skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well this is't this place to have that debate :-)

Though the current ICO should be fired (over the employment blacklisting issue) which if Ed gets it on the 8th I might try and do something about.

Having said that the DPA is prayed in aid by some many organisations when they don't want to do something that your not got to get called on it.
Why not just practice reading it "I love you"? A more charitable interpretation of the writer's intent and less likely to get you so frustrated.
Cool in concept, flawed in execution in that the general public is unaware of the network or its benefits.

It reminds me of us trying to get friends and family to use pgp with their email 25 years ago. They just didn't see the value prop.

From what I've read online the newest generations of computer users do see the value for ephemeral networks and prefer Snapchat, WhatsApp, line, yikyak, etc to FaceBook just to avoid a record of everything they do online.

I'm not sure Diaspora is really on their radar with so many other options in that space. Provably need a compelling android and iOS app to really compete there.
Lots of opportunity for extended terminology quibbling with this one. This article ends up equating "Linux" with 'open source (licenses)', (and "hackers"..?). Concluding that applying the same approach for agriculture, specifically seed production, would be a good thing, (which likely it would be). Perhaps the authors should arrange to lock Mr Torvalds and Mr Stallman in a small room together to appreciate their 'equivalence'.

"... One fateful morning in Minneapolis, Michaels awoke with a Linux-inspired epiphany: What if we did the same thing with our seeds? Just like hackers, he and his colleagues would make their germplasm “free” by attaching a license that kept it in the public domain."
Not that they're necessarily in the same league, but would you say the same about Amazon?
My in-laws are Vietnamese. this is an astute observation; Vietnam has a tradition of prominent female military leaders going back millenia. For example, the Trung sisters are considered national heroes for their resistance to (patriarchal) Confucian rule by the Chinese, resulting in their becoming joint queens of Vietnam for several years, though they eventually suffered military defeat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C6%B0ng_Sisters
No man is an island - and if they can screw over rich people guess what's going to happen to the little people.

You seriously don't think the principle of equality before the law is worth fighting for?
I am not sure what post content was deleted, but the op didn't mention any names in his recollection of a ceo
Try all 12 possibilities for reconnecting those three chains...

I'm only coming up with 8 possibilities. Pick one chain and designate it Aa. That may be followed by:

Bb, Cc
Bb, cC
bB, Cc
bB, cC
Cc, Bb
Cc, bB
cC, Bb
cC, bB

If distance depends on direction, multiply by 2 (for aA in addition to Aa), but that still isn't 12.
Get in touch with your previous students, both those in academia, and those in industry.

If they're in academia, ask about their industry connections. If they're in industry, ask if they can help you. If you can't get direct contacts, at least find out what skills and knowledge is being looked for, and what options exist.

It's very easy to forget the power of an 'alumni' network. Who we know is often our greatest asset.
I guess my question would be, if people fail to practice safe sex, they could easily fail to take their prophylactic medication as well.
The problem is that you insist on living the mid 20th century American Dream.
I was talking about phosphates. Not about oil.
That is the key. You mentioned your threshold to even considering an interview. Setting expectations..
The HN guidelines ask you to use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait. For some reason people tend not to remember that latter bit, but it's just as important.
No, but to allow for an unlimited number of a's.

"Diasporaaaaaa!" (As in "Spartaaaaaa!")

"Diaspor" sounds silly though. Definitively should have gone with Diaspora+.
You don't need a different legal system. Just make police unions illegal, as the federal government has done for the military. That way, police will have to rely on private counsel or public defenders, just like everyone else.
There certainly are solved problems.

Is it possible to trisect an angle using a compass and straight-edge? Answer: No.

Can we put something into orbit? Answer: yes.

Precise problems can have precise answers. But open-ended problems - "are there better ways of communication?" - have incomplete answers.
Let's compare the ingredients:

Guardian Recipe vs Hellman's

2 egg yolks vs Whole eggs and egg yolks

pinch of salt vs salt

olive/walnut/rapeseed oil vs soybean oil

white wine vinegar or lemon juice vs vinegar & lemon juice

garlic vs natural flavors

mustard vs sugar

So really not that different. Hellman's adds sugar instead of mustard and uses soybean oil vs the other three options. This isn't to promote Hellman's, but your argument that it doesn't resemble the real stuff doesn't make sense when the ingredient list is about 90% the same.
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Just a wild guess here the answers "NO" I could be wrong of course :-)
Yet Another Chromium Fork. "Iridium has various enhancements where it forces strict security to provide the maximum level of security without compromising compatibility." -- what does that means, exactly?
I like this because at a glance you really can't tell anything about these arbitrary racial groupings in these arbitrarily arranged territories.
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Well, in England this kind of talking therapy is available free under the IAPT (improved access to psychological therapies) system. You search for various combinations of "talking therapy" or "cbt" and the name of your county.

Companies could allow employees to go private and send the bill to the employer. I guess buying in therapy as a service allows the costs to be more predictable.
Had Sun not sued Microsoft for making an incompatible JVM, would the CLR exist?
Wade Goodwyn is one of the best reporters NPR has—so consistently good that I've often listened to a piece just because I saw his name on it. There's no question he's being satirical here, which is quite out of character. He's a Texan; maybe he got exasperated and couldn't bring himself to treat the material seriously.

This is not a good post for HN, though.
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That's the same concern that was raised with birth control pills back when they first came out, but they've proven to be incredibly effective when measuring actual use (rather than "ideal" use, which is ridiculously inaccurate).

Given how many people are already on at least one daily medication, adding another pill is a pretty low barrier. It's much easier to remember to take a pill every morning than it is to remember to (a) stock up on condoms, (b) bring them with you on a date, (c) put one on in the heat of the moment, etc - you get the idea.

This isn't just speculation; it's supported by the clinical trials and post-clinical data as well, which is why PrEP is not only approved by the FDA, but actively recommended by the WHO and other organizations.
FWIW, we're trying to fix this with https://sandstorm.io. Try https://demo.sandstorm.io -- apps in many different frameworks, all equally trivial to install. :)

(We'll have Diaspora on there soon...)
Completely different domains and polar opposites on levels of technical requirement. Etsy is an end user web application (don't get me wrong, it's a great service). AWS is pretty much the pioneer in IaaS. I'd say Amazon (AWS) built the system so folks like Etsy wouldn't have to build as much as a system.
> The solenoid is 3.5 meters across

I looked it up and it appears that US rural bridge clearance standards are 4.9m, so that must have been a very low flatbed or they found a route across the country that did not have to contend with any bridges. Alternatively, if I was driving the truck I'd want to go real slow toward the first bridge.

There was a section on bridge strength, too, but (a) I don't know what "MS 18" implies, and (b) I don't know how much a truck and a ginormous magnet weigh for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_standards
Had Sun not sued Microsoft then Microsoft would have ran off with the platform and built themselves an incompatible JVM and framework (common java + Windows-only Microsoft extensions).
Simulated Annealing is my go-to optimization algorithm. I'm using at work to solve a vehicle scheduling problem.
That's my entire point; if Clang did not exist then Apple would have had to contribute the Swift frontend back with the GPL or write an entire compiler backend, as they did for Obj-C.

Now, Clang is competitive and they can keep the frontend under wraps.

Had Clang existed when Apple were implementing Obj-C, they'd have used that, there'd be no open source Obj-C frontend Microsoft wouldn't be able to do this without considerably more work.
> The company is in the UK so there are laws governing use of information.

Are there laws against invading privacy via subverting cell phones in the UK? Did it happen?
It's funny how the negotiation discussions are always about salary. Most of us make good money. What I want to know is, how do you negotiate 8 weeks off every year (paid or unpaid doesn't matter). How do you bring up next years paternal leave already at the interview? How do you get throgh a negotiation making sure it is acceptable to work slightly less than the 40 hour week at times because kids need to be picked up from daycare at 4pm?
>why is it that C is so much more often poorly programmed than, say, Python?

It's kind of like saying: trauma surgeons must be more dangerous than pediatricians, because so many more patients die in the care of a trauma surgeon than in the care of a pediatrician. It ignores the fact that you wouldn't send a pediatrician to such a difficult patient as you'd send a trauma surgeon to. You wouldn't use Python in a lot of the places you'd use C because the performance would be "shaggy puppy meets Godzilla" lousy.

>That's not the only alternative

Suppose I've established that the fastest way the computer can do X involves having the CPU (which only knows machine code, no magical languages) access a memory location without checking if it's in bounds. Either the language allows me to program that, or it doesn't. If it does, then Heartbleed-like bugs are possible. QED.

Alright, there's technically one other alternative, require the programmer to formally proof-verify that the code does as it's supposed to. I hope that this will become more practical within my daughter's lifetime (it probably won't within mine).
Apart from their energy intensiveness, what is wrong with the suburbs?

I grew up in suburbia, and I remember fresh air, open spaces and low crime. I get that suburbs can be boring for some people, but a lot of people I knew growing up chose to return to the suburbs after living in bigger cities, or never left.
No it isn't, but for the vast majority of users, it is their first call because their hosting providers provide cpanel or similar with app installers (i.e. Fantastico) and the vast majority of those apps are going to have been written in PHP: https://netenberg.com/fantastico.php#fantastico-scripts.html

The OP genuinely ha a good point.

Diaspora needs to be as easy to install as Wordpress and as ubiquitous, and then it would gain real adoption. Sad, but true.

Check out the Diaspora install instructions for Ubuntu: https://netenberg.com/fantastico.php#fantastico-scripts.html

It starts off with:

The install is a bit complex, but we're here to help.
It's extremely helpful to have some experience in Linux/Unix server
administration or Rails app deployment already. But don't worry, if you
run into problems and need help, just visit us in our IRC channels on
Freenode.

If Diaspora wants a chance to win against Facebook then this is a shitty way to get users on board.
> As a job searcher you always use your previous previous job as reference

Not every job search is done without the knowledge of the current employer. Just a few examples of when that may not be true:

* moving across the country because of a spouse's relocation

* contract employee approaching the end of the contract period

* full-timer looking to switch to part-time

* switching careers

* volunteering for an "early retirement" deal at a company that's downsizing

* difficult to replace role (e.g. it's not uncommon for CEOs of large companies to announce their intention to leave a year or more out)

I do agree that recruiters (or anyone) should never contact your current employer without your permission but it's incorrect to assume all job searches are carried out surreptitiously.
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I would have picked a different name since there is already an Iridium in the tech space (satellite phone company). Not sure if it matters in Germany.
OSSEC requires you to understand how it works. That's good, but means that you have to devote 10 or 15 hours reading docs and testing before being productive with it.

I recommend it though
The homepage says:

Disable transmission of partial queries, keywords, metrics to central servers without consent.

Builds reproducible, modifications auditable.
I can't stress exercise enough here. Exercise is paramount, especially for people who's daily jobs that require lots of hours sitting on a chair. You simply are not tired enough.

Food, try to eat light by night. Say you go to bed at 11 p.m., you should eat your last meal (light meal...) at 8 p.m.

Don't sleep during the day, you should get a good sleep 7 to 8 hours during the night.

Avoid TV-screens, movies and any kind of digital devices after 10 p.m... Grab a book, read for an 1h before going to sleep.

Try to refresh the air in the room, like open the window for 15 minutes before going to bed. The coverlet should be optimal to keep you warm, but not too warm or too cold. The body temperature is important to get a good sleep.

Also the pillow and the mattress should be good. You don't want the mattress to be to hard or too soft. Should be hard enough to keep your body straight but not hurt you.

Digital screens lead to melatonin inhibition, which in turn causes all kinds of troubles.. The most visible being insomnia. You could take some melatonin pills, since you're an adult, as a natural sleep enhancement 1h before going to bed.

Everything counts, but the most important thing to get a good night sleep is to get physically tired. Most people avoid that and end up with sleeping pills, which affects negatively their cognitive functions...

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here.
>> Is there something more complicated that's actually used?

Yes, absolutely. It's less common but so are the people who can implement them.
You're quibbling over details.

* They're using a different type of oil, no big deal.

* They list water, well, how strong is the vinegar? They could likely take the "water" off the list by simply using a weaker vinegar, but they probably add it at a different stage of processing to simplify flow, so, no big deal.

* I suspect there are a lot of people who feel that if they want mustard they will by god add their own mustard, keep it out of their mayo what are you some kind of food pervert?

* Garlic? Why are you adulterating my emulsion with your bits of smelly crushed plant material? Feh, I say, Feh!

* And finally, I challenge you to put egg yolks in your mayonnaise without getting any egg white / albumen in there. I suspect you're going to have to extract it with a syringe, because no egg separator is going to get rid of all of it.
Breaking news! User javert is resistant to linguistic shift! Stop the presses, because this is a humdinger of a story!
I do love how they go back and update their tutorials. Given how much has changed since the original version, its really nice.
I think we're talking relational DBs here, right? In fairness you already have business rules in the DB, implicitly, just from the layout of your tables. You probably also have foreign keys. At that point, a stored proc that translates business needs like "at customer location X, stop service A on this date and replace it with service B" to the multiple table reads and inserts required, seems like a good idea. It's actually not that weird to keep most of your devs out of the database entirely, in which case they probably appreciate being able to just call a stored proc to get something done.
I haven't gone through the interview process yet, but when I asked about salary last time a recruiter called, they said if I made it through the interview process they're sure they can do what it takes to come up with an offer that works. Which is basically a non-answer, but given Google's resources is fairly believable.
Weren't they targeting the same user base as Wordpress? I thought the goal was to get social networking as decentralized as blogging.

It isn't hard to host a Rails app, but it's certainly harder than hosting one in PHP. Especially if you have little or no technical expertise or aren't willing to pay for anything more than shared hosting.
This is just the problem of forming automorphism-invariant encodings of a graph, but extended to permit weighted graphs.

First, given the Gram matrix for your vectors, interpret its entries (read from left-to-right and top-to-bottom) as defining a cumulative sum.

Next, order your vectors such that the values in the order-induced cumulative sum are maximal for as many of the partial sums as possible, compared with the cumulative sums induced by any other possible ordering. This produces the same "canonical ordering" and hence the same "canonical Gram matrix" for any set of vectors that have the same collection of pair-wise relationships, as measured by dot-products.

For graphs with binary adjacency matrices this can be stated more simply as sorting the vertices such that the resulting adjacency matrix, when read l-to-r and t-to-b, produces the largest binary number. This encoding uniquely identifies the automorphism group of the encoded graph (i.e. all isomorphic graphs produce the same encoding).

If you were willing to represent your pair-wise dot-products u sing fixed-precision binary representations, then you could just use the "matrix as binary number" approach directly. Though, each matrix entry would now contribute multiple bits to the binary number, rather than just one.

Note that this approach is not efficient. But, your problem subsumes standard graph isomorphism, so a polynomial-time solution would be noteworthy. All of what I've said makes no assumption about the vectors' dimensions. There's probably a more efficient approach for vectors constrained to a relatively low-dimensional space.
I wonder if polygraphs are there as a cover for refusing clearance due to secret evidence. If you know bob is a Soviet spy because your agents in Russia say so, you don't want to blow their cover, so you need an arbitrary reason to refuse clearance.
"Swift is the more beautiful language and it lets you write pretty code and bring you joy"

If you think code is "beautiful" then you don't know what you're talking about. You're anthropomorphizing a list of instructions. It's functional, not beautiful.

Go out and watch a sunset, and then try to compare that to a list of instructions, or better yet, compare your wife's beauty to that of a list of instructions - I bet she won't appreciate the forced equivalence either.

I've been programming for 30 years, and for me there is no beauty in code except for what it produces. Is buggy code written in Swift still "beautiful"? This is why it's not good to spend so much time in front of a computer, if you start to think of list of instructions as "beautiful" then you've lost touch with reality.
Even with the improvements you mention, London is still not exactly the most bicycle-friendly city in Europe, which is a little surprising since it's flat as a pancake. You should try cycling in Amsterdam or Copenhagen for a comparison.
> it was heavy enough to get deleted by the mods

Of course we didn't touch that post. By the way, whenever you see "[deleted]" it means the submitter deleted it, or (in rare cases) asked us to do so after the editing window had expired.

Edit: I checked the logs just to make sure this wasn't some weird exception. It was definitely deleted by the author.

I'm going to detach this subthread and mark it off-topic now.
I can confirm that neither Jerome or l deleted any post. Great to see a discussion about mental health on HN!
You'll acquire CPU 0's lock (since a map lookup with an invalid key yields the zero value). I agree this isn't optimal when you change the affinity of a process after it has started. You could imagine a scheme where, if this happens, you create a new lock, but that would significantly complicate the scheme as you would now potentially need to take a read lock on the map in case it changes under you. It's annoying that CPUID values aren't guaranteed to be without holes, but that's what we're stuck with.

Yeah, the sleep is a leftover from an earlier version of the code that didn't use sched_setaffinity. I've remove it now.
i would say people are far more scared of someone recently suffering from ebola than HIV!
Further to this, I think Diaspora have the wrong use case.

People want personal clouds, not community pods. All they've done is swap out my data from Facebook (who I don't trust) to some random person on the internet who hosts a pod (who I don't trust either).

They want to self host their own little social networks, where they can privately share posts, photos and chat with friends and family.

They want to choose a hosting provider with a point and click install (like Wordpress) and use a backend store in the cloud like AWS S3, Rackspace Cloud or Google to store their data encrypted.

Then they can start straight away uploading photos and inviting friends.

Ideally each personal cloud would have some kind of syndication system, so you could share content with the personal clouds of friends, you know, like ATOM or RSS! I'm actually not kidding.

This is what I'm looking for. I haven't found it yet.
I guess it may be when you realize the absurdity of the situation you are on (they are incompetent, irrationally demanding, etc) and that you really would not lose much just cutting those people, also to avoid unnecessary awkwardness when quitting

Spot on.
I wouldn't advice Xamarin to someone who wants to learn to write apps for iOS.

Xamarin in great but it makes most sense to use in a professional environment where a single app needs to be target at multiple platforms. Usually developers using Xamarin already have a great understanding of iOS and Android (and Windows?) before they start using Xamarin.

I think for someone new to developing apps it would be too much of an abstraction.
He should get a sleep study done ASAP.
Nice one. But have you noticed that while the stories change, < title / > stays put as 'Fumblebrag' ? That's a problem when bookmarking because it takes the title as the bookmark name.
The intent with standards like MISRA C is actually to be a reference point against which certifiable audits can cite companies for infractions. That is, the standard is no good as you note, unless a desired industry certification is only attainable for a company if an audit demonstrates the programmers are indeed following the rules.

Otherwise, you're right. The value goes out the window without enforcement, without compliance.
> For some reason people tend not to remember that latter bit

Indeed - but a reminder from dang should prevent that from happening again :-/
Thought: Why would anyone use this when they could use Anki for free?
Not really -- with strong typing you can still use duck typing.

Swift has a cool approach to this.
They bury the lede: Los Angeles is pretty great if you don't have to commute to work.