skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equal-equity founder (not referring to my current company, Matasano, which we bootstrapped in 2005).
ok.

> - The applicant must be unemployed (he or she can’t switch directly from a job to self-employment). If the applicant quit her or his job they must wait twelve weeks before applying.

how does this square with it though? you don't get unemployment payouts if you quit your job, right?
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What a retarded thing, so the whole world can now read the cables and government employees are told not to ? Why ? What could there be that the government would want to hide from its own employees ? After all, if the Chinese can read them there does not seem to be much point in stopping your own governments employees from reading them.

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&...

first link.

"Classified information, whether or not already posted on public websites or disclosed to the media, remains classified, and must be treated as such by federal employees and contractors, until it is declassified by an appropriate U.S. Government authority,"

You've got to be kidding. Talk about being in denial.
In general, it matches despite differences in size, cropping, some watermarking and subtle differences in coloring. It's not surprising that their image hash isn't invariant under rotations and flips.
Shut up and do the impossible
I'm almost done with my DIY groupon clone that lets merchants use their own PayPal account to sell deals.

Are any of these a viable 2nd alternative? Should I consider something else for international markets?
No, they'll just claim the software is patented, and that the BSD license doesn't grant anyone a right to use the software.

(Hey, I wish we could live in a world where we could all write software and not worry about copyrights and patents. But that, sadly, is not the world we live in.)
With "wetware" on the rise, and with the recent passing of Leslie Nielsen, I think this is an appropriate time to remind people of the movie Forbidden Planet. Besides being one of Nielsen's few (old!) bits of "serious" acting, the movie has an interesting point: computer interfaces must distinguish between unconscious thoughts and purposeful instructions. Otherwise the machine will start executing instructions directly from the subconscious ("id") whether you really wanted to do those things or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet
I think all of these people hating on Paypal have never had a real merchant account. At least when the buyer complains on Paypal you have a chance of not losing your money, where with a credit card chargeback you are almost definitely screwed.
Having worked with many architects over the years, I found this list very entertaining and insightful.
Or, sometimes, it makes things worse.
It would be interesting to see how something like this could be integrated into Quickcheck. However, it is not clear to me how you would use it to generate erroneous input. In the example he gives the training relies on a sample of correct makefiles. Would it not be useful to also have a separate network that produce makefiles that should probably cause an error?
I'm saying that from a scientific measurement perspective the iPhone display is very undersaturated. It is more than just a perception thing.
I had the same problem when I started wearing contacts a few years ago. Drops helped but were obviously inconvenient. Eventually I got so worked up over the problem that I became extremely aware of even mild dryness and very bothered by it, and I started blinking more often. Problem solved and hasn't bothered me since.

So... perhaps this is dangerous advice... but you could try becoming hypersensitive and obsessed about dryness.
But then again that all depends on the person, and their own personal outlook.
Googling for "site:delong.typepad.com karl marx" will get you some succinct interpretations of Marx's very large body of thought from a professional who knows his stuff and has a perspective reasonably amenable to the average HNers.
No I'm implying we should favour basic scientific research over specific narrowly focused research.
Daniel Ellsberg: Open Letter to Amazon
I have only seen such a contract once. And I just laughed at them. What am I going to work for, if not to fund the stuff I really want to be doing in my own time?
You do get unemployment payouts in Germany even if you quit your job but only after (usually) twelve weeks. (Those twelve weeks are then also subtracted from the time you would normally receive unemployment benefits. That’s the “punishment” for quitting.) That’s the reason why this provision – also with the twelve weeks – exists.

I know next to nothing about social systems in the US which is why I don’t know which are the important differences I should point out :)
Government censorship is a lot like you getting down-voted to oblivion for stating your opinion.
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Kneejerkitis.

1) ICANN has nothing to do with ICE seizing domains.

2) wikileaks.org was NOT seized by ICE, in case you didn't know (their nameserver operator, everydns, terminated service due to alleged AUP breach). They should probably just run their own nameservers if it's too much for a free provider to handle.

3) DNS is hierarchical in structure, but very decentralised from a technical point of view. In fact, you might call it "P2P", since anybody can join the network and run their own resolver.

4) #dnsissexy - the average user doesn't even know it exists.

5) Not happy with something? ICANN is a community. (I'm not saying it's perfect - nothing is!).

6) Really really pissed about something? Free speech, courts, democracy.

7) Really pissed AND lazy? Use a ccTLD. I hear .ly is cool.

What are people like Sunde proposing? The PR is sensationalist and contradictory, with talk of an alternative root (where would it be located? who would control it?), and a new bittorrent-like protocol (no idea how this could even work).

Anyway, I'm standing up for the status quo. It works phenomenally well.
And people toss the Soviet Union around casually as an example of how Socialism/Communism goes wrong, when it was largely Fascism to blame. North Korea a Communist country? In name only - it's actually a Fascist dictatorship.

Perhaps "independent of the government's control" is a poor choice of words, but you have totalitarian countries with both Capitalism and Communism, as well as relatively free ones with elements of Socialism and Capitalism. Are they pure Socialism? No, but then the US isn't pure Capitalism either. A system where the government allocates large chunks of the available capital is Socialist in my book.
You are confused. By writing down Google's name rather than your own after the copyright symbol, you are saying that they contributed the work to the project. You are the author, and may have associated moral rights (such as the right to be identified as the author), but it's not your code. It's their code, and they've done the contributing. All you got is the pay check you were going to get anyway.
I'm not sure if a decentralized DNS system could ever be secure, instead the current management of the top level domain space should be taken out of the hands of ICANN and placed under the control of a internationally governed body.
They may like the outcome of this particular discussion a lot less than the worst fall-out from the leaks though.
"We currently believe the best way to create a stable environment for TLDs is to enact a central authority. We know this will cause much argument within the community, but we have made the decision that we believe will be best for the continued development of this project."

That is the answer to the question I was going to ask, namely "what does decentralized DNS even mean?" People throw around the word "decentralized" as a presumed solution to centralized control, but at the end of the day someone has to decide who wins if two different people both claim that microsoft.com points to their server.

Also, "visit mybiz.yo after adding altdns.com as a DNS authority" doesn't exactly have the same ring to it as "visit mybiz.com". It also doesn't fit on the side of a truck, nor is it something that you will ever convince 99.9% of the population to do just to visit a website.
Jason,
I have a theory, based on what I view as the most optimal way that labor markets work.

Based on the system that we live in, everybody tends to benefit, when (in aggregate) everybody looks out for their self-interest. If they are not allowed to, there are distortions which actually impairs the benefits to both parties.

For instance, if employees look out for their own self-interest, they will do everything to get the best benefits. Likewise, if the company looks out for its own self-interest, it will aggressively try to attract the best talent. By doing that, they force existing employees to look out for their own self-interest by being the best they can be (i.e. as good as, or better than, incoming employees). Also, when companies aggressively try to attract the best talent, they tend to do things like listen to what the talents want and employ those things (more paid sick time, cafeterias, the best development machines, reasonable working hours, etc.).

When employees are the best they can be, and their employer is not doing everything they can to retain them, they can leave. That forces the employer to become better at retaining employees - which forces other employers to do the same and creates a perpetuating cycle.

So when a company undermines that, by for instance cancelling sick leave, or forcing 80-hour work weeks into perpetuity, the short term effects are that employees will leave (if they are the best they can be at what they do, which we can assume they are otherwise they wouldn't be at the company) to greener pastures and if the company self corrects, they will once again attract and retain the best talent. If they don't self-correct, they will die. Perhaps a slow, long, death. Or just exist in limbo with lots of D class employees providing mediocre service.

We see this phenomena playing itself out in the Valley now between Google and Facebook. But it's not new. Before it was Yahoo and Google, Google and Microsoft, Microsoft and IBM, Apple and Microsoft, etc.

That's one of the reasons that I think that unions are a bad idea - because they distort this mechanism and allow employees to get lazy and not make sure they are the best at what they do (or add significant value in some other way).

Based on my theory, I think you are missing the idea. Forcing your employees to live through hell, but spraying their face with mist every now and then (with chefs, and laundry service - which were, quite ironically, forced on you by your other successful competitors) and telling them they are cool, doesn't make hell any cooler. At the end of the day, it's still hell. And they know it.

I don't believe that you would have a chef, laundry service, car washing, etc. if Google, Facebook, et al. didn't have similar services and you weren't competing with them. That, however, is just based on what I have deduced from public statements that you have made - so that could be wrong.
Where is the schedule? I've been looking for something like this.
Like It or Not, WikiLeaks is a Media Entity
How do I keep it from timing me out and stopping playback after a few minutes? With the fully flash version, it only did that if I went truly idle - with this version, if I leave it running in another tab while I work I periodically have to tab over and click the "I'm still here!" button.
Which is why I up-vote everyone (except for the spammers of course.)

Naive?
I had the waveform surgery 3 yrs ago and it was one of the best things I've ever done for myself. My vision was not terrible before (-1/-1.25 + astigmatism) but afterward I have 20/15 in one eye, 20/20 in the other. The biggest aspect of the correction was that prior to the surgery, I had very bad night vision - halos and glare - that made it very difficult for me to judge distance or speed of oncoming traffic. Afterward, my night vision is very good, and those problems are corrected completely!

The surgery was, I have to admit, a very frightening experience though it did not hurt. The recovery was very quick and easy, and I am happy to report that after one month I never experienced dry eyes again and have had literally no negative effects from the surgery.

I used to wear contacts until my doctor said my eyes were growing blood vessels they should not have to compensate for the contacts blocking the eye from being exposed to the air, and that those might eventually lead to serious problems. Then I talked to a family member who had Lasik (non-waveform) and they loved the result, though it caused night halos for them. So I did the research and decided on the waveform procedure and I am really glad I did. I would definitely recommend it, but spring for the waveform procedure.

Another thing to mention is that my doctor told me that Lasik does not change anything about age-related vision problems, because those are more due to the inability of the eye to change focus than a malformed cornea. He says you are just as likely to need reading glasses at age 50 after Lasik as you are without it. The only thing they can do for older patients is an alternate procedure where they change the focus of one eye to nearsighted, and the other to farsighted. Apparently your brain soon compensates for that and biases to one or the other eye so that you see both near and far things in focus.
I won't argue with your feelings toward Emotiv, since I don't especially trust their demos to be well controlled for various muscular cues.

That said, there is good work done which puts a lot of effort into actually measuring the non-muscular signal from EEGs and training on that instead. EEGs can capture signal from alpha waves (roughly analogous to alertness as you describe), and researchers have come up with numerous specific responses to watch for. One such example is the P3000 response, corresponding to the reaction a person has when they are shown an object which they were picturing in their head (a target).

There are numerous other techniques, many dealing with predicting a type of pattern by looking for activity coming from the corresponding area of the brain. If the sensors and algorithms are written correctly, EEG can absolutely be a neural interface, although one with quite a lot of noise. Done poorly, it can be entirely swamped by the physical motions you describe.
My thoughts agree. I made it about halfway through the other two books before things kind of fell apart and I didn't really know how to apply Erlang IRL.

Just bought this and hoping it completes the picture.
The author seems to have missed the core argument about spam websites: They reduce the quality of search results and therefor devalue google and other search engines as a way to find information.
Given how many people on HN are in similar situations, but instead trying to start up on the side, it's absolutely relevant to them, and totally not about you.

You previously said that you have to fill out paperwork in order to retain your copyright; that strongly implies that Google can deny your request. I suspect that you wouldn't be so understanding if it were Google claiming ownership of your startup instead.

The question remains: is this due to a law, or a contract that you've signed? What do other developers need to do in order to make sure that they can release their side project software under their own terms, without having to jump through bureaucratic hoops or needing permission from their employer.
Whatever Wikileaks publishes on the bank in question, you can be certain that it will contain evidence of a pattern of probably illegal and certainly unethical behavior. If corporate governance and regulatory oversight are failing to prevent such behavior, then Wikileaks is providing a valuable service to everyone by exposing that behavior. Everyone, that is, except the bank in question, complicit organizations, and employees of those organizations.
Ancillary question: are there any benefits to Lasik eye surgery other than not needing to wear glasses anymore?

I wanted Lasik years ago but decided to wait a decade or so until it was a foolproof process. But now my glasses have become a part of my personal "brand" and I don't want to give them up unless eye surgery perhaps goes "better than glasses"?
Lol Jammons. Don't mean to call you out on that...but it's ironic that the positive comment you could muster was that 'no one is being forced to work here'.
In what sense is putting up a simple website with articles (even poorly written ones) about topic X, with a domain name and meta tags about topic X, considered "black hat" SEO?
Assuming it's not LA traffic, roads are for all intents and purposes, public goods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
If China had a popular democracy, they'd only need to mold the minds of 51% of the populace (assuming Australian-style compulsory voting, or 31% assuming US-et-al-style voluntary voting).
I didn't downvote you.

It is indeed a problem. The problem of this problem, though, is that some people are using it as an excuse to create even bigger problems. For all of us. Some experienced this before. We are experiencing it now. People making .P2P are trying to undo these problems.

The real problem of child porno is so small that it is basically a non-issue in practice compared to all the problems that are created to fix it. There should be better ways.
it is only a strategic error because if they target governments they can be politically supported by corporations and vice-versa. one place doing both things looses a lot of friends. but i am sure if you took a strawpoll of every technically literate person in the world what they thought of wikileaks, a resounding majority would be in support.
I had PRK, its like LASIC, but it takes less tissue off (in case you have to go back for more sessions), it does take longer to heal.

No problems at all, I forget about it now since I take it for granted, but it was magical.
Because the content clearly isn't designed to add value. It just gets in the way of what people are actually looking for. Then there is the use to which these sites are put - which is explained in the article - to extort legitimate websites that do try to add value.
Not sure I understand your complaint. The idea is that these sites get de-indexed after the grace period. (i.e. they will no longer show up in the search results).
I found it missed a few. I have a couple of images I uploaded to Wikipedia of people. These articles are on the wikipedia entry to easy to find and get a few uses.

If I search for the person's name on google image search I get a few (non wikipedia) matches. But TinEye is unable to find any non-wikipedia matches for the same images.

The images I am checking are of Rob Muldoon, Jim Gettys and Bdale Garbee

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Muldoon_...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Jim_Gett...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Bdale_pi...
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I put a warm, damp washcloth over my eyes twice a day. It helps with the bags under my eyes as well.

(The reason it works is that the heat increases the viscosity of the tears).
I'm sorry, but these lessons are crap. The only lesson that matters is actually from the Kenny Rogers song, The Gambler.
"The secret to survival, is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep"

This goes for everything, girls, goals, jobs, ideas and even food =)

If you know what you want, you'll never go wrong. Most people don't know what they want, and spend forever trying to find it. But then it's too late.
Currently the best non-centralized solution proposed on the mailing list is to flood domain subscriptions and cache them at each node, so whoever claims a domain first will own it. This is pretty vulnerable to a variety of attacks but it does give a rough idea how a p2p dns system would work.

I suspect that if this goes anywhere it will end up much like tor, being used as a censorship circumvention tool rather being installed everywhere by the general public.
Randall...well said. I don't doubt that Jason has a 'heart of gold'. I tend to find that people that are extremely passionate about things, do/say incendiary things that tend to attract attention (both good and bad).

I respect him for having the balls to say what he really thinks. Not many people do. However, I don't believe that he really believes everything he says. I think he has reached the point where he realizes the pay off (lots of attention), that it becomes naturally for everything he says to come out like that.

I am sure that many people would be pushed, but you can push people (and get the most out of them) without being a tyrant.

For instance, I played the violin for many years (save the 'he is a pussy for playing the violin' comments...kthnxbi) and had several teachers. I had a mix...some that were clearly doing it for just a paycheck (not pushing me enough), others that pushed me tyranically (a la Calacanis style) that I rebelled against and didn't perform like I knew I could, and my last one that was absolutely amazing at pushing me to leaps and bounds in a much shorter time than I had ever thought I could reach. So much so, that even though I spent an aggregate of 6 or 7 years with the first 2 or 3 and only progressed let's say '2 or 3' levels, with the last, in the space of 2 years, I progressed 6 or 7 levels and actually became a teacher myself - learning those same techniques of learning how people learn and how to get the best out of each individual and pushing them to achieve their best using a mechanism that will work with them.

So I say that to say, that every manager/leader wants the best out of their people. Some take a blanket approach (like Jason seems to have done) that, in my opinion, don't work in the long-run and in aggregate...and more importantly would never work for me. Hence the reason for my blog post.
Simple website, simple concept, great gift ideas
Holiday gift buying is tough unless you like the same things as the recipient. If you don't, the best strategy is to get recommendations from someone who does.

WishGenies puts this concept in action. It can definitely help you if you haven't finished your shopping yet.

On the tech side, it's a Rails3 app on Heroku, w/ a mongodb backend. Please... please make me have to slide that little 'scaling bar' to the top. :-)
thanks for explaining all of this. just saw this explanation myself in the wiki article and came back to answer my own question - but i read german sloowly.

i also know next to nothing about the social systems in the states.
To go even further - by driving the distribution further and further underground it becomes harder to track down the originator and prevent the actual abuse. The police/politicians attack distribution because its easier and makes them look like they're doing something.
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I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about the stuff that comes from lesswrong.com feels, well, wrong.

Maybe its an air of being too certain about things - a lack of doubt?