skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with you, I think people are concerned because they know how to deal with a car accident. However, as one user asked before, who do you call when the drone crashes into your house? What about your child? No one is really proposing an established procedure and quantifying the risk yet, which is scary.
I don't personally have much faith in political change as a starting point. Political change may happen. I suspect it will be the results of a paradigm shift, not the cause of one.

I do agree that innovations in communication, especially in the area of collective decision making, are key.
That's not unlike asking, why are people driving Volkswagen cars?

"Volkswagen was originally created in 1937 by the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront)."

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front
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You got more interactions, but they weren't more genuine. They were every bit as much about building and maintaining an image.

I suspect they were less genuine, on the whole, because you had less ability to opt out and limit yourself to only more genuine interactions. In the non-tech society, keeping up appearances was and is of paramount importance.
We need a privacy structure to somehow protect our contact info residing in devices not our own, but I suspect that's rather challenging and would require a crypto solution. Maybe, I'm just describing a *nym form of messaging and crypto calling. There must be innovation in some form that's possible for contact lists.
I would love to see how they plan to address theft. Surely it would be super easy to steal the drones and harvest them for parts.
A good starting point: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/quickstart/docs
A lot of the NYC area financial firms use Microsoft technologies. If you are a developer at one of these firms and looking to leave to join a startup then there's your chance to jump. At least that is the way they've explained it to me. I don't use any MS technologies myself but that doesn't make it an invalid choice.
It was worse than a 24 hours ultimatum. The original got the notice and apparently never replied (due to abandonment?) which caused GH to disable the repo AND THE FORKS. The Fork owners were NOT notified. In fact, the problem was only resolved when a fork owner contacted GH and got the repo enabled 3 days later.
Just as a precaution, you should probably not be using their logos on your site without either company giving you permission.
Github seems to be a pretty good or "safe" investment. Developers have already entrusted them with something as precious as their code itself. They also have pretty clear pathways for being profitable with private repos and so on, I'm not that surprised they are getting a lot of funding.
The benefit of satisfying curiosity greatly outweighs the benefit of considering the feelings of the long dead. Namely, leaving things buried in the ground forever offers no benefit at all.
How many minority non Ivy League startup founders did and have they funded?

The majority of their team consists of white guy ivy leaguers who have a penchant for funding their younger counterparts. No offense to first round as that is how the VC market looks and resembles

Until that goes away the diversity issue still stands.
GP post uses personal experience, but fails to understand that being white is a crucial detail. "Police are racist" isn't persuasively countered by "I'm white. They treat me okay". This is a point GP has made before. "Them black fellas would be fine if they weren't so uppity" is, not surprisingly, a touchy viewpoint.

(PaulHaugis does make some good points about lynchmods and bullying and it's weird that those posts get so heavily downvoted.)
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Well in the UK true statements are not defamation either (as of a change in legislation last year).

My point is more that if Hollywood were lying about Google then Google would have legal recourse. If they are not then Google will just have to suck it up.
I agree to certain degree that it is how you treat the outliers. However 1) they are outliers for a reason: they happen to a very small subset of users. Its not as if every other person is having this error, that particular image was up-voted because it is a hilarious error to have not because it was happening to the majority of people. You can't plan for every eventuality which brings me to point 2) it would ludicrous to assume that every single issue is taken into account and that every install will go exactly as planned. With something as big as a new OS launch things are going to go wrong, that's just the way it works. If you can find me a company that has everything exactly perfect at launch with a product as big as Windows 10 with no errors I would be very impressed to see it.

I'm not trying to Microsoft "fan-boy" or come off in that manner, it's just silly to me that people are bashing Microsoft (or any company) for things not going PERFECTLY on launch day. It comes off as childish IMO.
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As an example, it lets farmers in Europeans buy soya beans from Brazil to feed their cows in winter.
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I'd guess it simply won't be that big an issue. They'll know where they are all the time, and they'll file theft reports and get police involved. They could add video, too, if they felt the need. In the US, it doesn't seem like organised bands are going to risk criminally attacking autonomous devices to steal parts.
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Not engaged.
Huh? You seem to be stuck on something that is irrelevant to the current conversation (at least, the point that I was making). I have no interest in debating copyright with you.

If you are stuck on that point, replace "copyright" in my original post with "operating a drone-mounted pistol". Better?
I wouldn't call either Rand or Max a philosopher. I would be more inclined to call Rand a poet and Marx an economist. (I must admit I am much less familiar with Marx's writings).

I place them in opposition to each other mostly because of their rather unique ability to instantly draw the ire of one large segment of the population while rallying another.
I've gotten some pretty wacky projects. Basically, implement a fairly-complex web app. Something that I'd assume (even after doing similar tasks) would probably take me up to 40 hours of work, just because the scope is so crazy. They want user login, multiple features, etc... basically an MVP for a small product.

It's hard. If you submit part of the project, which you usually have to do unless you're unemployed, they never go for it. If you call out of work a day or two to do the project... and you don't get the job anyway...
Visualizations and demos and games and such make sense to me. But when the page has finished loading and looks like every other page of text with some image ads? Yeah you didn't need that JS did you.
Ok, I apologize if it sounded like political change was the starting point. (Good! I obviously need to clarify!)

Political change is definitely the result -- but media outlets frequently claim it is all four: cause, method, effect, and definition. (Of the paradigm shift.)

Examples:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/us-markets-china-s...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/business/economy/26inquiry...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/27/supre...
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Soon, you can commit your genetic code to GitHub, then just do git diff master..offspring to see where your kid got his blue eyes from.
I'm not familiar with PowerQuery but after a quick search I think a huge difference is that blockspring has an open marketplace of data APIs.
Yes but process node characteristics such as the gate length and/or the silicon film thickness should be relatively similar.
they shouldn't care: ivy league is just a sports association
I hadn't heard about that but it sounds like what I'm talking about. With their ever expanding training corpus Google's net will eventually learn that dumbbells and arms are separate entities, but it will never deduce that on its own. And if it did it would not be able to generalize that to the fact that wedding rings and fingers are different (I hypothesize). Basically there is a whole other component of "intelligence" that feels absent from neural nets, which is why visions of AI lording over humanity don't exactly keep me up at night. (Autonomous weapons otoh...)
Well many companies are profitable (actually, it's the only prerequisite to stay alive). And arguably, Github isn't profitable enough to fuel its own growth, or they wouldn't need to take $250m from investors in exchange of shares. The question is: is it worth 2 billion dollars? As a developer my guts say yes, but I have no idea what their numbers look like...
i think in this case, they were funded before they started so cost wasnt an issue. versus most startups that start with little or no cash, so the idea of MS licensing is not even open for conversation.

i dont really think of jet as a startup in the classical sense. its just a new company with lots of funding, it sure wasnt bootstrapped.

IMO, its going to be a flop. their prices arent competitive for the items i have searched.
I was asked recently by a big company to code some classes in Python, on paper. They then questioned my indentation, syntax, and case-sensitivity multiple times!

A valid question, but paper-code?
That’s awesome, and I’m super glad this will be useful! This repo is a fork of our of private Explorer in order to move quickly and provide a good experience for Keen IO users. The private Explorer will be for internal bug fixes, new features, and design changes. Some of those changes may rely on specific items in Keen's infrastructure, and need to go through a migration phase to work properly in the open source version.

Good news is those migrations will happen frequently (it is likely that the two versions will usually be in sync). There may be periods of lag after new larger features come out that this open source repo will behind what Keen shows on its website.
Really cool. As someone who didn't fully understand what people mean by machine learning, this is great.
I <3 github... anyone with more business sense than me care to speculate on what this means for us users?
The families are not hoping for closure - they're hoping their relatives are still alive.

Regions new to passenger aviation cannot fathom that hundreds of people just cease to exist in an air accident.
"Optimal" is very broad. Optimal in one aspect might not be optimal in another aspect.

For instance, Ember and Angular in my opinion is optimal in terms of convention. Follow convention, and you can write apps in less time. Break convention, and you aren't "optimal".

React with Flux is optimal in terms of predictability of an app's behavior. One can simply eyeball the data and code and say "oh, this should happen if this is put in". Break this architecture, and you're in for unpredictable apps.

jQuery is optimal in terms of cross-browser utility APIs. However, if you find yourself falling back to vanilla, then your code is not "optimal" in terms of cross-browser compatibility.

Execution isn't the only aspect people care about. It's what they call "abstraction" and abstraction has its tradeoffs. Otherwise, we'd all be writing vanilla JS and sacrificing what matters most - getting things done.
“We want to make really big investments,” expanding internationally and investing in new products, he said.

Any speculation? Also, anyone know if they are currently profitable?
'Genuine' with respect to patents is a very low bar. They've issued patents on any number of scientifically impossible inventions, in spite of rules against that sort of thing. So the courts are usually required to sort it out after many years and endless litigation.
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Sorry to say, but any time I need a private repo I just head to BitBucket. GitHub provides tremendous value, I hope they find a good way to capture some of it.
Our children will be taught to do all of their homework in git as the 2040 way of showing work! Github for 6th graders!
Thanks for the typo. That has been fixed.

To address your comment on the CEO search. The markets do not like surprises. There is too much speculation with Jack Dorsey as the interim CEO. Especially because Dorsey is the CEO of Square and SqUARE is exploring an IPO. This further confuses investors. What the market wants is guidance. The fact that the company of this size has not named a CEO is puzzling. Large companies don't wait 2 months to name a successor - especially after they have forced the incumbent out. Most boards have a plan.
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For those really interested in this functionality - GTalkSMS is far better; it lets you set this up with a trusted XMPP service and has many more features. It also is free (no in-app purchase bait-and-switch nonsense) and Open Source:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode...
More censorship to bring repos inline with what is politically correct for a business environment. Enterprises with the big money won't want to have their code on a site that could be associated with anything possibly offensive to anyone.
This sounds like a brilliant idea. I hope that you are also including homework assignments that cover (1) communication skills (especially WRITTEN communication) and (2) personality. In my experience, those two areas are far more critical to success than raw coding skills. Also, everyone should pass the "no assholes" test, if there is such a thing.

I hope that you expect the same amount of prerequisite work for all of your candidates (marketing, finance, sales).
The interview process if kind-of crazy. I've been looking for a job for the last few weeks and been on a few dozen interviews. 90% of my experience is this:

1) They have a very-long interview process. Start to end is months, with weeks between communications.
2) Each phase, when there are often from 6-10, can take anytime from 2-8 hours.
3) Projects are always either right off the bat, and lengthy, or a surprise at the end of the interview.
Github has already stumbled, and will fall soon. Their gaffes in conduct[1] and content[2] policies are already dividing the community. For a company that has thrived on being a monoculture, this spells doom.

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3e5c6f/why_the_...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
It boggles my mind that you'd need a special data access library for your http framework.
It doesn't directly mean anything to end users.
Every homeowner knows that you don't make a claim against your homeowners insurance unless you can't avoid it:

http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/home-insurance/homeown...

"... either a major claim or too many claims in a given period, no matter how legitimate, could lead to losing your house’s coverage altogether..."
If I wanted [...] to regulate a wheel, it's unlikely I'd succeed. If I turned up, pointed out that bank robbers always make their escape on wheeled vehicles [...]

His point overall is sound but I think a better analogy would be to compare the infrastructure of the internet to roads and Google to a GPS -- If there's an area of a city where crime is known to take place e.g. where drugs, prostitution or stolen goods can be found, law-makers, without thinking terribly hard about the problem, place an onus on the GPS maker to block out those roads from being found.

The end result is that the places where illicit goods and services were available remain but are slightly more difficult to find without direct instructions or having foreknowledge of how to get there. No problem has actually been resolved, just swept aside and the GPS maker is the one who has to do the work for no gain - in fact it goes against their core function of navigating roads.
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As an organisation you have to decide on what you want. The developers who can handle high stress situations are rarely the most skilled developers.

If you are hiring for a high stress environment then you need to focus upon candidates who can handle stressful environments over candidates who write really good software.

On the other hand most environments are not high stress.
You seriously think censoring the word "retard" will harm their business?
bahahahaha.

Oh you people are so cute. Look at that second one, just tons and tons of sh!t posts from sh!t people saying "SJW" with more vitriol than I can possibly imagine.

The real gems are from complete tools like this too:

"Git is run but a bunch of retards"

Can't even write a sentence without stumbling multiple times.

""The "Retards" are "retards" anyway and cannot get offended by it. ""

You really want to throw your lot in with these assholes?

Funny how these issues are always astroturfed by the same type of anime avatars that Gators use.
Make the number $250 and give everyone the same problem (which you have to change every so often because of glassdoor and the like).

That's less than you're already spending on salary for the interview slate, so you're at most doubling your already small costs for a critically important function for your company.
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Sounds interesting. I should look into it.

At the moment I'm messing with some simple Machine Learning to better detect things like "Johannes Brahms" == "Brahms, Johannes" == "Brahms" for names in composer/artist fields.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9971946
It's a bit like a social network. There are better technologies out there (e.g. bitbucket), but like you said, developers have chosen Github for now. However, it would be possible for a mass exodus as they turn up the enforcement on the offensiveness bans.
I've always thought Google should buy them and make that the basis of Google+.
I can only say that if you're ever hiring, you probably will ask people to code for you. You won't at first, but after you've hired a few who could "talk the talk" but then can't actually write readable, maintainable, and in some cases working code, you'll reevaluate.

There's a gap between knowing concepts and knowing how to apply those concepts. There's actually a certain (limited) amount of artistry to writing code. Hiring a programmer without seeing code is like hiring an Architect without ever having seen a house he's designed.
$500 is too low - good developers will often charge $200+/hour freelancing, there is little incentive for them to deal with a take home test for that price with all of the time & stress that come with take home tests.

A choice is better than no choice though, but too many companies fumble through handling take home tests to make it worthwhile to a quality developer with any sense of value.
"The company’s co-founders were inspired by a tech talk given at Google Inc. in 2007 by Linus Torvalds" funny how many successful companies are founded after getting inspiration from a single talk.
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Assume there are is a small number of big players. They want to artificially keep the prices high. They could make an agreement, but that would be illegal. Assume it would not be illegal.

Now apply your logic: "Would the market sort it out?"

No, of course not.

So why would the market sort it out in other cases of anti-competitive behavior?
This is a good example of why I despise the term 'vector' for discussing dynamically sized containers. In the context of 3D modeling, 'vector' already carries the mathematical meaning. If someone said "vector meshes", I'd assume they were talking about meshes described by vectors. AKA... meshes.
In fact I think that you can have a functional Democracy without any freedom. That's kind of what I mean. I don't think that people are interested in freedom and I don't mean that to sound like a tea party fan. I just think that this place wouldn't be the way it is if people were genuinely interested in freedom...in fact it's such a nebulous term that it's almost meaningless.

Remember in Braveheart where Mel WahtsHisFAce rides in front of the soldiers waiting to go into battle to establish yet another monarchy, "What will you do without freedom?" That's a great summation of Americans arguing about freedom during an election cycle. We are an open society. We are a little d democratic society. I don't think that we are a free society.

Sorry for the blahblah blah stuff. It's just been on my mind a lot for some reason. Back to the salt mine.
Just $2Bn? Sound a little low to for something like Github.
In GitHub's position I would not even think of trying stuff myself. The leap from git repo hosting to almost any other profitable and aligned business seems huge.

But the leap to HN-style incubator, when you have direct daily connections to more and better coders than YC gets in a year, that makes sense to me.

Of course I would want to launch my own businesses, but the sensible money is on building remote working tools, incubators, conferences and so on dedicated to growing the next generation of distributed, remote and profitable companies. Intermediated through git and GitHub, of course.
https://cipherli.st

This should be on the list of valuable tools as well. It's a site which has strong example configurations for Apache, nginx, Openssh and many many others.. It's a great reference site. It's updated as new vulnerabilities are released, and as new technologies become available too.

Careful about implementing it all though - as their warning says, unless you understand things like HSTS or HPKP, implementing them incorrectly could make your site unavailable for a very, VERY long time.

That said, it's an easy way to get an A+! If you disable everything but TLS1.2, you can get a perfect 100/100/100/100.
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What is he talking about, in general? The title is interesting but the content is not.
When you need a private repo why do you use BitBucket? I've used the private repos on GitHub and found them to work just fine, but I'm new to coding...
And yet, despite that increase in face to face interaction--Bolivians love Facebook in a way that few communities in the US would understand. The world is really shrinking when for 1 Boliviano (paid to the owner of the packed to the gills internet cafe) people can chat in real time for an hour from the heart of the Amazonian jungle with New York, London, or Singapore.
Speaking as an employer: we address this by keeping our coding exercise short, and specifying a time limit. The limit ("60-90 minutes") is not rigidly enforced, but candidates know we're able to see how long they spent, and in practice almost everyone spends more than 60 and less than 90 minutes.

It's tricky. An in-person test would put the candidate in an unfamiliar environment, and makes many people nervous. A take-home test without a time limit opens itself up to the "I'd better spend lots of extra time so I can look impressive" problem. A take-home test with a hard time limit can also make people nervous. This is the best compromise we've been able to come up with (suggestions for improvement welcomed!).

As suggested on this thread, we also don't ask candidates to tackle the exercise until they've had a chance to talk to us on the phone.
I think you should think twice before investing or hosting data with companies that engage in tit-for-tat infantile behavior.
No we don't have laws about wheels. We have laws about cars. Cars are not wheels. Wheels are merely a critical component of cars. And that distinction is absolutely vital to the wheel analogy.