skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read. I've had my share of office politics in my career so far and it still baffles me how often it happens that people who add little or no value to the company become so entrenched and powerful. It's like the upper management and/or owners are blind to what happens within the company, despite the clues and complaints from the staff.

Meanwhile, best people leave the company.
Yes, but this open-ness is irrelevant to your point - "developers still want to know whats going on behind the curtain"
10% of Makemove to our users
We want to show our users that we appreciate them for real. Not by words, but by actions. That is also why we will give away 10% of Makemove to our users.

We want to do something new here at Makemove. We want to challenge the corporate world and the way to build businesses!

We believe in the “we” instead of the “I”. In the app world, and especially in social apps the users are the most important but they are often left out from the companies.

Read more about the experiment here: http://www.makemoveapp.com/

We would love feedback and ideas on how this would be done
I think his point is: who released it to the public?
independent of the facts, shall we not start doxing individuals here? this isn't 4chan.
"Zimmer, the prolific film composer and longtime Nolan collaborator probably most famous for devising the “BRAAAM” brass hits in Inception"

Really Slate?
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Employers being reluctant to fire an employee because the employee is a member of a minority is pretty much a myth - particularly in jurisdictions such as the US where employees generally do not have much by way of job security. At best it will just make the employer double-check to make sure they have dotted the Is and crossed the Ts before pulling the trigger.

Also, forgive me, I don't know a universally inoffensive way to broach the subject, but people expressing a fear that minorities are receiving unjust benefits are often racist?

See what I did there?
Bear in mind that the ESP8266 is nowhere near as polished or easy to get going with as the Spark Core. The toolchain to build firmware on your own PC and load it on is much more experimental and buggy for ESP8266, and because it doesn't have an equivalent of their cloud IDE, that's the only way you can get your code running on it.
>I've used all three XML serializers in the .NET framework and they're all cringeworthy.

XmlSerializer, DataContractSerializer, and what is the third?
I agree and was about to point out the same thing though; XML serializers in .NET are a joke but because they exist in the core libraries there is not really a compelling open source alternative.

That being said, it seems like the Asp.Net Web API is actually using Json.Net instead of the built-in serializer.
I think people didn't trust MS because of Android patent extortion fees (which they still do BTW) and Mono was covered only partially by patent promise. I still don't know if every part of Mono is "patent promise" covered (by MS).

I don't believe MS would sue some random ISV but let's assume Google today forks Mono - will this be safe for them to use ?
So "Armageddon" was right. A comet looks much more interesting than the Moon or Mars. No boring dunes and flat sands, really rocky.
Nicely done ;-)

However, not so easy to grok without knowing how to lift methods to functions in Scala and then applying the swiss army method of functionN types, `tupled`, to the result.

The F# equivalent one understands without needing to know special features of the language, it's pretty clear what's happening.
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TL;DR: 'I was surprised to learn how online advertising works, my manager in a big corp made me sad.'
Why do you think peer accountability will work? This is a genuine question of mine; please do not infer ulterior intention.
I have noticed a pattern of negative coverage of China by the New York Times from "hacking from China" (often indirectly implicating the government), to currency manipulation, to goods dumping. I'm concerned that I may be consuming a warped perspective. It seems like the New York Times is creating a case against China. Is it merited?

It's important to make a strong effort to substantiate negative claims. So, it is in that spirit that I ask: is the criticism raised in this article fair? Does China have an anomalous record on freedom of the press by comparison to other nations of similar development (BRIC, APEC, etc)?
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+1 for stb_image

its a very good cross platform bit of code. even though it has some annoying compiler warnings, i've managed to get this to work just fine on Windows, Mac, Linux (ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL at least...), Android (even the obscure mips configs), iOS, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 Store and other platforms that must remain nameless.
Your F# example can be more concise:

type Shape =
| Circle of float
| Square of float

let area = function
| Circle r -> Math.PI * r * r
| Square sd -> sd * sd

let perimeter = function
| Circle r -> 2.0 * Math.PI * r
| Square sd -> sd * 4.0
I had more esteem for Amazon, after this I definitely view Amazon in a different light. I am glad the only thing I buy from Amazon is books. In a few years when I have more time & money, I'll keep this in mind and maybe go directly to the publishers. I don't forget this sort of thing. Some time ago there was an article titled 'Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home'. Not that I was too fond of the Motorola brand before, but since then if I know a someone is buying a smartphone, I advice then not to buy Motorola.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5973282
> Munira is a liar/cheater, and still employed at Amazon.

That's not the best part. The best part is that somebody who directly reported to Jeff Bezos essentially told the team to go ahead and keep lying to the customer in order to "maximize free cash flow for the device". Which isn't something you can spin into yet another "rogue employee" case in which "we'll review our policies".
> Does China have an anomalous record on freedom of the press by comparison to other nations of similar development (BRIC, APEC, etc)

Is that the right point of reference? Maybe a more reasonable point of reference would be "the top 10 nations by GDP." In that case, you'd be comparing it to Japan, United States, England, France, etc. I suspect their record on freedom of the press is significantly worse, however I think I also consume biased information.
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I like it. But how would you do it?
Since the document is signed by "Kivin Varghese" and it was posted by user "kvargs", it might be a hint the leaker is actually the author.
Ask HN: Would you take a job out of college that you may not want?
As a soon to be (non-tech) grad, I have one offer on the table from a big tech firm that expires soon. My background is working in tech in various forms and I love the tech industry.

However, the position doesn't excite me and, although I've worked at the company before, the position is an a field that is related to the core business, but not really related to the tech side of things & also not in the corporate location. It's a good resume builder, but I'm pretty sure that the work would bore me.

Given this limited information, would you take it?

A fair amount of people (who are in the industry) have told me to take it and I can always renege later, however, the thought of that doesn't necessarily thrill me (ethically speaking). Thoughts on that?

I have no other interviews/offers on the table currently, and although I have a strong background - I also have H1B visa considerations, which impact my decision. Obviously, HN won't be the end all in terms of my choice, but I'd love to get any additional input!
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After staring at the image a lot more, I realised I'm completely wrong. The leg reveals which way the lighting is coming from - above, slightly to the left, and probably slanting slightly into the camera. So my original interpretation of the orientation cannot be correct.

The real question is whether the picture should be rotated 90+ degrees clockwise.
Does finding a public linkedin profile count as doxing? I don't know much about the topic, but I was under the impression that there was more to it than that. it was a black-hat hacker thing, that it involved getting past some kind of access control.
To get an idea of the scale of the thing, here is a picture of the comet relative to the size of London :

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/Comet_over_L...

I had no idea the thing was so small. To get something to intercept an object that size traveling at 1000's mph is an amazing feat!
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With Rx you can do similar things but the semantics are different. When you use an Rx Stream you will get the data pushed from a different thread. With Go-like channels you pull the data from the other thread (or the channel).
Hey there, I'm the author of quotable (unfortunately not the one responsible for the awesome design), if anyone has any feedback it'd be much appreciated!
Do you have any sources to back up the claim that it's a myth? I'm genuinely curious because my personal experience in the industry for 10 years says otherwise. But that's just anecdotal, and I've never come across a study on it.
I think he was talking about actual landings. Hayabusa/its lander MINERVA failed to land
The pictures taken by Rosetta are BW. From [0]:
"Some light contrast enhancements have been made to emphasise certain features and to bring out features in the shadowed areas. In reality, the comet is extremely dark -– blacker than coal. The images, taken in black-and-white, are grey-scaled according to the relative brightness of the features observed, which depends on local illumination conditions, surface characteristics and composition of the given area. Some slight vignetting can also be seen in the corners of some images." So possibly Philae has a similar system.
[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/1573996637...
Hi adn. Tell me about Bane! Why does he wear the mask.
What is the attack you're envisaging?

Presumably they detect unauthorized case-intrusion and immediately delete the keys. This isn't foolproof, but it's probably good enough to stop anyone except the people that are going to get the data no matter what you do.
From Reddit[1]:

"Got fresh news from the team, they are broadcasting live right now on french TV ! Philae landed, and bounced slowly for (1-2-? hours), and travelled 1km away the targetted site. Yes 1000m. Then know this because of the datas from the radar. It's now stopped slanted, some cams are shooting the sky, other the ground, and other nearby rocks, as seen on the first photo. It's inside some kind of cave/hole, not much sun for the solar panels.

EDIT1: It landed on the core of the comet, it sees the light from the sun for about 1 to 2 hours per day. In the next days/week the angle of the comet will change/sun, and it very likely the solar panel will get more sunlight so more power for the probe.

EDIT2 : Many labs are performing right now and performed the whole night. For now they put the drilling on hold since they don't know if it's tied to the ground or not. Drilling op was also power hungry so it's kinda a good thing it's on hold since there's not much sun available for the panels. Battery life been re-estimated to 50-55hours due to the lack of sunlight. This time includes the 7 hours of descent.They are constantly adjusting missions goals, depending on conditions, power available, etc,

EDIT3 : The probe has been working to gather scientifict datas the whole time, including during the bounces. There's already a large amount of datas available, whatever happens next.

EDIT4 : It's resting on "hard" ground, with a layer of dust about 30cm, and that's good news because it allows measurements to proceed as planned. As in, it's not burried into soft soil.

EDIT5 : Solar panels are deployed, radio link is up and running, but the fact the probe is slanted/in a hole/random ground limits the time it can communicate with the orbiter, but that's not jeopardizing the mission. There's already a lot of datas transmitted successfully to the orbiter. Contact between the orbiter and the probe can be approximately done twice per day.

EDIT6 : The first place it touched the comet was exaclty where it was planned, flat and cosy, too bad it didn't harpoon there.

EDIT7 : Next contact will be near 19:30GMT, until 23:45GMT approx. This night they made contact with the probe (from the orbiter) at about 4:00GMT, and at 5:30GMT they had safely recovered all the datas from the first batch of tests."

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2m63hd/first_civa_ima...
Then what you're saying is that this is hardly news, and hardly of note in any sense other than they're going to give the community .. what exactly?
Err wow. I think you just killed off my use of VLC media player.

This fixes two major annoyances I've had with VLC in that it never handled displaying the Genre in the playlist and there was some minor problems in the meta files in my MP3s that meant I could never have all my files displayed as it crashed when loading in the files.

It found all my MP3s both without me having to tell it where they were and loaded them in quickly.

Awesome work!
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Snowden is to thank? What the actual fuck? No, fucked up governments are to thank /no filter
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Rather than cracking the problem of practical fully homomorphic encryption, I think they're probably cracked the problem of deleting the keys when the physical security of the cabinet is compromised.
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Is the World Wide Web useless? If the answer to that question is "No" then its contradictory (albeit inadvertent) to presume a Semantic World Wide Web is useless.

Granted, the messaging behind the Semantic Web meme is simply as bad as it gets, especially for something so important.

The World Wide Web was a Semantic Web from inception. The Semantic Web meme should really have been presented as a new formalized insight into what already existed, since Web inception.

Links:

[1] http://bit.ly/evidence-that-the-world-wide-web-was-based-on-...

[2] http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/03/world-wide-web-25-years-... .
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Nope just the reality of the world we live in, some people are just happy to be selfish assholes.
Philae, the "happy lander"
Yes, but it's not widely commercial yet. Huge startup opportunities! We are thinking about it. If wanna get in touch find my contact via http://akuz.me (my personal website)
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Looks like Kivin was surprised when HR told his manager that he requested to be transferred. His manager then used this information against him, by putting him into a 'performance improvement program' which blocks transfers to any other group for some period of time.

Let me let Kivin and any one else working for a company in on a little secret. HR is not your friend. HR is not there to protect you and your career. HR is there to protect the company AGAINST you.

To the extent that your goals and the company's do not conflict, HR can be helpful. (Need some help with your health insurance or your 401k? HR is awesome!)

But if you're going to HR about an issue that could be damaging to the company, HR will gladly listen to you sharing confidential information while quietly working with the leadership to build a case against you or protect themselves. If you're caught in a situation that could potentially lead to a legal dispute with the company (serious conflict with mgmt as seen here, discrimination, etc), make sure you document EVERYTHING, put as much in writing/email as possible and tread carefully before sharing too much info with HR. They won't be in your corner when shit hits the fan.
Perhaps file a bug report on that Github repo?
How would you convince me to put yet another app on my phone, as opposed to just jotting this down in Evernote[1]? What advantage does your app have over Quotebook[2]? Good looking app!

[1] http://evernote.com
[2] http://quotebookapp.com/
I'm pretty sure if we had found Death Crystals on the moon we would have figured out a way to synthesize and weaponize them on earth.
It's free pdf hosting.
What a fascinating insight into the guts of a MegaCorp. Their scale (Discover alone paying $13MM/yr for ads), politics and inner workings. Very well written, too.

The most interesting aspect to me, apart from the main plot, was how far detached from reality everyone is operating.

Someone discovers a fatal flaw (5 second latency) in a multi-million dollar ad campaign.

You'd think this is a no-brainer; file a bug with the engineering team and have this fixed, right?

Instead, at Amazon, it eventually escalates into someone desperately "asking for the contact information for the person that manages latency for amazon.com". That alone is the stuff that comedy TV shows are made of.

Stories like these make me feel real pity for the little engineers all the way down the food chain. The ones who had to implement and test this adserver. The ones who likely weren't happy at all with 5 second latencies either.

I wonder if their voices were squelched by management in the same way, or if there's just an established culture of resignation and nobody cares anymore.
1) This makes sense as an answer, I don't understand why people wouldn't read the contract for something that they rely on for their livelihood though.

2) Something like that should be a dealbreaker. No matter how much you want the job, it's effectively saying that you can never leave.

3) In the case of the letter here, he tries to negotiate it after he was fired. If he knew it was unenforceable, then he could have quite simply said so.

4) On their part this is a stupid assumption. You should always assume that a company is willing to back up their threats. Especially a company the size of Amazon.

This isn't to attack your answer, just to put my views on those points.
The background image on your site is just excellent. I had a bit of fun
trying to figure out where it was taken. I noticed the UK style cab
first, then the "Superdry" company name with "*gent Street", and then
finally the pub, "Leicester Arms" (Note to self: next time, try notice
the pub first :-).

I gave the goog: "Superdry on Agent st., Leicester, UK" and it gave me:

Did you mean: Superdry on Regent st., Leicester, UK

Smells like victory! Anyhow, on to more important things...

Though I'm sure you want to clearly display your green "q" icon, on
initial page load it's on a line all by itself on the bottom. At first,
in this world of single-page sites, it's not immediately obvious there's
worthwhile text (marketing copy) below-the-fold. I would change two
things:

1.) Put the "q" icon to the left of the "Great Friends Say Great Things"
text, so both the text and the icon are visible.

2.) Make the "q" icon a clickable link to your itunes page.

The above are just ideas, hopefully someone with more experience on
site/conversion design could validate whether they're good ideas.
Someday in the near future, a noob will see my classic Nexus 7 tablet and exclaim "That's the cutest little phone I've ever seen, where can I get a phone that small?"
Now it says "2014: Moved the code to GitHub"
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That's some convoluted answer, to which I'd like to reply just with one of Patanjali's Sutra:

Disease, inertia, doubt, lack of enthusiasm, laziness, sensuality, mind-wandering, missing the point, instability- these distractions of the mind are the obstacles

Those are the obstacles to Yoga. In some ways we can say, then, in a very simple way, that Yoga is not only stopping the mind-wandering, but nonetheless, ceasing the mind-wandering is Yoga.
That stat is almost always expressed annually.

So the average employment length is a year, but more realistically the "old" first shift people work there about four years and the kids and seasonal work there about ten or so weeks at most, its not a smooth bell curve.
Munira is a liar/cheater, and still employed at Amazon.

I'm still a little disturbed as to why I'm seeing her dragged through the mud on a top link on HN. We aren't a gossip site, so why is this "confidential" letter being shared amongst the community at this time? What context am I missing?
The biggest win in moving to 64-bit on ARM is the new 64-but instruction set (AARCH64) is modern and has improved performance over the previous instruction set. There are often 30-50% ir higher performance improvements. You do need the hardware though, and there's still very little 64-but cpu's out there for Android.
I wish I could sign up for this. I still use dial up. Is that going to be a problem?
Not directed at you, but in general:

It'd be really nice if some hacker would put together a comprehensive map/list of non-compete status per state (or if they have) since there are a few states outside of California too. Wikipedia seems to do OK in this regard, but it seems like there should be a lot more info out there.
That's insane, I had no idea there was any improvement, let alone that much! I just casually assumed the number would be growing along with our total global population, but to know it's actually decreasing as population increases? Wow.
Just because it doesn't look like what you'd expect a game to look like, doesn't mean it's bad. It has clearly defined shapes, a consistent design, and flat colors (as opposed to ugly textures IMO). I think it looks wonderful. Easy on the eyes and fits in with the theme of a game that uses a terminal as it's main interface.
There are many improvements. To name one, arm 32bit has only 16 32-bit registers, while 64bit has 32 64-bit registers. That means instead of putting variables on stack, now you can put them in registers.
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That is not really true anymore. While Steam had a time when there were only good games, now there is quite a lot of crap on Steam.
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You're allowed to hold this opinion, where did I suggest you're not allowed it?
I think a lot of mobile developers "get it", it's just a very challenging problem to solve.
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Whats wrong with building toys for rich people? Rich people need to play too.
adn, it would be best to delete your other 'Show HN' dupe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601281
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That as well, but the evidence of that is much more anecdotal, and open to interpretation.
This definitely isn't doxing.

Doxing is when you find very personal information, such as place of residence. In can involve information about the workspace, Linked-in profile or so forth - but only in the case that the victim is operating under a pseudonym and have not disclosed their true identity themselves.
What if folks developed better Game Center apps?
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I just want to make sure I have this right.

The government hires these guys and then keeps the vulnerabilities in our software and our businesses' software secret?

They then use this to launch attacks and record our communications and actions?

I, of course, would have an opinion on this, I just want to make sure I've got this correct.

Edit: punctuation.