skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really sounds more like a simple personality clash to me.

The funny thing is that had the CEO really just kept his mouth shut like he originally intended, the thing would probably have blown over. The employee wasn't really making any claims that could seriously harm an organization[1]. Instead, it's just a petty squabble over an issue the employee probably wouldn't have gotten much support from opposing anyway.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...
> essentially highway robbery

And sometimes literally highway robbery.
[OOP] Open Closed Principle
> If you want to keep something safe the real question isn't if your employee wants to abuse you, but if he can.

This assumes that 100% safeguarding is something that you are 100% capable of doing. If Google had that, they may not even need security guards (hyperbole).

> Consider Snowden

In the case of Snowden, we know that he attempted to raise the issue internally. Many argue that Snowden actually did serve his drive and oath comparatively to Manning.

Drive goes into these aspects that inspire people. It suggests that autonomy and purpose matter much more than pay - and Google having greater control over this could certainly help control.
Looking at the video reminds me of my first thoughts after having tried the leap motion : very cool, but what could we really use this thing for ? Followed by a blank.

As opposed to what happened after trying oculus rift, when streams of groundbreaking applications kept rushing to my mind immediately. Now of course this doesn't mean it will not have some sort of application one day. It's just not playing in the same league.

Note in case any of the author is looking at this post : i don't mean to be rude. What you did is really cool, and I would be totally incapable of doing what you did. I'm just noticing how rare real technical revolutions are.
I've never found a need to use oil to cook bacon, it generates plenty of its own in the first few seconds.
I've also moved over to Laravel for the most part, but I like the minimalism of CodeIgniter, and still use it occasionally. It's actually to CI's advantage that it has grown so conservatively: it's still fast, secure, reliable, quick to deploy and upgrade, and there's not much to learn when coming back after years of absence.

(My only real gripe has been the lack of a good Model base class, which led me to roll my own: https://github.com/lukifer/TheMissingModel)

Best of luck to BCIT, I hope they keep building on CI's core strengths and resist the temptation to make radical changes.
You can use Selenium for automation and web page interaction.
There is just an overhead of running Xvfb but it's trivial to setup.

What I mean is that PhantomJS engine still falls short of a real browser. Advantage of running a real browser with Xvfb is that you won't ever have to worry about if the page is going to render properly or have it behave the way you expect it to. The overhead is not of a big deal, in fact it's a tradeoff for rendering accuracy.

Don't get me wrong headless browser like PhantomJS is headed in the right direction but if compatibility with website is crucial for your success, it is not enough and I just don't have a lot of confidence that it will replace a real browser with Xvfb.

Basically the Javascript libraries are reinventing a lot of the wheels that have already been done in other languages before the explosion of Node.js.
There's no free speech or association here, only questions of who can access government-controlled radio spectrum.

This is also incredibly dangerous -- nearly all drug trafficking is orchestrated via cellular networks, and it's not a stretch to imagine that felons might lose the right to use government radio spectrum to communicate in the same way they lose the right to vote in many states.

To put it another way, which seems more of a central right in the democratic system: voting, or controlled frequency access?

It seems very quixotic to make this an issue of free speech, when free speech itself is so highly regulated. Ask the protesters outside the free speech zone if free speech exists beyond state regulation -- the silence is your answer.
Dunno about that. Here in the UK you can buy a product clearly labelled as pork belly, and it's not the same as bacon. It isn't cured, and is cut much thicker with more fat. It's great.
Its very simple. Bank A receives a $100 deposit and lends $90. That $90 goes into bank B. Bank B lends $81 of that money. That goes into bank C. Bank C lends $72 of that money, and that goes into bank D.

None of these banks has lent out more than 90% of their deposits, yet the money has multiplied. Of course, most banks will never be able to get to 90% because demand for loans from qualified borrowers isn't high enough. But this is how the system works.
I had this grand plan of playing with core.typed, type annotate everything (ann-record Pid [set-point :- Number .....]). But the types made the examples too confusing for a blog post, so I dropped the idea.

The record stayed though - but there's no reason why it couldn't simply be a map.
There's nothing wrong with wanting attention. The only question is what do you give in return for it?

Some of the most significant experiences in my life came from giving my attention to authors, musicians, etc.
It's not impossible at all. In fact there is entire field of study devoted to the long term evolution of dynamical systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_theory).

And within a chaotic system there are several types of stability that can be readily predicted over a long period of time such as Lyapunov stability and asymptotic stability.

Why do you think this system would be chaotic in the first place?
Yahoo! keeps their user information mainly in a DB called 'UDB'... User Database. It is a key, value store and clients are only allowed to access permitted keys. So the encrypted user password, plain-text answers to 'secret questions' (for password rests), etc. were not accessed unless a login server was compromised.

For the user's data for each property (games, mail, etc) they have their own data stores, and those would have been compromised for sure.
So when is Marissa Mayer's getting fired?
What bothers me is that they couldn't give him a reason why he was fired out of respect, but had no problem doing so when it was out of spite.

Firing someone, that is giving up cash to not sign your agreement, isn't "going our separate ways". And standards which doesn't apply when it matters aren't very good standards.

All management no leadership it seems.
I'm replying to myself since I don't feel like waiting and I'm not going to be on for awhile...

You basically started an argument on the internet over my use of "" to differentiate between his posts.

K. Glad we cleared that up and I don't really care anymore.
Also, see Cosma Shalizi's excellent review of "Red Plenty", which includes a mini-introduction on the application of linear programming to economic policymaking.

http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza...
Roll your own autocomplete solution using Tries (2012)
> Is it the technology, the disruption or just Elon Musk's involvement?

Yes, yes and yes.
"The public" is an abstract concept. If you try to use radio spectrum in ways the government dislikes, it will stop you with violence, so they own it for all intents and purposes.
Children learn by getting things wrong. A child doing the sum and getting the wrong answer may be learning as much as a child doing the sum and getting the right answer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dwbkt

Most relevant is probably this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04gw6rh
This is an unfortunate display of bad judgement by all parties concerned.

The disgruntled employee, even if he had not signed an NDA, did something fairly stupid and verboten -- namely, he bad-mouthed a former employer and ex-colleagues. The (tech) world is small and such public displays of indiscretions always come back to bite you.

Yishan Wong had a lot more to lose IMHO by engaging in this manner with the ex-employee in a public forum. He risks the reputation of his company and his own personal brand. Based on Yishan's writings that I've read, I found him to be a thoughtful manager who seemed ready to make the jump to executive cadre. I'd have expected a more mature reaction and ideally not a public one. No matter, we all have lapses of judgement -- hope that Yishan is getting appropriate counsel from more experienced executives and is able to defuse the situation without more damage -- reputational or otherwise.
Costa Rica has done as well or even better
Well, just to clarify, I had quit my job well before getting into YC, and it was really helpful to have at least one person be full-time and pushing ahead during the day.

It's true that Paul and Eric didn't quit their jobs until YC, but at the rate we were going, they likely wouldn't have kept them for long given how much time they were spending on Bayes Impact.

My conclusion is just as it is: don't wait. Get started however you can. If you need to stay at your job, start now. If you can leave and devote your full attention, even better - start now.
Show HN: Exist – understand your life through data
Or maybe it's just because mozzarella is the most typical and wide-spread cheese in Naple area (Italy) - where "pizza" was invented. Just a guess.
Or Twill for Python. (http://twill.idyll.org/python-api.html)
Finally Released: The “Sublime Text Power User Book”
Half the world must be crazy. What is better and why?
Java Coding with Cloud9 IDE
That's great feedback from both of you, I'm changing that up though it's tricky due to all the media queries and the columns matching up in size, but I'm almost done with this and other improvements. Thanks!
Current postdoc at NYU. 55K intro salary.
The Contrarians on Stress: It Can Be Good for You
Unfortunately only have one upvote. All the above is true.
If you walk by a house seeing someone crack a window and crawl in, do you think it's morally acceptable to trespass on the property to ascertain whether this is a burglary in progress or someone who forgot their key? (This case seems somewhere between my and your example.)
Google Is Inventing Screens That Snap Together Like Lego
Affordable to buy, but to maintain? It's not like you can go to the first mechanic around the corner to fix something in Tesla, and I'm quite sure original parts are ridiculously expensive. It's the same thing as with luxury, old cars - you can buy, for example, an old Porsche 911 quite cheap, but you will pay twice the price for repairs.
Gilgamesh: Twitter over Bluetooth
The Phony Law Enforcement Panic Over Apple's Encryption
Huh? He is the CEO of the website. It's great that he takes these thing personally.
It's really just that Shellshock becomes viable only when HTTP headers are passed to your code as environment variables. For CGI, this is the way things are done, and most Perl scripts interact with the web server through CGI. On the other hand, Ruby and $languageoftheweek are usually called through a server framework like WSGI or Rack, which have their own ways of getting HTTP headers to the user code besides passing them as environment variables. Perl has PSGI ( plackperl.org ) but it's more commonly used in CGI.
Great response. Very risky for a CEO to do it nevertheless.
Does It Help to Know History?
I don't understand the copyright holder's perspective on not allowing clips of copyrighted content to exist on Youtube. Sure, if there's a full movie on YT, there's a plausible mechanism for lost sales so request a takedown.

But if it's a 3 minute clip from a 90 minute movie, are they really believing that someone who would have previously bought the movie is content to be watching it in 3 minute snippets on the web?

It seems far more likely the opposite is going to happen which is that people are going to be exposed to movies they've never heard about before and be more pre-disposed to buy the full version. I know it's certainly happened to me quite a number of times before and there's nothing more infuriating to me than reading a blog post or reddit comment: "Check out how awesome Actor X is in Scene Y in Movie Z: <youtube link>" only to find a "This video has been removed due to a copyright complaint by XYZ LLC".
Tesla has an 8 year, infinite mile warranty on the power train (not sure what the rest of the vehicle is covered by). It also requires very little, if any, maintenance (tire rotations every 5K miles, brakes every 100K miles, battery replacement every 150-200K miles). For battery replacements, they just drop the pack and lift a new one in. For motor replacements, they just lift the 80 lbs motor out and drop a new one in.
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I love debugging and identifying what is wrong with a system. I'm looking for a new challenge and place to grow.
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We’re at https://github.com/clojurecup2014/acha
It's okay if you're just using it for outgoing mail, incoming+forwarding is where the problem arises.
BadUSB – now with Do-It-Yourself instructions
Around here we also get maple flavored.
As far as looking at all sides goes, how do you know he didn't do that already? I'm not sure what the culture around letting people go is at Reddit, but I'm inclined to think he knows perfectly well that he was fired, and why, and is at best shading the truth in his favor to make himself look better.
what if the supply of medical workers in Cuba allows it to send so many abroad with little effect on the local conditions ?
> healthy animals fats and proteins

Given you eat sausage and bacon every day, I wonder what you'd classify as an unhealthy animal fat or protein and what your rationale is?
I am speaking about language implementation, not algorithm implementation.

Most of those tests are using just one single compiler implementation per language.

It would be much fairer to have multiple compiler implementations per language being used.
> Certainly ordinary physical property law makes is an offense to trespass regardless of whether you are trespassing with malicious intent.

In the case of physical property the most common remedies for trespassing are either an injunction prohibiting future trespassing on the same property or a modest fine (e.g. $100). Applying the same penalties to the equivalent behavior in the computer context would be completely reasonable, but that empirically isn't what happens, because the CFAA is defective.
Show HN: Hls-endless – create local HLS streams from the command line
All DNS issues I thought I wouldn't have because I'm on google apps, but I never checked. Fixed now.
Lennart Poettering's Linus Torvalds Rant
This site always blocks my browser. I wished the WebGL contexts wouldn't load right away.
State of the Lua Ecosystem (2013)
What's 210?
Javascript !
Yeah, I'm old too. I subscribed to INFO-COBOL@MC (which was not about COBOL, but used that name because joke mailing lists were forbidden on the ARPANET), DB-LOVERS@MC (maintained by the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, specializing in dead baby jokes, not databases), ITS-LOVERS@MC aka UNIX-HATERS@MC, and I also ran a large international mailing list NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu, with lots of redistribution lists as well as usenet subscribers (routed via uunet) for many years during the 80's.

My point is that an email message that has a bunch of people's addressed in it, but no central server or list of email addresses, which you reply to by copying all the addresses in the To: and CC: fields, is not a mailing list, no matter how sophisticated your email reader is. It's just an email message, and you're doing all of the work in your email reader. (Hello, Emacs!) That's not a mailing list. It's just an email message with a list of recipients. There's nothing preventing any recipient from adding or removing any address from the list, and there's no central archive or administration or moderation.

Here's what mailing lists looked like in the 80's:

http://its.svensson.org/.MAIL.%3B.MCNEW

Who remembers Mark Crispin's oft-repeated catch phrase, "MM is not at fault!"

JWZ's Law of Software Envelopment:
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Video:

http://2013.capitoledulibre.org/conferences/lua-workshop/sta...
The prosecution and charges brought against Aaron Swartz would lead me to believe that you are quite wrong.
If I had a downvote button I would.

I think the main reason is that people think the mere fact of associating themselves and reading anything Tesla and anything Elon Musk related makes them feel cool and modern. It's basically like a cult. How people who know "music" will always disparage pop music and think this random indie alternative band is the best.
How ES6 Generators Can Make Your Future Programs More Expressive and More Concise
Background check?

Wouldn't this kind of ID be granted to anyone, so long as they are who they say they are, so long as their identity is vetted.

I think selectively doling out benefits or rights is the job of a separate system. (And if everyone has one of these IDs, the design of the second system could be simpler than it might be otherwise. I think.)
I suppose you're right that it's a bit unclear. The quotes are probably just a written expression at past frustrations from being told I don't have the right experience because nearly all of my skills haven't been developed in an office.

As for specific skillsets, I'm more than happy to get into details, but didn't feel the nitty gritty had a place in my post.

If I had to describe the ideal position (only so folks better understand me) I'd say the opportunity would have an emphasis on Partnerships. I am extremely good at identifying growth opportunities and think nearly all companies can benefit from strategic partnerships.

Anyone is totally welcome to send me an email asking for specifics though if they feel I might be a good fit for any opportunity they're aware of.
The parent asked whether the OP should be treated differently from people actually doing the malicious act. My analogy was meant to illustrate that we should.

I didn't express a stance either way on whether he should be prosecuted for a more minor offense or not, in the analogy's case trespassing. (There are obviously both pros and cons in the precedent set by prosecuting people for revealing their own minor crime on account of reporting a terrible one.)
Please note that because you used the base "phantom" library from npm it won't ever work with cluster (because node doesn't do the right thing with port=0 under cluster).

You'd have to switch to node-phantom-simple. Which might be worthwhile anyway because the phantom library you've used proved massively unstable at scale for us - I wrote it because of the need to work under cluster, and because dnode communication was bloated and unstable.
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Good things came out of this. The embargo prevented cuba from becoming the world's best experiment in total communism but it instead made Cuba the best and ONLY experiment in creating a sustainable "green" civilization. There is no other place on earth where this has been reproduced for an entire society in a way that works.

The Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund in 2007 identified Cuba as the only sustainable country in the world. The study involved two key parameters for measuring sustainable development, a commitment to "improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems". Cuba was the ONLY country on earth to achieve satisfactory benchmarks in both criteria for sustainable development.

You have to see it to believe it. Every inch of rooftop in Cuba is basically an urban/organic farm. Essentially Cuba represents the best possible outcome when modern society finally runs out of gasoline.
I'm not sure that equating creationism with nutrition makes sense. Nor does the rise of grain necessarily signal evolutionary adaptation. It seems quite possible that humans can survive and thrive on sub-optimal nutrition.

In fact, Jared Diamond quite convincingly demonstrates that hunter-gatherers, with their meat-and-vegetable diets, were far healthier than their agricultural cousins. But the abundance that resulted from agriculture (along with the perils of nomadic hunting) allowed farmers to have far larger families and eventually drown out hunter-gatherers through sheer demographic superiority. It doesn't mean that grains are ideal for human consumption, only that agriculture allowed population growth and urban density that eventually crushed the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

We could live on Twinkies if required. We are, as you pointed out, omnivores. The relevant question is what diet is most optimal for human health.
City staff book Uber rides in Ottawa then charge drivers with $650 fines
How is it not a real browser? It's basically a full WebKit based browser.
> impressive levels of abstraction and composition

It's nice to see these two words used to describe the benefits of functional programming. One often hears "expressivity" and it's less clear to me what that means, precisely.
Neuroscientists garner Nobel for discovering brain’s ‘inner GPS’
Maybe if the functional types had a bit more understanding of the situations where it's not appropriate, they'd get more traction in the real world in the places where it is appropriate.
knowledge helps, regardless of its kind.
He emphasized the word to clearly mark the difference -- why is that unprofessional?
The standard library (for the most part) is reasonable; the compiler itself is not quite as nice, but it's improving.
Amplify your online learning
Costa Rica may be the exception that proves the rule, or at least is notable for what it didn't do -- it didn't let itself become a colony/client state/banana republic, there was a state-led internal industrialization effort integrated with measured open-ness for international trade/investment, it didn't keep a standing military after its revolution.

And Cuba likely still would have done better without the US embargo.
Feynman the physicist?

Dude, your antagonism has no place here. You're not helping your argument, you're just making HN worse.
Right, I get that, but at the same time how can we expect them to buy something or commit cold hard cash when they are pretty much in the dark?
I agree. When we get nonsense, unbelievable fluff answers, we complain that companies should give it to us straight; here, we've gotten a straight answer from the CEO and all we hear is grief? It's a bit odd. I personally thought the CEO's answer was appropriate, given the former employee began the provocation.
Spanish nurse is first to contract Ebola outside Africa
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Oh, good. I'd like to think I'm imagining this. You give me hope. :)
New real estate development. Not a new trend. This has been going on for a while where I live too, themed clusters and that (not in the Philippines).