skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in that position now, and the more I think about it the more it bugs me. I think you're absolutely right.
> One of the reasons subreddits achieved such popularity was because of the extreme ease by which users can find, join, and start submitting.

This is exactly why Facebook Groups are taking off right now.
For eight-ish years, 2002-2010, I made websites that worked with or without Javascript, precisely because I didn't want to make two websites. I would have had to, because a lot of blind people used to use readers that didn't always handle Javascript well, and the sites I made were required to be accessible.

Admittedly, they did not look as good as sites do today.
Any chance I can shoot you an email too? I'm currently living in Guadalajara and looking for a new gig.
Wouldn't flashing your hardware with another vendor's firmware, thereby distributing said firmware, be copyright infringement?
Indeed, but what is different about your take on this idea that has failed many times in the past, apart from slick UI?
It would be more useful if you stated your specific interest of the body language / general cues.

Eg., Is it for...

dating women?
making sales / closing deals?
making friends?
spotting liars?

Understanding your intent will help.

Reading / communicating with body language is an art, much like learning to play a musical instrument or speaking a language. It takes study, practice and feedback to truly learn it well. While a book / written list of words cannot replace the actual body language, here are some general universal cues, just a few that came to mind:

Arms crossed: closed / defensive
Hand on chin: thinking / contemplation
Leaning in / touching you: signs of interest

Usually, it is a group of cues that forms a picture of what someone is really thinking. An individual cue by itself can be unreliable and should be taken with a grain of salt.
This ingores the bias of investors. The original post is quoting investors, so I don't think its a speculative bias. You seem to be suggesting to ignore the wisdom of "know your customer"--and for many founders/ceos investors are as critical a customer as any (equity is just another a value added product).
~4 hours and still in review...
Orwell's rulers seem to have a much more satisfying experience of ruling. I don't think it's enough to have mere control; I think "lust for power" implies a certain sadism. They want to be Trujillo[1] or Kim Jong Il[2] - someone to be respected, feared, and absolutely obeyed. The point of being Big Brother was to attain the pleasure of torturing Smith, inside and out. (It wouldn't surprise me, or anyone I think, if they killed Smith after all was said and done.)

Huxley discounts the pure pleasure of putting your boot on someone's face, of being able to raping anyone in your country at will (as Trujillo was particularly fond of doing). Intriguingly, I think it is this class of evil people that will actively prevent humanity from turning into the Brave New World cul-de-sac, since it represents a steady-state that absolutely denies the kind of sadism that they crave.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Trujillo
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il
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It's very difficult to hear about their values, when the effects they have at scale are so close to the opposite of what is intended. Couchsurfing never reached an industrial scale, for example, but in this case they're creating enormous areas of highly transient populations with no stake in communities.

The good point is the one about the machine that builds the product in the long term (i.e. the company) is the real product. This is why I suspect so many engineering types rise to the top of companies these days, as the company becomes an extension of the grand machine - a sort of abstract assembly line and supply chain.
An ad hominem attack voted up to the top is one giveaway that the rebuttals are emotional, rather than counter-arguments supported by facts.
I often upvote quality comments, yes.
Sure it is. Stay away from jobs that require you to be on call or work nights and weekends. They not only exist, they're the rule, not the exception. Every tech job I've ever had has had occasional spurts of crunch time, but they were relatively few and far between.
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iOS has support for some common VPN protocols built-in: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1288
Tesco accounting black hole deepens, chairman to step down
You didn't list any counterexamples, or at least we have no way of knowing if they are counterexamples. You've listed a number of examples where the startup founders had young children while successfully growing their companies but we have no way of knowing whether they were equally successful on the parenting front. Perhaps they sacrificed their parental responsibilities to achieve their business success.
>There's a field of study called Ethics that would disagree with you.

And the field called Metaethics with which I am referring to.

Before we go any further I would warn you against assuming anything that I am not saying; I admit to (drastically) simplifying my position in the form of a three word statement - in response to a statement of equal simplicity - but the way in which you are issuing a blanket (and hostile) denial of all of the implications not addressed does not imply that you are reading with the sort of charitable mindset required to update your opinion. With that said;

If you would actually like a source for my claim I would encourage you to read the metaethics sequence on lesswrong(1); many articles of which summarize the discussion (which I am actively avoiding by linking to it instead) presented by both sides regarding this topic.

I believe it would also be worthwhile for you to read the sequence on the difference between belief, and belief in belief (or the map and territory, respectively); for you appear to have an issue understanding that just because you have never heard of this viewpoint that it is novel, when rather it has been covered to a great extent - an extent to which you are clearly ignorant.

Also if you are attempting to conjure an argument around the definition of subjectivity please leave it at the door, it adds nothing to the discussion that couldn't be addressed with simple charitable reading.

1) http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Metaethics_sequence
2) http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Map_and_territory_(sequence)
One thing to note is that you can have multiple fig.yml files. So, you could set slightly different configuration parameters (perhaps use `environment` etc.) for different places you are using fig using the `-f` option to specify a different fig.yml.

I don't think entering a container is bad for development, in fact it's a frequent pattern (to run things like you describe rake etc.). With the release of docker exec this becomes easier too. I think of it kind of like bind-mounting a directory in the container to do code editing without having to rebuild- as long as you are using ADD for every stage afterwards that should be fully automated (QA, test, production) then you are in the clear.
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Which Elrich sold for a ton of money... like Steve.

Anyways, 'Tiempo' means 'time' in Spanish.
Not that far off anyway, AOL did own ICQ for a number of years, sold it 2010 if my memory serves me right.
The Art of Computer Programming, by Donald Knuth
I've used Jenkins and an enterprise account to distribute apps for beta testing at a previous job.

Apple does a very brief phone interview when you setup an enterprise account. I explained exactly what we were using the enterprise account for and they said it was fine.

As eropple said, maybe everyone's not on the same page.
> Couchsurfing never reached an industrial scale

Since when was being a startup founder supposed to scale at that level?

Realistically, the number of people trying to do startups will be consistently small. They either grow into stable businesses 5-6 years down the line, or they sputter out and fail in that time or less. If a big chunk of our economy was based on < Series B level startups, we'd be in for a giant crash of epic proportions.
This question was answered aptly on quora, perhaps something from this link will be helpful for you - http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-learner-friendly-reso...
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Lapham's Quarterly is a literary treasure.
This. Clicking a download link and being redirected to iTunes won't make my Android devices happy.
>Huxely's mechanisms of [...] infant conditioning [...] feel[s] less real

One word: Circumcision. Do I need to explain?
The suggestion that the thread must be full of Google shills and that critics can be dismissed out of hand as part of the conspiracy is also an emotional argument unsupported by evidence.
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Despite all the people that think he sounds like a lunatic, is any of what he is saying a lie? Lots of people who sound like lunatics but aren't telling lies are worth listening to, I think.

So, he's putting a lot of "these guys are all evil" spin on it, but then again, all the connections he is making seem to be true. Whether it means Google is in bed with the US government or not is up to the reader (with nudging from him, of course), but I don't anyone confronted with this many factual connections between a CEO of a mega corporation and government actors could simply write this off as "lunacy".

I think most people in the tech industry (and sadly not many people outside it) have already realized the Google is very very big-brothery.
Here's a translation of what's being said. https://medium.com/unbabel-news/b4cb8f223df2
Yes, and that disturbing plot line was present in a number of other contemporary movies, so I acknowledge your point. How much of direct line you could draw to CS in particular is debatable though, especially as it was hardly the glamour degree at the time, versus say aerospace. Were there similar drop-offs in women enrolling in other engineering degrees? (Honest question, I don't know. But there were only about 4 women in my introductory physics class, so the intake funnel was clearly broken.)

I do think the author's premise that PC culture was seen as a "boys club" (or solitary macho hackers, as they perhaps saw themselves) is a simpler and more direct explanation. Which is to say I'd rather point at the actual nerds rather than the movie portrayals.
Gamergate is leaking again.
Has somebody used it?
It seems to be better to install software that is not supported by the distro, instead of dealing with PPAs.
Reading through the specifics, you are right, it seems that the FAA is not doing as good a job as it should be, with episodic laxness in safety checks. It's a leap to say that the industry would be safer or otherwise better off without it though.

Claiming that the FDA has caused more deaths than prevented is, I'm afraid, utterly mindboggling. I can't really entertain the notion seriously, and can only think that this is more selection bias. Do share the evidence, though I feel it'd be a difficult thing to quantify concretely.

Ingredients lists is a throwaway example. More difficult elements to police are things like pesticide usage, hormone usage, presence of disease causing bacteria or molds. The reason Mad Cow Disease is no longer relevant is due to quick identification of the problem and suitable regulation to rectify it. 4.4 million cattle were killed to eradicate the disease, which is difficult to imagine happening quite so thoroughly by the individual volition of the farmers involved.

As for boycotts, it comes down to a separation of belief and behavior. Say a company with production in the third world sometimes uses slave labor. I'm confident that the majority of consumers would agree that this is not a morally acceptable thing for the company to be doing. However, this doesn't necessarily translate into changes in purchase decisions, if the consumer even finds out about this fact in the first place. Immoral corporate action is only rarely confronted by boycott, and only rarely does that boycott then work. Personal preferences are beside the point, and it's disingenuous to compare cartoons to human rights abuses.

Codification of standards can and is done without privileging special interests over the commons. In most other Western countries, this is pretty well understood. The political structure in the US (low voter turnouts require excessive campaign funds which require pandering, for one) means that regulatory bodies may be more susceptible to capture than most, but the fault does not lie with the existence of the body in the first place, nor in most places, does it wholly negate what good the regulator does do.

It does look that way, of course. "Fluoridation of Water Saves Another Ten Million Cavities" is unfortunately a headline I've yet to see.
Overwerk, Orbital, and similar electronic/ambient artists are my zen-mode gotos. 9:00am after writing code until 4:00am? It better have screeching electric guitar and heavy bass. Industrial is a great way to wake up.
10k hours playing basketball isn't going to make you a professional basketball player, but I would imagine 10k hours painting, writing, or doing many other professional endeavors will certainly help you to earn a livable wage if not excel in your field.
so, yay, go with something other then FTDI, cause other companies don't seem to have the same fascination with killing clone chips. Alas, other companies actually try to make stuff cheaper and have more features.
I'm hiring in Guadalajara, too, and would be happy to chat. :)
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For the mid-afternoon slump, I dig Dave Snelgrove's bass tracks: https://soundcloud.com/davidsnelgrove
We can agree this thread is full of shills, just possibly not google shills.
The specific concern I was addressing in the first part of my post was the drop in female CS majors that occurred in the mid 1980s. I was only addressing the difference in graduates between then and now (not all female CS graduates by any means) and only what I believe to be the largest factor (as there were certainly other economic and social factors that affected the situation).

Considering 1985 and 2007 (1985 having the largest amount of female graduates in math and CS), we see women going from 38.8% to 25.4% of the labor force. All we need to show is that the difference in female math and CS graduates in 1985 were primarily mainframe operators and/or keypunch operators (although the number of graduates in math could affect the CS numbers). In addition, I nowhere stated that women of that period were ignorant of the requirements of keypunching.

My mother's earnings as a mainframe operator and keypunch operator with a degree in CS far outstripped the earning potential of someone with just a keypunching certificate. If others were aware of this difference, then getting the degree would be worth the extra work (keeping in mind that a degree also carries the possibility for promotion). This is not much different from women getting bachelors degrees only to work at secretarial positions today or pursuing a masters in Nursing when an associates degree suffices for all non-management jobs.

The second part of my post was focused on the overall numbers (that remaining 25% of women who have always worked in CS) and a potential reason for the relative stability of that number over time (presuming the peak and decline in the 1970-80s can be accounted for independently).
Every? Really?
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It's not a common perception,it's a victim mentality that tech bloggers often project:

>"I’ve been lucky enough to escape attention from that howling mob"

this phrase is bad enough to discredit her writing.
Perfect reason to move here. :P
Although there's nothing better on Mac and I use it daily, I really think Homebrew is a hack and doesn't really fit into Linux well.
I admitted it in my first response. I said it was a misdemeanor if he were guilty of everything he had allegedly done relative to the actions of the prosecuting entity. If you were right and I were claiming SR was some pure bastion of light and holiness I would instead have said he was completely innocent.

My point was the relative culpability of the two actors in question. You're not presenting any new facts, you're just sounding off on the righteousness of the state without consideration to the crimes on that rap sheet to which I have taken exception. It is you who are doubling down on your idiocy absent understanding of the actual point being made.
It's not mentioned in the article, but Google acquired Boston Dynamics, a military contractor.
Great questions and apologies that you're not getting all of those answers from the linked landing page.

There is a lot more information on the developer site http://dev.twitter.com/fabric and there are also now replays of the sessions from Flight available https://twittercommunity.com/t/missed-flight-we-got-you-cove... (YouTube playlist, blog posts and livestream replay linked from there)
Sandboxes aren't pointless hacks which shouldn't be necessary. It's a lot more difficult for static languages to get right, and solutions like Maven have had tons of work put into them.

You say "if things had been done properly from the beginning" implying you know some mistakes that were made. What mistakes were made in the beginning?

Do you have any ideas how the problems cabal has could have been avoided? There are very intelligent people working on this problem and it is well known that dependency resolution isn't an easy problem.
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How do you tell the difference between a shill and someone who actually holds an opposing point of view?

It might be true, but Hacker News has a diverse userbase and it might as well be false. Using the term seems to me to be just a way to dismiss the credibility of critics - it's a thought terminating cliche.
The data for that comparison is here:

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/degrees/

(I guess that's what NPR used anyway)

The trends show some in the tables here:

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/databrf/sdb97326.htm

Between 1985-1995, mathematics (all, not just applied) declined but not as much as CS, physics increased moderately.
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer died working, at the age of 104 years. 2 years before his death he was visited by a Brazilian journalist, for an interview. After he knew the journalist was in his late 50s he commented:

"Oh, so young! You got your whole life in front of you!"
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PDF: http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
Frighteningly close for anyone who has more than 301 views. I'm not one for hyperbole, but it really is quite amazing how consistent it is.
Totally agree. It sounds like he was all over the place, and using mass transportation. If anyone needs to seek refuge out on Long Island just let me know!! :D
CRCs (and other error checking codes) are routinely misused and misunderstood by the engineers that implement systems with them.

For instance, how do you know a CRC will detect the errors you care about? For that matter, do you have any idea of the most common errors your system will have to deal with?

Error-detecting codes have an implicit model for the kinds of errors they will effectively detect. They are valid for systems that fit this model, and less effective (possibly staggeringly ineffective) for systems that don't fit that model.

CRCs date from the days of serial communications, and they were well suited to the kinds of errors you would see: bit errors that were independent and randomly distributed, and short burst errors. If you conducted experiments to measure the probability distribution of errors on your communication medium, you could calculate the probability of an undetected error with a given code. Without that you have no model of the reliability of your communication system.

For instance, with CD's (or DVD's) they didn't just slap a CRC on there - they made a model of the kinds of errors they expected, in this case they expected big scratches on a CD to create very long burst errors, and they need to be able to not just detect but also correct them. Based on the density of recording, they made a reasonable estimation of the length of errors they had to deal with.

To do this they used a powerful Reed-Solomon code, and interleaved the blocks in order to handle the extremely long burst error requirement, and meet their reliability goals.

Look at it another way.
So you slap a CRC on a file. Great, now it can detect one- or two-bit errors, and burst errors as big as the CRC. Are those the most common errors in your file system? That is, what is the likelihood that the first file corruption you see will be of a kind that your CRC will detect with only a low probability? File corruptions are poorly characterized.

Still, a CRC is cheap and better than nothing, so we slap them on.

Anyway if you like math at all, I recommend delving into codes, it really is fun and fascinating.
I liked Woody Allen's answer to the question why he was still working in his late seventies:

You know in a mental institution they sometimes give a person some clay or some basket weaving? It’s the therapy of moviemaking that has been good in my life. If you don’t work, it’s unhealthy—for me, particularly unhealthy. I could sit here suffering from morbid introspection, ruing my mortality, being anxious. But it’s very therapeutic to get up and think, Can I get this actor; does my third act work? All these solvable problems that are delightful puzzles, as opposed to the great puzzles of life that are unsolvable, or that have very bad solutions. So I get pleasure from doing this. It’s my version of basket weaving.
He's worked as an executive, but never moved onto something more senior like a project manager????
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> It’s pretty easy to look at these messages and see young males acting out

She "knows" their gender, I'm surprised she can't also see that they're white...
But... last season winners?
Thanks for the suggestions! Great background music.
Silicon Valley problems: http://i.imgur.com/sxa2F76.jpg
Any time you read an article by Assange you have to read it in context and using his meaning for some key concepts:

Some further reading:
http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2010/12/01/conspiraci...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/urizenus-sklar/understanding-c...
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Once every two months would definitely set off my pattern detector, while twice a year might slide under the radar or at least make me not take it viscerally.

This is one of the few articles that I feel addressed this topic calmly and rationally. I appreciate that.