skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I was in an irritated mood (it happens, often). And someone texted me as "you're on hackernews"...which is another one of these "we don't deign to comment on your blog but in invisible space you can't moderate and wouldn't even know about if someone didn't tell you" sites.

It irritates me that a low-tech site run by loudmouth self-important non-philosopher startup "We're Big Business" people is worshipped so mindlessly by the madding JavaScript crowds. I guess they don't know any better. They're kids.

And the logo... it's a Y. Must have taken a long time to make that! Can I trade my "points" here for anything besides meaningless points on something that is only slightly lower tech than Reddit?

It's not your fault that these people--this rep system--this fraud exists. But sadness for me and my heart, because I care about right answers and beautiful things. "Startups" and "entrepreneurs" who don't have a soul or an original idea in their head aren't part of my world. Show me something amazing, or come to me with a question. Not the junk from these clowns.

So I'm back to answering homework questions for poor kids in India who don't know that Turbo C is long discontinued. I want to improve the world.

I wish computers hadn't gotten cool enough to get on the radar of MBA wannabe mental lightweights.

http://api.ning.com/files/7p9j8xEwRdVx32byvos40sX-7FeEGhQJ6Z...
Are there any players in the high end VR market for that sort of work that look like they'll be better than the consumer oculus? I'm thinking that a very high resolution screen would be the main thing a high end device could buy. Maybe good inertial measurement units as well but I'm not sure how much that would help over oculus style positioning.
"Don't want to be eaten" is a pretty high bar. There's not much we could eat if that were the criterion. What's left - fruit?
>Anything else (voting from home, or being presented with a slip linked to your cast vote, or any other such system) is subject to buying and selling votes and the result of such vote would never (and should never) be legitimate in the public eye.

Vote buying is a MUCH lesser problem than fraud by those running the ballot box. It's expensive; it's hard to do without being detected and on a large scale it becomes almost impossible.

Furthermore, it is impossible to create a system that simultaneously lets you prove that your own vote was counted correctly AND prevents vote buying (where the buyer can verify you voted correctly). If you can verify your vote was counted, so can the vote buyer. If you can't, you're trusting the person running the (electronic) ballot box instead.

Bearing that in mind, any fair electronic open source voting system should absolutely NOT prevent people from verifying their own votes. The person running the ballot box software is inherently less trustworthy than the person casting the vote.

Let the police deal with vote buyers. They can set up stings and catch them easily. The voting system should be primarily protected against the people who are running it.
"It’s important for me to say that this relates to employees who are good at their job. If you aren’t – just do everyone a favor and quit.."

I would normally be reluctant to tell a boss that I'm looking. I'm pretty sure that I would never tell someone who could say this; in fact that there's a good chance that person might already be driving me out, whether I was good or not.
So is there a definitive list of these patents anywhere? Or is it, like SCO's list, confidential?
You have the freedom to do anything you want from the result of using this framework.

I also have the freedom to do so with what you make, if I am a user of it.

Why are you so dead set on taking away my freedom. Adding restrictions on what I can do with the work you created from that framework is kind of rude when the developers is asking you to share, and share alike.
You know that going in. As a way to quit obsessing about the money and just enjoy yourself, it worked quite well.
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I'll counter with some questions, why is cannibalism considered immoral in your culture but there are some where it is not, and there are others were certain types of cannibalism or referential cannibalism is okay?

Please drive your thinking all the way back to the basis of the morals governing it and how it arose. Do you accept that basis as an axiom for everything in your life or do you pick and choose whatever society has told you are the correct ones? Is your system of morality really based on the original foundation for that morality, or based on social convention?

If you believe your moral system is "better" than just following social convention and has a deeper basis, perhaps some kind of religion. Do you follow all the tenants of that religion or do you pick and choose from those? Why and why not?

If you've rejected that moral basis for some things, why haven't you rejected it for all things?

If you are without a moral basis, what is the foundation you are using for your moral system? When you believe something is immoral, and somebody asks "why?" enough times, what is the answer?

Or have you arbitrarily just chosen some moral rules you think sound nice e.g. (don't kill each other), and rejected others which you think don't sound so nice e.g. (you must perform exactly these rituals, don't mix fabrics). Why have you done this? What is your guiding principle?

If we don't share the same basis for our moral systems, why should I follow your morals and you follow mine?
I find it less than funny when people feign ignorance of actual oppression.
Janitorial staff need direction and supervision. If you hire a lot of janitors in a place like Google, which has many buildings, you need to track them all, give them proper equipment/resources, and check their work.

A lot of times it's just easier (and cheaper, of course) to hire a firm that's more skilled in this work than to try and manage it all yourselves. It's one contact with a simple objective: clean the buildings. If the buildings aren't cleaned, the company can be replaced.
I've been fired for quitting, i.e. giving my two weeks notice.
I'm wondering if the firing capability is automatically shut down, not its steering and moving around abilities.
Assumptions such as independence are always dutifully mentioned when discussing statistical methods, but I never see a discussion about in which sort of practical problems such assumptions hold. In the case of independence and text classification, it seems to me that it doesn't hold, certainly not on the scale of a paragraph. As the blog post mentions, naive Bayes performs well despite violating the independence assumption; I'm curious to understand why that is.
Monolithic apps aren't themselves evil. But scaling them can be very difficult. I think people get hung up on "scaling", thinking it is always about handling the next 20k users. In reality though, scaling is as much about the development cycle and ability to scale the dev team as it is about adding more users. There are other factors too but those are a couple of key ones.

You mention that Message Queuing brings its own complexities which is true. But decoupling in my opinion is the only way to solve your problem long term. It is hard to provide a specific suggestion as I don't know all the details, so there may be other solutions to try too. However, I would likely start moving towards a message queuing solution with micro services. There are a lot of benefits to doing this outside of just being able to support more users.

Also, using messages I can send the same message to 10 queues and each micro service can take specific actions as they need to. For example, maybe you have a SMS notification service, an Email notification service, a web hooks service and an audit service. If you send the same message to all four and the service knows about that message type they can take an action or if they don't know, they can drop the message. Hence you can even send messages before the service is updated, or vice-versa. The key advantage is you are decoupled from the monolithic application, and if someone messes up the email sending, it only will affect email sending. This is also how you can ease into a messages/service based architecture, split out 1 service queue at a time.

Assuming you currently have a large monolithic backend app that handles all the backend stuff, you could also adjust it to be configurable, so each running instance only does one thing. e.g. instance A & B only send SMS messages, instance C sends emails, instance D & E do everything else for now. But this way if you are seeing errors in say Instance A & B it lets you focus your efforts on the correct code paths for newer developers joining the team. It doesn't make everything magically better, but it lets you scale the team some more, and also scale the project some more. But that may not be how you are setup, but just another example.
Contact names are not displayed in the lock screen until the first unlock (new in iOS 8).

Notice how now all devices, not only ones with Touch ID, say that your phone needs to be unlocked for full functionality after a reboot.
I misunderstood and was answering the question how I literally read it; how I saw what Buddhist philosophy was and how it related to Zen. You've misunderstood my perspective though - I can entertain what I believe the object of Buddhism to be without subscribing to it. I may have done Vipassana but I don't believe it to be an answer. I wasn't even looking for answers; it's another experience on the journey (I did get lot's from it though). However, that is what Buddhism - as I understand it - purports to be: the art of living, the middle way and finding balance (through that you find liberation). Zen tries to find that level but does away with the scripture, the individual tries to find it through experience.
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They aren't using the independent contractor tax option (1099) to pay individuals, they are contracting a company that has employees.

This position would never pass as a 1099
This is a non-issue if those languages are also pure, so that the name binding cannot be redefined.

Part of the reason why the function is called "first class" is that it has a captured environment. And that name binding which it is using to refer to itself is just an element of that environment: in other words, it comes from the function itself.

If you have some built in means for self-reference, like some special (self) expression or special symbol or something, that is possibly going to be implemented as some hidden symbol in the function's environment anyway, or a hidden parameter.
Great book. btw the Dalai Lama giving flowers at the airport was a great example.
It's still interesting to consider why age isn't considered part of diversity. Diversity as used is usually ethnic or gender.
Why 320p? I say 3240 because the height res is 1080p, and I think you can comfortably tilt your head to get three times that height resolution. The horizontal guesstimate I made similarily.

edit: ah I see, I hadn't factored in the warping of the optics, if you're correct then the effective resolution would only be around 900p so I'm being too optimistic :)
Agreed. These boats are a demo of a capability; maybe not useful for much but civilian patrol.

Consider: I could put a jammer on my boat, and go out shutting down, harvesting Navy robot boats and selling them for scrap!
Perhaps your point isn't clear.

Are you actually suggesting that minorities can only do paper-pushing jobs? Not only is that abject racism, it's obviously untrue.

The article is pointing out that because it's mostly whites and asians in tech, and people generally hire the people they know, the problem just perpetuates, leaving highly qualified, and sometimes better candidates, overlooked from positions simply because they don't enter the field of view for the candidate selection process.
OP here. I like where you're going with that. If you weren't already aware, you definitely need to integrate WebVR. A couple of devs from Mozilla and Google are adding VR APIs to Firefox and Chrome.

Join the mailing list: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/web-vr-discuss

More info:
http://blog.bitops.com/blog/2014/06/26/first-steps-for-vr-on...
http://blog.tojicode.com/2014/07/bringing-vr-to-chrome.html
I think 'age' works too well as a pertinent-skills-discriminator. Its not yet a PC hot button, so freely discriminate against old white guys!
They are not curating it. They are responding to lawful requests from others.
I'll chime in here as someone who studied to become a physicist: it's not bullshit; the truth about the nature of matter is too complex (and weird) for someone without a deep understanding of mathematics to understand. Particle/wave duality is a useful abstraction that relates the math to something humans can grasp intuitively.
Practice leads to Zen. Practice isn't Zen. But yeah otherwise i agree.
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The simple statistical approach doesn't hold water. Even a few minorities in the pool would then grow until parity were reached. Hispanics would hire Hispanics etc. That isn't happening.

We have to instead suppose there's built-in bias in the actual hiring process. E.g. only the dominant cultural filter is allowed weight in the hiring process, regardless of who is acting in that role.
I noticed too many black players in NBA and it has a diversity problem, the number/ratio of African American players in NBA league should be dramatically limited for diversity.

Asian is the _real_ minority(or tinority) in USA, somehow it is not treated as such when we talk about college, IT jobs etc. Maybe it's not just about the percentage of population? IT is also a highly skilled profession, similar to NBA players to some extent.

I'm all for diversity everywhere, but it seems the status quo is more likely from nature force/choice instead of simple intentional discrimination. To fully better it, we need check the diversity in those who are taking the hard courses in STEM majors, it's difficult to hire a non-STEM students for IT jobs.

Then we're back to round 1, I think it's the diversity on STEM major choices from highschool/college deciding the end result in SV. For that, there is only so much the government can help.
Never feel obligated to give more than two weeks, and then only when you're definitely leaving.

Imagine the flip side conversation: "We're thinking about firing you, so we're interviewing people. Not sure, we'll see how it goes. I suppose we might be convinced to keep you if you work an extra 20%."

It's an extremely asymmetric relationship. Recognize which side of that relationship you are on.
as you can see, the naivety of the avg hn ready confirms the points you made by down voting. if they'd live in the eu or at least open their swollen-by-intellect minds, they'd see through the charade.

having said that, i also have an issue with your comment: everybody does NOT know.
I've worked places that walk folks out the door when they give notice.
Oh you're factoring in head movement. I see. Well you still haven't accounted for the warping that the optics do. They stretch that 1080 pixels across a 100 degree vertical field of view, so the pixels directly in your sight (not including peripheral vision) is really only about 320.
RSUS are awarded as $x/yr for n years, vesting starts at 12/months or sometimes less, so including them in annual figures is non-
controversial, until you start seeing employee turnover at <1yr.

The only tricky part is do value then at grant day price or vest day price or some average thereof. RSUs are 0-price options
My old manager said "Nobody quits for money; people quit because they're unhappy" and I think its largely true.
One of the things that attracts me to libertarianism is how environmental disasters are handled. Shocker but under a more libertarian system, there would not be laws that protect wealthy corporations specifically allowing them to get away with pollution. Public and private land owners would be able to rightfully sue culprits for property damage.

In fact, some of the worst polluters are nations where the state owns the majority of land and/or production like Soviet Union and China. I was both dumbfounded and sad to see the amount of trash in the Black Sea along the Russian coast that was dumped there or floated into it via the danube river during soviet rule.

It's especially sad to see this sort of thing happening in the United States, which is a relativity environmentally conscious country with large swaths of protected land. I wouldn't take it as far is the following article details, but some of the ideas here would be better than the current system: https://mises.org/daily/5978/The-Libertarian-Manifesto-on-Po...
I think what he's trying to point out is that "it's currently socially-acceptable to effectively discriminate (or in this case ignore for 'equality') against those that are currently-viewed as privileged".

Personally, I've given up trying to argue with people on this matter. Some view this sort of reverse-discrimination as some sort of noble social-correction mechanism, I just view as what it is. Because, to me, at the end of the day, we are dealing with individuals. And sure, we may be uplifting certain individuals, but at a cost of other individuals purely because their gender/race was previously benefited in some way.
Some combination of voice recognition, gestures (e.g. space, tab, return), and a virtual keyboard is needed. Don't think people want to be confined to sitting in front of a keyboard at a desk. It's not going to be easy.
It may be important to keep that distinction. Security should not be 'one of us' but a separate culture, or they can't do their job effectively.
So naturally, and not to be insensitive, but this rule goes out the window when someone famous dies? I've seen the front page of HN covered with stories about Steve Jobs death (amongst others)?
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Or looks and height for that matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_discrimination
So I quickly looked up the employee demographics for Google, Facebook and Apple (but particularly for the percentage balance of males and females, as that appears to be the hottest topic), and from their official sources the numbers are, respectively: 30% [1], 32% [2] and 30% [3].

The number of CS graduates who are women differs in how it's gauged, but it's roughly 18% [4].

Though obviously there are non-technical positions, even accounting only for tech jobs the numbers are still 17%, 15% and 20%, respectively. They all fit around the same range.

There's certainly room for improvement, but I'm not sure why the onus should be on tech companies. They seem to be doing well enough with the available resource pool. Having profit-motivated entities be the initiators of social change seems like a clunky band-aid solution to me that won't be of any particular efficacy.

[1] http://google.com/diversity/at-google.html

[2] http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/06/building-a-more-diverse-...

[3] https://www.apple.com/diversity/

[4] http://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/btn_02282...
while reading this the only thing on my mind is how un-vim that feature is.

i would expect an hex editor mode would make much more sense to be added before they went to such shenanigans feature such as frivolous encryption. which can be trivial to use the Unix way... the way hex editing must be done for great pains btw.
I am curious how office manager can make your life hell? In my 7 years working as software engineer in big companies, I talked to office manager may be 5 times total. The only thing that comes to mind is giving bad seat/office assignment.
> Bitcoin can't handle micropayments

That is an inaccurate statement. Technically speaking, sending small amounts of Bitcoin from one source address to one or more destination addresses in separate transactions are inefficient, given the default size of the transaction(s) and the cost of processing. Depending on your use cases, there are solutions to this apparent limitation.

To handle one-to-one micropayments, Bitcoin microtransactions can be done in a trustworthy manner by using rapidly adjusted payments between parties[1]. Basically, funds are held in escrow and the amount owed is adjusted in a variable off-chain transaction until either a) the funds are exhausted, b) the parties decide they are done, or c) a timer expires.

Second, Bitcoin allows for making one-to-many payments in a single transaction[2]. You could send sub pennies (US$) amount of value to 1,000s of addresses in a single transaction. The cost of the transaction goes up as the size of the transaction goes up (more addresses == bigger transaction), but it remains a very economical way to send very small amounts to lots of addresses.

I'm using the latter of the two methods to send coin to virtual appliances controlling OpenStack cluster based instances, which would have an analogy of feeding parking meters in the physical world. You need to trust the payment party (entity paying for all the instances/parking spots in a single transaction), so the plan is to make the payment mechanism distributed by deploying multiple payment nodes onto the network. Payment nodes deposit pennies into instances/parking meters periodically from wallets they create and control themselves. If someone hacks a single payment node's guest machine, and steals its private key, they'd only score a few bucks. Not worth the time or effort of hacking the hypervisor, in theory.

An interesting side note here, payment nodes could also be aware of their own Bitcoin instance payment address, effectively allowing them to use a wallet they are carrying to pay for their own existence.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_7:_Rapidly-adju...

[2] https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#block-chain
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I'm unconvinced. More patrol boats are clearly a good thing for protecting a high-value ship. But not having a sailor on board seems pointless. It makes the patrol boat More unreliable (if communications are lost the boat shuts down). It doesn't save manpower because sailors monitor the boat 1-on-1 to prevent tragedies. Why not just have that sailor on the boat? And the boat shown doesn't seem any cheaper - its a regular patrol boat with robotic systems installed - still has manual controls, seats, cargo space as if it were to be manned.
And what can a patrol boat do? It can't board another boat, take over its controls and redirect it. It can only choose to shoot it (with onboard remote-control gun) or not. Very much limited in mission capability.

Whereas a very-much-cheaper drone boat of 1-2 meters in size would be harder for other combatants to detect, could travel in novel ways (submersible? High-speed hydrofoil?), and could act as a torpedo if needed to disable another combatant. Kind of like quad-coptors vs full-sized helicopters.
> Take the ebola thread posted earlier - there is clearly no ebola words in your first sample, while there would be in one taken soly from that story.

That's...not how word clouds work.

Each bucket is taken from thousands of comments in hundreds of HN submissions, which each phase in the cloud appearing with over 100 times.
Free BitBucket for private repos, free GitHub for open source projects.

I would have considered the micro plan if it weren't for the 5 repo limit -- I am (sadly) not rich enough to pay them just for being nice if I can get the number of private repos I need for free elsewhere.