skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big problem though is behaviorally we e know for certain creative tasks, being motivated by scaled return can cause poor performance. Shouldn't that mean that the right strategy is to give the fund manager 2% flat fee and ditch the 20% (of course that could lead the manager to try to game getting numbers of people into their fund....o
It doesn't take a misogynist or a racist to be upset to see a well-liked person fired abruptly, especially with no apparent cause. There is a lot of stored-up discontent with the way Reddit is run, some of it even goes back to when Yishan was CEO. It's a fool's errand to try to please all of such a huge userbase, but Pao seems to have been able to unite some very unlikely factions against her.
Awesome work.
Would love to see the path that follows.
Cheers
It's a shame that technical people care political more than technologies. This is a good tech post, why bother criticizing something that you heard from biased western media. They always try to disgrace Chinese companies and Chinese people.
... What exactly are you expecting out of a framework incorporating a set of guidelines?
There's FAQ page which explains it:
http://www.getmdl.io/faq/index.html#existing-implementations
Google knows where every Android user and most of everyone else lives and works.

Frankly it would be trivial to ask Android users a question: "Are you interested in carpooling? [Y/N]" and then prompt them when the guy three doors down also answers yes.
Firefox add-ons that use the XUL overlay system would need to be written as SDK style add-ons.
>They have no real reason to dislike her.

I dont think that is true. I have used reddit for quite some time, probably since 2006. I have no personal animosity toward her however I dont think she is the right leader for reddit. And I say that as a user, not an owner, shareholder, employee etc. My reasons are because I like they way the old reddit operated. The reason that I say that is because when I started using reddit the free speech ethic was proudly trumpeted. This was around the time of the DeCSS key event that started the downfall of Digg.

Even up to as recently as 2012 Yishan Wong was reaffirming reddits commitment as a free speech platform. This was around the time of the r/jailbait takedown. But really that was the beginning of the end, r/jailbait was shut down because of illegal content being posted. I never saw definitive proof of that and I dont think any was offered. This was about the time that there was media interest in reddit (and to be fair r/jailabit was one of the more embarassing links that could and did show up on a google search for reddit). So it went and with it the start of a slippery slope of censorship began.

After r/jailabit (which the majority of users agreed with) there was the fappening, again a lot of users agreed, but all these agreeable users were relatively new, they were here for cat pictures and memes. They didnt care about reddit as a free speech platform because their interests were not affected. Then we arrive at r/fatpeoplehate being banned. This went because of 'harassment'.

Now we are at a stage where reddit is going to be kept clean and media friendly. It is not a free speech site (and I dont need to hear about free speech does not have to be protected by a businesss, i know that) even though it started off like that and it attracted a lot of users like that and those users built the communities that make reddit thrive.

I dont post that often anymore, i very rarely submit content anymore, I am not as attached to my accounts as I used to be. I am looking for alternatives because the site has changed so much (and so has the userbase) that the content it now has is no longer as relevant as it once was and this is only going to continue under the current leadership, and once a certain point is passed there is no getting it back. If she went now it may be retrieveable, if she lasts another 6-12 months in her position then it may not be.
How Did the Quake Demo from DockerCon Work?
It is worse than the author realizes. Computer compatibility is a temporal thing, you want to read those old Iomega Jaz drive carts? Well you need an OS, Drivers, and computer all built around the same time frame to make that work. Modern computer doesn't have the connections (Parallel IDE) for the drive. Stuff will get like this too, to reboot/reflash your car you're going to need your old computer/phone from the time when you bought. No classic restorations for you in 50 years!
> it is really impossible to completely test the theory scientifically.

This shows a misunderstanding of what science is about. You can set up control groups, that use different eating methods, but consuming the same amount of calories (and micro nutrients, etc.) over a given period of time. In some settings, double-blind experiments (with placebos) are indeed "better"; but it is not required to get scientifically valid results.
He should go post on www.nasaspaceflight.com. Lots of old shuttle folks hang out there.
I think part of the problem may be that you see them as "the pro-prosecution crowd". I don't think they are. tptacek explicitly said he's fine with the conviction being overturned. There's a difference between saying "I support the prosecution" and "I disagree with your argument against the prosecution".
Sorry it’s making the site unusable. Fix is incoming. See @thirdsun’s comment and my answer for details.
Well according to the drivers they aren't getting paid if they aren't driving. So it perhaps motivates them.

EDIT: Thinking about this a bit more what is the value of having nominal control over a fleet of vehicles of various capabilities sitting around a metropolitan area? Someone wants to go from point A to point B? Dispatch a nearby passenger capable vehicle to pick them up and drop them off. Package needs to go from here to there? Send a vehicle and driver over to get this package and take it over.

Imagine the economics of consolidating courier service, taxi cabs, emergency transport, into a single 'app' will all 'contract' labor.
I think you're taking my example too literally. Note the $0 in running costs. It will take significantly more than 166 to see a workable single employee salary.

The price as it stands likely isn't sustainable no matter how good the product is. Unless he plans running in part time, but this doesn't seem like the type of project that can be run part time (a lot of moving parts that could potentially break).

Really you're paying for integration into a dozen different platforms.
There were a few components associated with this recent upheaval.

- Earlier that week, reddit modified the search function which (though I don't know the details as I am not a mod and really don't care) apparently affected or limited the moderators' abilities is some negative manner.

- The banning of harassing subreddits, though none of the lurkers cared at all and the majority of active users did not care, left a sour taste in many users' mouths.

- The firing of that employee apparently greatly affected the ability to facilitate the most popular subreddit on the website, as well as a few others.

When the mods of IAMA closed shop for a while due to the third issue, the powder keg exploded, leading others who disliked the treatment of mods and those who irrationally hate the reddit CEO to make a hullabaloo for eight hours.

Frankly, I deleted my reddit account due to this. Not for any dislike the CEO or a desire to stand up for mods' rights, but rather because I genuinely do not care about the drama anymore and would rather focus my attention on more important things[1] and more interesting topics[2].

[1] Such as commenting on Hacker News.

[2] Such as discussions about Reddit.

:-)
yes but since his mea culpa the community is not holding it against him.

One of the mig issues people have with Ellen Pao is that her first responses on the issue were to the NYT, Buzzfeed etc and not directly to her own users.
How to become one of the cool kids on Tumblr
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what is safer: Running backdoor'ed RSA bsafe (http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231006/nsa-paid-10-milli...) or OpenSSL? Serious question.
We don't provide drop-in replacements for these services, however most have open source compatible alternatives. These are similar changes you would need to make if you were to switch IaaS providers & remove vendor lock-in.
Symbolic derivative calculator in JavaScript
I've been a freelancer and now an agency owner for years now; in fact my entire career. I will gladly check into the Hangout if I can while in route to the Atlanta Ruby Users' Group meetup.
Totally agreed. She's even responding to the more aggressive posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap...

Not a fun job, but definitely a fantastic step forward.
Even injection at the site will result in high rates of patient non-compliance. There's been some work done in India with temporary implants. However, I believe if we are to reach zero unintended pregnancies, the male procedures need both medical and reversibly surgical options.
It is sadly too late. On such a crisis, you need to react and react fast. You or your public relation team must be ready to leap and be as transparent as possible. You need to have someone on call for such situations.

The minute that employee was fired and the pressure was building up, they should have reacted by saying (as much as legally possible) why she was fired. The internet is used to transparency. Then, they should have explained how Reddit, as a community, will move on. Meanwhile, the moderators should have been aware of what was going on since the very beginning and the administrators of the website should have relied on them to control their respective communities.

Firmly affirm the current situation, then firmly affirm your plan for the future.

They should have addressed the fears of the users. Users who are known to be very afraid of order and who will quickly pick up a mob mentality.

Instead of reacting quickly, the community was completely ignored and free to be scared. This resulted in making a meme of hating the CEO of Reddit. By meme, I mean that definition: "an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means".

It is too late to change this. Once the internet makes a meme out of something, and that meme catch, is it contagious and there is nothing you can do about it.

They then apologized. By apologizing, you are taking the blame in the eyes of everyone.

Ellen Pao will never be seen with respect by the Reddit community from now on. Instead, she appear to be an incompetent leader who is unable to deal with crisis.
I'm not so sure about that.

As a product manager I wish I had spent more time on either learning to program or preferably designing interfaces for product ideas that I had. I did some of this stuff but not as much as I now realise I could have.

As a CMO the best evidence of your skills is in marketing a product of any kind. It could be a blog or product that you've created yourself, or pro bono work for someone else.

None of this is to downplay the chops of this artist - it really is amazing.
Is this reddit? This feels like Reddit
AngJobs filters simulate the CTRL+F functionality http://angjobs.com/#!/jobs/inbox/hn?july2015 also for HN jobs
I think it depends entirely on how you view your off-time work. I used to be fairly active in developing for the Roku with a friend, and 2-3 times a week he would come over and we would work on our Roku app(s) for 3-5 hours. It felt very much like hanging out with a friend screwing around in the garage to build something, and usually left me feeling more energized than tired.

I've also done (and am doing) the solo hacking on startup stuff. Getting motivated for that can be really hard.
Your contact info isn't in your profile, so I'll reply here.

I am an American citizen hoping to move to Utrecht in the near future, and would like to ask you a few questions. Contact info is in my profile.
> Things which [...] benefit survival are not selected for

Things which impact reproduction will be selected for. Things which kill you before you can finish raising a child will be most strongly selected against. Things that allow you to keep reproducing longer will be less strongly selected for. I guarantee that if there were a gene that let men and woman keep popping out babies for a century, it would be very likely to be preserved.
Ionic Security Is Hiring a UX Designer
> This latest issue is just about disaffected male teenagers looking for a reason to get mad at the new female CEO

> It's so transparent and so pathetic.

I just don't find it obvious that it is because she is a woman. I also didn't realize it was only socially mal-adjusted male teenagers who are calling for her ouster. 200K people signed the petition to find a new CEO. Why do you think this is just angsty women hating teenagers?
How much of your food do you, personally, produce with labor-intensive farming techniques?
Which commerce did the code effect?
Is the author a bus driver? Nothing wrong with that but he seems to enjoy programming quite a bit so I wonder why is he not working as a full time developer?
Complete mail server built in docker
I absolutely love this article and I think this could be OPs problem. CFO's (or controllers, or COO's with spreadsheets) seem to have only one hammer, and everything begins to look like a nail. Costs, of any type, start to look bad. These can start with little things like niceties ("That fruit bowl costs us $20 a day, that's $5200 a year"). It can move into other areas ("Why do engineers need a new MBP and Thunderbolt display when they start here. We could save $1000 per employee by giving them a 21 inch monitor"). It's a slippery slope when you have a finance person who only looks at ways to reduce costs. Suddenly you might even get into some really uncomfortable conversations like: "I noticed engineers take a 1 hour lunch and leave after 8 hours of working... you know if we could get them to work during lunch and stay just a bit longer we could reduce our highest cost center, the engineers, by 20%!"

This is where you hope your company has a good set of founders or management that push against the proposed changes and collaborates with the finance people. But that doesn't always happen.
Mongolar: Angular CMS
This is a weird question, since there's almost nothing that uses RSA's library as their TLS library. Every mainstream OS BSAFE is available for already provides a TLS library.

This is a little like asking whether it's safer to use PHP or DTLS.
Agree. I also would like to start freelancing, but all the ads that I see are for web stuff involving Ruby/Rails or Javascript frameworks. Nothing involving back end work.
regardless of the reasons for the firing there definitely did not appear to be a backup plan in place with regard to her AMA responsibilities.

A plan has appeared now and they seem to be portraying it as being in place prior to the firing but it seems haphazard and if it was in place it was not communicated to the people who would need to use it (AMA mods) in time for it to prevent any disruption.
AT&T Petition: Give us service we can depend on
Jehiah Czebotar: Personal Annual Report
I have to wonder how many of these issues are the result of poor allocation of limited resources.

Reddit runs on a shoestring for an audience that big, and still loses money. As I understand Victoria's position, a full salary went to hand-hold celebrities during AMAs. That's a lot to spend for a portion of the participants in one subreddit (I don't think every AMA got that support).

Given limited resources, that meant that a salary's worth of resources were not available to help pay a software developer who could be working on better mod tools--which would benefit every mod on the entire site.

That might be the entire story behind Victoria's dismissal: reallocating money from hand-holding to software development. Which is more in line with the typical Silicon Valley tech company way of doing things. Facebook and Google and Twitter spend a lot of money for software development, so they don't have to spend much on hand-holding.

> It isn't the administrator of Reddit that attracts celebrities to the websites. It isn't the administrator of Reddit that create the quality content that is in subreddits like /r/askhistorians, and /r/science and all the other serious subreddits. It is the users and superusers, all self-managed by the moderators.

Reading Pao's post, it looks like that was part of their decision. Since the value primarily comes from the users and mods, let them organize and run the AMAs from now on. Then the company can use that money to make better software.

Note: this is my own speculation based on public stuff I've read.
a lot of modern firefox plugins are already written this way, but there are probably a significant amount of legacy addons that would need to be rewritten
Ionic Security Is Hiring a UX Engineer
The webserver process does not need access to private keys, just access to the encryption service ("TLS offloading").
The Give and Take of Startup Rejection (Gregg Pollack of Code School)
There are languages that have what you want. Why not use them?
I don't see any relation between the two.
IMO, it did pan out. XUL and XBL provided the inspiration for much of what's come to real Web standards over the last decade or so. Thanks to XUL, we had a web-like model for front end dev that over time was usurped by a real Web model for front end dev. If we can re-implement Firefox using real Web standards, XUL will have been be a big part of the reason that became possible.
I have to disagree. There are some very definite indicators of whether someone is free or not. You can be conditioned to accept your situation but that doesnt make you free.
This post regarding the apology is fairly new, with a lot of points and comments. Yet it has already sunk to page 2. I assume that reddit-related posts are given a negative weighting of some kind on HN, of late?
No Phones, Please, This Is a Communications Class
I'm also on quest to become an artist, I created a site for keeping up consistent drawing streak (although I'm struggling at the moment).

The site is for anyone to use and we have quite a few artists using it already: https://streak.club/s/8/daily-art-2015

Here's a post I wrote talking a little more about the site: http://leafo.net/posts/introducing_streakclub.html
Tried to signup and I get "unable to process request, please try again later". DM me when it's ready!
To quote my grandmother: "there's nothing [adolescents] can do at night that they won't do during daytime".

The religious right in the US has this strange obsession with other people's sex life. I think after roughly two millenia of Christians trying to prevent their kids from having extramarital sex it's safe to say that the exercise is ultimately futile and the only thing it's accomplishing is worse outcomes (e.g. STDs, pregnancies and bad decisions).

Of course debating that point is entirely useless when the underlying idea is that extramarital (and therefore also teenage) sex is the worst possible outcome in and of itself. It's a failure of humanity that 40-odd thousand years into civilization we still haven't overcome our obsessions with valuing scripture over rational thought.
not sure about cobol, but most of the serious supercomputing simulations are written in fortran, and in my opinion, lisp is the most beautiful language ever written in computing history.
> For example, in your previous post, you said you could just write echo "Hello World" over and over, which clearly does not give you any practice at writing code and is clearly not related to the conversation.

No, it definitely is practice at writing code; it's just not useful practice. My point is that not all practice is useful. If you're going to accuse me of not making much attempt to understand my point, maybe don't dismiss what I said so easily?
Markets prepare for new Greek currency as 'Grexit' prospect grows
This is precisely the reason for my post. I'll get this fixed, one way or another, but likely there are numerous people that have this issue without realizing it.
http://hpevs.com/catalog-ac-3X%20oil%20cooled.html

If I'm reading correctly, the AC-35 has a peak rating of 47.78 horsepower, and weighs 43.9kg.

Presumably the 200kg motors you're looking at are not intended to be part of a moving vehicle. Those are likely intended for use in factories or shops where the weight is of little concern but durability is at a premium.
You have no idea what bigotry is. It's possible to criticize the actions of a group of people without being prejudiced and my assessment is based on actual posts and comments that I've read over the past week. Seeing what kinds of content is upvoted gives you a sense of the overall sentiment and it's hard to rationalize the vitriol of the user base in response to this particular event.

Also, reddit's age and gender demographics are not hard to find:
http://thepowertoprovoke.com/the-blog/2014/02/reddit-demogra...
Yes, there is plenty of backend freelancing work too (such as data science/machine learning, as in my case).

Slides from my talk at this year's Berlin Buzzwords on this topic:

"So you want to be a data science consultant (or hire one)? 10 things you should know."

https://berlinbuzzwords.de/session/so-you-want-be-data-scien...

Will join the hangout if I can :-)
Fixed (I hope). Thanks for reporting.
Thanks @rietta!
> It's almost identical to the system browsers now. Facebook's comments about HTML5 were back in the dark ages when the webviews generally used horribly slow software rendering and didn't have JIT for Javascript on iOS.

Incorrect at least as far as Android goes. Android's WebView literally was the system browser until Chrome was released complete with the JIT since Froyo (V8) and hardware rendering since Honeycomb. And the first several versions of Chrome on Android had much worse performance than the old WebView did.

This aside the bulk of HTML content is still software-rendered. It's software-rendered into tiles which are then GPU composited. It's a different story if you use <canvas>, but at that point you aren't gaining much by paying the browser tax so why not just drop to C++ and write GLES directly and get like 10x the performance?

That aside while there have been improvements in JavaScript performance, HTML/CSS & rendering performance really has not improved much if at all over the years. Browsers are still dreadfully slow to actually produce pixels compared to any other UI toolkit.
I wonder if anyone has done a study of the health positive/negative effects of fasting on observant Copts and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Respectively their fasting days are approx. 220 and 250 days per year :-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_and_abstinence_of_the_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Ch... and beliefs
Thanks and we will definitely look into this more. If you know of any specific tournaments that you'd recommend targeting, would love to hear from you dave@roomblocker.com
My favorite is 'Herp Derp for YouTube'.

It changes every comment to a mix of

> Derp herpy derp derp

while still allowing you to click and see the "quality" comment that the person left.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/herp-derp-for-yout...
The ripples drive me crazy. Everytime I click a button my mind gets yanked into "what just went wrong?" because of the inconsistent nature of the ripples. Even though I know it's going to happen.
Interesting opening sentence in your reply. I didn't bother reading past it since starting with an insult like that is as good an excuse to ignore your thoughts as I need. Thanks for making it easy!