous marks and so on are kept aside and argued over by people like me for an hour or so, but they never make much of a difference.

The end result is a process is very verifiable and auditable, in easy-to-understand human ways; you can literally show up at a count center and count the votes yourself as they come out of the boxes, and make sure that you're not being duped. That's a nice accessibility property too.
I actually really liked workplace shell in OS/2, though question is - was that the IBM or Microsoft side of the house.
As I understand it - yes normally these numbers are sufficient to verify outcomes.

However in extremely close races, such as what happened in WA - it can come down to very small numbers of individual ballots and how their preferences are stated, as to what order senators are elected in.

This then affects the re-flow of preferences.
I would love to see a chart of when each of these ports came out. It would be a pretty interesting representation of the difficulty of building the exact same thing in various languages.
Why is there no information for individual developers?
Yes, it's unclear why they are pretending it was unclear :-)
2001 - Post college I got a job working for a company that did federal contracting. They had recently started a commercial contract and I was put on the team with 6 other guys in their 20s. We worked like crazy and had a great time for 14+ months. I was moved around to a few other contracts after that and none was every as good, but they weren't bad, until the last one which was soul sucking, and I left.

2004 - Got a new job at another federal contractor and it was a good job for what it was. 9-5ish, no dress code (big deal for east coast .gov contractor), good benefits, vacation, salary, etc. The work was moderately interesting, but the people were good and while the environment wasn't conducive to shipping a lot of product quickly we did get to do some interesting work. Moved to SF in 2008, saw what I was missing, and in

2011 - Joined a small startup that was great for most of 2 years. There were ups and downs, but the work was fun, the team was small and mostly in sync, I got to learn a whole lot and was responsible for basically everything. At the end it kind of went bad, but it was 20ish months of a good place to work. And with the exception of about 3 months in the middle it was a pretty reasonable work/life balance.

2013 - Got a job at another startup. Good people, interesting space, good work environment, decent benefits. I like getting up and coming into the office. I generally work 9-630ish and things look good for the foreseeable future.

TLDR - Yeah, there are plenty of good jobs out there. You aren't guaranteed to find them, so some due diligence will be required, but they are definitely out there.
Grove Labs is hiring software engineers
the last time i tried using my phone for an alarm over an length of time, i quickly found that i'd wake up hours late after having pulled the battery.
It should be noted, since it is nowhere to be seen in this post, it breaks API and ABI while still presenting itself as libjpeg version 6 to the system, which is very evil.

Open Issues:

https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg/issues/67
https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg/issues/21
Don't get me wrong I totally get it. When you plug your device into a message bus like you would a power cord into the wall, things begin to make sense.

Here is how I see it coming together:

- STANDARDS: The "message bus" needs to have essentially an HTTP protocol standard, that both producers and receivers on both ends can understand.

- Hardware, appliances and objects generate their own implementation of an end-node adhering to the protocol.

- Wifi Routers allow the firmware to run "master" nodes, that would have a mobile app and a web front end to configure and customize.

But because having to VPN into your house to manage anything, or even have to have a VPN at all would be silly. So now we host it in the cloud and the devices simply pull.

To design the APIs, platform, SDK, and hosting solution would look a lot like what Apple and Google are doing with their all-encompassing themed keynotes this year. I'm actually worried about interoperability more than anything.
Isn't that a conflict of interest? I mean, who or what pays for the development of the implementation?
Detailed review of Plasma 5
If you want to check out Rust and are having trouble because the docs aren't close to done yet, Rust for Rubyists (rustforrubyists.com) just came out with an update supporting 0.11. If you're using the nightlies, the only thing in that book that isn't consistent (that I've found so far) is that the .to_str() method is now .to_string().
Not really the same as the raw input, because while most people vote above the line, there will be a small number who vote below the line, and the incremental count doesn't show if these were allocated correctly.

The best you could do is compare the expected flow each step, based on group voting ticket, against the actual flow, and make sure the total difference does not exceed the number of below the line votes.
Ask HN: Contributing to open-source vs. startup projects
I have always been interested in doing my own startup, so I constantly have side projects, but because of this, I struggle to find the time to contribute to open-source.

Is it overblown how much employers look for open-source contributions? Do they give any respect to closed-source (potentially profit-driven) side projects? Or might they even see a startup on the side as a negative? Does this vary by the size/type of employer?

Thanks!
> I'm an immigrant, they helped me get Permanent Residency, and I've always been underpaid. The company has a chronic history of underpaying and undervaluing tech people.

Whatever you are considering at this time, please please please do not think in terms of gratitude for this company. They brought you to your current job because of your utility. They are NOT in the business of helping immigrants. At worst, if you leave, another immigrant will get their chance at a Permanent Residency.

> Three friends in the last three months have stood their ground and eventually just walked out, the company didn't try to offer them anything to stay on, even though they're doing the work of 10 people and are basically irreplaceable.

I would start looking for other options EVEN IF they offer me better compensation/benefits etc. Any time someone more can leave, leaving you with like double or triple the work. We can be almost sure there are no stock options etc. in your company for tech people. You can't go on negotiating pay every few months. It is hard, and makes you look very selfish: "the company is in a constant 'crisis', and this guy just wants increased comp/benefits." (No matter how self-made the crisis is)
CoreOS support on DigitalOcean moved to “planned” state
Elon Musk has said before that the $35k price point is assuming that the $7500 federal tax credit is no longer available. http://insideevs.com/highlights-from-teslas-2nd-quarter-qa/

He's also said that the price point will the equivalent to this price point so I'd assume that it will be adjusted for inflation as well. Then after options (supercharging, tech package, maybe larger battery pack, etc), a more realistic price point would be between $40-55k. But for a stripped down version, you'd still be able to get away with $35k.
This sort of conversation is usually pretty subjective so it will be impossible to actually come to any agreement.

That said, ignoring the JVM in this conversation is near criminal. High performance GC, JIT, standardized profiling, etc. are all major steps forward. Are they language improvements? No, but they proved that a VM is a viable target platform and that was under serious debate in the late 90s.
Social justice should not depend solely on charity. Nate, like so many others, deserve - even if only a little - better.

In our age, there is no excuse for anyone not to have food, a shower, a roof and clean clothes. Every Qassam missile fired from Gaza would feed him for months (estimated cost US$800). Every ABM used to shot down a Qassam would probably buy him a house.
No one said it was, so I'm not getting your point.

In another comment you said that 4:3 is a reasonable approximation of normal human visual field. 19:9 screens don't map to this; this restricted height works well for consuming certain current entertainment offerings but I don't see that a preference for it is objective.

If area of vision were guiding screen design we would likely see more of what the current Surface 3 offers.
I actually see where both you and the person you're debating with are coming from. Yeah, it's kinda a side-show because they can publish anything they want and you or I can't verify that's truly what is running. But it's a side-show that can turn into the main-show if the government really screws it up or a whistle-blower appears on the scene. From that angle, I say making them publish the code & promise the public that's the real code in production will then at least add one more avenue for any government-scandals to be "accidentally" revealed.

Basically, the more often you can force someone to tell a lie the more likely they screw up somewhere and it all falls apart.
Google Appoints Alan Mulally to its Board of Directors
No, it's Model "III" not Model "3" #wink.
I am enjoying going through this "Probabilistic Models of Cognition":https://probmods.org/generative-models.html .Even though i am a python guy but the fact that it is written using a functional probabilistic programming language called Church, really makes it easy to follow along.
> Maybe if there were a surcharge for every unhealthful thing, people would choose to be healthier and healthcare costs would actually come down.

yeah,and why not a mandatory rfid chip so they can monitor your health in realtime and adjust your premium,hey?. And you are driving ? you're then more likely to have an accident so your insurance should go up.Watching TV on the sofa instead of running? not healthy! Here you pay 10% more. Running? it's not unlikely you get a heart attack, what about 5% more?

Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?
Gasoline cars have batteries that die in the cold too.

Which is one of the reasons you have to plug in a gas car in cold weather as well, the other being the oil freezing in the crankcase, a problem a Tesla doesn't have.
Id like to try it, and I see you had some promos, but I suggest you go with the route of free, and after X downloads it begins to ask you after every X other downloads whether or not you would like to pay, using a pop up.

It lets people try the app without risk of paying for something they don't like. If they like it, then they go to your website, or use the popup to get a license to upgrade to the 'pro' version which doesn't bug them, and has more features or something.
As suggested, releasing the raw data as input would be better than the source code anyway. The raw data should not have any 'trade secret' or 'hack vulnerability'.

Vote for it on data.gov.au https://datagovau.ideascale.com/a/dtd/AEC-Raw-voting-data/42...
Unless we all make the same amount, I truly don't want to know what my co-workers in the same pay grade make, and vice versa. I'm human and subject to jealousy, which can bring out all sorts of bad behavior. Knowing that someone else makes significantly more than I do for the same work - or as I would be all too quick to judge, for less than the same work - would be corrosive. My co-workers are human, too. I can accept with only a little residual bitterness that people in higher pay grades (executives!!) are often paid outlandishly more, but I don't want to know about my peers.
Vimmers, you don’t need NerdTree
I recently shared this. Looks like we're quite similar, but still a little different :)

http://www.smscmd.net/
You can hide the reviews so that they don't show up on your Google+ profile. If they are hidden, you can only see someone's review by looking at a place that they've reviewed directly.
You can do both.
I will take our example at OAuth.io, we have built an open source daemon for OAuth that solve a problem for developers and we made a startup to sell the service on top.
Look what Docker is becoming. Being a startup and contributing to open source are not opposite.

Or you can see even Github that contribute to open source by making a startup to help everybody contribute on open source...

Or Twitter with Bootstrap etc....
And Ford actually sued another company in 2000 for trying to use the name "Model E":

http://www.autonews.com/article/20130822/OEM04/130829966/tes...
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This. In medicine, for instance, "radiation" without a modified almost always refers to "ionizing radiation" --ie with enough energy to induce DNA damage by creating free radicals or inducing covalent linkages.
_Logarithmic leaps_? Clearly some copyeditor was nodding off there...
Apple's Will Release 3 Different iWatches This Year
This Is Not a Traditional Hackathon Story
I once attempted to implement the Senate counting algorithm (mostly so I could force myself to truly understand it).

I can say with great confidence that it is hard to implement correctly, and it would take more than a single external audit to give me confidence that the AEC's implementation is flawless.