skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please, tell, what jokes are acceptable? That's a very serious question.
You cannot joke about gender or race, ok, fair enough.
The I guess you cannot joke about nationality as well. Same goes for physical traits or occupation. Same goes for the marital status. Well I guess better not to joke about the humans at all.
What's left? Animals? Better not, PETA may be all over you.
Let's play it safely and joke about rocks.

And before you are outraged how dare I compare such serious problems as racism and sexism with some trivialities ask yourself: isn't it racist or sexist not to compare them? You say black person has more right to be offended by the joke about black people than some poor white bachelor by the joke about bachelors?

Sadly it seems that the concept of joke is being lost. You can hardly convince anyone that it is possible to tell all kinds of not PC jokes without being racist, sexist, homophobic. Heck the joke itself may be the joke ridiculing racism, sexism, etc. Alas, the finer points will be lost for sure.

We are losing personal responsibility and personal ethics. It's being replaced by pattern recognition and very crude pattern recognition, mostly with stupid regexp matching single words and not being able to see the context at all. _if (match_found) then self.offended = true_
But if you consider she probably felt, whether intentionally or subconsciously, that this was a necessary evil in order for her to succeed professionally, it becomes much more logical.
What I wish is a notification when someone responds to my comment. Nothing more. I love tracking comments and having constructive discussions, but without notifications, it becomes very difficult.
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Funny, I read this is as a free and complete guide to the effects of confirmation bias.

A free and complete guide to bullshit is just bullshit.

Technical analysis is a farce.
> i.e. instead of law enforcement going to Google and Apple and saying "I have a legal right to search X. Hand it over.", law enforcement now needs to go up to the person whose papers and effects are being searched and ask the same thing.

Which is entirely the wrong way to conduct a criminal investigation. How effective can the police really be when they have to go to suspect and say "We've got enough evidence to suspect you of a crime and get a warrant, but not enough to convict. Can you please hand over all evidence that would further incriminate you?"

> It's not like Google and Apple are taking away the government's ability to issue warrants.

No, but they're making the warrants useless.
This is actually quite cool. Looks like all Macbooks around the 2012 era had SMS: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1935
OpenSUSE Linux 13.2 available for download
The Bash Security Flaw: Why Everyone Should Take Notice
I played around with it a few months back (I'm working on something similar but substantially less complex), and while it does sort of work, the output is hideous, and is more of a starting point than usable code. As of when I tried it, running it on itself produced an uncompilable mess.
Viddy is powering down
Another option, if you're a straight cis person, is to go to a gay bar/club. You'll feel different.
Roberta goes open – learning with robots
IATA codes are also often used by ISPs in the domain names of some routers (as can be seen in routers).

I found it actually quite surprising that this is common practice, yet I couldn't find this documented anywhere.
There are technical comments that look (to me) interesting over this post :

http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/2l9lp1/the_next_hype...
Recovery from previous sessions - http://www.t-nation.com/training/heart-rate-variability-trai...
Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any non-german project site yet: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=h...
The problem is that there is no longer an opposition in the form of USSR, so it's harder to negotiate using communism as a threat. Stalin's vision was to (eventually) reduce the workday to 6-5 hours so that people would have more time for education.
That answer is complete bullshit.

> In the United States, socialism is virtually nonexistent.

Except for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Unemployment.

And don't forget the military.
Hypothesis: Purposefulness is limited by upstream = it can only decrease as you go deeper in a hierarchy. A.k.a. you can't build a (non-faked) purposeful company in a bullshit field.

Think for example a would-love-to-feel-purposeful software development company supplying to some redundant government agency or corporate branch.

In such a purpose-less field, you can only create a fake sense of purpose, and that only works as long as you find short-sighted people that don't realize that what they are living for is fake. Lot of 'creative' ad agencies do that, wasting best years of great 20-30 year olds to create award-winning animated microsites for cereals.

What happens next is that these guys & girls drink away their unrealized frustration on countless parties (the work-hard-party-hard falacy), before realizing that things won't get better, and finally trying to find a purposeful place.

Also, Zappos.

Problem: The more you understand what's going on, the harder is to find a place that you would find purposeful. You become more and more unemployable by a majority of companies and are left with a choice of devoting your life to non-profit stuff (the important/non-urgent quadrant) while scraping by, or compromising your beliefs in some job-for-cash. Or trying to be that one lucky guy who built a lifestyle business that doesn't lie in bullshitting others.
I generally agree with you, but ... http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html

There is also the "problem" of mixing professional and personal relationships. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, but some individuals absolutely do. not. want. For teams where the workplace is the social hub for most but not all, those stuck at the social periphery are most likely going to suffer professionally. And this doesn't even get into class differences (as in, those protected classes, not socioeconomic) and feelings of not belonging.
[Podcast] Storylining: Successful Strategic Content Marketing with Steve Seager
Another vote for Django Rest Framework, it's very good at getting an API going when prototyping.
LXC is at least two things, the user land tools/libs and the project for the kernel container features right?
Unirest: Polyglot Lightweight HTTP Request Client Libraries
> Overall: if everybody could stop being so sensetive. Grow
> up. People are different. Some people aren't nice. Learn
> to deal with it.

I doubt it is possible in US (and starts spreading elsewhere).
You cannot learn to deal with it when you are thought the opposite from the early days.
Graeber's idea on the solution to the problem: "revolt of the caring classes" instead of mass dropout is even more interesting in this interview.

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1...

To put it in a naive tech twist - maybe there should be an online tool that allows me to distribute a proportion of my wages to a list of "people who care for me and things I care about".

Basically, can I create my own tax system and transact most of my affairs in it? Would anyone be interested in joining? Has DogeCoin already tried to do that?

I would never live completely outside of state taxation, because of obvious practicalities like the military. (By the way, Graeber has an argument that army is the reason for existence of both money and taxes in his book on Debt.)

In technical terms, post-bitcoin there is no reason for the state to be involved in the tax system.
DogeCoin was a close attempt at an ecosystem where money goes around and contributes to good causes, not sure what is going on with it now.

There are successful local currencies(Brixton pound) that support local city councils, can the same thing be done on a global scale?
Which one of them uses exactly the iBeacon protocol?
Reminds me of a friend's anecdote about people in Scotland in the 60's talking about differences in accents resulting from being from a town 9 miles away.

A lot of places in Europe are still like that. "In USA 100 years is a long time, in Europe 100km is a long distance"
Sorry, how many former slaves are now in IT?
That seems so completely misguided. Why is it the government's responsibility to fix your vacation for you? Isn't it just a matter of earning enough money to afford a vacation? I doubt rich people worry as much about little vacation time - they buy those expensive yachts and then have only two weeks per year to ride them?

And even supposing there simply aren't enough jobs for everyone, and if you go on vacation somebody uses the opportunity to snatch away your job: isn't that rather a problem of distribution and work organization, not of social welfare? If it's more efficient for organizations to have one person work 40 hours than two persons 20 hours, they'll prefer that.
Its free to support their main business. Zerodha looks to be a brokerage.
It's still a fair amount of code, and means dealing with less CS-y things but still practical things like command-line arguments, data structures, file handling...
I saw that too. They must have been trying to save that one for later!
It's not complete bullshit, just unusable for trading nowdays: these algorithms that found trends worked until better algorithms were used:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis#Scientific_T...
The results were positive with an overwhelming statistical confidence for each of the patterns using the data set of all S&P 500 stocks daily for the five year period 1992-1996.
In fact (I'm sure you know this but most won't), Korea in Mandarin is Han Guo. There is a lot longer history of sameness than difference.
> If as a company, you aren't managing your devices [...] you're reliant on the custodian of the phone to do the right thing when turning over the device.

Precisely - and companies aren't going to want to purchase phones that they can't manage. Of course, this might be a moot point; I've never seen a company-issued iPhone before, so maybe Apple doesn't even want to be in that market (I might just be hanging around the wrong people, though).

> NSA/et al prefers [...]

While encrypting data while it's transiting the internet might have an effect on the NSA, encrypting data stored locally (like with the iPhone encryption debacle) won't affect them at all. When was the last time the NSA had your phone in its possession? It will affect criminal investigations. I think Apple would have stirred up a lot less controversy if they had marketed their encryption as protecting the data on your lost phone from criminals instead of marketing it as protecting it from the cops.
I find it odd that R isn't mentioned. It's the most widely used and popular 'array' language, and rules the statistics/ML domain...
Enabling Open Markets for the Web of Things [pdf]
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Sorry if I am being ignorant, but how's the military a socialist thing?
> It's not complete bullshit

The fact that line even has to be used is a massive red flag.

> overwhelming statistical confidence for each of the patterns using the data set of all S&P 500 stocks daily for the five year period 1992-1996.

And tech VCs investing in anything from 1995-2000 were positive with an overwhelming statistical confidence that their portfolios were anything but randomly chosen.
Yes, I wish someone had explained this to me 20 years ago before I started a degree in biology.
How did one do network programming in dos? Did it have a tcp/ip stack and winsock.h funtions or equivalent? And threading? Did you use Djgpp? I've always wondered about that.

Edit: browsed the DJGPP website and found answers, there are libs available.
Like most things in life, it isn't quite that simple. There are real inefficiencies in the market which can be highlighted by TA. TA can also be considered a form of Statistical Arbitrage and vice versa.

A simple example: There are many traders out there using TA, if sufficient numbers of them start following the same signals then real market impact occurs. You can use TA to establish what signals they are using and then front run them. This shows that TA has real power in some circumstances and there are many more out there.

I could go into a lot more detail, but am pressed for time at the moment.
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To me the most interesting things here are that the kernel(and CPU's) will be getting hardware assisted process isolation as well as advancements being made around CRIU to support live migrating processes(and potentially entire cgroup trees?).

This is good for everyone. Docker doesn't even use liblxc anymore by default, it uses libcontainer. Wonder why Ubuntu isn't getting behind libcontainer.. In any case, the stuff being pushed to upstream projects, like the kernel, will flow back down to docker and everybody can enjoy new awesomeness.
I think he's talking about jobs where this is arguable (though never entirely provable) from any perspective: employee, employer or consumer.

What is the point of FMCG marketing people? Do they really serve a purpose in society or do they just funnel funds from the competitive process (which as a whole might be productive) into different hands, including their own. There are some positive externalities like television, but that kind of incidental value is hard to find meaning in.

How about all the lawyers playing zero sum games? Social media people for office supply companies? Paparazzi? Are reward programs offering blenders in exchange for credit card miles really necessary?

I think the point he's making is somewhat valid, especially from a personal intuitive perspective. The wider question is can society work differently? Can we trade work for leisure? Can we find self definitions and motivation outside of work?
Gotta keep the plebs trading. How else will they make bank?
In Hungary (which is considered a shitty place to live) I get 23 days of paid vacation (with weekends considered it can be more than a month). I also don't have to work overtime.
So, baiting more suckers, I mean, "day traders".
How is this weak political agitation on top of HN? It reads like a paroody.

You’re an anthropology professor, what’s the ‘need’ for that?” (And indeed a lot of tabloid readers would take the existence of my job as the very definition of wasteful social expenditure.)

Yes, yes, if you disagree with our good professor here then you must be a tabloid-reading simpleton. A person of any sophistication would easily recognize the value of this largely fact-free critique of capitalism. Where capitalism is represented by the academia, the most competitive of industries.

Once, when contemplating the apparently endless growth of administrative responsibilities in British academic departments

The whole thing is nothing but ideological signalling.

if 1% of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call “the market”

This is a profound psychological violence here. How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour

Even more perverse, there seems to be a broad sense that this is the way things should be. This is one of the secret strengths of right-wing populism. You can see it when tabloids whip up resentment against tube workers

Let me just say (before I go back to reading Daily Mail and bashing teachers) that I can totally understand why he spent so much time thinking about bullshit jobs.
I have, as a white male. We have a captive IT office in south India and when visiting there you really feel like some sort of warlord. [Almost] everyone looks away, tries to act busy, and you are not included in any of the socializing... socializing which you know exists because the most popular place in the office is in the canteen around the tea & coffee machines.

This is not a bitter rant and I have made good friends in that office over the ten years I've been working with them, but to brush with a broad stroke the generalization is accurate. I'm sure it cuts both ways, too, when those folks visit our US offices where there are an ample number of Indians at all levels (my CIO is Indian, along with three of his directs / my peers, for example), but who are homogeneously westernized. They understand the south Indian culture better than anyway, but prejudices are still there.
Agreed, Atom is still a diamond in dirt, its just waiting to be polished and then I will try It out. Brackets does the "little" details right. Everything feels good about Brackets and seems to get out of your way. If you are a front end developer then definitely have a go at it.
cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep '^[fur][hibernate][claws][latin][brown][omnivores]$'

Have I missed the point somewhat... :)
This never happened to me, but I know people who had to quit their job because they were too bored. In reality, it's often the case that there are many people doing too much 9+ ours a day and people totally wasting their time. The sweet spot IMO is 8 hours per day the most productive you can be (you'll never get 8 hours of productivity).
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> The results were positive with an overwhelming statistical confidence for each of the patterns using the data set of all S&P 500 stocks daily for the five year period 1992-1996.

Looks a bit like cherry picking
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I have a static angular app deployed to S3. I'm using the AWS CLI tool (http://aws.amazon.com/cli/) to deploy and I thinks it's pretty convient. You can also use CloudFront with S3 to get a real CDN.
> Docker doesn't even use liblxc anymore by default, it uses libcontainer. Wonder why Ubuntu isn't getting behind libcontainer.

Because not everyone wants what docker offers. Some people prefer and want the more VM-esque behaviour provided by LXC.

To me LXC is the real deal, while docker offers limited convenience at the cost of flexibility and platform lock-in. And I have zero interest in that.

I hope Ubuntu continues to offer good LXC-support, and then docker (or whatever the other hip thing of the month is) can do whatever docker does, because it's external to whatever distro people is running.
> Like most things in life, it isn't quite that simple.

Like most things in life, technical analysis is bullshit.

> There are real inefficiencies in the market which can be highlighted by TA. TA can also be considered a form of Statistical Arbitrage and vice versa.

Stat arb is not what is commonly known as technical analysis. They are distinct.

> A simple example: There are many traders out there using TA, if sufficient numbers of them start following the same signals then real market impact occurs. You can use TA to establish what signals they are using and then front run them. This shows that TA has real power in some circumstances and there are many more out there.

Keynesian beauty contests do not provide consistent alpha. If they did, we'd see fewer VCs flame out.
Every tax-financed band-aid to Capitalism is not by some black-magic Socialism per se.
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I think I misunderstood your initial question - the I (well, really, Stewart Baker) was trying to make was that selling devices which are automatically encrypted with keys that can't be escrowed by the owning company (like the new iPhones) isn't going to be very welcome in a corporate environment.

> end to end Enron

I think you meant "end to end encryption". I'm guessing you're typing that on iPhone :)
Damn, thanks for that :/ That's the situation I am currently in, looks like I'm going to have to stop actually working and playing the politics game instead. Or just get another job that's not as soul-crushing.
Does all the protesting by security agencies actually mean much, in terms of a signal?

1) If these measures are effective and stop them doing what they perceive to be their job, they'd have to protest.

2) If they had access to the information by other means, they'd have to protest anyway, otherwise you'd be able to conclude we're in situation 1

My guess it's a bit of both, and they're mostly just losing their ability to mass surveil against low priority targets (e.g. populations), since cracking the encryption for absolutely all connections would be too much work.
> Every day before dawn, brave men and women of different races and backgrounds rise as one, united by a common cause. They march together in formation, kept in step by their voices joined in song. These workers leave their communal housing arrangements and go toil together “in the field.” While they are out doing their day’s labor, their young are cared for in subsidized childcare programs. If they hurt themselves on the job, they can count on universal health care. Right under your nose, on the fenced-in bases you drive past on your way to work or see on the TV news, a successful experiment in collectivization has been going on for years.

-- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/21/troops-of-t...

> The military is innately hierarchical, yet it nurtures a camaraderie in part because the military looks after its employees. This is a rare enclave of single-payer universal health care, and it continues with a veterans’ health care system that has much lower costs than the American system as a whole.

-- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/opinion/16kristof.html?_r=...

I'm surprised this isn't obvious to most people.

I also find libertarian soldiers extremely amusing.
Yeah - it makes sense to me. I wasn't sure but I tried a few apps that are supposed to use it and looked for it in my system information and I didn't see it. (I'm really new to using a mac)
Stop putting AUTO_INCREMENT ids in URLs
A funny thing about this story is the photo is of the SSE. The very same place where I worked on the trading system and got down voted for '2300 a second sustained. I was doing that on PA RISC under HPUX in 1995. BFD'. More relevant to the story at hand, when the bell went for lunch, most of those people crossed their arms and put their heads down on them for a nap. I am sure many never left their desk.
Anyone thinking about doing doing some technical analysis may well become less enthusiastic about the idea if they first played around with generating some random time-series with statistics similar to the real thing and then dwelling on the fact that they look pretty close to the real thing. GARCH(1,1) isn't a bad place to start (although it's not perfect). I just put up some R code on github for this here: https://github.com/mhowlett/garch11 which I was experimenting with in the past. I can't remember the state of it exactly, but I think it works.
Eh? Police do that routinely. How do you think they get evidence to prove a building was a meth lab or crack house? They get a warrant, bust down the door and go inside. How do you think they get internal business documents when prosecuting white collar fraud? They get a warrant or subpoena and force the potentially guilty parties to hand over documents.

I'm not sure why this seems like a radical departure. "The cloud" is a very recent phenomenon. Up until quite recently almost all interesting documents were held only by the suspect parties themselves.
> Why is it the government's responsibility to fix your vacation for you?

Because life is better that way.

The employer/employee relationship is incredibly biased. A lot of people simply cannot afford to lose their job, whereas pretty much every employer can afford to fire almost any individual. This means people are willing to work for little pay, poor benefits and no vacation because they are effectively forced to, even though everyone would be better off if everyone was forced to take vacation
Hm. http://caniuse.com/deviceorientation links to https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5874690627207168 , which claims it's been on by default since Chrome 7. The model list in http://crbug.com/44654 lists only MacBook Pros, though -- I have a mid-2012 MBP that originally shipped with a spinning disk. (It's possible that the Airs, which only ship with SSDs, don't have an accelerometer?)