skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One or more people in the company want to replace you. These people are framing the decision as "you need to step aside for the good of the company" in order to play to your sense of teamwork and loyalty, while trying to present the decision as a fait accompli. The fact that their preference involves nepotism and a closed hiring process makes it unlikely this is really about getting the best person for your job, especially if they are non-technical people hiring for a technical role.

This may be a response to real or perceived issues with your management and while you should try to solve these, the practical problem is that once your team accedes to any suggested change everyone will be complicit in wanting the new hire to succeed. This makes it unlikely that he or the new corporate structure will be identified as a problem even if it makes things worse. And even if it becomes obvious your replacement needs to be fired he'll have a honeymoon period of at least 6-8 months before organizational change will be possible since it will take time for a consensus to build against his father that this guy has had a fair shake. So in a worst case situation you should expect to be Cassandra: people aren't going to want to hear any complaints you might make about the direction of the company or competence of technical execution because they'll interpret your warnings as negativity or envy or malice.

I think you should stand up for yourself and your investment in the company. One of the reasons to start a company is to have the flexibility to work on the things you want to. But at a minimum, you should absolutely be checking references and conducting your own evaluation of this guy so that you have an informed opinion on whether he is going to work out. Because while it's possible he is exactly what your company needs, it's more likely that YOU are exactly what your company needs. And if your cofounders are not technical, I'd put money on the latter.
Ask HN: Are there any designers out there keen to contribute to the OSS world?
Many open source projects tend to have awful or non-existent logos/branding, with websites that look like they were designed by us programmers, because they often are. I've read a few times including here on HN, that there are many designers out there who want to contribute to open source projects, but don't know where to get started. I'm looking for these kind of people, to offer them just that opportunity.

I'm looking for someone to create the branding (logo/style guide) for our new project, which is in a nutshell, an open source project building the hardware and software which controls autonomous vehicles. What do I mean by that? Think of awesome things like quadrocopters and homebuilt flying drones :-) We create the hardware an software needed for this and open source it all, and our users take it to have fun and do awesome things we never thought of. We have our first device/"product" ready to be released into the wild in a few weeks, but we would like to get some proper branding for the NFP organisation and to set-up the website properly before we do that.

Anyway, hopefully I have caught the attention of a few interested people. If that's you, please feel free send me an email at angus@omniloco*org
I'm not sure you've taken any time to think through the implications of what you've just suggested. You are advocating multiple competing authorities (both police and courts).

Who gets to decide which set of authorities gets used, the defendant or the prosecutor? If the prosecutor, courts that heavily favor the prosecutor with little regard for defendant's rights would gain dominance (why wouldn't a prosecutor choose one of them?). If the defender, the opposite problem would arise. How would you resolve either of those problems?

What happens when two sets of authorities disagree? What happens when officers from competing police departments try to arrest the same person? If an authority is corrupt (confiscates property, basically acts like the mob, etc.) how will they be enforced against? If these are free market forces, what happens when someone is unable to afford to enlist the help of an authority? Absolutely no rule of law for them?
It's almost a truism that every time someone talks about Rails and issues with "convention over configuration," it means they're going to be substituting CS concepts (usually filtered through Java) for well-engineered Rails techniques and creating code smell.

To the presenterFactory, let's go!
He mentioned he uses awesome, which probably means he's not using Ubuntu. Just my speculation.
Judged by their returns, all but the top tier of VCs (of which Milner is now a part) are idiots.
The New Toolkit
With Enumerable.java you can use Guava like this (+ static imports):

List<String> strings = transform(list("hello", "world"),
function(s, s.toUpperCase()));
assertEquals(list("HELLO", "WORLD"), strings);

https://github.com/hraberg/enumerable
True, he probably should change the regex to something like
"^mac" which would also match macintosh. So "^mac\s" should be fine. I would probably use:
^[M|m]ac[\s|\.]+
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I would be interested in hearing if you received the text and where your received it on your iPhone. Did you receive it within the iMessage app or only through the mail app?

Prior to having iPhone and Sprint, I had iPhone and ATT. I used ATT # for voice and Google Voice for text. I loved & am missing being able to reply to my texts thru Gmail. I didn't do the same set up with Sprint because I want to continue to use Siri for texting and I'm pretty sure she only uses iMessage?
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I find this a bit hypocritical considering Anonymous was born from 4chan, the largest repository of child porn and scum on the net.
To put another way:

Supposing everyone is 'rich' (ie, can sustain heavy-duty research into space colonization supply chains without beggaring nations), what incentive do people have to go on the highly risky business of space colonization? You've got to have that itch to hit the frontier and keep going.

Personally, I have no great desire (today) to go wandering around the stars and be involved in sifting data points regarding exoplanets for years while stuck in a small enclosed space. Leaving aside the pay and risk , I'd go flippin' nuts in such an environment. Other people can sustain that life - today's submariners and Antarctic researchers.

What I'd leap at would be the chance to homestead another Terra-like planet as a farmer/rancher/etc. That's its own form of high-risk grunt work, but the thought of exploring and walking about on an unexplored planet with clean air sounds like a great life. Better than cube work, at least. :D
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Yeah, but we don't want "elimination", we want justice. And we have set up a procedure for delivering justice which cannot be dismissed as "bureaucracy". The laws and procedures for enforcing them have been developed taking into consideration tons of matters and responding to tons of real world feedback on how to be improved.

They are not perfect, far for it, but for the scope and extend that they cover, they are way better than what any vigilante jerk's version of "elimination" or "payback" is.

For example what stops me of adding your name in the exposed list of names, and ruining your life? I don't even have to do it with malice, maybe I'm just a nut that I am convinced that you too are a pedophile and see the addition of your name as justified.
Sure, I can tell you how I would think it would likely work, but of course people could be innovative and invent solutions that are better than what I envision.

Basically, if you are the victim of a crime, you wouldn't want to just seek justice yourself, because your community might think you are the aggressor, and then your reputation would be damaged. So you would go to a court and pay them to rule on the issue. You would pick a court with a good reputation, so that everyone knew you're not just trying to cheat. The court would then rule, and if you won, you would be justified in paying some police to seek justice. The police would also want to make sure you had first sought judgement from a good court, since they have to worry about their own reputation as well.

For instance, if someone stole something from you, you would bring your evidence to a court, and have them rule. If they rule in your favor, you could higher police to go retrieve your stolen property. Or if you are the victim of violence, you would follow the same procedure, and then be justified in having the aggressor locked up for a while. You'd probably want to have police/court insurance in case you are the victim of an expensive crime.

For more info, here is a good video on this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V...

Also check out the works of Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio, and read the works of Murray Rothbard.
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It is not just SEO. If you post anything with the word iPad or iphone you get a bunch of spam replies (like six or seven) all promising you will win a free ipad. It has gotten so bad that I had to resort to writing it in l33t speak.
I find that post extremely condescending, G+ has more users (active and otherwise) than Foursquare and Instagram combined and then some, yet no one doubts the "success" of these services.
Try http//www.WeekendHacker.net you might find some designers there (disclaimer:I am the creator)

I have tried to contribute but one of the problems is the design is an afterthought on most of those projects. I sent you a mail with some suggestions.
There is actually already a lot of free market arbtration. It is just in the civil sector. Business tend to like them for their speed. David Freedman's "Machinery of Freedom" is a nice introduction to anarcho-capitalism which free market courts are a part of.
One click, like Android does.
I could not have put that better if i'd written it myself. I notice you mentioned Europe, it may just be a European thing I'm here too, although most of my clients, and in some cases bosses have been stateside corporations.

You mentioned also that vital steps are missed out. I've seen powerpoint slides taken to be "the detailed design", and very good detailed functional and technical specifications completely ignored, and in some cases laughed out of the room.

I think there is a misunderstanding about IT in general, and this is it: most businesses are in the IT business whether they like it/understand it, or not. The IT function is of critical importance in every business today, but it's not represented at the top, the same way an accountant or legal function is. Yet we all know how you can look at a record in a database and tell what a person actually did, we just fail to communicate that power well enough.

I have to say that our industry has a bad reputation for not being able to communicate well, and that is probably it's biggest problem.
I'm more thinking like a search engine against the web, but designed around being able to query in sophisticated ways: e.g., regexs, views against the outputs, being able to collect data into forms that a programming language can reason & requery against. WebQL is a commercial product that is like what I'm describing.
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This is a list of pseudonyms, if a police officer's name is in there then they're either undercover or pedophile.
While smartness seems necessary it was almost never enough to succeed in Silicon Valley or in Wall Street or in the sciences. Smart is such a generic term that is almost meaningless.
Erm: grasses have an annual cycle. They may be "annuals" (dying each year) or perennial, but the bulk of their biomass is regenerated annually.
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So with this Sprint and Google Voice integration can I have my text messages going to my gmail and to the iMessage app at the same time?

I want to continue to use Siri for many things including sending text messages. I'm pretty sure I can only use Siri to send/receive text messages by using the iMessage app only?
Yes, because Anonymous is such a moral entity, that they would never use the bad tactics of their enemies...
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what investigation? I don't know for sure, but I'm fairly sure that in the past 5 years there was not a single major crackdown on CP in the news(reddit banning /r/jailbait doesn't count).

It always seems to be a case of someone just getting reported by neighbors, photo stores. So it doesn't seem like the authorities are all that proactive in stopping it
Interesting. When I see success, it always seems like there is something additional to intelligence - like work ethic, or conviction. In this case it seems like his place in society allowed him to understand social media before a lot of other smart people. Additionally he had money when others didn't - he could invest in mail.ru and Facebook when other investors were in retreat.
I think sites like quantcast, compete, google analytics etc tend to not include bot traffic b/c bots often don't evaluate javascript, and those tracking services often use toolbars/ajax requests that bots don't have.

So, pointing to pageview graphs that track ajax requests / toolbars and assuming that it's mostly bots is likely to be a false assumption b/c bots are likely not included in those pageview sums.
One of Apple’s important pieces of software came from small UK startup
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Based on subsequent valuations it would seem like Facebook, Groupon and others are doing very well. It only takes a few home runs to cover a lot of strikeouts and singles.
Part of the reason we don't stop at shutting down child porn sites is that the people who use them the most are dangerously unlikely to themselves stop at just viewing pornography.
> I'm not sure you've taken any time to think through the implications of what you've just suggested.

Why would you assume that? I've put enormous thought into this and read much literature on it. See Murray Rothbard, Stefan Molyneux, Lew Rockwell, Doug Casey, etc., and my twitter feed @ryandickherber.

> Who gets to decide which set of authorities gets used, the defendant or the prosecutor?

The person who is the victim of the crime will obviously go to the court of their choice. The defender, meanwhile, may choose a different court. The courts will have to decide on an arbitrator. Since they only have finite resources and their reputations are on the line, all parties have an interest in working this out, and so it will happen.

> What happens when two sets of authorities disagree?

There are no "authorities", but if two people disagree they will seek arbitration.

> What happens when officers from competing police departments try to arrest the same person?

Only one will get there first, so only one will be able to arrest the person.

> If an authority is corrupt (confiscates property, basically acts like the mob, etc.) how will they be enforced against?

Again, there are no "authorities". If some police or courts become aggressors, then obviously people have a right to defend themselves and will employ resources including other police and courts to do this. The existing police already are corrupt in many cases, but because they have a monopoly, people are just screwed. A free market would solve this problem.

> If these are free market forces, what happens when someone is unable to afford to enlist the help of an authority? Absolutely no rule of law for them?

Most people have some community resources they can access in time of need. If they have nothing at all, then they are screwed. But it's the same way under a monopoly of force.
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What I find really scary in this article is the existence of the "darknet" that contains pedophile website and also apparently an assassination service. This creates many questions: how many people get access to this hidden network? who created it? Had the authorities knowledge of its existence?
While this could give topic for science fiction books, I also makes me feel insecure.
Same on 2011 MBA 13
Interestingly, javascript fits the description very well: good balance between OO and functional :)
IOS5 & "+" button = Upside-Down Pictures?
Before you could use the "Volume +" button to take pictures it was probably accepted fact that you had to have the home button on the right when taking landscape shots.

Now that the "+" button is available it seems that most people would instinctively want it on the upper-right when taking pictures. This leads to a problem in that the shots end-up upside-down when emailed or when viewed on most computers.

Why didn't Apple put in an option (or do it by default) to rotate the images and achieve the correct orientation? Maybe there's something fundamental I am missing here. It just doesn't seem like a sensible way to this to work. I personally like the mechanical shutter button option, but now having to ensure that every single shot is oriented correctly isn't a lot of fun.

I've seen reports of video showing up upside-down, however I have not experienced this (only tested on the 4S).
Is there a way I can purchase things using my itunes account?
Is it possible to purchase things on other sites using my itunes account instead of using the paypal method etc.

How would this be done technically? Would apple even allow this?

Thanks for any response.
New iPhone Hack Logs Keystrokes from Nearby Computers
So Anonymous:

- Downloaded a bunch of child porn.

- Released a useless list of psudonyms extracted from the forum's DB.

- Claim to have used a timing attack against Tor to find the physical location of the machine hosting the CP, without providing any details. Tor is vulnerable to timing attacks but I don't think any are trivial enough for any "Anonymous members" to handle.

- Also, if they had the level of access to Freedom Hosting's server which they claim to, they should have reverse-connected across the non-Tor Internet and located the machine (and presumably the machine's hosting provider and datacenter) that way. Given the amateur-looking setup illustrated in the Anonymous press-releases, I highly doubt the Freedom Hosting machine was firewalled from connecting back across the normal Internet.

- Then Anonymous removed the machine from service so it can't possibly be located by real law enforcement and the real owners can't be found.

It sounds like this is a net loss in any kind of real battle against CP - I'm all for removing obvious distribution points for CP when they're found, but doing so in this manner makes it much harder to track down and prosecute the actual producers and consumers of child porn.

Also, the linked article is poorly researched and written - The Examiner doesn't report anything; it's a pay-per-pageview CMS that anyone can write for, with limited-to-no editorial oversight. The original author should be cited instead.
For example what stops me of adding your name in the exposed list of names, and ruining your life?

You mean like Richard Jewell, Bruce Ivins, and David Kelley?
Wouldn't it also match "machine", "stomach", "diplomacy", etc?
The ability to securely and anonymously host websites is a standard feature of the freely available, open source Tor software.

Tor was originally funded by the EFF and the US Navy. So yes, the authorities most definitely know of its existence.
I second that notion. I've always been irrationally anti-IDE, but in the past few weeks I've been using Pharo Smalltalk for some personal projects and I've realized how much a good IDE can do for you. You should let your IDE handle trivial issues like directory structure, file formatting, etc.

When I write Smalltalk, I ignore formatting and indentation. I just write code. When I'm done, I hit Command+r and the editor formats everything for me. This is just one of a billion tiny bureaucratic issues that the Pharo environment handles for me.

(Offtopic: makes me wonder why we don't build programming environments from the IDE down instead of building them from the language up. Our current approach doesn't seem to be working very well, IMO.)
There is still a lot of work to do, but I finally launched a service to automate screenshots of websites. I could not find a service that offer reliable screenshots (i.e. make sure the page is fully loaded) in a reliable amount of time.
Funny that most of the references to "Newton" seem to be Issac Newton and not the Apple product.
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I deserved that.:-) It also explains why I'm a devoted reader of your novels.

So the non-stupid view of the way forward is that society (and by implication those who generate excess value) must provide for those unable to do so. I just cant see letting some sizable fraction living in sub-civilazed conditions. This sounds sort of Marxist, but it isnt. It is an essential part of capitalism. You get rich because you make everyone else richer in turn.

Since employment is such an important component of psychological well being (near future anyway) I expect to see the full-employment work week to slid down to 20 hours or so, so everyone has a job.

I think of Henry Ford, fascist that he was, because he paid his employees a high wage so that they could afford to buy his cars.
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Dude, if you really feel you have a case then you can find a lawyer who will take it up for you and will only take payment if they win the lawsuit, not having money for a lawyer isn't a legitimate claim unless you really have no valid case. Given that, you would probably need to pay the lawyer at least 40% of whatever you win but thats better than nothing, right?
Follow your bliss - sort of
Agreed, pure speculation with little chance of getting through regulatory approvals.

Is this what the WSJ publishes to draw in weekend readers who are mostly unfamiliar with the tech space?
I think your nervousness is well founded, and that's why Microsoft won't implement WebGL [1], but Chrome's developers seem to think they can make things secure [2].

[1]: http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-cons...

[2] : http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-security-and-microsoft-...
The Anarcho-Capitalist position has been thought through fairly well. You may disagree with it, but based on your questions it sounds like you haven't made much of an attempt to learn about it.
You just made my weekend. I've been doing Python for a while and am well acquainted with the "item in list" idiom but did not know it could be used for find. That str.find syntax has always bothered me.

Still, I had to test just to be sure:

test_cases = [
# haystack, needle, expect
('abcdefg', 'a', True),
('abcdefg', 'b', True),
('abcdefg', 'bcd', True),
('abcdefg', 'h', False),
]

for haystack,needle,expect in test_cases:
# find version
is_found = haystack.find(needle) != -1

# in version
is_in = needle in haystack

# confirm
print haystack, needle, expect, '-->', (is_found, is_in)
assert is_found == expect
assert is_found == is_in

Passed! Thanks.
Only when you sell the stock. So the money to buy all that stock still had to come from somewhere.

Macaroni somehow doesn't cut it.
This is bad because he was 0% productive for many days because he couldn't input text on the computer where the problem was because it didn't have his editor.
Hopefully, "Courts will often reduce attorney’s fee awards they find to be unreasonable and excessive".
The former owners of this wealth are likely not on facebook but for the most part on vkontakte.ru and mail.ru, which they apparently also own.