skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it's not, everyone should be free to do and be who they are - it should only influence one's employment if it actually affects said employment, like (for example) alcoholism or explosive flatulism (fire hazard)
The pregnancy is just as relevant as being single and 41. Why are you complaining about it and not the others?
So there is a distributed mega-super-computer being idle on this planet.
The cost benefit of tracking systems goes up as efficiency increases and goes down as panel costs go down. Currently, cheap low efficiency systems are the name of the game but a higher efficiency's tracking system might end up being valuable.

The important thing to note is it's a global market and even a fairly niche system can have a huge market. For example plenty of places like Oil derricks are space limited and not generally grid connected. Portability can also be useful for remote locations.
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Yandex maps is way more accurate and way more pervasive in Russian than Google Maps in my experience.
Our inability to observe in details and measure exactly gives rise to "theories".

I think is has a lot to do with so-called probabilistic models, like, you know, particles are "out there", but we can't tell where exactly they are in a given moment (perhaps, because a "moment" has nothing to do with particles) , so, we speculate that the universe we "observe" is a "snapshot of locations of all the particles", while there are could be many others. But no, there aren't any other. They does not exist, they just does not happen, at least to this particular observer.

Each observer observes exactly one snapshot of the Universe, while every observer "sees" the same Universe from a different angle. But this is the same Universe. Multitude is just a mental flaw, mistaking different perspectives (views) for different "things".

Ironically, this description fits perfectly to ancient notions of gods (and universes). There are many of them, but the mechanism which made them all - a human mind - is one and the same.

I am not a quantum physicist, of course, neither I am a philosopher, but I prefer to rely on philosophy.)
Further, these cells are DESIGNED to be concentrating. Meaning that if you have a 32sqft "solar panel" the cell material might only be a few dozen square inches; the concentration ratio is something like 1600:1.

The plastic and glass are indeed cheap and the solar cell material is also cheap due to the very small quantity needed per panel.
No, most desktop users don't run Linux because it's not the default. People can perfectly well run Linux, it just needs to have apps, drivers and all the other stuff desktop users expect. In a world where Adobe doesn't port Photoshop and Micorsoft doesn't port Office, Linux operates at an enourmous disadvantage. For users that don't need those kinds of apps ported, Linux does great. Both Chromebooks and Android have sold incredibly well, for example.
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The fact that you guys are even talking about "buying windows" and "buying support" when talking about buying into the Windows Azure stack shows that you most likely haven't used it much, if at all, and aren't quite sure what you're talking about.
Tim Cook faces 2 years in jail in Singapore if he has activity even in a private room.

Three days ago, the Court of Appeal has just judged the law was conform to the constitution, because everyone is guaranteed equal rights no matter their sex, race or religion, and this doesn't include sexuality.

The Straits Times: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/courts-crime/stor...

The original judgement: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1348...
I saw a bunch of these Android pride shirts around Toronto Pride a few months back:

https://www.googlestore.com/Google+Redesign/Brands/Android/A...

Quick, homophobes! Burn your Android phones!
The majority of rocket technology was fuelled by and developed because of WWII and the Cold War.
I'm just spitballing here, may be they are not fully parallel. May be it's one aspect of the universe that's parallel to its counterpart of the other universes. Other characteristics of a universe could still interact with each other, thus making their presence felt.
Perhaps worth noting, France is not a single-payer system. It has nonprofit private insurers, an individual mandate, and no exclusions for preexisting conditions. It adds good electronic medical records and a national price list for medical services.

Source: The Healing of America by T.R. Reid.
In an "at will" arrangement, you will never be fired for "protected" traits. With "at will" employment, you can be fired for no reason at all, so no reason will ever be given that could possibly trigger legal liability.

It makes all those "protections" completely toothless.

In order to win a case, you would need to provide extensive documentation, probably collected via clandestine recordings, that would be able to convince a jury by preponderance of the evidence that you were fired for a protected reason, and not simply because the company no longer wanted to pay you for your work.

Besides that, one of the selling points of "at will" was that making it easier to fire people would make it easier to hire people. Anecdotally, I have not found this to be the case. Companies simply find it easier to discriminate based on things like race, gender, perceived sexual orientation, weight, religion (or lack thereof), disabilities, appearance, or age, because it is easier for them to deny that those are the factors that they consider in hiring and firing.

As Apple execs engaged in collusion with other companies to weaken workers as a class via an anti-poaching cartel, Tim Cook is hardly able to take a non-hypocritical position about sexuality discrimination in the workplace. When all workers are weakened, the ones that are most often discriminated against often suffer the most, because they are the marginal hires in more places.
how do you downvote something here?
Looks like the work of Autodesk ReCap.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/recap/overview
The resource identifier should uniquely identify the resource being described by the representation. PATCH literally means "Use the resource at this URI, but apply the enclosed state representation to some subset of that resource."

In that way, the state representation being sent only actually represents a subset of the resource being identified. I'd argue that this semantically makes the actual target of the new state a resource in itself and it should have its own identifier.
No scroll bars whatsoever on 3 different browsers and scrolling with the mouse also doesn't work.
Like, I get that Free Software as a movement is about software being libre, not gratis. But how many examples are there where being libre has not meant being gratis? And I don't mean the Red Hat sort of case where the software itself is gratis (yes, you have to go all the way over to CentOS to get it gratis) but support costs, I mean an example of being able to charge actual consumers for a piece of libre software.
Makes sense to those who'd rather phone Moscow than Mountain View.
Ask HN: ”Coffee date” etiquette
patio11 and other people on HN recommend that instead of just responding to job postings and sending out one’s resume, a better way to get a good job is to find hiring managers and meet them over a cup of coffee.

To me this sounds like sound advice. Still, I must admit it would feel a bit weird to ask my peers for their manager’s number and then ask the manager if they want to meet, just ”out of the blue”. Perhaps these customs vary from country to country. (I live in Sweden.)

I don’t know, maybe I’m overthinking this. I guess it’s just as simple as asking and see who will seize the opportunity? Or is there some ”coffee date etiquette” one should be aware of? :) Is it okey to ask someone (my peers) to give out someone else’s (the manager’s) number?

Also, my occupation is currently not programming, I’m rather targeting sysadmin/application support jobs.
Strava, one would assume.
Whoa, It automatically imports everything from Chrome. Which includes cookies (and as extension login sessions), bookmarks, extensions etc.

Is it just me or - I find that somewhat scary.I daresay, I would expect Chrome to encrypt sensitive information it saves on disk. Yandex does not seem to have imported the plaintext passwords thankfully, but I don't think I trust a new service with this much of private information.

In other words - Chrome, please stop random applications from copying my login sessions and cookies.
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Such grid would mean that you can move straight only in 8 directions, all other camera rotations would need to be rounded to these 8 directions. I think this can result in quite 'jumpy' movement, but maybe human won't be able to notice such jumps?
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Ask HN: Am I'm being unreasonable about NDAs?
A couple of days ago, I got a call from an old coworker looking for a UI developer for website he is building for a partner, knowing I do freelance work and that my work is the sort of work he is looking for. He is a developer, his partner is not.

We setup a call to go over some of his wireframe designs to get an idea of effort. Fifteen minutes before the call (a full day and a half after scheduling the call) he emailed me an extremely broad NDA that his partner wanted me to sign before we could talk about anything. At this point, all I know is that he wants me to do some "basic CRUD UI work" (his words). I didn't even know what the project was supposed to do. This NDA covered for 5 years even the basic UI design concepts of a "basic CRUD (website)".

So I sent him a link to this (http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/), I didn't sign the agreement, and we had a brief call in which we talked about the other people he's interviewed, the fact that all they have are the wireframes so far, other projects I'm working on, and the fact that they can't even get close to my current rate, let alone what I want to charge them.

I don't like willy-nilly signing things just because someone asked me to. I read the things I've been asked to sign, and with increasing frequency these days, I find terms that I don't like. My wife thinks it's just "part of doing business", that it's unlikely to harm me (us, I point out) to just sign these NDAs and get on with it, and that I'm cutting off my nose to spite my face. She granted that the rate wasn't enough, but was concerned that I miss out on too many opportunities because of my reticence.

Is it just me, or is the market getting increasingly hostile/combative? Or am I too open with my own ideas? She is right, I have turned down a lot of projects lately, but they've all come with similarly bad terms.
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Thanks, you're right. "null" is what I do use - I forgot undefined won't work with JSON.parse. It would be nice to have a way to explicitly define a property as null, versus non-extant.
Which ones? There was a meta-research done the other day, where the works of 130+ historians from that era was analyzed; only one made note of even the existence of Jesus, and it's pretty certain that that section wasn't put there by the original author (different writing style, sudden change of topic, etc).
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They turn into wifi-only devices for their kids to use.
We should start our own club, I feel your pain ... ;-)
one of the many things i appreciate the most about this essay is his sense of responsibility. its easy to see the leader of a large organization as an extraordinarily powerful individual, but he notes the seeming smallness of this announcement. he doesn't aim to change the world, but simply do his part. the last paragraph is so poignant because we all witness injustices and often act as bystanders. this is not a new phenomenon, but its important to remember to look at ourselves first and what we're each doing in our everyday lives
How are they holding something they own hostage?
Close, but no.

Sexual orientation isn't a protected class under Federal law. (See: http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/ )

State Human Rights Law in some states expands to incorporate other protected classes, including sexual orientation and transgendered status.
This looks fantastic. I was really disappointed with all the possible directions Apple could go with their smartwatch, they just iterated on a design Samsung's been out with for a few years now. This is actually a good rethink, looks like a good v1 device, isn't overpriced, has basically the functionality you'd want and works cross platform.

Absolutely fantastic.
Presumably you could pipe output through multiple hooks and chain actions up, making them composable?
I haven't used it much; I have used AWS a bit more, and there I recall you had to pay more if you wanted an instance on Windows or on RHEL proper rather than using CentOS or Debian. Those costs probably do add up to a lot more as you scale up (although it's silly to look at that in isolation). But he's comparing using Azure to self-hosting on your own hardware, I think.
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Well played, this surely can help because even many of the homophobic idiots recognize in Tim Cook a role model, and can start questioning their ideas about diversity.
Not particularly. Religious people frame things in religious terms.

I'm an atheist and a gay man. I think being gay is a good thing in my life. That is to say, if there were a pill I could take that would turn me straight, I wouldn't take it.

Despite harassment and discrimination (which still happens, even in happy tolerant cities like London—most recent incident, 3 weeks ago, someone shouting "queers!" out of the window while I was walking down the street late at night holding hands with a guy), the point is that in spite of huge amounts of cultural and religious programming to the opposite, a lot of gay people have found themselves embracing their sexuality and considering it not just a not-bad thing but an actively good thing in their life.

That's what Cook is getting at: that sentiment can be expressed in secular terms (like I just have) or in religious terms.
So the portrait painted by the article and it contents should always be taken at face value, without any nuances or context?Wouldn't that make the reader uncritical or even naive?
"This application will be able to read and write your public and secret gists." Probably a good idea to create a separate GitHub account due to the "secret gists" permission.
RailsScript works with rails and does not aim to replace any part of it. After using many JS frameworks we found that the RailsScript's approach produces a simpler more maintainable front end.
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Something tells me this browser isn't really aimed at us.
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People of the bazaar fear those of the cathedral, because they can count the people entering the walled gardens, and many of them never emerge to trade in the agora ever again.

Apple has a big garden.
I hope he brings back the old Apple logo: http://cdn3.pcadvisor.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3343143/Apple_l...
(Qualifier: I know very little about planes or the background of this case)

If the part found was a last minute patch, I'd guess that the patch wasn't properly attached, so came off in flight; then the plane crashed as a result of losing the patch. Otherwise, what are the chances of that being the only piece found...
Who is flying drones over French nuclear plants?
> * And "consciousness is computation" is an hypothesis that does not really work.*

Why not?

All of reality might be a computation.
Motors and parts for tracking as well as the tracking base are definitely not ridiculously cheap. They have to be weather proof, have to operate unattended for a decade or more and have to operate in a very wide range of temperatures.

A typical tracking system (besides lenses) adds significantly to the total system price compared to a non-tracking system. Dual axis tracking even more so.
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In most states, employment law is structured such that the absence of explicit protection means that it is a valid grounds for firing. The laws on the books that create this structure, combined with the absence of an explicit protection for sexual orientation, constitute laws on the books that allow employers to fire people based solely on their sexual orientation.
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I knew because NPR told me. I knew he was gay before I knew it was supposed to be a secret, so if I were on that panel I would have said pretty much the same thing.
What struck me about this piece is how effectively and with such clarity it was crafted: I could hear Tim saying every single one of these words in my head. To make the written word as convincing and powerful as the well-crafted spoken word is truly genius.
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On the product announcement page, it's listed as Dual 100mAh rechargeable lithium-ion polymer batteries.
100% yes. Composability is one of the greatest strengths of microservices.

Here is a live example of merging multiple hooks: http://hook.io/Marak/merge

and of using piping hooks together:
http://hook.io/Marak/pipe
This is why security minded apps will log you off all the time. It's not to annoy you, it's because the session security model is just not safe in a computer that may be running untrusted applications. You're responsible of the applications you install not stealing your stuff or hijacking your sessions.
Now your private information can go directly to the russian government using this amazing fork of google chrome.
We built a prototype to do just that:

http://pics.camarades.com/v/jacques/renewables/concentrator/
Is it possible to knight someone posthumously? Has this happened?
How about emergent properties when connecting 3 billion humans to a network? Sounds like a quite complex system to me :)
I was supposed to be able to transfer with no problems, as I was supposedly going between two "state system" schools in a supported degree program. My degree program was designed to be completed in four years, and the class schedule was built around that. Certain required classes just weren't offered every year, and they were prerequisites for other such classes. If you didn't start on the right beat, you were off schedule and couldn't get all of your requirements taken care of in 4 years.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/29/pope-francis-on-gay...

Dunno. Probably knows that the church is sliding into irrelevance if it stick to its old ways.
I told a landscape designer it should be possible to walk around a property with a camera and then automatically build a 3d model. Turns out others are working on it. Good job. FYI what he does is take measurements and make a 2D top down drawing and then start sketching concepts for hard-scape ideas around the building.

Ultimately he'd want a drone to fly around a house and automatically creaete a 3d model and 2d plan. That would probably be exceptionally useful. He's pretty efficient at doing measurements and drawings, so fully automatic is almost the only way to be useful to him. Of course that's just one guy but I thought the example may be helpful.
That seems like a difference without a distinction - if he believes that only marriage between a man and a woman should be valid or recognized in California, then by extension he believes that a marriage between two men, or two women, should not be valid in california.

Which is advocating for not providing that right to same-sex indviduals. Which is anti-gay.

If the ballot measure said, "Only votes cast by a white person are valid or recognized in California", and someone donated money to support that measure - it would be reasonable to expect that they don't believe that non-white individuals should have the right to vote.
>i'm sure the ad networks are laughing their way to the bank with an extension like this.

Definitely not. If this were to catch on, the whole ad ecosystem would feel the impact. Ad networks have advertiser relationships to look after. If the numbers looks fishy, they are held to answer by clients and usually instructed to stop running ads on sites where the suspicious activity originated.
Yes there are a few secular states, but less of those that have complete separation of church and state guaranteed by the constitution. USA is the oldest and most well known one.
That's true, if space is at a premium and servicing units is not a problem then trackers can have advantages.
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> Sure, isn't that what every believer does, picks out the parts they like and ignore the ones they don't, showing once more they are their own moral guide and they know better than their god what is good and what is not.

That doesn't show that. Picking out the parts of what other people say about God that resonate with them and ignoring the parts that do not isn't saying that they know more than God about what is good, but that they trust themselves more than other people about what is good -- and about what God is trying to say.

And very many religious groups stress the importance of personal conscience (though those with strong authority structures often also declare that any person who is really listening to their conscience will come to the same conclusions as the authority does.)
That isn't necessarily very easy thing to implement. If the data is accessible by one application, how could it not be available by some other application running with the same credentials? Maybe some "vault" daemon running as a different user could do, but then it would only take reverse engineering the client part from Chrome (if it wouldn't be open source via Chromium already). And all this to protect the application data from other application user is willingly running? TL;DR: don't run applications you don't trust.
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Unless they're being completely fraudulent about it, their estimate of cost per kWh would have to include whatever tracking system they require.
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Maybe he listened to NPR two weeks earlier and heard Melissa Block say on the air that Tim Cook was openly gay.

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/13/321778926/letters-the-world-cu...
Fitbit uses a barometer/altimeter to work out the floors climbed so in place jumping shouldn't trigger it.