skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, thank you for the clarification. The Tor project's page says the same.

Tor anonymizes the origin of your traffic, and it encrypts everything between you and the Tor network and everything inside the Tor network, but it can't encrypt your traffic between the Tor network and its final destination. If you are communicating sensitive information, you should use as much care as you would on the normal scary Internet — use HTTPS or other end-to-end encryption and authentication.

http://www.torproject.org/download.html.en#Warning
They've actually said as much. They understand that their process generates false negatives but they don't want any "crud."
Maybe I'm Jewish and I want to keep kosher. Maybe I'm not. It is my decision what goes into my body. Not yours. Not some company's.

There are a lot of foods I don't eat anymore. I happen to love chocolate. But I don't want to eat chocolate with PGPR in it, therefore I don't purchase Hershey's anymore. Is PGPR "bad" for me? Umm, no. When you were a child, you had (and ate) "wax lips" which are PGPR with some color added. It doesn't belong in my chocolate, therefore I refuse to eat it, and refuse to purchase foods with PGPR
Yet another black and white, egotistical, all-knowing piece of shit post on SVN. I used to be inspired by this blog, but now it's just so much drivel.
The paper only goes into the IP implications, but I think those are relatively minor compared to most implications of low-cost 3D printing.

3D prototyping makes it a lot easier for people to build and improve weapons. You could, for example, print your own AR-15 lower receiver and buy the rest of the parts. Or print your own full-auto sear. Or print your own sound suppressor (silencer). Today, building those things requires specialized knowledge and expensive tools. That will change as 3D printing goes down in price and up in quality.

The advantages of this technology outweigh the downsides, but it's good to be aware of the downsides.
We avoid it because my girlfriend is allergic to it; which seriously limits what foods we can buy from the store.
It's also not even clear they need to cut back on services.

Take Flint, for example. Instead of cutting 23 of 88 firefighters, why not keep them all but reduce their compensation by 26%? It's Flint Michigan, they don't exactly have other employment options. Besides, it's unlikely Flint even needs that many firefighters - their population dropped by about 10% since 2000.

The same could be done for teachers - NYC pays entry level teachers roughly the same salary as entry level engineers (total comp per month worked, not per calendar year). Rather than laying them off, why not cut their comp down to liberal arts grad entry level?

[edit: replaced word "pay" in second paragraph with "compensation". Thanks chrisbolt.]
To be clear, the inspiration to 'get out there' and build something came from this community... I've been lurking here for months reading post after post about just getting started with something. It doesn't have to be the most amazing idea ever. Come up with an idea for a real business. Build it. Test and get feedback from potential customers. Iterate. Repeat.
It looks like there few other projects with the same name.
Previous good discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603374
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"In the past quarter, people bought far more Nokia phones than Apple and Android combined."

Then shouldn't he be ashamed that people aren't excited about them?
I think the trick is in choosing a new name that actually sounds nicer than the old one, and not that of an alien overlord.
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I would also like to point out, that the reason for this is that Nokia has been fighting carriers from since they started making phones, up to and including lobbying for legislation that banned network-locked cell phones in many countries.

Why do you thing they never made much headway in the USA? Because Verizon and AT&T spent more money greasing the congress, and Nokia didn't want to give up.
The UK drives on the _right_ side. The other countries merely drive on the right side.
I was wondering about that. Why bother buying an unlocked phone if your payments don't change?

I mean, you have the freedom to change carriers at will, but I wonder how often that's exercised.
I lied on my resume (basic C++ knowledge) when applying for my very first job. It got me past the phone interview, and I've spent the next 48 hours on caffeine struggling with examples from C++ tutorial. (I did knew some C and basic OO concepts at that point though.)

Never came to regret it.

Yes, lying is bad, and perhaps I would agree with your well-spirited reply if I weren't already at the other side. I hope it didn't reflect on my personal qualities long-term :)
Is there something actually based on fact and data that anyone can recommend about the subject of self-control (and it's impact on being successful)?
Aye, YC is probably one of the strongest startup-related brands these days. It's shocking to see how well people respond to my relationship to YC these days. Back when Steve & I started reddit, we had to explain to nearly everyone just what "Y Combinator" was all about. The association really is validating in a lot of ways -- but every day it becomes even more important to keep up the brand's value.

(Full-disclosure: I'm a new employee at YC - Ambassador to the East)
Which is why the AMA in the US uses collective action to strictly limit the number of new medical degrees and licenses. They also do a lot of lobbying to ensure that their job territory is not encroached upon by nurses, EMTs, or other potentially capable non-doctors.

If getting a medical degrees leaves you with no debt, and practicing as a doctor saddles you with little liability, why would you be able to demand a high salary?
I think the missing phrase is relative compared to the average. "Good" broadband in many parts (the majority?) of the US is still crap shoved upon citizens with no other choice but dialup.
>It doesn't belong in my chocolate, therefore I refuse to eat it, and refuse to purchase foods with PGPR

You're weird. Chocolate originally comes in bean form; some brilliant South Americans got the idea to grind it up with sugar and water and drink it. Chocolate in solid form is a pretty damn new idea and hardly even counts as a food; it's a pretty weird concoction to be a "purist" about. Where does your platonic idea of chocolate come from?

I have a few friends that keep pretty strict kosher, and I think they're weird too. But at least I can get a handle on it because it's written in book they feel like following the rules of. I don't really understand this extreme fetishism we have for what we eat that people pull out of their anal area.
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Have you ever eaten something baked by someone who missed that distinction? It is an unpleasant experience.
Here's a paper discussing how this key could have been derived:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/pubs/hdcppaper.ps

http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/hdcp-drm01.pdf

Here's the fun bit:

"We observe that attackers can exploit a well-known cryptographic design mistake: the shared secret generation is entirely linear. The attack only needs 40 public/private key pairs such that the public key pairs span M ⊂ (Z/256Z)40, the module generated by all public keys. Since HDCP devices divulge their public keys freely, one can easily test whether a set of 40 devices have public keys spanning M before expending the effort to extract their private keys. With these keys, the authority’s secret can be recovered in only a few seconds on any desktop computer."

Edited to add the next paragraph (paper was published in 2001):

"The consequence of these flaws is that, after recovering the private keys of 40 devices, we can attack every other interoperable HDCP device in existence: we can decrypt eavesdropped communications, spoof the identity of other devices, and even forge new device keys as though we were the trusted center. Note that this allows us to bypass any revocation list or “blacklisting”: such mechanisms are rendered completely ineffective by these flaws in HDCP. Therefore we recommend that the current HDCP cryptosystem should be abandoned and replaced with standard cryptographic primitives."
There's a certain irony in hearing someone from the Reagan government talking about China's fast train. If you so much as suggested something like that in the USA you'd be billed as a socialist and the program will be immediately scrapped.

Once the USA wasn't like this. Once it had a big government who looked after its citizens and did what no private investor could or would do.

In Australia the government is building fiber optics to all houses. In Europe governments are building a network of fast trains. In China government is building pretty much everything.

Are the Americans sure that they are backing the right politics?
I think the balance for Google is whether they fight Apple, or the carriers. Fighting the carriers will fight themselves out of existence. If they cater to the carriers, they can kill the iPhone.

That doesn't mean I like it. Just as locking down devices and forcing apps through the App Store, although beneficial to Apple, doesn't make it good for consumers.

Ultimately, I want an open phone that works on the carrier of my choice. I just don't know if that formula could ever win.
Are you at Google? If you are, and aren't getting GSUs (fully vested stock units), you're missing out.
I guess if you're making $125,000 per seat you don't have to worry about innovating your business model too much. :)

I'm surprised no one has released an open source clone, though. It's fairly well documented and I think the Q verbs would be a really smart way to manipulate data in an open framework. Plus there are some performance guys out there in the open source world that could probably best even Arthur
Honestly, Japanese anime characters do not look western to me. They look Japanese, but that's probably because I'm used to seeing them in anime! I don't see how classic Japanese drawings have anything to do with it; different styles of drawing grew up in different cultures, I expect, and not just because of the different look of people from those culture.

As for the baseball question, I don't think it makes much sense. Soccer is popular almost everywhere in the world except in the United States, so it's obviously not a Western thing, and there are other sports highly popular in some countries and not in others. It has more to do with history than with any fascination. For example, cricket and snooker are extremely popular in countries that used to be parts of Great Britain, but that's just history, not any "worship" of England.
Some of his logos are really good, but most fit the 'horrible' description.

I was tempted to throw some money in and see what I got, until I saw what he does when he's not inspired at all. Some of them are just text on a sheet with no style at all. Forget it.
Thank you. Couldn't have said it better.

37signals is becoming one of the most accomplished trolls on the internet. The first (non patent) corporate troll? Surely they can't be, but I can't think of another.

The sad thing is, they have interesting things to talk about. But today, just like yesterday, they go for the cheap thrills of a spicy headline over having a substantive discussion about things that are important.

In the short term, this generates pageviews and, potentially, sales. In the long term, it just makes them look like schmucks. Through the tone of their blog, I've gone from having a decent opinion of 37signals to being entirely unwilling to ever work with or for them. They just seem more like zealots than they do fun guys.

Is alienating tech professionals really the best strategy for their business?
Lots of grilling on obscure UNIX trivia and data structures/algorithms but nothing on the broader picture

They understand that their process generates false negatives but they don't want any "crud."

But quizzing on random trivia is irrelevant to the process of eliminating crud. It's quite likely that a cruddy performer will be able to rattle off all known sorting algorithms or all the option flags for GNU grep -- that has absolutely no bearing on true intelligence or any of the other qualities that Google professes to be interested in.

Having some insider's knowledge of Google: the process does not appear to be working. There is a lot of crud in there now, and the crud only seems intent on hiring more crud. Lots of power struggles and posturing; less and less innovative thinking.
I agree that Apple has done a lot to reduce carrier control, but I don't like Apple's control either. The main issue I have with them is not allowing sideloading of apps and their strict control over the App Store. I see that as just as evil as what a lot of the carriers were doing beforehand. That's why I look more toward Android than Apple. Yes, Android is not as free or open for the end consumer as it could be because Google has made too many concessions to carriers (modifying UI, apps that cannot be uninstalled, slow updates, etc). However, their model is still far more open than iOS, for the simple fact that you can install anything you want on it. Yes, Google still does not allow all apps in the Marketplace, but there's still sideloading.

Edit: Just to make it clear, I agree with the article. I don't mean to say that Google/Android will fix everything. The real issue is still the carriers. However, I think Google is a better example of open than Apple, even if that works against them sometimes.
And you still get checks?
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The use of articles is the biggest mystery of English language. No native speaker can concisely explain where to put them and where not. Apparently the rule is that it just has to "sound right".
Yeah, that's really one of the refreshing things about what Twilio has to offer - they've gone through pains to simplify all parts of the process. The pricing is straightforward, the API is easy to use, and they have gotten really good at community response. It really sets them apart from most of the other Asterix service providers around.
Being potentially border line asperger my self, I can confirm that the better ability to systematize and focus long hours is a plus to develop software. It's not so useful to develop a family however (kidding).

http://simpliwiki.com -- beta soon
haha whoops, that's late night submitting for ya!!
I don't think you get the point. We haven't even experimented or tried to do more with less. The U.S. philosophy has been so based around throwing money at a problem that we never consider whether we are spending to much until now.

When we have some states and local governments getting tot he point where they must shut down nearly all services the problem isn't money. The problem is they didn't reduce expenditures sooner. The problem is they run fiscally irresponsibly budgets with massive debts.

Bailing out banks and companies - A terrible idea. Cutting taxes - I'm pretty much in favor of this for everyone - especially since those top 5% of earners end up paying 70+ % of the total income tax. But that's not the point here. The point is that we HAVE to figure out how to spend less. Spending the same amount of money when you make half isn't an acceptable strategy.
Compare and contrast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683888

Many comments there.
(F,M,1) means met daughter (who is older) first. (M, F, 2) is met son who is younger than his sister first. These is the space of possible ways to meet his two kids ordered by age.
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Prior to the iPhone, apps on an a phone were paying $3/month to a carrier for crappy junk. The phones were locked down. It was far from "standard practice" to load your own apps onto your own phone, and the apps you could choose to use were highly limited and far more controlled.

I think people forget that before the Apple AppStore there really were very few apps for phones.
My wife and I can otherwise plan for ourselves and get to places on time.

With kids, even when we try to start getting ready an hour earlier, we tend to forget things because of the number of things required and all of the distractions caused by the kids, including them not doing what you tell them to do.

Do I rush around in the car at times telling the kids that we're running late again? Yes.

Would some of you that are complaining about those that are late also be late if you had kids that had difficulty getting things done on time and you were more scatterbrained with kids than without? Yes.

People that procrastinate a bit, aren't type A, and tend to enjoy life rather than planning all the time, sometimes/often are late. It sucks, and it is rude and shows lack of planning and caring enough about being on-time.

You are on-time. That is great.
While I agree that the post overstates DHH's point, the Bezos investment isn't relevant. The first line is "When it comes to acquisitions..." He's talking about businesses being acquired, not a minority investment.
Don, IMHO, you're using the wrong techniques. Tests of random knowledge and focussing strictly on quick answers to logic problems will get you lucky left-brainers -- they're the ones who happened to know what command options are available for sed and awk, and are good linear thinkers.

Google should be doing better than that -- much better.
You mean an installation of status.net.
What about Search/Discovery? Sure, Facebook's Open Graph is being cultivated by all of us as we like and share stuff, but currently, there's no way to search through my feeds, what I've liked, what my friends have liked, the most popular liked items, and any slicing/dicing of that data. I'm sure they're working on it, but it seems like a major gap right now.
Oh, if you by a burger and sum the benefit over, say, Burger King and McDonald's it's probably constant.

If you sum the benefits of arbitrage over the high frequency traders, it's possible (close to) constant, too.

But the rest of the world can still benefit (or perhaps suffer in the case of a burger).
> If you don't, we're haggling over the price, not over the principle.

Sure, haggle away. I see no problem with this. I don't see the need for Heroku (or anyone for that matter) to support a user's desire to haggle. I do think, however, that a warning should be given if your usage surges suddenly so that you can react appropriately.
Will you be surprised by the story the Internet tells about you?
I also want to be able to compare myself with the % of people that fell out of the same step in the funnel as I did :)
I once took a Psychology course which had another explanation for the large eyes. Apparently, when humans are sexually aroused, their pupils get larger. This makes people with larger pupils more sexually appealing, leading to all kinds of tricks to making your pupils larger (for example, candlelit dinners; also, in some older civilizations, women used to use eyedrops to make their pupils larger).

All of this leads to people thinking larger pupils look better, and in the case of small cartoon characters, look cuter.
From the friendly article:

"The same thing happened when the test was switched to a similar task based on tonal differences, indicating the success of gamers wasn't simply the result of their focus on visual cues."
I suggest you relax and stop worrying so much about time. Consider the 5-year rule: in 5 years, is it really going to be important that I was 10 minutes late because of traffic?
Having > 500 million users.

That's a lot of different kinds of people to make happy. That's a huge ship to turn around. That's a huge amount of surface area to be spread over.

Having to serve the lowest common denominator for that many users in a community oriented platform is going to leave a lot of needs unserved, or served poorly. It leaves plenty of holes for a disruptive company with nothing to lose to show up and do something interesting.

The converse strength they can leverage, though, is also their huge numbers: users, engineering staff, sales people, technology partners. If they realize the power of a disruptive idea just early enough, they have the resources and culture necessary to build and scale it in what may as well be an instant fashion, since they can drop it on millions of users at once.
> one doesn't even need a law school degree to be able to
take the bar exam in any US state

Not quite: In a number of US states, a prerequisite to taking the bar exam is either graduation from an ABA-accredited law school, or a foreign law degree with additional training in a U.S. school. See Chart III at http://www.ncbex.org/fileadmin/mediafiles/downloads/Comp_Gui... and the supplemental remarks afterwards, also Chart X.
Surgery is one of Cuba's main regional exports - IIRC they have a deal with Venezuela where they trade eye operations for oil.
I got stuck with a large, unexpected bill at my auto dealer. They comped the next large bill. They're awesome and I'll be a customer for life. They're also the highest (Yelp) rated shop in the area so I bet I'm not the only one.

I suppose it depends on what sort of shop Heroku wants to run. It just seems like customer service is not a big deal to them.
I don't want ti speell-checked

/facepalm
I completely agree that the whole standard job process is broken.

We've been doing a ton of interviewing recently, and when it comes down to it I don't care one bit what you know or how long you've been doing it. All I care about is: 1) how well can you code, 2) how willing are you to learn new things, and 3) what's your style/personality like.

Maybe you need to ignore those job postings and find the ones that get it. They're out there.

Also, while I haven't done much OSS work, many of my friends are quite active and they have job offers pouring in from everywhere. Consider building something useful, and then throwing the code up on github (w/docs please!).

Actually, it's kind of funny, I just tweeted this yesterday: http://twitter.com/shiftb/status/24434467285
Thanks for pointing me to Startup Weekend, sounds like a great event-it seems the SF Bay Area weekend was in August- how often do they hold these weekends?
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I agree, young people of every generation tend to be more narcissistic than the old-fogies and genY is probably not anymore so that the last.
The difference is today's kids have more tools and are savvier about managing their public image. I think this is due to technology & shift of media values. Thus, the subset of young people who are narcissist are able to amplify their presence. This create more opportunity for people like the OP to justify their own confirmation bias.
Here is the President's press release on the multi-billion dollar high-speed rail project he proposed and Congress funded: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/16/a-vision-for-high-sp...

The program has surely been billed as socialist by one of America's 300 million plus citizens, but it has not as of yet been scrapped.

I do not know whether we are backing the right politics.
Think about it this way. You can install any app you want on your iPhone as well.

The thing is, Apple charges $99 a year for the privilege. Get a developer account, and run whatever you want.

In order to have any security, you need to sign executables, and Apple's $99 essentially covers the cost of doing that. This is much better than the $100 per app up to many thousands that previously you'd have to pay.

Maybe unsigned executables is a risk you're willing to take on, but given the level of derogatory misinofrmation that people spread about apple as it is, I understand why they want to limit the potential damage. The media does not distinguish between some code downloaded over the internet for jailbroken phones and something from the appstore, as it is.

And everyone is apparently very eager to make hay whenever they can blame something on Apple.
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