skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also it involves concentrating your financial risk in one highly leveraged asset.
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Harsh sentences like these will only serve to convince a large segment of the population that the system is unjust (and perhaps even that the riots were therefore a "good thing" (fight the system, etc, etc)).
Centrify Scores $16 Million to Expand Cloud Security Offerings
My understanding, as an outside observer, is that DDG is more about building a community (similar to HN, but probably more like metafilter). I get this idea from their offering of an XMPP service and site-specific syntax, so I may be off, but I would say they would like to cultivate a tight-nit community (I'm a scroogle user, but this sounds interesting depending on how they continue).
I know its still under development, but are all the chapters in at this time? In other words, if I buy it now will I only be able to read 4 chapters (for example) until others are added, or are they all there in some rough form?
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A good system/design meeting can go a long way to producing better code.

The problem is that these are so rare. The vast majority of meetings in every company I've worked at are of the "invite everyone so it turns into a contest to see who can make their point the loudest" variety, and almost always end up with a few people who view it as their chance to be the "star" to a captive audience and thus draw out the meeting as long as they possibly can.

Plus, if your programmers are any good, they're probably holding these meetings already without management having to formally call a meeting. I think that's the real problem: "formal" meetings almost always suck. Ad hoc meetings held by people who need communication to finish their job usually make up for themselves in increased productivity.
here's the talk on the ted website:

http://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_o...
"I work for MegaCorp. We have developers here that are incredibly difficult to get along with and a few that are great. There seems to be this sense that the more capable and intelligent a person is the more frequently they're jerks to deal with. I haven't found this to be true. There are plenty of good devs that aren't "holier than thou" (and one of the best devs I worked with was clearly on the extroverted side, though most of them land on the introverted side of things)."

I agree with you here. I also find that the jerks, may seemingly be intelligent, but don't learn much from other people (which usually happens if you are smart+socially aware) because they think are right all the time
The general rule of thumb for cryptanalysis attacks is that they become cheaper over time (usually quicker than initially proposed), which is why finding issues (even mathematical issues that aren't yet practical) is so important.

Considering the length of time that it takes for new encryption standards to be proposed and accepted, it's important to try and stay ahead of the curve.
Yes and No. You typically are only risking your equity when you buy a house (which, with a 30 year mortgage, is basically just your down payment).
"bediger also mentioned the possible presence of "reverse shills" being used to pollute the Linux camp."

Interestingly I've never seen this proven in any way, although I suppose it's possible. But extremists in FOSS are widespread enough that I doubt it's some evil secret plot by Microsoft (or whomever) to make the community look bad.
Based on some digging around I have a very strong suspicion that Jules is the founder and only employee of This*. I think the "new employee" will likely just be a new email account with a different name.
Hi. I'm the founder of fluxflex. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but we got an error for installing applications several hours ago. It was already fixed and currently the service works well.
And therefore pre-supposes a stability that people are not currently finding -- whether in property values or in their life circumstances and those of their communities (U.S. centric perspective).
That's a really good point.

I think it's quite possible this could be leveraged to corner a niche market, though. Think of people who use Unix--they can do tons with it, but there's a ton of commands to memorize compared with what's necessary for Windows. Some people prefer having a more complicated and specialized toolset.
I wonder if by 'available' he means 'will answer immediately'. My group uses Skype like campfire also.. and Away means 'I won't see this until I get back'.. Available means "I'll be notified immediately, and am likely to respond relatively soon". I still leave messages for people who are away all the time.. I just know that it's unlikely we'll end up in a real-time conversation at the moment, and as such.. I can just fire-and-forget until they return and reply
The Big Short tells us "In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000." Nothing in the CRA ever demanded that obvious inability to pay be disregarded. Once Wall St. started believing bogus CDO ratings and it became possible for mortgage banks to unload 100% of the risk, they weren't being pressured into writing stupid loans, they were eager to stuff the channel by writing as many as they possibly could before the music stopped, and used every trick they could think of (teaser rates, negative amortization) to get each buyer out the door and through the first months of a loan they knew was doomed.
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Interesting. I actually interviewed with those guys many months ago- there were vague hints of a "troublesome" developer (who, I suspect, I was interviewing to replace) and a rewrite... but hardly out of the ordinary stuff for a startup.

I've still got to respect Hughes for even trying to make a site so noble. But if it failed, yes, it would be good to just admit it.
Once you start a nuclear war, the only possible outcome is death to everyone and everything.

I for one welcome our new gadget-less future.
I think reduxredacted was trying to explain how some people should just be fired for their behaviour, as generalk asserted, and was telling the story as an example.

I don't think social behaviour (anger management problems) can be compared to someone's race. People will anger management problems can and will react differently in certain situations based on that sole aspect of their personality, which needs to be taken into account.
If you couldn't crack it before, you still can't crack it now. This attack only makes it 4 times easier to break, not even an order of magnitude.
Actually, I rather like your proposed objective. Except I'm not sure what you mean by "weighted average": what would be the weighting factor? I realize you said that you didn't want to get bogged down in the function itself, but I think it may be important.

If we can agree that capital is the means by which a person can achieve fulfillment (I don't just mean by "being rich", obviously. It may enable the person to donate to charity; or that person's labor, which which has a monetary value, may achieve some end; or to obtain medical care to cure an ailment; etc.), then I can see an answer.

In the free trade example, opening borders to trade expands the economies of both nations. That's pretty much the same as saying that more capital is available within both nations, which means that -- across the whole population -- people are better able to move up their utility function (i.e., achieve self-actualization). In other words, because money -- capital -- has the power to buy or enable other things, then our positions may be compatible.

Of course, some individuals may benefit more than others, and indeed, some may find themselves worse off. That's where some would claim that we as a society owe compensation to some, to pay for our own gains.

Looking back at what I just wrote, it seems the crux of the argument, then, is the degree to which you can believe that capital can provide the answer to whatever your objective function is.

I'm going to reject the example of a market in slavery. This is the very epitome of a non free market. The slaves themselves are being forced into the transaction, and since a free market, by definition, requires rational actors entering the transaction of their own free will (because they all expect to be better off in the end), it cannot be considered free.

The classic examples of market failure are "tragedy of the commons" problems due to externalized costs, and public goods that would suffer "free rider" problems, like national defense. The externalization problems are due to our legal framework for property rights; a system that fully allocates property rights (e.g., some person owns this river; some person owns the air) would fix this, as demonstrated by the Coase Theorem. The free rider problem is stickier. They do turn out to be much rarer than people believe (e.g., the classic example is the lighthouse, but historical research shows that in the past, these have been provided by markets), but they're not entirely fictional, and I don't have a good answer to the overall question at the moment.
Thinking != Meeting..
First, just say no thank you to autostart videos.

Two, the constitution as it is currently interpreted, prefers the corporate entity over the dna entity.
For those of us (maybe just me) stuck on work computers in which we can't upgrade from IE7, is there any way to access the data in a plain text format?
This is a pretty over-used subject for blog submissions here on HN, see previous ones at https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinato...
It might start that way, but 15 years down the line you will have invested a lot in that house. There is an ideal rate of home ownership relative to economic growth unfortunately the US is well pass the optimum with far to many people owning when it's a poor economic choice for them to do so.

PS: What's missing from much of this analysis is you can have positive home equity but the transaction costs of buying and selling a home put you into the red.
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I have been thinking about an Hpricot project, looks like I start on friday!
HTC is a Chinese company, and Apple makes all their gadgets in China. This has very little to do with the US, except that we are the ones paying for the gadgets.
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yes and no. Going back to the MP3 analogy, their were many MP3 players that were much better deals on paper; a fraction of the cost for more memory. But they didn't have a scroll wheel or iTunes, so consumers found them to be cheap knock-offs.

neuroelectronic: it looks like your posts are auto-dead. Posting as a sibling comment since there's no contact info in your profile.
Totally agree that something have to be sync. However, from my experience Campfire is the single best place to "meet" and address an urgent issue.

The ability to have two or three conversations going on simultaneously, share links and log messages, and have a transcript/timeline to use to guide a postmortem is fantastic.
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Ah!

Novel cryptanalysis technique reduces practical AES key length by about 2 bits.
how would you quantify opportunity lost due to loss of flexibility?
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Agreed. I should nave been more specific with what I meant by a "good" meeting.
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It is a theory that the organization internally continues to grow- and so net income per capita decreases or is increasing at a decreasing rate.

In other words: Companies grow by the engineers, handed over to accountants and then to the lawyers. And then they die.
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You typically serve half of it over here, pending a hearing, "good behaviour" and any extra conditions a judge added.

(Which for these sort of offences are very unlikely to be applied.)
I think it's fine, personally.
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If part of your "anger management issues" is destructive behavior that harms other people in your organization, I think it's prudent to say "beware hiring that guy." I don't know if I can say for certain that the individual in his example had truly sociopathic behavior, or had "anger management issues" that resulted in destructive behavior.
I guess once SHA-3 is done, NIST better start research on the next symmetric cipher. The attack only knocks off two bits now, but attacks only get better with time.

Note that you should be using accepted standards for key management anyways. NIST believes that AES-128 has 128 bits of strength, and AES-256 has 256 bits of strength [1, page 63], which they find "Acceptable" until 2031 [1, page 65]; the catch is that any individual key should be expired after a few years. This is called a "cryptoperiod," and the longest they recommend using a key is five years [1, page 55].

By this standard, keep using AES-256, but change your keys every year, and be prepared to migrate to a new cipher at some point within the next decade or two.

[1]: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-57/Draft_SP800-...
Keylogger using motion sensor guesses 70% of keystrokes
One could argue a certain kind of engineering personality tends to comprise its own distinct culture. As an INTJ, a cross-cultural divide is precisely how I look at it.

I'm speaking more in general, though. To reiterate, this guy acted as a jerk, and I agree with you.
Yes! Let's downvote as opposed to reply. Downvote is a nice anonymous hit and expresses your displeasure in a nice anonymous way! Woot!
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This seemed implicit in the article to me, but the way they use chat seems to be the way IRC chat is used for devs (though I haven't used IRC that much).

If my understanding's accurate, then I'd agree with you: ignore someone's status, ask a question, don't expect an immediate answer.
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The beta currently contains about half of the chapters. More chapters will be added in the coming weeks as they work their through the review process, but they're not in the beta copy that you'll get today.
"Regulation, government intervention they're the same thing."

Again. This subthread is not about turning your brain off.

The fed changing interest rates is not regulation. It's not writing laws, it's not forcing anyone to do anything.
Find purpose, because I keep reading that I should and it sounds right. As weak as that sounds, it's a goal that probably can't be completed till I finish education, and I wouldn't normally consider it before then. Thinking about it early makes it feel weak. What's the purpose of thinking about my purpose early?
What do you think about some authors (i.e. The Clean Coder) that claims that you should try to avoid entering "The Zone"?
It is always a pleasure to read from Werner (one of the few blogs I subscribe to). It a shame that not as many of his posts get to front page on HN.
Travis Goodspeed is a neat guy too. Here are some pics on the girl's toy that defeats the secure radios.
http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2010/03/im-me-goodfet-wi...
I would be interested to see how the unicorn variant, rainbows, would benchmark in this test. Rainbows seems much better suited for high concurrency applications because it utilizes fibers for concurrency as well as worker processes. http://rainbows.rubyforge.org/ Also after looking at the sinatra app's code, I believe all requests to MongoDB are going to be blocking. For the comparison to be more fair, the ruby app should be written to take advantage of Goliath, em-synchrony, event machine, or another non-blocking ruby fiber based option. Until the ruby app is non-blocking, this comparison is apples to oranges.
* ... multiplying a 1000x1000 matrix is no different in process but is much more time consuming; should the latter be patentable?*

A naive algorithm for multiplying square matrices runs in O(N^4). A slightly less naive algorithm runs in O(N^3). There is an especially clever algorithm that runs in O(N^2.807).

If somebody discovers a practical algorithm that runs in O(N^2.1), should it be patentable? I say yes. No amount of grinding away with pencil and paper is equivalent to a clever divide and conquer algorithm.
FYI: We have been given the right to self defence in our own homes now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13957587
Jumo is a non-profit, not a startup. Using the language "acquired" and "exit" doesn't make any sense.
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At least somebody is using it.
This and similar PR nightmares show how little smaller companies understand PR and the right way to handle these situations. Responses should be apologetic and serious in tone, even when the customer was not completely in the right (but is perceived that way by the public). They should clearly state the corrective actions taken. Regarding the employee in question, you can defend the person, but be careful how you address their actions. The corrective action for that employee should go way beyond "that naughty boy won't get to talk with customers any more, ha ha!" The public perceives you have an unstable employee with power over their data (read: livelihood), so counseling/training at minimum (if you don't think the lost business is grounds for termination; probably easy to estimate that, and a smart mgmt. team will do that).

And - holy cow! - you don't have a customer service rep writing the response, you have the CEO or owner do it. That it wasn't goes back to my original point - they don't (yet) recognize this as a PR disaster.
It's not a RSS Reader/Text Browser..It's somethingt hing like Readability/Instapaper which would just display content of any article..(The problem here is I don't know by what name I should refer my app :D)

The apps you are referring to may do it only for certain sites with RSS feeds but not for all sites..That's where the difference between mine and others

This app gives you a readability experience for all websites(Just displaying the content of an article)

First it would display list of articles ---> Then Choose a article ---> Displays only the content of an article
"In fact, he says, the philosophical battle over economics, taxes, debt ceilings and defaults that are now roiling the stock market is partly rooted in an upper class "ideology of self-interest."

Are they factoring in all of the people that aren't rich that want to raise taxes exponentially on the wealthy? How about the people using our welfare systems that could easily go out and get a job?

The wealthy already pay a ton in taxes. Some may have less empathy, but I just don't buy that overall, they are less empathetic.

"They think that economic success and political outcomes, and personal outcomes, have to do with individual behavior, a good work ethic"

This is a slap in the face to everyone that does work hard and is successful.

I stopped reading here.
That's a bummer. We're using D3 and Isotope and I think D3 is breaking on IE7. It works for us on IE8, at least...

Anyways, if it's useful to you, the data we're pulling from is here: http://insights.truliablog.com/vis/rent-vs-buy-q3/data/rvb-q...
I offer all 4 major sports. I'm just using football as an example since it's relevant to summer sales.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure Gottschalk v. Benson makes it clear that the algorithm itself is not patentable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk_v._Benson

EDIT: It occurs to me upon reflecting on my reply that you're making a statement unqualified by present legal precedent. In that case, I respectfully disagree. Patenting fundamental mathematical truths seems like a very bad idea to me, and I'm glad that nominally such things are not allowed (though of course practically it goes on all the time).

Perhaps another way to say this: the problem most people have with software patents is that it's more or less patenting little pieces of math. I think it's more or less well known how most "practitioners of the art" feel about this.
"The problem is that our brains are pretty specific in the types of problems they're adapted to solving"

Brain in fact can adapt it's physic coprocesor to solve many problems it was not originaly intended to solve - see extreme sports, arcade games, steering vehicles, playing live music (and imrpovising it).

I think we could perform many task currently thought to be too computation intesive for human, if there was some clever interface, allowing us to use our coprocessor to solve it.

Like somehow translating problem of controlling induction motor into problem of keeping balance on the bicycle :)
It's called Diseconomies of scale.

At some point, growing past a certain point causes decreasing returns to scale instead of increasing/constant returns to scale. Meaning over-scaling leads to a breakdown in efficiency.

Example using Walmart: Year by year it gets more efficient, and more efficient, and more productive, until one day the company starts becoming top heavy and full of red tape at which time it becomes less efficient from all the layers of administration, from burdensome policies and processes, [insert any factor here], etc. It has gone past it's 'profit maximizing size' and has gone too far.

It is not an argument against corporations, just an argument against "bigger is always better". There will always be companies.
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Given the way British law works I'd wait until a few high-profile cases have established a firm precedent to get too excited. Nevertheless, compared to the situation previous this is somewhat of an improvement.
Any chance that we might get the transcript of the presentation ? Or any context around it ?
Discussed at length here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2891722
Ol Ed will kill kittens like nothin. I've seen him do it. He learned it from Napoleon.
IE6 is not a surprise...
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I live in a city in Canada that has a bit of a lacklustre tech scene. Unfortunately, I bought a condo 2 years ago.

Because of the size of the down payment I made (small), and the condo market right now (not awesome), I can't sell without taking a loss until probably about 2014. I also probably can't rent without taking a loss.

I'd like to move - but at the moment, short of foreclosure, there's no way to get this condo off my hands so that I'm free to move again without taking a significant-enough (~$15k) hit to make it cost prohibitive.

Are there more opportunities in other cities? Definitely. But because of my current living situation, I'm not flexible enough to take advantage of them.
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Both San Francisco and San Jose are near the bottom in job growth. This surprises me, given the hiring market for engineers in the Bay Area. What gives?