skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was what was happening in during the dust bowl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl In the end we solved the problem mostly though trees (wind breaks) and a lot of geologic water. But long term some large scale irrigation can also solve the problem.

PS: There are also farming methods that mitigate the issue while using far less water (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryland_farming), but they are still not nearly as common as they should be.
Total tangent, but could someone start a .lang tld? We have so many that are naming themselves this way, could be avail.lang, go.lang, rust.lang, nim.lang, ...
After reading more into this, I agree.

However I would also like to add that 8 years (+3 under supervision) is bonkers and completely disproportionate with the crime.

Just to put that into perspective, someone could commit rape twice and be out of jail first (3 years piece approximately, or 6-7 years total).

It seems like as soon as a computer is involved in a crime, the sentence gets quadrupled. Instead of breaking into someone's computer, you should just run them down with your car, you'll likely get off easier in the latter case...
Indeed. Every time we scan a document and throw the original away, we're betting for the continued existence of current technological civilization. If it collapses, the thing we digitized and thrown away is the thing future generations will have lost from the cultural heritage. The Dark Ages may end up extending far beyond the beginning of information age.
"you are basically the average of your four grandparents in IQ"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
The problem with that is it would put lots of innocent employees out of work. You'd have to sell the company to a competitor or something so that the operation kept going but shareholders got wiped out. Make shareholders feel the pain and the behavior will change.
There is another article in this same edition of the ACM Queue.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2536492

It goes a bit further into the mechanics of market maker profitability. Does your simulator reflect what your queue position would be in a real electronic market? Does your market making algorithm have logic try to scratch out when it looks like the market is going to move against its position?
I had the idea of wanting to teach programming in a prison, but it seemed to have the same requirements as teaching anywhere else: a degree, preferably in education, preferably a master's. I'm self taught and don't have a degree, so it sounds like it's not really an option for me. Does anyone have more information about how one would go about doing this, perhaps on a volunteer basis?
So I should stop using LinkedIn because they're restricting the amount of access that third parties have to my data?

As I see it, the only thing worse than LinkedIn spamming me based on my employment history is other companies spamming me based on my LinkedIn employment history.

There's many reasons to stop using LinkedIn, but this doesn't seem like one.
>Last year I switched all my accounts' user names to my actual name.

Create new accounts. Don't switch your existing accounts. Unless it's Github or something.
Linkedin has been known to shut down competing services prior to this. At hired.com, our API access was revoked (a long while ago), and many of our users were no longer able to login.
In a meta sense I'm curious why you had to create a new account just to post this, although I know the position that the system we have in place actually does work [1] is unpopular.

The system is messy, it doesn't travel in a straight line from broken to fixed, and it takes a lot of time and energy to get right. Consider Prohibition for a moment, it was freaking unconstitutional to drink for a while there. Yes it was broken, yes it got fixed. Just like Marijuana use is getting fixed, slowly, inexorably, fixed.

Martin Luther King was jailed by a broken system, and slowly, over time, it has been getting fixed.

You cannot see a tree grow, but it does. And many people cannot see that our system of governing is working, but it does. As long as you take the long view, it will. Believe that you are a helpless pawn and all is lost, and it won't.

[1] Rights for same sex marriage anyone? Used strong encryption in email?
I don't know about you but if my personal data is going to be shared with the government I want some guarantees:

* The data will never end up in some law enforcement database.

* The data will destroyed in a timely fashion (say, after six months).

* Access to the data will be severely restricted. As in, to specific individuals--not whole departments or entire organizations.

* The data will not be aggregated or conjoined with any other data they have about me. Ever.

* Any data collected in this way must never be allowed in a court of law.

* If the data is ever shared all personally-identifying information must be redacted or removed.

These things are much more important than limiting the liability of the company that shares the data. Get your priorities straight!
I also lost data by this: I was trying to disable browser profiles but inadvertently deleted the cloud portion of my account that stored all my bookmarks.

I'm a goddamn software developer, software doesn't usually make me feel stupid. So congrats to Google on that I guess...
API issues aside, I recently deleted my LinkedIn account and my life has been better off for it. My recruiter spam volume dropped from daily emails to maybe two or three times a month. I'm not sure if LinkedIn provides any value, I've never gotten a job that way.

I think stalking people on social networks is also a net negative experience. I realized I should spend less time worrying about what other people are doing with their lives and focus more on my own.

There was also a recent NY Times article about how employers use LinkedIn candidates contacts to disqualify them for employment[1]. So LinkedIn can actually be detrimental to your career.

I just don't think LinkedIn adds anything. Businesses and recruiters use it to get your email to target you for spam. But what do you get out of it and think, if there wasn't a LinkedIn would you be out of a job right now?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/technology/on-linkedin-a-r...
I can't help but feel part of this is due to the fact that SF/NYC salaries are really great if you live somewhere with a cheaper cost of living. Developers have significant amount of leverage in this situation.

I don't think this is necessarily conscious; I just think that businesses sense a power differential that comes with remote work: part of it being a tacit acknowledgement that this really expensive area is not the best place ever for talent, part of it being that this employee has a much better living situation comparatively, and part of it being that not seeing them in person regularly means less warm fuzzies for management.

Progressive minded businesses make it work by realizing that empowered workers produce better work. Everyone else hobbles by doing what everyone else does to stay into the warm blanket we call groupthink (aka 'best practices').
Jailbreak+iOS+7.1.2+untethered+with+PanGupangu8
It is a type of sauce in Thailand with somewhat complex origin.

The sauce was created and is popular locally in Sriracha for long (originally known as Nam Prik Sriracha) but the sauce was popularize across the country by Sriraja Panich, who is the first to produce the sauce commercially as Sriraja Sauce.

Sriraja Panich couldn't trademark the brand due to law in Thailand disallowing region name to be used as a trademark. This fact spawn several brand using the name Sriracha sauce and caused the name Sriracha sauce to become a type of a sauce here in Thailand. Sriracha city even put the "town of delicious sauce" as their official motto.

Many Thais still consider Sriraja Panich as the only genuine Sriracha sauce maker (even though they're now own by Thai Theparos), and do not have a good impression of the US-made Sriracha sauce brand.
http://safaribooksonline.com It's basically Netflix for programming books.
Remind me to write a a source code control system called "Patriot". I really don't want to know what they think of "git".

On a serious note, I guess the modern lesson is names are used by idiots to attack us so pick your project names carefully.
As someone who is looking for work and finds nearly all of it through LinkedIn, canceling my account is not something I can afford to do at this time. As much as I empathize with the Open Web mission, opting out of LI is the privilege of happily employed developers.
Yet another demonstration of the hazards of building a business on a platform that's entirely controlled by someone else.
Can We Help You Launch and Grow Your Online Church?
> If the refresh takes a long time, is pull-to-refresh the best UX?

If that's an open question, then this is the one thing that makes the answer a resounding YES.
Why is it wrapped in a do{}while(0); ?
+1

Articulate your anger more clearly. And if you're making a historical reference, make sure people get the gist of it even if they don't get the reference
tptacek already responded to your previous comment about Flash Boys below [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9045150
How would you validate the resumes? The power of LinkedIn is in the trust it establishes. Granted I still have a lot of validation to do before hiring/doing business with someone, but Linkedin is a great first filter. I know for software engineers, Github could be a better filter, but it's just a very small segment in the world of business.
Sorry for my shameless plug here but we are developing a LinkedIn alternative for Developer, it's called devolio.net[1] and we will launch open beta in March. We will support the open jsonresume.org formats and unrestricted profile viewing experience (no sign in walls) . Plus we are just focusing on developers, so it has no annoying fake business people.

[1] https://devolio.net/
Dear programmers, if you are using linkedin you are doing it wrong. Use github, careers.stackoverflow, a plain html resume page, the ladders, and basically anything else that is not linkedin to showcase your skillset.
That's coincidental, not ironic.
I see this used a lot with enums to make a kind of 'homogeneous struct' where all the members have the same type:

enum fields = { x, y, z };
int point[] = {
[x] = 1,
[y] = 2,
[z] = 3
};

This is used pretty extensively in the QEMU codebase, which is where I first learned it.
I did a focus group hangout with a Google staff member many months ago, and under the NDA I signed, and I can't discuss which product it was for. Most importantly, the staff member asked me what's stopping me from using their service over a competitor's service.

I replied, "I know they'll still be supporting/providing the service 1-2 years from now".
The company I bought my mechanical keyboard from sells sets of O-rings that go under the key-caps[1] to reduce noise. They won't fit on every keyboard, but one could easily find different O-rings that do. I don't use them because noise isn't an issue in my situation, and I enjoy the sound of the key bottoming out. For those in open offices though, they might make the difference between tranquility and having your keyboard used as a doorstop(!)

[1] http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/cherry-mx-rubber-o-ri...
If your filter is based on the irc, and the number of people there is declining, basically it means that only the most hard-core users are remaining. And usually that means that they know how to use it.
Yes, but computation can be performed with a function approximator where each iteration is a function `f :: (state, input) -> (state', output)`. This is the basis of an architecture called a 'neural turing machine' (http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401) and it is, indeed, Turing complete and can be trained through standard neural network training algorithms to perform arbitrary computations.
What do college-age stoners sound like on IRC? Do they type "whoa" and "dude" a lot or something?
As far as I know, if you're in the stock camera app, you can tap a portion of the screen for the camera to focus on that area. My girlfriend has an Android phone and can do the same.
linkedin workflow:

* get connection request
* reset password
* log in
* accept connection
* log out
* do not think about linkedin again until the next connection request.
That spam IS the LinkedIn business model and it's not coming from 3rd party apps that have access to the API - it's coming from LinkedIn's main site and the (premium) features they offer.
Is anyone really surprised? Ideologically upset? Sure, but we learned this with Twitter and tons of other companies. The APIs are there's to support or pull
Report: Guns no longer okay in Apple App Store screenshots
Sorry, I should have connected the dots to the parent comment. It means he wasn't interested in recruiting new hires from San Jose or anywhere else that wasn't a short commute into the city... unless of course, they agreed to move.
Do building owners maintain their own water plumbing?

The PSTN network is connected to a DMARC at the edge of a building, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_point

How did the phone network work for years with neutral wires within buildings?
Machine and deep learning, which are essentially information processing/filtering/classification, have the potential to transform the job market. There are startups actively working on reading less explicit signals to flag good matches between applicants and employers.
" very technical person has never seen it before and has trouble with the irc commands "

technical person having trouble with the irc commands - isn't that oxymoron?
www is the problem, where Akami is serving their own instead of the whitehouse.gov wildcard. The cert coming in for whitehouse.gov is fine and not expired.
Fair point.

I am not aware of the deal involving tobacco for technology. Sad that it appears to have not worked out. Perhaps this faith would have been better placed in setting up a line-of-sight or co-op system rather than in politicians.
Why 25:1 Is an Important Number for Fast-Growing Startups
Right. That paragraph about the extensions makes me question the credibility of his claims. Disappointing. I haven't experienced the performance problems he describes, and I use the Chrome dev channel for my main browser.

I've noticed Firefox has been getting faster over the last couple years, but when I use it I still get the feeling that it gets in my way more than Chrome does.

Edit: fix typo
Nah, that's just what we say to all those "diversity hand-wringers".
Linux wants your opinion on what to call next kernel
From my perspective, this article is not suggesting people try to be someone else.

It reminds me of the popular book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking‎"

In that book, the author suggest that introverts fake extroversion in short bursts.

As an introvert myself, this is something I've done for a decade. It's tiring but pays off. Sometimes we introverts miss out on great opportunities because we don't stretch our comfort zone.

I think this article is good advice on small ways for introverts to put themselves out there and "fake extroversion".
Tories' £100,000 a month Facebook bill
I just finished reading "Zero Day to Stuxnet" and I'm really wary of this. The US government has groups that protect its citizens against cyberthreats and also groups that exploit vulnerabilities. Those groups apparently communicate with each other. If there is an ongoing operation that exploits a vulnerability, some groups can veto its dissemination. How long would it be before the exploitation group starts mining this kind of data to find a way to attack an enemy? On top of that there is strong evidence that defense contractors are selling these exploits to governments for use. What's to stop data collected this way from being shared with those contractors?
Somebody should run the numbers and figure out what are the chances a Google service survives!
I quit my YC alum job
There are forks of chromium like iron improving the situation... If people would use them and contribute.
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to say here.
These seem to be 2 separate points. The original post said that he was exonerated because the FBI didn't have probable cause to search him. The article you linked said he was exonerated because the statute didn't cover HFT systems. I guess that makes sense if the reason the FBI didn't have probably cause was because they should have known that, even if everything Goldman alleged, he still wouldn't have broken any laws.
Eh, I eat off foods in my fridge all the time. Usually they still resemble their former glory days.
Everything else in this thread so far seems really negative (with ample justification) of even the idea of sharing this data.

But, personally I wish there was something like the CDC for this type of "cyber" crime.

If there's a 1000% increase in cryptolocker like ransomware showing up, I would actually like the FBI to investigate.

If DDOS extortion schemes are being systematically targeted against companies big and small - that would seem to call for a government response.

At the very least if we just collectively knew more about all of the attacks that were happening I feel as if responses could be improved.

If someone can DDOS Ford's website and demand $1000 to call off the deluge and Ford pays it - this would seem to make all of us more vulnerable. If it had to be reported maybe it would help.
Looking at the alternatives listed, it's clear that they have no competitor.
Glad they're promoting it. Separating pay once and pay as you go was always hard to tell
I have access to 2, but one of them is very slow DSL. My subdivision technically has 2 cable providers, Comcast and Mediacom - but which one you can get is determined by your lot number. My neighbors can get Comcast and I can't.
I don't think this invalidates the point though. In those alone we may have already lost more pictures than were ever taken before 1990 but at the same time the amount we have left is staggering. If you go back 100 years, there are famous people that we have maybe 1 picture of. No matter how sloppy we are with the majority of internet content today, I can't imagine that 100 years from now, they'll only be able to find a couple pictures of Obama and Putin.
Take a look at the Tabasco sauce in question:

http://countrystore.tabasco.com/TABASCOsupreg_sup-Sriracha-S...

That is some pretty similar branding.
Not sure I agree with the article's title. He's basically bad mouthing the entire smart home industry when this really seems like more of a Quirky/GE/Wink mess up. Literally every single product he tested is by them.

I actually LOVE all of the stuff in my smart home! All I have is 6 hue bulbs, a Nest, and an Amazon Echo that I've programmed to control everything with my voice with the help of a Raspberry Pi.

Nothing feels better than walking in after a long day and saying:

"Alexa, turn on all the lights, color blue, brightness 9"

"Alexa set nest to 72"

Then sitting down on the couch and saying:

"Alexa play some jazz music"

pours bourbon

If you're interested in this, check out my Alexa Home project alexaho.me or the YouTube video below) ​. I'm turning Amazon Echo into a smart home controller and people seem to be pretty jazzed about it. Frankly, if we can get stuff to work like this where it doesn't rely on your smartphone, people will use it a lot more. I also have a small switch next to my bed that turns on and off the overhead light and desk lamp in my room for when I don't have my phone on me.

I think success in the home automation biz is going to be all about untying it from your smartphone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AmxiGVBekE
I would probably never implement this, but this looks like an awesome proof of concept. Very creative!
By saying that they're "next to the KKK", you're marking your opposition as not only immoral, but beyond reprieve.

Can you elaborate on that? Several prominent racists of the KKK era, including people like Robert Byrd and George Wallace, ultimately renounced their earlier views. Eich is free to do the same whenever he wants. He has not, as far as I'm aware.
Only on WebKit/Blink. I disapprove. :)
Funnily enough, after reading more into this myself I'm actually going to partially retract some of my statements above.

I don't know if it was definitively proven that he copied the code with the intent of helping the new startup. The evidence the FBI found was that he had the code on a laptop when meeting some of their founders, but I don't believe they had proof of what his intent was or proof that he shared it with them or that they were even aware of it.

He claims he did not intend to do any such thing:

>When he left, Sergey Aleynikov took a segment of code with him that was based on open source, but had some alterations that technically made it proprietary Goldman Sachs software.

>According to Sergey Aleynikov, the software was of no consequence to his job at Teza Technologies, but once they realized he had taken a segment of code from their servers Goldman Sachs contacted the FBI and within 48 hours Aleynikov was in custody.

So I would say the sentence should be based on the proven intent. If he really did intend to use most or all of the codebase while at the startup to gain them an edge, then I think a jail sentence is fair (though I agree 8 years is way too long). Otherwise, probably not, at least depending on how accurate his story is of what % of the codebase was open source originally.
Sure thing citizen, strong privacy regulations will be written into the secret laws and looked over in secret by a secret judge appointed to a secret court, we're the government elected in democratic fashion so you know you can trust us.
YouTube Adopts HTML5 and MSE as Its Default Video Playback Technology
25 yrs after Tyson lost to Douglas, why do we still have sympathy for the devil?
Here's how a few guys are doing it in the Bronx.

"Drone Racing, 'Star Wars'-Style, in the Snowy Bronx"
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/drone-racing-star-wars-styl...

Looks pretty awesome.
Selling Chameleons Online to 58-person SaaS Company
I can't live without Tab Mix Plus and multi-row tabs on Firefox. On Chrome I can't even be a power tabber. It's pretty much the only reason I've stuck with Firefox over Chrome.

The post-crash session restore seems to work well for me; and luckily it's not a frequent occurrence.
I think one of the most frustrating things is hearing how many people seem to dislike LinkedIn, but use it because it's the best thing out there. Most only use it as their online resume, but between recruiter spam messages and constant annoyances from emails and to "keep up to date", they tolerate it at best.

Facebook had similar rumblings (people saying they'd switch off as soon as possible if something better came along), but Google Plus showed us the social costs of switching was higher than the frustration most people felt.

Does LinkedIn have that same social cost of switching to another service? I'm not so sure -- and I think it means they might be more susceptible to falling flat on their face if they push users too far.[1]

[1] This may just be my own hope and bias, since I built a job website of my own.
Well... I never thought about this before...
I work for a company in Alexa's top 20. We use IRC for almost everything.

Something I find really useful is Jira integration with IRC. When something goes wrong, an IRC channel will open up with the name of the Jira ticket -- then status bots and logging bots will join automatically. It really helps to organize everything, especially when multiple problems are happening concurrently. It's also great for building post-mortem timelines after things are resolved.

In addition, most teams also have their own channel, so you can generally join it and ask questions for a quick response.
I am greatly encouraged by operations such as this one: http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/archives/2014/0227/upsta... which is pushing aquaponics. A lot less net water use and plenty of food.
Not like you had anything to lose from this closing down.