skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great lesson.

Long ago I found myself working every weekend at a new job - a place which subjected me to hours of grilling interviews by multiple people.

I got hurt in training one evening, came to work the next day and scheduled less than half a day off to see a doctor the following week.

I was told after the fact that I would have to take 'leave without pay' for the time - despite working 50+ hours for the week.

If not for certain obligations I'd have lost it on the spot. I ended up leaving soon after for a far better deal.

I took that whole experience as a valuable lesson in self-worth, the value of my time and how to treat interviewing and employers in the future - as an equal.
Yes but comparing to the military is unfair. These are two very different types of programs. Of course SS costs more, we're all paying massive amounts into it for our retirement.

Military on the other hand is spending congress controls and whether its 1 dollar or 1 trillion is by their whim. No one is explicitly paying into it. In these kinds of military vs "welfare" spending, removing SS from it makes perfect sense. It pays for itself, and then some (when congress isnt stealing from it). Military is all debts and spent money. Its doesn't pay for itself. It buys 1 trillion dollar jet programs that are the laughingstock of the world as our corruption and incompetence are clear to see.
I remember seeing these same concerns with the Stripe button.
Edit: found the old discussion link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5079702&mobify=0
Yeah, but those sites don't have people enter in their login/password until after they've been forwarded to an `amazon.com` or `paypal.com` domain. Try it. This is encouraging users to engage in fundamentally unsafe behavior (enter credentials for site A on site B because site B looks like site A).
Where the hell is the new Intercept article on HN? The more I see obvious manipulation and malevolent flagging on this site the less I want to visit it.
#2 is 3/Pi.

It's a good puzzle and it helps to know the answer :)
Sampling explained
If the case was completely different it is unlikely that Maldives would have allowed the US to arrest him.
Because 3 letter grouping is visually easier if you use that for every environment. dev, tst, prd, stg, ppd, bkp. Combines well with geographic locations by using airport codes also.
Yes, certainly this particular bug was serious and a real problem that needed to be fixed. The link should not be shared accidentally like that.

I was just making the case that "Anyone with the link" still provides some security. Just like you don't know if the people accessing the document are the ones that you shared the link with, you don't know that the people you shared the document contents themselves with aren't showing others without your knowledge.
We love Stripe, and don't want to migrate. Plus we use http://hookfeed.com for Stripe analytics.
Show HN: Find available domains related to your keyword
The bioavailability of curcumin (found in turmeric) is much better when taken along with piperine (found in black pepper).

Also, welcome to the club:
http://www.reddit.com/r/supplements
Lean Startup is a great book. When I first started, I found "Inspired, How to Create Products that Customers Love" by Marty Cagan to be a great resource.
The expression presented in the parameter list is only evaluated once, and that is when the method is defined. The confusion is that people assume the expression is evaluated every time the method is called.
that's assignment AND reassignment. Mutable state is fundamental to how computers work no matter how hard the fans of the current fad of functional programming try to deny it.
Downvotes make me sad. HN has no sense of humor.
I think when people emphasize their ability to spend an inordinate amount of time alone, they are looking at it as a unique "quality," something that sets them apart from others.

We all need our alone time, and a few aspects of personality development occur when we are reflecting on the social interactions, encounters and relationships we've had. But too much time alone, I think, eventually leads to feelings of despair and helplessness. Either that, or a numbness to the reality of the state of isolation.
Yeah, it's nice. Much better than just ignoring you and leaving you waiting for a reply that never comes.
@Robert: there is 256K flash at the moment and there is two-way communication between phone and the beacon.

At the moment it is possible to connect to the beacon as an admin and change its UUID, major, minor, broadcasted power/range, give a name, access temperature, motion-sensor.

Technically it is also possible to store some information within the beacon, but just haven't enabled that for developers yet - how would you use it?

In theory beacons is there to deliver a context, e.g. context of your fridge in the kitchen, so you phone in the background can respond and process/store data.
Is this the case for most of China? It's just so hard to believe that most of a society's culture could actually be like that. But maybe that's just inexperience talking.
It is easy for the hacker news crowd to forget this in an age of google apps, but lots of organizations run their own -- possibly substantial -- email services, and in a well-scaled email setup the mta may be a completely separate machine from the mda/msa/mra.

Having a "mail server" might be fine for lots of places, but having disparate machines with specific functions is not invalid.
I'm not sure. Wikipedia claims that he precursor also was called Kopfball, and has some overlap in the times when the series ran.

I just googled the "kopf" that I remembered in combination with "wissenschaft" (science) and "fernsehen" (television), and that popped up, and I thought "that must be it".

I should have been more cautious, though. German TV at the time had quite a few interesting programs about science (in a broad sense) I remember programs where they taught differentiation and integration, live chess (or at least, it seemed like that; if a player takes ten minutes to think about a move, the commenters would explain what the players might be thinking about) by such players as Karpov, Timman, and Anand (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_of_the_Grandmasters), Hobbythek (http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbythek) about DIY, (with subjects such as "we build a hot air balloon", "book binding", and "stereo photography"), and that program about personal computing whose name I don't remember.
An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models [pdf]
Apache Pig on Hortonworks Sandbox
I thought that at first, but the length of the hole is dependent on the width of the hole. The wider the hole, the shorter, because wider holes remove bigger caps.

With a sufficiently wide hole, you could indeed drill a 6" hole through a spherical Earth, it'd just look more like a thin ring the diameter of the Earth than a sphere.
The witty humor scattered all over in his books really did make them a lot more fun to read! :-)

I remember him describing Intel's primary design consideration in developing the Pentium processor series as being "1. Backwards compatibility. 2. Backwards compatibility. 3. Backwards compatibility."

On another note, Linus Torvalds described "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" as "the book that launched me to new heights".
For Android people, there's a very good library here:
http://developer.radiusnetworks.com/ibeacon/android/index.ht...

And here is an example of using it on Google Glass to trigger various experiences at Airport beacons like parking, security, and checkout that I wrote for a hackathon:
https://github.com/lnanek/WearableTraveler

Some of the American Airlines employees at the event mentioned installing hundreds of iBeacon in a terminal, so you can expect them to actually be out in the wild.
My first language was Basic (in 1982).

The second was assembly.

I've gotten by in my career (to put it mildly).

What "top tier" undergraduate program is graduating students that can't lay out data structures in memory, don't know types, and so on?
Was that an intentional pun?
"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it." Charlie Chaplin

Ruthless does not mean amoral. And amoung the philisophically iliterate "How to Make Friends and Influence People" can amount to nothing more then patronage and polite cover for knives.

Carry your stick publicly if you want your opponent to be forced into showing their nature. The just ruthless are comfortable in the light of scruteny. They are comfortable with accountability and will stand for their actions.

It is never just business. It is the definition of a social order and cowards love to cover themselves in niceties.
It is important to understand that Iron Dome ( in conjunction with the operator) only attempt to intercept rockets whose trajectories are towards populated/military areas. It is not feasible to intercept anything that will probably land in an open field, and the assessment in such short notice is part of the technology. Yes, the rockets fired at Israel are very inaccurate. It's kind of like someone waving a machine gun around spraying bullets everywhere and you only intercept the ones that are going to hit anything.

Unfortunately the lunatic waving that machine gun around is hiding between innocent civilians, so when you shoot back, they die too. Lose lose situation.
Argentina vs. Netherlands Live Stream
A vehicle worth less than $10K, Mercedes or not, fine, keep it.

The root beer, no sympathy! Don't buy it with food stamps.
When I've used Stripe payment before, I remember just entering my credit card info. I can do this anywhere, regardless of how it's branded.

If someone malicious gets my credit card info, I have a lot of ways to defend myself. Someone malicious getting my PayPal login info could be much, much more dangerous, and I'd have considerably less protection. Essentially we're talking about leaking login info here -- that's very different than credit card info.
After nine years, Numenta finally has apps that mimic the way the brain works
In Haskell, the latter looks like:

alist = (map (**2) . filter (\x -> x `mod` 3 == 0)) myList

Or:

alist = (map (**2) . filter ((== 0) . (`mod` 3))) myList

If alist is a transformation, and not applied to myList, it's cleaner:

alist = map (**2) . filter ((== 0) . (`mod` 3))

Though Haskell also has list comprehensions, with more "mathy" syntax:

alist = [x**2 | x <- mylist, x `mod` 3 == 0]
I make $300 per month for music app
Google Wallet does the same thing as Stripe checkout with the overlay: https://www.humblebundle.com/
Is the URL inspection the best way to make sure you're going to the right site? I know that for us deeply technical folks that's the case, but for someone less technical, they wouldn't know the difference between one URL redirect vs. another.
typo! And I'm out of the edit window.
Have you looked at named tuples? They shipped in the python standard library sometime in the last few years (they are at least in 3.3) and are clearly intended for storing structured data.

A typical rule of thumb in Python land is that heterogeneous data probably belongs in a tuple, so practice goes a little further than immutable lists.

I think you could improve your demonstration of the usage in the standard library by examining a random selection of usages to try to find out what is typical. But maybe you already looked at more than you talk about in the article (and I understand that this might not be an interesting use of your time).
Mod Notebooks’ Launch
We recently added PayPal as an additional option beyond credit cards and, in the first month, ~15% of all signups used PayPal.
"Hey Al, could you go take a look at the drive on the secondary mysql server? I think it might be throwing a fault condition."

"Sure Frank. What's its host tag name?"

"AF84n3Dd2PM."
Alleged escort 'showed no regard' in ex-Google exec's death, police say
It's really hard for me to stay motivated without other people around. But I am always more productive alone. A mix of with and without people is best for me.
haters gon' hate
Rather, 2/pi.

The nice answer (referred to above as a "cheat") is to note that the sought probability is the mean number of crossings made by a 1 foot needle with the lines on the floor, where we are implicitly supposing our throw-distribution to be uniform with respect to both translation and rotation. This uniformity, along with "linearity of expectation", is such that the mean number of line-crossings from throwing any shape is simply proportional to the length of the shape (imagine breaking the shape up into many tiny straight lines, all identical except for location and orientation, the number of which is proportional to the length). Note that a circle of 1 foot diameter always makes exactly 2 crossings. Thus, the constant of proportion is 2/pi per foot, and accordingly the sought probability is 2/pi.
Just thinking out loud. If they sold the house, could they afford to rent (1st and last month deposit) and would it be any cheaper than the house payment?
He was not indicted because he was merely running a TOR exit node, he rather was indicted because chat protocols proved that he was aware of child porn being run over his server, and he even announced it to be better to run child porn over his server.

http://m.futurezone.at/netzpolitik/tor-prozess-du-kannst-kin...

he himself says in his blog that this protocol parts are out of context. he wanted to get access to certain botnets.
KDE Ships Release Candidate of Plasma 5
If you don't have Parkinson's, and the associated brain changes that this is reversing, what would be the point?
I agree. The author brings this to light as well and warns about the implications of changing what is considered "truthy" in x.
Dude I absolutely love being alone and "liberation", "freedom", and gaining "control" all resonate with me. No idea what "manifestation of an avoidant personality" means. "Relaxing", "exciting", and "interesting also apply. I do know that I'm terrible in a team and prefer working alone.
How to enter/ssh into your docker container
Presumably you'll need to iterate over hosts anyway, so why not move directly towards your automation tools' (ansible, chef, puppet, etc) host inventory and not fuss with DNS...

/etc/ansible/{dev,test,stage,prod}-hosts

[nyc-dns]
10.0.1.1
10.0.2.1

[nyc-web]
10.0.1.21
10.0.2.21

[nyc-db]
10.0.1.201
10.0.2.201

[nyc:children]
nyc-dns
nyc-web
nyc-db

[lax-dns]
10.0.1.1
10.0.2.1

[lax-web]
10.0.1.21
10.0.2.21

[lax-db]
10.0.1.201
10.0.2.201

[lax:children]
lax-dns
lax-web
lax-db

[dns:children]
nyc-dns
lax-dns

[web:children]
nyc-web
lax-web

[db:children]
nyc-db
lax-db
I'd say 25 hours a week.

But what does that mean? Are you looking for actual work towards your company's product? And what does THAT mean? Time spent coding a feature? Research? Professional development? Or are you looking for just time spent at work?

Revised, I spend probably 25 hours at work. Maybe 70% is added value to the company. Maybe half of that is actual coding.

How are you determining your 'I don't achieve much per week'?
Not quite. If you're not logged in, Google Wallet will open a popup (as opposed to a JS modal overlay), clearly identified as "https://accounts.google.com", prompting you to enter your username and password. The username and password are never entered under the same URL bar as the 3rd party site.

If Braintree's checkout process opened a popup window, with a clear URL bar, into which the user entered their username/password, then this would not be a problem.
Asana, Canon, Dropbox, Google, Newegg and SAP Launch New Patent Agreement
The problem is not the existence of the object variables, but that they are in such an unfortunate place. The rest of the parameter list is declaring fresh local variables. It's inconsistent that the left side of the equals sign is per-invocation, and the right side is per-def.
This definitely happens, but often you're asked to review a paper _because_ of your experience or publication record in that area. If someone neglects to cite your related work, should you just let that slide?
Chances are, you or I won't invent a new product. The fact that a product exists, is a good indicator of possible revenue. Use these "ideas" to explore new topics and improve on existing products.

You said, "one of the tweets is basically asking for trakt.tv". I, for one, have never heard of trakt.tv. Obviously, never had the person who posted it. That should show you that there is plenty of room for you to create a competing product, compete and profit.
My house would welcome a new fad for soy-free foods. But nobody gives a crap about soy being in everything. EVERYTHING. Of course, we often get handed the gluten-free menu when we ask about soy-free options. And I suspect that is because of the gluten-free fad.
First, is there a tl;dr version of the article?

To me it seems that the balance of social and alone should be to result in inner peace. This is to ultimately increase productivity in doing what you find satisfying in life.

I write code a lot at work and we plan it out in a group then move our own ways to write it with occasional instant messaging about this or that. But sometimes when I am writing I can't focus or have trouble getting myself into the problem. And from there I find that reading or talking to someone at the office can help put me at peace and ultimately help me focus on the work I have to do.

Like right now I am at work and writing this - I have a task to do to document some things but I hardly remember them and I need to do something that is going to interest me. Am I alone while doing this? Well, sure, I am available for other people to approach but I am not trying to talk to anyone.

I think the term alone is relative to our sense of privacy. If I was in a room with the door closed would I feel more alone than if I am sitting in an open office? Probably. But if I can get to a peaceful state it will probably produce similar results in my work ethic/productivity.
Ask HN: Why is data science so popular with developers?
I notice that a lot of software developers at my workplace are mystified by data science. What about data science is attractive to software engineers?
PayPal/Braintree v.zero
I suppose I want the example to show how, when I push data through the portal, it appears on the other side. I'm guessing the idomatic way has to do something with registering a function to be called on message/data received on the "other" end. It just feel like the article could/should be extended a bit there, to make it "full circle" so to speak.

What's already there is good, but it leaves me hungry for more, and a little lost as to how to achieve more.

Thanks for the tip on upstream packages for Debian -- I somehow missed the fact that there was a repo for Debian (well, that, and I already had wheezy-backports enabled, and it turned out to work fine with Elixir from source).
Google sign tyranny
When you use Nexus 7 and do not want to sign in you cannot use the internet unless you sign in. Cancel only brings you back to the sign in page. In other words it is a Google universe or nothing for you. Totally unsatisfactory.
Regardless of whether PHI can be anonymized in a fool-proof way, we can agree that careful anonymization is better than a superficial one, and so your question is valid and important.

We can't automate the process (in part because the transformations necessary are much more complex than "scrambling"), but knowledgeable practitioners can go a long way. I'm knowledgeable but not a practitioner, so I'm not the best source.

In #8 of our report (on the Heritage Health data), you'll notice that while I took Khaled El Emam to task for claims about quantifying risk, I do acknowledge that he did a very good job of de-identification. I don't think there's exactly a "canonical reference" (except HIPAA's superficial list of 18 identifiers), but reports written by practitioners like El Emam are probably useful documents.
A real issue with the cert business is that phishers have really screwed up the economics of it. They are desperate to get SSL certs for domains that are almost that of legitimate companies and charities as much of the general internet populace has absorbed that "the green lock" means "safe".

This has kicked off two responses by CA's and Browser makers.

Certificate issuers putting in place a mix of automated and manual approval mechanism for what used to be "automatic" certs (from my own experience [1] - around 10% of certificate requests fall into this category).

Browser makers have started to de-value the UI/UX of the "cheap and easy" certs that Tim is advocating be issued. Case in point Tim's URL is just gray (no green at all) in FF, but you can see a definite trend across the board in making the SSL presence of non EV certs less prominent [2]

Taken together, I think this makes it really tough for Google to step in with a 'cheap' solution.

1 - I run https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl

2 - https://www.expeditedssl.com/pages/visual-security-browser-s...
Let's not turn this site into reddit.
I appreciate what you guys are doing and get that you're here to make a profit etc but even now at this super early stage the market for beacon hardware is so competitive that you've totally priced yourself out for people like me. I'll be deploying >1000 beacons this year. Beacons take about 30 seconds to configure using a configuration app (of which there are many). The biggest cost in doing a deployment is literally transporting the thing to it's location and placing it. The hardware should cost next to nothing (which it will pretty soon). The real value, like you've said, is in the services running atop the hardware. Just my opinion... That said, I'm interested in hearing what a partnership looks like w/ you guys since, as I said, I am deploying many beacons this year and for the foreseeable future.
Does Emacs Evil have these options available (not an Emacs user yet...)
Yep, I agree 100%. It's a great way to get inspiration. There are some solid ideas in there.
I figured it might be, thanks for clarifying :-)
I agree, but you're leaving out the money part. Schools get a cut of all grants. From the school's perspective, the grant itself is valuable. So when it comes time to evaluate tenure and other promotions, they will look at both.
Um, which federal agency do you think files the paperwork in court on behalf of the NSA?

(Hint: It's the other federal agency mentioned in the Intercept's headline. Second hint: This agency is home to the National Security Branch, created in 2005. Third hint: it's listed as one of the 17 "member agencies" of the intelligence community here: http://www.intelligence.gov/mission/member-agencies.html)
Jeff Dean's talk at Cloudera
Launching Mathematica 10
Don't forget generator comprehensions which are almost identical to list comprehensions. But instead of evaluating the whole result set and returning it, they return a generator that you can then iterate over. Very neat stuff.
I think the same argument holds for OO vs MS Office as well. They are much closer than Gimp/PS obviously, but for power users they aren't even close to interchangeable.

A good middle ground would be migrating the 95 or 99% who are "casual" users to open source, but you'd then have a heterogeneous system, which isn't ideal. VM's could be used to have all-Linux desktops and still provide users of win-only software with what they need.

My point is: the big savings are in the 95% but the big cost is for migrating the last 5%.
That's a valid point re marketing, education, support... I'll write something once we're a bit further along.
WebRTC specifications advance toward wide developer and user adoption
Or keep the house and let the bank eat it until you get forced out, which could take many years. The bank took the risk too. Ideally (not reality unfortunately) it's a private deal between you and the bank, no taxpayer money involved.