skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a tough question. But right now it is near impossible for them to face any consequences. Even writing about them publicly can result in libel lawsuits. But MD Anderson's team (they don't assign a single doctor to a case) saw the cancer was on a different organ from the same tests that the original doctor used, obviously that doctor made a mistake that could have resulted in my friends death. It would be fair if these mistakes added up like points on your drivers license (adjusted for the difficulty of your medical field). Of course just reforming state medical boards to no longer put protecting doctors as their primary mission, but protecting patients first would be a step in the right direction.
I was an early member of SO. From the discussions of that time I remember that the founder put a lot of thought into how to build a good community. A community that can last.

Preventing dilution and keeping focus was one important point. One consequence was being rigorous with off-topic questions, the founding of the "sister sites" (first the Trilogy SO, SF and SU then StackExchange) was another.

There was much debate about what should be considered on-topic and off-topic back then. I remember the discussion about HTML and LaTeX quite vividly[1].

All of this discussion was terribly tiring but on the other hand it was good because SO was different from other communities in the sense that people tried to stay focused.

I think there is still good intention behind the strictness, but I agree that the execution leaves a
lot to be desired.

[1] http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12918/can-we-have-a-...
The reverse is also true -- I've seen a noticeable uptick in gmail-originating spam hitting my servers. Currently my software is configured to keep anything originating from google.com whitelisted, but it's getting a little obnoxious and I might have to reconsider.

One of the more annoying nuisances hitting me personally is from a YC startup, Zenefits. I really dislike them and their moronic hey-buddy spam and that I can't reasonably blackhole the originating network for a while.
If you note her account's history, you might notice that every single one of her contributions has been mass-downvoted, including earlier responses on the matter. Downvoted content gets hidden. There's an ongoing voting war over the submission itself, with only 61% upvoting. That's way, way low for reddit.

Speculation: It's very possible that they decided to do press work first so that the message would not be muted by downvote brigading. That's a stupid thing to have to do, and has only served to upset even more people.
If there are any animations at all you find are janky, could you file and we'll look at it soon? We've been performance testing on a wide range of devices/browsers but I'm certain there are plenty of areas we can improve on.
Why? If the codebase is mature and there are no glaring problems, why not hire COBOL programmers at a modest premium? COBOL still works.

If COBOL programmers were gone, never to come back, they would have to port- but the market worked its magic.
In my team, we're starting to take naming problems as a very, very red flag. Especially if the name makes sense for half the team, and no sense for the other half.

In the most extreme case, we've taken like half a day off with the entire team to discuss just about everything. We went from a name to one of our software to our architecture to our domain and it was just half a day to a day of discussion and merging understandings.

After this, we spend another half a day to a day just cleaning up a huge mess of potential bugs, and after that, naming was simple. And now, a few month later, hell it was worth it.
>Generally speaking, "the" needs to be interpretted from the speaker's point of view. Saying "I went to a store" implies that I had a wide choice of stores. Saying "I went to the store" implies that I didn't choose which store I went to. It's the store that I usually go to when I buy things. It doesn't necessarily mean that the listener knows which store I went to, or that there is only one store.

I think we agree but are labeling it different. I meant the "listener knowledge" broadly -- you seem to agree that using "the" requires some understanding on the listener's part that there's something that narrows down which store and makes it definite, even if it's not enough for them to pick it out. In this case, that the listener somehow knows that there is some store you must be thinking of.

But the "store" usage still seems to break this: people use it even there's no reason for the list to believe the speaker is thusly restricted!
This is exciting news - great work! Look forward to seeing more smart people collaborate around speech technology in the coming years.
Non-engineers are the biggest problem building HTML5 apps.

Everyone from VPs, Directors, to HR knows HTML, and they all have opinion about how it should be. They all want you to build a Facebook like app with 2 developers and works on all platforms.
What were Terry Semel's qualifications for running a site like Yahoo? Or John Sculley's for running Apple? There are routine examples in tech of people without domain experience being asked to bring themselves up to speed on the job.

The level of abuse being directed at Pao seems disproportionate to her deficiencies as CEO. I can't avoid the niggling thought that this is really still about ethics in game journalism.
You can spend a lot of time with someone, and get very close, without letting it escalate.

It sounds like it's too late for that.

You should start preparing to shut down your company and find something new to work on.

What are your options really:

1. Friend finds out, company will suffer

2. You tell friend, company will suffer

3. You keep it a secret, company will suffer

Even if your friend peaces out, and it's just you and your new girlfriend, you can't really believe that this will end up a great success, can you?
Awesome Redux
Armitage: Playful approach to Pentesting
this is pretty cool, simple yet elegant!
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I think what the grandparents is wondering is if Hacking Team have a 0day in OpenSSL which this will fix, or is the timing coincidental? (I don't know the answer, but if they did, it's probably in that 400GB dump.)

I'm mostly just wondering what they mean by HIGH. Something as bad as code execution or Heartbleed, or "just" something like bad DHE checking?
If one of the possible answers is "There's not enough information to decide", that's a good hint that something weird may be going on and you should double-check your assumption of "everybody is telling the truth".
I've always struggled to understand why hedge funds exist. As the author points out, the average hedge fund severely underperforms the market while charging a large fee to do so. I was talking with a guy who works at a hedge fund over the weekend and he half-jokingly told me that his hedge fund survived on institutional investments and that most of their clients didn't really care as long as his fund "didn't lose too much money".

If you take any finance class anywhere in the world, you are bound to come across the random-walk theory of the stock market, as well as strong, semi-strong, and weak market efficiency theory. The only way to reconcile these theories with the hunt for alpha is through differences in information - aka insider trading. The funds that consistently outperform the market are either 1 in a million lucky (how do you choose this firm as an investor? you don't), or they trade on information that others do not have access to.

Insider information is the only logical reason to invest in a hedge fund in my opinion. If you know the managers of fund X are buddies with Janet Yellen, go golfing with fortune 500 CEOs on the weekends, and vacation in Europe with French politicians. Just hope that they aren't the 1/100 that the government decides to make an example out of.

Otherwise, as most of my professors have advised, you should just invest in a portfolio of ETFs and only pick stocks for fun with money you aren't afraid to lose.

On instavest: So why would I invest with a novice hedge fund manager who has none of these connections, who is competing with the thousands of hyper-intelligent grad students our system churns out into finance every year (rather than underfunded labs and dwindling academic positions), who is just trying to get his name out there placing risky bets in a bubble of a market?
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To expand on this, each elisp package tends to do one thing and do it well. The majority of my Emacs workflow is basically just a bunch of small, single-purpose elisp programs that get used alongside one another.

Emacs looking like the antithesis of the Unix philosophy is only because the Unix nature is deeply embedded within it.
Are you claiming that someone copying proprietary trading software cannot lead to a loss of profits?
NASA has held it's cards close to it's chest when it comes to operational data about the Shuttle, particularly the refurbishment process.

Back in the cold war there was the fear that this information would be useful to another country that could learn from our experience and develop a shuttle that is faster and cheaper to turn around. Maybe things are different now.
It sounds like you discussed this with her already (when you said "she's too"). If so, you're having an emotional affair. In either case, you need to stop immediately. It's very difficult, but force yourself not to think about her.
I'd use opensmtpd instead of postfix. Mostly because you'll learn how to configure the former in a matter of tens of minutes when reading the man page, and the config format is basically English.
The latter. Not even close.
They'd probably need to do both, as users who want to use docker depend on very specific parts of the docker ecosystem (docker hub, the docker daemon itself, etc).

Not to mention this is essentially just packaging, I hope they package any software they find reasonably popular and let users decide what's more important to them.
Reddit co-founder and executive chairman Alexis Ohanian (kn0thing) had something to say about that yesterday:

> Monday is the start of a new week and I wanted to be sure everyone will be online (not on US holiday weekend) for a post.

-- https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/3c1m67/c...
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This is an opinioned based comment.

This piece reminds me of Trump's blustery presidential candidate announcement.
I don't think it's going to be an issue of finding people to take over COBOL systems, companies that are interested are simply going to round up students and give them part time jobs where they can learn COBOL and earn some side cash with a promise of a good job when they get out of college.
Yep, I remember actually building a toy 2d tilemapped RPG engine with it maybe a decade ago. It definitely wasn't capable of anything fancy then so I didn't do much more than have it let you move around the map with a simple UI around it . Now HTML/CSS/JS can completely blow it out the water with what you can do.
where have you been looking to find contracting work thus far? Usually it's best to start by making connections in your city (unless you don't live in a large enough city for it to provide these options)
There are COBOL repositories on Github[1], it would probably be worth looking at what they do. From that list, here's a micro web framework[2] which while it may not be indicative of what you would expect to do in COBOL if hired to work in it, is interesting.

1: https://github.com/trending?l=cobol

2: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
Many people tried fat transpilation to COBOL, they marketed it as an easier for business users, but from what I recall, the generated code was messy, people had to tap into it, making it even messier and it never caught on.
Enduring Summer’s Deep Freeze
I agree. This is a good theory.
Now, imagine what's going to happen as these angry users leave for somewhere else. They're going to take their attitude with them, and the admins of that future site are going to have to deal with the same exact mentality.

Communities that suffer schisms like the one reddit is working itself into don't fare well. You can't build a healthy community out of a mindset like "well, we aren't THEM". This has happened time after time, and I've been on both sides of the problem, sometimes as a user, sometimes as the admin.
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It is. The browser also doesn't complain about the Chinese government SSL certificates used in SSL stripping. As someone who has lived in China for a while now I'm always wary about using any Chinese software.
great post, appreciate how to the point it is. I sometimes feel like reaching out instantly seems desperate but I guess not? Have you had any negative feedback when reaching out INSTANTLY?
I studied at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and was forced to take a COBOL class. Anyone in the Computer Information Systems emphasis was required to take several COBOL-centric classes. A few classmates went on to write COBOL on the job and they were definitely getting higher offers than the rest of us looking for "cool" jobs.

On the other hand, the only COBOL shop in town pays meager wages and is considered to be the place where your career goes to ddie.
Accidental downvote. I thought it was https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html , I never heard of this chromeless effort.
Could traders’ hormones be responsible for ‘irrational exuberance’?
This is off-topic and not the same thing, but you should look into xhyve:

https://github.com/mist64/xhyve

...and then:

https://github.com/coreos/coreos-xhyve

https://github.com/ailispaw/boot2docker-xhyve

Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9690846
No, I think they're dead on. They're allowed to fire people even if the community likes them.

But they did fail to communicate. They failed to communicate it was going to happen (no public transition). They failed to communicate it DID happen (people found out via side-channels), they failed to communicate a plan to keep things going smoothly (seems they didn't have one, which is amazing).

This applies to other incidents as well. They failed to clearly communicate the rules when they banned a few subreddits a few months ago. There are TONS of subs that are in clear violations of various rules but nothing happens to them and no one has every clearly explained why. Just "We're doing something" statements and guessing.

Quite a few of their recent makes were made SO MUCH WORSE by their lack of clear and timely communication. They would still be issues, but at least people could understand what was going on instead of rapid-rumor-mill-tea-leaf-interpreting.
Unless what you were encoding wasn't meant to be consumed as a bytestream. If you encoded a resilient optical format (like UPC or QR codes), transcoding the format shouldn't be a deal breaker. Obviously it's not optimized for backing up a harddisk, though.

Edit: @ionforce hints at same here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9840838
The Cult of Vice
Neither of those examples for me, are sexist. They're accurate examples of what happens in life.

The trailer shows the dad, not listening to his wife, acting dumb, daydreaming about sports, and then clumsily asserting the law with his daughter. I just thought it was lazy and not well done at all.

Maybe I'm being hypersensitive about it. It was a total turn off to bother seeing the movie though.

From the sounds of it though from reviews, it doesn't sound like a movie I'd enjoy though. It sounds like a movie created for adult movie critics rather than for enjoyment.
Yeah, and if Google covered by medical bills I might live a few more years :-)
The paper itself seems balanced (I didn't read the whole thing) but it seems clear he his allegiance was likely on the "pro" side.

"Without hesitation the best online recourse on the topic is my dear friend Martin Berkhan’s Leangains.com"

And from Berkhan: "I co-sign on pretty much everything"
Being attracted to someone, even when you are in a relationship, doesn't make a person a whore.

It may make them a bad boyfriend or girlfriend, or a bad person if they act on these feelings, but calling someone a whore for this is ridiculous.

I'd be willing to bet, if you've ever been in a relationship, that you've also been attracted to other people while also in that relationship.
What goes into a decision to take software from proprietary to open source
Victoria being let off ruined a lot of currently planned AMA's - because she played such a huge part in it all.

It's like firing the person who wrote a language your company uses internally with little to no documentation: absolutely everything is going to go to hell until someone comes in, learns what and how things were done, and can replace that person.

With no word as to why she left or was fired - it screams something political or a massive disconnect with the userbase. AMA's on Reddit are a pretty huge deal. It's a large part of Reddit's popularity - such that even the POTUS has had an "AMA" on Reddit. So when you disrupt how they work and give absolutely no word as to why the person who played such a large part in many AMA's being scheduled, planned, and hosted: you're going to step on a lot of toes.

I read one story of a person flying to New York for an AMA. He had to change his plans and work with the person planning the AMA to schedule different interviews or sightseeing on his time because the AMA was cancelled due to Victoria being let off. That's a loss of a person's time and money with no explanation being given for why someone who was performing their job suddenly wasn't tasked with the job. I'd be pretty peeved myself. Luckily the man was very understanding it was outside of the moderator's control with Victoria being let off, but I imagine some mods aren't as lucky with their scheduled AMA's.
> I can't avoid the niggling thought that this is really still about ethics in game journalism.

Hey, there's that convenient boogeyman again that you guys continue to use to drive your narrative!

Edit: Hahaha oh wow -2. We're letting our ridiculous bias show now.

Since moderators and a whole community are expressing their dislike of poor communication and misconduct by admins (http://imgur.com/ICSz7Xp & http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bwgjf/riama...) and CEO of Reddit, by protesting via closing down their subreddits over the poor communication and firing of a beloved AMA coordinator, Victoria Taylor, it must be the work of a massive "misogynist harassment campaign", r-right guys?

I cannot imagine the mental gymnastics one has to perform to draw that conclusion. Smart people being stupid or just willfully ignorant?
Congratulations on launching! It's well polished and very nice. We're doing something in the same market but a slightly different take on it so we're definitely interested to see the space grow.

Good luck!
I too use fastmail (though I moved from my own setup, not from gmail).

Some nice things they have:
* Proper IMAP and SIEVE support.
* CalDAV, CardDAV.
* The UI is keyboard-only usable.
* The support team is really responsive (they actually added a shortcut for an option that was lacking one within a few days of my request!).
* They give back a lot to the FLOSS community, which I really value (but their webmail is mostly proprietary).

Their usage of actually standards (instead of just their own) is a great thing! I still use mutt for gpg email, and khal for calendaring, which is pretty good.

They also host your XMPP server, if you're an XMPP user.

I've been meaning to post a thorough review, but haven't had the time to polish it. I'll post it in HN once I have it, since I'm sure many will be interested.
Just a casual warning: Downloading this might be illegal depending on your jurisdiction so take care!
My idea is that you share the whole season with "friends" on torrent and other file-sharing sites. Not only the free episodes. You download the entire season! This takes care of both distribution and most of the marketing. You of-course release it with the highest quality! And you do not need any infrastructure whatsoever to do this.

As in the spirit of shareware, you let people watch some of the episodes for free, then charge for the rest. And that's the part some smart people has to figure out.

An idea is to have the content encoded differently depending on the Internet routes. And some type of block-chain that would give you a key to decode the data, depending on a voucher code you insert to the chain.