skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree with the nascar bit, you do not need to know how to change a tire in in X sec because when this happens you will always be sitting in the race car. What the driver cares about is that everything that needs to happen does and is done as quickly as possible consistently, in a word metrics. Now the pit crew chief needs to know the pit crews jobs to ensure things get done properly.
Hi, I was one of the amateur community members that created drivers after the AMD documentation drops started. Could you explain exactly what you feel is not high-quality about the drivers we've written?
If you use URLs instead of IDs, that central area moves from the client to the server.

Having worked with both types, the URL type REST is far far easier to write clients for.
Same in Chile.

But there's also a company that's doing incredibly well, offering to wash cars while people are at work. So basically car wash in the parking lot of office buildings.
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OK, didn't know that. Or maybe most pirates tried to be privateers as often as possible, but if no empire endorsing was at hand, they reverted to just being pirates?
>The science of justice
That reminds me of the youtube series about justice. There is one channel on youtube, they upload videos from Harvard lectures about justice and law system. That one was very interesting and insightful. Sometimes students would even cry while debating with professor. Sorry cant post a link, since Youtube is also blocked here. Maybe some of you guys can post the link, there might be ones who are interested. Anyways, thanks for the effort of getting the idea of the post!
Youtube has already converted at least 2/3 of their old videos into WebM, and all the new ones are converted to WebM as well. I hope Google makes the WebM player the default on all browsers supporting it, and leave Flash fall-back for the others, once they have all of them converted (early next year?). I figure by then they should fix all the remaining issues with it, too (no fullscreen mode for 1080p video, etc)

I think it's the only way to make video on the web not be patent encumbered. They need to take a stand and push for it, with their own services. Nobody else is going to do it for them. They should adopt this Apple-like strategy with WebM, like Apple did against Flash (and it turned out to be the right one). Google only really embraced Flash on Android to spite Apple anyway, not because it was the right strategy or path to take.
One would assume they forced a CA to sign a false google.com certificate and substituted that for the real one, MitM style, in order to do the decryption. Governments are obviously capable of this.

Firefox's Cert Patrol or Chrome's certificate pinning are really the best defenses against this kind of thing. If you're on Chrome 13 or later, you're mostly guaranteed that gmail.com is the real deal.
A human is in the loop, deciding what to dive deeper into.
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South Korea does not "possess the technology to decrypt the packets transmitted over Internet lines after intercepting them", no matter what this credulous article says.

The list of things law enforcement can do to capture GMail messages without secretly having compromised the most important encrypted protocol in the world includes:

* Having owned up the target's box and installed malware

* Having owned up the target's box and installed a bogus certificate

* Redirecting the target to a bogus GMail and assuming the target doesn't care about cert warnings

* Posing as a man in the middle and assuming the target doesn't care about cert warnings

and on and on.

Is it outside the realm of possibility that a nation state actor might have figured out a flaw in the SSL/TLS protocol that would allow them to decrypt traffic? No.

Is it outside the realm of possibility that such an actor could have a bogus root certificate, or a bogus Google certificate? No.

Is it outside the realm of possibility that an actor possessing one of those things would then proceed to use that capability in the course of mundane law enforcement activity, on the record, exposed to public court proceedings? Yes. It is unpossible that that happened.
Odds that NIS is actually decoding SSL packets:
00.1%

Odds that this was before Gmail instituted HTTPS or that there is some other explanation that the reporter missed:
99.9%

However, importance if the former is the case:
World changing news. But extremely unlikely.
This reminds me of the Joker quote from The Dark Knight;

The Joker: Do I really look like a guy with a plan?...I just... do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans... they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their little worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.

This is how I feel about "strategy sessions", these "strategy sessions" are almost always held by businessmen wannabes and lead to nothing but bullshit and guesses presented as facts.

Just go out and do it then come back with your findings now you have facts that you can work with.
I clicked through to the Return of the Mac [1] article and it would be of interest to me to know how this community and PG sees the Macs today? Recently some people on HN said that they dont like where the Lion is heading [2] or that OS X is goining to be more closed than open [3]. So.. what are you hacking on today?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2933895

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368932
Oh wow, that is quite ingenious! And I will have to remember that.
How can you be so sure that SK does not possess the technology required?
That's nice. That's actually a better analogy than the one I used in my post :)
Nah. I thought this was talking about Google News.
I'm sure there are stupid people in every domain. It's not like everybody in Analytic is superbly smart.

But if all people do is just jumping around between programming languages and re-invent the same thing over and over again, they just hit their limit. They're probably a little bit better than the average developer. Or perhaps they just work harder and more passionate, not necessarily smarter.

I don't mean to denigrate people as I don't really care whether they are smart or not because I never really care of intellectual ranking. Personally, I only care if a person is a good person or not.

I'm merely replying that most web-developers hit their ceiling and probably not what the OP consider "smart". Please view smart or not smart as some sort of true/false without any insult related to it. Not as bad or good.
It's based on more than merely a Twitter statement, and as far as I can tell, the guy is still a member (though he has no more official responsibilities). Aaron König, another prominent (in his case: former) pirate had his own crude and/or right-wing extremist views. He now spreads them from a new populist right-wing platform of the Geert Wilders kind. Despicable people, all around.

All that said, I agree that it's unfair to condemn the PP because of those individuals. They're far from the norm.
So what's the solution? Lie when asked for the birthday?
Per-block dedupe, I bet, so it'll get benefits at sub-file levels.

Though given that the vast majority (by volume) of customer data will be people's illegal downloads, their scheme effectively reduces to being a copy of usenet.
Sure, but known-plaintext attacks are not the worst part. Consider this [found via http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg089...]: I take the standard Wordpress config.php [for your host], fill in your site and account name, fill in the one million most common database passwords, and ask the cloud provider whether any of these hashes exist.

Or: I create a form (say .doc) with a single field, CC#, and hope people store this. I then check the existence of 10^11 hashes to find (all customers'!) credit card numbers (for a specific issuer). This takes only a CPU-day! (The network is obviously slower.)
I don't really see why it needs any discussion as a citation, it's fairly obvious that "tapping", as in "phone tapping", means listening in to, aka sniffing when talking packets.
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Dear Google,

Please have a "Do not try this at home" disclaimer on all your videos.

A guy with a disabled account,

Yours sincerely,
> the first time since the Greek stadia that an earth measure was used to define units of measurements as compared to the body (feet, inches etc)

I'm not so sure this is accurate. Miles based on the length of a degree at the Earth's meridian were used widely during that interval.
Can you give any further reading/info on family resemblance as used by Google?
Thank you for your comments. If/when you do find more, I look forward to hearing it.
the Pirate Party is a very liberal party and as such attracts all kinds of people with varying viewpoints. Im pretty sure that holocaust denial is not the norm.
I was wondering the complement. In what way is AMPQ more reliable than SMTP?
You just made my day. This is fantastic.
+1 for Python + Django combo
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You can try emailing pg, but that's more of a rumor as it's unclear what account deletion would do. Certainly it would not remove your contributions on HN.
> "liberals" (FDP) and the Greens, have neglected topics like data privacy, net neutrality.

They didnt neglect them, they in theory represented the same values as the pirate party, but after the elections, they ritually neglected their promises in order to get into coalitions with the two big parties and into goverment. So for a certain number of younger, technology-savy people they became literaly worthless to vote for. The Pirate party rose at a such fast pace, because an increasing number of people and their concerns werent even taken seriously by the opposition.
The airglow layer is really cool.

I must say I can't identify the cities linked in the caption though.
I agree with your last statement. Learn as much as you can, the process of learning will pay off.

No doubt.

On the other hand, skill-smart people, or what some might call "raw-talent" tend to self-destruct on their own if they refuse to listen. Raw-talent tend to make many mistakes because they have no knowledge. That's why you need both skill and knowledge.

> How many people are able to quickly understand new problems, new environments, etc

Raw talent might be able to learn new things quicker assuming their mind is able to accept this new things. Sometime raw talent can be so stubborn that they refused to learn new things and just believe in their own raw-talent.

I'm quite sure we've all met a very super smart programmer yet very stubborn and wouldn't listen.

> the guy who can wear many hats is invaluable in the early stages

Again, agree with you. Assuming such person exist. In reality, anyone can be the guy who can wear many hats as long as he/she is willing to work hard and longer hour to do research on topics that he/she doesn't know.

Full-stack developers that wear many hats tend to specialize in one set of stack. He/she might not be at the level of DB master that knows at least 3 popular DB such as SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle. But a full-stack developer, at the very least, must know a single popular DB (pick one from above) and almost reaching the expert level or else we don't share the same definition of an all-round professional.
It ends up promoting kids lying about their birthdates on a regular basis. There's actually no incentive to tell the truth.
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Weird. Distributing startup job offers via email
Would you like this: A weekly newsletter with job offers from awesome startup companies.

We think about setting up such a service.

We will cover job offers from around the globe. If you provide your favorite work location we can prioritize offers near you and personalize your weekly email.

The service will be 100% free and we won't share any private data publicly.

I would love to hear some feedback from you :-)

I put up two Google Forms to collect realistic feedback:

You can sign up for the list here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGticlQ4WmFoRnBiWUZ2ZkxtOFdZdkE6MQ

Post job offers here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDJDVWF3VGpoU1RTbGhXcWxCeXpaQWc6MQ

Daniel
For web development, you don't need any of that. And anyone taking up pg's suggestion should not be using anything from Microsoft.
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Read all the rest tutorials and papers. It only takes a couple hours, it will get it across and it works so much better for client writers.
I feel that in the software community we're standing on the shoulders of generous giants who have coded and open sourced so much of our tech stacks; written guides, tutorials, and tests; answered our questions in forums and chats. Granted, this seems like a more entrepreneur centric project, but I'm pretty sure that we're all benefiting from the works of entrepreneurs anyways.
You would enter your own birthday. The Chrome ad is about an account used by a father to someday show his daughter, not creating an account for the daughter.
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I'm curious what effect sleep, meditation, and rest would have on willpower.
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An easy way around this: Buy mac hardware, install windows.
SpiderOak does this.

https://spideroak.com/engineering_matters

Disclaimer: no affiliation, just like the product. I use SpiderOak to backup private things like AWS keys, KeePass data file, Bitcoin wallet, etc., and Dropbox for documents, photos, and everything else not quite as sensitive.
I'm a little bit surprised that Ruby and Rails are considered no longer fun.

What's fun these days? LISP and JS?
It'd be nice if there were a terms of service stating this when signing up.
Perhaps I should revise my remark.

Web Developers are the new "average".

This is what people will be judged upon as the entry point.
any content that is DRM'd is also unique.

In most cases this isn't true. The computation involved in keying media on the fly while it's being downloaded is not insignificant when considered in volume. The added pain of storing everyone's unique keys also discourages this behavior. At worst you'll see different keys being used by region or datacenter, or perhaps key rotation on a weeks-months scale.

Some media (both DRM and non-DRM) will be trivially unique because of metadata like purchaser info or music tags. In some cases this makes the first block unique but all later blocks are deduped, in other cases you need to be somewhat content aware so you can treat the header data separate from the real media data. This also allows you to catch a lot of data people ripped themselves using standard settings.

You can save on operating system and application files, but it isn't 60%.

While I agree that photos and videos will be the bulk of their problem, I don't think that ruins their premise. The question is if their userbase will be significantly overweight on heavy media creators. If it's a standard distribution, I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of people were under 10gb unique and 70%+ deduped.
"Slideshow articles" curiously absent from the list of technologies.

Can't shape your future if you can't see it on your mobile screen... or maybe I should just stop reading HNN in the bathroom.
Even if they did have it, they wouldn't risk tipping their hand by using it in mundane law enforcement, so we can rule that out.
That's actually what I decided to do in the end, until I looked at the Apple site and figured a mac just isn't powerful enough for my needs...plus the release schedules are a mess right now...mid cycle everything.
why downvote? That's an honest question.
There is a funny fact, that shows that even the Berlin Pirates them self did not dream of a greater success: According to the current exit-poll estimations, they would get 15 seats in the parliament. That's exactly the number of candidates they assigned. Would they get more seats, those seats would have to stay empty.

Though, as others have pointed out, its more likely, that their share will go down once all votes are counted out.
Sounds cool, but where else will the job seekers come from? If it's just HN then this is like an email version of "Who's Hiring"?

Either way, I've submitted our open positions. Good luck. :)
Small curiosity: Is Arduino used purely by hobbyists, or is it being used in the industry anywhere?
This is the way to go: people that are in the same page with you. Leading such group is definitely far easier.

Ask yourself who you are and find the same people.
From the original post at YouTube:

"A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy. Raw data was downloaded from;

The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth
"http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm ".

Virtualdub was used to create the final movie. (less info)
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Says nothing about canceling extra storage for Gmail for Google Apps.
Hey Yasmine, how's that link site of yours going?

Best idea - bucket list, item 1, the pen highlighter bookmark.

Could you elaborate on (5) - staffing agency? - how does this one work?
although i´m not into celebs nor poker i think these two could be nice.
the poker page could enable direct communication betwenn players and embedd/connect to fb/g+/whatever profile.
But since poker players are about to take each others money i´m not sure if this social aspect would be accepted by them. it might be even a bit dangerous.
You'd be surprised. Also, mistakes happen and a clueless might have signed off on it.
Yup, that's the subtext of giving them away for free.
i think in general thats the issue with a lot of these services asking you to enter in a phone number. Even apps that ask for contact list get denied. The last thing I want is to be the cause of this kind of bug, or bad case of selling my phone number and contacts numbers to solicitors.
Seems to me pretty clear that SSL is kind of a joke as far as security goes, a little like WEP wireless security. Yes, unlike WEP if everything is working properly SSL is in theory safe. But there are so many gotchas, from the byzantine CA system to the fact that most of the time when a browser warns you that a certificate is bad there's nothing wrong, SSL just doesn't hold up to a determined attacker (especially a government.)
How important is knowledge of history when it comes to building a startup? What are the most important periods of time to learn about?
The problem is not so much geographical as it is economical (eastern European countries like Moldova, Kosovo, Albania or Bosnia are all 100% in Europe but will likely not enter the EU any time soon).
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Great writeup, with scripts on github to boot. Thanks!

I also see qemu-kvm can run Windows too, which somehow escaped my notice. Cool. If only it could OS X as well, I could skip buying a Mac and spend the money on a souped up dev laptop from XoticPC instead.
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He also mentions academic economists. I guess that was my main objection, especially since many academic economists did not support the policies that ultimately caused the financial crisis.
That's a fair statistical analysis so I get your point. With respect to Usenet, I'd fully expect that the endpoint logs, but not every intermediatary who happens to have an agreement with another intermediatary, which is the issue with tracking on the web. Distribution of information is no longer controlled by the endpoint or by contract, but rather by coincidence via any nefarious method possible.

If I did something naughty, I'd expect to get caught. This is not about anonymity, but about the assumptions that people draw about you based on unrelated information tracked from multiple sources.

However, I'd rather be an obvious objector than annoyed by donkey porn adverts :)

I don't see ads either (Firefox+Adblock+ghostery+noscript).
Those task are not just things that could be called "managing" they ARE managing. I think it's funny that programmers think of managing as this horrid thing outside their realm, but really, it's just the skill of working with others and extending your reach beyond your own fingers.

To that end, I think PG is dead wrong. Programmers can make great managers, and find it very rewarding, even if they're not in code all day. There's as much variation in that end of the business as their is in the coding. Would you go into programming if you believed that ever job was a dead-end VB jockey? Of course not. The way to avoid being a PHB is to avoid behaving like a PHB.
"I've never met anyone who bridged visual art with anything tech-related"

You've never met a web designer, video editor, 3D artist or graphic designer?
the problem is that Google really doesn't give a crap about any of it's customers(not even paid really).

that's why they use bots to automatically suspend accounts...because a real human being wouldn't have cared to do it.

Google makes about 2 billion in profit every quarter...how about spending 30 million(10mm/mo) to hire 3000 customer service reps to double check before ruining people's experience? Call it a good will investment and count it as a PR expense.
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I have to say that I am really curious as to why you would want to base your business viability on 'assumptions' regarding the average amount of users unique data.

I think one missed point when doing this generalization is also the target audience in early adopters for an unlimited service.

As we at SpiderOak quickly found it there are massive differences between 'common users' and the early adopters of a technically proficient service.

I am worried that Bitcasa will be in for a pretty rude awakening in that a large percentage of their early paying users will be JUST the people that store a TON of unique data (Raw files, encrypted data etc), skyrocketing their storage costs in a vulnerable phase of their development.
I don't know, the greens seem to be a lot less progressive, in theory and pactice. The greens are certainly a lot less willing to embrace technological change.
Completely agree with you on this. However, Google's removal of h.264 support is a very interesting move. Possibly because of infrastructure issues but with so many iOS supporting h.264, youtube may need to support h.264.
Here's a video about it http://vimeo.com/29127698
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