skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so, I think it's just a matter of us learning where our prior ideas of privacy and what should and can be expected are meeting with the new reality. We can not legislate away capabilities that are fundamentally the same as what's existed previously, but have a greater effect because of the digital age, and expect those to hold[1].

Additionally, I increasingly think our interpretation of privacy has been too colored by the recent past (recent in this case being the last couple hundred years). Public privacy is largely a byproduct of increasing urbanization and the anonymity that large crowds provided. In rural areas where someone was around to witness your actions, anyone and everyone might know of it in short order.

I think we will eventually settle on new norms of privacy, where some laws are strengthened, and some are weakened, people are aware of what steps they need to take to be reasonably private in the different areas of their life, and we'll settle into a more normal level of government privacy breaches (they have always existed) than the occurrences we are seeing now (which I believe it a result of our laws and expectations no longer adequately mapping to reality).

1: For example, if a government can legally place a person at a location to observe, I believe any actions to prevent their capability to automate this process (CCTV) will likely fail in outcome, if not legislation.
> hydrogen-boron fusion, which will require ion temperatures above 3 billion degrees Celsius

3 billion degrees... that blows my mind.
That startup's stock is not liquid, and that %0.5 is subject to a large amount dilution on top of it if it ever becomes liquid. For example, it's often not worth it to work for a startup, even if you get that %0.5 equity at the $10mm valuation, since even if it gets to a $1 billion valuation, it doesn't mean you can sell it.

Dilution would then make that $50k into $500k instead of the $5 million you would expect. $500k / 4 = $125k / yr (vesting), which is the same as working at google / apple if you could sell all of your stock. But you cannot so you probably will not get that money back. So a very good case scenario for startups can lead to getting the same money as working at google.

With the current trend of 8+ years to liquidity if the company is successful, it will be a long time before you get your $50k back. Then you have to compare putting that held up $50k in to an index fund over the same 8 years.

As a result, you should probably be demanding something like %5 of the company. Dividing your missing compensation by the probability that you would actually get that missing compensation will lead to a calculation like that.

They will predictably balk at the %5 suggestion, so it's up to you to figure out if you can make more money working for someone else keeping your sales costs in consideration. If not, then go ahead and work with these people, and just treat the equity as the lottery ticket it is.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/13/understanding-how-dilution-...
That's a shame. If I have a trial version and like the game, I'm happy to pay $3 or $5. If it's a comprehensive, open-ended game, I've paid up to $10 (haven't seen anything priced higher).

In the race to the bottom, everyone loses.
Can you provide a breakdown of where the money is coming from? I haven't seen that kind of data which would actually show that Google isn't funding Mozilla at all any more.
The incest I was talking about was wrt the Family Values discussions in the 80's in which there was some discussion of molestation being a family issue that should not be handled by the courts. Admittedly this was a fringe view, but still discussed.

I agree that financial data being dumped is over the top.
Now you just need to automatically post the pictures to imgur/reddit and let the karma flow in. :|
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It's unlikely that a given residential area is drawing water from the area directly beneath it, or that its water supply is fed by residential run-off. That's not going to be clean water that you'd want to drink. Most residential water comes from resovoirs fed by mostly unpopulated catchment areas which are often 10s or 100s of miles away. Also bare in mind that around 50% of rainwater evaporates or ends up in the ocean, so there's plenty to go around.
A lot of courts think it is
I'm glad you can so easily weigh the damage of a punch vs. years of deceit. My impact calculus is a bit different.
Looks like if you try to load it and have third-party cookies disabled you just get redirected to a 404:

"404.

Lorem ipsum other castle, arrow to the knee set up us the bomb."

Luckily they have an amusing error page.
Having morals means knowing when to stay out of things that are none of your concern

That's fundamental to your moral framework. It may even be fundamental to the moral norms in US or Western culture. But it's not fundamental to everybody's. It's by no means objective. That's why we have objective laws to go by.

Talking about morals means realizing everyone has different morals. Of what use is it to argue whether cheating or hacking or meddling in the business of others or vigilante justice is or isn't moral in general?
Alien Deb to RPM works most of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software)

Though OpenSUSE Build Service is the most under used Linux technology period. Build on it and send out packages to whatever distro you want. https://build.opensuse.org/
Wow. "A woman told the paper that she was pulled over by Woodworth police while in labor — and was kept for more than a half hour."
Designers/developers other than and including those at Apple have used skeuomorphism for this very reason. You want people to know where to drop files, you show them an image of a floppy or a folder. Want to print, click the printer icon. Want to unlock your phone, slide it unlocked.

Using physical analogs has LONG been common.

The other day I used ProComm (yeah, I know, right!?). To close the connection, I clicked the phone icon and it animated showing the phone being placed back on the hook.
Why These Colored Water Droplets Seem to Be Alive
Truly, 2015 will be the year of the Linux desktop with innovations like this.
In the same light, let's not pretend that the anonymity of the internet hasn't facilitated people comitting adultery.

In the same light, let's not pretend that the anonymity of the Internet hasn't facilitated people engaging in terrorist activity and drug trade. When do we build the firewall, captain?
> If you're just doing a short term job as opposed to sticking with this company for the long term

To expand, this is also being discussed. They have made overtures to bring me on as CTO, but we both agreed it would be best to try each other out through a consulting arrangement (as I am currently an active consultant). I understand that the considerations as a long-term early employee are much different (e.g. I should expect more equity and for it to vest gradually).

So I could see me doing the consulting gig for X months and then being hired on as CTO/Engineer #1. At that point I suppose we would negotiate a new agreement. That probably complicates things, right?
I hear this argument so often that trials hurt sales because people decide not to buy after playing. This is the benefit of the trial to the end user; I can see if I like the game before I put money on the table. Even if the game is stellar, it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea.

The inverse of this is likely just as true, sales are not made due to there being no free trial so someone just doesn't bother with it at all.
Yeah, a trust path that is end-to-end all Debian developers is fine. And I sometimes know that a certain human (that I don't have a way to meet with in person) is a reasonable human being, so I'll trust a path to that human that consists of Debian people, or other people I personally know to be reasonable human beings.
I want Amazon to build a personal digital assistant, and then integrate it into filters. Today I was searching for socks, I care about 3 things, the size, the color, and whether they go up to the ankle or not. It seems like information they probably have (or a well trained net could figure out), so it would be nice if it was offered as a filter.

A few weeks ago I was trying to find toys for my son. I was most interested in "things for a 6 month old". They did have that filter, but it was 0 - 24 months. At this age a few months make a HUGE difference. I wish the box was a bit more fine grained.
No, it's not the same everywhere. My coworker recently came back from five months maternity leave, and next year women at my standard big corp will receive 8. Parental leave is seen as a completely normal part of work life.
> If you had the option of knowing that your spouse was cheating via dox, or not knowing at all which would you choose?

Personally? Easy choice, I'd pick not knowing. Others might pick differently.
True, but I think werber was referring to grocery stores (or the like).
There were apparently several models of Micro-A. There were definitely versions that as you say were a SCAMP card in a PC-class machine running OS/2. I think there were also SCAMP based Micro-As that ran "native", but I can't be sure.

As to purchasing one, since it was designed from the start to be an "all-in-one" product for a relatively non-technical crowd, I image as long as all the hardware worked, you'd have a working system and would only need to learn MCP (complicated, but for which there is excellent doco and people who currently use it for help). However, if anything didn't work or failed later (especially the disk), you probably have an interesting paperweight. There aren't exactly a bunch of spares or OS install tapes running around.

That said, I've never seen a Micro-A for sale on eBay or otherwise, and only know one person that has one. By comparison, the P/370, P/390 and other IBM-mainframe-card-in-a-PC show up a couple of times a year one place or another, though I've never seen one go cheap.

Re: AS/400: Oh, yeah...glad I never got bit by that bug. It's crazy trying to understand various piece parts of that ecosystem. Bonus: as I understand, the software licenses for an AS/400 are not transferable.
Yes, it is almost nothing when you look at the estimated spending required to achieve fusion:

http://i.imgur.com/FR0TsYF.png
Might be interesting, but the odds are the wrong way to think about this. Our wins come from the margins and we're looking for people to beat the odds. Most of the time we are surprised what ends up becoming big.

The numbers reveal that it's hard, but startups were ALWAYS hard. It's still the hardest thing I've ever done and most founders say the same. As far as YC is concerned, we don't want people to try to make this easier for us. One of the unique properties of YC is that we're trying to fund startups at scale and that means we don't want founders thinking about trying to make it manageable for us by bowing out. That's how I miss out on someone on the margins. It's one of the reasons why I love working on the YC software team to try and solve these challenges. So please, don't take away my work. :)

My favorite founders are filled with grit and perseverance. They don't calculate whether they can change the world before starting, they just start. So if you're ready to do something hard and feel like it's within you to change the world, please do apply...the numbers be damned.
doubtful. it can't be delivered in under an hour by a contractor.
Very interesting, thanks for the tip.
The State of InfluxDB
Respect the privacy of others
>It's not "you" who is very rich.

Oh no? I'm in top 0.2% in income in the world, and I'm sure there are people here doing far better than I am. How about you?

http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Thank you. This is a clear explanation of some of the considerations I need to be aware of (but was not).
And being in a management position at a company doesn't strike you as organized control of a community?
It is something of a stretch to go from voltage potential with a small current, to building amino acids, enzymes, and RNA. But the result is interesting as a phenomena.
AshleyMadison reward = $500k CAD ($376k USD) divided by 40M users = $0.01 #privacy should be worth more than 1 cent!
Ok, so I did some quick numbers on performance. It looks like the first batch was in 2005, meaning ycombinator has been at this for 10 years. Have they always funded with 120k? Assuming that (and not present valuing the older money):

Total Investment: ~$131,600,000
Total Companies Value: >$65,000,000,000
YCombinator's 7% Value: $4,550,000,000
Total Return: 3357%
Annualized Return: 42.5%

Obviously, it costs more than the initial investment, but these are really nice numbers if compared to a mutual fund, etc. Did I make any mistaken assumptions?
Completely fine to ask for proof that the seed round happened, especially as the first employee.
I had the [dis]pleasure of having a co-founder that would routinely lie to people about past investment, investor interest etc. If only I was smart enough not to trust that person myself...

Just honestly voice your concerns (rather than saying "show me the proof" without explaining why) and any reasonable person will only have more respect for you for asking.
We use TCL for almost everything that isn't C/C++, its insanely flexible. You can completely redefine the syntax if you want as there are NO keywords. Meta programming is easy, as all TCL commands follow the same format- Its only con is the lack of widespread use, so sometimes you'll have to write your own packages.

Dont worry to much though, the syntax grows on you :)
“You have lots of AIs—like Siri, Google Now, or Cortana—whose scope is quite limited. Because AI is limited, you have to define a limited scope,” Lebrun says. “We wanted to start with something more ambitious, to really give people what they’re asking for.” This meant the team would need more than AI...Even after bringing neural nets into the mix, he says, the company will continue to use human trainers for years on end.

I can't help but picture a large, fluorescent-lit room of jolly old British "trainers" in safari khakis running around admonishing misbehaving AI for telling bad jokes, all the while trying to juggle placing calls to the DMV and restaurants to make reservations for 700 million messenger users.
what are you talking about? reporting to a new manager is far from a minor cost, especially when it's a manager you never reported to to begin with. since everyone else is making random unfounded statements, her going on maternity leave probably had a lot to do with why there was only one person left on the team when she came back.

what about the new manager? why should they have to change teams? basically what you're saying is that everyone on the team should suffer significantly so that one person can return to lead the same team with different members rather than just leading a new team that needs a manager?
The summer of 1999 on the way to E&M class I rode the same bus to the physics building as Dr. Hendrik Monkhorst. He is one of the founders of Tri Alpha Energy, and I remember chatting with him about about aneutronic fusion. It was very eye opening for a 19 year old undergraduate. I remember him espousing commercialization within ten years, which now seems like prototypical professorial optimism. It is an exciting milestone to see them have successful confinement for a solid length of time.
Yes - with VoLTE, calls are also data.
Lets see about this incoherent stream of consciousness ranting...

1. why should it be any business of yours on how they address the issues since you aren't involved (proverbial you, maybe you do work there)?

Because even in a capitalism based society, there ought to be boundaries set up to prevent abuse of workers - directly or indirectly. You can't treat people like cattle.

2. the way things are going it makes absolutely no sense for amazon to post anything about the situation because whatever is said will be torn to shreds and people will demand more information.

False. If Amazon made a genuine effort and owned up to their past mistakes, revamped a few policies and company culture, instead of making meaningless PR-speak statements, that would genuinely change people's minds.

3. I dont see people who currently work at amazon complaining

Lol

4. or maybe it's just that the people who are giving these stories happened to have a lot of things fall into place at just the wrong time to make it seem malicious.

Would be true if it happened to one or two people. But it seems like a pattern with Amazon. Hard to blame "bad luck". There is a positive correlation.

5. o one in these stories post about what they did to demonstrate that they were performing well or not

Because they were busy being sick with cancer.

6. why not ask how long a company should continue paying an employee who's performing poorly?

So the next time you have a bad day at work, maybe your boss will be completely justified in firing you.

7. what if someone had been doing poorly for a good amount of time, then just before review time comes up when they're going to get a bad review, they announce that they are pregnant or sick.

Doubt this will be as common a scenario as you think, but lets assume it is. Lets even grant you that the company is justified in firing that employee. Does that make the cut-throat backstabbing, review anonymously, email on weekends and midnight, survive or die Darwinian culture at Amazon ok?

8. this whole thing has turned into a witch hunt

Wrong. Amazon is not a person. Nobody is demanding Bezos' head on a pike. It's about highlighting a cultural problem within an organization from which you'd certainly expect better.

9. Nobody cares to ask any of the questions that matter and allow any one or company to build off of.

Well, enlighten us.
Hacking into a dating website is not analogous to merely observing someone stealing. If you set up cameras pointed into my bedroom, I'd have a big problem with that even if it did catch a burglar.

The fact that some people approve of vigilante justice and disrupting the personal lives of people they don't like doesn't mean it's a good idea. There are many obvious historical examples of terrible harm that sort of thinking has caused. If you think adultery is a crime that requires help from people not involved in the marriage, I suggest you campaign to make it illegal in all states and ask for police resources to be dedicated to it. If you see someone stealing, you should call the police.
For some reason, I'm on all the different things posted here, this makes me want to get into robotics. I've been thinking about ordering a raspberrypi, or a MicroPython board, etc., but something holds me back. Maybe the fear of getting into something that I won't have time for.
No it doesn't depend on your perspective. If it did the conversation would make no sense. The only perspective worth considering is the global objective perspective. Quantum events are globally, objectively random. Nothing else seems to be, which means, by definition, that everything else is deterministic.
Quantum Game of Life (2012)
The danger of taking VC$$ for product development
It should be noted that the VPN only turns on when it automatically connects to pre-approved APs. Google didn't disclose to me what those APs are.
Founders also get paid well at startups once they've raised funds. There's a large difference between having a couple million dollars amassed as retirement savings and having millions amassed long before retirement. The lifestyles and opportunity spectrums are wildly different between the two.
Writing Juju Charms in Rust
Reminds me of this BBC infographic on hottest temperatures in the universe, http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/20131218-tempera... , very enlightening.
I remember having UMA on a T-Mobile BlackBerry (8800, I think) and the call handoff from WiFi to mobile really was seamless, no gaps at all. This was in 2007, by the way.
Fines should go directly to a federally recognized not-for-profit. This is how repaying the community for a fine-able offence could be made. Also they should be /on top of/ damages. (In the case of most non-accident traffic matters, the 'damages' are non-existent.)
I heard a similar story from a Sony employee about the Sony hack. Was able to find it mentioned in a Vanity Fair article:

>...this morning, as she began her day, she discovered that a bizarre specter had hijacked her computer. The screen glowed with a blood-red skeleton baring its fangs, and the words “Hacked By #GOP.”

[0] http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/02/sony-hacking-set...
https://republicwireless.com provides seamless wifi->cell and cell->wifi handover of calls.
Show HN: Website to judge books by their cover
Wow. We don't even spend a billion a year on Fusion research...
Exactly. They are doing VoIP over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi), but not VoIP over 3G/LTE (which is VoLTE if you follow certain standards).
The fact that you see it as self-entitlement when someone wants to come back to their job after a pregnancy and cancer treatment shows how wrong the current attitude in the US towards a healthy work / life balance is.
Krebs isn't a security researcher; he's a reporter.
Surely you mean 2004 (the year this was published)?
Bitcoin and then sleeping with beautiful women in a corrupt third world country until you die :)
That's why we have objective laws to go by.

Which as far as I know were violated.
> Now go back and ask, if you believe that the only thing we can "see" around us that doesn't have the "physical entity" is the "soul" of humans why do you do so?

I don't think this. I don't think that anything about the consciousness or agency of humans is exceptional to humans.

> The "consciousness" as a "neurological process by which the animal or the human sees it as special, the center of its attention in order to protect itself" can be seen as a product of evolution.

This is an interesting perspective that definitely made me think, but I think it ultimately begs the question. If you're talking about "seeing" or "attention," you're already speaking in concepts that presume the existence of consciousness. I'm not sure this gives us a useful framework to know when any computational process we have created does indeed have "consciousness," or where the line is between animals advanced enough to have it and animals (or even plants) that don't.
Yeah, in the US (as someone who works in the health insurance industry) - what is described as 'health insurance' in the US meets very few of the definitions of 'insurance'.

It's really more accurately "(Group) Healthcare Cost Amortization".
It looks like it says "valuation" now. However, he's not trying to pitch you on investing in anything, so he can use whatever language he wants. The point of the blog post that I took was that it is illegal to mislead potential investors about your company.
Yes it is. The US is 4.6% of the global population and holds about 40% to 45% of all global wealth.

US households alone hold $85 to $90 trillion.

This is from 2010, US assets have massively rebounded since then, likely pushing this figure even higher.

"Some 39 percent of the world’s wealth belongs to Americans, while Western Europe accounts for another 31 percent."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/americas-domina...
Thanks, good info!
The question was "why isnt bernie sanders a viable candidate?". You just said it yourself: most americans perceive socialist values as the antithesis of american values. Hence your candidate is not viable in this political climate. Sorry, I agree with your spirit but your arguing against a straw man.
It seems like the tweets are selectively pulled responses from a chat stream.
This just isn't true, and hasn't been true since 92. Please go and take another look, its a very surprising language that more often than not beats or is comparable perl/python/js for speed.
Debian Package Management Book
You're not factoring dilution in at all, for one. Also, the 120k is more recent.