skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite right.
"Those with review privileges or direct push access are required to file a Mozilla "committer agreement". "

(FWIW: From a legal standpoint, this doesn't make any sense. Either all-in or all-out makes sense. There is no legal distinction to be drawn that the above captures, AFAIK)
If folks are looking for an alternative DNS host, there is Google Cloud DNS, which I have been using for a while via Google Domains and it's pretty awesome. Conceptually similar to Route53. Can use Google Cloud DNS without using other Google Cloud Platform services. https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs
I think that style of progressive writing was designed primarily for print journalism. It makes it easier to chop the story to size and fit in the space available during layout.

It is a very authoritarian cognitive style, however.
Knowing that there will be evidence to follow up on after a crime is committed is often enough to deter the crime from being committed.
Oh for goodness sake. The point was, as an employer or potential partner, you want someone who will be effective in that role. Whilst being distracted would be a negative, regardless of the reason for that distraction. Not a moral argument; a statistical one as stated - avoid anyone with any chance of distraction is a valid game-theory strategy.
It's insane to discredit a valid point for being 'nothing but a feel'. You don't know if it's nothing or not. OP doesn't claim to prove anything and anyone reading can see that.
No it's not. Arrests can happen for only an accusation, or even less in some cases.
Uber got into trouble with RBI by charging a credit card directly. They then resorted to using a third party service called Paytm.
My wife used Uber for the first time during a recent trip to Tampa and couldn't rave about it more.

Comparatively, here in Vancouver, we are massively underserved by the taxi monopoly to the point that even when I have free taxi chit from work, I still end up taking transit. But talking about how terrible taxi companies are isn't really news.
Oh yeah, of course there are big engines that also do that (with much more platform support), I was just using my own experience as an example to show that you don't even need a huge team supporting it. I remember back in the day working on a PC/Wii/X360/PS3 engine, that was fun but definitely a lot more effort.

I develop with GCC rather than VS, but I have much the same setup with a single makefile that can build for different targets instantly, e.g.

> make (for PC)
> make android (builds and deploys to a connected android device)
It's perhaps more precise to say that some biologists disagree (as is perhaps inevitable). Alon's book is was the required textbook for the Systems Bioengineering (III) class at Johns Hopkins as of 5 years ago (which is when I took it). It's definitely well within the mainstream of the field.
That's not really in the middle. The only difference between "accused" and "arrested" is that the accuser told the police.
Interesting way to look at it ... kinda like how one could conflate the invention of SMTP & the problem of spam email?

If one judges new things through the lens of mainstream media and not by actually seeking to understand the new thing then of course it'll seem like a "never-ending hype-machine". Seems to me you might actually be gaining an understanding of how the media works and confusing that with an understanding with the topic they're talking about.
I'm 46 and have read it 3 times over the past 25 years. Definitely a book that changed my life!
Good point, I will have to check that out
I was also struck in the same manner by the green spaces. They seem like a plus, but the tax base resulting from such a low density population does lend itself well to running city services.
Interested in knowing how this changed your life. I have a two year old that loves this story, but can't think of a way it has changed my life.
PHP requires no setup is a myth. How many windows users can run php out of the box? None. You have to have a webserver + something like mod_php setup to get it running. How many novice programmers know how to configure a vhost with mod_php? It happens many hosting providers have this which is convenient but heroku and others have improved ease of deploy for other languages. But for local learning, PHP is no more convenient than any modern dynamic language (python, ruby, or even node.js).
Very nice Michael !

As a longtime Ansible user who's just starting out dockerizing our apps, I find that there's significant refactoring needed when trying to reuse existing playbooks & roles to provision Docker containers.

In the current model we have a single playbook driven by an EC2 dynamic inventory, and each server definition under "roles/" (with some reuse between them, obviously). All in single repo.

With Docker it seems like this layout needs to be turned completely on its head, because a Dockerfile (unlike an Ansible playbook) can only define a single container type, and to make things even harder there can only be one per directory (something similar to "make -f" would have been useful)

So, the logical directory layout in this situation is probably one directory + Dockerfile per container, with a corresponding Ansible playbook + role in each. That's awful for code reuse and quite a bit of refactoring though.

Has anyone managed to do it more elegantly ?
I would urge you to re-think your writing. "The rape wouldn't have even been an issue" indicates that you haven't thought very deeply about rape; if this woman was raped, it is certainly still an issue whether Uber can legally cover its ass or not.

It is unfortunate how popular your opinion is among young men: rape really isn't an issue; lots of "angry ex-girlfriends" and "intoxication" skewing those reports (factually incorrect, my friend). Being raped really sucks and is a continuing issue for those who experience it and those around them.
What was your epiphany?
Show HN: JOBBOX.io – Refer a friend, get rewarded
Correct -- it is a completely untethered, mobile VR headset and for now has no positional tracking at all. The entire motivation for GearVR existing and Carmack putting all his time into it is to accelerate the arrival of a standalone VR headset based on Android. Carmack seems to have transformed into a computer vision person the last few months in order to implement inside-out markerless tracking for future iterations. So view this as a parallel development track to the Oculus Rift, where the rift is focused on the best experience possible and the GearVR is focused on being an all-in-one device.
Ask HN: “Didn't know I needed this. Now I can't work without it”
Hey HN.
Most people seem to "get" what our app does only after they use it at least once.

One of the most common feedbacks is "I didn't know i needed this. Now i can't work without it."

How could we communicate it better? http://snappy-app.com/
You can buy Samsung's virtual reality headset right now for $200
>Apparently, TechCrunch was listening

...to Lyft's PR team.

Not that that invalidates the story - but they're clearly making full use of it this week.
Yes, but with horizontal gene transfer.
The main issue is a lack of money/long-term survivability for most studios, which leads them to cut many corners in order to release the game before running out of cash. This means that code is written to ship the game out of the door, rather than for the future, so there often isn't time for proper engineering. Then if that game does OK they get to work on the next one, throw away all the hacks they did last time, and start again...

It also doesn't help that due to the structure of the industry (e.g. work hours, low pay etc.) they have trouble retaining developers and instead replace them with fresh grads. A huge percentage of people I know left the industry before they hit 30 (myself included). This leads to a lack of experienced engineers.
That's a completely false misrepresentation of what the article is talking about. To boil it all down to "men can't find willing partners if 'she' isn't subordinate to them" is quite frankly, very dishonest.

I'm disappointed if you didn't actually read the article before commenting on it the way you did. But I would be quite a bit less appalled at that option, than the one of you having actually read the article, and still interpreted the way it seems you did from your post.
See the committer agreement section 4, which covers this case: https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/commit-acces...

All code committed to the Rust repository goes through someone who has signed a CLA, including this section.

Rust uses the same policies here as Firefox.
What were the thoughts?
The whole article is based on an inefficient offer. The second offer is wrong by definition. The article should have been about
one game VS several games + infrastructure if needed
not
one game VS infrastructure + several games.
Games are not regular startups - they don't solve your everyday problems. Games are rather about experience. A small game that requires "not that big" investments might be much better experience-wise than a game which has "very much" money pumped in it.
But asexual reproduction can also be known as cloning! Just a bad/unfortunate analogy.
Detroit has the same sprawl with no public transit issue as Phoenix, and unlike LA, Dallas, Miami, etcetera, isn't doing anything to fix it. If it's about water and natural resources, along with an urban environment and car-free lifestyle, Chicago is really the only place to be.
He gave away a ton of money, and so did (and does) his wife.

He just didn't make a big deal about it.
I was just talking about the potential reinvigoration of Detroit this morning, because of this NYT article from yesterday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/arts/galapagos-art-space-w...

This is a really unique, innovative venue for the arts that has been operating in Brooklyn for almost 20 years. A long time for a venue to exist in NY, and a testament to their founder.

They are headed to Detroit because of how high rent has become. If Galapagos can recreate what they had done in NY, it's a real win for the area that they are moving into.
Let me just remind everyone here that in India, it's easy to falsify most documents, so relying on some sort of governmental agency for background is itself negligence. I would expect better from Uber knowing how ruthless they are and I'm disappointed. That said, the Indian government, which is a monument to human incompetence and corruption can't shouldn't really get away with this ham-fisted reaction.
A fairly large number of projects decide to change their license later in life, but this is mostly if they start off with more "restrictive" (for lack of a better term, i know how Free software advocates feel about this) licenses, like GPLv3 or whatever, or because they discover the license doesn't work well for what they wanted.

For example, Eigen, a very widely used math library, switched licenses because they were mistaken about the implications of LGPL, and as it started getting more widely used, it started affecting usage.

Other projects grow runtime libraries, and discover they don't want licenses that require attribution for those, because then everyone who makes a binary has to ship notices, etc.

There are even simpler cases.

For example, llgo, the Go language frontend for LLVM, is being contributed to the LLVM project. This requires a license change to the same license as LLVM. Because there were no contributor agreements, every contributor had to be tracked down and asked. A bunch are either dead or not around anymore, and now those contributions have to be rewritten or excised. This has slowed them down a few months so far (at least from my view, pcc can surely correct me if it hasn't been that long)

In terms of how often this happens, i've personally helped about 50 medium-high profile open source projects change licenses, and it's not even my "real job".
It's fairly common that as a project goes from nothing to having a lot of users, they end up having to change something about their licensing.

It's also a massive pain when there are no CLA's.
Yes, binary fission more specifically
Inspired to do: Connected
http://www.amazon.com/Connected-Surprising-Networks-Friends-...

I was utterly amazed by the concept of Social Network Analysis, how emotion travels through a network, how the 6 degrees thing works. Did you know someone you have never met can affect your weight? I was so amazed I started a company building a CRM from the ground up using graph theory. We launch in Q1 2015.

Inspired to be: The seven habits of highly effective people. A great book, which many read and sight. Forcing myself to write about my values and behaviours means you have to live up to them :)
I read it once and now I am reading it again with my girlfriend actually doing all the exercises. You can read it in a week but to really take it all in you need to work on it over a lifetime. http://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effect...
If I understand correctly, Docker's performance on OS X is a function of running in a Linux virtual machine, because Docker requires Linux. Is there something about Docker that you feel like inhibits performance beyond the VM itself?
Ditaa is quite nice http://ditaa.sourceforge.net

It uses ASCII-art boxes, lines, etc. as input (which you can draw using Emacs's artist-mode, for example)
Well, I can't read it at all on my android phone, because whatever javascript they use, prevents me from scrolling down. While the page was loading, scrolling worked, but as soon as everything loaded up, it jumped back to the top and stuck there.
I hate today's web, where people are apparently unable to serve a plain text article without javascript.
...Congratulations on helping fund one of the most evil regimes on the planet?

(I look forward to your post on next summer's vacation, when you will presumably travel to Canada or somewhere to club baby seals.)
It's still around in the Chicago area as well, though I've never used it.
>If plain words don't work, then invent new notation like physics and math do

Or, you know, do it like philosophy and poetry and literature do, and combine the words in new clusters, assign them new meanings, invent a few helper words, etc.

>Its nonsense because there is no "higher" concept. They are expressing pretty conventional concepts ... like for example the simple concept that language and meaning have a cultural context ... a concept which can be expressed both with simple language and simple anecdotes.

That you can express the core concept doesn't mean you can express it's nuances. I can play "My favorite things" melody from a fake book in the July Andrews version, but that doesn't convey much about Coltrane's version.

In the scope of what those philosophers describe and work with, reducing it to something like "that language and meaning have a cultural context" is like saying "I've read War and Peace. It's about Russia, right?".

>You ever notice how the best practitioners of Math, Physics, and Computer Science produce great output in multiple fields. Not just their chosen field. Like they might be 99.99 percentile in one field, and in another field they are 99 percentile. In other words they produce useful and interesting artifacts across a whole slice of human endeavors.

No, I don't notice it. It's a myth invented by some hackers (ESR comes to mind) to feel good, and is a tired form of self-praise.

I know some hackers etc that dabble in music, painting etc. Nothing to write home about, and no great artist (as in, someone in the canon of western arts) was at the same time a great math, physics or hacker (DaVince comes to mind as the exception that proves the rule). To put it in another way, you might find 5 such cases. You won't find 10.

Richard Feyman, for example, was just a guy that could play some bongos (nothing to write home about) and could write amusing personal anecdotes in clear prose (again, no Hemingway).

Or you mean different fields in sciences? Again, I don't much see that. There are some cases, but most are few and far between. Take the great Physisists -- not much of a contribution to mathematics, if any (when they were not even quite mediocre in that field, like Einstein). Now, mathematicians doing well in Computer Science (like Turing and others) is mostly because Computer Science is just an ad hoc domain of applied Mathematics.
Didn't make the cut:

• Customer data protection issues (internal "god view", etc.): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/01...

• Travis Kalanick (Uber CEO) drawing parallels between his company's drivers and the people of Ferguson, Mo.: http://pando.com/2014/11/20/on-stage-at-goldman-sachs-event-...

Wikipedia's obligatory "Controversy" section has more links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_(company)#Controversy
One of the top-10 worst things about Uber is that they refunded money to some people as they were figuring out their pricing model.

The screw-up wasn't in "refunding money to people." The screw-up was in picking one of the most festive, care-free nights of the year to drop the eye-popping fares (sometimes as high as $400, according to reports and tweets) on people's heads in the first place.
"What do you say after you say hello?"

Transactional analysis is lifechanging. It's weird to me that this book isn't more popular.
I don't think a single accusation (not conviction) of rape should be enough to convict. As someone who was falsely accused when I was younger, it's pretty hard to get past the stigma of even an accusation in the moment.

I would say that multiple arrests (even without conviction) may be enough to bar certain types of employment, at an employers discretion, such as ride services where there is an increased risk.
There were some notable fork successes which overtook the original; egcs is the one that comes to mind. There's still a huge variety of distros, mostly RPM-based. And the three BSDs. And Lucid/Xemacs.
It seems a bit like overkill for my simple needs though, while at the same time it would require me to write a custom "mode", so I'm not sure that would be the best option.
"Uber" is perfectly pronounceable in German (I even gave a phonological example: /uːbɐ/). If umlauts weren't frequently stripped in English, there would be no reason to assume "uber" should be pronounced in any other way than how it is spelled, except hypercorrection (in other words: saying it wrong).

I'm not saying the word shouldn't be adapted at all, quite the opposite. I'm saying "correcting" the pronunciation to the one of the original German word it is historically based on is a bit silly because the English meaning of "uber" -- while the word itself may be derived from German "über" -- is actually quite specific and entirely different.

Now that I think about it, your "Müesli" example actually backfires. In (German) German, where "Müsli" has become a generic description for nearly any mix containing oats and milk (basically what you'll find on the German Wikipedia), the original Swiss word Müesli is often used with a much narrower and more specific meaning (equivalent with the original meaning of Birchermüesli, I think).

But anyway, for consistency I demand that you refer to Apple as Apfel (or Apful, if you want to stick with the original Old High German) and Microsoft as Mikrosanft (or -sacht? Etymology is a bit harder with this one) in spoken German, too.
Rape fear keeps US students out of India: Nancy Powell

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rape-fear-keeps-US-...
Bunch of party people having fun
Taking cheap shots at a visionary plan
Here we see the other side of the "responsible disclosure" coin -- if the ethical white-hat security researcher is required to withhold publication of a critical vulnerability for a set amount of time, is there a corresponding deadline for timely publication as well? And if that deadline is not met by meaningful attempts at remediation or disclosure, is the researcher not compelled to publish the findings independently?

Obviously these companies failed miserably to meet any reasonable person's timeline of disclosure. One question is whether the extra time researching this malware reasonably would have produced additional worthwhile intelligence about its function and targets. If so, then the delay was "worthwhile". Another question is whether it's not better to simply release an incomplete picture to the security community (perhaps selectively) and let the larger hive mind go to work on finding and corroborating additional clues.

It seems like the firms chose the former; many HN readers would advocate the latter. So finally, the question remains whether such a forced disclosure would be perceived as an irresponsible "leak" based only upon the disagreement in methodology and interpretation of "responsible"? Would its withholding be considered likewise irresponsible? Can a single firm, a collection of firms, or the security research community at large meaningfully stay ahead of a dedicated state-funded attacker? (Probably, Probably, Probably not).

If a nation-state is producing malware, it logically will also be monitoring the channels of disclosure for evidence of its release and detection in the wild. But that's no reason to limit the resources being dedicated to protecting the public; it's egotism at best and collusion at worst.
Actually there is a different reason music during your teenage years is the most meaningful to you. It's because it was the music you listened to while having your strongest emotional experiences. It consoled you after that first breakup, was playing during that first kiss, etc.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
Watching the Uber saga unfold has been a fascinating time-lapse into how and why industries become regulated in the first place. It's fashionable to decry calcified organizations that refuse to adapt to change, but we regulate industries in response to market failures, and Uber's approach has been to toss out the the baby with the bathwater.
This is clickbait, slightly more subtle than usual. Some of what they say is true, but an article in a real business magazine would attempt to quantify what's changed since the 90s and what the limits of the new paradigms are. Wired is a hype and lifestyle magazine, and they're just trying to outrage all of us with absurd comparisons between Flooz and Bitcoin.

One sign of a bubble: articles that proclaim, without caveats or quantifiable reasons, that caution and experience are for suckers.
@eterm Feel free to submit a pull request and implement it. Here's the link to the demo source: https://github.com/neilj/Squire/tree/Squire-UI
End of the Year SEO Notes: Go Get 'Em
Very cool company with engaged founders! CTO reached out to me last week via GitHub when a new HackerSurf user wanted to see JOBBOX scraped: https://github.com/scotthasbrouck/HackerSurf/issues/9
If it's any consolation (probably not), per capita fewer people are dying due to warfare than at any time in human history. To further reduce conflict and death, consider the fact that no democratic nation has ever attacked another.
Agreed - came to this thread specifically to mention this book. This book is enormously valuable to me, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone (friends, family, colleagues). In fact, the related forum (http://www.bogleheads.org/) is one of the most helpful, welcoming, professional, and well-moderated forums I have come across, and is a great "next step" after reading the book, and developing/executing a plan. I know there are several HN frequenters there as well.

I also recommend accompanying Bogleheads Guide it with A Random Walk Down Wall Street (http://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/039333...). It ranks with me as another "life changing" book. Enjoy.
Doesn't this sort of confirm that 'ideas are cheap, execution is everything'? The abstract idea of 'an online virtual currency' is garbage without the brilliant crypto implementation.

I admittedly have a very strong bias against people that think they have a brilliant idea and just need 'someone to build it'.
Is there an equivalent of lambda calculus for object oriented languages?