skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Worse, once I'd eventually figure out what was going on, and put one of them off of me, a few weeks later another would show up, with another variation.

Start collecting pseudonyms and storylines in a github repo? This could make for an entertaining movie script, where a Skynet-like company uses advanced surveillance technology to triage a talent pipeline.

Startups encounter a random obstacle course and are only recruited after clearing a statistical threshold of surviving economIc warfare. When a candidate says no, they are moved to a different level of the game. All the while, the recruiting algos grow smarter as they generate new startup obstacles and observe how the talent responds.

The Exam experimented with this concept, http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bkdt2Sygew0
Which is of course the problem with departmental policy. We routinely see SWAT teams investigating themselves and finding that everything they did was in line with departmental policy.
Yes, but we can always try to solve the inconviences of our world in multiple venues. Let's try politics and simultaneously use the ingenuity we have to solve the problem while politics resolves.

I'd bet by stopping the water supply (out), disabling wifi and power, we can solve the destruction of evidence issue which could warrant the police actions.

Additionally, we could send a robot in place to search for unsafe conditions prior to the entry by armed police.

What other issues do we need to solve make this not happen while we wait for politics to catch up?
Even better, use stacksort to validate twitter sort! That means you get redundant architecture!
Thanks! I know he is a devgod but have not heard him speak at all.
Shoot me an email (it's in my profile), I can share my experience with this in private.
Jesus fucking Christ, no! Please, no!!
Why hasn't anyone sued glassdoor?
I'm pretty sure this qualifies as 'satire' these days.
Atlassians Bitbucket is hemorrhaging users over a single issue
Next time the IRS calls I will just tell them not worry, "It was just poor record keeping."
I'd be more inclined to believe it was poor record keeping if there wasn't a decades long history of police lying to cover for each other. Fool me a thousand times...
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Ah, the Chewbacca Defense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
Can someone explain this for a non-Chrome user? What's the "Francisco" button? Is that even the focus here?
Are you a lawyer? I'm not, so I don't know.

What part of their T&C (or existing law?) prevents Google from reading your email?
Methamphetamine is legal so long as you have a permission slip to buy it from an approved dealer (ask for your doctor for desoxyn).
nice perks!
can we have those perks even for a personal website? :)
The war on drugs is a primary driver for militarization of police in the US. To be fair, SWAT teams who raid drug houses often face heavily armed, violent criminals. There's a need -- sometimes -- for aggressive tactics. But the SWAT officers are far better trained than the regular police force who should not be engaged in this level of high risk, forced entry.

I've known SWAT officers and non-violent drug dealers who were both fundamentally decent people.

The problem can often be traced back to how police departments make up budget gaps. A large chunk of a department's budget comes from federal funding. The more drug related arrests, the more "war on drugs" money a department gets. This inadvertently enters a slippery slope where militarization on both sides is incentivized.

If local communities actually covered the full budget of a police department, the system would probably tend towards a more just and appropriate level of force.
I have transferred multiple domains with the privacy service turned on. No problem whatsoever. Every registrar worth doing business with (i.e. not GoDaddy) will forward all important mail to your real email address. Emails can take a few minutes or hours to get forwarded and/or end up in the spam folder, but that's about it.

If your registrar's privacy service is so bad that emails don't get through, transfers should be the least of your worries. Because of the new ICANN verification rules, you're at risk of losing your domain if emails don't get through to you.
Speak and Spell: A History
Cops testify in federal courts, too. There is no incentive for prosecutors to indict cops.
Is there existing law that prevents Google from reading your email? You're willingly transmitting data through their service, and my understanding is that email service providers are not "common carriers" in the manner of the post office or a phone company.
I'm so past fed up with police in America. The drug war is pathological. The notion that a cop can kill an unarmed suspect with impunity (especially if they're black or homeless or mentally ill) is disgusting. The belief that "law and order" is a value worth allowing one group the exclusive privilege of breaking any law and causing any disorder they like without consequence simply has to end.

I'm at the point where I think the only sane thing is to dismantle the police, as we know it, and rebuild something less violent, less systemically racist, less prone to imprison or kill the mentally ill, and more aligned with basic human decency.

Talking about how dangerous flashbangs are misses the point of how dangerous the system that wields them is and how dangerous the people employed by that system are. Police have dozens of tools and techniques for destroying human life. As long as they are empowered (and even expected) to use them with impunity, there will be tragedy after tragedy, where children, the mentally ill, and innocent people, are injured or killed or imprisoned.

Not that talking about flashbangs is a bad idea. I just think we're past the point where fixing flashbangs will significantly fix things. This is a systemic problem which can only be resolved by systemic solutions.
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Trust in the brand is negated for me by the fact that if this doesn't go well, I know they'll just shut it down or neglect it in a year or two. You want to know your registrar will be there in 10 years.
How about we wait for his defence to be tested in court before we pre-judge it as "doing whatever it takes to beat a charge"? Did you stop to think it might possibly be true before complaining that your own interests - having the trial be a showcase for libertarian ideals - may not end up being served by this particular man's prosecution?
I built a cross platform app a while back. The major barrier to releasing it right away for every platform was QA testing it on the myriad devices and OS versions we wanted it to be stable on. The framework only went so far for working out issues on devices with so many combinations of screen sizes, resolutions, and ratios, not to mention memory, cpu, and graphics capabilities.

Android users often harp about apps that are released first for iOS, but it's much easier to QA on a fairly limited number of devices, launch the app and start proving your idea/generating revenue on iOS first. At least in my experience, releasing a cross-platform app for both operating systems at the same time means either delaying iOS to QA Android properly, or releasing a half-baked Android version that gets 25 1-star reviews right out of the gate because of a weird edge case bug with some device you didn't test on.
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No, their genius leadership somehow got him to come back for... for whatever. Yes, people he doesn't really know doing illegal things that he didn't want to be a part of convinced him to go to a public space and get back into it just before he got caught. All because they are far to clever to get themselves caught, you see.
Would really recommend using Tinkercad for the models. It's quite nice, and really easy to do actual dimensioned models(i.e. this bit is 3mm wide type stuff). I use it all the time for my 3d printer
If I remember my chemistry correctly, thermite = aluminium + an oxidizer. So the filler you are describing is thermite.

Edit: I worry I may be incorrect. Thermite seems like a very odd thing to put in a flash bang. Perhaps it is only a thermite mixture but the reaction is different?
it's not a scam in the sense of an illegal scam, but it certainly is trying to prey on someone who might not know better.

If you are a lone engineer, but is capable of making a successful app, you have a certain aptitude for programming. This is useful to google. The recruiter is making a bet that this lone engineer is not business savvy enough to know how much their true worth is, and if the bet worked, google would've been able to low-ball hire a really good engineer. They failed this time, but you don't hear about the times this strategy succeeds, because those 'acqui-hires' might've even been celebrated by the "victim" as success!
You can just do this with your friends! Send long emails and establish an expectation of reply-at-your-convenience. It's a tricky norm to get started but once it does it's quite rewarding.
The lone game developer may or may not be a myth, but like many creative pursuits, over time there might very well be 1,000 little game developers blooming, some of which will be quite lovely and people will appreciate, but most will just be ignored. That's not all bad either. Not everyone should make a AAA game.

Some of my fondest memories of games are of the NES games I played as a child. They are still some of the most basic and fun games to play.
I would really liked to get an N950, too bad these are such rarity
I agree with that. Thanks for the advice.
What the article actually tell?
This looks gorgeous. On a related note you can get the original game too - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skifree/id588839086?mt=8
Not as pretty though :)
It's definitely a great time to be those indie game developers.
Another great one-man-team is Lucas Pope, creator of Papers Please and (currently in development, but the demo has already seen great reception) The Curse of The Obra dinn, as well as a few Ludum Dare games.
IBM Launches Z13 Mainframe
Wow, this is the exact issue I was encountering today with CodeShip. Not exactly following git-flow but I was hoping to merge master into release and trigger a build and deployment phase but it doesn't work.
It doesn't help that departments don't want intelligent officers and can refuse to hire people based on high IQ scores.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95836&page=1#.Tv-OZSNWplw
Or NameTerrific.
Nice game! Screenshots are missing for iPad in the App Store
I can think of a few things. I've recently been on both sides of the table here. Found my job a year and a half ago, interviewing candidates for a junior now.

First off, I can see how you might miss out on a lot of potential clients because you don't know just how good they are. You could reduce this miss rate by getting good at fishing out details from people you approach or who approach you. Even be prepared to write their resumes. I'd recommend having a technical person on staff to assist with the buzzword bingo and alphabet soup.

Second, a lot of people simply might not know how to negotiate a job search, but wouldn't really be lucrative enough to chase as clients. By-the-hour consulting might turn into a decent revenue stream. Then they can come to you in a few years when they are ready to chase the big bucks.

Third, there's a lot of wishful thinking out there that causes seekers to not chase or turn down perfectly good jobs because of that haunting vision of landing that whopper $120K+ job. (in Atlanta) Being able to tactfully talk them into a perfectly good $85K job could work out well for both of you. I've seen lots of really good guys strike out interviewing for those unicorn jobs because the company has ridiculously selective criteria. I know a guy holding out for $110K but doesn't want to go where he could legitimately make that money with his skills, e.g. a Java shop. He spent down his savings and told me it's going to hurt pretty soon if he doesn't find one soon.
I doubt it. We're very flexible omnivores, and have acquired the capability to create supplements for whatever specific nutrients we lack.

The impact would be to the variety and tastiness of the food we have available, but I doubt it would significantly impact our ability to feed the population, or the health of that population. Oh, I'm sure that good access to fruits and nuts does make us healthier than we'd be without it, but it's a matter of small degrees, not life or death.
Considering you've backpedaled from "Rust isn't CSP" (because you misunderstood Rust channels) to "Rust doesn't have select" (which it does, and you didn't realize) to "Rust's select isn't as mature as Go's", that's probably for the best.

Perhaps you should try to be more informed about Rust before you try to have an argument about it in the future!
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Does playing fantasy football involve scraping statistics from the web?

Have you written a poker bot?

Are you interested in a career in finance?

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If you've written something cool or worked on an exciting project recently, please mention it in the cover letter.
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_Excessive_ profanity, by the nature of its excessiveness, is unnecessary. Well-placed profanity can do a lot to color a conversation by adding stress, tone, pace, repetition, etc.. The kind of things a good rhetorical performer needs on hand and in easy supply at all times.
Not sure what stack you're on, but I've done exactly what you're describing with Beanstalk (now a standalone product at http://dploy.io) for years.
The help center page has a lot of info. It does support sub domain support. I don't use it so I'm not sure it follows the spec you mentioned or not but it seems to have a fairly simple protocol.

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6147083?authuser=1
You need a language with a lot of power (less lines of code) and ability to interface easily with a database. I would pick Ruby on Rails as my first option { or you could use Python }

Both Ruby on Rails and Python you will need to know some of the fundamentals you mentioned like html,css, and javascript certainly helps.
As someone using the ethereum alpha software regularly, I have to disagree- They have produced a lot of great code so far, and it seems likely now that ethereum will be live and in operation in early March (though admittedly it'll still have some shortcomings at that point)

As for PoS vs PoW, yes PoS gives you less objectivity on "truth" in block determination- If you define "flawed" as anything less objective than "PoW" then it would certainly meet your definition. The question is how many people feel the way you do on this matter, and what impact this will have on the success of ethereum as a product.
CUDA 7 Release Candidate Feature Overview
Here's one:

https://twitter.com/harrisonpage/status/555180585384046592

I think you want this query:

https://twitter.com/search?q=can+you+sort+these+numbers
I for one think we should put this off for another 5 years minimum. I've been seeing lots of little guys pop up around my area, and I know network equipment is about to get a lot better. I'd rather pay more for my internet than fuck up an entire tech sector.
Sorry about that, I wouldn't think there would be a problem with that.

I agree I should have removed links and the like but I completely forgot it.
Fair enough; "must-have" is a bit strong. But, when I'm responding to a freespace alert on one of 2000-300 servers I've never seen before, the "visualized" data layout is easier to digest than a list of numbers - plus ncdu can drill-down through a directory tree quite nicely.
name.com has 2FA
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It has a weird SMS-based TFA thing, not the far more widespread TOTP standard.
Jobmote: human-curated directory of remote IT jobs
Well, certainly "Proof of stake" has been getting more popular in the cryptocurrency community... this system has a lot less overhead than PoW, though it's still controversial for technical reasons that are hard to describe in a brief comment.
#powdertothepeople
The More Fungible Worker
What 2013 quote?
Exactly. And the Searzall proves it.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1708738346/the-searzall

Dave is also more entertaining than you.
Agreed. On the website, it mentions that it'll integrate with Blogger, Shopify, Squarespace, Weebly and Wix. Integration with App Engine would be a big selling point.
why should I take a paycut? if we end the war on drugs, we could pay fewer officers more money to do more effective and humane policing, with more training. win/win/win.
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Thanks for the tip--looks interesting. The only addition that CodeShip provides is also running my tests (may have just missed reading that on dploy).

Stack is Node.js, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Redis, and a little bit of Go running on top of Elastic Beanstalk with Docker.
2006 article

"A maths genius who won fame last week for apparently spurning a million-dollar prize is living with his mother in a humble flat in St Petersburg, co-existing on her £30-a-month pension, because he has been unemployed since December."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1526782/Worlds-top-maths-gen...
The sentiment you've expressed here seems common on HackerNews, and I commend you for taking the time to lay it out with such clarity and detail.

I disagree with you in part. I don't think that the two groups you've painted are discrete, much less distinct. Of the descriptions you've given, I fit much more clearly in the former (I spend far more time digging around old Github repos and fantasizing about Arduino projects to try with my soon-to-be-born child).

However, the technical detail of this article is not lost on me. The authors have gone to painstaking lengths to template the picture of a flashbang incident and fill it in with instances (shown in aside#injuries). They have produced an informative graphic map showing a specific technical detail of the policy implementation in Little Rock (the exact locations and a demographic element).

The prose itself is replete with other technical details, such as the types of injuries suffered and how they were treated and the specific legislation being considered in light of these events.

These details may not describe anything electronic or even futuristic, but they are technical in the sense that they're measurable and require illumination via intense study in order to understand and present.

Just like an interpreter optimization or a new design pattern, the various calls to action need to be sufficiently compelling as to motivate a critical mass to call for change, and so supporters (and perhaps opponents) have gathered around them.

I'm increasingly convinced that "technical" and "political" are just words that we use to couch "familiar" and "controversial."

I do agree that more technical details of how flashbangs work (especially what, if any, tactical advantages they actually confer and how we know that) are desirable.
Namecheap includes WhoisGuard with all their domains for those prices, so they're even LOWER than they seem.

It seems to me that Google is just trying to throw their enormous weight into every space now and it sickens me. This is how we end up with mediocre goods and services... No thanks Google.

They are much, much more than a monopoly at this point.

Not to mention, with Namecheap, GoDaddy or really any other company, you can probably get ahold of tech support 24/7. Good luck getting that from Google... Not that I've tried yet, but my experience with them in the past has been that it's mission impossible to talk to a human being in charge of something there, unless you're trying to hangout with the devs on Google+ or something for smalltalk, which seems to always be available.
Downvote me, but jeesuz christ, talk about first world problem...
> Consoles have not generally been indie-friendly

That's the least you can say... you need an official dev kit and those used to cost several thousands of dollars if not more.
Hmm... I have to say, I'm a little underwhelmed by both the aesthetics and the technical construction of this particular curve, but who am I to complain about the aesthetics of another man's fractal.
Assuming you pay your engineers a paltry $50k/yr, half of a FTE is $25k/yr. Quick calculation based on the public S3 pricing says that's 847TB of data you could be storing just with their salary. That doesn't include all the actual costs associated with running thousands of nodes - acquisition, hardware replacements, utilities and other operating costs, space, etc.

(To be honest, with that many nodes I have a hard time believing that you're not spending half a FTE just replacing dead drives.)

Not to mention the additional costs if you're actually interested in the same level of durability (target eleven 9s (99.999999999%), but last time I talked to an engineer they're still at 100% since leaving beta). Multiple DCs, transit between them...

I'm sure there's a scale at which it's worth it, but it's pretty far up there and for almost everyone S3 is a cheaper option.
Glassdoor heavily cooperates with companies to take down reviews that are too negative or specific.

Also, anyone can post reviews, which the companies take advantage of. We had an HR person at my previous company whose job responsibilities included posting one positive (4-5 star) review of the company per week on Glassdoor and similar sites. As you can imagine, doing so is a much cheaper way of dealing with negative reviews than suing the websites.
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I'd be worried about confirmation bias on that front. You don't remember all the times they told the truth but just did a poor job. It sounds like a lie either way.

But in my experience in the military, record-keeping is boring and routine, so there is a tendency to just pump out sub-standard paperwork and say "nobody is really going to look at it anyway, and if they do, they already know it's not reliable."

Training records? Pah. I'm surprised they even have training records. It's probably just a speedily-drafted form with a signature line on it. That's how you train 45 people at once: you make one form, have them all sign it, then you do the training. The form isn't accurate? Who cares, you got the signature and 'did your job'.
I'm not able to find the BLS methodology used to come up with that $57k figure, does anybody know? Unless they're drawing that from the IRS, I really doubt the accuracy. Cops generally make quite a bit of money from overtime and generous pensions. They also frequently moonlight and get paid well to do very little: any business that employs a large number of temp workers will have an off duty cop hanging out in a back office, for liability reasons. This demand for off duty cops is a result of cities taking on liability for the off duty cop's actions - instead of the business. At one place I worked, security alerted the off duty that somebody was on the roof late one night (presumably to steal copper from the AC units). The cop made a phone call and within minutes a police helicopter was launch and circling the building, that is another reason why off duty cops get paid so well - the employing business gets a little taste of state power at the tax payer's expense.