skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be noted that everybody is a member of a protected class by virtue of their race, gender, etc. It's not something that only applies to minorities, and I wish people would stop perpetuating that misundrstanding.
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Not a government-sponsored initiative, but:

https://mailbox.org/en/
Good post. It's funny, because C# has been ubiquitous for a long, long time - just not in cool areas like the startup scene. I was a C# web dev for years before moving onto using Node or Ruby as a backend in order to be able to work on more interesting projects.

I look forward to a future where C# is more ubiquitous, because, as the post states, this will largely come at the expense of Java, which has always felt like C# Only Not Quite So Good. Cross-platform these days means a lot of mobile work, and if we can write our server backends, iOS Apps and Android apps in one language that's a big win.
If I were looking for somebody of his background, I definitely would talk to him.

Obviously, a whistleblower like this is dedicated, passionate, and energetic. The question is whether they do this because of real dedication to the customer and good business practices, or whether they're just the sort of person that likes blowing shit up when they find a good excuse.

Some of the top-performing people on my teams have been seen as "difficult". But I don't particularly want to hire obedient people. I want to hire people who will tell me I'm wrong when I'm wrong.
The logical next step!
My mental health is much much better than my gut bacteria's (based on the horrible stuff that i feed them). Just my n=1.
It looks like a really cool app, and it's something I've wanted from Google Maps for a while, that Google has danced around without delivering a real solution to "offline maps."

Is there a cost associated with publishing on the android Play Store? I am a little worried about installing this app which wants me to bypass security warnings and install out-of-band an APK download from their site. Not sure if that's a reasonable fear, but I think I could at least count on seeing it flagged and removed from the app store if it was malware. No such guarantees downloading directly from the site. Has anyone already tried out this app?
I suspect it was allowed to foster a potential partnership.
Institutional knowledge is about process as well as the software. Knowing the magic words and people can make social engineering or avoiding countermeasures much easier, even in the absence of an explicit software flaw.
You're correct - I didn't notice this. Sorry I deleted my original message once I realised to avoid too much noise but you'd already commented. Here's the link again to avoid messing up the thread completely: http://handley.org.uk/ohhi.png
Would love to disable the helper at the end of the game. Kind of ruins it for me. Otherwise, it's fun!
Actually, the statistics today are largely better than at any point in history we have statistics for.

Here's a nice aggregate:

http://daeken.com/2014-04-16_Spoiler__The_World_Isn_t_On_Fir...

There is a shitload of good things going on in the world. You just have to pull your head out of the negativity echochamber present in a lot of Internet communities, most notably parts of reddit.
[Modern CLI user-interface.] [Commands familiar to Subversion, Hg, Git users.]

Those two just make up an oxymoron for me.
Swinging for the fences is great, but so is getting on base.

Twelve months ago I accepted 7-figure acquisition offer for my company. Members of our team thought the offer was too low. It was a struggle for me to get everyone on board for the deal.

In the past twelve months, the market conditions and competitive landscape have changed dramatically. Had we not accepted the acquisition offer, we'd be out of business, and we would have lost all of our investors' money. This would have had little to do with our execution, and much to do with exogenous factors out of our control.

Just one data point though.
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You are right. It isn't true for a lot of companies. Big places like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google won't care.

EDIT: do want to add a hostile work environment can wear down any mentally robust person.
I can't believe they missed the opportunity to title this "Amazon and Hachette bury the hatchet".

Edited: Lots of others haven't. https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+hachette+bury+the+hat...
I will go ahead and give it a third. The javascript debugger is amazing. I believe it also has an extension for chrome that allows you to debug front side code in the debugger.
I went through your FAQ but could not determine if the wildcard certs have any restrictions. Can one cert be used on several haproxy (or whatever) instances or are additional licences required? And do open source projects get any discounts?
It is a great idea. Git is just too much of an hassle when you only have one file of TODOs, a tiny hack or what not. Why bother with checksums when an incremental integer helps me memorize what revision I'm on?

However as others has pointed out, maybe the dependency on rcs was not the best choice.
It's more about Open Sourcing the best VM available and making the best IDE available free rather than simply going Open Source. It's a strong move.
Developing an Open Source iOS App with Swift
In general, I agree. The question is whether you're helping promote the "bad parts" by promoting the good ones. I mean, why are we reading and discussing ERS's views on Catholic priests if not because many people like his software?

I don't think it's fair to dismiss it as silly.
Yes ,this is very interesting question. Don't get me wrong but people here often complain about women in tech , well see what you get with women in tech. If you had same standards for men and women , a man in similar position would have been fired long time ago.

Also, history is evident that , sex is best weapon woman can use. Empires and States have lost battles due to it. I don't know but , maybe , maybe , she has relationship with any of her superior ? Is sex involved ?

Art of tactics and diplomacy will teach you following:
"don't be cry baby. Learn to read power games and seek cold revenge."

Anyway , Amazon is highly filthy company and I am glad I withdrew all my applications last year. I hope someone burn them to grounds.
Additionally, the UN millenium development goal of halving world poverty by 2010 was met ~2005.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/half-a-billion-people-escap...
Getting started with predictive modelling in python on Kaggle competitions
fair enough. thanks for the reply!
I think it might just be that, while they want the app to be used, its not meant for general consumption yet.

So publishing only the apk selects those users who can tolerate semi-broken software.

Or Google Play could provide a 'beta' channel for publishers.
Does such a thing exist?
Borders between states are hardly the same as borders between countries, and Portugal is not representative of Europe. Europe is a region with multiple cultures, languages, countries, and governments.
[In Stock] Sony SmartWatch 3 – Devices on Google Play
You should add a mailing list to your page. I don't want to order yet, but would be interested in hearing the results of your 200 person study, and potentially ordering in the future.
Yes, Google Play lets you define an Alpha and Beta channel https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
There's life beyond git, though. Bazaar gives you incremental¹ integers and a much nicer UI.

¹ barring merges, but those shouldn't happen in these use cases
Video: Autonomous robot surgery on deformable tissue phantoms
As a noobie I'm all-in with javascript and meteor. Why?

It's still the wild west and new people still on time to enter the land rush. And the best of all: any settler is welcome, no need to be a ninja to survive.
Possibly stupid question: why are all the images greyscale? Could we not send a color camera? Or is the comet very grey? Or does color not work in space?
Replying to let you know it's not you.
The comments section provides some very decent counterarguments which ESR seems to skip over. I have to say, I'm a bit surprised. I'd read his writings on open source and I thought they were always interesting if not fully convincing, but I never knew this side of him and I'm not too impressed.
Ok this has been bugging me...

What is a "CIVA Image"? Everyone is using the term - but not explaining what it is!
HN is not available from Ashburn for the past month or so
The server returns 520 Origin Error for the past month. Sent a request to CloudFlare to take a look into it. Does anyone else experiencing this issue?
Common Roof Leak Repairs: Vent Pipe Repairs – All Roofing Solutions
Oops, sorry I thought you were the founder of Nest. So ThrowawayPhilea was hellbanned for The "Philea is more important" part ? Harsh
FX = Foreign Exchange here. Not obvious from the context; for all I know "FX market" could refer to wage-fixing collusion in the special effects industry (with the "chat room traders" trading hiring rates).
I was in this spot about a year ago and have picked up quite a bit of web dev ability since.

I tried a few books, but they didn't really sink is all that well. Here is what I recommend:

- Take cs50 (Harvard intro class) from iTunesU. After attending school for 16 years, this is the single most worthwhile class I've ever taken. Plus it's free. It will give you a basic understanding of programming and a look at how to solve problems. Once you have completed this class, php, js, objective-c or whatever language you are interested in will have a lower learning curve. If you want more, Harvard has archived lectures and assignments of several other web dev classes and they are available online (for free).

- Start with Laravel, which is a relatively new php framework. The best thing about Laravel is that you can make progress in building items quickly and as you learn more, improve them. Like you, I wanted to start building things immediately. Within about 4 hours of reading tutorials, I had a basic CRUD application live. Laravel has a big community with many, many free tutorials. Check out: www.scotch.io and http://maxoffsky.com/category/code-blog/

As others have said, you can probably do this same thing with Angularjs. It might even be the better option.

- join Stackoverflow.com. It is likely that any problem you encounter with Angularjs or Laravel will be discussed and solved there.

- Join Codecademy.com to practice js, jQuery and php syntax.

Good luck.
> People are starting to give F# a lot of love as a .NET language, then wondering "Where's the framework?" I'm coming around to the conclusion that it works best when there is no framework.

Yes, in F# and other ML-like languages you tend to use libraries more than frameworks.

(I'm the original poster, and I've been extolling the virtues of ML-style functional programming throughout this thread, but I still owe you an email explaining why I think OOP is ultimately better than FP)
For a month? Can you do a request and paste the ID at the bottom of the page so I can look into it?
Also how about the autism incidence gap between men and women. I agree with you that the evidence is pointing to the reverse of what is claimed.
I'm curious about this as well. It would be good to know how groove sorted out whether the company was just kicking tires, or looking at potential competition, thinking about a partnereship, or considering an acquisition. At some key point, it must have dawned on groove (or maybe not) that they were going to receive an offer. I think the context of that happening would be educational.
TechSmith Acquires Knowmia Teach (YC S12)
Ten Cool Sites #4 (And one BitCoin scam site.)
What that company did was not legal. One of the requirements for classifying an employee as a "manager" is that they actually manage subordinates as part of their duties. If everyone was an assistant manager, none of them were, and they would have been entitled to overtime. (And the company subject to heinous penalties for labor violations.)

This is where a little bit of knowledge is very dangerous. Companies read a small part of the laws and think it's very simple to reclassify hourly employees to salaried employees. It's not.
It would be nice if you could set the color to blue by right-clicking rather than double-clicking.
Taking photos of Eiffel Tower at night is illegal
I'm 24 years old, from Bangladesh and I'm facing exactly the same problem as you.I've been roaming around the world of technology for the past three and a half years I tried almost everything that intersted me (web front end/back end /android) but I'v never dug deep. looking forward to all the replies of this thread
I think most people are using it to be more productive, not smarter. And "smart" may refer to its advantages over other types of drugs.
3 Steps to Creating a Successful Google Apps Security Program
Ask HN: Which one is the best website to learn to code?
What It's Like to Be Black or Female in Silicon Valley
I don't get how git (or any proper multi-file dvcs) falls behind facilitating the purpose ESR is shooting at. You can use "git log <file>" to track changes of <file>.

It's like Gmail drafts. While it's delivered to you as an email stashing feature, I realized that it's the best cloud-based (offline-synced, omnipresent) note application. It can do that even if "note" is not in its name. We can be creative about using the tools at our disposal.

Besides (back to the original problem), it can be handy sometimes that you have a tool that can operate over the whole range of managed files, even if they are logically unrelated.
Service Discovery and Orchestration with Mesos and Consul
Here is Nokia maps. It is most likely they have a more complex relationship with Google than most and prefer to release the beta app before finalizing the details of that relationship. I have been waiting for this for years.
Is there any way to play it now?
Google Play only allows .apk files up to 50 MB. Maybe the HERE maps app is larger, so it won't fit on the store. (Yes, of course they can download content separately and make the .apk under 50 MB that way, but maybe they just didn't want to do that for the beta.)

Anyway, HERE is the brand used by Nokia's maps unit, so it's not likely that they would distribute malware.
HIPAA Considerations When Adding Video Calling to a Health App
me and my brother do not suffer. n=4
I used C# for a long time before moving on as well. Mostly web stuff, but also desktop software and services (Windows equivalent of a daemon). I always really liked the language, and the libraries are mostly pretty good, but it being tied to Windows and especially IIS was always a real problem.

But I think .NET has also long suffered from a more anemic ecosystem than other platforms have. Things like a package manager have just recently come around. Things like tooling and educational resources seem more spotty than for other platforms. (Although some of the for-pay .NET tools are really, really nice.)

So, I too would like to see it used in more interesting ways than line-of-business desktop/web apps. But I wonder how the above things will play out. I'm really glad it's not so tied down to Windows anymore. But maybe there are other issues to resolve, now.
Yes, we use the same for our app. You need just to link a google group or a g+ community in the developer dashboards. It works quite well.
What We Wanted to Do: A Story of Problem-Solving Solutions (1993) [pdf]
There is more evidence than was mentioned in the article. Mice fed Lactobacillus regulate stress better. Populations with gluten free diets have incredibly low schizophrenia rates, until introduced to western diets. Schizophrenia patients making progress in therapy on gluten free diets experience more issues when reintroduced to gluten.
I meant having something like:

if (check_cfunc(ci->me, rb_obj_equal)) {
return rb_obj_equal(recv, obj);
}

and trusting the compiler to inline rb_obj_equal (or using inline), although I reckon you don't probably want rb_obj_equal to always be inlined.
A couple of ways that vulnerability research is nothing like bioweapon engineering:

1. Vulnerabilities exist in software, whether a researcher uncovers them or not. America's adversaries will continue to identify and exploit these vulnerabilities. So legislation that keeps this information out of the hands of our defense/intelligence community would really only serve to weaken us relative to our enemies, rather than making us safer.

2. Die Hard movies aside, software vulnerabilities are far less likely to lead to apocalyptic outcomes than nuclear or biological weapons. Maybe a better analogy would be the open market manufacturing of surveillance technologies, like cameras and radios. Where's the outrage about telephoto lenses that camera companies make that can be used to monitor our enemies or to take pictures of your daughter in your backyard swimming pool from a half-mile away?
EU's Ansip: get rid of geo-blocking for digital content
I have to agree with (a) here. Upon reaching the end of a 6x6, as far as I could tell no rules were broken, yet the solution was not valid.

I'm wondering if multiple solutions can exist and the game will only accept one.
PIPs are absolutely not required - I've seen people more people fired without them than with them.

A Performance Improvement Plan is not the same thing as documenting an employee's misdeeds. Yes, you need to document to protect yourself legally, but what you don't need to do is put them on a rigged "plan" that is intentionally engineered to fail.

Collecting evidence to fire an employee is one thing - a PIP veers into manufacturing evidence to fire an employee.
But by your definition you are already promoting other peoples opinions by using their stuff. It is unavoidable.

The only difference is that you don't care about those opinions because either you don't know about them or you don't think it is important. But they still exist.
Why not just go to the bank and fill out a withdraw slip?
10e-3 m/s^2 is hard to believe, as the lander would have to be ~250m away from the center of mass [1]. More likely it is 2500m away from the center of mass, giving 6.67e-11 * 1.0e13 / 2500 ^ 2 = 0.0001 m/s^2, so about 1 gram.

[1] I can't find a reliable estimate of the surface gravity online, but the mass estimate at http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/08/21/determining-the-mass... seems accurate.
Patek Philippe’s 175th Anniversary Is a Swirl of (Grandmaster) Flash and Emotion
I'm guessing Salesforce. Anyone know the bidder?
First world boredom, you 've got to feed it with some drama.
Skype blocked my business account
I made the (poor) decision of choosing Skype as my phone number and VOIP provider for my business.

About a month ago I saw a strange charge on my credit card statement from Skype that did not appear on my account purchase history. After notifying Skype of the issue, they proceeded to block my account for unauthorized access.

For more than a week, I have not been receiving phone calls on my publicly listed number. Skype has not worked with me to resolve the issue. They have asked me to fill out a verification form 3 times and each time they have told me that I have left out some crucial information. I have provided them with absolutely everything I have knowledge of. This procedure should not even be necessary since there is no evidence of unauthorized access to my account. The charge does not even appear on my Skype account - only on my credit card statement. It is likely a billing issue.

This post is meant as a word of warning to anyone who was considering using Skype for their business. Stay far away.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a better VOIP service than can provide me with a number and unlimited calls in the US/CA?
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Because (and here I make the first and only value claim in this essay) whatever one’s opinion of homophilic homosexuals might be, the behaviors associated with the pederastic/dominating classical style are entangled with abuse and degradation in a way that can only be described as evil. Modern homosexuals deserve praise for their attempt to get shut of them.

If you disagree with the reasoning prior to that or that his facts are wrong (which is entirely possible), then yeah, he's full of shit. That said, he does compliment "modern homosexuals" in contrast to what he claims came before.

It's uncomfortable reading, but I don't exactly see him advocating dragging anyone behind a truck.
I know you have limited negotiating power as an intern, but the best response to "don't worry, it's never enforced" is "If you don't plan to enforce it, then there's no point in me signing it".
VUPEN and Endgame are companies that employ people to do vulnerability research and develop exploits.

They sell a subscription service that provides access to a catalogue of their exploits to Government groups (law enforcement and intelligence agencies mostly). Depending on the company the list of acceptable clients will vary, some of these firms sell only to the federal agencies of 5-Eyes nations, others will sell more broadly than that, some may only sell to ${Local SIGINT agency}.

Government groups might do any number of things with these exploits but typically law enforcement will use them to execute warrants to help in their surveillance of suspects. Intelligence agencies may use them in the same way (pursuant to their authorizations). Other customers might somehow try and defend friendly networks with the information but this doesn't work.

I'm not sure what in particular tptacek objected to but my guess is characterizing them as part of the Government. The Government isn't keeping any secrets here (except for the ones they're presumably contractually obligated to keep by Endgame / VUPEN / etc) and the vulnerabilities have been discovered before the Government has contracted with the supplier.
The New Seiko SII NE88 Automatic Chronograph Movement: A Change in the Wind?
Even if there was a cost ( I don't there there is for free apps ), it would be completely obliterated by the cost of contracting Mark Monitor as their domain registrar!

Nokia is behind HERE, perhaps they just don't want to support or endorse Google in any form. Or perhaps they're aiming at the Chinese and off-brand markets that by and large don't have access to Google Play.
The new AWS services announced at re:Invent 2014
Heh - if only I was smart enough to be the founder of nest. :-)
I think that ergot poisoning during the same era makes this issue uniquely difficult to debate among strangers.
I don't know about this tool, but git does not make it easy to move files from one repository to another, for instance, and maintain that file's history.

Heck, I'd like to be able to e-mail a single file to someone, and have the file keep its revision history. File-based revision histories, as opposed to repository-based, have a whole host of advantages that come from flexibility.
Informed speculation based on the quotes in the article: it appears that Hachette accepted the "incentivized agency" terms that Simon & Schuster agreed to, which is very similar in structure to the terms Amazon offers for Kindle Direct Publishing.

These terms give publishers a strong incentive to keep book prices between certain thresholds (for KDP, higher margins if the price is set between $2.99 and $9.99), but Hachette has the ability to set prices outside of those thresholds as long as they're willing to accept lower margins.

Hachette gets nominal price control, and Amazon gets their preferred pricing because Hachette will get smacked in the pocketbook if they choose to exercise it.