skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had to let people go, and have been a survivor through multiple rounds of layoffs, if you are VC Backed, first check if it's possible to land the better performers at another company that backed by the same investors.

The first start up I worked at, had a pretty tough rounds of layoffs. One of the engineers found a home at a startup that was backed by the same VC. Eventually as the first startup went under, he laid the ground work for some of us to transition over to his dev team.
Are you sure you're making an apples to apples comparison?
1 word son. Salesforce.
Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/12/mit-flash-only-supercompu..., which points to this.
> (all consuming memory, collecting personal data, etc.)

the integration does not collect personal data until the user opts in, and it does not consume memory beyond loading the image from disk until the user opts in.

meanwhile, that search bar up at the top is an integrated browser function (not even an add-on) that sends personal data to a 3rd party, closed source server.

> please explain why it is so difficult to remove

you remove it just like every other thing in your toolbar: click the menu button, drag it off of the toolbar.

> Mozilla has now begun changing the default

like when they added bookmarks, search, download menu, spaces, and countless other functions? that's literally what browser vendors do.
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I also recall a 3D pacman game on the SNES that was hella fun.
Obviously every case is different, and it's up to you to weigh the upside vs. the downside - but this is the advice you'll get. And if you're on the receiving side and wondering why they won't say boo about why you were let go, this is probably the reason.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Just like with texts - how can we be even remotely sure they haven't changed? Seems terribly unlikely to me.
The way the rest of the world has “fixed” health insurance is to have the state involved. Even the USA does this for anyone over 65 (where most of the spending occurs) and for anyone who is a veteran. For some reason covering the young and healthy seems too hard. It is almost as though there is a huge vested interest keen on maintaining the status quo at the expense of everyone else. Given that only unions are evil this could not be true.
David Plouffe, Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign manager (the guy who orchestrated Hillary's upset in the Democratic primary) is now the SVP of Policy and Strategy at Uber. This could get personal.
It seems to have come to harry8's mind too.
I know my opinion won't be popular on HN, but looking at uber, especially, and similar companies from the outside (American living in Europe the last 6 years), the u.s. appears to be in a race to the bottom, with people competing to lower their own wages.

I like uber but I think they f*cked themselves over and deserve every bit of scrutiny they are getting. There are markets where they don't screw over the drivers, for example where I live in Zurich uber is the same price as a cab but it's more convenient because of the app.

If uber was truly beneficial to their drivers in the u.s. They wouldn't be under this scrutiny. They deserve whatever pain they receive and hopefully someone more responsible will take over the market.

Good luck fighting the political class. Uber will lose this fight.
Doesn't this break the policy of Apple? As I know, Apple allows apps only made of some restricted languages from when Adobe tried to make iOS apps with Flash.
The measurement of the target variable, here attitude extremity, seems a little shaky to me.

First of all, using min and max values is not very smart because of outliers and complete disregard of the "coherence" of the opinions, i.e., if standard deviation is small or big (comparatively).

Secondly, the formula is not symmetric. Maybe that's ok because the distributions aren't but using the maximum in the denominator of the attitude extremity formula just increases the effect my first point.

I think a definition in terms of percentiles would have been probably much better. This would implicitly define attribute extremity in terms of non-conformity but that's IMO exactly what it is, it would just sound less dangerous and more 'revolutionarish'.
Mobile would be great for taking this kind of approach to bug hunting.

Especially since Android just launched a (proper) bug bounty program [0]. A ton of old problems are new again on Android, especially due to the fact a significant percentage of the OS stuff is being re-implemented in Java (IPC, sandboxing, etc). The more I dig into it the more I'm convinced very few people are conducting serious security reviews outside of Google.

Take this bug as an example: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/81 An apk with system privileges (the settings app) would accept IPC messages from any unprivileged app and relay them with system privileges.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/16/google-launches-bug-bounty-...
Firstly, the entire classes of bugs that Haskell eliminates are not classes that are especially relevant to cryptography.

Secondly, if you know where someone has claimed that Haskell lets you "formally prove the code implements the spec" then please point it out to me so I can challenge them for being misleading at best.
git-annex

cryptol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptol)

seL4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#High_ass...)
When we raised money, I most of the time had a clear "no" as well. We also had a couple of "no answer", but that was rather the exception.
Putting focus on short term revenue can hurt long and medium term revenue, and thus degrade the value of the company. Of course if you're already hunting for the next gig in another company, then the short term bonuses may be the only things that matter.

I cannot find the source but I think it was Rushkoff who used a wonderful phrase: extracting wealth by destroying value.

It highlights the underlying problem better than anything I can come up with.
Uber will fight the laws for at least a couple of years and by then be half way through replacing the entire labor force with autonomous cars. This is a political tactic designed to get Hillary points in the media. She's smart enough to know it'll have little to no long term impact.
I agree. I have a bit faster typing speed right now with dvorak. not sure if it is really super-better, but I definitely benefited from http://www.typingstudy.com
I agree. Mario Kart 8 is absolutely, hands-down one of the best games ever made. The controls are perfect, it has an insanely high replay value, the challenges are well-balanced, and it's absolutely gorgeous. They did a fantastic job.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9865176
Profiting from either group is morally bankrupt.

You know substance abusers have a problem and are giving you money to further it.

You know bigots have an agenda and are giving you money to further it.
Yup, and I actually had bought a XB360 gamepad... the D-Pad was mushy and horrid, returned it immediately for the XBOne one and it's a well built solid controller.

Also, I don't need to put batteries in if I run it off wired USB, so theres also that.
I think what he's saying goes along with not being a sucker and taking the first offer without first finding out your negotiating position. Hold out a little, or a lot, depending on your counterpart. If nothing else, it's probably good to say "I'm not sure I'm comfortable signing this on such short notice, can I have a few hours to think about it?" and gauge their response. You might immediately make a few extra bucks for just being aware of your options.

Most important is probably knowing the company and the individual you are dealing with. It's easy for people to misconstrue aggression as anger, which may or may not help your case.
FWIW, in terms of design, I think, for their current site, they've got inspiration from Agriya script. Why Everyone At Airbnb Is A Pirate article explains why http://www.fastcompany.com/3013899/bottom-line/why-everyone-...
Is anyone even using CF anymore especially in production? The spring/tomcat jee based setup seems a bit antiquated when there are so many lighter weight alternatives available.
Mozilla employment billboard, 101 near SF: "Work for mankind, not for the man".

Mozilla reality: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
"As Mike Kovalsky said at the end of our interview, “We really believe that virtual reality will drive the relationships between humans in the next years.”"

More like _divide_ the relationships between humans.
First of all, encouraging Congress to change laws is not police work. It's political work.

Second, in this case, "routing around" is distinct from "respecting".

The courts and constitution state that in some circumstances, a person has the right to encrypt messages and not divulge the encryption key. The fundamental right here is the right to a private internal dialogue -- the state can't compel you to speak on certain questions. The FBI is trying to route around that fundamental right by creating a technical mechanism that allows them to never have to ask you to hear your internal dialog.

In short, the existence of a technical means for violating the intent of an guaranteed right without technically violating the letter of constitutional law is a game that the courts eventually shut down as unconstitutional bullshit. But a lot of people get hurt in the in-between.

But again, just to be extremely clear on the most important issue here, encouraging Congress to pass laws is not in any way police work...
This is hacker news. Please post at http://www.reddit.com/r/alcoholism
> If uber was truly beneficial to their drivers in the u.s. They wouldn't be under this scrutiny.

Isn't this the wrong question?

I should think the relevant question is, "is Uber beneficial to society as a whole?" It's entirely possible that drivers would be better off without Uber but that society is better off with Uber.
No, Apple does not allow JIT. It does not dictate language use.
Neither Safari nor IE's reading mode sends or shares any data with a third party entity. If you know differently, please share to the contrary.
Lessons That Startup Founders Can Learn from Steve Jobs
Concurrency is hard. Immutability skates around the whole problem. A parser should be immutable, parsing state should be limited to a particular invocation of the parser.

Of course, mutable state cannot be abolished everywhere (often for efficiency reasons). In such cases, you should indeed understand the concurrency primitives.
hn_url := "http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/"
page := rand.Intn(50)
points := randomInt(200, 600)
url := hn_url + "search?tags=story&numericFilters=points>" + strconv.Itoa(points) + "&page=" + strconv.Itoa(page)

That's an odd definition of random.
What I Learned When I Gave Up the ‘9 to 5’
On top of this, Firefox for Android now demands access to your contacts list. The browser itself has no need for your contacts list. But Mozilla Sync and Pocket do.
funny how they started by returning results based on event searches and today they stopped supporting it. Now there are startups trying to do that same thing: https://www.stay22.com/ (disclaimer: my startup!)
What is your biggest concern in the risk?

The way I see it for me there are four outcomes:
1) Company discovers and I am fired.
2) Company discovers and has no interest.
3) No one finds out and I have decent side income.
4) The app has good success and I quit one day with a phony excuse before they become aware of it.

In my case, 1/4 is actually bad but the likelihood of discovery is low because my company is not in that field. I'm not likely to be fired without warning and it's not likely to be discovered while the app is transitioning from side income to success (before I can leave, if the app is worthwhile to litigate over).
A History of London at Night
There's a reason the Famicom (NES) CPU was similar to the 6502 -- Ricoh copied it. They removed the BCD mode because it wasn't necessary on a game console and more importantly, MOS's patents only covered that portion of the logic.

I don't remember if there's evidence for this, but I believe the experience of Iwata and the rest of the HAL Laboratory crew with the 6502 led to them choosing it for the Famicom system. There are certainly plenty of PET and VIC-20 games they developed, including this one with his name hidden in it:

https://tcrf.net/Star_Battle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsA8JPReMzE

HAL Laboratory made some excellent games with their software sprite system. It's surprising that Iwata is gone so soon.
I have said it before and I will repeat that advice here: anyone who can predict economic crises and when they will occur is just plain lucky.

There are enough people on this planet staking their reputations on one claim or another that we should expect people to "see things coming". Those many millions of people making grand claims are usually, but not always, incorrect.

There is a very important quote to remember here, if you're ever told by someone to make an economic bet:

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

You may know, for a fact, that a commodity is overpriced, that a stock is overvalued, or that the entire market is operating under "irrational exuberance". Okay, but in the history of the discipline, no economist has ever been able to predict when the party will stop. Prices can soar to many multiples of their values, and selling short will bankrupt almost everyone who thinks they know, for certain, when the party will stop.

Every once in a while a few economists stake their reputation on a market crash and are correct, and sometimes they get a little too full of themselves, write a book on their ability to forecast the market, and disappear into obscurity. Michael Pettis seems he may very well be one of these people.

Just about every economist I've read has thought the party would stop in China soon, no nation can sustain growth rates like theirs indefinitely. Short of the Chinese discovering and secretly using cold fusion or a perpetual motion machine, I would think.

So why is it the "Pettis hypothesis"? Sheesh.

I look forward to another person fleecing poor investors to fade into obscurity. The man who saw this crash coming was dealt a good hand, that's true, but he won't always win.
I do need to be in the office. No strict schedule, but generally available.

If company property was an issue, I could always get my own laptop and use a personal hotspot. Someone would have to prove I worked on my app in my office, which is hard without surveillance I imagine.
Was it actually better for workers back then? As far as I ever knew, they've always had a habit of squeezing everyone for a little more every year and whatnot. Most "associates" (your average workers) get 30 hours/week and zero benefits, except when mandated otherwise by law, with ridiculously strict timing on things like breaks. Heck, they even specifically manage the number of cashiers to ensure that there is always a line as long as they have customers... even at 3 AM in the morning.

And that's without going into all the random horror stories, like the workers locked inside doing inventory and unable to get someone to an ambulance, e.g.: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/us/workers-assail-night-lo...
What is the current tax situation in France for an individual running a lifestyle business? (Ie: Earns enough to support the founder, every other task contracted out)
> They wouldn't be under this scrutiny

They're getting the scrutiny because of lobbying & taxi cartels, not because of poor mistreated drivers.
These games are fully 3d modeled and in no way a 2d game. Their gameplay may be portable to a 2d platform, but they are not 2d. The is a significant difference in terms of development.
NASA's Fermi Sees Record Flare from a Black Hole in a Distant Galaxy
Paywalled. Says "To Read the Full Story, Subscribe or Sign In", but in reality, a subscription is necessary.
The points is just a threshold to get a good article instead of just anything. And, Algolia returns maximum of 1000 hits for a query with 20 per page. So shuffling the page to pick up too.
Frankly I'm surprised she picked uber as a target as uber has a very strong, large, and sophisticated political lobbying organization. Granted, they focus on local politics more than national, so maybe this is a sign of Hillary being out of touch with the local level.

I don't think we'll have autonomous cars in 2 years.
Not really. Strongtalk was never continued, even if now open. Lisp is the old and new smalltalk, and to some Ruby is the new smalltalk for dummies.
Same as a friend of mine lasted. Doc gave him 9 months.

EDIT: and I think he was lying a bit about the diagnosis in that letter, or else his docs were lying a bit to him. That may have been what he wanted to believe. If it was discovered "routinely" outside of surgery it was stage 4 to begin with, and there wasn't any hope, and it was probably inoperable (the fact that he got an operation and only lasted 12 months suggests the op didn't do any good).

Not really casting aspersions on him, though, just cancer is really shitty, and this one particularly bad.
For those of you that don't know, this article is (probably?) indebted to the 2011 SO question How do I find Waldo with Mathematica?[1]. It was a pretty big deal at the time and I find it odd that the Wolfram article doesn't mention it anywhere (unless I missed it; I just skimmed the blog post).

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-wal...
> Today, there’s a new trailblazer working tirelessly to alter the course of history. His name is Paul Elio. He is gearing up to become the next Henry Ford and this is the public’s first opportunity to invest in Elio Motors at the ground level. You can be a part of the $52 billion U.S. personal transportation industry and own a part of the next new U.S. vehicle manufacturer. But you have to act now!

That reads like an infomercial. Kind of makes you worried about crowd-investment...
> you're just here lying for money

This is absolutely not ok in a Hacker News comment. If you can't comment civilly, please don't comment here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Commodore: A Company on the Edge" book (http://goo.gl/y62uRe) contains some pages about Iwata and HAL labs collaboration with Commodore
I remember the time that Yahoo announced layoffs in time for earnings, but the specific people to be laid off we're not find out for six more weeks. This was not very good for morale.
previous discussions from more than a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551423
Sounds like a fun deep learning project.
The whole thing itself is kinda confused about what exactly the cloud has to do with outsourcing. Going to the cloud doesn't magically get rid of programmers. It just means you might have one or two fewer people because you don't need to worry about managing the actual hardware. Writing the software, maintaining it, patching it, etc. still needs to happen. Overall, more sensational than it really needs to be. The fact that Big Corp. is figuring out how to have a leaner IT operation is a good thing but they were bloated to begin with and are just catching up. Not really news to anyone who has seen those things.
I wrote a short guide called "Creating the perfect GPG keypair" < https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/ > some time ago. I mainly wrote it for myself as a sort of step-by-step reminder on how to create an ideal key, but it seems others have found it useful. In particular it borrows from the Debian guide on creating subkeys for use on a laptop (or other device that has a high chance of being stolen/compromised).

I don't consider myself an expert, and the guide is compiled from synthesizing several other guides. If anyone has tips on how to improve the guide, or spots any errors, please do let me know so I can update it.
Regardless of what you think of the issue, that read like a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed. I know Techcrunch skews pro-tech, but at some point reading articles like that increases your filter bubble and ends up with the reader worse off. Instead of understanding WHY people feel so strongly enough about the issue that it's a political issue, a reader just hears essentially a diatribe of why Hillary Clinton is wrong and Uber is great...

Again, no judgement on whether or not Uber is great or HC is wrong, just a concern that articles like this enhance the SV echo chamber to our own detriment.
I always find it interesting how paranoid people are about this, coming from a country (Norway) where you not only generally have the right to 3 months notice, but also have the right to continue working during your notice period (a result of seeing work as a right and requiring very compelling reasons to take your work away). There are exceptions, such as e.g. if you're fired for cause, but they are quite limited.

In reality, it causes few problems - people likely to do something malicious probably already did it behind your back anyway.
If you build tools for programmers, give me some way of interacting with it other than running your JS in my browser. Otherwise, I'm likely to find it horribly awkward to integrate with my preferred workflows, and I'm unlikely to use your project.
The USA is a federation but it's much more integrated - maybe the comparison holds more water against the early US in the late 18th and early 19th century.
That's a good one! However, I'd like to say if there is a very good severance paid (golden parachute) than a non compete is OK in my eyes. If you can't afford a great severance, than by all means, make life as easy as possible for your employees and remove anything that can block them getting rehired. These are real things you can do instead of just saying "oh sorry, I'm laying you off, I feel so bad, yada yada yada"..
> please explain why it is so difficult to remove

right-click, "Remove from toolbar". There you go.
Beware the IP non-assert clause in AWS cloud service agreement
“...who sat for three hours in a Barnes & Noble bookstore with a measuring tape painstakingly constructing this fabulous dataset.”

Wow, couldn’t actually buy the books?!
I saw it coming too - having advised my Chinese cousin to stay out last month. My last name is also "Man". Thank you.
They do not change the direction they simply kill the jobs and have been doing this for decades (disclaimer i am not an american nor wester european and am in similar position of being a cheap eastern european workforce)
Copy the URL, Google it, and click the link, it should open full article (see previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531941 or read this: https://umur.io/paywall-bypass-bookmarklet-come-from-google/).

* Edit: Removed: "go to Google, Search", added: Google it.
Aside: stupid me.
It seems like their technology is open source, or at least some of it: https://github.com/containership
This reminds me of some martial arts philosophy I heard. It was basically that there were three stages to mastery. In the first stage you fight intuitively but know no techniques. In the second stage you practice techniques, and use your conscious mind to choose which of them to use, and how to execute it. It feels forced, and in this stage it is harder to use novel solutions, because you focus on your list of techniques.
In the third stage you have internalized all the techniques and can once again work intuitively.