skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where you heard this, but the military experience is not your exaggerated guestimate. Plenty understand what their chosen jobs entail, and the possibilities are. Plenty also understand that nobody owes them everything, and it is all about what value can be provided now.

I am in the process of getting admin separated from the Marine Corps as a result of a bureaucracy circle I was put in when changing units, but I have no reason to slam the military, especially since it is highly unlikely to affect my career. It was a great experience, even if I never got to deploy (I am a reserve infantryman). I only had an issue with one employer holding something against me despite me being completely transparent about having reserve duties. Otherwise, they were perfectly accommodating.

If anything, the military service should instill in people to not take anything for granted - at least, that was my experience in the Marine Corps. Hard work never changes, inside the Corps or outside, and the mentality is to work harder to impress, since no one can fault you for showing tremendous work ethic.
Impractical or not, this is still showing a possible attack.

Let's say the client leaves their computer on at work over a long weekend ...

The collision attacks against MD5 were at first also claimed to be impractical...
The trend, here, I believe is a movement to end all personal encryption. Both the US and UK state their best intentions, yes, as a tool to fight "terrorism" and "organized crime" and "drug trafficking." Fine.

However, in the Trust-me-we-won't-spy-on-everyone" Department, both are sadly bankrupt.

If these governments were people you actually had personal dealings with, how could you trust them to keep their word?
Is infinite scroll always a bad thing?
#buysmall
Heads-up to the creator: I browse with cookies disabled by default, and when I go to this site this is what I see: http://cl.ly/image/3W3D28153S0t

I'm not sure how deep the form goes but are cookies really required for this functionality? If so, yo might want to display a message indicating that "cookies need to be enabled in order for this to work".

And even if cookies are required for actually filling out the form, why on earth would the "Why we built Democracy.io" require them?? (I'm guessing that's the reason that entire section of content is blank)
Same here. I'm also not in the target demographic, and that's fine.

Steaming services are relatively useless out here unless you've somehow cached everything you want to listen to. Mountainous terrain with spotty coverage, long distances along service deadspots, etc. But, I'm likely not in the age group that "gets" the obsession with streaming. I'd rather have my music on a device that's with me.
I for one would a little sanitization of the site. There are always going to be weirdos posting horrendous content on the internet but I'm not particularly inclined to deal with that trash. I'd love a Reddit this is only cat pics, interesting stories from other users, and celebrity interviews. We dont need to make it easy for trolls to discuss their racist/ sexist/ bullshit and harass people.
Yes, addressed soon. The ideal answer for 2FA in a key-per-device app isn't really the same as the normal site + Google Authenticator / Authy kind of thing.
Outside Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds
Based on your comment below, tool, it appears you have a real axe to grind.

"So I'm supposed to pay tax dollars for your salary and then give up my seat on a plane because you're working just like the rest of us?"

Your 'closest friends in the military' are giving you a skewed view of reality, and I am sorry for it.

1)It sounds like your friends were not in combat so their experiences are not comparable to the author's experiences. BTW, the author plays into the narrative of 'veterans are victims' perfectly.

2) If your friends are fabricating their relationships with servicemen who were killed, it sounds like they will fabricate anything they tell you.

3) The military is like any other organization, with good employees and less than good employees. Your friends appear to fall into the latter category.

4) In my experience, there is a population of service members who got to do what they signed up to do (pull triggers, of course) and who have reintegrated into society such that you would not know that they served, nor would they advertise that fact. I believe that these 'good employees' comprise the majority of veterans but they aren't a vocal group (unlike the author) so you will probably not hear their opinions.
I was thinking that this would just be about parsing command output, or searching for error messages online (i.e. copy and paste an error message into Google) but this is beyond stupid.
Akka Streams and Http 1.0 Released
Memcached is probably more suited for storing html/json fragments than Redis. The Dalli[0] memcached driver does compression for you.

0 - https://github.com/mperham/dalli
Great response. I really appreciate it.
I guess, but the other side of it is that lots of people have the $200 to waste on such a piffling concern.
Why not link to the actual statement?
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3dautm/conte...

The tears from all the haters will be delicious.
Entrepreneurs in the New Cuba
Thanks for the response. Every 2-3 years? that's great! :) I get raises and title change when I change the company(3 companies so far).

As you mentioned about career goal I'm more like 'I want to learn a new skill' kind of person. I hoped that if you do some very challenging/complex work, you will be recognized & rewarded for it. But sadly that's not the case (at-least in my country) :(

I think it also comes with one's personality, I consider myself as quite introvert. So most often I feel management use that as excuse. (eg: You are not interactive, not talking much others etc etc)
He'd be justified in having a grudge, as a former CEO. But I think it's more that he has no f---- to give and is 100% willing to speak his mind on the topic.

Not a trait I'd want to see in all the CEOs out there, but seeing it in one former founder is... Refreshing. ;)
I'd assume he's a little cheesed off with the reddit board, since they essentially scapegoated her (I'd assume a friend) for their own decisions.
I'm a non-remote worker who agrees with the article - I definitely benefit the more things are done via chat/web conferencing. Even if I'm at the office part of the day this gives me the freedom to sit in a park or coffee shop without guilt of missing something integral.
> but usually virtualization is a mostly unnecessary step in achieving production-like behavior. Mostly, we just need to make sure we're running the Rails server in production mode.

Isn't this assuming your development mode has the same memory/cpu as your production? I can't tell you how many times I get questions from clients who ask why their 16GB dev box is running fine while their 512MB dyno is slow. The point of a docker image is to limit these resources, which `rails s production` does not do.
Ha, that would be cool. Unfortunately, to get molecular and sub-molecular resolution on single molecules you have be pretty close to the target (nanometers/Angstroms). You basically load a liquid containing the analyte into the device and push go.
Eh... it's their playground. While I don't like the idea of what's offensive being so subjective, there is A LOT of shit on Reddit that I would be happy to see gone.

If Costco had a corner in every store where people were allowed to stand around yelling racist commentary all the time, and Costco laid out a policy to remove this from their stores, I think the majority of people would applaud this move, thus improving business. Reddit is a business and is free to do what it believes is best to grow. If it thinks this is the right move for them? Great, go for it.

I actually doubt that Reddit is going to miss most of these people when they inevitably migrate somewhere else, it's not exactly a very marketable audience to begin with.
If you're using Readthis[0] for Redis caching you can use an alternate marshaller to avoid the size and performance overhead of marshalling all objects through Ruby. If you aren't using Readthis you really should, it's faster than RedisStore, more customizable, and actually maintained!

Mandatory disclaimer, I wrote the gem.

0: https://github.com/sorentwo/readthis
Thanks. I agree that handling multiple types of input in VR is difficult. That's actually the problem I wanted to solve with this project when I started it (details: https://hackaday.io/project/1321-keychange). But life intervened and the project scope shrunk.
How often do you leave a web page open on your computer then leave for a while, I often do. It would probably be prudent that the NSA has ways of doing this with much less effort, perhaps bringing down the number of requests needed to just a few thousand.
I, too, am an OSS developer who makes a living off my projects. Money is very important to me but so is my time. Like antirez, I want to focus on building the best features and products I can and not spend time looking for investment, hiring, running a company, etc. As of today, I have a one person self-funded profitable company which requires very little effort to maintain aside from periodic bookkeeping.

It's not for everyone but neither is VC-funding.
He was highly inappropriate when he was CEO, once having a public flamewar with a disgruntled ex-employee. I'm not surprised by his behavior but I question his motives. Looking at his comment history he seems well aware that he is blacklisting himself from ever holding an executive title again. Maybe when you have nothing left to lose you just start seeking attention?
> But when you work remotely, you're basically advertising your work as commodity work. You're basically consistently reminding the company -- and the job market -- that you are substitutable.

You don't provide an argument for why working in an office provides what you are claiming remote workers to lack, nor do you provide evidence to backup your claim that remote workers are more replaceable.

> But at some point... the way you'll make value is by enabling others to build software; reading body language, detecting issues in a team; or negotiating; or motivating; or selling; etc.

If you can't do this through verbal communication and hangouts, maybe you should work on your communication skills as a manager - sometimes listening to the words people say is more reliable than making assumptions based on body positioning. On the flip side, maybe you should focus your hiring efforts on developers with strong communication skills, and enforce an evaluation period w/ new developers to see if they can meet the mustard in terms of remote communicating. Good developers don't communicate passively; they use their words and this can be assessed by good managers.
Passing Pluto
Sweet thanks for the heads up. I love buying books. I also love reading, so they don't go to waste.
Wong is not one of the founders of reddit. He was appointed CEO.
What does Nestor offer over Hubot [+]?

[+] https://hubot.github.com/
This linked article that talks about web pages sucking is 1.3mb and is first visible/readable after 4.9 seconds:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150715_SE_YM1/

An article from the site it complains about sure uses a lot more bandwidth (2.9mb) but at least it's visible/readable in 2.2 seconds:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150715_KC_YQK/

The bandwidth/resource waste sure sucks but having ads load asynchronously isn't as bad as a blank screen for 5 seconds.
I believe it's not so much to retrieve data after they catch someone or capture a phone, but rather to be able to monitor and understand all electronic communications by making it illegal for you to use encryption.
> "[S]o now The Man is going to set some Rules. Admittedly, I can't say I'm terribly upset."

I can't say I am, either. To abuse Lincoln, "I believe this site cannot endure, permanently half adult conversation and half hateful filth."
Algorithm to guess age
Show HN: How we've delivered $1M+ worth of food in NYC without VC money
Maybe one just needs to put it on a drone!

EDIT: I wasn't trying to be snarky. I get excited by certain ideas and was just riffing.
> It doesn't assume any of these things. It defines preference based on the action an individual takes when not interfered with, and builds a value system based around taking this form of preference as a "good". You're assuming the existence of some absolute concept of "rationality" by actions may be judged; Austrian economics does not make this assumption.

This definition of "preference" and the assumption that it is equivalent to "good" is essentially just recasting the rational actor model from a (demonstrably failed) empirical model into a moral axiom; that is, rational choice model posits that there is an underlying utility function that people efficiently maximize through their uncoerced choices, whereas your description of the Austrian school's position takes this demonstrably disproven, though in some conditions still useful empirical model, inverts it by assuming, whether or not they are maximizing any utility function, that people's uncoerced choices define a good, and proceeds from there.

While I think this is certainly accurate of some Austrian, it takes those who follow it out of the domain of economics-as-a-science and into the domain of a particular moral philosophy detached from science.

> An Austrian thinks a free market is good because a free market minimises interference with people's freedom of exchange

Actually, by your definition, an Austrian holds, as a first principle, the free market as a good. There can be no "because" there, it is simply a moral axiom for Austrians that the behaviors that people make in free market conditions define what good is.
* Natural Language instructions -- no need to remember commands, just speak to it like you would to a human.
* Easier to integrate new services
* No need to maintain servers
Really well written. Kudos to whoever wrote your copy!
No, it's not a bad idea, and these 4 lines of bash script
contain no solid reasoning, argument, or business logic as to why helping the other 80% of the world's population is a very bad idea.

Doing internationalization without support libraries is a very bad idea, as this sample code helps illustrate.
kontakt.io seem to be spamming developers about this (presumably after purchasing a mailing list). Not the best way to market their service.
Redis is perfectly well suited to storing html/json fragments. It is as fast or faster, has built in clustering as of 3.0, has customizable expiration behavior, and is probably already used by your infrastructure. Most of the ActiveSupport caching compliant libraries will support optional gzip compression., Readthis certainly does.

There are benchmarks on the project that illustrate the performance edge it has over Dalli as well.
Yeah, I think its a vocal minority that is truly upset. The issue that compounds all of this is that it only takes a few thousand upvotes to reach the front page. So to extrapolate on your analogy, this is like the racist people in the corner protesting that they can't shout in the corner anymore. Meanwhile most of the shoppers didnt even realize that they were there and dont care enough to comment on the situation.
+1 for Primus. We moved to it on BitMEX from a custom SockJS + Mux-demux setup and the transition was painless. We now get the ability to change transports based on client (so our API clients get the very fast standards-compliant node `ws` library, while browser clients get engine.io). We also gained reliable heartbeating which was a big win.

I've found the devteam to be really responsive and their choices of abstractions appear to work well.
CSS in JS, works great...
You see belle components are so very stable and configurable, you change theme of whole app so easily.
Sorry, I should have qualified that sentence: "a mostly unnecessary step in achieving production-like behavior *when trying to determine a page's average response time". That's just been my experience with this. I haven't noticed significant differences in my Macbook vs Heroku when measuring response times.

It's a fast-and-loose measurement, to be sure. Virtualization/dockerization is the only way to get a super-accurate measurement.
There is no conspiracy.

A modern CMOS image sensor uses a photodiode that works as a current source and is integrated with a gate to determine light intensity. This is not exactly a photoresistor, but it is close enough for the discussion here. Electrical resistance is not a "digital" quantity as this article says. It is a phenomenon that must be measured by analog means and converted to digital. This necessarily involves an integration step that basically amounts to "filling up". You can bring this time to arbitrarily low (and that is basically what HDR exploits), but then you have to contend with noise.

I fail to see how the proposal here changes the readout of a photo sensor in the physical world and also addresses the fundamental issue of noise.
This is written from the perspective of math and computer science, but that doesn't help us in the physical world where hardware designers have to live.
Getting Started Recognizing Gestures on iOS
Well, people don't go to Costco for commentary, they go there to buy things. So a more apt comparison would be a section that sells things that certain groups may find offensive - e.g., sex toys, confederate flags, bibles, guns[1]. The metaphor holds mostly, Costco is free to do what it wants to cater to those people, but I don't think it's unreasonable for some groups to want to fight to hold on. It's hard to make blanket statements about some of the groups - of course, that's less true for some than others. I don't have any horses in this race, personally, I don't think anyone is planning on banning r/corgis or r/noideadogs.

As for profitability, I'd argue that stupid people with strong opinions and a need to vocalize them are advertisers favorite kind of people. They're probably surprisingly profitable.

[1] Don't assume I'm putting any of those on the same level as each other, just making a list of what I suspect are violatile items to some groups.
GPS receivers are getting absurdly cheap, and I believe there are GPS/gyro or GPS/accelerometer combos that are even cheaper.

I think it is really all about the batter life.
Since this turned into an off-topic flamewar we've detached it from its parent and marked it off topic.
Applied to a population, the argument makes sense:

100 million users spent 1 minute/day verifying URLs --> cost of $33M of lost productivity (assume wage of $20/h) --> avoids 10,000 successful phishing attacks (.01% of population) --> saves $500K (each victim loses $500) --> not worth following security advice (since $33M is far greater than $500K)

Applied at an individual level, the argument makes less sense:

1 user (i.e., me) spends 1 minute/day verifying URLs --> cost of $0.33 of lost productivity --> avoid .01% chance of phishing attack --> avoid .01% chance of loss of $500 --> but in the event I do get phished, my loss is $500 + WEEKS of hassle with banks, credit reporting agencies, etc, to clean up the mess!

This is like the antibiotics trade-off. We don't want the population to overuse antibiotics to avoid building resistance in the population. But if I'm sick, and there's only a 10% chance that the antibiotic is useful (and 90% chance that my illness is viral and therefore the antibiotic is useless but otherwise harmless), then it's still in my individual interest to take it.
>You think you need a gun in order to kill a would-be assailant.

No. A gun also scares them off - and much better than a knife. A gun is an equalizer. Is an 85 year old lady with a knife going to be threatening to some young thug? Not likely. Will an 85 year old lady holding him at gunpoint be scary? Very.

[0] http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5624360
Wow that contact-congress data set alone is awesome. Thanks for doing that leg work!
Oh man, this is great! I'll try to add you in to the Redis benchmarks in this post, or at least talk about using you instead of redis-store. I was very frustrated with the state of redis-store when writing this post.
Right but the alternative is to have to go through and decide what music I might listen to.
The psychedelic colours are from the different light forms that are represented, such as UV/infra-red and others.
the problem is, how vague is the term? The previous actions were later excused under reasons differing from what was originally understood yet implemented wholly unnervingly as certain favorite subs of the admins escaped actions.

Eventually everyone will want their definition played out and in this generation of "I am offended, you must be silent" free speech is the real loser. You do not have the right to not be offended.
Anyone remember Tribe.net? They were once San Francisco's coolest social network. Then they had a purge of sex-related topics. Read "No sex please, we're 2.0" by Violet Blue.[1] Tribe went into a screaming dive and is down to one or two employees.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/No-sex-please-we-re-2-0...
I do some hardware hacking myself sometimes. Been meaning to sew this xbox controller joystick module onto a glove I've built that provides haptic feedback when sensed with the Leap Motion. Hit me up on my profile.
I do not think people would be pissed about reddit enforcing the bans if they did not market themselves as a bastion of free speech on the internet. It was not just Yishan who did it. Redditors even created a new sub[1] showing all instances where someone belonging to reddit has said or implied that they are for free speech on the internet.

People who are pissed are angry because it looks and sounds like bait and switch.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/BoFS
What about caching in Ruby is complicated to you? It seems pretty simple to me.

What production website doesn't cache? You make it sound like it's a Ruby-only issue.
I honestly wouldn't mind a "purge." I don't necessarily agree that drawing the line as to what is appropriate on a website is necessarily the destruction of people being able to express themselves. HackerNews doesn't allow racism, but I don't feel my right to express my opinion (for the most part - the hivemind that is caused by upvoting comments is troubling, but another issue altogether). If people want to be blatantly racist or post teen creepershots or organize to harass fat people, let them do that somewhere else. That wouldn't harm my reddit experience whatsoever (nor would it harm the experience of 99% of reddit users).

The only rational argument people can make against the "purging" (of blatantly racist etc. subreddits) is the "slippery slope" argument, which is usually known as a fallacious logical device. There is some merit to it, as reddit seems to be moving the line of appropriateness, but the line just has to be clearly drawn somewhere.

That said, anything Yishan Wong says at this point should be taken with a grain of salt. When you are starting your comments with "AYYYY LMAO" and admittedly take a pleasure in hoping to watch the company that fired you crumble, you're not exactly a neutral or reliable source.
The yelling analogy doesn't really work, because the vast majority of the controversial content is content you have to go looking for to find. Obviously there can be some leakages, but most people learn about this stuff because tech blogs or media companies deliberately go looking for it to "expose" how bad reddit is.
> While I don't like the idea of what's offensive being so subjective

What's offensive is what causes offense (that's what the word means.)

Its pretty much the textbook example of something that is completely subjective.
It's a terrible idea unless you can force the command to accept arguments in a specific language. Do you expect someone to iterate all the possible variants of "yes"?