skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Facebook posts were eligible for Pulitzers, this would win. This is so incredibly thought-provoking, well-written, and well-constructed.
The funds were allocated to recording companies, not directly to artists. Which means the artists rarely saw any of that money - the percentage of that payment to which they were entitled rarely rounded up to 1 cent.
There are a small number of things you can do that might seem sensible but would make a situation worse. You learn those things in the right context.

Anyone who has a minimal amount of marathon training should know about hyponatremia; anyone who works with magnesium should know to put it out with sand; many people know that you shouldn't pull out the knife.

In a group of N people in London, there are first aiders and medical professionals present who contextually know this stuff.

On the balance of probability, I guarantee you there was more than 1 NHS worker pushing that bus.
Well I guess that ISIS selfie guy won't get that promotion after all ...
It's much more pleasant to build UIs with lots of different states in React, because you have a full programming language at your disposal. The last js library I worked with was Knockout.js. Having to use Knockout's limited subset of a programming language to do view logic meant that lots of view logic lived in the models.

But the really big difference is in using ClojureScript. I converted CircleCI's open-source frontend[1] to Om/React and it feels much closer to backend codebase than a frontend. Brandon Bloom gave a good talk about it at Clojure/West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNtQPSUi1iQ

[1] https://github.com/circleci/frontend
I guess Bananalytics.
I don't think your analogy makes a lot of sense

Breaking into a house - we have a name for that - it's called "breaking and entering" and "trespass".

However, going along with your analogy, say you're in my house - from my perspective, I would care about what you did.

If you took something that was mine, and denied it to me, I'd be quite annoyed. (I've had a expensive road bike stolen, so yes, I know what it feels like).

However, say you took photographs of everything I owned, to copy my packing style and organisational techniques? Or took them so that you could re-buy everything I have for yourself off Amazon? I probably wouldn't be annoyed, so much as think you odd...
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Yeah, people do weird things in unexpected high-stress situations. Not everyone is an action hero it turns out.
Why was I downvoted? It's very much true.
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You are mixing a number of issues here:

1. Google Play Services APIs: These are optional, proprietary APIs. You don't have to use them, and you have to treat them as optional if you want to operate across Google, Amazon, and other AOSP-derived Androids. What's the issue here? They're like any other proprietary API.

2. "Breaking" the "Java standard:" Google "appropriated," via a permissive open source license, an open source implementation of some Java base classes, and the (not protectable) syntax of the Java language. They added support for their own remote API feature and a bunch of APIs, mainly to make a usable UI system. The result runs on a runtime Google devised, using a bytecode Google devised. Where is the intellectual property theft?
Then it is just bunkers - what are these guys thinking?
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Yes! this is our side project which will be free forever.
We also have an advanced offering for pre-screening and more interviewing features like web calling, code playback, admin mode for taking notes etc.

Feel free to try that as well:
https://www.remoteinterview.io
As far as an ETA goes, it looks like they're shooting for 06/16/2015, as found on their project page here:
https://github.com/docker/distribution/wiki/docker-1.7-Proje...
Keepass uses them for downloads, forums and issue tracking. It is often in the sf.net top 10 projects. http://keepass.info
Your commute has ranged between those values, but do you think that the mode commute time isn't a good indicator? Or maybe you can use the 75 percentile time? Are you really saying you don't have a good judge of about how long your commute will take most days?

No one is saying you have to be right on time every single time. But we do have a problem with chronically late people.
i had a similar experience recently, watched 2 guys stealing a bike, while one of them held the cable lock the other cut it with sire cutters, all the while assuring his mate that no-one would get involved. They were metres from a busy bus stop, it was 5pm in a major UK city so it was well populated area and well lit.

I didnt have time to get my camera out to photograph them as they had cut the cable, so without really thinking I just gave chase (i was on my bike). My non-thinking caught up with me pretty quickly when i was next to him and thought "What now?" so I just pushed him off the bike, he fell, got up and ran off leaving the stolen bike behind.

Amazingly someone who saw this incident then asked if I was stealing the bike.

But yeah the bystander effect seems to be a 'not my business' type of stance that people take, and it makes them worse people and their community a worse community because of it. I sometimes wonder if these people ever think "why is no one helping me" when something happens to them? If they do I bet they never draw the parallel to their own inaction on previous occassions.
I would have to disagree. One of the main benefits of distributed systems is that you don't need to know that in reality your file system is sharded on to 5 different disks at 2 different colocs.
I understand that sometimes you need to manually recover, but OP sweepingly states that distributed systems is a UX problem, which I think is a ridiculous reduction and equivalent to saying "well this shit is hard so let's just spill the guts of the system internals up to the user"
Could the mods remove the blogspam link and link to the source?

http://defensetech.org/2015/06/03/us-air-force-targets-and-d...

> “The guys that were working down out of Hurlburt, they’re combing through social media and they see some moron standing at this command. And in some social media, open forum, bragging about the command and control capabilities for Daesh, ISIL. And these guys go: ‘We got an in.’ So they do some work, long story short, about 22 hours later through that very building, three [Joint Direct Attack Munitions] take that entire building out.”

As with many things, the devil is in the details...in this case, the "long story short" part. And I don't see what the big deal is; social media is just another way that information gets accidentally leaked...because it came from a "selfie" or whatever, doesn't make it inherently less "truthy"...it just may require different levels and methods of verification before discovered information becomes actionable information.

And honestly, I don't think this kind of information is much more inherently flimsy than information that comes from a paid informant, or through tortured confessions.
For every "rule", like the bystander effect, there's an exception. You, my friend, are the exception. You don't see the logic because you are that "someone else" that people expect is going to help.
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I was specifically referring to where you said "having defined your interfaces with types your tooling..." The implication being that types are required for this to work. I question that implication.
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The media told me that recent historic legislation ended mass surveillance, so I can't imagine there's anything to worry about.

Sections 214 and 217 of the Patriot Act arguably authorize this surveillance. Or maybe FISA 702. But journalists have zero imagination or critical thinking skills and need powerpoint slides directly illustrating things. And they'll immediately forget even what the slides show when Congress promises that a new bill outlaws that.
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Interesting comment, and I'll think about it. Not to take away from your comment as a whole, I will nitpick one particular thing. There is a big difference in tone, imho, in saying "some Silicon Valley executive died recently", which I believe to have a dismissive undertone, vs saying "a Silicon Valley executive", which is fairly neutral. The "some" is probably what triggered me there.
EF (joinef.com) in London might come close, although they basically pay a stipend to make the founder team building/ideation phase a full time job for a few months.
Nothing is risk free...as soon as people start promising that you need to run. Every pyramid scheme in history has promised "risk free" returns.
Now I'm curious! Although really just any chance to have a quick language discussion...

If that's the case it sounds like a good grammar book or two, plenty of daily audio exposure and flashcards ought to get you somewhere approaching what this service offers. I'd imagine you're well up on decent resources by now, though[0].

And I can only guess as to what your end goal is. Presenting to a tough crowd in Norwegian is all I can come up with.

A northern-Norwegian friend let on a little about the massive regional variations there, too, which makes it fun when someone from a 'non-standard' region replies in their own special, often ancient, brand of Norwegian.

--

[0] - If you're stuck for new material, you can always try Lars Monsen's shows on nrk.no - a tough but kind outdoorsman - with the subs on.
OrientDB fails to deliver on its promises. It has a load of features but they are poorly thought out and/or broken.

ArangoDB is OrientDB done right, but it's a lot younger.

If you're considering using either, you owe it to yourself to investigate whether postgres's Common Table Expressions [0] can do what you want instead. If you can stick with something more mature like postgres, then you'll be saving yourself a lot of pain.

[0] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/queries-with.html
Yes! In fact published before Paxos, and studiously ignored by Lamport + shown to be equivalent.
2 reasons, first they may be wearing the camera (think go pro) so you can film and help. Alternatively you got there a bit late and thre is no room to get involved so filming does no harm.

It is different if the first person on the scene is standing over the injured party with a mobile phone held out to record them without providing any assistance e.g. calling 999/911/112 etc
Uber are a bunch of assholes, but I don't think anybody's arguing that established taxi monopolies aren't also a bunch of assholes.
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It also hurts their credibility by portraying them as a bunch of amateurs who a superior force (the US) can destroy with ease.
Origin poster wrote: "Cheating is pretty entrenched in Chinese culture."

Translation: "Sick man of Asia is a cheat"
I guess this is part of Obama's "surveillance reform" for which he has been calling "for years"?
I wonder how long authorities will be able to preface awful things with "Hunting for Hackers," before people get fed up.
What if we had an agency that was dedicated to finding an eradicating vulns, and creating tools to secure data from all threats?

You get what you allocate your resources toward having. For now, security is a sideline, a hobby.
Yeah, I don't see the point either
I was actually scheduled to fly home out of BER in 2012. I don't know how much lead time the airline actually had, but I only found out a few weeks before that my flight changed to TXL.
The person has clarified that they wanted to know if I ran a pertinent startup - nope! I don't have anything to do with a software download business model, I'm just a consumer. I install things all the time where I have to decline an offer, and I would never accidentally hit "Accept" under a giant picture of unrelated software.

If you do google the specific thing being advertised (as I would if I wanted to know exactly what I was accepting) you would find something quite mixed. It has nothing to do with the format of the offer though (or with me.) It's like an ad. In the specific screenshot I linked, which is this one: https://i.imgur.com/hNDdz4P.png

Yes, I have no problem seeing offers in that specific format in my personal case as a consumer. No, I have nothing to do with any of these companies.
> Since when should youth be so flagrantly ignorant as to form a worldview of sunshine and daisies while terrorism, corruption, and destructive climate change take up most of the headline space?

Maybe because:

1. Headlines don't equal reality. Do we live in a worse world than before, or do we just have better ways of spreading information, and that such headlines tend to sell more than more benevolent news?

2. They perhaps wouldn't be doing anything about it anyway. Many cynics tend to be complainers rather than complainers + doers. What good does it do if you're a cynic if all it does is that it makes you sit around and mope? And if you are living in a good place with good people, and you aren't out to change the world having a positive outlook might be better for you own good than worrying about people in distant lands that you don't intend to try to help anyway.
Can you provide some support for your assertion that this is false -- that there are no cultural differences between Chinese cultures and Western cultures in terms of attitudes of what is "right" in terms of cheating, plagiarism, or copycat/shanzhai goods? Note that this is not just a matter of whether a culture has cheaters or not, but to what degree it is tolerated in either practice or in the stated beliefs of a culture.

Culture is not just cuisine and costumes -- it is also how one interacts with the world and others in one's society. There's a certain arrogance in assuming that all people in the world must obviously approach things in the same way that you do.
Weird. I still see it. :(
You joke, but seeing Amazon lately, that seems like the kind of things they would like to know.
This was a serious problem in the early stages of the Afghanistan campaign, when people realised that they could settle longstanding neighbourhood disputes by denouncing their enemies to the Americans. That was partly why the US bombed a number of wedding convoys.
It is hard to emphasize how bad overfitting on the test set is. Your cheating analogy is accurate, and cheating in science is a serious matter. If it is unintentional, you should have your work rejected or retracted. If it is intentional, you should have your work rejected or retracted and, frankly speaking, you should most likely leave the field.

Science is based on a huge deal of trust and violating that trust for your own short term gains is inexcusable. Even worse, any honest scientist will have find it more difficult to improve upon results that can be explained by overfitting.

A good short description on several issues that plague the field is "Clever Methods of Overfitting".

http://hunch.net/?p=22
It's basically a race condition, or rather the opposite of one if that makes sense. Everybody assumes that someone else is helping or will help and therefore they not only don't have to do anything but shouldn't.

It's tricky, I don't think people are usually concerned with being late, I think it's more about efficiency. You can't have everybody who sees someone in trouble help, because the situation will be overwhelmed and it's possible more damage can actually be done that way. Other times people simply just don't know what to do, for example, like how to give CPR, and they just assume that they therefore cannot help.

So we need something like a distributed consensus algorithm to figure out who should be the people to respond. I have heard the best thing a person with no medical training can do is actually to delegate tasks to other people. Saying things like "You, call 911" and "Is anybody a doctor?" etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect . Also Cialdini's fantastic book (Influence) introduced me to this topic among many others.
It can literally change by 30 minutes day by day. With extremes at 50 minutes.

At 75 percentile you'd still probably have to come in 30 minutes early most days, unpaid. And for most companies being late 25% of the time is not good enough.

That range isn't the full curve, just the ones I've experienced.

Having had short commutes, and long commutes the difference is immense in being able to predict how long it takes.

The only way avoid this is to come in really early, and negotiate to leave work early. Or flexi-time.

Most people just accept it and waste 30-40 minutes.
If this is a hobby decision, then buying a Mac is spending money on your hobby. If it's a business decision then YAGNI applies until you have paying work developing iOS/OSX applications. Even then on the iOS front there are things like Xamrin that cover the functional requirements for iOS and the price of new hardware covers many months of subscription.

Good luck.
Just wanted to chime in and say this beautiful application was built with a pretty cool technology stack: ClojureScript, Om (ClojureScript bindings to React), Clojure and Datomic.
You're right - I won't edit my post but I agree. I went overboard to contrast the article which might make it appear as though the US military lacks this intelligence.
What's the point of encryption if the government can still force the creators to decrypt it at the drop of a legal reason, which may or may not be substantial?
What's missing here is that old animated gif of the dancing banana.
I think you're missing fapjacks point. its not that you're not letting a few people in that are just as capable, its that you're not finding all of the top talent possible. looking around my organization I would say of the people that one out of every 50 people who are hired are observably way more talented than all of the other engineers in the org (ignoring years of experience and strictly speaking about talent + measured output). half of those do not have degrees whereas 90% of engineers in the org do.

so if youre looking for top talent, you are limiting yourself by a significant amount by only looking for people with degrees. looking further into this, if the top talent you do have doesnt have many people to challenge them, then they will leave because they either feel like they arent progressing or feel like they get frustrated by the others not being able to contribute at a level that they expect.
Serious Slow Clap guys. To do this as a web app is really impressive. Great UI. Only recommendation would be to have a library of prebuilt commonly used components, similar to balsamiq, but I'm sure you are aware of them.
Ironically, the NYT is probably the most guilty of putting this "message" out there that the NSA surveillance was "sharply limited" with the passing of the USA Freedom Act.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/politics/senate-surveil...
It certainly becomes less and less annoying after you use it for a few months. That way you only get annoyed by new sites.

Used it for 6 months switched machines and didn't want to go through the learning curve again.
Democracy should be much warmer and fuzzier. The greatest impediment to this is the "externalities" that undermine it.

So, rather than attack the "grade school idea" of democracy, perhaps we should be considering why our execution has failed to live up to the ideal. Because, to the extent that we allowed it to happen, we've also done so by choice. You might even say democratic choice.
A ski trip to the Alps sounds awesome. Where do I sign up?
Maybe assign a color to each participant and make the lines each draw have a slight shine of their color? or color it on mouseover.
GeoServer uses it to host their Windows installer and other binaries, etc
You may have the right cookies. And if you submitted it, it might be there because of that. But I've just tried again and get the same error.
That looks pretty awesome.

Haxe is fairly interesting to me (and I've used it in the past, but only to target flash), but I have no great love for the flash APIs, so the prospect of writing a game using OpenFL didn't excite me much. Lime looks much more interesting, as it doesn't seem to force you to structure your game a particular way.
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How does that play into this ruling though? https://www.eff.org/document/vargas-order-suppressing-video-...
For you German speakers, this is a hilarious article (on the German answer to The Onion) about having to create a new verb tense in order to discuss the airport: http://www.der-postillon.com/2012/08/neue-zeitform-futur-iii... (2012)
You don't say? ;-)
> If Facebook didn’t have to control the feed to keep us on the site longer and to inject ads into our stream, it could instead offer us control over this algorithm.

Facebook has launched features in the past to let people control what Newsfeed shows. None of them did very well.

> I would, as I bet many others would, happily pay more than 20 cents per month for a Facebook or a Google that...upgraded its encryption...

FB and Google do some of the world's best work on internet crypto. Give them some credit.
I wouldn't buy into Buyable Pins.
Exactly. A pilot could also fly it into the ground, or into a building, or into WKII. Do we need physical safety mechanisms to prevent this? Or can we depend on pilot training?
Yes, being able to share/upload components for others to use would be stellar.
It costs money and it's basically going to be like fighting the Somalis or the Viet Cong or indeed the Iraq/Afghanistan occupations; they're so decentralised that air bombing is ineffective, and they have enough local support that a ground campaign will be grinding.
I mean I didn't have to notice, because I didn't have to get that far. I didn't read the rest of the bullet points either. It was just totally unambiguous to me, probably thanks to the giant picture.

I should clarify that I was only referring to this screenshot - https://i.imgur.com/hNDdz4P.png - the other one is worse but I didn't notice ggp had an album of two (unless they changed it.) without the picture it would be a lot worse.
Amazing app. I haven't explored React much yet. How is the collaboration part working i.e. changes made in one browser window show up in the another instantly. Is React being used for this?
hi - i checked the logs. I presume it's the corporate network I'm in blocking the websocket stuff

WebSocket connection to 'wss://precursorapp.com/chsk?tab-id=883d69ff-1095-4eed-bf63-83d786d55db1&client-id=f71e3c9b-fd70-4710-8502-ada0c73f4760' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 200

Maybe you could add some better error handling into the GUI ?
It's the title - I'm using the minimal number of words to carry the idea.
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Nice observation. Sadly, localization is an afterthought for a lot of developers. I am also curious to see how they handle other languages and locales, since I'm interested in learning how to use these kinds of systems.
I'd pay 2 bananas for this app
I think it's similar to how people freeze up when an emergency happens. There's no logic behind it - more like too many thoughts and feelings flooding the mind at once, resulting in paralysis. You are probably the fortunate few who can maintain some semblance of clarity in stressful situations. Over the years I've watched people react to stress (myself included) and it's not always as straightforward as you see it.

Maybe the bystander effect is a form of paralysis. Doubt, lack of knowledge, fear for one's own safety, it's just easier to do nothing - all those thoughts are flooding the system.