skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point still stands, but to be fair we do that with almost all meats we consume. Pork instead of pig, veal instead of baby cow, beef instead of adult cow, etc. Chicken is the only one that comes to mind that we call it as we see it. I'm curious what we'll end up calling ants and grasshoppers when we start eating them en masse.

I think you also need to accept that most people don't care that it was a living, intelligent, conscious creature. I know plenty of people who will vocally celebrate a meal with bacon (or steak or whatnot) with a blatant reference to the animal that died to be on the plate. I hope this attitude changes in our time, but it is the current reality.
I am disappointed to learn that you feel I have attacked you in the past. I apologise unreservedly for any offence I caused you. I always try to be civil and professional in my interactions and to be mindful of the difficulty of conveying the intended tone over an electronic medium.

If I have voiced some criticism of your code it is certainly not because I wished to belittle your efforts or to make any value judgements about your worth as a person.
I don't really get it. YouTube is under no obligation to host his content for free, and that's probably spelled out in excruciating detail in the Terms of Service.

If he thinks it's fair use, why doesn't he just put the video file on his own server?
Protect your status, withdraw now. You drive the agenda.

Make the Big Company qualify themselves to back to you. "Why would we want to do something together?" "How exactly does your operation/platform work?". "What exactly are your plans for our stuff?" Get a deal done before technical due diligence. Here's a solid read on Prizing by Oren Klaff > http://pitchanything.com/book/
This is what one implementation of Common Core looks like
I think we are long overdue to give YouTube the boot and switch over to something else.

Unless we're promoting viral cat videos or k-pop clips.
Perhaps we should continue this discussion on `alt.fan.jwz`.
I'd like to posit a far more insidious impetus: Xenophobia.

Yes, most of the people on the bacon bandwagon just enjoy the stuff. It's tasty, and bacon-flavored ice-cream is a great joke. But there's also a vein of white-supremacy, anti-semitic, anti-muslim sentiment in America, and some of the people enthusiastically pushing to put pork in everything under the sun might be doing so because they know it'll make others uncomfortable. A subtle way to assert that "they don't belong here, in the land of bacon", basically.

Is it a tiny minority? I certainly hope so. But I think there's a larger overlap, of people who don't think of themselves as actively racist, but who just go along with the bacon-everywhere mantra because they don't mind rubbing it in.

Imagine if your favorite restaurant had a barbecue special every friday, and that coincidentally meant there were no catholics around the place. Okay, no big deal, just eat somewhere else. Now imagine if every restaurant in town adopted this schedule, leaving catholics feeling pretty unwelcome. A lot of us non-catholics would never notice, and probably just go along with it, hey, tasty food on fridays, right? Until someone mentioned it...

I think that's where we might be on the bacon thing. Folks affected by it are a minority, and hesitant to say anything for fear of sounding whiny and further marginalizing themselves for their beliefs. And it's tasty enough that most folks going along with it might not realize they're playing into an agenda. And it would be impossible to prove that such an agenda even existed. Which I can't prove.

But I do know that the bacon-fever makes some of my friends and coworkers feel just a little uncomfortable, a little unwelcome here. Food for thought.
I agree that most of the authentication belongs on the backend, but there's still the question of how best to handle/recognize authenticated users and authorized requests on the frontend. Should I be using JSON web tokens, or cookies? What's the best way to protect routes for users with varying degrees of access? If anything, I'd like to see pros and cons of each strategy, assuming a backend implementation is already in place.
Absolutely agree that it's a risk mitigation strategy. Even if we can get to a 'do an MVP' and then iterate, I still see these types of contracts trying to fix more than 1 project aspect.
making two parts not separated does not imply the code is obfuscated.
Also, the gcc maintainers have in the meantime moved away from that policy, IIRC.
The paper is available for access for free - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2522732

Anyone can implement the paper and then open source that - from the way the article is worded there might not be a stable/production ready version of Tango in the wild yet.
SpaceX launching Seattle-area office, recruiting Microsoft engineers
‘Gamification’ Is Dead, Long Live Games for Learning
I'm remembering a post here on HN some time ago from someone that experienced that...

Demo'ed their tech to "big co" in the hopes of partnership/acquisition.. nothing came of it then 6 months later Big Co. released their own version of the exact same thing...

Be careful.
You will have to be very very careful about making Estonia the real physical center of the commercial activities deployed by your company.

If you don't - let's say you're Dutch, living in Holland and consulting mostly for Dutch clients, then forget it.

But let's say you're Dutch, you have a girlfriend in Estonia, you work from there a week every month, and you have clients in several EU countries, with NL only one of them... Maybe you even have a local employee in Estonia. That will work no problem.
This is relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich

Although not dealing so much with big data, it was still a "socialist" attempt at mathematical optimization being applied in society.
> What will it be like for people who can access thousands of hours of conversations

Along these lines I highly recommend episode 3 of Black Mirror "The Entire History of You". It is essentially a British version of The Twilight Zone.
It's not the stand they make money on, it's the 2.75% payment processing rate. That is higher than what competitors charge (closer to 2%), and as business grows that can add up to a significant premium. That is what drives them off of Square. So there's a kind of glass ceiling there.. to keep those customers Square would need to renegotiate a lower rate that trims down their gross margin.

Square does have a really good niche in the mom-and-pop shops where 2.75% is an ok price given the easy of signup and free POS system. But at the same time there may be significant customer acquisition and support and fraud costs in that niche.
The NSA, CIA, TSA, DOD, DEA, the drug war, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the 'war' on terror. Also, taxation is at multi-decade lows.
Right, so they're either trying to buy you, or trying to steal information. Seems like you'd want to establish which.
Agreed that if we can get 2 sides to 'trust' each other, we can minimize the need for this type of approach.
eliminate fructose

To better health: Eliminate fruit, increase bacon consumption. Got it.
> Everybody compares themselves to the US from economic metrics to quality of life

Which unfortunately, these days, is dragging a lot of countries down.

I see Australia and Canada doing it every day, and it's actively making life in those countries worse, because it's coming "down" to US standards.
http://manning.com/marz/ - this is often the trifecta used in the "lambda architecture", coined by nathan marz. This is also the system they built @ backtype to do their real-time analytics system.
Excellent overview of services vs factory vs provider. Most explanations of this just end up confusing the reader even more.
Giving the benefit of the doubt I'd guess things that were just off script, even more guessing, either silly stuff or trying to make the candidate feel uncomfortable/inferior. Those are the most common I've seen at least.
Yes, it does require trust. I have personally seen Agile work for consultancies (It works well for my consultancy, Stride). The trust factor is paramount. We take a lot of care and implement many practices outside the contract to ensure we deliver what the client wants.
For what its worth here is my 2 cents:
1) Do not disclose any code. Period, full stop. Remember that an idea is worthless without execution (or nearly worthless).
2) As another HN stated get a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) in place. If they are serious about an aquirhire, then they should have no issue proceeding down that path. I'd even suggest you get them to draft it, and you'll have your legal council review it. ALWAYS Redline and discuss the finer points of teh MOU, never blindly accept... just the act of disagreeing makes sense... They will respect you for this and would do the same.
3) If they are in the same space they maybe just conducting some dubious business practices by "interviewing" you. They know if they break an NDA you will be tied up in a legal disagreement for years.

Lastly, DO NOT get distracted from your launch date. Tell them you are currently on the critical path to launch (do not disclose the date just a ballpark). Explain that these discussions cannot distract you from that mission and should the company want to delay that you'll need something in writing. If they are serious they will ask if you could delay the launch or probe for more details. Again, get a deal in writing before agreeing because in US and Canada a verbal agreement is binding... (everything but real estate)...
That is the documentation for phantomjs, which is a stand-alone process. Nightmare is a package for nodejs (that interacts with a phantomjs process), so your code runs in a node context, where there are plenty of scheduling options, e.g. the node-cron package, or just plain setInterval().
I'm wondering just how much manipulation of social media was done to push bacon to where it is now (ie., how many bloggers were paid to astroturf).
Nonsense. For starters the employee's actual identity is apparently known and there are comments in one of the threads indicating hiring managers at other companies have taken note of him (negatively). Secondly, being the CEO of a YC company means he's "in the club." Short of explicitly defrauding investors, the limit to this guy's personal risk is very lilely that he may be forced out of his CEO role. Unless he's a very stupid person he has put enough untouchable wealth aside to be just fine should this occur. Even if he hasn't I would suggest his chances of securing funding for another company is not impacted by this drama negatively (in fact, it may have a positive effect).

Besides that, even if he did have more at stake personally that is insufficient reason to take his word over the employee's, because there's nothing even close to any objective evidence in such a determination: it's purely subjective based on your own biases.
That's because performance is easily gamed. A manager could make someones performance look bad, or good regardless of reality. That's why you can suddenly be a good performer or bad performer just by changing companies. It doesn't even have to be a conscious thing. Everybody is subconsciously biased.

If you like don't like someone, you performance managament them out by like giving them lots of terrible tasks or stupidly high targets. This is a well known technique, recommend by most HR people.

Anyone who's been work for a decent amount of time, knows this. Workplaces can be more like high school playground the with popular kids and the outcasts, then a merit based thing.
> your front-end will fall into line.

How, exactly? Basic auth? Cookies? Tokens? OAuth?

There are lots of ways to do this, and I agree with your parent that if there is a best practice, it isn't obvious or well-known.

Edit: Ignore this - posted at the same time as arms!
are the facial image and fingerprints only used for background check, are they stored (and for how long) and are they shared with different entities, such as police or foreign governments?
Yeah, I stopped buying pork products a fee years back for exactly this reason. It's tough though, they were my favourite meats...
Make sure you keep backups of anything you upload to YouTube because all it takes is one DMCA claim and you'll never be able to download that video again, even via Google Takeout. I learned this the hard way.
This post was downvoted, but I'm not sure why. I eat bacon every day... but only with the aid of significant ethical dissonance.

Pigs are incredibly intelligent, comparable with dolphins and dogs. The way they're raised and slaughtered is awful. The only reason I can continue to eat bacon is because I refuse to acknowledge the suffering behind food that I believe provides essential animal proteins and fats to my diet. Even so, I should switch to chicken or fish rather than continue my support for pig slaughter.

We need cloned meat to arrive yesterday. The current industry is unsustainable and absolutely brutal to captive animals -- and incapable of scaling to the needs of the 7-12 billion people who will demand meat over the next several decades. Bacon is delicious and wonderful, but let's not lie to ourselves about the cruel conditions that produce it.
Quick! Fire from the hips...
How's your heart?

No their problems weren't just the lard. It was derision pointed at the unfounded basis of your analysis and the complexity of the human diet, metabolism and relatively limited knowledge of nutrition we have.

/r/keto isn't a valid citation, well no more than /r/spacedicks (NSFW) or the pope. Neither is you losing weight.
The problem with the watch is that it's in a space where its not clear there's any relevant need for that product to exist, commercially.

The MP3 player was the evolution of the CD player, which was the evolution of the walkman, which was the evolution of the boom box etc...going all the way back to minstrels. Music and its transportability have always been a big deal and improving that core function is a big deal.

The watch....time is important, but it is solved problem in that space, and it's not clear that it makes any thing else better (i.e. you implicitly need to use two-hands to control a watch interface, you can handle a phone with just 1).
I'm pretty sure the word "revolutionary" is overrated. As I observe today's world; most ideas are either copied or slight improvement then scale to make money. The idea of revolutionary itself has become a blur and I totally agree with you that there isn't a revolutionary idea anymore.
Yes, if all I offered a client was an Agile contract, they shouldn't want to hire us.

But, the contract is 1 piece of the puzzle. In order for businesses to want to hire Agile teams, whether consulting teams, freelancers or otherwise, many factors have to exist in addition to an Agile contract.

These factors include - high quality development teams, visible work, high collaboration, working agreements, trust, a cancellation clause, definition of "done", and more.
> discussing it on its merits

Again, the OP makes it clear that taking seriously some of the basic tenets of feminism was operational in realizing the code. So, it is one of the merits. Otherwise, arguing that

> I am merely sayng a good hack is a good hack

and refusing, against your own argument, the merits of the code, is just a simplistic attempt to de-legitimize feminism as if it were a topic unworthy of serious debate. That, in turn, is just a redo of the very behavior (of not taking people and their stories seriously) that the OP (and the OP over at G+) was talking about in relation to the failures of the open source communities.
I have mixed feelings about this. I think you're probably right that he did this with altruistic intent (or, at worst, just to satisfy his curiosity), and I hope he hasn't gotten himself into serious trouble. (Though I fear he may have.)

But I hasten to add that intent is clearly not dispositive of whether it was OK for him to infiltrate someone else's system. Certainly ordinary physical property law makes is an offense to trespass regardless of whether you are trespassing with malicious intent. Certainly it is worse to break into a house intending to steal something than to walk into someone else's house out of curiosity, but neither is legal or, in my view, morally acceptable.

So I say: good for him for making these breaches known, but he definitely should not have been in there poking around in the first place.
There are a few good thriving subcultures out there, from what I can tell. My main interactions have been with burners (as in burning man) and makers. But some of my friends are also deep into anime, video games, hacking, SCA, and the subcultures that follow those interests.
You mean he realized that the PR-speak version (which judging by the comments in this thread, people want for some reason) went over like a turd in a punch bowl, and then he reverted to plain English?

Am I supposed to see that as a negative or something?
Your competitor (Josh Pigford, creator of baremetrics.io) created post about why unlimited plans are bad. I think, that it will be nice to read for you.
https://baremetrics.io/blog/never-offer-unlimited
Sorry, are you saying someone needs to burn (metaphorically) Reddit down? Because that's what this fire is doing..
'I am not a spy. I am a philosopher.'
I'm not asking for access to their hardware (computers or particle accelerators).

I am asking for access to their data - something that costs them nothing more whether I have it or not.

Science and the free sharing of information go together.
That combined with Yishan's reply makes it LOOK more retaliatory.
Reminded me of Hamming and Bode saying "Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest." http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Ouch... As one who was signing up for mailgun tomorrow, thanks for pointing that out.
Youtube pretends to be an unbiased platform for hosting any videos (outside of certain categories like porn). But many of their processes have very unfair bias in them.

Youtube is allowed to be unfair, but it's reasonable to complain about it.
As they say - the bigger the company, the more socialism there (inside the company).
Leontief's input-output model is also interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input–output_model
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Aware of this. My point was purely derision.

A lot of nutritional fads are indistinguishable from religion. Scales are always balanced, not necessarily visibly.
Now this is a good rebuttal[1]. Factual, straight to the point while not being excessive.

[1] Or response, or whatever the best term for it is.
I only read the beginning of the article and skimmed the rest, but this seems to be a misleading article. Just because the Chileans had the idea they could use massive amounts of data and computers to achieve their socialist goals doesn't mean this was the origin of big data analysis in companies today. It doesn't take a quantum leap in creativity, imagination, or innovation to realize you can combine computing power and lots of data to glean insights into customers, or in socialism's case, societal (i.e., the government's) goals.
If person A walked up to your window and fired shots through it, killing a family member of yours, and then person B walked up to your window out of curiosity (trespassing), saw a dead person, and called 911 (or whatever your country's emergency number is), should person B be prosecuted for murder?

Edit: I thought this was an accurate analogy, but I'm assuming the downvoter either disagreed or felt I phrased this as a sarcastic attack rather than an analogy. If it incorrectly came across as the former, that would be my fault, but I don't know if that's what caused the downvote, so an explanatory comment would be appreciated.
Very interesting idea. And a simple clear UI.
Wondering how your curation algorithms work.
I like it!
i think you're over-estimating the 'situational awareness' of many grads (myself included back in the day). while it's great that lots of first timers are entering the tertiary system and gaining degrees, they don't have the family or professional networks that can help them spot 'risky' decisions. i was the first in my family to go to uni let alone get a PhD - looking back i had NFI what was going on. getting a phd is neccessary (i knew that) but not sufficient (i did not know that) to be a pro-scientist. with the benefit of hindsight, i probably zigged instead of zagged in my MSc and from there the odds were totally stacked against me - just took me another 10 years to realise...
further - is suspect the 'long september' effect in science to continue for a lot longer - there will always be a surplus of young and eager proto-scientists who will drive the cost down and the competition up.
This seems really lame on Google's part, kind of "we don't make enough money on this stuff to care" lame. Which I don't believe for a moment.

Maybe its time to get Eric Goldman (http://blog.ericgoldman.org/) involved, he has a tone of expertise in this particular corner of the law.
This stack overflow discussion summarizes pros of immutability reasonably well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1863515/pros-cons-of-immu...

The main reason is that mutable objects are more complex and thus harder to reason about (which leads to more bugs).
Do you think this former employee was planning on this kind of a reaction from Yishan?
From the HN guidelines:

"If the original title includes the name of the site, please take it
out, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway."
JQuery.com September 2014 Security Retrospective
and yet these are all from the belly of the pig, right? streaky bacon? it's hard to find the other kinds in the US (especially back bacon)
I read a lot of comments on HN about his response being unprofessional and harsh, and on the latter of those counts, I do agree, it definitely had a negative tone. What I want to know, though, is _why_ so many consider it unprofessional. To me, and I'm making the assumption that Yishan isn't lying, any pleasantries owed this man ended the moment he decided to not only publicly broadcast his employment, but also falsify details regarding his termination.

Regardless of what I think, what actually makes this whole exchange unprofessional to others? Why should these details be protected, and why should companies and individual remain silent on these issues? I'm lumping this into the "political correctness" category until someone tells me it's about something more than someone having their feelings hurt (that they may have been asking for, even). Putting on my future-employment-perspective goggles, I can kinda-sorta see why this wouldn't be good, but I'd also be the type of person to argue that the current state of PR is particularly dismal when employers can't give any kind of factual details about a former employee's work record beyond whether or not they were fired. Why not just report details of employment and follow-up with the employee on any questionable/negative remarks? My guess is that a bad apple ruins the bunch when companies didn't/don't investigate those details with the employee and just pass them up altogether, creating an unfair situation for the prospective employee.
Yes! I'm from Ireland and we have the same.
I live in Brazil now and it has been heavily influenced by the US trend of streaky bacon :(