skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since when did the concept of "freedom" become too emotional for rational discourse? Moreover, the fascists and communists are responsible for the murder of millions whenever they got into power so the negative emotive meaning of those terms are well-earned and not some rhetorical trick on my part.

NB: Socialism is the wider term and means that the individual serves or lives by permission of the society. Communism and fascism are two types of socialist systems, different in form but not function. In a communist society the government owns ALL the property as a matter of law. A fascist society allows private ownership of property but the government has unlimited power to use, direct, control or confiscate private property for the "good" of the society, i.e. private ownership is in name only. Guess which system the USA is moving toward?

> Its worth pointing out that 'the end of the road' is an implication that the extreme end of a political system is a goal.

It is an implication many people refuse to identify, that doesn't make it any less real. Your position is the same as that of a bank robber who refuses to identify that the end of his road is death or jail and then laughs at you when you point it out, that that is not his goal; his is to get rich.

> It's not, and it is rare anyone would argue that a hybrid economic system isn't the most sensible.

Am I suppose to be intimidated by the majority opinion? I am not. A "hybrid" system or the so-called "third way" in politics (a split between socialism and capitalism) are a complete sell out to the socialists and is not sensible but stupid if you value freedom. There are somethings that can't be split down the middle, its either/or, like Solomon and the baby. Some things are all or nothing, like honesty. Can you claim to be an honest man if you only steal on Tuesdays (or only steal from the "rich")? No. Social systems either recognize and protect individual rights or they abrogate them and consume and use individuals for their own ends. You can't have it both ways. Finally, you need to realize that by advocating for a "hybrid" social system, by the logic of it, what you will get is fascism.
Indeed. JVM used to be widely regarded as crap, and Java as a slow, bloated language. And while Java may still be a bit bloated, it's no longer slow, and JVM became an awesome piece of tech, bringing tons of real advances in things like garbage collection algorithms, and supporting a nice ecosystem of very powerful languages.

So while Java managed to fix its reputation itself, Oracle is doing everything in their power to break it again.
They made a point of it in the stream, saying they pulled it out to save space. The new macbook will be fanless and ventless, and seems to be a return to the mid-line white plastic macbook series.
> 2 month capstone project where you can build a startup or dive deep into computer science topics like artificial intelligence and machine learning.

There is no deep in two months. There's broad, there's skim, there's sophomoric. But there's no deep. Particularly for people not already seasoned and experienced in ingesting vast quantities of difficult data and drawing out inferences.

Edit: Some more notes. There are 6 headliners in https://www.makeschool.com/education. Of those, one (CS) was covered adequately in my college career, one was given lip service (Communication, something I struggle with today), one I learned on my own (Open source), app dev & web dev were largely irrelevant to my education (principles over practice), and networking (people, not wires) was totally neglected.

Communication and networking are both subjects that deserve to be a higher priority in collegiate CS environments.

My perspective is that this is essentially a trade school, which is a good thing. It's not a replacement for a four year degree, it's a two year degree, which is something basically lacking in the software world. Now, if this general package could be rolled up into a traditional two-year trade school, I'd be all for it.
this. I think there was a show HN in the past few months that offered this service?
>> You are literally equating a toolbar with parents not vaccinating their children. I think you've lost a basic sense of perspective here.

He's saying:

1) Anti-vaxers don't trust corporation or the government - which is why they don't vax.

2) Corps/govs are repeatedly seen doing stuff for themselves at the expense of the public - this is where that lack of trust comes from.

3) Crapware and unwanted toolbars are an example of #2

It's a fairly direct contribution from 3 to 2 to 1. It's not that the crapware makes people fail to vaccinate. It's that the crapware is part of a widespread problem reinforcing the appearance of #2 which leads people to #1.
Cyber Security Myths Busted for National Cyber Security Awareness Month
Kaspersky’s entry on the enterprise stage
Now someone has to come up with a JavaScript version of this exploit and the disaster is complete.
Read the admissions page. It's a well-connected trade school for gifted students entering the tech industry as defined by SV, not a scalable alternative and repeatable model for general-purpose higher ed.

edit: This isn't judgemental. Nothing wrong with trade school But that's what this is.
There's still one left (I just got one). The pricing model of the Retina MBPs is just craziness to me. To get larger storage sizes you have to jump entire model lines to get it, you can't just upgrade storage on them.
8GB, it seems. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/03/apples-reveals-new-12-r...
Two ports would be nice in case one became unreliable... which seems pretty likely since everything plugs into it and it doesn't have a magsafe-like disconnect if someone trips over a cord...
More difficult since you can't execute CLFLUSH from there.
People like Kawasaki often hire assistants to tweet for them -- not necessarily Mechanical Turk mediated, legit jobs as social media managers.
You can get killed as the result of a race condition[0] so privilege escalation is certainly possible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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Ask HN: Government employees, how happy are you with Excel?
The intended audience is deciding between the various MacBooks, not between a Dell and a MacBook.
I'm sure this premise is correct, but it does not imply this conclusion.
On the topics that we tracked, the user agent was almost exclusively IFTTT.
Here's a script I've been using in my search for a job in the UK:

github.com/winmillwill/uk_sponsors.sh

Note that this doesn't do anything to verify that the company has jobs in tech, or if they're actually in London or nearby, or if they have a position listed for which they would sponsor a visa. I just use it to eliminate an otherwise promising listing if they can't sponsor.
9h of battery life means you don't have to be constantly plugged in -- just charge it at night, like you do with a phone
>I feel like you've ignored practically all of my responses to you.

Sort of. I'm ignoring the parts that are building on others. The problem is we disagree on fundamental principles.

As best I understand it, the basis of your argument is that white men have set society's expectations, so they have all the responsibility.

As best I understand it, the basis of my argument is that everyone in society (unevenly) sets society's expectations, so they all (unevenly) share responsibility.

There's no way to reconcile those two.

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If you want comments on specific points I'll make some, but please realize everything after this line is much less important than what's above it.

>Are you talking about a hypothetical female CEO (or something similar)? Already addressed.

Sorry, I got confused by your CEO argument because you suddenly mentioned harassment by women, that was me reading too fast, sorry. But now I'm more confused. You say the female CEO is responsible, then you keep repeating that no women are responsible.

When it comes to a woman walking down the street, I keep largely ignoring it because someone walking down the street has no particular power. A non-harassing man calling them out is also at risk of being stalked and jumped.

>But I'll also ask you: do you think men are frequently retaliated against for speaking up about the harassment of women? Is this really something I should have to find evidence to dispel?

Probably not, but that's because nobody reports the harassment of others to the extent that they should. The victims have to file, and then they get retaliated against.

Victims get punished for reporting harassment, and that's terrible, and that's mostly women, but it has absolutely nothing to do with a discussion of how everyone around the harassment should act. Because in a group of 20 people, even if all the women get harassed once, they're the bystander 90% of the time.

>Women are punished heavily for reporting harassment, as the EEOC charge statistics show.

I don't think you have shown sufficient evidence that women reporting the harassment of others are punished heavily, and also that they are disproportionately punished compared to men.

I seriously have no idea if men are punished as much. I want to know. I would expect a slight bias but for all I know men are 50x as able to report harassment without being retaliated against. But it needs evidence.
I fail to see how this benefits me as an job seeker.

It doesn't matter how valuable my current employer thinks I am. All that matters is how valuable my next employer thinks I am.
The non-retina MBP is still available. Or at least it was up to a few minutes ago; they've just taken the store page down for updating, I wouldn't be surprised if the old MBP is gone when it returns. Although you'll probably still be able to buy one until the stock runs out.
I might be punished for this, but it has to be said. First, I agree that learning can be a challenging process and helping someone may make a difference between a drop and an accomplished person. But then, I wonder your friend finally comprehended or not the recursion when landed on that "damn good one" job of "js full stack programmer". If he still doesn't, chances are other important concepts eludes him too, and the pain of his limited understanding can be felt only by his fellow colleagues, not by you. His code may be clean (which I personally appreciate), but that is rarely enough by itself. What is or isn't acceptable needs to be judged by the task at hand, and as sympathetic as one may be, red lines must be drawn all the time (and that is what the article actually does). For average JS implementation tasks your friend may be OK, but you really wouldn't want to encourage him (just out of moral sense of fairness) to get into say, some life-critical systems development without the necessary competence.
$100K Seed investment for 3% equity in company – Convertible Preferred Stock
I'm giving this $100K seed investment as a bridge funding to the company to help them financially. In return, they are giving me a 3% equity in the company.
1. Can someone proof this for any loopholes and let me know how and from where can I generate the legal Convertible preferred stock document? 2. Does the Anti-dilution protection clause ensure my stocks will never dilute in any future event?

TERM SHEET

Investment Security: Seed Convertible Preferred Stock will be issued at the closing of this transaction

Investment Amount: Investor will lead the round of $100,000

Pre-Money Valuation: $20.3 Million

Ownership: The investor will own 3% of the Company for the $100,000 invested

ESOP Pool: 20% ESOP pool included in the pre-money valuation

Minority Protection Rights: The Convertible Preferred Stock issued to the Investor will carry rights of being shares are corporate fixed-income securities that the investor can choose to turn into shares of the company's common stock (up to 3%) after the closing of a Series A financing round, a merger or acquisition of the Company or Company revenues that exceed $10 million, whichever comes first.

Liquidation Preference: In the event of the liquidation of the Company, the Convertible Preferred Stock issued to the Investors will have liquidation rights pari-pasu to all other outstanding preferred securities of the Company. Seed liquidation preference: The Investors will have a liquidation preference pursuant to which they will be entitled to receive, in preference to all other outstanding securities of the Company, an amount equal to 100% of the aggregate purchase price paid for the shares of Convertible Preferred Stock of the Company purchased in the transaction contemplated hereby, plus any accrued or declared but unpaid dividends on such shares

Anti-dilution Protection: All Investors will have a broad based and equal weighted average anti-dilution protection
It has usually taken the form of 1-3 large contracts but from time to time we pick up smaller stuff. I would love to get together sometime if you would like, I am always down for networking and it's easy to talk me into lunch. My contact info is in my profile, feel free to ping me and we can set something up. I can probably twist Hung's arm into a meal as well.
These job sites pop up frequently (each with a small twist) and they get developers to hand over their emails. But I'm not sure how well they succeed in getting good companies to pay for their service afterwards. It's an area I'm interested in learning more about.
I highly recommend a section of Bryan Cantrill's talk where he covers Oracle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2100 lasts two or three minutes.
>Sony only put one DAC in there to save cost, and routed the left/right channel through it alternately.

Wow.

I guess you could just put one speaker slightly further away from the listening position or something...
> Maybe it does take a few ms more than Lua or Python

Yeah, like 3 to 6 times longer.

> but hardly anything significant.

Well if 6x is not significant, surely Clojure's second start time is hardly significant.
It was exactly the topic of the Swedish TV series "real humans". A near future in which robots take more and more importance in our lives. It raises a lot of ethical and philosophical issues. This show deserves more recognition I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Humans
Really hoping this can at least be bumped to 16gb of RAM. Processing power seems diminutive to say the least. I guess this will just be a good looking, fancy SSH machine for me.
Neopets might be an alternative; it's been going strong for 15 years. Also, when I played as a kid I think it taught me about capitalism / making money.
Yes and No. Chrome comes with its own version of Flash installed. So, when you try to download Flash for your copy of Firefox, it automatically downloads and installs Chrome (with its own copy of Flash) unless you uncheck the box in the middle of the download page. Adobe doesn't care, they get paid by Google. And Google pays to increase Chrome's market share.
Certainly, I try and be careful not to make it sound like I have a solution here. Because I don't.
You have defined the problem out of existence. Is that what you meant to do? If the middle of the country is full of great investors and great programmers and great customers and great CEOs then why are we even having this conversation? Why would anyone feel the need to write an essay like the one above? Why does the MidWest need defending? According to you, everything is already perfect.
How Start-Ups Are Shaking Up the World of FinTech
President Obama Launches New TechHire Initiative
Accidentally clipping the power cable is something I definitely got used to not worrying about anymore. I'm loving the single mother-of-all ports USB-C will provide but I highly appreciated the magnet component of MagSafe..
So this be replacing the 11" Airs? If so I'll be the first to get a grab the old machine. No ports no buy.
No. If you have any reservations at all (and it looks like you do) tell them no.
Did you consider building on top of Hub , https://github.com/github/hub/ ?
These sorts of articles always raise an interesting question in me. Where is Twitter?

I get a fair amount of bogus traffic, robots scraping for site vulnerabilities, black hat SEO's trying to find every blog that allows anonymous comments, etc. And I'm reasonably aggressive about shutting those folks out. If you're abusing the TOS I try to shut you down, if you complain we'll talk about it, if you don't well you stay shut down.

So for anyone in Twitter, these are pretty clearly bogus accounts. Bogus enough to support mass banning and waiting for the 'real' ones (if they exist) to complain. So why not just ban/suspend them? Does anyone even try to weed out robots?

Obviously there is a market alignment issue, Twitter likes to quote 'number of accounts' or 'number of signups' or 'monthly active users' as a metric for "goodness". And suspending all the robots would make all of those numbers go down. But it would make their actual user experience better right? Or would it strip away the 'purchased hordes'[1] and suddenly make their users depressed that they had lost a big chunk of their followers that day?

One could be very pragmatic about such things, and consider Twitter to essentially be a game, where the score is "followers" and the rules are flexible (basically anyone Twitter doesn't suspend/ban is a legit point in your score), and as a game it has recruited some interesting high level players (like major brands). When you look at it that way, it makes them look like geniuses, "Hey look, we got General Motors playing Twitter and their in-game purchases are going through the roof!"

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/caught-blue-handed-someone-...
Maybe some JS commands trigger a CLFLUSH internally. I don't know, but it'd be "funny" if that exploit worked in JS.
I don't think it's the consumers, or the Apple employees, that do this cheering. It's the app developers whose livelihoods depend on the Apple platform.

Cheer that your privacy isn't invaded? Nah.

Cheer that you built an API that doesn't invade privacy? Nah again.

Cheer that you can make an easy no-work guarantee that you won't be invading your user's privacy if you use API X in your app, and that this is a competitive advantage against the apps on other platforms that users have to trust individually? Sure.
Is it bad this makes sense to me though?

If the makers of the game added a female character that would be extra cost from a platform, front end, and art perspective. Thereby pushing the cost of the game up for everyone when it's probably still mostly males who play the game.

So the cost of adding a female player is recouped by the people that want to play a female character.

If the makers added in a female character to begin with the game might cost a little more, but in app economics there seems to be a big difference in $1.

I wonder how many males that buy games only buy games that offer both genders as playable characters.
You should probably consult with a lawyer.
That doesn't seem right, at least in America. All companies I've worked for have required me to sign an agreement giving them ownership over any work or inventions produced using their technology or on their time.

If that was the default state why would everyone require those too?
Optimizing Om Apps
For now, we are rating employers based on candidates feedback but the idea of using unique/temp email address is really interesting!
It seems Apple has settled on the same corporate colour scheme for everything except watch straps and budget iPhones - champagne, space gray, and white.

From a design POV, I'd have loved to see this in more cheerful colours.

I don't think it would have disappointed the target market, either.
That's why I stay in the realm of software.
"But 1 port is sad, because now you have to choose between a lot of things (charging, using hdmi, whatever)"

No, USB Type-C allows multiple concurrent uses, such as: charging and using HDMI at the same time. See http://www.anandtech.com/show/8518/hands-on-with-usb-type-c-... : "This opens up the possibility for a dock scenario where a single cable to the monitor can charge a laptop and also mirror the laptop's display onto the external monitor, and the external monitor would also be able to serve as a USB hub for a keyboard, mouse, headsets, flash drives, and other USB peripherals."

Edit: @rakoo: I agree that in scenarios where you do not have a hub, it is annoying to have only 1 port. Even if the power brick integrates a USB hub it would be weird to have to plug a USB drive in the brick... I guess this opens a market opportunity: sell a tiny USB hub with 3 ports (type-C power in, type-C power out, type-A generic port) that is meant to be left almost permanently attached to the laptop or to the end of the power cord.
It is an open-source framework allowing medical researchers and professionals to interact directly with patients via iOS applications. Patients will be able to perform tests, fill out questionnaires, etc., and have the results sent directly to researchers.
Both versions will ship with 8 GB of RAM. [1]

[1] http://images.apple.com/live/2015-mar-event/images/d02cd9e29...
I wonder about the performance of this Apple core-m implementation. All the reviews I have read on PC implementations were catastrophic for performance and disappointing for battery life.

1) battery life:
The length of a day for apple is 9/10 hours

2) performance:
Lemma, when apple is discreet on one aspect of things, assume the worst. I don't recall hearing anything on the performance of the amazing, all 'new macbook'.
Infosys, TCS, HCL etc
I didn't even know there was a show today. From a long time Apple fanboy, I think that says a lot about what this company has left in free marketing from the internet channels.

I would say the free ride is over for Apple and they're now just another company doing things in the mosh pit.
Starbucks and Ikea: the leading computer innovators :-)
Looks like an automated version of White Truffle. That said, looks straightforward and has an interesting metric.

Nice work.
'tis but a simple registry edit rolled out via Group Policy.
Great job transitioning from buying Coke using Apple Pay to managing diabetes in ResearchKit. Vertical integration at its finest.
The question of consciousness is an interesting one. If the machine can perfectly fake it has consciousness or emotions how can we tell it's not conscious? conversely, how do we know other humans are conscious and not just "pretending"?
> SysAdmins for IIS and SQLServer get about 120k. [My note: I presume you do mean IIS]

Presuming this is USD, but even in the UK as GBP - "In my dreams" - and I'm a developer as well as a sysadmin for Windows (IIS/SQL) and Linux (Apache/MySQL), 25 years man and boy but have always kept on top of my game :)

Outside of London you'd be lucky to hit 45K GBP (~70K US$) in a permy role with that skillset, perhaps 60-65K GBP if contracting.
How would you characterize the accent of Tim Cook?
It was one of the first things mentioned in the presentation. Pic from Ars:

http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-march-9-spring-forward-ev...
You should not rely on HN for this. Seriously, seek legal advice.
It's difficult to credit that anyone who has been around marijuana (or for that matter, cocaine or hallucinogen) users for any length of time (which many cops have) would truly consider those substances more "dangerous" than alcohol. The direct analogy with alcohol prohibition would prompt introspection from any thoughtful person.
The ebook publishing world has a lot to learn from iPython notebooks. There's such resistance to javascript and active content in EPUB3, because somehow that's not a book. And to be fair, in most cases its stupid pet tricks. But this book is a great example of a real book that needs to be live.

Despite that, I think EPUB has a much better chance at evolving into something like ipynb than TeX or PDF.