skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it happened to your pet, it would be a legitimate concern.
I did some quick looking at the stock sites featured in the article:

Dreamstime: http://www.dreamstime.com/terms#unauthorized
Apparently you can use it in a logo, but you cannot trademark it- which resolves the problem of someone trademarking it and suing you- their trademark would be infringing the license.

123rf: http://www.123rf.com/license.php?type=enhanced

Yes, this license does forbid use on logos, so that designer apparently did indeed violate the license. The designer should have read the fine print.

Freelancer: I couldn't find terms for stock work, however, the headline in the screenshot is "travel agency logo" so based on that, it appears it is meant to be a stock logo.

So, it appears that 2 out of 3 of the sites do allow us of their artwork in logos. It may not be a good idea, but in these 2 cases, I would not call it stealing. Nor would I expect anything more for 5 bucks.
The training section is great, I love it, and IMHO the problems presented are harder than the ones at chess.com (which I'm paying for). The only problem that I've noticed so far is that some of the training problems end in a very strange way (e.g. opponent gives away his queen or rook for no reason whatsoever). It's not a big issue, but you should try to make it a bit more realistic.
Free-form tag names invariably leads to conflicts with previously defined tags that are used for other purposes. I don't see how not wanting an unbounded number of different tags would be antithetical to use of XML.
I wish the article had touched on temperature systems; I feel like Celsius is metric at its weakest. Farenheit has beautiful bands:

<0: So cold it's off the scales

0's: So cold you have trouble doing anything and just want to warm up immediately

10's: Wear a ski jacket with hat and scarf and gloves

20's: Wear a ski jacket and hat

30's: Wear a ski jacket but leave it open

40's: Wear a wool overcoat

50's: Wear a heavy jacket

60's: Wear a light jacket

70's: Leave the jacket home

80's: Wear shorts

90's: So hot you have trouble doing anything and just want to cool down immediately

100+: So hot it's off the scales
An Interview with McKenzie Wark on the 10 Yr Anniversary of “A Hacker Manifesto”
That's a brilliant video. Scottish people and pretentiousness don't tend to go together very well :)
I think repetition is definitely part of the problem. A vague hint is fine the first time, but it should get more specific if you keep struggling.

Also, some of the hints only apply to the first move (or first two). If you find that move but get stuck later on, it's irritating to be shown an irrelevant hint. In this case I got the windmill started but for some reason the last move was in a blind spot for me -- though when I went back an hour or two later it was completely obvious (but that doesn't make it less frustrating when I was stuck).
having come to that realization myself, that's more or less what i tell people who are new to wine. but i added something: learn how to describe what you like (or don't like) so that you can find new wines to try and are likely to enjoy. figure out how to communicate, say, a certain flavor with the term "tannin" or "oak" and when you talk with a wine expert you can learn new varietals to try.

since i've done this (in the past ten years) my enjoyment of wine has gone up.
If we went metric on the interstates, exit 880 on Interstate 10 in Texas (at the Louisiana state line) would retain it's status as the highest numbered exit in North America. Only it'd be exit 1408.

(exits are generally numbered by their mile (err, kilometer..) marker in the US, not consecutively)
>Like others, I find the title of this thread problematic. I also find your apparent refusal to understand _why_ it is problematic, even more problematic. You could have said parents instead of mom. Think about why you didn't.

Hah. So it's ok to be ageist but not sexist? Think about why you don't see 'parents' as ageist...

This is the problem with today's politically correct climate - it's not about what the person is intending to say anymore, it's about how people perceive what is said. And if a group perceives it as offensive then look out, because it doesn't matter what your intentions were anymore because your intentions are now being decided by others for you. Any hypocrisy in those people's stances is obviously to be ignored.

It's an interesting dynamic to watch. It's a shame you have to tip toe so much, it almost seems to take away from the actual issues these days.
Class action filed against SpaceX over mass layoffs
I'm really glad to see the judge has rejected the settlement. People seemed very surprised with it.

I see three main perspectives here. The members of the class want compensation and justice. The lawyers want to be paid. And a larger group, ranging from engineers who are not part of the class to the public in general, wants to be sure that a small group of powerful CEOs and other inside players don't collude illegally against the workforce.

The lawyers are obviously very risk averse. They have a crack at a huge amount of money, virtually guaranteed as long as they settle. It's so much money that the would rationally accept a small fraction of the possible win at trial.

The class wants compensation, but the individual cut is small enough that there is probably more incentive to go to trial. If someone offered me 50 million or a 70% chance at 300 million, I'd hesitate. Really. Because there isn't that big a difference in my life between those two numbers - in a way, it's a choice between a life guaranteed free from any financial worry, or merely a good chance of it. But remove a bunch of zeroes, offer me 5,000 or a 70% chance at 30,000, and I'd take the latter. This, I think, represents the difference between the lawyers and the class (and it's why so many people think the whole approach is broken and should be handled by a federal or state prosecutor).

Lastly, of course, there is the use of litigation as a way to pry information out of companies that would prefer to keep it quiet. While the public may in general not have a specific stake in this, everyone has an interest in preventing collusion. This class, as it stands to gain nothing but information, would probably take the highest risk approach. They'd like to see a heavy penalty, but most important to them is the litigation itself and the information that comes to light.

I'm in the third group, so obviously I'm happy to see this. But my guess is that a lot of the engineers in the class would prefer a higher risk strategy as well. Money in compensation is nice, but most of the engineers affected here are probably reasonably successful financially, but they must be pretty angry, with the companies and with this settlement.
Everyone seems to be missing the most obvious reason to convert.

http://gizmodo.com/5786004/these-are-the-three-countries-who...

We're a global economy. By the ends of the century, India and China will have pushed us down to at least #3.
Cats are not domesticated in the same way dogs are. There is a wide genetic variance in cats, coming from hundreds or thousands of local strains. Dogs are two or three main groups, bred over 1000's of years to make the kinds we see today.

Why does that matter? Well, cats are not always let free; sometimes they've always been there. Feral cats can be the ones that nobody has tamed yet. As for 'destructive', that's how nature works. You might prefer the doves, but the kitty has her own ideas and they're not vicious little problems, they're behaving as god intended.

Now I'm not sure if cats were native to North America, so there it might be negligence. But consider the parrots of San Francisco, living in large groups in the parks. Parrots are expensive; probably they are descended from those that escaped out an open window. Nobody intended for them to roam free, they did that on their own.
Please stop perpetuating the bogus "oil/gas/auto companies killed the streetcars" myth. Streetcars/trams/light-rail is always a bad idea unless it is segregated from regular traffic and even in that case it still loses to several alternatives. Every possible justification for this form of public transit died by the middle of the 20th century. The only reason for such systems now is to amuse tourists.
>What these examples remind us of is that perceiving isn't opposed to or independent of understanding and thought; it is, rather, an exercise of understanding and thought.

I think this is what people should take away from this article.
If I had 4 months to create AI, how would I do it?
"It's my body". No, it is a parasite and a distinct life form.
>>The lawsuit alleges that SpaceX ordered mass layoffs of approximately 400 employees on July 21, without giving them advance notice.

Employment law not withstanding, I didn't know they'd had a layoff. Anyone else have any info?
Cmon, its easy to avoid most of the offenses; just read what you wrote before hitting 'reply'.

As for ageist, that actually strikes at the heart of the topic. Web facility is absolutely correlated with age. Its defensible to talk about generations and technology frankly.
That's a decent counter-argument. Perhaps this subject needs to be fought out. Robots (with or without AI) may be taking photographs in the future...
Anything feels right when you are used to it, for the rest of the world Celsius feels right, you could say it's because you know anything starting by "minus" is cold as well as any single integer (0-9). Some sort of familiarity-bias.
This whole article just feels like fluff. The very first "fact" about the origins of the qwerty keyboard are completely wrong. The Wikipedia page doesn't have a single mention of telegraph and has a complete history of its development. A history can be found in this 1996 article among others http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors/.
Well, to a non-American like myself the Fahrenheit scale feels weird and arbitrary (and yes, I understand the "human scale" argument, just don't buy it") while the Celsius scale makes sense.
Plants do it: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo...
I'm working through "Introduction to Tactics" and I enjoyed the video, but the lessons are frustrating. I'm doing a valid "fork" or "skewer", but the examples just slap my hand and say "no, try a fork or skewer". Explanations why moves are wrong would make the examples far more useful, so I understand why the very specific combo the tutorial is looking for is the right choice.
My mother wouldn't be able to build a website with traditional tools. With SimplyBuilt, she could.

My mother falls into this stereotype that everyone is hating on. If anyone should be offended by this, I should be in that crowd. I'm not offended, because a) she's not dumb, she just hasn't been given the right tools until now b) this post isn't really about my mother or someone else's mother.

Good thing I didn't say "a caveman could do it" as I might be in a similar situation. Except with cavemen. Or people related to cavemen.
I have wanted to perform a rigorous double-blind wine-tasting experiment for a long time, but have always lacked the resources.

The true test of the validity of wine-tasting isn't whether experts can tell "good" wine from "bad" wine, but whether experts can reliably describe the same wine with the same language with an acceptably small margin of error.

My ideal experiment would give blindfolded wine experts a number of wines to taste. They would rate each wine using some appropriate standardized scale that would measure a number of relevant qualities of the wine. The experts would be given multiple samples of each wine, randomized appropriately. The experiment would measure how closely each expert mirrored their own rating of each wine on subsequent tastings.

This is basically a slightly more complex version of the famous (and hypothetical) "Lady tasting tea" experiment [1].

I like this setup because the ratings of each expert are compared only to their own previous ratings. I think this minimizes ambiguity and external sources of error.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea
Or is it just more familiar? We all like what we're accustomed to. Is there some reason Celsius 'makes sense'? Why does it make sense that 22 is comfortable but 40 is miserably hot? It doesn't make any more sense than 72 and 100.
Could you say a bit more about why you feel it makes sense, perhaps with a chart like the one I wrote up?
“I think the possibilities for new futures come not from resisting but from accelerating technical development even under present conditions. There’s no way back; we can only go forward.”

Brilliantly summed up.
One thing I've learned in writing coding exercises, is that engineers tend to jump straight to the example code, ignoring all previous instruction. It might help to build your examples with the possibility that your student totally ignored everything you've said up until they started moving pieces.
John McAfee in surprise rant over Google and privacy
Creating a Web App in Erlang with Chicago Boss and Riak from Scratch – I
Notorious computer security pioneer John McAfee has used a surprise appearance at a hacking conference to warn of threats against "freedom" thanks to privacy issues with technology.

Speaking at Def Con in Las Vegas, Mr McAfee called on hackers to "make a stand" against companies that seek highly personal information.

He blamed laziness for the spread of apps and websites that gleam information from users.

"We'd rather be safe, secure and comfortable than actually live," he said.

In 2012 Mr McAfee was accused of murdering his neighbour while living in Belize. He fled the country soon after and denies the charges.
Can you explain your metaphor in the second sentence?
Hmm, I have the same intuitive feeling with Celsius. I guess it depend on which temperature system you grew up with.
Doesn't have to cost much. Just choose some supposed wildly different wines, and tear up a sheet to make blindfolds.

My father-in-law Thomas is from India. He likes whiskey including Indian brands; his colleague was a Scotch whisky snob. At a party he challenged the snob to name all the whiskeys on the bar.

Thomas went into another room with the bottles in a bag; came out carrying a tray with half a dozen shot glasses. The snob tasted each one, make erudite remarks about their qualities and selected a brand for each one. Thomas opened the bag and showed that only the Indian bottle had the seal cracked.

Needless to say Thomas doesn't get invited over there any more.
It's easy as long as you're taking everyone's sensitivities into account all the time.

My point is that the person that has a problem with what they consider obvious stereotyping that's a problem with discrimination has easily overlooked something others would consider an obvious stereotype that leads to discrimination...

If we're going to lambast the OP for being sexist, then this commenter should be lambasted for being ageist. Yet I bet if you ask the commenter they'll say they don't behave like an ageist and would rather not be called such...

yet said commenter doesn't bother affording the OP the same level of discourse or benefit of the doubt.

today's political correctness is full of this sort of hypocrisy.

in my opinion the better option is for people to stop being so sensitive and to look for actual discrimination instead of perceiving it from people they know nothing about based on one line on the internet...
Even worse for cities that are laid out on a mile by mile grid, like Phoenix. Yikes.
Yup! And that's why we want to know the company's name (legal) and make everyone aware how they fucked someone's life up (legally).

All legal.
Not really true. In New England and most of the NE, exits are numbered consecutively, or at least started that way until ABCs got added in and others got removed.
I guess I tried to explain that? Its not ageist to assign technological facility to generation - its a true correlation.
Good feedback, thanks for playing civil.

I used mother because my mother wouldn't have been able to build a website with existing tools, but could with SimplyBuilt. I found it not at all sexist, nor ageist, just that she didn't have the right tools until now. But that isn't what this product is about.

www.simplybuilt.com is built using SimplyBuilt.com. We'll add more examples soon. www.pushagency.io is another example. Anyone could sign up for SimplyBuilt.com and create our launch page. Eat your own dog food!

We're easier to use than the competitors. Simply try it out, and you'll find out. We'll illustrate this fact in the future.

Good point about the company and adding content about the people behind it. The best we've got right now is https://my.simplybuilt.com/humans.txt. We can and should improve this as well, thanks especially for this comment.

We're focusing on gaining customers right now, not how they'll leave us. Hopefully they don't want to do that any time soon.
Since our civilization seems to have moved to binary for actual computations I wonder if we will someday go back to thinking in terms of halves, quarters, eighths, etc. of some standard unit. Then people would mock the metric system for being implicitly based on the biological accident of ten fingers...
Completely agree. I got a commodore 64 and a 286 when I was 6. My dad taught me how to start my games in DOS so I could start those up by myself when I woke up early in the morning and they slept in. I started working through the BASIC manual that came with my C64 when I was 7 and if/then/else were some of my first English words that I learned. No need to dumb it down too much, kids will figure it out.
You're obviously not from Minnesota. 50s is shorts and a t shirt weather.
> Doesn't have to cost much. Just choose some supposed wildly different wines, and tear up a sheet to make blindfolds.

The hard part is finding qualified experts who are willing to participate. The experiment would be most interesting and uncontroversial if it was done with experts whose credentials were unassailable.
You could find experts in your social circle. The results would be just about as satisfying personally.
Industry Ranks August 2014
Awesome, looking forward to a nice sunday read, thanks! :)
Incidentally, when did the NYTimes start making making it difficult to copy article text to the clipboard? Infuriating...
When was our last dogfight? Vietnam?
> Well, to be fair, those anti-metric folks had at least one point in their favor: Customary measures make a lot more sense to us.

The author is full of it. Whichever system you grew up with will seem natural to you. This misconception comes up time and time again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7821501

The article seems like fluff; the author isn't even making novel mistakes.

He even says that the metric system "died". Hah. That's true only in a very limited parochial sense; it's the most popular system of measurement on planet earth even if it's isn't used for day-to-day things in the USA.
the link here appears to be to the mobile site, maybe the mobile formatting might be part of the problem...

Here's a HN link around the main page site:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8155651

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/technology/settlement-reje...
Major discussion of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8154730
It's worth looking ahead to what to do now, as the ethnic conflicts ate motivated by non-US-related reasons, and there are plenty of Russian weapons also, and there is a humanitarian crisis.
Nimrod has that too and as far as I know it's a lot more straightforward to use in Nimrod than it is in Rust.
As I suggested on a parallel reply, could you say a bit more about why you feel it makes sense, perhaps with a chart like the one I wrote up?
Sorry to hear that, that must have been terrifying. I hope mother and daughter are doing fine now.
Well its rather easy to make your own thermometer using the Celsius scale. Put quicksilver in a small glass tube and put it outside. When water starts to freeze mark the current position with 0. Drop it in boiling water and mark it with 100. Evenly distribute now 98 markings between the two existing ones and voila you have just made your own thermometer :)
The stereotype is statistically true in the sense that many (probably most) programmers have a mother who isn't a programmer. Secondly, most programmers' mothers are 20-35 years older than they are. So even if they are also programmers themselves, they are senior, which means many of them are probably not coding any more (or are possibly retired,even). They wouldn't be able to build a web site without ramping up on how it's done. Nobody is saying that anyone's mother is an idiot.

What is troublesome, though, is that the example person is invariably a female ancestor or relative: it is always "mother", "grandmother" or "kid sister" ("encryption scheme that will keep out your kid sister but not the NSA").

Many programmers have a father or grandfather who are not programmers, or technologically savvy. Many have a prying kid brother rather than kid sister.
Entrepreneurs Must Start Selling And Listening Early
Fahrenheit has a couple nice properties. One is that he picked two conveniently available reference points — melting ice and body temperature — and put them 2⁶ degrees apart, which made it practical to label thermometers by bisection.

The other is that (after a very slight adjustment) freezing and boiling water are 180° apart, which is a highly composite number.
I'll bite (and I grew up in one of the colder parts of Canada, so I'd call 0F a cold but not unreasonable winter day).

-30: Avoid going outside, if you do don't leave any exposed skin

-20: A cold winter day: toque, scarf, mittens, winter coat and boots are must have

-10: An average winter day: same load-out as above, but you'll be more comfortable

0: A mild winter day: snow possible, you may leave your winter jacket open, or skip the scarf

10: Early spring or late fall: you might be able to get away with a light jacket, but I'd leave that until 15

15: Long pants and light jacket

20: Leave the jacket home, maybe wear shorts or a t-shirt

25: Comfortable summer weather: shorts and t-shirt

30: Annoyingly hot summer weather, good for swimming

35 or higher: hole up somewhere with AC
Was anyone calling Wine-Tasting a science to begin with?
August Week 1
See the major discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8154866

In short, they claim they were just laying off their "bottom" 5% a week after doing reviews, and are in the process of hiring an additional 20% new employees.

Whether this constitutes a layoff is at the moment unclear; it's been noted that at least one other company (in)famous for this practice treated these actions as layoffs, and of course if they were "fired for cause" as SpaceX seems to be claiming they aren't due unemployment, which of course would increase what SpaceX has to pay for that.

The nastier claim is that SpaceX didn't pay all the back wages/salaries they were due, which is rather white line and something the government cares rather a lot about, if for no other reason than it deprives them of taxes.
Understanding Clojure Transducers Through Types [Haskell]
Are the people who link to this libertarian propaganda every time qwerty or Dvorak gets mentioned underhanded libertarians hoping to spread their brand of economic religion or people who have been utterly taken in by the former to the point that they think this is an unbiased debunking?
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Here is the primary source:

http://de.scribd.com/doc/236259646/Koh-Rejects-No-poach-Sett...