skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook now requires admins of groups deemed to be using hateful or offensive speech to publicly identify themselves.

Anyone familiar with the history of Usenet will know that real name policies aren't an effective approach.
I think they go into the basement, as they do when raising buildings today. I don't know what they'd do for buildings without basements.
I'm not so sure if Apple needs Apple Pay to work everywhere, it's just another thing to make Apple experience "better". If people love it, then people might start buying only at stores that support it.

It turns out people that use Apple devices and services end up spending money and like staying inside that ecosystem.
" Another concluded: “some vc suit wants a maintainable-by-joe-programmer product. I hope he pays you millions.”"

so this guy is implying that we should be choosing our programming languages based on how hard and expensive it will be to get other dev's to work on it?

that is the most economically unsound and elitist thing i've heard recently.
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2 wrongs don't make a right. You can't murder someone because they wronged you (raped in this case), at least in most countries. From the article, it does not appear she pursued any sort of legal remedy prior to stabbing her attacker 2 days later.
Implication Blindness Regarding AI
I've been a T-Mobile customer since 2004 and I've been really happy with them the whole time. The customer service has always been what kept me there even when I (briefly) lived in poor coverage areas. My feeling is that if you live in a good coverage area and you don't do a ton of travel then theres no good reason not to use T-Mobile.
Twitter shares fall 9% on earnings report
I've had to do proof of citizenship to obtain my last two drivers licenses (in two different states, in 2013 and 2014; a legal immigrant would have to provide documentation of their status to obtain those licenses). That's in addition to proof of residence.

I'm not sure they are tracking that documentation anywhere, but it would at least provide the opportunity to reject your ballot. For the most part, it would be an easy bit of information to quietly encode in the DL number (but again, don't know if such things are done).
If General Relativity could benefit from the application of pre-existing pure mathematics (Riemannian geometry), why shouldn't it be conceivable that computer science could benefit from (possibly ancient) philosophical ideas?
We tried it. It works with modification to emscripten and compiled code. Performance is acceptable and I think there is a much larger space using GPU to do the decoding as well. But I think the user won't just want to edit the thumbnail though I think many of them didn't know that.
Wow, this seems like a cool product. I can't imagine building a product that relies so heavily on the UI of another service. How are updates handled?
Site is down. Cached:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Nz1ajuW...
Not quite. My high level response to this thread, which opened with a subtextual claim that Microsoft removed Elephant in yet another example of a big vendor being coerced by NSA into weakening end-user crypto, is twofold:

* First, that Elephant does not provide meaningful (and certainly not provable) security improvements, and, put in the context of FDE in general, does not give/remove a Bitlocker capability that other mainstream FDE systems actually have.

* Second, that the clunky feature Elephant tries to provide (Ferguson calls it "poor man's authentication") is in fact not at all relevant to the NSA threat model; to wit: if your adversary has an (a) continuous and (b) active vantage point to hit you from, no FDE solution can help you. FDE is exclusively valuable in the case where your disk is irrevocably and totally compromised, despite the folklore that says otherwise.

Popping up a level further on the stack: I'm rebutting the claim that NSA coerced MSFT into removing Elephant. It was a marginal implementation of a marginal countermeasure that wasn't relevant to NSA.

Popping up a level further on the stack: I do not believe that NSA has within the last decade coerced Microsoft into doing anything cryptographic.
My understanding is that most flagship camera sensors are made by Sony, so there may be less diversity of hardware than there appears to be.
I hate to shit on your parade because this is pretty dope, but the title is disingenuous at best.

But I use Lightroom every day, and you might be faster but you aren't working at the same level of quality.

I loaded up a 16-bit TIFF and got an 8-bit JPEG as a result, which leads me to assume that you are downsampling to 8-bit to work.

Also, the results in polarr are way harsher then Lightroom, which is pretty common for non Adobe products. GIMP is especially harsh in contrast to Photoshop.

But even before getting into the color correcting stuff, you're already shifting color (I'm assuming you are ignoring the embedded color profile in the TIFF):

http://i.imgur.com/QKb42l5.png

Also, Lightroom is way faster making adjustments. I can see polarr "thinking" when I make adjustments (it gets pixellated and then clears up), while Lightroom does them in real time.

I couldn't get your curves to work.

No split toning.

Lens correction should be automatic and profile based. Lightroom will automatically fix distortions based on Camera and Lens model. Same with basic color calibration.

Again, I don't want to be discouraging, but I find the hyperbole kind of frustrating.
Oh, I think most if it is :) Lots of right time right place.
Reprint of http://www.quantamagazine.org/20141015-at-the-far-ends-of-a-... which was previously submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8477811
It is a sad state of affairs in the job market when this is great advice for something new to try, rather than what ought to be completely obvious standard practice.

Pick a state, and determine the best public school system in it. Within that area, find an "unsexy" office building with vacant space. Stick a pin in your map there. Now open up a real estate site and search for 4 bedroom/3 bathroom homes within X miles of that spot, both purchases and rentals. The rentals are easy. Multiply those numbers by 4, and that is what you want your developers' take home pay to be. For purchases, assume a 10% down payment and 4% interest rate on an online mortgage payment calculator, then multiply whatever you get by 5. Work backwards through benefits (assuming employee+spouse+kids options) and taxes to get the median gross pay.

For this sort of thing, you can assume that your employee will be the majority or sole earner of a household, you will provide better benefits than the spouse's job, and you can skip all the stupid perks like foosball tables and catered lunches.

Compare your bar-napkin math with current Silicon Valley prices.

What you will be offering with those numbers is a low-stress job that supports an upper middle class lifestyle. All you need to do then is to make sure that your candidates can actually do the job.
I have no hopes for you at all.
I'd say T-Mo is a great example of why net neutrality is a bad idea. From a purely network engineering point of view, it's efficient to bring those streaming services into the carrier's network instead of sending it over the Internet. Net neutrality prevents the carrier from doing something that makes total technical sense and benefits the customer.
The article is almost content free. Maybe it was written via an AI-tool.
The best book I've read on engineering management I've read is Leading Snowflakes:
http://leadingsnowflakes.com/

But yes, there is a dearth of information on how to be a good CTO (or VP Sales, CFO, VP Design, or really any other function). I think that's because a lot of the advice out there is effectively content marketing for VC firms, whose primary customer is CEOs. :)
The removal of the wheat germ is the primary reason for re-adding the nutrients, without the germ, and the bran, you just have a large amount of starch in the endosperm.
Yup. Same thing that happened to goto, basically. People got so up in arms about the overuse of the concept (and they had a wonderful catchphrase thanks to Dijkstra) that it became vilified to the point where any time it showed up in code you'd likely incite a mini holy war that would usually end in its removal (if for no other reason than to shut everyone the fuck up). This despite the fact that (in C in particular) goto is sometimes absolutely the clearest, most practical way to deal with a function localized many-to-one flow control situation.
Why would I want to develop to ORTC/WebRTC 1.1 instead of WebRTC 1.0? What is it able to do that WebRTC 1.0 isn't able to do? Is it more or less secure by design?

Microsoft IE folks, please implement WebRTC 1.0 as well as your draft standard WebRTC 1.1. As I understand it, Chrome and Firefox can connect via WebRTC 1.0, it would be very cool if IE11 or 12 could claim the same.
We have been using ZenHub for quite a while and have to say that it has been a great change from Trello. As a developer, I was already in Github all the time, so adding the pipeline process within Github is awesome.

It hasn't been without it's issues, but I would highly recommend trying it out.
I want to laugh too but I know you're probably stressed out by trying to find a new place to live.

You can't live in SF for that little. Just, no. It most likely won't be a good size or it'll be in a terrible neighborhood. Sacramento is absurd to commute from, same with the Tracy/Manteca/Stockton area (unless you're commuting to San Jose, in which case you can take the ACE train). Oakland is getting much better, but in exchange for gentrification, rents are rising quickly. So that's probably out for you.

I highly recommend you look into San Leandro, Castro Valley, Dublin/Pleasanton, Hayward, and Fremont. You've got a reasonable idea with Concord too. I might throw in like Daly City maybe, or the San Mateo/Millbrae/... area. A lot of areas in those neighborhoods will be more affordable, fairly quiet, not too bad in terms of drugs/violence, they're located right on a Caltrain, BART, or AC Transit Transbay bus line so you don't have to drive too much, and did I mention they're affordable? Just be careful when you look around for a place to rent - there are definitely some shitty areas in all those places too.

My parents live in San Leandro and have a nice 2br townhouse in a gated area+amenities for around $1500 while they're looking for a house to buy. It's pretty doable. The good places are all waitlisted though, so you have to get right on it if possible.

If you're from India, I even think you'll enjoy East Bay more than SF. I'm East Asian and I think ethnic food is way better east/south than in SF, where I live, where it's all full of fancy and Californian/Italian/French cuisine with a dash of sushi and Thai.

Be warned though, you will probably want to get a car if you live out east so budget for it. It's hard to travel without one - but don't travel into SF with it if you can since parking blows and bridge tolls add up. AC Transit is great and so is BART for long distance, not so much for nearby shopping/restaurants/personal needs.
The diet sounds like absurd marketing, there isn't some "carbhead" (whatever that is) crusade stalking you with downvotes.
It's not a feeling I share - I've got my puzzles and I don't much care how others are doing career wise. However, when I want to immitate someone for some reason, I try to find out what the difference is between what they've done and what I've done, and where they were when they were in my sort of position and where I am. If they've got some specific break in life, that I haven't, then how did they get it? What sort of relationships did they develop; what sort of challenges did they take on?

There will be a way they have done it, and – lucky me – I happen to know them and can ask. Which is far better than them being some random person who I don't know and can't ask.
From philosophy? Are you kidding? There's simply no way AI is ever going to come from a bunch of people arguing over what is "qualia" and what is "consciousness". There have been huge advances made in deep neural networks in the last few years. To the point where we now have human-competitive image recognition. That is computer science, and that is where AI is going to come from.

I think it will take a little while longer, maybe a few decades, and happen organically. At first, we'll have smart machines based on deep learning, possibly embedded in specialized hardware. We'll have smarter and smarter machines. Specialized robots doing basic tasks (e.g.: dish washing) are going to start roaming the world. They will be made increasingly capable as time goes on, and at some point, we'll begin to cross some sort of threshold where a robot's understanding of the world will be great enough. The robot will seem self-aware and "conscious" to an outside observer.

Computer scientists don't really need to care about the philosophy of consciousness, they care about building capable machines which can deal with the complexities world. At some point, to match or rival human capability, self-awareness is needed. That is, a model of the world that is "complete enough" and incorporates a model of you as an agent within this world. It will happen naturally, just as it did in nature.
It's very simple: Voting is a privilege reserved for US Citizens. Naturalized or Native. It is a travesty not to have a mechanism ensuring that only citizens vote.

This has nothing whatsoever with economic circumstance or political party. The vast majority of US citizens can more than afford whatever might be required to confirm their citizenship.

Everyone is walking around with cellphones, iPhones, watching satellite and cable TV, using DSL at home, etc. Those who truly don't have the means ought to get help from the rest of us.

If you have a cellphone, cable TV and DSL at home you can damn well spend $150 or so every ten years to obtain voting documentation. We can even make that expense tax deductible.

You want to vote? Prove that you are entitled to doing so. Present a valid US passport. Simple as that.

Don't have the money to pay for a US passport? There's an app for that:

http://www.uscis.gov/feewaiver

So, there, those without the means or those experiencing hardship can get a US passport for free. I'm confused. What's the problem?
I couldn't imagine getting all my team to use this product and then suddently GitHub updates their UI and this plug-in is broken for days or weeks before an update hits the Chrome app store. This seems like a huge deal breaker.
Interestingly, he seems to use multiple cameras. For example, the alley shot as taken with a Lumix GF1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sasurau/3944365957/ - personally I find the feeling of the Lumix one far more emotive in this case.

I totally agree that it's not the price of your equipment though, it's what you do with it - most of the time. Photography has a great many reasons to occur and there are aspects which most definitely benefit from higher quality equipment. For example, nature macro photography (some beautiful examples from the same photographer above: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sasurau/sets/72157631002090680... ). I guess the more you are looking for "The Decisive Moment", the less raw quality matters. Although, again, something like studio photography is likely to be a balance of quality and decisive moments.

Ultimately, unless you're getting most of your income from the photographs, just make sure however you're doing it you're having fun and enjoying it :)
Looks a bit similar to what Datazenit [0] is offering, another simple way to browse a database.

[0] http://datazenit.com/
Ha :-)

Ok, well good for you then!
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> The reason conservatives want voter ID is to prevent voting under other peoples' identity. Without ID there's no way you can even know that's happening.

Actually, having mandatory voting would be one way to know that's happening.

Is there any evidence this is a widespread problem? You might try taking Democrats at their word that the reason they oppose voter ID laws is that they disproportionately affect the poor and minorities who may not have a driver's license, for instance, and for whom obtaining an ID might be a hassle and expense.
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Yes, I've been wondering how to hedge against that for a while now...

I was thinking more in home cat sharing. I can see the t-shirts now: Home cat sharing is killing the cat cafe industry.
FWIW, many other python web frameworks use the very same pattern.
Whenever I click on any link in the top navigation menu I get a javascript error in Chrome :

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined
the interesting question for me is what this means for the big players and their respective platforms.

For instance, the more traditionally native features webapps take on, the less reason I have to need a native app hence am less coupled to a platform. I have always been a bit apprehensive to native apps because of platform lockin and it feels like this plus some of the push from google and their upcoming iot url push system makes it feel like web standards might really make webapps as common/popular/featured(or more) as native. It has plenty of kinks to work out around not being too spammy/sneaky with permissions but overall it feels like this is a major advancement for the web as a platform - assuming the big platform players implement it well.
with WebGL?
There are also Monetary Instrument Logs (MILs) for purchases of cashier's checks and similar items for amounts between $3,000 and $10,000
I'm going to answer a question implied by your question first.

There is no single effective record of citizenship in the United States, nor is there any kind of national ID program. Social Security numbers are frequently used as proof of identity but it is possible not to have one. They are not proof of citizenship.

To give you an idea of what this looks like, to get an official photo ID from the State of Oregon you need to provide proof of state residency (generally this takes the form of a utility bill, bank correspondence, etc. with your name and an in-state address on it), identity (a social security card, another state ID, a passport), and legal presence in the US -- which either means legal residency or citizenship.

In the case of naturalized citizens, this is simple: you're issued paperwork when you gain citizenship. Proof of natural citizenship is more complicated[1], because there's a lot of ways to be born a US citizen, some of which don't automatically result in documents being filed.

People who drive will get a state driver's license, which generally has the same requirements in addition to a driving test and the like. State ID cards are frequently just driver's licenses with an indication added that they aren't actually a license to drive!

That all leads to the actual answer to your question: every state handles voting differently. Some require you to register in advance, others don't; some require photo ID, others don't. My state and a few others conduct voting by mail. Eligibility standards are also allowed to vary by state, with a few constitutional limitations introduced by amendment. That's a whole topic in itself, but the brief summary is that there is no constitutionally defined positive right to vote in the US, only a set of criteria that states are not allowed to use to exclude voters (age if older than 18, sex, race).

Any major reform of this system would require a constitutional amendment, which is a very high bar to jump in the US.

[1]: http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/pages/driverid/idproof.aspx#l...
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I've thought about this a little bit - I guess the security of the system depends on what you consider to be the channel, source, and destination.

The argument is that

|device|-------->network--------->|device|

may be secure, but that doesn't mean

|human|-->|device|-------->network--------->|device|-->|human|

is secure!
That is indeed a typo. Thanks for catching it.

It's amazing how much you miss when you think you already know what's written.
What's wrong with transparent proxy ? Isn't how HTTP caching is supposed to work ? I would think the cache headers are the solution rather than SSL.

It feels like you are kind of throwing the baby with the bath water. IMHO, badly configured transparent proxy does not mean the concept is bad, does it ?
NetApp Announces Acquisition of Riverbed Technology's SteelStore Product Line
This is our intention with this new round, to really set a precedent for multiple liquidity events going forward. Different investors will have different stages at which they’d like to get liquidity, and now they’ll be able to cash out at the time which is comfortable for them. New funds which are more focused on later stage capital can invest as we grow more and become more stable and predictable with our growth and revenue. The same applies for team members: if someone wants to put their kids through college or buy a house, they can choose to sell some of their equity. Others might not have as many commitments and may choose to keep their shares.

So basically the Silicon Valley VC ecosystem is reinventing secondary markets for equity shares. This scheme has the same basic purpose as traditional stock markets (i.e. capital formation for companies and liquidity for investors), but is limited to a restricted set of participants, and price formation occurs only during specifically timed liquidity events (rather than continuously). I wonder if investors and founders are really happier this way than they would be on the public markets. If you are an early employee and you want to buy a house (or whatever), would you rather be able to sell your shares at any time to the best bidder or be stuck waiting for the next liquidity event at who knows what price?

I think this is an interesting development for a couple of reasons. First it probably is indicative of the huge regulatory burden involved with going public (Sarbanes Oxley &c). Second it shows how much capital really is available in SV VC these days. There is so much money that founders and early investors don't even care about access to capital available in the public markets because they can get all the cash they want without having to leave the VC world. I wonder if we will see a shift back to the public markets if the VC money ever dries up for whatever reason.