skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading a pretty nasty article about Eric Lefkosky.

"InnerWorkings goes to great lengths to obscure its ownership and control by a chap named Eric P. Lefkofsky who has a history of busting investors after promising to radically transform bricks-and-mortar industries. He seems to identify with Dr. Seuss's huckster: he called his last business Starbelly.com, a venture that rapidly went into bankruptcy and provoked fraud suits by investors alleging that Starbelly's software was never what Lefkofsky promised. "

http://notablecalls1.blogspot.com/2007/01/inner-workings-of-...
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> So you're saying public employees are one of the few segments of the US population who have enough input on how they're compensated (via electoral control of their bosses).

There's a big difference between CA and Ford - I can choose whether I want to take the risk that Ford is doing something dumb.

> Instead, demand the same deal from your employer. It really wouldn't hurt their bottom line that much.

Ah, yet another expert who isn't putting his money where is mouth is.

If you're correct, the consequences (better for you, better for your employees, worse for "bad employers) are pretty close to a moral imperative.

Yet....

> I will admit that I don't have a real answer to this.

Then how do you know that the existing system isn't an improvement?

Note that "{x} is bad" doesn't imply "{y} is good", or even that a good {y} exists.

> But I am a fairly recent graduate of the public education system (finished high school in 2006) and I can tell you that 90% of my graduating class managed to pass the tests but were still complete idiots who couldn't think for themselves. (Sadly, I could say this about at least a few of my fellow UC Berkeley 2010 graduates as well.)

You're talking about folks who could read. I'm concerned with folks who graduated despite not being able to read.

> Tests are not the real world.

Neither is anything else.

> My high school had a principal and three assistant principals for 900 students. Probably a little unnecessary.

Actually, a huge fraction of the money disappears before the school. How much educational benefit do you think that it produces?

> Teachers are not the ones to penalize here, dammit. When I have kids, I damn well want their teachers to be well-paid and happy with their jobs.

I do too, but we're pouring enough money into the system. If you can't make sure that it gets to the right place, you're out of luck.

Why are you more upset with the folks who are unwilling to waste more money than you are with the folks who are wasting the money? The latter are stealing from your (future) kids....
New Ubuntu switched to KVM. They don't even supply kernels for Xen now.
Although my situation wasn't as serious, although I was the sole developer, I ran the companies "tech department"(consisting of me) for the last about 2-3 months on 3-4 hours of maintenance a week.

I had a decision to make and was asked by my boss whether I would be available for the summer, similarly he had a lot of projects lined up, but I became sick of the pressure and boredom of a job which lined up meaningless tasks with a code base that was neither innovative or exciting to work with.

Instead, I told him to hire someone as a replacement and I spent my last 3-4 months, doing an hour or two a week bringing the summer intern up to speed on the project and the codebase. This was greatly appreciated and had an extremely appreciative lunch from my previous boss who has given me a very positive referral. Its a tough decision and I have really put myself into the unknown relying on a summer internship in college which I may still not get, but I am pursuing new challenges and its a lot of fun.
I remember when hacker news had useful information. Its all gossip now.
"Any" is probably an exaggeration. I'd cede that and accept "most." We can hope that Google is an exception because of the caliber of employee they hire, since obviously they also have a lot of domain knowledge. But, I think that only means we're quibbling about the embarrassment level of these breaches.
Follow this person's advice. As Keynes said, "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent."
Besides the excellent advice, I enjoy this article quite a bit:

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/20/9-tips-for-quitting...

Truncated:
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"1. Go before things get bad.
.."I realized I was hitting a point where I was going to start acting out." Like Lynn, you need to know yourself and be honest about how you're feeling on the job so you don't let your emotions get out of hand.

2. Make a good first step.
"The very first person that you should tell you're leaving is your boss,"..

3. Leave the door open a crack.
If you've done good work, there is no reason you couldn't come back later..

6. Trust that the company can continue without you.
"People think the world is going to end if they quit their job," says Lynn. "In my last job, everyone who quit thought everything would go wrong, but it's easily fixed and everyone's replaceable."

7. Set yourself up for a good reference.
.."You want to be sure the trail you leave is a positive one,".."I have never, in my 20 years of recruiting, had someone not answer questions about references."
[I can attest to this..regardless of legality]

8. Manage the in-between time carefully.
"Burn no bridges," warns Brendon Connelly, author of the popular blog Slacker Manager. Sometimes quitting a job is as loaded as dumping a lover.
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This is one of those times we tend not to see ourselves clearly, writes Daniel Ames, professor at Columbia Business School. Hitting the right note of assertiveness — not too much and not too little — is hard to do. We notice poor balance in our colleagues but rarely notice it in ourselves. So keep in mind that the bottom line of quitting well is assertiveness. Have enough to leave when you need to, but tone down your assertiveness enough to keep your friends and colleagues on your side even as you're walking out the door."
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Indeed.com is hiring full time developers, sysadmins, multilingual marketers, and more in Austin (TX):

http://www.indeed.jobs/

Interesting problems in a sustainable business doing something genuinely useful at a high scale.
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From your link:

> In tort an individual is considered to intend the consequences of an
> act—whether or not she or he actually intends those consequences—if the
> individual is substantially certain that those consequences will result.

IANAL, but in this case I would assume that 'those consequences' would be that
copyright holder X was harmed. If that's the case, then there was no way that
the user intended to harm copyright holder X by downloading something they
thought was by copyright holder Y.
lol. Bitcoin is a nice idea I guess, but no one who actually accepts online payments takes it seriously because the <i>only way you can buy and sell the junk is to go through the shadiest brokers on earth.</i> These guys do a total turnover of about USD$1k a day. And the whole thing frankly resembles a ponzi scheme or a late-night infomercial. They talk geek and it's interesting to watch people fall in love with their concept and their API, but when it comes to managing money, geeks are obviously not as smart as MBAs who wouldn't touch this thing with a ten foot pole in 2008, and still won't. It's funny that this hype, which is basically financial services spam, is making the front page of HN on a regular basis; it suggests something is wrong here (possibly it's too easy to sign up for second and third accounts).
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Software patents are bad, right? EVERYONE should be able to build this capability into their phones!
The public is already predisposed to believing any hacking claims targeted at Sony at the moment. I wouldn't exactly frame their actions as reckless or lacking in logic either. How about malicious? I am particularly put off by this line:

"This is disgraceful and insecure: they were asking for it."

I get it, they have poor security, as a customer, this makes me really angry. But the general tone there is kind of similar to what you get when people accuse rape victims of being complicit in the rape. "She was askin' for it!"
Igor Skochinsky at Hex-Rays has verified it is a pirated version, but at least it is an old leak instead of a new one.
Is there any way to hide people who complain about stories getting upvoted?
last.fm is part of CBS Interactive. If you like, you can buy stock in CBS right now.
i think you've misunderstood what i was saying. the OTP is definitely not a practical method of encryption, obviously.

and no, OTPs do not require that the that any secure relationship be formed forward in time.

in fact, restricting "crypto" to "crypto that people can use in practise" doesn't rule out the OTP - it was used with great success in both world wars, owing to the fact that agents were able to share keys before the fact, use them once, and then discard them.

finally, at no point would i ever suggest using the OTP as a means of encryption in place of a public key system, especially one with a key of 0s. why you suggest such a thing is beyond me.
When people saw Groupon, Twitter and Facebook taking those huge rounds did everyone think they were going to invest back in the business? I'm pretty sure most thought that founders and early investors were taking money off the table.

Though, the degree to which Groupon did is amazing. I can't believe any investor would have agreed to those terms. In the Groupon case as well, with 3000+ employees (which is, frankly insane), I don't know how anyone looking at the numbers, the terms, the business and the structure would have agreed to invest. Marketing be damned, unless someone blows this up it won't make money.

I'll never understand why they turned down $6B from Google.
Kinda insane how much Mason seems to being shafted on this one.

He got 10M from the 950M raised. That just seems wrong. Lefkowsky & his wife got at least $310M.

Wow....talk about being shafted.
They are... this by far the top reason to ever get an ipad.
This is true, of course, and quite mature of him.

However, he is also wise enough to have noticed the extreme irony: The copies with links to the original source are now gone. This doesn't even seem to be anyone's fault -- the management misinterpreted the artist's complaint and killed all the linked copies in an excess of zeal. Still, whether anyone wanted it to happen or not, the unattributed copies are the surviving copies, because it's not easy for a simple algorithm to find them.

When we ask ourselves why so many people are rude enough to post unattributed copies, perhaps we should remember this lesson. It's not necessarily that people don't understand attribution. Maybe they understand it all too well, after years of watching their favorite videos disappear overnight from YouTube. Perhaps the lay public has learned that clear, unambiguous metadata is what you attach to something when you want lawyers to come and take it away.
The thing that struck me first about this was the fact that it is in impeccable English, yet written as a kid would write. Something smells funny about that.

What is to stop a competitor of Sony from trying to take them down under the guise of disenfranchised youth.
I'm not so sure about this. The average lawyer is someone practising in that area (otherwise why did you hire them and why are they working for you? your friend? presumably you hired someone working in the area) and that person is someone with at the very least a few courses under their belt from law school and in Canada, 10 months of articling with another lawyer. There is a very good chance that they know a fair bit about the area and I would expect it to be considerably better than what you'd come up with even in many hours of research. Law school does teach you something and lawyers who've worked for even a couple years in an area have learned a lot from working on other people's problems.

Long story short: the average lawyer you'd hire is one who knows a fair bit about the subject matter.
I'm talking about how it keeps happening to Sony.
When they IPO, you'll see why they turned down $6B from Google.

With all the frothiness happening now, it actually makes sense - because they are doing the fiduciary responsible thing for their shareholders.
Ask HN: How can I donate/help Y Combinator startups?
Let me start off by saying I personally had never heard of YC before reading an article in Wired Magazine today. I absolutely love what the program is doing.

With that, I'm interested in donating multi-year subscriptions to an online Information Management System that I'm close to releasing. I think this could help out the alumni, as well as future startups that attend the YC program.

The first beta of our application will contain a CRM and Ticket Tracking system. We plan on adding more info tracking features later. Our main goal is to NOT be like all the rest, by applying KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) to everything we do; who wants 1000 features, when 10 is all you need.

We plan on giving away our top tier subscription which will allow for unlimited users. This way the startups will not have to worry about yet another business expense while they are just getting started.

--- Questions ---

* How would I go about giving this away when the time comes?

* Do you think this would be worth it? (aka, not sure if YC alumni already get a lifetime subscription to XYZ corp that handles these business needs)

* Questions for me?
It seems like a remarkably bad idea to modify the prototypes of the built-in classes inside a Safari Extension. It's bad enough to do that in a library, but at least the web page is making a deliberate choice to use that library. When you put it in an extension, you've now modified the prototypes of the built-in classes in a way that affects the page, but without the page ever being aware of this. What happens if your function is named the same as one the page tried to define, but behaves differently?

For the record, document.querySelectorAll() is built-in and can do selector matching, and the only other thing you use Zepto for (adding classes) is trivially done manually.
The important thing there, even before you get to writing an actual contract, is to write out the agreement informally and sit down with your friend and go over everything to make sure you are talking about the same thing. Most of the problems I have seen have resulted from people assuming they understood each other's positions when they didn't. Then you can write a formal contract if you need one (the most dangerous potential risk is if one party dies and things have to go through probate, all the good will in the world won't help then).
The Census Bureau report mentioned in this submission

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/governments...

shows that school spending per pupil is continuing to increase around the country. The longer, more detailed Census report from which this information is drawn

http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/09f33pub.pdf

provides more details. The National Center for Education Statistics publishes time series reports including a report

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/2011033_5.pdf

that shows that "Total expenditures per student in fall enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools measured in constant 2009-10 dollars rose from $8,832 in 1989-90 to $12,236 in 2007-08, a 39 percent increase (see table A-36-1). Most of this increase occurred after 1998-99." (.PDF page 102)

The report further notes, "In 2007, the United States spent $10,768 per student on elementary and secondary education, which was 45 percent higher than the OECD average of $7,401. At the postsecondary level, U.S. expenditures per student were $27,010, more than twice as high as the OECD average of $12,471." (.PDF page 106)
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11 times in the last 2 months or so. 11, very high-profile cases with tons of customers' and employees' details. And always the same trivial things; SQLi, no encryption/plaintext databases, lack of first-line security like firewalls, etc.
Yelp has a pretty massive sales force and existing relationships with local businesses. I wouldn't count them out so easily.
Legal contracts for freelance developers on Github
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so why isn't there anything done against Apple? Apple's lawyers are on the back of anyone who makes white iPhone cases, jailbreakers, etc.
"public employees" != "teachers".

> They could be making a lot more money if they were doing anything else.

And we also know that they're getting things that they value more than said "extra money". (The alternative is that they're incapable of evaluating their own utility function.)

That said, I'm willing to pay more to get more. Of course, that means paying other folks, because current salaries are adequate for the current teachers. (You don't want to argue that they'd teach better if they were paid more.)

However, "get more" requires some proof, not a "you'll get better people" argument.

So, how do you propose to measure the benefits that you expect to get from these new teachers? (Surely you're not willing to pay for something that you don't get....)
Thanks for the tip. As I'm sure you could tell from the code, this was the result of about 15 minutes of work this morning (from generating the CSR to get my certificate to tossing it onto GitHub). If I ever go back and touch this repo again, I'll use querySelectAll().
No.. when they turn a profit we'll see.
Many tech businesses typically like to leverage their debt if growth looks solid and steep and there's a land grab (which there is considering the people entering this space like LivingSocial, Yelp, Facebook, etc.).
You could simultaneously endorse Bitcoin (as a powerful, stabilizing, liquidity-providing, trade-enabling force in the global economy) and at the same time support heavy-handed expansion of local currencies like the dollar (as a powerful, stabilizing, liquidity-proving, trade-enabling force in the local economy). Maybe the world is better with multiple currencies with different properties.
They are scared of Facebook and Twitter.
Very cool! I've shared it with the developers in my office who are working on iOS stuff on the side, and they should enjoy it.

Thanks for creating and sharing!
Pandora Prices IPO At $7 To $9 Per Share At Valuation Over $1B, Raising $141.6M
If I build a scalable website that sells ten-dollar bills for $9, I will probably attract as much traffic as I can afford. If I have a billion dollars to lose I can probably arrange to do roughly $10B in "revenue".

I think I will read this sentence once a week.
I don't have any special info but based on news reports it seems that restaurants aren't a great fit for massively discounted deals.

The type of businesses that do benefit the most are those that will operate anyway but have excess capacity to use (eg. beds and breakfasts).
Ah, then I guess Bushmanov must have originally created all three databases in that pirated version 5.2, then only re-edited two of them in pirated version 5.5.
Except this isn't 'gossip' this is an analysis of the S-1 filing. And a commentary on the sad state of hucksterism in the technology community.

I like GroupOn's concept but I share the sentiment that some of the folks in the inner circle are taking advantage.
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This isn't overshadowed, they filed in February and was one of the first of the current crop to file. Today they just set the share price.
guys, I think he was being sarcastic
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That was my very first thought, too - "wow, this is going to be a boon to criminals in uniform!"

Think of it the way Bruce Schneier would: what could a malicious person accomplish with this technology? There's no effective way to keep it out of their hands, so you need to know what happens when someone tries to use this technique for malicious ends. The security implications of this are just nasty, nasty, nasty.
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Oh.. I get it... I was criticizing Apple...

It's even worse than when I criticize Microsoft between 9 and 18 PST...
I think it is really a function of how many sites tell their investors how much they are "padding". It is one thing to be Engadget buying clicks from adsense, and another to be using "buy traffick from China".

Or the difference between Marketing, and mis-representing market share.
I hope I speak for many people when I say that startup stuff can't be overrepresented on The Site Formerly Known As Startup News.
Perhaps the other useful part of the Amazon analogy is that I believe that GroupOn will slowly be eaten alive by competitors unless they bring some real business and/or tech innovation.

Last I saw, LivingSocial's trajectory was steeper than GroupOns. I think we can expect LivingSocial to go public soon so they can add some cash to their war chest.
I'm in this business and I routinely hear from my sales staff that merchants who have done a deal with Groupon, want to do a second deal but never get a call back. Also once the deal is inked the sales person goes silent. I know there is a lot of turnover with the sales team there but more often than not we hear of a lack of relationship building at Groupon but rather "pump and dump".
They can be as friendly and helpful as you want, but that doesn't change the fact that the input format for mobi and epub is basically HTML; meaning that by utilizing TeX, you are basically adding another layer that doesn't provide much value. The beautiful fonts, formatting, spacing, etc.. etc... that TeX provides will all be lost on your ereader.
Apple has gone after jailbreakers? Thats news to me. Geohot has hacked (as far as I know) almost every iDevice Apple has put out, but Apple didn't take him to court because of it.
Behavioral reprogramming (overcoming social anxiety)
Inverting a function in O(N^0.5) is useless?
Guess this calls for tags more than anything. I want to exclude: startups, windows 8 (wtf - why nobody complains about this?), capitalist pigs.
It mentioned that you could disable recording for a period of time. What if you set the LEDs to disable recording for several days or even weeks.
> The way their sale staff works is to create direct relationships, phone contact etc - that is not a cheap proposition.

Nor is lining the pockets of founders and angel investors to the tune of $810 million: http://allthingsd.com/20110602/where-did-groupons-billion-do...
New Sony Hack Claims Over a Million User Passwords
It's a built-in feature of Gmail, rather than a Labs feature or an installable addon - once the gradual rollout reaches your account, it will just appear in your Gmail sidebar (or, if you're already using Rapportive, in the Rapportive info).

Google is doing a characteristically excellent job of communicating this to users.
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