skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working remotely exclusively for about the past 9 months (before that I have been doing it off and on for about a year and a half), and I think the piece that really strikes a chord with me in this article is the "Communication" section.

If you have a clear understanding of what you are building/creating then working remotely can be a boon; I think of it as working in some kind of hyper office. I can find times when I am hyper productive with heads down development, or pairing with another developer. What I think is difficult to reproduce are the shared working spaces/open-office floor plans.

To be specific, I find meaningful collaborative communication to be the most difficult for me. The tips presented here will help, but still leave a lot to be desired. I think one of the hardest things with a distributed team is brainstorming.

Maybe it's just a tooling thing, for example: I have yet to find a decent digital replacement for a whiteboard. Being able to scribble down idea, then go grab someone and talk through thoughts, erase, redraw, discuss. This all seems way more awkward than it should be online. It seems like a medium that could be much improved digitally, but I have yet to find a tool that really works.

I also wish more audio conferencing software supported positional audio. Perhaps this is insane, but I miss being able to overhear other conversations, but I don't want them blaring directly in my ear (as if they are standing 6 inches away from ear. I want to be able dynamically group people, and place voices within a virtual spatial domain. Having every voice come from the same "place" is really unnerving for me.
Fedora 21 rolls three versions of Linux into one OS
Why did you decide to make this mobile only?

Personally I would use it the most from my computer, considered a port ;)
Electronic supermarket checkout terminals (1978) [video]
That was interesting to read and certainly a different approach to solving a problem, but the biggest question I had in my mind while reading the article was "is it really necessary to create all this complexity --- and how does it compare to the traditional getopt()?"

I've used getopt() many times, even implemented its functionality for fun, and parsing commandline arguments has never been something I thought was particularly difficult or complex.
Bill Gates on the future of technology, his biggest regret, and HoloLens
Mozilla != Google

Funding such services is a big decision for them -- they're the ones that have to support it, keep it up, and pay for it (for the life of the service). As they make money in a distinctly different way from Google, they don't have the same positive feedback loop -- Google is happy to provide you free web services because you are the product.
Who said anything about force? It's mainly a problem of education. What we're talking about is, for example, an emotive documentary about some sick kids who couldn't be vaccinated for genuine medical reasons, and should have been protected by the herd immunity that anti-vaccination is destroying. Maybe have them in the same ward as some sick, voluntarily unvaccinated kids for good measure, interspersed with various scientific explanations of how minor the risks of vaccination reactions are, and that there is no connection with autism especially.

Science has to fight an uphill battle, because facts and statistics are cold, whereas a single story of "my kid got sick right after being vaccinated and what if that happened to your kid?" is emotive and provocative.

A documentary telling the other side of the story in a way that most people can relate to it emotionally could have a huge impact. No need to make anything mandatory if people understand the balance of risks properly.
In contested custody cases, fathers win about half the time. Granted, there's probably selection bias there.

The custody issue is clearly a result of gender stereotypes. I'm a feminism in part because it's the one movement that's actively and effectively fighting against that root cause.

I don't think tech sexism in SV is _the_ frontline, or that the courts are _the_ frontline, but they're both important fights. (SV might be the frontline _in tech_, but not in gender or sex equality overall, or even in the US.)
What do you mean by "pure"? Lack of loanwoards? Lack of any linguistic changes (e.g., sound, meaning) for existing words? Lack of any innovation, i.e. no new words for new concepts/objects? You could try to find some of these things in languages spoken by rather isolated groups. Yet I don't think one should call such a language "pure", implying some kind or (moral) superiority.
my favorite bot in this gene is on twitter:

https://twitter.com/lowpolybot
It seems like my options are the Custom Search API from Google (with severe limitations) or the Duck Duck Go API (which I'm not sure if it provides the total number of results).

Any other ideas?
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I think (and I'm not terribly informed here) that the difference would be that Capital One has a business relationship with Chipotle, albeit somewhat indirect. Polling customers while otherwise being unrelated to the company is different from mediating payments to the company and using that data.

According to the article, the big problem here was that the data being used here belonged to Capital One, and these researchers were running their own thing on the side using that data.
Well, in the article the make clear that there is case law that this is illegal and considered "misappropriation" insider trading.[1]

Even if we decide it isn't insider trading, Capital One is on the hook for what it's employees do. Chipotle or whoever could sue CapOne for breach of contract, and CapOne could sue these guys for that. So even if we decide as a society it's not criminal, another group of guys doing the same thing somewhere else might not get to keep all that sweet dough they made purely on civil grounds. I don't know. It's interesting.

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/521/642/case.htm...
I'm not suggesting a HI emulation, actually. If you're interested, you can get a gist of what I'm suggesting by reading Hawkins "On Intelligence". The basic building blocks of intelligence in the brain will be the principles on which legitimate, workable AI research programs will have their first start. From there I'd anticipate radicalization and innovation based on a profound understanding of those principles which will have been shown to work. But we have to do that by understanding what intelligence actually is - and the best available model we have for that is human intelligence, and thus the human brain.
I installed it and was starting to like it. I really, really love Google Inbox and want it so desperately to support our hospital Outlook server.

It never occurred to me that installing "Microsoft Outlook for Android" would mean "upload all your hospital email to some acquihired cloud". When Google abandoned the Email app in Lollipop and forced us all to add our Outlook accounts to the Gmail app, I was concerned (Google does explain quite clearly that this is just a UI thing and that it's not merging the email into the Gmail servers at all) that I would have to go back to those abominations in the Play Store since all the Outlook clients on Android suck and K9 refuses to work with our Exchange server. And here Microsoft releases Outlook for Android and I was all excited for nothing.

Thank god I didn't receive any emails containing PHI while I had it enabled.
Every historically male field will remain male in the absence of a focused effort to improve balance, which is what happened in the demanding (and often quantitatively rigorous) professions that improved women's participation, and what's being contested in computer science.

I am not making an extraordinary claim. I am looking at the numbers for female participation in CS, noticing that they are anomalous, all the more so given the relative size of the CS professions (they are enormous, which should have helped smooth out the anomaly), noting the incentives for participation (CS professions are, relative to the effort it takes to enter the field, well compensated, flexible, geographically well distributed, and not physically demanding) and observing that there are only two logical explanations:

(a) Social and process factors are having the effect of encouraging male participation and discouraging female participation, or

(b) Women are intrinsically sharply less capable of performing in software development despite a demonstrated ability to perform in law, accounting, medicine, and even other STEM fields.

In the absence of something much more compelling than a blog post on slatestarcodex, I feel pretty comfortable ruling out (b).
No one would do business with them if they had such terms.
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I ended up writing a blog post on how to handle CP arguments a while back. I started coding before really thinking about it -- I mean, it's CP, how hard could it be (famous last words)?

http://blog.typeobject.com/thinking-out-loud-file-copy-tool-...

It turns out the arguments to CP are really tough to reason about if you just naively dive into it. The approach in this article is much better than mine. It feels like I was fumbling around in the dark.

If you're interested in seeing my implementation (it's buggy, but handles most cases), it can be found at:

https://github.com/hpc/dcp/blob/master/src/handle_args.c

The entry point to handle_args.c is DCOPY_parse_path_args, which is called by the main() in:

https://github.com/hpc/dcp/blob/master/src/dcp.c
Word2Vec is part of a Kaggle competition to classify sentiment of movie reviews from rotten tomatoes. There seems to be a better method than word2vec from berkeley lab. I found that interesting considering the impact Jeremy Howard said word2vec could have.
While I appreciate effort put into making the interface prettier, one of the things that really detracts from LibreOffice and why I almost invariably end up installing MS Word for clients is the confusing way which the mail merge system is designed in LibreOffice. I've done it enough times now to know mostly how to get it working for myself, but there's no way in hell I'll try teaching a client how to do a mail merge in LibreOffice.

And even myself, I've had to completely scrap documents I'm working on because LibreOffice gets confused and does what I'm assuming is some kind of join, resulting in tons of duplicates when it comes time to print[1]. It's almost certainly user error, but where to fix it is unclear. That whole mechanism needs to be gutted and reworked.

But I continue to deal with it because Linux is my primary environment and it's good enough in everything else I have to deal with.

[1] something like multiple data sources used accidentally, even though both point at the same source file, and even after wiping all data sources, the issue remains.
AbiWord and Gnumeric have always looked better than their LibreOffice counterparts!
Lets add it doesn't add really any value to actual security. All it does is tick off the userbase and show you as an "unfriendly" security department. Just absolutely silly and whoever implemented that policy should be fired.
If the content is good, who cares?
Having worked in a grading suite, I can say that the quoted statement is indeed false.

Colour usually is considered right at the start, as dperfet correctly points out.
I've tried d3.js, but decided to go with iron wallaby's delaunay (https://github.com/ironwallaby/delaunay) implementation for performance reasons. The difference was especially visible when working with photos.
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Do you also struggle with tabbed web pages and toolbars? If you can't use either of those, then I agree, you will have problems with the ribbon.

If you can use both of those -- and I'm certain you can -- then I don't see why something that simply combines tabs and toolbar icons is such problem.
It seems they've turned put up a 503 response now. Before that, I was definitely able to see someone else's apps and presumably modify them.
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I've read it. Just not a good enough programmer to implement it. Maybe in time that will change. It's really exciting; I just wish people with the requisite skills would try to understand it more fully.
Resting into Productivity
One of the reasons I have more confidence in React than Angular is that Facebook and Instagram actually use React in flagship products. I wouldn't worry about React abandoning the web until Facebook and Instagram stop using it for their web products.

Also, while all Dart does for Angular is fragment the community (because now we have Angular web devs using Dart, Angular web devs using JS and soon Angular web devs using AtScript), React Native actually does the opposite.

A lot of web devs already also do mobile development or at least work on hybrid apps (i.e. WebView-based mobile apps). React Native enables web devs to develop mobile apps that wouldn't have been feasible before (either because of the limitations of WebView or because they would have had to worry about learning an entirely different stack that is orthogonal to their web technology knowledge).
Similar things have been around for a long time.

For instance, you can train something like LDA on the contexts that words appear in. Also I've seen a system that uses a neural net to generate a 16,000-bit vector and very interesting things happen when you use AND and OR.
IMO governments need to learn how to adapt to this new "information age". That's not to say they need to try to find new ways to suppress information. They need to allow public discourse to help them define their limitations.
Side-note: Soderbergh's editing is absolutely fantastic and original too (see: The Limey, Out of Sight). Fine, fine film-maker, one of the few to be able to cross from pure art film to Hollywood blockbuster and back again through everything in between with ease. It will be interesting to see where his "retirement" takes him.
How to Transition from Engineering to Engineering Management
>Fortunately, some fellow campers at the Free Code Camp were sympathetic towards my plight and volunteered to transcribe all these slides for me. This offer left me 'flabbergasted', as our dear western neighbors across the sea would say.

Many ions ago, I volunteered for an organization called "Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic" (now known as Learning Ally - http://www.learningally.org/). Groups of individuals (mostly retired professors and other students) would record textbooks for college students. It was all volunteer and donation based. It would typically take days to weeks from starting a book until the recording was ready.

I loved almost all of it. The one thing I didn't like was that we would read a book in shifts and you wouldn't always be working on the same book from shift to shift, so you might read scene three of a play one shift, then the next day read chapter seven of a calculus 2 textbook. Regardless, it was always interesting and we always knew that there were students benefiting from our effort. As an extremely nearsighted child, one of my fears growing up was that I would grow to be so nearsighted I would be functionally blind, so it was a little personal for me.

Since then, I've been in charge of 508 conformance on many different websights [1]. I have always appreciated the sensory-challenged sharing how they are, or are not, able to use websites. I never cease to be amazed at the human ability to adapt and overcome such challenges!

[1] Freudian slip that I noticed but decided was worth sharing ;-)
Yeah, big difference between limiting access to your own network and limiting access to someone else's
Agreed accounting/payment processing is a crazy time sink. On the other hand, I'm not aware of any on-line payment service or marketplace site that could even support all the fundamental requirements for a lot of start-up business models to comply with the new rules right now without doing a significant degree of additional integration or customisation work anyway.

For example, it's all very well having the payment service work out the actual VAT and do the invoicing, but under existing consumer protection laws in various EU states you still have to show the tax-inclusive price throughout. That immediately means you can no longer display a static price on your web site, if you add VAT at the appropriate local rate to a fixed base price rather than having a fixed total price paid by the customer and then taking a different VAT hit internally depending on where each customer is.
The Law of Diffusion of Innovation Explained
Inkscape is great. I've only recently started using it more heavily as a tool for building a board game with my wife. It gets the job done for me, and I don't have to unlearn anything, as I'm not coming from illustrator.

I'm very pleased to see it's under active development.
How do to color grading in Final Cut X https://vimeo.com/58051635
I grew up in India. It wasn't uncommon at all to see people of my parents' generation with pockmarks from Small Pox or handicaps (and stories of deaths) from polio. Their generation saw first hand the horrors of these diseases and recognized the importance of vaccines. They still speak fondly of how lucky it is that vaccines were available by the time their kids (my generation) were born.

So developing countries are pretty serious about vaccinations.

However, things are changing with the new generation. The new generation (born in 70s/80s) have been exposed to far less horrors and especially among the upper-middle class folks, there are strains of anti-vax there too. Let's not forget, in countries like India (in my experience), homeopathy and other pseudoscientific 'cures' are more popular than in the developed world (probably due to the fact that the average person in the developed world has better access to good modern-medicine care).

The health problems in the developing world are in areas like maternal and neonatal health, where the consequences of poor care aren't as obvious or direct. Atul Gawande points out that this is a bit like how we aren't as afraid of the risk of auto accidents as we are of serial killers, even though the former is astronomically more likely to kill a person than the latter [1].

[1] Atul Gawande, "Slow Ideas," The New Yorker, July 2013: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/slow-ideas
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Would the case be public if a business owner were arrested? I would assume it would be in a sealed court.
Amelie was DI'd. It was digitally graded by Didier le Fouest
> Again unique to my particular work situation, my team are at work roughly between 2PM and 11PM UK time.

Ugh, that's terrible. I also work remote. The thing that's never changed is that people always talk about time in reference to themselves. "Can we have the meeting at 3:30?" means 3:30 my time. And they usually do not think about how that matches up to your schedule. It's something I've constantly had to deal with. Working with people only a time zone or 2 away makes this much easier.
If you configure WP Super Cache correctly (e.g. rewrites), you won't be running any PHP when visiting the cached version of the site. So there's really no need to "export" anything.
More detailed change log by Michael Meeks: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-01-29-under-the-...
Well, my understanding could be wrong, but it seemed like the risk is to the ecosystem, not to human bodies directly. We personally don't need to be protected from the burst itself.
Krita is great. https://krita.org
I think you just sold me on this, going to go check out Nine.
iTunes Connect Issue Logging Developers into Other Accounts
Does this mean we could look for extraterrestrial civilizations by looking for signs of planet-scale radiation shielding?
Great post. Random question: do the game storefronts offer much help with (or indeed, exert much control over) how to get value out of sales? I'm reminded of the famous "Dark side of Indie PR" article[1], where the author suggested (2nd comment) that devs selling through Steam don't necessarily control when or how much their games are discounted. Though your account of Jason Rohrer's game obviously tells a different story. Or is it something you can comment on?

[1] http://www.puppygames.net/blog/?p=1574
To pull it back a bit from the deep end: another possibility besides intentional vendor lock-in is that AngularJs dates back to an initial public launch of 2009 (and was likely older than that in the bowels of Google's infrastructure), while the frameworks that have been mentioned in this thread are younger (react: 2013, boostrap: 2011). It's quite possible that angular is simply over-engineered to solve the problems it's targeted to solve and other, younger frameworks have second-mover advantage on architecture and design (while angular has first-mover advantages of "Older, therefore more well-understood" and "wide adoption base").

COM wasn't the last word on binary cross-communication either; for various reasons I see that sort of thing done a lot more often these days via building a RESTful HTTP service, even when the intent is localhost-only communication.
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There are actually changes to mail merge in this release. But it seems it is about performance and not the UI.

https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-01-29-under-the-...
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Someone actually did that to count parking lot usage:

https://gigaom.com/2010/08/18/parking-lots-help-predict-earn...
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The auction had a reserve price of $10.25 billion, with optimistic expectations at less that half of the ultimate closing bid total. The spectrum available for bidding was in the 1695-1710 MHz, 1755-1780 MHz, and 2155-2180 MHz bands.
It's not very clearly insider trading, because the traders had no fiduciary duty to Chipotle. It's arguably insider trading because their relationship to Chipotle is colored by the relationship payment processors have to Chipotle. And that argument will probably prevail.

The point of Levine's post is that for the markets to work, there have to be traders trading at an advantage. The point of insider trading laws isn't to level the playing field --- that's exactly what you don't want. It's to eliminate a class of agency problems.

We can (probably should) want to deter credit card companies from trading on data mining payment data without believing that insider trading laws are the right vehicle to do that with. Privacy regulations and mandatory confidentiality agreements could set up an effective civil deterrent, rather than sporadic and incoherent SEC and criminal investigations.
Why write an FSM and backtracking explicitly? Use parser combinators, they basically do the same thing, just express it in a clearer, grammar-friendly way: http://theorangeduck.com/page/you-could-have-invented-parser...
Instagram generation could cure them self just by eating melted money.
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I get the point he's making, but when I want to add something as simple as a counter my website already stops being static. The question you have to ask yourself: How many static websites are in your "favourite" folder? When I look into it, I have a hard time finding a single one.
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