skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have so much humidity and moss growing everywhere in Vancouver, and we love murals over here. Just saying...

I wonder whether a business would be required to clean up moss graffiti like they're required to remove painted graffiti. After all, moss does grow everywhere naturally in this city. I even have some on my balcony on 20th floor.
"With discussions starting on implementing the spec in [...] Docker"

I guess that depends on who you ask at Docker...

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9538#issuecomment-65...

To be fair, the filing of this "Docker is not compatible with ACL" issue is a bit premature when the spec barely exists yet.
Peruvians will suffer, but the elephants will be alright and that's all that matters.
Keep in mind that there are much older companies in this space. I'm the Director of Technology at Refund Retriever: we've been doing this since 2006.
This could be very useful on a phone, which actually has a GPS.
So "there is no _single_ fold" perhaps makes the most sense?
I've seen this as well! Amazing what happens when people care.
Just go to Youtube and search Binaural beats you will have all you need.
The FB/Yahoo/whoever lawyer would point out that there's no indication of any discrimination. Your only evidence is permissible under the stray remarks doctrine, promulgated by Justice O'Conner in the Supreme Court decision for Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989). You have no evidence of them doing anything illegal.

Stray remarks "standing alone" are not sufficient prima facie evidence of age discrimination. Nor is not hiring someone who is a member of a protected class, without evidence that being in a protected class was a factor.

You can't make up a random conjecture about them violating the law and do discovery. You have to have some evidence first. Show me a court case which says otherwise. If it were true then there should be thousands of court cases, or an EEOC guideline, which discussed it. I quote instead from http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/litigation/briefs/fried.txt :

However, “[s]tray remarks, even if they occurred as plaintiff
claims, are not enough to satisfy the plaintiff’s burden of
proving pretext. Stray remarks alone do not create an issue of
material fact to defeat summary judgment.” Bunk v. General
Services Admin., 408 F. Supp. 2d 153, 158 (W.D.N.Y. 2006). See
also Shapiro v. N.Y. City Dep’t of Educ., 561 F. Supp. 2d 413, 424
(S.D.N.Y. 2008) (“[t]he stray remarks of a decision-maker,
without more, cannot prove a claim of employment
discrimination”). In this case, the single, isolated mention of
Fried’s age, the only such mention in the entire record,
cannot, standing alone, create an issue of material fact
sufficient to defeat summary judgment. This is especially true
given that State, by Fried’s own admission, qualified his
remark by asking “what if you get hit by a bus.”
Accordingly, unless other indicia of discrimination are
properly presented, see [Shapiro, 561 F. Supp. 2d at 424], this
comment alone is insufficient to sustain plaintiff’s burden of
proving pretext as a matter of law.

You have no other 'indicia of discrimination.' You have not demonstrated prima facie evidence.

If what you were saying were true then why did Reid in Reid v. Google have to take the case to the California Supreme Court?

Answer: because what you believe isn't actually true, and you don't understand the relevant case law.
Hmm - so this was posted about 3 hrs ago by the author of the blog and now the post is unavailable and the blog has no other posts.
This would actually explain my experience with Microsoft products! It's funny because it's true?
There is aleks.com, khanacademy.org, and a few others.
> DDD was adopted by the C#/.NET community, which is why you might find many of the resources sparse and relatively irrelevant if you're not on the .NET stack.

A plausible explanation.
So version the magnet link (similar to git) and always serve the latest magnet link via a DNS TXT record.
"rayiner" is a lawyer: it's called "legal argument".
Pastiche, palimpsest, and bricolage are all valid expressive forms which excerpt or rewrite liberally from source material. And this is a closely-related context – a fictional retelling of the same day the slides appeared! – commenting (via fiction) on major social and political issues. There's a strong fair use rationale here, too.
Geoff Hinton: What's wrong with convolutional nets? [video]
Dumb Dumb Dumb. If allowed the economy will shift to compensate, in ways that people can't predict. More automation means more efficient wealth generation, food production, etc. This allows more people to do something other than worry about scrounging around for food to keep themselves alive, or spend more time doing basic things to keep their lives going. It should allow for more people pursuing what interests them, especially if allowed and the government doesn't tell people what should interest them.
It may be a clever hack for a few early adopters

There's a number of companies like Refund Retriever (disclosure: I'm the Director of Technology) that have been doing this since 2006.
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Huge 24 fan here (watched all seasons), I loved the show but that doesn't mean I support torture. I always found the following things ridiculous (and pretty unrealistic):

1) The ridiculous urgency of it, where they're running against the clock to "stop the bomb" or something like that. These kinds of scenarios are highly unlikely in real life, IMHO.

2) That Jack Bauer always got away with all the things he did. AFAIK, he did not spend even a single second inside a US prison (although he did come pretty close a few times).

I always looked at the show as fiction (like a superhero show), not something to be emulated in real life. I really hope most of its viewers looked at it the same way.
Am i the only one to find that React code looks like a collection of the worst ideas ever ?
Firstly, torture doesn't work, but it's not about that.

Violence simply isn't morally legitimate ever, whether it's aggression or as a response to violence (possibly even greater violence).

Whether it's torture, murder, whatever, it doesn't matter. Doing it in the name of war or national security doesn't make a moral difference.

The ticking time bomb thing is just an excuse for this behaviour.
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The meaningless downvoting on a a sufficiently thorough and well-educated comment is clear evidence of the worthlessness of Hacker news. Jesus fucking christ.
I wouldn't even go this far. An amateur can have tons of experience, and even be an expert in their field. It's true, many people use the word "amateur" to mean unskilled, beginner, etc, but in actuality it's simply someone who engages in some activity for something other than payment. ("Amateur" means "lover of" in Old French, apparently.)
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MAP: Watch the world react to release of CIA 'torture report'
DIY nukes aren't actually that hard, especially with gun type bombs. A team of undergraduate engineers wouldn't have much problem.

The only challenge is getting fissionable materials.
My desktop (Mint) stays up a lot longer than my phone usually, and I poke about in the guts when its needed.
"wonder how many people - especially this audience - really care about what's on their desktop."

I do. The duller, the better. Uniform gray is my preferred background (not too bright red on production systems or when logged in as administrator).

Pictures I liked had 'dull' parts in regions where icons tend to show up. An option to reduce (color) contrast would be a nice feature, especially if it were to have some smarts depending on the picture and what icons are on the desktop.
Do customer need to hand over their UPS/FedEx authentication and account details to the audit service..?

Yes. It's not cost effective if you can't scale with automation.

Why don't the shipping companies block such services from their API

UPS and Fedex depend on the guarantees. I believe the negative backlash to block companies enforcing those guarantees would cost more than the money they'd save.
I don't understand your point. Could you explain it, and hopefully in context of my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8722219 which provide some links to research which suggests that "67 percent of graduate students said they had felt hopeless at least once in the last year; 54 percent felt so depressed they had a hard time functioning; and nearly 10 percent said they had considered suicide, a 2004 survey found. By comparison, an estimated 9.5 percent of American adults suffer from depressive disorders in a given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health."

Some of the research was for UC, which has neither a bad program nor is a so-so school.
That's why most countries put regulation on rent increases indexed on the inflation.
Indeed. Somewhat related, but here's Debian's list of embedded code copies:

https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/data/embedd...

Lots of these have colourful/active security histories (esp. poppler, zlib, pcre, libpng...)
Absolutely unjustified.
The real world has a logical consistency

lolnope

(Have a look at, say, the UK benefit system and the failing Universal Credit project that's supposed to work out what to pay people in only one place rather than across a dozen agencies)
Until a few years ago you could still find K&R declarations in the Ruby source code[1]. Wasn't until 1.9 that they switched things over to ANSI style, iirc.

So, believe it or not, you might still find it out there in the wild.

[1] eg: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v1_8_7_374/compar.c
My browser fingerprint is... Nonexistant, because I don't allow arbitrary JS execution without consent.

And my UA string is randomized (unless I override it for a particular site), so that doesn't do anything either.

I wish someone could come up with a plugin that allowed a "safe" subset of JS to run without consent, though.
One HTTPS packet? You won't know. But when you add context you can start to understand what traffic is legit. There's really no silver bullet for security, but with a combination of restrictions and data collection, you can raise the bar on the type of attack that can go undetected.
I've got a few class Bs in the 192.168.x.x range I'd be willing to sell you.
Have you looked at Scratch, from MIT?
You sure it doesn't use IP geolocation to narrow down the SSIDs it should search for? I'm thinking of an R-Tree like structure based on IP to get your search for SSID coordinates most of the way there.

On the other hand, maybe simple database searches for SSIDs are fast enough?
71lbs has received a lot of press, and have some real experience in their leadership. However, they're relatively new, and their reporting is lacking. (Full disclosure: I'm the Director of Technology with Refund Retriever)
Should allow for the creation of a library to support Functional JS immutable instances...
Your rent will double every 7-8 years if it keeps increasing that fast.
The piratebay hosts no content and even the torrent files themselves are all served from other users. That's the technical side whether that has any legal bearing is a different question.
6 Predictions for Cloud Office in 2015: Google for Work vs. Office 365
Not the author, I found it thru Patrick Durusau's blog: http://tm.durusau.net/
Well I just finished reading a book:

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

...which I found my self saying "yes" to out loud while reading it. It's premise is that people can learn better when there is an aspect they can interact with, and computers can provide simulated environments in which to explore concepts. Some of the examples given are younger kids exploring ideas in differential geometry through the use of turtle graphics. It is hard to get across in a small snippet of text, but I kept thinking that was how I wanted to be taught back in school. You compare how kids are self motivated to learn complex tasks like walking, talking, etc. but lose a lot of motivation when required to memorize dull facts about the interior angles of triangle.

There's not a lot of concrete actionable items here, other than getting that book, and maybe downloading a Logo interpreter to play with.

I've just started to work with teaching my own kids programming, so I don't have a lot of advice at this point, but I hope the book is as inspirational to you, as it was to me.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=mindstorms:+children+co...
This article needs more words. A series of graphs alone that seem to contradict the title doesn't convey useful information.
Came here to say this. When i was playing with space cartography like this, back in the late '90s, Hipparcos had just come out, and i was the first person in my little coterie to try working with it. I'd just gone to university, where i had 10 Mb/s ethernet in the computer room, whereas most other people were on dialup, and the multi-megabyte file seemed impossibly vast!

I can't remember the details of what i did with the data. I know i spent ages trying to merge it with the Gliese data to get better names; the Hipparcos dataset just has Hipparcos catalogue numbers, whereas Gliese has cross-references to other catalogues, and traditional names, which makes for much more inviting navigation ("Ah, i can plot a route from Barnard's Star to BD-44826 via Cygnus IV" rather than "HIP-18237 to HIP-8901823 to HIP-77123"). The problem is, though, that Gliese predates Hipparcos, so it doesn't have Hipparcos numbers, and Hipparcos doesn't have cross-references to Gliese. I ended up trying to overlay the proper-motion-corrected positions of the stars in the two datasets and match them up, which was not particularly accurate.

I also wrote some code to generate VRML (remember that?) models of stars and links between them; my puny machine couldn't really render them fast enough for that to be much fun, though.

One of the basic operations in this kind of mapmaking is deciding where to draw the links between the stars; the nodes in the graph are what fall out of the data, but how you draw the links is up to you. The OP used a distance cutoff, which is standard but leads to somehow unsatisfying networks. I hit on the idea of using a Delaunay triangulation (i doubt i'm the first to do this - in fact i think there's an appendix to 'The Mote in God's Eye' which essentially specifies it), which gives much 'nicer' networks, without birds' nests of overlapping links in dense regions of space. After implementing some horrifically inefficient homebrew algorithm for it, i switched to computing it using qhull:

http://www.qhull.org/

I had all this fun in the context of a wargaming mailing list (FTGZG-L, later GZG-L), and had many long and interesting conversations about the subject there. The lists's resident cartographer-in-chief was Nyrath the Nearly Wise, whose site remains the standard reference on the subject:

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/starmaps/

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/starmaps/mapindex.php

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/starmaps/catalogues.ph...

Good times.
My Andorid, (not an especially powerful one) feels like old versions of Windows. Leave it one for a few days and it gets sluggish, and needs a reboot. And now its almost 2 years old, all the new updates (Google maps for example) are getting really slow most of the time - unless I have just rebooted. Don't get that on my Linux desktops.
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I don't think it's intended as the main mean of consumption, just as yet another measure to make sure it's hard to destroy the information.
I feel like I saw this on stumbleupon like 10 years ago
Refund Retriever, the company I work for, has been doing this since 2006. I haven't seen the situation you describe, but that's not to say it doesn't happen; they don't always play by their own rules.
snappy's additive, you can keep using Ubuntu traditionally if you want, just how some people continue to use traditional Ubuntu Server over say, the Ubuntu Cloud images.
Not had this problem as I always get my phones unlocked from the vendor, but I believe the pitch was more along that line rather than the persistent joy of waiting months after an update lands only to find out Verizon isn't going to patch their version of the mobile operating system and push the update.
The intelligent people who support the government actions aren't afraid of specific terrorist acts. They're afraid of what a failure to stop terrorist movements could lead to. I imagine there were a lot of people sitting in the cafes of Rome who said: "I can't believe you think those germanic barbarians could possibly ever pose a threat to us!"

And of course, it doesn't help that the folks who are captured are mostly objectively bad people. There are some people who can muster a lot of moral outrage for the rights of bad people, and there are ones who can't. This isn't a new phenomenon.
I may be stupid but I don't understand the graphs. What are the axes?
'Destover' Malware Now Digitally Signed by Sony Certificates
Not sure what you mean by needing a dummy value if your function only returns success/failure. That's what a boring old error return is for.

func foo() error
How is it proprietary exactly?

Android Studio is open source:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/adt/idea/

There is certainly a commercial version which is not, but you don't have to use that and Google isn't shipping that version at last check.
http://chriskresser.com/the-diet-heart-myth-statins-dont-sav...

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/09/0...

http://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-12-201...
Can AI save us from AI?
Tech is always implicated in stories about Bay Area housing and rents, and it does play a role, but too many people forget that the Bay Area has a diverse population and economy. There's a sizable foreign population, and professionals working in industries like finance, law and medicine often make far more than their code-writing peers. For instance, an associate attorney or investment banker with a few years of experience can easily pull in more than $200,000/year.

This said, there are also a lot of young people in tech who earn good money but spend most of it (on rent, eating out, traveling, etc.) believing that the current environment will last forever. If they knew that this wasn't the case, they'd probably be less willing to spend a huge chunk of their take home pay on rent.
Release of Skeleton 2 (CSS Framework)
Well if I'm going by the youtube binaural beats I might as well buy crystals and magnetic bands for my wrists.

Is there a .edu with a binaural beats mp3?
It's pulling teeth to get 3rd party library developers to make anything up to the standard of the BCL. A lot of times it feels like someone just copied a Java library into C# and did a bunch of global text replaces until the compiler stopped complaining. The BCL is very extensive, but if it's not already in the BCL, .NET is a pain.
Could a way around the centralisation be to encode the magnet hash database (like btdigg) as metadata in the distributed hash table? Then we just need a seed to get at this somehow, which could be spread around forums. Offload searching of the database onto clients.

Talking in vague terms because I'm stretching beyond my knowledge here.

btdigg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTDigg
You can pay $3000 for rent on $100k salary, it's not ideal but it won't automatically put you in extreme hardship either, you just have to be frugal somewhere else. Granted $100k is still a high salary, but there are a lot of people making that in SF. Still not enough to fill up the town probably, but then you have rent controlled apartments diminishing the supply, and also poorer people packing 2,3,4,5 salaries into 1,2,3 bedrooms. With lack of new construction and a lot of good jobs it's easy to see how the situation has gotten to the current point.

That's not to say people are living well there—you take a significant lifestyle hit to live in SF compared to the mid-tier American cities even with a 50% pay raise, but it's seen as a desirable place to be so prices just keep getting jacked up.
Let me ask you this: What if this report came out and said the exact opposite? What would your reaction be if the interrogation techniques were in no way overly brutal, if everything was done to the books, and the information collected saved millions of lives.

I'm going to take a guess and say you'd be very skeptical of the contents. Maybe you'd go so far as to say everything about the document was a lie perpetrated by the Republican party and other supporters of "advanced interrogation techniques".

This is just a prime example of confirmation bias [0]. If a report comes out saying torture has worked, you dismiss it. If a report comes out saying the opposite, you hail it as the only evidence that even matters (obviously I'm exaggerating a bit to make my point, but I'm sure you get the idea).

A very strongly-sided report just became declassified with little insight into any biases that its writers may have. I highly doubt anyone in the government lacks the integrity to put out a completely fake report of this caliber, but everyone should be looking at this with at least a little cynicism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Second, they screw up maybe 1 out of a 1000 packages in my experience.

I have years of data at my disposal. It's more like 2-5 packages out of 100. :-)
On Android devices, this used to be available through Google Maps as a Live Wallpaper:

http://www.cnet.com/news/make-google-maps-your-live-android-...

Unfortunately, it was removed in a later update.
I'm using this app Kuvva and it works pretty well. What is the difference from yours? Your app does look much better though.
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A relevant recent article, arguing basically that, from 3AM magazine: Saying no to Jack Bauer mainstreaming torture [1].

Google cache as 3AM magazine seems to have some troubles at the moment[2]

[1] http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/saying-no-to-jack-bauer-mains...

[2] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.3a...
> treating regex like it's normal code despite the fact that regex could match a keyword easily

I'm confused by this statement. So you could match a Perl keyword with that regexp? What about it?

> It's mixing looping logic with exception logic

It depends on the context, but that's five lines of readable code. Exposure to 20th-century codebases may have lowered my standards, but I don't find it particularly shocking, especially for something that looks like a quick text file processing script. What do you suggest that makes for better code?
I had an opportunity to take a job in SF directly out of college. I opted to take a job in DC instead, considering the cost of living I'd be making considerably more in DC.

I did have friends that moved to SF and SV to take jobs in tech. A few that worked for twitter lived together in a house in the valley where they each paid around $1.5k each. They then car-pooled into SF (which would take hours on some days).

Others I know are completely broke. They make ~$90k a year and live with several others in very dilapidated apartments.

I will never, ever, understand the draw to living in SF. I've been their and yes it's a lovely city but the cost just makes absolute zero sense. On top of that the pay is really not that much better. I've done extensive research (I've been planning to write up a post about it but just haven't had the time) about wages in the Valley vs. SF vs. other large cities and you're looking at maybe a 10-15% bump, which will in no way cover the difference in the cost of living.
The OP didn't say anything about how much should be spent; they only said how much. One implication is that we're spending it wrong.