skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's going to take years and many more Manning and Snowden to fix things. It's not going to happen over one leak, one scandal or one occupation movement. There are no magic wands or easy solutions that would allow us to fold it over the weekend and be home in time to catch up some TV shows on Netflix. Let's remember that it took years for the Vietnam anti-war movement or the peace talks in Ireland to gain traction and it still was a messy road.

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The difference is that we on the outside now know, cannot claim ignorance, and are therefore responsible.
Perhaps when ClojureScript is self hosted. Right now the compile time, project setup, and overall learning curve is a pretty big barrier.
Not yet, the plugin API is not yet stable. One thing I needed for this was something like multiple selections, which is not in the roadmap. I also wanted to implement moving the mouse cursor like acme does on movements, but that currently would require vim to provide more info about its display (also not in neovim's roadmap, especially since it doesn't provide a GUI yet).

For the first point, I can hack something up with the recently merged (by yours truly) `matchaddpos()` function, and I think I will do so this week. I've been also toying with computing a character's position in vim's display taking into account splits, but that has proven to be very hard.
Salary bubble? More like a Salary deficit compared to the cost of living increases. Housing, Health, and Education have all nearly doubled in the last 15 years. My wages certainly didn't double.
What about Microsoft Research?
What role do anonymous forums play in the macro problem of the lack of female leadership? A big one.

We, as a community of innovators, need to stop these online communities of 'hackers against women' from existing because their threats, like the nude leaking of emma watson photos, prevent women from being public figures, starting companies and sadly participating in a huge chunk of the internet. Read below an excerpt from the article:

"Those three problems — women being threatened, women being pressured to change their own behavior to avoid sexual assault, and women being told that they don't deserve protection unless they stay pure and ladylike — are all individually terrible. But together, they add up to something even worse: a vicious cycle that pressures women out of public life. When we tell women that the threats and attacks they experience are their own fault, for failing to be sufficiently chaste or failing to take "responsible" precautions, we are telling them that they are on their own: that they cannot rely on society's protection against those crimes. How many women hear that message and decide that they have no choice but to give up that activist campaign or to turn down that higher-profile job or to hold off on writing that article? How hard will it be for UN Women to recruit its next Goodwill Ambassador?"
I disagree that dry ads are terrible. Terrible ads don't communicate the requirements, skills, and content of the position. Dry ads just indicate a bureaucratic work environment. That's an important signal to send.

For example, If you can't live without a foosball table, and will get agitated or angry with change management requiring paperwork before every push to production, then you wouldn't be a good fit with us, and I wouldn't want to make my job ad flowery and "fun" and send the wrong signal. It would be a waste of candidates time and my own.
Using the same kind of metric, certain male bodyparts seem to be trending as programming lang. as well.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=php%2C%20javascript%...
Correction: Bitcoin traders were looking for an excuse to buy a lot of Bitcoin. Your eyes are deceiving you. The way it works is, they buy in order to jump the price. Then other people buy and continue the momentum upwards. Then, in a few days, they sell, and thus capitalize on everyone else's belief.

This is how it's been for almost a year now.

Ask yourself: Why use Bitcoin? What is the value proposition for consumers apart from sending money to friends? That's valuable, but it's not multi-billions of dollars worth of valuable. Examine the fundamentals before you jump into a gambler's market.
My guess is this can get really slick when we have ES6 Proxy capabilities.
The best workplaces are those where you can be both sociable or straight to home and the choice does not impact your career.
I completely agree.

While two factor auth is probably overkill for just unlocking a device to many people, I would like to at least have the option.

One of my concerns is that if your device is ever taken by an organization that has the ability to command your fingerprints then they can quite easily unlock your device negating any encryption.

Also while I think its unlikely right now for criminals to make fake fingerprints in order to steal financial transactions, its a flaw and ApplePay is going to financially motivate those criminals to look into ways to refine the process and make it easier to do.
I was. HFT is an interesting and rich problem on its own, but its complexity and difficulty pale in comparison to cancer research.

And I don't get this "our brightest minds wasted on HFT/adclicks/etc" argument. Research positions at universities and labs are extremely competitive. There are hordes of brilliant people beating down the door to work on the problems that matter. The bottleneck is funding. A smart person who chooses to work in a higher-paying field and contributes enough financially may well have a larger impact on overall scientific progress than doing research in person.
The Church Committee succeeded pretty well; the reforms held for a number of years.

These kinds of checks on state power require regular maintenance. What we need is a modern Church Committee, not to throw up our hands at the political system entirely.
Your first article is based on faulty economics. When productivity increases are shared across an industry, nobody in the industry benefits. Instead, the benefits accrue to the customers and complements of the industry. There's a long historical precedent for that - productivity improvements in textile manufacturing destroyed the textile industry, productivity improvements in farming destroyed the small farmer, productivity improvements in fishing destroyed the individual fisherman.

Applied to software, the reason engineers aren't capturing most of that value is because all engineers are getting more productive. The benefit is accruing instead to those who employ engineers and those who use & purchase software. The exceptions are those fields where there are still significant barriers to entry and effective techniques are not widespread - isn't this why you want to become a data scientist?

I might buy that we're not in a salary bubble, but not for the reasons you propose. Rather, I'd say that the existence of a thriving market for startup founders is a market inefficiency. When engineers top out at $200K at a corporate job (and they don't always...I know some engineers with multi-million-$ stock grants) but can quit their job and instantly get millions in seed funding, that indicates that salaries should rise and seed funding availability should fall to bring those options back to equilibrium.
Merchants who use BitPay and Coinbase to accept Bitcoin usually choose to let those processors convert the funds to dollars on their behalf. Neither PayPal nor the merchants will typically touch Bitcoin during a transaction.
Love the tool, wish I had this over a lot of other scrapers on multiple projects.

Is a chrome extensions in the works at all?
They get paid.

To do business legally in a country, you need to abide by that country's rules. One of Canada's is the "Canadian Content" requirement of broadcasters that says that a certain amount of content being broadcast in Canada to Canadians must also be Canadian.

Whether the rule is dumb or counter-productive is immaterial at this juncture. Rules is rules.

Netflix quacks like a broadcaster so it falls under the rule, no? Not quite. There's a "new media" exemption that says, in return for giving the CRTC, when asked, statistics on the Canadian consumers of your service, you can be exempt from that particular scrutiny.

Netflix was asked. Netflix didn't give the information.

Now we see what the CRTC will do. It has every right to ask for an injunction from the courts to shut down Netflix's Canadian operations. But it doesn't want to, because Canadians like Netflix and bringing this to the courts might just be the opening Netflix needs to strike down the information requirement (allowing it to operate in the clear with no conditions until a new regulatory framework is built and approved).
You have to fork, it's the only way to make a new process. Now exactly which process does the fork()ing is, somewhat, academic. Some might argue about the band aid approach of the requirements of parenting and process groups; but that would require leaving POSIX (and hence source compatibility) behind. Allowing any process to set their own parent, process group, or controlling terminal without very strong bounds is dangerous; kind of like having Erlang with mutability, it's possible but it breaks the model (and all the cuspyness that comes with it) and leads to bad juju.

Requiring init to spawn the final daemon process (and hence getting the pid from fork()) is a red herring, any process can get a list of its children and query their proc structure (modulo permissions, but most sane people run init as root).

init should be as small as possible to do only what it is required to do; this is simple anti-fragility at work. The less code and state the better. Feel free to stick your process manager, dependency calculators, and helper daemons in other processes. init should be able to handle something as catastrophic as a SEGFAULT and just execve(/sbin/init) and just carry on (while logging locally and remotely of course).
Maybe it's just a cultural disconnect but it's pretty rare that there's a Canadian television show I'm interested in ... though the number of U.S. shows I find interesting has dropped too.

This sort of regulation (eventually) does a serious disservice to the industry. I've replaced television (of all sorts) with streamed video content and/or on-line reading. It's not about the delivery method it's about spending my free time watching/reading the most entertaining content.

When I was little, if I hadn't brought books and magazines home from the library, the only "new" content I could be entertained by the television. New regulations on Internet content providers won't solve the CATV viewership problem it will simply push viewers from the (newly regulated) popular content providers to other providers. They're not going back to television unless someone dramatically improves the programming.
Backblaze's startup hustle (2012)
The first people there certainly knew what they were facing, and they knew the risks. The rest - not so much. People were gathered from the streets, from their homes and their workplaces. None were told what they were about to face, none were allowed to talk to anyone back home, and none were allowed to leave when they got there.

All in all, there was a handful of people who really knew the risks and who truly, heroically sacrificed themselves. Then there were some volunteers, and then there were masses of involuntary laborers who were told that they should take a few charcoal tablets a day and they'll be fine.

About 600 000 people were involved in the liquidation effort. Surely you cannot believe that they were all Soviet heroes, or volunteers for a cause no one actually was told about at the time. You don't need to hope for volunteers in a totalitarian regime if you can just gather any able-bodied man you can find.
Not sure where you get that they're ignoring it. TFA says nothing of taxes, and that burden falls on the buyer anyway. Unless you're saying that the IRS's guidelines mean it can't be used to buy things for some reason, which is just not true at all.
Indeed. I spent a bunch of time looking for something like that which already exists, but couldn't find anything and have resigned to building it myself. When it gets to a better state I'll be releasing it. Probably in a week or so.
Seems kind of out-of-scope for Cortex. But the notion in general is something I yearn for mightily.
Would be interesting to see a post on what your burn-in procedure is.
For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option
http://www.eweek.com/it-management/microsoft-lays-off-2100-c...

what about them?
PLenty of things need that level of accuracy.

But it isn't just about the accuracy it is about the immediate degrees of drift that can occur. With GPS time disciplining removed a crap OCXO (and there are plenty) will wander off back and forth in mad errant degrees. With this used to discipline dozens of other hosts results are not always pleasant.
Everything about this awesome, really.
I heard an old timer describe it well ... true research needs to be altruistic. Today, I think this can only be done through govt sponsorship. In places like Canada, my impression is that even the stewards who dole out govt funding have forgotten what true research means. They dole out money for commercializing innovation, which is not research by definition. From what I've heard from other scientists, the US is doing a better job. They are focusing their research dollars on 'promising' areas. This isn't as bluesky but at least it is research.
You could mitigate it somewhat by switching your sources to HTTPS, assuming you trust the mirror you're using. (The official ftp.xx.debian.org mirrors don't support this, but some popular mirrors do; you're still at the mercy of your mirror, but not vulnerable to MITM attacks.)

You could also download the package via normal HTTP and install it with dpkg: https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian-security/pool/update...
(download the appropriate arch, of course)

If you're deploying lots of wheezy systems, you could also rebuild the cd images (especially the netboot/netinst ones) very easily; the debian-installer docs are very detailed, and there are only a few steps.

Note also that there are discussions for issuing a new release in the near future happening on the mailing list:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/09/msg00292.htm...
Content First Design with Content Slice Diagrams
My guess is that PayPal et al don't particularly care - the onus is on the bitcoin user (i.e. the consumer) to calculate capital gains, report to the IRS etc. Those consumers probably don't care - they'll wait to see how/if the IRS actually has a willingness/ability to enforce their own guidelines...
Ah, I see. Moldbug's second point is what DBWI's are about- speculating on real world events from the point of view of an alternate history inhabitant. His third point takes it into the realm of further fantasy, of having those inhabitants actually cross into our world to see their reactions.

Cross-timeline adventures are not exactly unknown in alternate history sci-fi, and they're quite fun as well, to see the very different cultures interact. Cheap irony is the lifeblood of althist.
One of the best examples of "start up hustle" I have came across. Nothing on the wrong side of law or morally questionable.
US PayPal Merchants Can Accept Bitcoin Starting Today
Chipworks Disassembles Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450, 4MB L3 Cache and More
I guess I treat the frameworks and tools of the products I'm building like software that flies space shuttles. In my mind, even as the product changes and evolves, I will have built tools and framework that makes changing the software easy and less scary. Moving a tooltip or changing text, or supporting localization should not be risky, imo, but I have to fight for building out things like that.

It's "be prepare now" vs "fix it later". "Preventative" vs. "reactionary"
Don't be ashamed: for a pretty long time Seagates really were very reliable, the 7200.9 and 10 series were a staple in my systems throughout the last couple years. Seagates also used to have a 5 year warranty period. I'm actually thankful that the Seagates I've bought more recently tend to suffer from crib death: better it dies immediately rather than die once I've put my trust in it.

As others have said though, these things tend to go in cycles. One manu. gets a bunch of bum drives, people react and they start cracking the whip on QC. I think it's also a product of what we're asking of our drives today: SSDs are eating away at the low end so their only recourse is to pack more and more data into smaller and smaller spaces leading to a greater reliance on error correction.

I will say though, the BackBlaze report led me to try out HGST drives for the first time and I've been overwhelmingly satisfied with them.

That said, will that trend continue? I guess we'll see when the 2015 report comes out.
Inside the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
There is a substantial amount of pressure from Canadian telecom companies to get companies like Netflix and Youtube to conform to the same regulations that tv/radio deal with here.
Sorry, we'll make the wording more clear.

At the moment, ParseHub does not respect robots.txt. We do expect to add this + features for webmasters in the future, but have not had the developer cycles to do this yet.
It is a fundamental principle of rationality that having better information should not put you in a worse position.

The article quotes Dr. Kenneth Offit, the chief of clinical genetics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center saying these tests "because they could be tested, not necessarily because they should be”. I think this is representative of the attitude of the larger medical community; they're used to performing tests in response to something, and if they find something, they follow a protocol dictating the steps to be performed in response. I've heard a similar argument against full-body scans, saying that if a lump is detected, it is likely benign, but it has to be investigated lest the doctor become subject to a malpractice suit in the future. This is the case even if the expected benefit of a biopsy is negative due to the low likelihood of malignancy and the side-effects of a biopsy.

Fundamentally, medicine needs to change. In principle, doctors should choose their course of action based on the expected outcome, incorporating all available information. In many cases this action will be to do nothing. As more information is gathered by the medical community as a whole about, for example, the causitive relation between certain genes and diseases, the underlying models dictating the appropriate action can be updated. Unfortunately, until doctors believe they can take no action if they think it best without being threatened by litigation, we're going to be subject to this problem.
Yes, we call it "fat data" because of different approach to it, "bigdatey". E.g. it's not relational -- we don't JOIN it with anything (we intentionally designed it so that we stay scalable while growing), and it would perfectly fit a NoSQL datastorage (just don't confuse NoSQL with MongoDB :)

After working in Google I (with another teammate) kinda "feel" what's big data: it's more about approach, mindset and toolset to work with it. I agree with you and @techdragon that if you can fit the data into one machine it's probably not really big. But one can also work with 1GB of data using bigdata approach, what we call "fat data". When we grow out of a single machine we won't need to rewrite our project.

Nevertheless, this all doesn't prevent our sales team to say "big data" and "cloud" in every their phrase :)
Weak spike. If this news doesn't break $450, we're gonna see $350 soon.
How do I use the cursor to build a recursive json editor that allows appending the tree? Does onChange support adding new elements to the cursor or can I only operate on elements that have been previously fed to the cursor?
It all depend on how one phrases the exchange.

Someone might get the wrong idea if a person went to the university with a briefcase full of money, politely telling them to focus their time on something other than privacy research.
Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets
get caught and they will fuck you over and you will be shit out of luck in court.
Can you contact me via email? In my profile.
I think that school teachers are making the world a better place. Is there an app for that?
This chronicles the tests we did this summer with rethinking the invoice and getting people paid faster. I'm thinking of doing another post where we dive deeper on how we did these tests, made our product development decisions, and so on. Is that something the HN crowd would be interested in?
Publicity stunts get in the way of actual progress. Money is fungible so it's impossible to actually hold true to that promise. They could only use google money to buy sandwiches. But then money that used to go towards sandwiches can now be put towards privacy.
Chrome extensions run in a severely restricted environment. While this is arguably good for security, it prevents us from building some of the powerful tools we can build in Firefox. We do plan to eventually release as a standalone app with no browser dependency.
I have offered to buy but they have not returned my emails, so we're going to build our own version and offer an import feature. Will be housed at http://everymoment.me as soon as we have something ready to go.
Its all in the job market. In a buyers market (unemployment high) then you can make job hunters jump through hoops; you can repel many applicants and still have people lined up.
"How will society function without taxes?" is a genuine question and several books have been written to answer this question. I'm currently reading one of them: Anarchy, State and Utopia.

The answers are very interesting and mind opening, and I'd invite you to do your own research.

One last point about your question above. Is it really fair to ask an abolitionist "but without slaves, who will pick the cotton?"? Must the abolitionist have an answer to that question in order for us to act on his argument that slavery is immoral?
Apparently that report is inaccurate: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/09/stanford-research...

Edit: not sure exactly why my comment was downvoted, the link I submitted is the response from Stanford CIS (the party who filed the legal document in question) disputing the article.
According to your link, there were 75 people at that lab. Microsoft Research has over 800 people:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=pe...
Sure, and I realize good developers are hard to find, but unless you are looking for the 23year old "ninja" type developers who like doing all nighters, would you not need to care about work/life balance of employees too?

Startups that need to launch yesterday I realize often have young employees without family, but these are large corps like Oracle/Yahoo/Google, these have to employ quite a lot of engineers in their 30s, 40s and 50s? Like I said, I'd be willing to accept a substantially lower pay for a good holiday (5-6 weeks), and a good work/life balance otherwise, like good processes that ensure there's no regular "crunch time".
Nope, they just accrue debt because there's no other way to live in this society at that pay scale unless someone has very convenient living conditions (such as not needing a car).
How to Understand Your Computer
Because then a single firmware bug could wipe you out. Once the drives all hit 4500 hours or 700 bad blocks or some other trigger, they die. It's happened before.

Could also be caused by bad grease, or shoddy bearings, or pretty much anything.

There is security in diversity.
No. The question was "If net-neutrality fails...". This is my prediction for a world with failed neutrality.