skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say a good patent is one where its very obvious what is covered by that patent, and whether a given thing constitutes prior art. Since chemistry is by its nature very discrete (atoms come integer numbers and set types) most patents in that field tend to be good ones.
I think they are fully capable of understanding. But I can guess that the LAN party probably gets tons of complaints regarding assholes and women every year and just decided to put a stop to it.

Just look at a site like Reddit (which probably is the same demographic as a LAN party). As soon as a women appears, the assholes come out.
It is so ambiguous that it each person can interpret it in a different way and it looks so deep and thoughtful. Coming from Picasso I would imagine he may have been thinking "...They can only give you answers, but no create beautiful things"
From what I can see it looks like the event is being put on by an online forum called Powers Gaming. It also appears that because of the backlash they deleted their old information thread about the party, and recreated it today with nothing but a "Coming Soon" message.

Old thread:
http://www.powersgaming.com/showthread.php?742-Battlefield-3...

New thread:
http://www.powersgaming.com/showthread.php?785-Battlefield-3...

If I was EA or DICE I would not be happy with this negative buzz about the game, especially as it makes BF3 players look pretty bad. (Or at least this group of them.)
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What domains do people type in the address bar?
If you're fresh out of college (even with an advanced degree, i.e. PhD) and don't have much in terms of industry experience, you might find that some employers are not willing to go to the effort of sponsoring you for a H1-B.

An alternative, short-term solution, is to apply for a J1 internship visa. If you are a student or if you graduated in the last 12 months, you are eligible to work as an intern for up to 12 months, after which you must return to your home country.

It's worth noting that you would have to work as an intern, so you might not get paid as much as a full employee, but it is possible to change your visa status at the end of your internship if your home country states that it doesn't require you to return.

This means that if a company isn't willing to sponsor you for a H1-B because you're unproven, you can do an internship for a trial period and if you make yourself indispensable, they might be more willing to sponsor you afterwards.

It's a bit of an ugly workaround, but in theory it works! (Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but this is an avenue I have been researching a lot recently and I believe that what I have said is true. Do your own research before committing to anything)
You probably got downvoted because you repeated the article and didn't add anything. I come to comment threads for original discussion.
'Has this ever happened to anyone?'

Yes. When we started our company, the space was already fairly crowded. We worked to do it better than they were.

Also, if you ever intend to grow, you will have to get over your fear of legal problems. Retain an attorney and run critical plans by him/her.
> But it made me realize that I need to tighten up my SSH buddy plans for the next time.

I'm going to ask a really audacious question: Why?

His systems all worked as expected. Injection attacks were thwarted and login attempts failed. He received (as it turns out, erroneous) notification about the login attempts and knows he needs to do something about it for the future.

Why is that something the sharing of credentials? Why is it that people still allow for remote root login? Why do people still allow user SSH access via password?

There's a better way, and it leaves you a damn sight better prepared for intrusion attempts than receiving SMS messages that, as he so perfectly demonstrated, were not actionable. Limit logons to PKI-only. Live happier. Sleep easier.
Is there a way you can collect browser stats? You should be able to pull something from the server logs. Once you have done that, take a look at them numbers and you will have a fair idea on what your userbase prefers. If I see something like 50% of IE7, I would think that it's a good business decision to support IE7 development if my bread and butter depends on that.
Yes, but the issue here is not root login, it's the prospect of something going wrong with your server(s) and having a trusted buddy around whom you can call on for assistance. It's actually pretty reasonable. My servers always crash when I'm literally somewhere in the jungle in Asia and can't possibly get to an online connection for at least a day. It's great if you can just call someone who takes care of the most pressing problems if/when they happen.
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Are you considering just on site jobs? You may try to work remotely. I work like that without any visa for many years. It takes a bit longer to find a contract but it works very well for me.
Yeah, this article is off. The idea that Google + would then take your name and sell it to it's partners while linking to its DFA data is an incredible breach of PII and they would be hit hard by the government immediately. As someone who works with these data feeds and digital marketing, I know it's not what they're aiming for and that it would be in violation. As others have pointed out the effort is in better matching and spreading of social circles. In doing so, Google + becomes a more widely used tool and, the relationships that a user has with others increases. Couple that with the idea of circles and future search, discussion and buying habits of the user, Google can then understand the influences different parts of the network have on the individual and tailor the advertising a user sees to the messages coming from the influential networks.
This seems like a boon for anyone trying to develop and debug issues on Heroku
Nobody knows the law anymore. Everyone is guilty of something.

This argument is reductio ad absurdum. The corpus of law bearing significant consequences for violators [1][2] is sufficiently small as to be almost intuitively understood by any reasonably educated person.

As a general rule, you're not going to be confronted by the full weight and force of the state for violating the jaywalking statute. Were you to be targeted for arrest for such a minor violation, it would be transparent to knowledgeable observers that you were specifically targeted and surveilled until a reason was found to arrest you.

[1] By significant, I mean incarceration and/or crippling financial penalties. And note that the cost of defending oneself is categorically not a penalty.
[2] This, of course, only applies to societies ruled by law, as opposed to those ruled by individual persons or groups
On the contrary, they are doing this because their female attendees have been (in the past) intolerant of the culture of computer gaming. Trash talk is not bad behavior - it's an equally valid form of expression used primarily in certain subcultures (basketball among black men, gaming).

This sort of behavior, particularly when used in what should otherwise be a safe space for a minority group traditionally excluded from society (young male gamers), serves only to exclude and already disadvantaged group.

Incidentally, do you also believe black men playing basketball (who often use language similar to gamers) are also bad human beings?
tl;dr: My theory is that creativity is - or at least is related to - the ability to express yourself. So you usually have _some_ creativity and you most likely can train it.

In my opinion and I spent a long time on this topic creativity is something completely different. The reason I spent so much time thinking about creativity is that I don't consider myself to be a very creative person. So I wondered what causes this lack. I considered a lot of things until I came to the conclusion that creativity is a form of expression, which means that creativity describe the ability to express "stuff". In most cases it's about emotions.

The outcome of creativity is usually considered to be art. Think about something you consider to defiantly be art, for example a book or music. What is it about or what makes it art? Yes I know, it's another term that can be very hard to describe, but one can deny that art is generally related to some kind of emotion or the absence of emotion. It's also why art often provokes.

So creativity _probably_ (it's all just a personal theory) means expressing yourself, so learning to express yourself means becoming more creative. It also means that as long you can in some way express yourself, especially your emotions you are creative, maybe not very creative, but you are.

I think this can also be backed by science. Humans, as (generally speaking) social species depend a lot on expressing themselves. They aren't like ants for example, with a relatively small scope of action. They are very individual and so it is important to understand emotions and express their own ones. If this isn't the case it's considered to be a sign of a mental illness. I guess that's also why people with mental illnesses receive a therapy where they do something creative (usually drawing) and why most artists are usually very emotional. Some of them also mention that their main reason for creating art is a psychologically.

Last, but not least their are hackers (the ones at the CCC and not necessarily intruders) who usually have a deep emotional commitment to the work they are doing. I think it's probably also related to geeks, who often play role playing games and when you think about science fiction stuff and things like Commander Data and Mr. Spock it's also a lot about emotions.

By the way, there is also emotional intelligence which might be related to this, but I'm not a psychologist, so I don't know a lot about this.
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I wonder how many of the 6k patents Apple gets, and how many of those will be used against Android. Also amount of money is rather astounding - $2.6B is pretty rare in buying companies, not just patents. This is 4.6x as much as Apple paid for NeXT (more, if you don't include inflation).
To get first H-1b you need established company (once you are here you can change employers much easier). Most startups will not qualify due:

a) revenue - they have to have positive cash flow showing constant income allowing them to pay for your work (you have to be full time employed for H-1b visa). This can be proved by contracts and tax returns.

b) number of citizens/perm residents employees. I heard this and I bet this is not a law, but probably a rule - USCIS looks for 5 "local" employees per 1 foreigner.

c) Time between filling papers and getting into US will take at least 6 months. Add some preparation time for lawyer. Startups usually can't wait that long. This may be mitigated if you can work for this company remotely.

You can go my route - I obtained first visa with small company by working for them for 2 years remotely and then asking them to sponsor a visa. I paid all fees. Once got there I found better local job. H-1b visa can be transferred to another employer and this process takes only 2 weeks with premium ($1000) processing.

Another route - apply for a job in big corporation. These companies often have processes allowing them to wait 6 month and pay all associated fees if you are good enough. Again, this big company can be just first bridge to get there, 'cos right after you got there - it is much easier to get new/better job.
It looks like there's a lot of Japanese and German names on that chart. I'm guessing they weren't there on H1-Bs.
Uhhh, did you read this article?
China’s effort to muzzle news of train crash
>>Finding a bunch of incremental changes that (1) amount to something really new and (2) still manage to produce something good -- that's what's difficult.<<

Well of course it's hard. If it wasn't, everyone would be creative geniuses...

>>but who'd ever considered that as a Thing that could be Changed, before the cubists came along?)<<

I think that's exactly the point. Who would have considered it? Well, if you systematically break something down into its component elements, and then make changes to those elements, it makes it much more likely that you'll stumble across something totally new. Think of it as a more sprawling form of A/B testing if you'd like.

The more salient takeaway is the fact that "creativity" doesn't have to be some mysterious lightning strike or whisper from the gods (or "non-linear intuitive leap" as someone describes below) that only a few of us lucky ones get to be party to.
"We store the notes encrypted in a way that only the sender and receiver know how to decrypt, which means we cannot read the notes sent through Privnote."

Sigh.
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The fact that Google wants your semi-friends to find you is not a counter argument to the point that your real name is more valuable. Indeed, it points to a positive feedback loop which further increases the value of requiring real names, i.e. Google gets a map of your social graph which only contains real names.
They don’t have to sell the information to their partners. They could, for example, buy information associating last names and ZIP codes with estimated income levels, and then tell advertisers, “if you pay us $X we will put your ad on those Google+ pages where, according to our statistical estimate, at least 75% of the readers make over $100K.” The advertisers wouldn’t actually know the names of the people that Google forwards the ad to; they would just get the clicks.
Opa - The synonym for grandpa in the German language.
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after running this you are one Twitter shortened link away from losing your development machine

Who runs an internet-accessible development machine? Maybe I give the rest of the dev world too much credit.

you're one of the 80% of companies that keeps development machines in your data center protected by a firewall/VPN

I've been in Dev/Ops for about 20 years, and been working the internet since the web took off in '94. I have never, ever heard of such a thing, and would freak out if I did. 80% of companies? Maybe you've got stats to back this up, and my experience is merely anecdotal -- but I've never heard of a single instance of something so obviously stupid. SQL injection vulnerability, sure. XSRF, XSS vulnerability, sure. Running a database server on the same host as your app server, with the webserver running as the DBA user? Sure, it happens.

Certainly someone is bound to misuse this gem as well. But that doesn't mean it's "a very bad idea". It's a very good idea. It's just that it takes knowledge and experience to run a web site, and some people have to find out the hard way.
You asked a simple question, why is a harassment policy necessary when laws should be sufficient, and I gave a simple answer, because perfectly legal behavior can still be alienating and damaging to the success of social structures.
It's a regret that I'm late to the commenting party. This comment won't get seen, so I won't get any feedback.

However ...

I haven't been able to find out what the upflow airspeed will be. If it's large enough one could wear a winged suit and freefall in the funnel. That would be awesome.
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Then it probably should not be held.

What kind of person even wants to host an event for a bunch of immature teenage gamers who can't handle the presence of a female?
Another example of poor bug handling (although FB is definitely not open): http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=16580

This bug was wrongly closed, but when a bug is closed in their system, you cannot re-open it.
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He doesn't say that it wasn't uploaded to Facebook, he says it wasn't a profile picture.

I would think this was a nitpick, except he specifically said "not a profile picture" so my guess is he did upload it to Facebook.
Everybody runs development machines that can (a) be spoken to by machines with human-driven browsers and (b) can speak to other machines.

You're a dev/ops guy, I'm an appsec security assessor. I think we just look for different things. Trust me, this isn't just common it's standard practice.

It's a clever bad idea. Minimal payoff. Maximum risk.

Incidentally: I'm not sure I'm in love with this "everyone has to find out the hard way" notion. No, they don't. We can just tell them: DON'T RUN STUFF LIKE THIS, IT WILL HURT YOU. You have 20+ years of experience. Most people on HN do not; they see this, think "ooo, shiny", and install it. As a practitioner yourself, you have a responsibility --- in fact, if you're keeping that CISSP cert current, an obligation --- to step in and help that not happen.

By the way: hey, you asked.
It's a desert. The air near the ground is usually pretty dry. That's why radiation cooling makes things cool off so much at night (instead of making clouds and fog).
Your comment reads better without the Ad Hominem. You have an opinion, it differs from his, that’s fine, and that’s all you need to say.
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I know you've been a dev/ops guy for 20 years and I respect the fact that your development machines are sealed in vaults, but I've gotten to assess more than half of the top 10 biggest Rails apps in the world over the past couple of years and trust me, you're just wrong about this. Development machines are within reach of developer browsers. Database machines are within reach of development machines.
You're right, that's a risk. I've opened an issue to implement a simple pseudorandom token to protect AJAX requests. What do you think? https://github.com/codegram/rack-webconsole/issues/4
There are a number of ways for Google to do that based on network, searches and other information that give them a high statistical probability of being right without having to go through the trouble of actually matching names with lists. That's a capability that goes right into retargeting/remarketing lists and certain ad servers.
holy buzzwords, batman!
Ah thanks! Flight of the Phoenix was the movie I was thinking of.
This has never been a problem for Facebook. People find other people through common friends, not by searching for names.
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An interesting read, but I disagree with his take.

First of all the idea that tech startups should be started by tech people goes back a lot farther than Silicon Valley. For example take a look at the history of the early automobile industry in Detroit. The founders of the early car companies were for the most part people like Henry Ford - engineers, mechanics, and other people who knew the technology rather than management types. Silicon Valley fits the mold of previous startup hubs.

The more major mistake is that Genetech's IPO in 1980 is cited for getting researchers involved in commercialization. However most observers cite the Bayh-Dole act in the same year as being the critical factor. It gave organizations such as universities the right to intellectual property (such as patents) arising out of research funded by the US government. This created a tremendous number of opportunities for commercializing research that simply had not existed previously.
Aren’t my “semi-friends” more likely to search for “raganwald” than for “Reg Braithwaite?”
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> We already have a nontrivial number of women only events in technology.

To be fair, those make me uncomfortable as well. But there's a difference between "we're holding an exclusive event for group X only" and "group Y is banned because they have to be protected from group X who we want to be our only audience". There is also the power gap to consider, whether it is real or perceived doesn't matter. Holding an event for the perceived "underdog" is a lot less reprehensible than accommodating the suppressive views of a (minor but) "dominant" group. Also in this case the implied conclusion that "might makes right" ticks a lot of people off.
The original poster seems to be complaining more about the validity of the testing, rather than the fact that testing is happening.

For a role in developer relations, the real core competencies should be very high scores on "soft skills". Like being personable, communicate well with others, able to make people "feel good", "able to spread joy".

The number of times he's going to have to recursively solve the quadratic formula while displaying the data points on a graph using pictures of Barbara Striesand downloaded in realtime, is going to be infrequent at best.

So the complaint that they're testing for engineering aptitude, when interpersonal creativity is the required core competency seems (from what I've seen of google's hiring) a pretty valid one.

Perhaps what they really need to do is look at engineering their scientific hiring process to add a weighting to for "people skills".

This could be easily accomplished by evaluating candidates using the NEO-PI-R* candidates would then be awarded scores out of 5 on various personality areas such as Trust, Straightforwardness, Altruism, Compliance, Modesty, Tendermindedness. Community relations people should score very high in Altruism and Tenderness.

I also believe that Google's hiring process undervalues the human element. When dealing with pure engineering issues that might be OK but there are some positions that could use people with more 'creative flair' than others.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_NEO_Personality_Invento...
I don't think it's a stretch to characterize Dave Winer as a curmudgeon. He has made valuable contributions and I respect him, but he's still a curmudgeon.
You're a dev/ops guy, I'm an appsec security assessor. I think we just look for different things. Trust me, this isn't just common it's standard practice.

Actually I'm a CISSP and was CISO for a major financial web site for >5 years. I look at things the way you do, trust me.

It's just that I try to temper my security reflexes. Just because something might be potentially dangerous doesn't means it's automatically a bad idea.

Everybody runs development machines that can (a) be spoken to by machines with human-driven browsers and (b) can speak to other machines.

Indeed we do. And if you can't trust that environment to be private and secure, then you've got bigger problems than a web console. I wouldn't stop at shutting down SSH; I'd disconnect entirely. Hell, I'd quit.

If your dev environment is exposed to people who are malicious, you're screwed. Web console is not going to hurt you, because it's too late -- you've already been hacked.
I think you're missing the part about how your dev machine doesn't have to be exposed to malicious people here.

My condolences on having to get the CISSP. ;)
While the changes are often less trivial than "adding more sugar" the drug companies have been using their ability to modify drugs slightly to extend patent life. This essentially got them through the last 10 years in many cases. But for most of the big money making drugs, they're out of options. It's interesting to me (having worked for 8 years in pharma R&D) how little the general public and news media have been reporting on the slowly unfolding total meltdown of big pharma. They have been shedding jobs and down-sizing for quite some time. The whole drug business is in complete shambles with lousy R&D productivity and very little good news on the horizon. This is one of the main reasons I left the industry.
I wonder if there is a bit of syesthesia involved in people who have a strong affinity or (or dislike) for certain numbers [ see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia ].
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Please, someone, think of the young white males! :)

This is a tempest in a teapot for sure, but seriously, that's your concern here? The poor young male gamers?
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